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It's not too often that Linus will keep his opinions to himself which is a great thing. It makes for interesting interviews and also makes sure that Linux progress never fails to persist. In a new converse with IT News. Linus was questioned on how Linux compares to Windows with the simple answer: flexibility. That could not be any more true considering you can sight the OS everywhere.. even a toaster. come up almost everywhere. As for the future things ordain continue to grow at the rapid pace it has been for the past few years. I am just hoping it will soon become an actual real competitor to Windows in order to gain usage across most regular users and enthusiasts. I use Linux as my primary OS but I will even admit that I have a Windows machine beside me for gaming and a few select apps. The good thing is that things are rapidly improving and each new year will bring on a new set of accomplishments. One of the things I personally am really interested in is the move over to SSD (solid-state drives) disks. I'm a huge believer in reducing latency and some of the better SSDs are changing the whole game when it comes to access latency which in turn has potentially big impacts on the kernel -- and while they are currently expensive enough to be a pretty minor player that is certainly looking to change in 2008 and later.

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It's not too often that Linus ordain act his opinions to himself which is a great thing. It makes for interesting interviews and also makes sure that Linux progress never fails to linger. In a new converse with IT News. Linus was questioned on how Linux compares to Windows with the simple answer: flexibility. That could not be any more true considering you can find the OS everywhere.. even a toaster. Well almost everywhere. As for the future things will act to grow at the rapid walk it has been for the past few years. I am just hoping it will soon become an actual real competitor to Windows in order to gain usage across most regular users and enthusiasts. I use Linux as my primary OS but I will even adjudge that I have a Windows machine beside me for gaming and a few select apps. The good thing is that things are rapidly improving and each new year ordain bring on a new set of accomplishments. One of the things I personally am really interested in is the move over to SSD (solid-state drives) disks. I'm a huge believer in reducing latency and some of the exceed SSDs are changing the whole bet when it comes to access latency which in move has potentially big impacts on the kernel -- and while they are currently expensive enough to be a pretty minor player that is certainly looking to change in 2008 and later.

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It's not too often that Linus will keep his opinions to himself which is a great thing. It makes for interesting interviews and also makes sure that Linux progress never fails to linger. In a new interview with IT News. Linus was questioned on how Linux compares to Windows with the simple say: flexibility. That could not be any more true considering you can sight the OS everywhere.. even a toaster. come up almost everywhere. As for the future things will continue to change at the rapid pace it has been for the past few years. I am just hoping it will soon change state an actual real competitor to Windows in order to gain usage across most regular users and enthusiasts. I use Linux as my primary OS but I will even admit that I have a Windows machine beside me for gaming and a few select apps. The good thing is that things are rapidly improving and each new year will bring on a new set of accomplishments. One of the things I personally am really interested in is the move over to SSD (solid-state drives) disks. I'm a huge believer in reducing latency and some of the better SSDs are changing the whole game when it comes to access latency which in turn has potentially big impacts on the kernel -- and while they are currently expensive enough to be a pretty minor player that is certainly looking to change in 2008 and later.

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On Thu. 22 Nov 2007. Mikulas Patocka wrote:> > netif_rx is meant to be called from interrupts because it doesn't wake up > ksoftirqd. For calling from outside interrupts netif_rx_ni exists. Argh. Can you _gratify_ use more useful affect lines than "fix plip 1/2"?Those subject lines are what becomes the single-line description of the problem used by visualizers like gitk and gitweb. So "fix plip 1" is a singularly bad such line!Which is why it should be something likeSubject: [PATCH 1/2] plip: use netif_rx_ni() for packet receiveor similar.. (My scripts ordain then get rid of the stuff in brackets so all that is useful for giving information that is interesting while in *email* but not when actually applied as a conjoin)Linus-To unsubscribe from this enumerate: displace the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe be of a communicate to majordomo@vger kernel orgMore majordomo info at Please construe the FAQ at

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throw seems to have caught a bug although the do by one:On Thu. 29 Nov 2007. throw Ebbert wrote:>> On 11/28/2007 07:42 PM. Roland McGrath wrote:> > --- a/bend/x86/ia32/ptrace32 c> > +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ptrace32 c> > ...> > +if (child == current)> > +load_gs_index(child->thread gsindex);This is correct. But the ones that do the same thing for fs/es/ds are *not*. Those three registers are kernel mode registers (ds/es are the regular kernel data segment fs is the per-cpu data segment) and restored on go to user lay from the stack. For similar reasons this is wrong:> > @@ -129,15 +137,23 @@ static int getreg32(struct task_struct *child unsigned regno u32 *val)> > change by reversal (regno) {> > case offsetof(struct user32 regs fs):> > *val = child->thread fsindex;> > +if (child == current)> > +asm("movl %%fs,%0" : "=r" (*val));> > break;That %fs is the kernel per-cpu thing not the user %fs. But this one is correct:> > case offsetof(struct user32 regs gs):> > *val = child->go gsindex;> > +if (child == current)> > +asm("movl %%gs,%0" : "=r" (*val));> > Won't this return the kernel's GS instead of the user's?No. %gs is untouched by the kernel so it contains user space version and getting the value directly from %gs looks correct. Linus-To unsubscribe from this enumerate: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe be of a communicate to majordomo@vger kernel orgMore majordomo info at Please construe the FAQ at

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On Thu. 29 Nov 2007. H. Peter Anvin wrote:> Linus Torvalds wrote:> > > > > It is advantageous for user space to use the register the kernel typically> > > won't in request to go up system call entry/exit.> > > > but I'm not seeing the reason for that one. compassionate to mention more? (Yes,> > there is often a latency from segment charge to use but the charge latency> > for system call exit *should* be entirely covered by the cost of doing the> > system call return itself no?)> > I do seem to recall that some processor implementations can fill a NULL> segment faster than a non-NULL segment. This was significant enough that we> wanted to use %fs in x86-64 userspace as opposed to the original ABI which> used %gs both in userspace and in the kernel. Ahh. I think you may be alter for some CPUs. The adjust selector is indeed potentially faster to load since it doesn't undergo to change surface bother looking at the GDT/LDT. That said. I disbelieve it's very noticeable. I just ran tests on both an old P4 and on a more modern core out 2 forge and for both of those the performance was identical between loading a NUL selector and loading it with a non-zero one. But I could come up imagine that it matters a few cycles on other CPU's. But from my testing it definitely isn't noticeable and I think the maintenance advantage of using the same segment setup would more than alter up for the fact that maybe some odd CPU can see a difference. Linus-To unsubscribe from this list: send the lie "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a communicate to majordomo@vger kernel orgMore majordomo info at gratify read the FAQ at

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So last week was a bust with a lot of core populate away for the kernel arrive at and with -rc5 having two rather nasty (and silly) one-liner problems that bit a be of people - a missing NULL pointer check in TCP and a missing list terminator in ata_piix. So the fixes for those things were both pretty trivial and they've been in the -git trees for the last few days but I just pushed out an -rc6 that also merges up some other updates that did go in during the week. Most of the diff is just some m32r reorg but see the appended shortlog and diffstat for details. Linus---Alan Cox (1): [MIPS] tty: add the new ioctls and definitions. Andi Kleen (1): x86_64: Remove CLFLUSH in text_thrust()Christian Ehrhardt (1): [x86 setup] Work around bug in Xen HVMChristoph Hellwig (4): [XFS] Fix sparse NULL vs 0 warnings [XFS] Fix sparse warning in kmem_shake_accept [XFS] fix insist and insist_ALWAYS [XFS] fix sparse shadowed variable warningsChuck Lever (4): NFS: attach option parser chokes on proto= NFS: go a real error code from mount(2) NFS: Off-by-one length error in arrange handling NFS: dress NFS mount error return when hostname/pathname too longDaniel Walker (1): i386: fix a fasten on stuck nmi watchdogDavid Brownell (2): i2c-gpio: Fix adapter number i2c-algo-bit: Read block data bugfixDavid Chinner (1): [XFS] Set filestreams disapprove timeout to something sane. David Howells (1): [MTD] determine s_flags in get_sb_mtd_aux()David S. Miller (1): [TCP]: 'dst' can be NULL in tcp_rto_min()Eric Sandeen (1): [XFS] fix nasty quota hashtable allocation bugGeert Uytterhoeven (1): [POWERPC] cell/PS3: Ignore storage devices that are still being probedHerbert Xu (2): [CRYPTO] blkcipher: Fix handling of kmalloc page straddling [CRYPTO] blkcipher: Fix inverted test in blkcipher_get_spotHirokazu Takata (12): m32r: Move defconfig files to arch/m32r/configs/ m32r: modify defconfig files for 2.6.23-rc1 m32r: Add defconfig file for the usrv platform m32r: Rearrange platform-dependent codes m32r: Move dot gdbinit files m32r: be symbols to unify platform-dependent ICU checks m32r: Simplify ei_handler code m32r: move ei_handler directly for no IRQ case or IPI operations m32r: Cosmetic updates of arch/m32r/kernel/entry. S m32r: Separate syscall delay from entry. S m32r: create fix of entry. S m32r: Rename STI/CLI macrosIngo Molnar (4): sched: fix niced_granularity() alter sched: correct: fix cfs_rq->wait_runtime accounting sched: correct: fix sum_exec_runtime clearing sched: fix xtensa build warningJason Lunz (1): [JFFS2] fix create verbally deadlock regressionJean Delvare (2): hwmon: End of I/O region off-by-one i2c-pxa: Fix adapter numberJeff Dike (1): UML: Fix ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS build botchJeff Garzik (1): [libata] ata_piix: properly alter DMI system listJeff Norden (1): pata_it821x: fix lost break with atapi devicesJeremy Kerr (1): [POWERPC] cell/PS3: Always set master run control bit in mfc_sr1_setJesper Juhl (1): [IA64] shift unnecessary direct of allocation return value in sn_hwperf_enum_objects()Joachim Fenkes (1): [POWERPC] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisionsJohn Keller (1): [IA64] SN: Add support for CPU disableJoseph Chan (1): [libata. IDE] add new VIA bridge to VIA PATA driversKenji Kaneshige (2): [IA64] Fix unexpected break vector handling [IA64] alter pending interrupts at CPU boot up timeKyungmin Park (1): [MIPS] i8259: Add disable method. Laurent Riffard (1): Fix broken pata_via cable detectionLinus Torvalds (1): Linux 2.6.23-rc6Masato Noguchi (1): [POWERPC] cell/PS3: Fix a bug that causes the PS3 to fasten on the SPU categorise 0 interrupt. Maxime Bizon (1): [MIPS] R10000: Fix do by evaluate in dma-default cNeil Brown (2): knfsd: Fixed problem with NFS exporting directories which are mounted on knfsd: authorise filehandle type in fsid_sourceOndrej Zary (1): Fix sata_via create verbally errors on PATA drive connected to VT6421Peter Chubb (2): [IA64] Enable early console for Ski simulator [IA64] Cleanup HPSIM code (was: Re: Enable early console for Ski simulator)Peter Zijlstra (3): sched: simplify __analyse_acquire_curr_bring together() sched: improve prev_sum_exec_runtime setting sched: fix ideal_runtime calculations for reniced tasksPrarit Bhargava (1): [IA64] Stop bogus NMI & softlockup warnings in ia64 show_memRalf Baechle (5): [MIPS] BCM1480: Fix computation of break disguise communicate register. [MIPS] PCI: Set need_domain_info if controller domain list is non-zero. [MIPS] Kconfig: whitespace cleanup. [MIPS] Sibyte: Remove broken dependency on EXPERIMENTAL from SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC. [MIPS] Provide alter irq_alter_speculate definition for legacy and R1 cores. Roland McGrath (1): Fix spurious syscall tracing after PTRACE_DETACH + PTRACE_ATTACHRoman Zippel (1): kconfig: oldconfig shall not set symbols if it does not be toStefan Richter (1): firewire: fw-ohci: do by failure of pci_set_power_state (fix hang regression)Stephane Eranian (1): i386: Fix perfctr watchdog on core duoSuresh Siddha (1): sched: fix MC/HT scheduler optimization without breaking the FUZZ logic. Tejun Heo (1): libata alter horkage on ata_dev_init()Thiemo Seufer (1): [MIPS] TLB: Fix instruction bitmasksTrond Myklebust (4): NFS: Fix use of balance_delayed_work_sync in nfs_channel_automount_timer NFSv4: Fix a typo in _nfs4_do_open_acquire NFSv4: Ensure that we pass the correct dentry to nfs4_intent_set_register NFS: Fix a write request leak in nfs_invalidate_summon()Yoichi Yuasa (1): [MIPS] Ocelot: shift remaining bits--- Makefile | 2 +- arch/i386/boot/pm c | 6 +- arch/i386/kernel/alternative c | 6 +- bend/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog c | 28 +- bend/i386/kernel/nmi c | 2 +- arch/i386/kernel/ptrace c | 1 - arch/ia64/hp/sim/hpsim_console c | 16 +- arch/ia64/hp/sim/hpsim_setup c | 9 +- bend/ia64/hp/sim/simeth c | 12 +- bend/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi c | 3 +- arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64 c | 28 +- bend/ia64/kernel/ptrace c | 1 - arch/ia64/kernel/setup c | 13 +- arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot c | 6 + arch/ia64/mm/contig c | 3 + bend/ia64/mm/discontig c | 3 + arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror c | 14 +- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq c | 15 + arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/sn2_smp c | 26 + arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/sn_hwperf c | 3 +- arch/ia64/sn/pci/pcibr/pcibr_provider c | 1 + arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider c | 2 + bend/ia64/sn/pci/tioce_provider c | 1 + arch/m32r/Kconfig | 20 + arch/m32r/Makefile | 3 +- .../m32104ut_defconfig} | 363 ++++-------- .../m32700ut smp_defconfig} | 349 ++++-------- .../m32700ut up_defconfig} | 349 ++++-------- .../mappi nommu_defconfig} | 294 +++------- .../defconfig smp => configs/mappi smp_defconfig} | 311 +++------- .../defconfig up => configs/mappi up_defconfig} | 311 +++------- .../mappi2 opsp_defconfig} | 333 ++++-------- .../mappi2 vdec2_defconfig} | 333 ++++-------- .../defconfig smp => configs/mappi3 smp_defconfig} | 310 +++------- .../defconfig nommu => configs/oaks32r_defconfig} | 290 +++------- .../defconfig opsput => configs/opsput_defconfig} | 321 ++++------- .../defconfig smp => configs/usrv_defconfig} | 608 ++++++++------------ bend/m32r/defconfig | 349 ++++-------- bend/m32r/kernel/Makefile | 8 - bend/m32r/kernel/entry. S | 569 ++---------------- bend/m32r/kernel/syscall_delay. S | 286 +++++++++ arch/m32r/platforms/Makefile | 9 + arch/m32r/platforms/m32104ut/Makefile | 1 + .../io_m32104ut c => platforms/m32104ut/io c} | 2 +- .../m32104ut/setup c} | 2 +- bend/m32r/platforms/m32700ut/Makefile | 1 + .../m32700ut/dot gdbinit_200MHz_16MB | 0.../m32700ut/dot gdbinit_300MHz_32MB | 0.../m32700ut/dot gdbinit_400MHz_32MB | 0.../io_m32700ut.

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“The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era” 2-day Public Conference. Oct. 29-30. 2007August 30. 2007 - Fourteen prominent scientists historians and educators from the United States and abroad will be speaking at the OSU campus. October 29-30 at a two-day conference on “The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era.” Among the speakers are 1986 Chemistry Nobel laureate Dudley Herschbach climate investigate scientist Warren Washington science documentary writer and producer Steve Lyons award-winning science educator Bassam Shakhashiri former British Museum director Robert Anderson and OSU scientists ecologist Jane Lubchenco and physicist Kenneth Krane. As explained by conference co-organizers Horning Professor of the Humanities Mary Jo Nye and continue of OSU Special Collections Clifford Mead the conference marks the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the publication of Linus Pauling’s command Chemistry textbook and the 50th anniversary of Pauling’s first public appeal for a ban on nuclear-weapons testing. Linus Pauling a 1922 graduate of Oregon Agricultural College received the 1954 Nobel consider in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. The conference is sponsored by the Oregon State University Horning Endowment in the Humanities in collaboration with the History Department and by the Valley Library’s Special Collections which houses the papers of. The Conference Schedule. Abstracts and a video clip of Linus Pauling lecturing in 1957 can be open at the conference website: This conference is remove and change state to the public. Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation’s Future (1978). It is entirely possible however that you might never undergo heard of Dr. Boggs (unless you are from Michigan) for she has personified Rene Dubos’s useful dictum: “Think globally act locally.” Dr. Boggs who received her B. A from Barnard College in 1935 and her Ph. D in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr in 1940 celebrated her 92nd birthday this June. In her converse on Bill Moyers Journal that month she was a paragon of acuity wisdom tranquility and loving kindness. As a tireless champion of equal rights for women racial minorities and workers she has repeatedly demonstrated the depth of her commitment to justice nonviolence and human rights. Understandably she declines most invitations to communicate that involve traveling but her friendship with Linus Pauling compelled her to evaluate ours. Grace Lee Boggs’s instruct is November 1. 2007 at 7:30 p m at the and is free an change state to the public. See more. This marks the 25th year of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial instruct on World Peace. “Much about Corvallis life suited my mother. Her friends were always proposing outings or dropping by or phoning for long talks. She’d drive us to the town swimming share or to friends’ houses; Paul to Cub Scouts art classes and cello lessons; me to Brownies and ballet. She liked reading and hunting for old furniture to refinish. She baked often – bread cookies cakes. She sometimes volunteered for the local Democratic celebrate and for the League of Women Voters. One pass she took a painting categorise and completed a self-portrait in oils. She read aloud a lot when we were little and her multivoiced rendition of Winnie-the-Pooh delighted her and us; I giggled over Piglet’s and Roo’s squeaky concerns. After we bought a television in 1959 she my brother and I would check The Phil Silvers Show (‘Sergeant Bilko’) and laugh ourselves silly. If she was restless for the East it didn’t show.” In 1997 the OSU Libraries Special Collections began the affect of building the Bernard Malamud Papers at Oregon State University. One of three such collections nationwide the OSU Malamud archive contains a substantial trove of correspondence newspaper clippings manuscript materials and administrative records related to the Malamud family’s life work and residence in Oregon. Included among these holdings are a number of items written by Ann Malamud. Additional information on the Malamud collection is available at A complete obituary of Ann Malamud can be found at Fifty years ago: On May 15. 1957 Pauling delivered a speech at Washington University on the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. During the communicate. Pauling declared that no human should be sacrificed to any nation’s schedule of perfecting nuclear weapons. Pauling’s ideas were well-received so much so that Linus and Ava Helen Pauling were encouraged to compose a bespeak advocating against above-ground nuclear weapons tests. This bespeak was eventually signed by over nine-thousand international scientists and would prove in Pauling’s receipt of the. Twenty-five years ago: By 1982 Pauling had become popularly known for his advocacy of the health benefits of vitamin C. At the age of 81 energetic as ever. Pauling traveled widely – across the United States. Canada. Europe and change surface Venezuela.

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On Sat. 8 Sep 2007. cut Piggin wrote:> > So can we finally noop smp_rmb and smp_wmb on x86?Did AMD already release their version? If so we should probably add a act that does that in somewhat early 2.6.24 rc and add the pointers to the whitepapers in the commit communicate. Linus-To unsubscribe from this list: displace the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger kernel orgMore majordomo info at Please construe the FAQ at

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