Re: kmem_cache_init

2013-03-17 Thread Prabhu nath
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:08 PM, ishare june.tune@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:39:07AM +0530, Prabhu nath wrote: kmem_cache_init() will create generalized caches from where kmalloc() will allocate memory. vfs_caches_init() will create specialized caches related to

for interested folks, i'll announce new kernel tutorials via twitter

2013-03-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as i don't want to seem like i'm spamming this list with notes about new, posted kernel tutorials, people who want to stay on top of these are welcome to follow me on twitter at @rpjday. everything written and posted will be freely available (creative commons license), and even after it's

Re: for interested folks, i'll announce new kernel tutorials via twitter

2013-03-17 Thread NeonJohn
/lurk mode On 03/17/2013 09:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i don't want to seem like i'm spamming this list with notes about new, posted kernel tutorials, people who want to stay on top of these are welcome to follow me on twitter at @rpjday. e Please don't. I'm probably not the only

Re: for interested folks, i'll announce new kernel tutorials via twitter

2013-03-17 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: as i don't want to seem like i'm spamming this list with notes about new, posted kernel tutorials, people who want to stay on top of these are welcome to follow me on twitter at @rpjday. everything written and

do_initcalls

2013-03-17 Thread ishare
for (call = __initcall_start; call __initcall_end; call++) (*call)(); I want to know where are these function point assigned by specified function ? thanks! ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: for interested folks, i'll announce new kernel tutorials via twitter

2013-03-17 Thread Tobias Boege
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, NeonJohn wrote: /lurk mode On 03/17/2013 09:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i don't want to seem like i'm spamming this list with notes about new, posted kernel tutorials, people who want to stay on top of these are welcome to follow me on twitter at @rpjday.

Re: do_initcalls

2013-03-17 Thread Tobias Boege
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, ishare wrote: for (call = __initcall_start; call __initcall_end; call++) (*call)(); I want to know where are these function point assigned by specified function ? thanks! As per include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h and your arch's vmlinux.lds.S (I actually

kernel build error

2013-03-17 Thread Kumar amit mehta
I'm facing a kernel build issue with the latest kernel on my machine. It seem like a configuration issue, and I haven't been able to resolve it for sometime, hence need your help. The error message is as below: error snip ERROR: copy_from_user_overflow [net/core/pktgen.ko] undefined! ERROR:

Re: do_initcalls

2013-03-17 Thread ishare
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 04:11:54PM +0100, Tobias Boege wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, ishare wrote: for (call = __initcall_start; call __initcall_end; call++) (*call)(); I want to know where are these function point assigned by specified function ? thanks! As per

Re: for interested folks, i'll announce new kernel tutorials via twitter

2013-03-17 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 17 2013, NeonJohn wrote: /lurk mode On 03/17/2013 09:37 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as i don't want to seem like i'm spamming this list with notes about new, posted kernel tutorials, people who want to stay on top of these are welcome to follow me on twitter at @rpjday. e

Re: kernel build error

2013-03-17 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On 3/17/13, Kumar amit mehta gmate.a...@gmail.com wrote: I'm facing a kernel build issue with the latest kernel on my machine. It seem like a configuration issue, and I haven't been able to resolve it for sometime, hence need your help. The error message is as below: error snip ERROR:

Re: hpet misc device usage

2013-03-17 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On 3/17/13, Kevin Wilson wkev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anybody knows about a user space utility or tool which uses the hpet misc device (/dev/hpet)? http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/char/hpet.c I vaguely recall that Qemu uses hpet for internal timing. Maybe you can check the

Re: for interested folks, i'll announce new kernel tutorials via twitter

2013-03-17 Thread Rohan Puri
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote: as i don't want to seem like i'm spamming this list with notes about new, posted kernel tutorials, people who want to stay on top of these are welcome to follow me on twitter at @rpjday. everything written and

Re: signals handling: kill() successful, but nothing delivered

2013-03-17 Thread michi1
Hi! On 06:52 Fri 08 Mar , mic...@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com wrote: ./a.out `ps a|grep wget|grep -v grep|sed s/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/` The command above returned the strace pid. Fixed version: ./a.out `ps a|grep wget|grep -v grep|grep -v strace|sed