Failing to install linux 3.10.10 on Intel xeon E5-2665

2013-09-12 Thread Rakhi Hemani
Dear all, I am trying to install linux 3.10.10 using Arch Linux on a xeon machine with following configuration. cpu family : 6 model : 45 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2665 0 @ 2.40GHz It gives a error at boot time APEI Generic Hardware error source: 32993. For booting x86_64 kernel there

Re: Getting struct page pointer from virtual address

2013-09-12 Thread Peter Teoh
I think there is no exported function for that, but there is a global variable for that. Reason being for performance - the action virt_to_phys() is a macro to be compiled inline and more details here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5982125/how-to-get-a-struct-page-from-any-address-in-the-li

Re: 802.11 b/g/n device data sheet

2013-09-12 Thread Greg Freemyer
Prabhunath G wrote: >Dear All, > > I need to analyse the driver for any 802.11 b/g/n device. >Motivation is to contribute in some form in the near future. Request >you to get me the datasheet that is availalbe. >Tried googling for a few datasheets but couldn't find. > > >Thanks >Prabhunath

Re: lg_local_lock issue

2013-09-12 Thread Rohan Puri
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Saket Sinha wrote: > I am facing some issue on a filesystem-driver I ported from 2.6.18 > kernel to 3.8. Now a lot has changed in the VFS since 2.6.18 to 3.8, which > has caused a lot of problem for this driver. One of the biggest core change > is the change

Re: inode of anonymity file

2013-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:08:24 -, binoy.ja...@wipro.com said: > Are you talking about an orphaned inode? No - orphaned is the state the inode ends up in if the file was open but unlinked when the system is rebooted. At that point, the inode is still there (since it was never reclaimed before th