Re: all the kernel apis some where

his helps. > > > -- > http://www.infibeam.com/Books/linux-kernel-api-lambert-m-surhone/9786132143969.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbi

Re: latest kernel compile-- system panic

what not to. And, a pure vanilla kernel may not have some modules/code-part compiled by default which were incidentally included in your old ".config". Hope this helps! [...snip...] -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Linux Version - 32 bit OR 64 bit

mode, and user-space - which can support both 32 and 64 bit. -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Linux 2.6.32.9 kernel compilation issue on Redhat 5.4

ok fine to me. It is possible that while performing the config selection (make menuconfig) you have missed out some necessary driver from kernel as well as Module. -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Halp required

ears when a daemon (for that matter any code) tries to open a socket and connect to a certain port number - which is already being used by another program or daemon. Hope it helps. -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...

Re: I need to crash and hang Linux

e the OS , I want to avoid that. I can insmod >> modules. >> >> Can I do this also from user-space ?? > > Hi, try accessing an invalid pointer from user space (e.g. 0x) and > put a break point at do_page_fault(). > Lauterbach should break there... > > Good luck, &g

Re: getting panic during kmalloc

6174f >>>0202 3067 >>> Call Trace:{kmem_cache_alloc+90} >>> {:dbg:dbg_fmr_create+114} >>>{:dbg:dbg_handle_ioctls+8712} >>> {sys_ioctl+853} >>>{system_call+126} >>> >>> Code: 0f 0b cc 5d 32 80 ff ff ff ff ed 06 31 d2 41 f7 c6 00 20 00 >>> RIP {cache_alloc_refill+409} RSP <010134709e08> >>> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: getting panic during kmalloc

Oops, sorry, just saw this line: > Pid: 16998, comm: dbg_fmr_create Not tainted 2.6.9-42.ELsmp On 7/9/08, Shreyansh Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gagan, > > Please see comments inline. > > > On 7/9/08, gagan grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: getting panic during kmalloc

> > System have 4 GB RAM and I was continuosly checking top, it had > sufficient > > > memory to allocate. [...] Kernel BUG at slab:1773 invalid operand: [1] SMP [...] Can you tell us which kernel version are you working with - so that I can refer the code to see which BUG is

Re: mixing interupts and threads.

Linux kernel book too good in this respect (but yes, I had to read each topic many times to understand substantially). [Also, Scott had already answered even before I could press enter - but still I took the liberties of expressing my understanding] -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Machine hang - how to know what happens?

stions are most welcome. I would like to solve this mystery rather than live with it. -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: waiting for device /dev/hda1 to appear

the module of the disk type you are using. I agree this is not limited to SATA module - but I found that as most happening error for me. Shreyansh. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: file I/O and block I/O

essarily a SCSI thing? I thought 'dd' command could be used for block I/O over devices like floppy, CDROM, and IDE device? Am I wrong? -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: kernel panic

ng in your kernel path. This way atleast you can narrow down where/why the problem exists. Sleeps would give syslog time to print something. Sincerely hope this helps. If problem already solved, apologies for the noice. -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "uns

Re: some good online kernel docs?

Hi, Just a couple from me : > * 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 -- Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe fro

Re: question about kernel panic

you need the apropriate driver. Shreyansh [Apologies is this messages reaches multiple times] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Help required in understanding assembly code

gt; describes the contents of the EFLAGS register. Done. > > Sincerly, > > Thomas And sorry, Cannot put Thomas in CC as I am mailing from the Gmane.org web interface and it doesn't give me any option for that. Your help is highly appreciated. Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Help required in understanding assembly code

tate) My doubts are: 1) What does the instruction "mov 0x803d54e0(,%rax,8), %rdx" imply? 2) for "RIP: 0010:[] " what does "0010" mean? 3) Does "EFLAGS: 00010217" signify any error value, and if it does, how to interpret it? Thanks for any help, Shreyansh -- T

Re: Does excessive use of printk corrupt log buffer?

Hi, On Jan 12, 2008 7:20 PM, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/01/2008, Shreyansh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greg Freemyer gmail.com> writes: > > 8< > > > If you want to have a high quality copy of the messages on disk, then

Re: Does excessive use of printk corrupt log buffer?

n copy (file) I should be able to tackle that problem. Nevertheless, I still would like to know if actually someone has observed log data corruption in view of excessive printks (or it might be happening on my machine due to some other yet-undetected problem). > > Greg Thanks once again. Shrey

Does excessive use of printk corrupt log buffer?

causing corruption of the printk log buffer? Any hints/pointers as to what should I do to debug this kind of problem? I am currently working on SLES 10 SP1 (2.6.16.46 kernel) on an SMP opteron machine. Thanks, Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubs

Re: why do some header files check for ! __KERNEL__

t kernel. if !__KERNEL__ would make sure that user-space gets what kernel should not. I don't have an example of a such a scenario, so possible this is more of a blind-shot. THanks and apologies if that is misleading/wrong. Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: problem in understanding direct IO and bio submission

s not overflow max allowable io vectors in bio Any help/pointer/reference would be really appreciated. Also, this is a test code and hence does not confirm to good coding styles - please ignore that. Regards Shreyansh Shreyansh Jain gmail.com> writes: [removed the previous text to curtail the le

problem in understanding direct IO and bio submission

s that only raw I/O uses it (direct i/o may not work right now). --- Any help would be really appreciated. Regards Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

try_module_get code understanding

ciated. Regards Shreyansh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ