On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
Hi
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but what's the value in
calling mod_timer() to reset a timer to expire at the current value of
jiffies?
$ grep
Hi Robert
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sure, that's what i thought as well, but depending on the semantics
of how timers work, can't you imagine an implementation that checks
first and realizes right away that you're *already* at that time and
Hi,
Just a couple from me probably already too common:
* memory management (wouldn't we all?)
* debugging (the latest techniques)
info about Kexec and Kdump: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2998/
GDB manual: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_toc.html
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Hi,
As for every program there will be start function( ie main).
What is the starting function for kerenl process , ie similarly
main().
Do you mean the entry point for the kernel image (The first instruction that
gets executed)? That will be in architecture specific, will be written
Thanks a lot! I'll look into it.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You must also check out the different between kernel address space,
and process address space.
And this:
http://linux-mm.org/LinuxMMDocumentation
Last, personally, I find this
i'm reading some documentation that claims that neither ext3 device
files nor symlinks cost you any data blocks in the filesystem. sure,
that's obvious with device files, but symlinks?
i always thought that symlinks cost you a single data block -- just
enough to store the actual character
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:08:12AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm reading some documentation that claims that neither ext3 device
files nor symlinks cost you any data blocks in the filesystem. sure,
that's obvious with device files, but symlinks?
i always thought that symlinks cost
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:20:35AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:20:31AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
following up on a short article i just read, where is /dev/kmem
these days? was it actually deleted? back in
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:20:31AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
following up on a short article i just read, where is /dev/kmem
these days? was it actually deleted? back in 2005, jon corbet was
certainly hinting at this:
http://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
and i don't see it today on
From: Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:14:55 +0800
Ie, imagine using a drivers written for the Solaris in Linux, won't
it be cool?
About as cool as a fart in a spacesuit.
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Peter Zijlstra pisze:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
Interesting read:
http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
Personal comments:
Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop
up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:14:55AM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
Interesting read:
http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
Personal comments:
Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop
up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
Interesting read:
http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
Personal comments:
Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:53:32 +0800
Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Rik,
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:24:50 +0800
Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any guidelines on when and where can we insert
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Jacek Luczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Zijlstra pisze:
Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs.
The future is always uncertain for us. Embedded development usually
emphasizes on performance, unlike those of the desktop. So which
language
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
Interesting read:
http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf
Personal comments:
Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop
up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:53:32 +0800
thank you Rik for the answer :-). I have learned something.
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi..
All I remember, the user space code is available from Jens Axboe's CVS
or http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/tools/blktrace.c
Thanks Mulyadi Santosa, the link I found was:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:55:26 +0800
Wu Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
AFAIK, for IA-32 arch, two-level paging is sufficient. But the
positions of PUD and PMD are kept.
This is done so all architectures can use the same iterative
functions, like unmap_page_range - zap_pud_range -
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:08:12AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm reading some documentation that claims that neither ext3 device
files nor symlinks cost you any data blocks in the filesystem. sure,
that's
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:20:52PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
You might also want to look into how Extended Attributes are stored
(ie. Like ACLs). I assume they use inode blocks as well, but for many
/ most filesystems they have been grafted into the design after the
fact.
They use inode
Hello,
This is regarding Wireless LAN driver. I'm working on madwifi and ath5k. I
understand that the driver processes a packet it receives from the higher
layer. But I want to make and transmit a packet without involving the higher
layers using madwifi/ath5k. Could you please tell me how to do
Hi :)
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi..
All I remember, the user space code is available from Jens Axboe's CVS
or
(a bit involved so bear with me, i really want to figure out how
this works.)
i'm following the sample code in the LDD3 book for the scull
driver, and i *think* i know the answer to this but i just want to
make sure. it has to do with how defining a new character device and
opening it
Thanks very much! This really helps me a lot.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:55:26 +0800
It means that the kernel pretends that the pgd entry points to a
pud (with one entry), even though it really points to a page table.
By
On 17:56 Mon 31 Mar , cool fire wrote:
Hello,
This is regarding Wireless LAN driver. I'm working on madwifi and ath5k. I
understand that the driver processes a packet it receives from the higher
layer. But I want to make and transmit a packet without involving the higher
layers using
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