Kernel

Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 15:39 -0800, Ben Collins wrote: This email brought to you by Sunday afternoon coding frustration. As I move forward with Ubuntu's next release, I keep running into very familiar problems, more and more often. The issues stem from userspace not having enough control over what the ke... 24 Nov 2006 04:43

2.6.18 - AHCI detection pauses excessively
AHCI pauses heartily on during detection boot, but eventually proceeds. I've mentioned the problem before, but have since narrowed it down a bit. The problem does not occur in 2.6.17.3, but does occur in 2.6.18. The problem is still occurring both in 2.6.19-rc5 as well as 2.6.19-rc5-mm1. Please cc me on... 1 Dec 2006 09:27

What processor type?
Hello List, Could someone tell me what processor type I should select during kernel config for an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 chip. Thanks, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as... 13 Nov 2006 10:17

genapic: optimize & fix APIC mode setup
On Saturday 11 November 2006 16:14, Ingo Molnar wrote: From: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> this patch fixes a couple of inconsistencies/problems i found while reviewing the x86_64 genapic code (when i was chasing mysterious eth0 timeouts that would only trigger if CPU_HOTPLUG is enabled): - AMD ... 13 Nov 2006 15:33

BC: kmemsize accounting (core)
> +#define __GFP_BC ((__force gfp_t)0x80000u) /* Charge allocation with BC */ Please include the term "beancounter" in that comment. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <pj(a)sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401 - To unsub... 13 Nov 2006 07:29

- AIO completion signal notification
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:59 +0100, Sébastien Dugué wrote: + +static long aio_setup_sigevent(struct kiocb *iocb, + struct sigevent __user *user_event) +{ + int error = 0; + sigevent_t event; + struct task_struct *target; + unsigned long flags; + + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, user... 30 Nov 2006 11:30

[PATCH 11/13] BC: physpages accounting (hooks)
Introduce calls to BC code over the kernel to add accounting of physical pages. Signed-Off-By: Pavel Emelianov <xemul(a)sw.ru> Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev(a)sw.ru> --- fs/exec.c | 15 +++- include/linux/rmap.h | 9 +- mm/fremap.c | 11 ++ mm/memory.c | 52 +++++++... 9 Nov 2006 12:41

[PATCH 10/13] BC: physpages accounting (core)
This is the core of vmrss accounting. The main introduced object is page_beancounter. It ties together page and BCs which use the page. page_beancounter also allows quick per-container pages reclamation. and helps correctly account fractions of memory shared between BCs (http://wiki.openvz.org/RSS_fractions_acco... 9 Nov 2006 12:10

[Dumb question] 100k RTC interrupts/sec on SMP system: why?
Hi. I have a couple of old SMP systems (Dual P3 on Intel STL2 boards), on which I experience the following: procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ 0 0 0 800752 45376 143064 0 0 0 8 96607 65 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 800752 45376 143064 0 ... 9 Nov 2006 05:42

Kexec with latest kernel fail
Eric, I got "Invalid memory segment 0x100000 - ..." using kexec latest kernel... Do I need patch for kexec tools with latest kexec in kernel? YH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http:... 10 Nov 2006 15:34