Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932287AbVIEHtp (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 03:49:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932281AbVIEHtp (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 03:49:45 -0400 Received: from mail.sf-mail.de ([62.27.20.61]:59332 "EHLO mail.sf-mail.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932279AbVIEHto (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 03:49:44 -0400 From: Rolf Eike Beer To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble. Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:49:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Helge Hafting , Dave Airlie , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Michael Ellerman , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton References: <200508301007.11554@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> In-Reply-To: <200508301007.11554@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1454242.8FTKg1DQok"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509050949.38842@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2002 Lines: 56 --nextPart1454242.8FTKg1DQok Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 10:07 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: >Linus Torvalds wrote: >>On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: >>> >It's a PII-350 with more or less SuSE 9.3. The machine has no net >>> > access, so I can only try to narrow it down to one rc at the weekend. >>> >>> 2.6.12 works fine, everything since 2.6.13-rc1 breaks it. >> >>Gaah. I don't see anything really obvious in that range. However, I notice >>that pci_mmap_resource() (in drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c) now has >> >>+ if (i >= PCI_ROM_RESOURCE) >>+ return -ENODEV; >> >>which seems a big bogus. Why wouldn't we allow the ROM resource to be >>mapped? I could imagine that the X server would very much like to mmap it, >>although I don't know if modern X actually does that. The fact that it >>works when root runs the X server and causes problems for normal users >>does seem like there's something that root can do that users can't do, and >>doing a mmap() on /dev/mem might be just that. >> >>Eike, maybe you could change the ">=" to just ">" instead? >> >>PS. The patch that introduced this was billed as "no change for anything >>but ppc". Tssk. > >This does not fix the problem. I'll narrow it down to one git snapshot next >weekend (forgot the tarball on friday). The problem appeared between 2.6.12-git3 and 2.6.12-git4. Eike --nextPart1454242.8FTKg1DQok Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDG/iSXKSJPmm5/E4RAjN5AKCNGmipf/kbTBVaPoZNiAzRPpMz/QCgo5rL ldM9sGpkmqw/e37SJabwEJQ= =DT9u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1454242.8FTKg1DQok-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/