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Re: [PATCH] USB: add Sensoray 2255 v4l driver

Oliver Neukum writes: (Summary) Not a problem, if the firmware issue is fixed as it needs to be.

Regards
Oliver

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Re: [PATCH 0/5] SCSI and FireWire: fix/add START STOP UNIT for SBP ...

Tino Keitel writes: (Summary) All disks spun down at suspend, and spun up again at resume.

Regards,
Tino
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ACPI : EC: GPE

"Justin Mattock" writes: Hello; I'm noticing this with the latest git
dmesg:[ 0.943919] ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
dmesg:[ 11.486870] ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE dmesg.0:[ 0.943919] ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62


I will see this on various boot's.
regards;


[PATCH] crypto: make michael_block a function

Harvey Harrison writes: (Summary) 55 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/michael_mic.c b/crypto/michael_mic.c index 9e917b8..792dbf9 100644 --- a/crypto/michael_mic.c +++ b/crypto/michael_mic.c @@ -31,19 +31,18 @@ static inline u32 xswap(u32 val) return ((val & } - -#define michael_block(l, r) \ -do { \ - r ^= rol32(l, 17); \ - r ^= xswap(l); \ - r ^= rol32(l, 3); \ - r ^= ror32(l, 2); \ -} while (0) - +static void michael_block(struct michael_mic_ctx *ctx, u32 val) +{ + ctx->l ^= val; while (len >= 4) { - mctx->l ^= le32_to_cpup(src++); switch (mctx->pending_len) { - case 0: - mctx->l ^= 0x5a; - case 1: - mctx->l ^= data[0] | - case 2: - mctx->l ^= data[0] |

Re: NET_SCHED cbq dropping too many packets on a bonding interface

"Kingsley Foreman" writes: (Summary) ok after some playing a bit if i use

tc qdisc change dev bond0 parent 1: pfifo limit 30

the dropped packets go away, im not sure if that is considered normal or not, however any number under 30 gives me issues.

Kingsley

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarek Poplawski" <jarkao2@gmail.com>

[PATCH] x86: Get irq for hpet timer

Kevin Hao writes: (Summary) + if (irq) { + if (request_irq(irq, hpet_interrupt, irq_flags, + devp->hd_name, (void *)devp)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "hpet: IRQ %d is not free\n", irq); + } + + cap =3D (readq(&timer->hpet_config) & + irq =3D find_next_bit(&cap, HPET_MAX_IRQ, 1 + irq)) { + if (request_irq(irq, hpet_interrupt, irq_flags, + devp->hd_name, (void *)devp)) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "hpet: IRQ %d is not free\n", irq); + } + + if (irq >=3D HPET_MAX_IRQ) + irq =3D 0; - } - } - + irq =3D hpet_timer_get_irq(devp); diff --git a/include/linux/hpet.h b/include/linux/hpet.h index 2dc29ce..440ca72 100644 --- a/include/linux/hpet.h +++ b/include/linux/hpet.h @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct hpet { #define hpet_compare _u1._hpet_compare =20 #define HPET_MAX_TIMERS (32) +#define HPET_MAX_IRQ (32) =20 /* * HPET general capabilities register @@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ struct hpet { */ =20 #define Tn_INT_ROUTE_CAP_MASK (0xffffffff00000000ULL) -#define Tn_INI_ROUTE_CAP_SHIFT (32UL) +#define Tn_INT_ROUTE_CAP_SHIFT (32

Re: NET_SCHED cbq dropping too many packets on a bonding interface

Jarek Poplawski writes: (Summary)
Thanks,
Jarek P.
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Re: [PATCH] Input: add appleir USB driver

Tino Keitel writes: (Summary) On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 19:32:36 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
[...]


Maybe this email came from a person who uses a distro kernel that already included the appleir driver? This was done in 2.6.23-rc2.

Regards,
Tino
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[PATCH 2/2] lguest: virtio-rng support

Rusty Russell writes: (Summary) i++) + if (iov[i].iov_len) + return false; The usual case is that the Guest doesn't want random numbers + * and so has no buffers although /dev/urandom is still readable, whereas + * console is the reverse. */ + if (head == dev->vq->vring.num) + return false; + + /* This is why we convert to iovecs: the readv() call uses them, and so + * it reads straight into the Guest's buffer. */ + while (!iov_empty(iov, in_num)) { + len = readv(dev->fd, iov, in_num); + } + + /* Tell the Guest about the new input. */ @@ -1683,6 +1769,7 @@ static struct option opts[] = { { "verbose", 0, NULL, 'v' }, { "tunnet", 1, NULL, 't' }, { "block", 1, NULL, 'b' }, + { "rng", 0, NULL, 'r' }, { "initrd", 1, NULL, 'i' }, { NULL }, };

Re: spontaneous reboots and hangs on x86_64

Mariusz Kozlowski writes: (Summary) I'll just start from scratch then.

Thanks,

Mariusz

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[PATCH 1/2] virtio: hardware random device

Rusty Russell writes: (Summary) VIRTIO + ---help--- + This driver provides kernel-side support for the virtual Random Number + Generator hardware. + diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile b/drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Makefile @@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_IXP4XX) += ixp4xx obj-$(CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_IXP4XX) += ixp4xx-rng.o obj-$(CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_OMAP) += omap-rng.o obj-$(CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_PASEMI) += pasemi-rng.o +obj-$(CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO) += virtio-rng.o diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +/* + * Randomness driver for virtio + * Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Rusty Russell IBM Corporation + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + * the Free Software Foundation; +} + +static struct hwrng virtio_h

Re: [PATCH] modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting

Eric Dumazet writes: (Summary) (1Kb per module)
Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node, thanks to percpu storage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 3e03b1a..dfd36ed 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -217,11 +217,6 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbol); - enum module_state { MODULE_STATE_LIVE, @@ -307,8 +302,11 @@ struct module #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD /* Reference counts */ - struct module_ref ref[NR_CPUS]; */ static inline void __module_get(struct module *module) { if (module) { BUG_ON(module_refcount(module) == 0); } } @@ -396,7 +403,7 @@ static inline int try_module_get(struct modu

Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86: per-device dma_mapping_ops

Andi Kleen writes: (Summary) Also there are livetime issues when to wrap.

It's certainly possible, but likely complicated

-Andi


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[PATCH] lib: Taint kernel in common report_bug() WARN path.

Paul Mundt writes: (Summary) Commit 95b570c9cef3b12356454c7112571b7e406b4b51 introduced a TAINT_WARN that was implemented for all architectures using the generic warn_on_slowpath(), which excluded any architecture that set HAVE_ARCH_WARN_ON.

As all of the architectures that implement their own WARN_ON() all go through the report_bug() path (specifically handling BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN), taint the kernel there as well for consistency.

Re: [BUG] mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs

Greg KH writes: (Summary) On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:05:10PM -0700, Arthur Jones wrote:
Thanks again.

I've audited the whole tree and only found one other place with this problem, the display driver class.

Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB

"Zhang, Yanmin" writes: (Summary)
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:05 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: reed=20
ench=20
ab sizes.
freeing.
on becomes 97% (the bad
the=20
le it=20
urred=20
l=20
I forgot that.

Re: spontaneous reboots and hangs on x86_64

Mariusz Kozlowski writes: (Summary) What you should do is basically
# Set this up just once..
git remote add linux-next git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
and then after that, you keep on just doing

git fetch linux-next
git checkout linux-next/master
"

This is from today:

$ git fetch linux-next
remote: Counting objects: 3749, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (748/748), done.
Indexing 2309 objects...
remote: Total 2309 (delta 1918), reused 1951 (delta 1560) 100% (2309/2309) done
Resolving 1918 deltas...
100% (1918/1918) done
496 objects were added to complete this thin pack.
* refs/remotes/linux-next/history: fast forward to branch 'history' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next old..new: b26fb88..75f1411
* refs/remotes/linux-next/master: forcing update to non-fast forward branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/lin

Re: Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) v2

Paul Mundt writes: (Summary) And it's at least been verified on avr32 and sh.

Either Havaard or I can resubmit this with a proper changelog if that will help move things along, obviously it's not a very pressing patch one way or the other, but consistency is good, and we're all likely to forget about this again otherwise.
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Re: [BUG] mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs

Greg KH writes: (Summary) On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:05:10PM -0700, Arthur Jones wrote:
Great!

Thanks for testing this, I'll clean it up a bit more and send it to Linus later this evening.

Re: [PATCH] modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting

Eric Dumazet writes: (Summary) (!!= !)

Well, I should have stated that this saving also takes place in the=20 module disk file.
(The "struct module" is included in it, in the=20 ".gnu.linkonce.this_module" section)
Here on my distro, around 2000 modules are shiped.
Thanks




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Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

"Huang, Ying" writes: (Summary)
Jump from kernel A to kernel B
Jump to entry of purgatory (purgatory_entry)
purgatory save the return address (kexec_jump_back_entry_A) Purgatory set kexec_jump_back_entry for kernel B to a code segment in purgatory, say kexec_jump_back_entry_A_for_B Purgatory jump to entry point of kernel B
Jump from kernel B to kernel A
Jump to purgatory (kexec_jump_back_entry_A_for_B)
Purgatory save the return address (kexec_jump_back_entry_B) Purgatory return to kernel A (kexec_jump_back_entry_A) Jump from kernel A to kernel B again
Jump to entry of purgatory (purgatory_entry)
Purgatory save the return address (kexec_jump_back_entry_A) Purgatory jump to kexec_jump_back_entry_B

The disadvantage of this solution is that some information is saved in purgatory (kexec_jump_back_entry_A, kexec_jump_back_entry_B).

Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow

"Cyrill Gorcunov" writes: (Summary) wrote: [...]

And sorry about top-posting (gmail mobile client is really screwed up, trying to force top-post all the time)
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Re: spontaneous reboots and hangs on x86_64

Stephen Rothwell writes: Hi Marius,

On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:31:21 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
This would indicate something wrong with your clone of linux-next. How did you create the repository?


Any day's linux-next tree is a git tree like any other ...
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86: per-device dma_mapping_ops

FUJITA Tomonori writes: (Summary) These people need per-device dma_ops and we can do stack per-device dma_ops?
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Re: taskstats and /proc/.../io asymmetry?

Balbir Singh writes: Mark Seger wrote:

I looked through the code and your argument seems to be correct. The behaviour is inconsistent w.r.t. other statistics like utime and stime. We currently accumulate tgid information in signal_struct, we need to do something similar for io as well. If nobody gets to it by the time I finish my backlog, I'll try and get to it.


Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: per-device dma_mapping_ops support

FUJITA Tomonori writes: (Summary) It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate dma_mapping_ops per device:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/14/519

But I wanted to make sure whether per-device dma_ops is useful for everyone.
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Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

(Eric W. Biederman) writes: (Summary) writes:


I'm not opposed.
Eric
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Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow

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Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

Vivek Goyal writes: (Summary) Re-entry point has not changed Do nothing. - Continue to resume kernel A

Thanks
Vivek

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Re: 2.6.25.3: serial problem (minicom)

Andrew Morton writes: (Summary) 2008-02-05 09:44:09 Parent: 149b36eae2ab6aa6056664f4bc461f3d3affc9c1 (serial: stop passing NULL to functions that expect data) Child: 9d778a69370cc1b643b13648df971c83ff5654ef (serial: avoid waking up closed serial ports on resume) Branches: many (89)
Follows: v2.6.24
Precedes: v2.6.25-rc1

serial: keep the DTR setting for serial console.


But I don't recall seeing any other reports of this and there's not really anyone who is actively working on the serial drivers.

Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

(Eric W. Biederman) writes: (Summary) writes:

I don't know what the case is for keeping two kernels in memory and switching between them.

I suspect a small piece of trampoline code between the two kernels could handle the case.

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] USB: add Sensoray 2255 v4l driver

Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: (Summary) Also, as it is common on several devices, the userspace handlers are more tested.

Cheers,
Mauro
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Re: [PATCH] USB: add Sensoray 2255 v4l driver

Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: (Summary) wrote:



It seems a little dangerous to use just DIR_IN/DIR_OUT, since a future change on a kernel header could cause namespace conflict.

I saw another discussion about this.

I like the idea of loading firmware asynchronously, provided that you block at open() or at ioctl(), if the user requested to open before having the firmware loaded.


This is probably obsolete. The current code, at vivi and em28xx already prevents such issues (at least, it went fine at the tests we did).


Also, the timeout is obsolete


No. Why to release the firmware?


In this case, it should return -EBUSY.



Instead of incrementing the usage, printing the open message just to discover that you don't have enough memory, I would move the users increment and the dprintk to happen after the allocation of fh.

Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

"Huang, Ying" writes: (Summary) And the stack state is different depend on where come from, from relocate_new_kernel() or return.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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Re: [PATCH 10/10] Bsdacct: account dying tasks in all relevant nam ...

Andrew Morton writes: (Summary) wrote:

comment seems wrong.


Is it really safe to walk this list locklessly?
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Re: [PATCH 0/10] Make bsd process accounting work in pid namespaces

Andrew Morton writes: (Summary) wrote:

We still have this silliness in acct_file_reopen():
spin_unlock(&acct_lock);
do_acct_process(acct, old_ns, old_acct);
filp_close(old_acct, NULL);
spin_lock(&acct_lock);

Was this lock-dropping safe before?

Is it safe now?

To work this out, we'd need to know what acct_lock protects.

[PATCH] print RT watchdog message

Hiroshi Shimamoto writes: (Summary) 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c index f1525ad..c42a03a 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -1037,6 +1037,9 @@ static void check_thread_timers(struct task_struct *tsk, sig->rlim[RLIMIT_RTTIME].rlim_cur += USEC_PER_SEC;

Re: TAHI IPv6 testing of kernel 2.6.20

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 writes: (Summary) (Commit-ID: bf0b48dfc368c07c42b5a3a5658c8ee81b4283ac) to fix this specific issue.

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Re: [PATCH] Input: add appleir USB driver

Greg KH writes: (Summary)
Now why that hid quirk line hadn't been added for the year or so that the person knew about it, sure is odd to me...

I'll test it out and probably reduce this whole thing to a one-line hid-quirk patch...

ugh, why do people not send stuff upstream, it just wastes everyone's time in the end :(

greg k-h
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Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

(Eric W. Biederman) writes: (Summary) writes:

What I was thinking was:

In kernel A()

relocate_new_kernel:

...

call *%eax

kexec_jump_back_entry:
/* This code should be PIC so figure out where we are */ call 1f 1: popl %edi subl $(1b - relocate_kernel), %edi /* Setup a safe stack */ leal PAGE_SIZE(%edi), %esp ...
Then in purgatory we can read the address of kexec_jump_back_entry by examining 0(%esp) and export it in whatever fashion is sane.

[PATCH] kernel/audit.c: nlh->nlmsg_type is gotten more than once

Peng Haitao writes: (Summary) 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index b782b04..48fa3d0 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) } /* fallthrough */ case AUDIT_LIST: - err = audit_receive_filter(nlh->nlmsg_type, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, + err = audit_receive_filter(msg_type, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, uid, seq, data, nlmsg_len(nlh), loginuid, sid);

Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

"Huang, Ying" writes: (Summary) On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 22:00 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: [...]

The disadvantage of this solution is that kernel B must know it is original kernel (A) or kexeced kernel (B).

Re: linux-next: Tree for May 14

(Tony Breeds) writes: (Summary) Thoughts?.

From: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix various 8390 builds

The commit 3f8cb098859bbea29d7b3765a3102e4a6bf81b85 (drivers/net/lib8390: fix warning, trim trailing whitespace) removed ei_local from ei_tx_err() and ei_rx_overrun() resulting in the following build errors on m68k and sh:

Using /scratch1/tony/next as source for kernel
GEN /scratch1/tony/next_out/Makefile
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
CALL /scratch1/tony/next/scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/linux/compile.h
CC [M] drivers/net/zorro8390.o
In file included from /scratch1/tony/next/drivers/net/zorro8390.c:47: drivers/net/lib8390.c: In function 'ei_tx_err':
drivers/net/lib8390.c:556: error: 'ei_local' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/net/lib8390.c:556: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once drivers/net/lib8390.c:556: error: for each function

Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

"Huang, Ying" writes: (Summary)
Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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[PATCH] Remove duplicate declaration of unknown_nmi_panic

Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao writes: (Summary) extern int reserve_perfctr_nmi(unsigned int);
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Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

Vivek Goyal writes: (Summary) On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
IMHO, this kind of make more sense to me when keeping C function like semantics in mind.

Both the cases can be treated like calls to functions (calling BIOS function and jumping to kernel B).

[PATCH] print RT watchdog message

Hiroshi Shimamoto writes: (Summary) 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c index f1525ad..c42a03a 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -1037,6 +1037,9 @@ static void check_thread_timers(struct task_struct *tsk, sig->rlim[RLIMIT_RTTIME].rlim_cur += USEC_PER_SEC;

Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

Vivek Goyal writes: (Summary)

Thanks
Vivek
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Re: [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB fixes for 2.6.26

Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: (Summary) This need to be mandatory for a few drivers like saa7134, where some exported symbols at kbd-ir-i2c are used there.

Cheers,
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Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

"Huang, Ying" writes: (Summary) Biederman wrote:
As far as I know, in suspend to ram, interrupt is used as waking up event, such as, keyboard interrupt.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Or we should say "ok, I can write even _better_ source code, and fix the bug, make the source look nicer _and_ not piss off the script too".


So I did that too.

Linus
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Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

"Huang, Ying" writes: (Summary) But I think if the effort is small, why not support general 32-bit physical mode code call at same time.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

(Eric W. Biederman) writes: (Summary)
Eric
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Re: [PATCH] crypto: fix cryptd build fix due to missing ahash

Herbert Xu writes: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:33:54PM -0500, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Thanks, I've merged this into the original change.

Re: [PATCH] kexec based hibernation: a prototype of kexec multi-st ...

"Huang, Ying" writes: (Summary)
Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

Vivek Goyal writes: (Summary) On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:41:50PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
ioapic_suspend() is not putting APICs in Legacy mode and that's why we are seeing the issue.

[git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

Paul Mackerras writes: (Summary) 4 - 20 files changed, 508 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) Andy Fleming (2):
[POWERPC] 85xx: Add 8568 PHY workarounds to board code [POWERPC] 85xx: Fix some sparse warnings for 85xx MDS
Anton Vorontsov (3):
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: add support for NOR and NAND flashes [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: fix second serial port
Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1):
[POWERPC] vmemmap fixes to use smaller pages

FUJITA Tomonori (1):
[POWERPC] spufs: Fix compile error

Ishizaki Kou (1):
[POWERPC] cell: Fix section mismatches in io-workarounds code
Jeremy McNicoll (1):
[POWERPC] 85xx: SBC8548 - Add flash support and HW Rev reporting
Luke Browning (1):
[POWERPC] spufs: Fix pointer reference in find_victim
Nate Case (1):
[POWERPC] Fix uninitialized variable bug in copy_{to|from}_user R

[PATCH] usb: file-storage.c use unaligned access helpers

Harvey Harrison writes: (Summary) } - -/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ - -/* Routines for unaligned data access */ - -static u16 get_be16(u8 *buf) -{ - return ((u16) buf[0] << -} - - /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* @@ -1551,9 +1522,9 @@ static int do_read(struct fsg_dev *fsg) /* Get the starting Logical Block Address and check that it's * not too big */ if (fsg->cmnd[0] == SC_READ_6) - lba = (fsg->cmnd[1] << /* We allow DPO (Disable Page Out = don't save data in the * cache) and FUA (Force Unit Access = don't read from the @@ -1684,9 +1655,9 @@ static int do_write(struct fsg_dev *fsg) /* Get the starting Logical Block Address and check that it's * not too big */ if (fsg->cmnd[0] == SC_WRITE_6) - lba = (fsg->cmnd[1] << /* We allow DPO (Disable Page Out = don't save data in the * cache) and FUA (Force Unit Access = write directly to the @@ -1920,7 +1891,7 @@ static int do_verify(s

Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last ...

Andi Kleen writes: (Summary) Otherwise it'll be useless for most people.

-Andi
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[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the OSS trident driver

Adrian Bunk writes: (Summary) PCI - ---help--- - Say Y or M if you have a PCI sound card utilizing the Trident - 4DWave-DX/NX chipset or your mother board chipset has SiS 7018 - or ALi 5451 built-in. you can enable them by saying Y to "/proc file - system support" and "Sysctl support", and after the /proc file - system has been mounted, executing the command - - command what is enabled - - echo 0>/proc/ALi5451 pcm out is also set to S/PDIF out. !STANDALONE) diff --git a/sound/oss/Makefile b/sound/oss/Makefile index 1f86299..3a14147 100644 --- a/sound/oss/Makefile +++ b/sound/oss/Makefile @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS) +=3D msnd.o msnd_classic= =2Eo obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN) +=3D msnd.o msnd_pinnacle.o obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_VWSND) +=3D vwsnd.o obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_AU1550_AC97) +=3D au1550_ac97.o ac97_codec.o -obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT) +=3D trident.o ac97_codec.o obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_BCM_CS4297A) +=3D swarm_cs4297a.o =20 obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_WM97XX) +=3D ac97_plugin_wm97xx.o diff --git a/sound/oss/trident.

Re: [PATCH 2/3] slub: record page flag overlays explicitly

KOSAKI Motohiro writes:
Agreed.
I like your approach :)



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[2.6 patch] tuners/mxl5005s.c: don't define variables for enums

Adrian Bunk writes: (Summary) 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) e6a639a06854b75ca90e49e00dfd858cb4c8dd02 diff --git a/drivers/media/common/tuners/mxl5005s.c b/drivers/media/common/tuners/mxl5005s.c index 5d05b53..0dc2bef 100644
--- a/drivers/media/common/tuners/mxl5005s.c +++ b/drivers/media/common/tuners/mxl5005s.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ enum { MXL_QAM, MXL_ANALOG_CABLE, MXL_ANALOG_OTA -} tuner_modu_type;

Re: [PATCH] modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting

Rusty Russell writes: (Summary) The problem of allocating memory which is laid out precisely as the original per-cpu alloc is vexing on NUMA, and probably requires reserving virtual address space and remapping into it, but the rewards would be maximally-efficient per-cpu accessors, and getting rid of that boutique allocator in module.c.

Only minor commentry on the patch itself:


void * would seem more natural here (love those gcc'isms)

Looks like you can skip this if you assign to mod->refptr directly below:

And finally:


This if (refptr) seems redundant. Thanks!
Rusty.
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Re: Virt RNG?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: On Fri, 16 May 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:

It would be easy to implement rng-tools as a kernel driver, as long as proper in-kernel interfaces exist for it to work in an event-driven way. I don't see what we would win over rng-tools in userspace, however.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] [usb/host]: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers to fix ...

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Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memo ...

Paul Jackson writes: (Summary) Peter Anvin, Andi Kleen, Ingo Molnar (and anyone else interested):

I invite your review of these patches, especially 7, 9 and 10 of the set of 10, that I posted yesterday.

In combination, I believe that they allow passing more than E820MAX (128) memory map entries from EFI firmware to a booting kernel, beyond the E820 constraints of non-EFI legacy BIOS's, without changing the EFI interface interface.

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: (Summary) On Thu, 15 May 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

The TPM has some sort of idea of restricted operations. even when it is disabled(!), so I would not be too surprised to find out that, as long as it is enabled, it will return random numbers to anyone.

But access to the TPM requires a control layer which must have excusive access to the chip.

Re: Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) v2

Andrew Morton writes: (Summary) Regularly :(


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Re: [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem

Nick Piggin writes: (Summary) But you catch that refault in your driver , which can prevent the page from being faulted back in.
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[PATCH] Add a void * alternative to print_fn_descriptor_symbol()

Abhijit Menon-Sen writes: (Summary) 9 +++------ 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h index 82de2fb..ed8ab42 100644 --- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h +++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h @@ -101,6 +101,16 @@ static inline void print_symbol(const char *fmt, unsigned long addr) __builtin_extract_return_addr((void *)addr)); +#endif +} + #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT #define print_ip_sym(ip) \ do { \ diff --git a/drivers/base/power/main.c b/drivers/base/power/main.c index 7b76fd3..9625317 100644 --- a/drivers/base/power/main.c +++ b/drivers/base/power/main.c @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ void __suspend_report_result(const char *function, void *fn, int ret) { if (ret) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s(): ", function); } if (msgbuf[0]) { - print_fn_descriptor_symbol(KERN_WARNING "initcall %s()", - (unsigned long) *call);

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: (Summary) The PUBEK is there, the kernel exports it nicely through sysfs, but trousers gets crap instead of the PUBEK if I ask it to get the PUBEK (and therefore, nothing useful in trousers works).

[RFC] handling panic under X

Jesse Barnes writes: (Summary)
I think the approach is fairly sound (using a notifier to let mode setting drivers switch the front buffer), but there are some details to be worked out still:
- the console needs to be switched earlier on, probably in panic(), so we don't lose messages (the current code will print stuff to VT8 until the notifier gets called, so we lose the early stuff), but that should be easy - abusing KD_TEXT for this purpose probably isn't right, I think we'll want some smarts under KD_KERNEL_GRAPHICS for this (console layer hacking for the above could be under a KD_KERNEL_GRAPHICS test) - we definitely don't wait to wait on VT switch in the notifier, this means more exporting of stuff from the console core and smarter handling - the switch in the notifier should be more robust; + #include "xf86.h" #include "xf86_OSproc.h" #include "xf86Resources.h" #include "xf86RAC.h" +#include "xf86Priv.h" #include "xf86cmap.h" #include "compiler.h" #include "mibstore.h" @@ -1068,6 +1071

Re: Virt RNG?

Rusty Russell writes: (Summary) I was a little surprised to see that hwrng drivers don't contribute in any way to the entropy pool though, but now reading the thread I find out about rngd (not installed on my Ubuntu system, but available at least).

One could argue that virtual rng should try to feed the kernel rng directly, with or without entropy credit.

Anyway, since there's interest, I'll drag virtio_rng from the bottom of the queue, apply Christian's fix (which I somehow missed before, sorry Christian), and re-post.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Theodore Tso writes: (Summary) I tried for a bit to try to get it to work a while ago, but the few things I tried didn't work, and I eventually lost interest.

- Ted
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Re: [PATCH] leds: Add support for Philips PCA955x I2C LED drivers

Andrew Morton writes: (Summary) chip->slv_addr_shift) - 1)) { I think?



It's a neat-looking driver.
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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Theodore Tso writes: (Summary) Normally that key is stored in a file, and of course we can have a userspace helper pull that key into the kernel, but given the extensive Trousers infrastructure that can do this already, it seemed to make more sense to do it all in userspace, and not require any more kernel code.

- Ted
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Re: [PATCH] Input: add appleir USB driver

Tino Keitel writes: (Summary) On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 14:11:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
[...]


Yes, I'm using it for months.


When the appleir kernel driver is used, the IR device acts as in input device, not as a HID device.

Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: free transmit skbs in a timer

Rusty Russell writes: (Summary) On Friday 16 May 2008 01:32:47 Avi Kivity wrote:

But performance is going to suck in the meantime, as currently our host doesn't do this.

Rusty.
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Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

"Rafael J. Wysocki" writes: (Summary) With BenH in particular (CCed).


I don't agree with that.


Ditto.


Please be more specific.


The names have been discussed either and I don't intend to change them now. :-)
Still, having more specialized callbacks is not generally bad IMO, they can reuse the code just fine.

Thanks,
Rafael
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Re: Weird Xorg radeon mirroring with linux-next-20080515 [paritial ...

"Dave Airlie" writes: (Summary) the radeon drm hasn't seen any changes that should affect this sorta thing, do you run radeonfb or vesafb?

Dave.
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Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag

David Chinner writes: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
We're out of memory. I'd suggest write backing as much as you can without blocking. e.g. treat it like pdflush and say 1024 pages, or like balance_dirty_pages() and write a 'write_chunk' back from the mapping (i.e. sync_writeback_pages()).

Any of these are better from an I/O perspective than single page writeback.... Cheers,

Dave.

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: (Summary) make it work here too), I will write the rng-tools trousers interface code (at least for the Debian version) :-)
The kernel TPM driver works, the BIOS works, and I have the PCRs updated properly during boot, but trousers get the tpm pubek key wrong for some reason (the kernel driver can read it just fine).

[patch 3/4] PNP: remove ratelimit on add resource failures

Bjorn Helgaas writes: (Summary) if (!pnp_res) { - if (!warned) { - dev_err(&dev->dev, "can't add resource for IRQ %d\n", - irq); if (!pnp_res) { - if (!warned) { - dev_err(&dev->dev, "can't add resource for IO " - "%#llx-%#llx\n",(unsigned long long) start, - (unsigned long long) end); if (!pnp_res) { - if (!warned) { - dev_err(&dev->dev, "can't add resource for MEM " - "%#llx-%#llx\n",(unsigned long long) start, - (unsigned long long) end);

[patch 4/4] PNP: dont sort by type in /sys/.../resources

Bjorn Helgaas writes: (Summary) IORESOURCE_DISABLED) - pnp_printf(buffer, " disabled\n"); - else - pnp_printf(buffer, " 0x%llx-0x%llx\n", - (unsigned long long) res->start, - (unsigned long long) res->end); IORESOURCE_DISABLED) { pnp_printf(buffer, " disabled\n"); + } + + switch (pnp_resource_type(res)) { + case IORESOURCE_IO: + case IORESOURCE_MEM: + pnp_printf(buffer, " %#llx-%#llx\n", (unsigned long long) res->start, (unsigned long long) res->end); - else - pnp_printf(buffer, " %lld\n", - (unsigned long long) res->start); + } } + ret = (buffer->curr - buf);

[patch 2/4] PNP: replace pnp_resource_table with dynamically alloc ...

Bjorn Helgaas writes: (Summary) Also set by PNPBIOS and PNPACPI for: - invalid IRQs or GSI registration failures
- invalid DMA channels
- I/O ports above 0x10000 - mem ranges with negative length After this patch, there is no pnp_resource_table, and the resource list entries use the flags like this:

IORESOURCE_UNSET
This flag is no longer used in PNP. i++) { - if (pnp_resource_valid(res)) { - pnp_printf(buffer, "io"); - else - pnp_printf(buffer, " 0x%llx-0x%llx\n", - (unsigned long long) res->start, - (unsigned long long) res->end); i++) { - if (pnp_resource_valid(res)) { - pnp_printf(buffer, "mem"); - else - pnp_printf(buffer, " 0x%llx-0x%llx\n", - (unsigned long long) res->start, - (unsigned long long) res->end); i++) { - if (pnp_resource_valid(res)) { - pnp_printf(buffer, "irq"); - else - pnp_printf(buffer, " %lld\n", - (unsigned long long) res->start); i++) { - if (pnp_resource_valid(res)) { -

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

"Jesper Juhl" writes: (Summary) 2008/5/16 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>:

Hmm, I would like to know how you'd do that.
Even if you a) know the exact distro installed (and the configuration, b) know the exact hardware in the machine, c) know the exact time it was booted and know that there have been no ssh logins or similar that might have generated syscalls, d) know exactely how many requests (and of what type) have been made to the server and the exact times they were made.
How would you go about brute force guessing the contents of the entropy pool?

[patch 1/4] PNP: make pnp_{port,mem,etc}_start(), et al work for i ...

Bjorn Helgaas writes: (Summary) + + if (pnp_resource_valid(res)) + return res->start; + + if (pnp_resource_valid(res)) + return res->flags; } static inline int pnp_port_valid(struct pnp_dev *dev, unsigned int bar) @@ -63,25 +75,41 @@ static inline int pnp_port_valid(struct static inline resource_size_t pnp_port_len(struct pnp_dev *dev, unsigned int bar) { - return pnp_resource_len(pnp_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_IO, bar)); } static inline int pnp_mem_valid(struct pnp_dev *dev, unsigned int bar) @@ -92,18 +120,30 @@ static inline int pnp_mem_valid(struct p static inline resource_size_t pnp_mem_len(struct pnp_dev *dev, unsigned int bar) { - return pnp_resource_len(pnp_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_MEM, bar)); } static inline int pnp_irq_valid(struct pnp_dev *dev, unsigned int bar) @@ -114,12 +154,20 @@ static inline int pnp_irq_valid(struct p static inline resource_size_t pnp_dma(struct pnp_dev *dev, unsigned int bar) { - return pnp_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_DMA, bar)->start;

[patch 0/4] PNP: convert resource table to dynamic list, v2

Bjorn Helgaas writes: (Summary) This series replaces the fixed-size pnp_resource_table with a linked list of resources.

This iteration fixes a null pointer dereference Andrew found on a PNPBIOS machine.

Because of that problem, Andrew dropped the following patches from the -mm tree (these were patches 6-8 of the v1 series):
pnp-replace-pnp_resource_table-with-dynamically-allocated-resources.patch pnp-remove-ratelimit-on-add-resource-failures.patch pnp-dont-sort-by-type-in-sys-resources.patch

This posting doesn't repeat patches 1-5 from the original v1 series;

Re: 2.6.26-rc2 - ntp.c build failure

Adrian Bunk writes: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 03:43:45PM +0530, debian developer wrote:
Works here.

Please send your .config


cu
Adrian

Re: [PATCH v2] ibmaem: Fix 64-bit division on 32-bit platforms

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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Jeff Garzik writes: (Summary) It should be quite doable to support TPM RNG entirely via userspace, at any rate.

Jeff


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Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow

Rene Herman writes: (Summary) ]



And while that person is at it, could he or she please remove the silly () from the "foo+0x0/0x1234()" (or the "foo+0x0/0x1234 [bar]()" or the "0x12345678()").

Rene.
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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Jeff Garzik writes: (Summary) Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:


So I guess a good message for customers might be:

Don't depend on an entropy source whose volume decreases as workload and network traffic increase.

Jeff


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Re: [PATCH] crypto: fix cryptd build fix due to missing ahash

Randy Dunlap writes:

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Thanks.


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Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Theodore Tso writes: (Summary) If the attacker knows the machine type, distribution OS loaded, etc., it might not be that hard to brute force guess many of the factors you have listed above.

Basically the question has always been one of the overhead to collect and boil down any input data (which after all, any user space process can send arbitrary data into the entropy pool via "cat my_secret_data is estimating how much "entropy" should be ascribed to data which is sent into the entropy pool, and this is where you have to be very careful.

If you screw the entropy credit information then security of /dev/random will be impacted.

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: (Summary) But at least valgrind tells me I fixed the worst bugs, and FIPS 140-2 (the old version of it that still had criteria for non-deterministic RNGs) and DIEHARD couldn't find any issues with its output after several runs on gigabyte-sized files produced both from an Intel FWH RNG, and from a VIA PadLock RNG.

Re: 2.6.26-rc1: possible circular locking dependency with xfs file ...

David Chinner writes: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:45:55PM +0400, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
[snip]


That hang is just memory reclaim running, I think you'll find. It can take some time for reclaim to find pages to use, and meanwhile everything in the machine will back up behind it.... Cheers,

Dave.

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of ...

Theodore Tso writes: (Summary) That has the net result of potentially improving the entropy found in /dev/random and /dev/urandom, but not necessarily compromising /dev/random, since /dev/random's output is throttled by the entropy estimate.

The only cost of doing this would be the overhead in sending the information into the entropy pool.

- Ted
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"Theodore Ts'o" writes: (Summary) Hi Linus,

Please pull from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git for_linus
These are all cleanups and bug fixes for 2.6.26.

Many thanks,

- Ted

fs/ext4/balloc.c | journaled)
Mingming Cao (1):
jbd2: update transaction t_state to T_COMMIT fix

Valerie Clement (1):
ext4: mballoc fix mb_normalize_request algorithm for 1KB block size filesystems
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