Kernel

detecting kernel mem leak
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: however, since there are always cache filled,  is there a way to flush all cashes and then consult slabinfo with caches empty ??? Not sure what this is about. per cpu cached objects? slabinfo -s will shrink all caches and throw all cpu slabs away. The system... 7 May 2008 13:25

[PATCH 1/6] sgiioc4: use ->extra_base instead of ->dma_status for dma_handle
This is a preparation for removal of ->dma_status field from ide_hwif_t. There should be no functional changes caused by this patch. Cc: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy(a)sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/ide/pci/sgiioc4.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 ... 7 May 2008 13:25

[PATCH 1/9] viafb: VIA Frame Buffer Device Driver - Resend
Hi Joseph, You have sent tremendous amount of work. I am trying to point some mistakes or improvements, but I won't cover the whole code at the moment. Look at them and check if the rest of the code can be improved as well. A general comment is that you use to many global variables. You should move some of th... 7 May 2008 13:25

[PATCH] Updated: Reworked Cell OProfile: SPU mutex lock fix
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:54 +0200, Jochen Roth wrote: Carl, I applied your patch on Jeremy's latest kernel.org spufs tree. +void oprofile_add_value(unsigned long value, int cpu) { + struct oprofile_cpu_buffer * cpu_buf = &cpu_buffer[cpu]; Shouldn't it be struct oprofile_cpu_buffer... 7 May 2008 13:25

[PATCH] Updated: Reworked Cell OProfile: SPU mutex lock fix
Carl, I applied your patch on Jeremy's latest kernel.org spufs tree. +void oprofile_add_value(unsigned long value, int cpu) { + struct oprofile_cpu_buffer * cpu_buf = &cpu_buffer[cpu]; Shouldn't it be struct oprofile_cpu_buffer *cpu_buf = &per_cpu(cpu_buffer, cpu); At least my compiler complained a... 7 May 2008 13:25

[PATCH 7/9] viafb: VIA Frame Buffer Device Driver
On Wed, 7 May 2008 19:09:44 +0800 <JosephChan(a)via.com.tw> wrote: Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan <josephchan(a)via.com.tw> diff -Nur a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.h b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.h --- a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.h 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500 +++ b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.h 2008-04... 7 May 2008 13:25

CONFIG_HIGHMEM or CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G in illegal_highdma()
Hi all, The usage of NETIF_F_HIGHDMA in drivers/net/* make me think its purpose is to declare drivers's capability to address RAM above 4GB, OK? For x86_64 CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not defined, so the function illegal_highdma() found in net/core/dev.c returns 0 because x86_64 has IOMMU mapping all RAM. For x86_... 7 May 2008 13:25

2.6.25 hald trace?
Hello, I found multiple sets of the type off logging that is below this text. This is on my VIA Epia EN12000 running Fedora 8 and a custom 2.6.25 kernel. What is the trace good for? hald is polling an empty CD/DVD drive. Is this a bug? Or a feature? Normal? Is hald the cause? Or something besides hald? How ... 7 May 2008 13:25

libata updates - (improve post-reset device ready test) regression
At Wed, 7 May 2008 16:56:16 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: Tejun Heo (12): libata: improve post-reset device ready test This commit (78ab88f04f44bed566d51dce0c7cbfeff6449a06) causes a long boot delay with my onboard Promise controller. It seems like libata probes for a nonexis... 7 May 2008 12:36

[PATCH 2/7] Alchemy: dbdma: add api to delete custom ddma devices
From 54c63c0bbf48673e5550b62d3ca4272dd0a1bedf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manuel Lauss <mlau(a)msc-ge.com> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:45:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Alchemy: dbdma: add API to delete custom DDMA device ids. Add API to delete custom DDMA device ids created with au1xxx_ddma_device_add(), to avoid fill... 7 May 2008 12:36