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On 00:24 Sun 09 Oct , Parmenides wrote:
2011/10/8 Michael Blizek mic...@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com:
Hi!
There are 2 different kind of locks: Those which can be preempted (mutex and
semaphores) and those which cannot (spinlocks). Spinlocks do busy waiting
until the lock
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On 19:27 Fri 07 Oct , Parmenides wrote:
Hi,
Preemption has two cases: user preemption and kernel preemption. I
have tow questions about them.
1. According to Love, If the kernel is returning to user-space, it
knows it is in a safe quiescent state. In other words, if it is safe
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On 08:41 Sun 14 Aug , ?? wrote:
Hi all,
Please tell me the difference between using unsigned short and __be16
to declear a variable in a data structure.
For example, in include/net/inet_sock.h, struct inet_sock is decleared as
struct inet_sock {
__be16
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On 20:27 Wed 08 Jun , limp wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to hard lockup my Linux system (Debian) for evaluating some
crash report mechanism.
...
int init_module(void)
{
unsigned long flags;
static spinlock_t lock;
spin_lock_init(lock);
spin_lock_irqsave(lock,
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On 10:55 Wed 25 May , Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
Hi...
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 17:15, Ashok Babu asho...@gmail.com wrote:
So here my questions/doubts :
1) Is'nt it the kernel itself is self modifying code with lots of function
pointers ?
AFAIK, yes there are many.. however, some
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On 11:01 Sun 15 May , Greg KH wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 01:48:43PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
ok, good to know. i assume, then, that it's fairly pointless to use
the value of jiffies for anything that requires even moderate
accuracy. i was poking around the timer
On 06:42 Mon 16 May , Michael Blizek wrote:
...
What does it mean this highres timer are not available during system startup?
Are they running with lower resolution or not at all?
Sorry, I should have read to the end...
From Documentation/timers/highres.txt
Up to the point where hrtimers
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On 23:40 Wed 06 Apr , murugan k wrote:
Hi,
I am Murugan. I am interested in working on projects involving TCP/IP stack
of linux kernel. I have basic knowledge of Netfilters in linux.If there are
any such projects kindly let me know.
Have you seen http://www.bufferbloat.net/ ?
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On 15:56 Wed 06 Apr , Daniel Baluta wrote:
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For example having:
[ 3992.316/0] [81297751] ? neigh_create+0x2f1/0x6b0
[ 3992.321/0] [81374f00] ? _read_unlock_bh+0x10/0x20
means that _read_unlock_bh has been called finished ? Or it has been
interrupted by
next
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On 11:30 Fri 01 Apr , Jacky Lam wrote:
Hi All,
Is there any document on web summarized the hardware (especially,
CPU) that a Linux depends on. For example, if a CPU doesn't support
misaligned access (no exception will be generated when misalignment
access), can Linux run on
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On 01:27 Sat 19 Feb , Leelakrishna A wrote:
Hi,
In LDD 3rd edition it is given that,
In a multiprocessor system work queues will run on the same processor from
which they are submitted.
Also each work queue has one or more dedicated kernel threads which runs the
functions submitted
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On 21:02 Tue 25 Jan , cheng chen wrote:
Hi, all!
I am going to further my education in graduate school of Master of Science
degree. I am interested in network, but I am not sure what direction I
should choose and which professional books I should read. Therefore I ask
for help and
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On 22:59 Sun 23 Jan , anish kumar wrote:
...
ps:I dont have vanilla kernel where i could have changed the intitialisation
files to remount while booting and could have
controlled the list of process running on the system.
In android we are doing that in init.rc file need to check in
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On 16:47 Fri 14 Jan , Daniel Baluta wrote:
Hello,
When casting sock to inet_timewait_sock ([1]) it is assumed
that sock points to a structure of type inet_timewait_sock.
Is there a way to check if a sock struct wraps around
a inet_timewait_sock struct?
By looking at the callers
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On 15:42 Mon 03 Jan , Prabhu nath wrote:
Dear All,
Where do we find the archives of kernelnewbies of yesteryears ?
Currently, I find only Dec 2010 and Jan 2011.
The archives I refered is
http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/
This is probably
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