Compile flags for kernel for maximum debugging symbols (for UML)

2008-03-17 Thread Manish Katiyar
Makefile so that gcc doesnt optimize anything and provides me with the maximum info. I doubt but can that be related to UML in anyway , because while building I have to give arch=UM ? -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com

Re: handling of lost-writes in linux filesystems

2008-03-17 Thread Manish Katiyar
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:52:20AM +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote: I was reading about the lost-write problem in filesystems (see link below) and wanted to know how traditional linux systems like ext{2,3,4} or other popular

handling of lost-writes in linux filesystems

2008-03-16 Thread Manish Katiyar
-writes.html Any suggestions or links ??? -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring Road Bangalore 560071, India

Fwd: Document about page and buffer cache.

2008-03-12 Thread Manish Katiyar
Ooops pressed the wrong reply button, forwarding it to list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Manish Katiyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:51 PM Subject: Re: Document about page and buffer cache. To: Sushil Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:28

Unable to send mail to kernel newbies list.

2008-03-09 Thread Manish Katiyar
mailed-by ktmail2.kornet.net hide details 2:27 PM (35 minutes ago) Reply Transmit Report: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 402 Local User Inbox Full ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 4,2,1 -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar

Document about page and buffer cache.

2008-03-08 Thread Manish Katiyar
/pointers will be useful. Even if someone can point me to the code piece from where I should start learning about this. -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring

Document about page and buffer cache.

2008-03-08 Thread Manish Katiyar
what am i missing ?? -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring Road Bangalore 560071, India

Re: getpwuid returning null

2008-02-21 Thread Manish Katiyar
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Question regarding get_block() functions of filesystems.

2008-02-17 Thread Manish Katiyar
{ . . 52 int V1_minix_get_block(struct inode * inode, long block, 53struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create) 54 { . . -- Thanks a lot in advance. Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http

Re: Documentation about sysfs/procfs entries

2008-02-12 Thread Manish Katiyar
by file updating and adding in one fell swoop? At any rate, I'm in. Hopefully this will turn out better than the last time I said those words and woke up in Mexico with a new tattoo and without my pants. :) -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar

Re: mailling list for file systems stuff

2008-02-10 Thread Manish Katiyar
are the urls of my previous unanswered questions. http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2008-01/msg00253.html http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2008-01/msg00352.html http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2008-01/msg00424.html Thanks On 2/11/08, Manish Katiyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

mailling list for file systems stuff

2008-02-10 Thread Manish Katiyar
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Re: mailling list for file systems stuff

2008-02-10 Thread Manish Katiyar
on this :-) . For doing normal (except networking setup etc.) kernel development, I find it pretty useful. Thanks Thanks On 2/11/08, Manish Katiyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 1:00 PM, sahlot arvind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your welcome! Just a question - what is your environment? Are you

Re: Copy-on-Write

2008-02-06 Thread Manish Katiyar
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Re: Copy-on-Write

2008-02-06 Thread Manish Katiyar
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Printing environment variables for a process

2008-01-29 Thread Manish Katiyar
to write a module which accepts a pid during load and then prints its environment variables. I tried looking at task_struct to see which member holds the environment, but cudnt get much. Any help appreciated. -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http

Re: in kernel compilation of ext3

2008-01-25 Thread Manish Katiyar
called Please give me some pointers .. -- Thanks regards, Onkar Mahajan -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring Road Bangalore 560071

Re: Question on Memory Leaks in Module

2008-01-23 Thread Manish Katiyar
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question about create function of inode_operations

2008-01-13 Thread Manish Katiyar
for learning, so not much concerned about other details like atomicity and race conditions etc. at this point. Also I am not using any caches for my inode allocation. Appreciate any help/suggestions. -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http

memory addresses of UML kernel

2008-01-12 Thread Manish Katiyar
in advance -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring Road Bangalore 560071, India *** -- To unsubscribe from

generic_file_read function for kernel 2.6.23.11

2008-01-10 Thread Manish Katiyar
trying to port a module from 2.4 to 2.6. Thanks in advance. -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring Road Bangalore 560071, India

generic_file_read function for kernel 2.6.23.11

2008-01-10 Thread Manish Katiyar
a particular change gone into. Gurus any suggestions ?? Thanks in advance. -- ilya -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring Road Bangalore 560071

Re: atomic_t

2008-01-03 Thread Manish Katiyar
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change of inode-i_private to inode-u.generic_ip

2007-12-25 Thread Manish Katiyar
inode structure size. Any other reasons of doing this ?? -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com ) 3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block EGL Software Park Off Intermediate Ring Road Bangalore 560071, India

__getblk function validation checks for blocknumber.

2007-12-25 Thread Manish Katiyar
the range, but that makes filesystem specific... Any other suggestions ?? What all conditions make a block invalid to read, apart from the block number being more than than the available blocks. Thanks in advance -- Thanks Regards, Manish Katiyar

Re: [uml-user] Error mounting filesystems on -o loop

2007-12-23 Thread Manish Katiyar
*) 0x8803080== value different here.. (gdb) n Thanks in advance On Dec 23, 2007 4:06 AM, Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:36:02AM +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote: Why is it not able to allocate memory ??/ The obvious reason - there is no memory

Re: Easily find the source file containing an entry point

2007-12-19 Thread Manish Katiyar
Hi, The other option is to browse the source code from web browser. you will get links there. Try lxr.linux.no Hope that helps On Dec 20, 2007 10:57 AM, Manish Katiyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The other option is to browse the source code from web browser. you will get links there. Try

Re: System calls in user and kernel space

2007-07-31 Thread Manish Katiyar
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