I suppose that's not unreasonable to put in mm/memory.c, although it's not really considered a problem to do this kind of stuff in a low level arch file... You have no kernel virtual mapping for the source data? Should it be __init? Care to add a line of documentation if you keep it in mm/memory.c? Thanks, Nick -

Ah, I see. I missed that. OK, well rather than make it weak, and have everyone except i386 override it, can you just ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM? After that, I guess most other architectures wouldn't even use the function. Maybe it can go into lib/ instead so that it can be discarded by the linker if it isn't used? -

When a read() requests an amount of data smaller than the amount of data that the seq_file's foo_show() outputs, the output starts looping and outputs the "stuck" element's data infinitely. There may be multiple sequential calls to foo_start(), foo_next()/foo_show(), and foo_stop() for a single open with sequential read of the file. The _start() does not have to start with the 0th element and _show() might be called multiple times in a row for the same element for a given open/read of the seq_file...

If the aic94xx chip doesn't have a SAS address in the chip's flash memory, make libsas get one for us. Also clean out some old code that had been used to do this in the past. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> --- drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx.h | 16 ---------------- drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_hwi.c | 21 ++++++++++----------- drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c | 2 -- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/...

On Monday October 8, corbet@lwn.net wrote: I find it is always good to know *why* we have the tags. That information is a useful complement to what they mean, and can guide people in adding them. So below I present some "Purposes", YetAnotherTag, and a comment on the RSO. (And I'd like to add a vote for "Blame-Shared-By:" rather than From: The Author, Primary Author, or Authors of the patch. Authors should also provide a Signed-off-by: tag. Pur...

From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Add a new set of configuration functions to the NetLabel/LSM API so that LSMs can perform their own configuration of the NetLabel subsystem without relying on assistance from userspace. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> --- This update fixes a memory leak on error conditions. include/net/netlabel.h | 47 ++++++++-- net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 4 - net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c | 2 net/netlabel...

When building a custom keymap, after setting GENERATE_KEYMAP := 1 in drivers/char/Makefile, the kernel build fails like this: CC drivers/char/vt.o make[2]: *** No rule to make target `drivers/char/%.map', needed by `drivers/char/defkeymap.c'. Stop. make[1]: *** [drivers/char] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 This was caused by commit af8b128719f5248e542036ea994610a29d0642a6, which deleted a necessary colon from the Makefile rule that generates the keymap, since that rule contains bot...

you most certainly want to do this in userspace I think. One of the biggest problems is that link negotiation can take a significant amount of time, well over several seconds (1 to 3 seconds typical) with gigabit, and having your ethernet connection go offline for 3 seconds may not be the desired effect for when you want to get more bandwidth in the first place. However, when a laptop is in battery mode, switching down from gigabit to 100mbit makes a lot more sense, so this is something I would ...

Is the effect a beat that it has roughly the frequency of your Notebooks No idea... check where the register of the HW cursor blink rate gets written? But as it seems to be so nice, please submit a patch which enables this for all platforms. ;-) Regards, -- Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm-technology.com Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19 -

CC drivers/video/fbmon.o drivers/video/fbmon.c: In function ‘fb_parse_edid’: drivers/video/fbmon.c:867: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attrib _’ before ‘*’ token drivers/video/fbmon.c:867: error: ‘block’ undeclared (first use in this func ) This line reads: unsigned char$*block; Source error, or is my tree simply corrupt? Helge Hafting -

I downloaded a new tree. That file has quite a few single-bit errors in my old tree. Mostly of the +16 variety. Seems I have to look for bad memory :-( :-( :-( Helge Hafting -

Hi, The patch below contains a small code clean-up for the NTFS driver: all static char pointers to error message strings have been replaced by static char arrays. Please apply if you like it. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> --- diff --git a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c index 1c08fef..b883537 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c @@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ static int ntfs_external_attr_find(const ATTR_TYPE type, ntfschar *al_name; u32...

Break the auditing of a list of execve arguments into smaller records if there are a too many. The limit is currently around 7.5k of arguments as userspace has an 8k buffer limit and will drop messages which are longer. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> --- Basically the same patch as last time, used a #define, cleaned up a memory leak on a malloc failure code path. Other than that it's the same. 7500 also is a good size because it means we never need more...

If the aic94xx chip doesn't have a SAS address in the chip's flash memory, use the request_firmware() interface to get one from userspace. This way, there's no debate as to who or how an address gets generated--it's totally up to the administrator to provide it if the card doesn't have one. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> --- drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx.h | 1 - drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_hwi.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- drivers/scsi/aic94x...

Hrm... jejb made a remark that it might be better to pass the scsi_host's device into request_firmware() as your example does, so I'll pitch in a patch to do likewise with libsas--the scsi_host knows the actual device it's coming from, and userland can sort that all out later anyway via DEVPATH. I suppose one could also have multiple scsi_hosts per PCI device, which means that my first patch would stumble horribly in more than a few That's ok, I don't do FC. :) Looks mostly good to me... --...

I nearly had to visit a psychiatrist when I selected "n" to SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER in 2.6.23-rc8-mm2: sorry if I'm spoiling an in-joke, but is there any chance that could be changed (with reversed sense) to SCHED_FRAME_POINTER? Hugh -

A .dot file sounds better. And even if not, generated files should IMHO not share the Kbuild* namespace with non-generated files. cu Adrian BTW: I'm currently trying without success to understand why the drivers/infiniband/{hw/amso1100,ulp/srp}/Kbuild files are not named "Makefile". -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. ...

Yea, finally. What about, that this is the first ever prompt, that must be shown and written to the .config? The zeroth one is an config entry of kernel version(s), .config can configure and thus build successfully. This are among other ideas about kconfig/kbuild, you know nothing about yet. So, what do you think? Also, i'd like to propose sequencing of config-enable-build-this-unit in config file(s), thus Makefile(s) (sometimes very small and stupid) will be not necessary. Additiona...

Added: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9135 Thanks, Rafael -

Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com> --- Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist index 19e7f65..34e06d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist +++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ kernel patches. 20: Check that it all passes `make headers_check'. 21: Has been checked with injection of at least slab and page-allocation - ...

Perhaps a good candidate for checkpatch.pl? (Andy cc:d.) Ray -

The "rolled-up" patch can be found at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.22.10-rc1.gz thanks, greg k-h -

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> commit 4ac212ad4e8fafc22fa147fc255ff5fa5435cf33 upstream. Clear parent death signal on SID transitions to prevent unauthorized signaling between SIDs. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- security/selinux/hooks.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 ins...

From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> commit 4047727e5ae33f9b8d2b7766d1994ea6e5ec2991 from upstream We need to disable all CPUs other than the boot CPU (usually 0) before attempting to power-off modern SMP machines. This fixes the hang-on-poweroff issue on my MythTV SMP box, and also on Thomas Gleixner's new toybox. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...

Greg KH wrote: @@ -477,10 +479,15 @@ nlmsvc_testlock(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, if (block == NULL) { struct file_lock *conf = kzalloc(sizeof(*conf), GFP_KERNEL); + struct nlm_host *host; if (conf == NULL) return nlm_granted; - block = nlmsvc_create_block(rqstp, file, lock, cookie); + /* Create host handle for callback */ + host = nlmsvc_lookup_host(rqstp, lock->caller, lock->len); + if (host == NULL) + return nlm_lck_denied_nolocks; + block = nlmsvc_create_block(r...