sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-23 Thread Ron Calderon
My sparc 10 seems to hang with any 2.4.0-test12+ kernel if I add mem=128M it boots fine, but anything above 128M wont boot it just hangs. Is there something I've missed? here is screen output. Resetting ... SPARCstation 10 (1 X 390Z50), No Keyboard ROM Rev. 2.12, 512 MB memory installed,

Re: sparc64 network-related problems

2000-12-23 Thread Petru Paler
Follow-up: in the mean time I upgraded to test13-pre3. Things look fine so far, but I got this in the kernel log: TCP: peer 203.65.190.178:25/57885 shrinks window 2375104836:0:2375106284. Bad, what else can I say?

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 01:28:59PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This could happen with the old scheme where exclusiveness > > was stored in the task, not the waitqueue. > > > > >From test4: > > > > for (;;) { > >

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 01:28:59PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > This could happen with the old scheme where exclusiveness > was stored in the task, not the waitqueue. > > >From test4: > > for (;;) { > __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_EXCLUSIVE); >

test13-pre4 ip defrag oops

2000-12-23 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Just got an oops uner test13-pre4 when I tried to access a new nfs export. Looks like the ip defrag monster doesn't want to go away =) ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.0-test13-pre4. Options used -V (default) -K (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre4/

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > ... > > if (rq) > > break; > > generic_unplug_device(q); > > schedule(); > > } > > remove_wait_queue(>wait_for_request, ); > > current->state = TASK_RUNNING; > >

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-23 Thread Cesar Eduardo Barros
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:52:12PM +1100, James Morris wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > > Then what do you do when you are behind a NAT? And how do you expire entries in > > ESTABLISHED state that could stay lingering forever without some sort of > > keepalive? (The

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-23 Thread James Morris
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > Then what do you do when you are behind a NAT? And how do you expire entries in > ESTABLISHED state that could stay lingering forever without some sort of > keepalive? (The FINs might have been lost due to a conectivity transient, so > you can

[PATCH] 2.4.0test13pre4-ac2 fix for CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI problem

2000-12-23 Thread Steven Cole
With 2.4.0-test13-pre4-ac2, I get the following error with make xconfig: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test13-pre4-ac2/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI). It appears that in the

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:23:33AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > 1) could be fixed trivially by making the waitqueue_lock a spinlock, but > > this way doesn't solve 2). And if we solve 2) properly than 1) gets fixed as BTW (follow up myself), really making the lock a

Re: Q: natsemi.c spinlocks

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Manfred wrote: > > Hi Jeff, Tjeerd, > > I spotted the spin_lock in natsemi.c, and I think it's bogus. > > The "simultaneous interrupt entry" is a bug in some 2.0 and 2.1 kernel > (even Alan didn't remember it exactly when I asked him), thus a sane > driver can assume that an interrupt handler

Trouble when linking aic7xxx.c

2000-12-23 Thread Fabrizio Gennari
I am having trouble when biulding the 2.2.18 Linux kernel (on a Redhat 7.0, gcc-2.96). At link-time, the linker complains that in the file aic7xxx.o, in the function aic7xxx_load_seeprom, there is an "undefined reference to 'memcpy'". In fact, doing 'nm aic7xxx.o' gives a 'U memcpy', but,

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-23 Thread Cesar Eduardo Barros
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:19:31PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > > This means that keepalive is useless for keeping alive more than > > one connection > > to a given host. > > Actually, keepalive is useless for keeping connections alive anyway. It's > very badly named. It's purpose is

RE: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-23 Thread David Schwartz
> This means that keepalive is useless for keeping alive more than > one connection > to a given host. Actually, keepalive is useless for keeping connections alive anyway. It's very badly named. It's purpose is to detect dead peers, not keep peers alive. DS - To unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:56:42PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > If we elect to not address this problem in 2.2 and to rely upon the network > > I see. There are two races: > > 1) race inside __wake_up when it's run on the same waitqueue: 2.2.19pre3 >

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
The story continues, citing myself: > Hmm, would have been nice, but it crashes here with 20001222, nevertheless. > For which CPU do you have your kernel configured? It might be a CPU > specific issue, I'll try to compile for Pentium I and 486, now, and report > my results. It does not seem

[PATCH] 2.2: cs89x0, fix more kmallocs unchecked

2000-12-23 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Alan, I talked with Russell in private and this patch fixes some issues with the previous one, included in 2.2.19-pre3, and it also checks for another kmalloc result in init_module. Another question, by what I saw the HAVE_DEVLIST thing is not used anymore (dunno if it

[OOPS] ppp_generic in kernel 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-23 Thread Steven Walter
This oops occurred while I was on the internet. modemlights_applet, the process that caused the oops, died, and upon being restarted, is hung in the "D" state. kill -9 won't even rid me of it. The internet connection is still alive, though, as I can ping sites. The system is an AMD-K6/2, the

Re: test13-pre4 fails to compile

2000-12-23 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, ebi4 wrote: > ld: cannot open drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.a: No such file or directory > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 I sent the following patch to Linus already. It should fix the problem. --Kai diff -ur linux-2.4.0-test13-pre3/drivers/ieee1394/Makefile

TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-23 Thread Cesar Eduardo Barros
I've been doing some experiments with the keepalive code in 2.4.0-test10 here (I want to avoid the 2.2.x NAT I'm using (for which I don't have root) from timing out my connections). To test it, I reduced both tcp_keepalive_time and tcp_keepalive_intvl to 1. Using ethereal, I saw that the

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-23 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
> > I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option > > of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the > > system hang at very beginning boot stage, and I found the problem > > is cause by the fact that Intel Celeron doesn't have a real memory >

Re: linux-2.2.19pre3

2000-12-23 Thread kees
Hi That did it, thanks Kees On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > On 2000.12.23 kees wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Trying to build 2.2.18+pe-patch-2.2.19-3 gives: > > > > > > /usr/bin/cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > > -O2 > > -fomit-frame-pointer

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:21:51AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > A Celeron isn't a PIII, and you shouldn't tell the configure that it is. Well, some Celerons are. My laptop has a Celeron with a Coppermine core, so it is PIII based. Here is the output from /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0

Re: minor bugs around fork_init

2000-12-23 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:33:55PM +0100, Manfred wrote: > * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use. > In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust > the 15 bit pid space. Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice. There is no great hurry, but on

Re: OS & Games Software

2000-12-23 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Alex Belits wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Subject: OS & Games Software > > > > Are you still using an old operating system? Why not upgrade to a > > newer and > > more reliable version? You'll enjoy greater features and more > > stability.

Re: lvm 0.8 to 0.9 conversion?

2000-12-23 Thread Todd M. Roy
Andre, One of my two volume groups, unfortunately the one with /usr, /var, /opt, and /home, isn't recognized by 0.9's vgscan when I reboot under 2.4.0-test13-pre4.But since the second volume group is visible, and you just told meit should be, then I can just copy volumes over under

Re: bigphysarea support in 2.2.19 and 2.4.0 kernels

2000-12-23 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Albert" == Albert D Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> bigmem is 'last resort' stuff. I'd much rather it is as now a >> seperate allocator so you actually have to sit and think and decide >> to give up on kmalloc/vmalloc/better algorithms and only use it >> when the hardware sucks

Re: lvm 0.8 to 0.9 conversion?

2000-12-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:24:39PM -0500, Todd M. Roy wrote: > > Now that in 2.4.0-test12-pre4, lvm 0.9 has replaced 0.8, is it possible > to do a conversion of lvm created physical volumes, volume groups > and logical volumes from 0.8 to 0.9? on-disk format isn't changed so no conversion is

[PATCH] 2.4.0-test13-pre4 fix drivers/ieee1394/Makefile

2000-12-23 Thread Steven Cole
ebi4 wrote: >ld: cannot open drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.a: No such file or directory >make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Changing the order of a few lines in linux/drivers/ieee1394/Makefile fixes this problem. Here is the patch: Steven diff -u linux/drivers/ieee1394/Makefile.orig

Re: Netgear FA311 (follow-up)

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Buell
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Alex Buell wrote: > I recently bought a Netgear FA311 which does 10/100Mb/ethernet for my > first home network. I've looked and found driver sources which > apparently works only for 2.0.36. Ulp! Before I start cracking my > knuckles and working my deep magic to get it to

Re: Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread tc lewis
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Alex Buell wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > > > Is this where you got the sources? > > > http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html (Thanks Steve) > > > > The linux driver is actually on the accompanying floppy disk. Without license > > statement

Re: Problem with tdfx drm module

2000-12-23 Thread J Sloan
"Hayden A. James" wrote: > [root@neutron /root]# modprobe tdfx > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4-ac2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: > unresolved symbol remap_page_range > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4-ac2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: > unresolved symbol __wake_up >

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-23 Thread Chris Mason
On Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:02:53 -0800 Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which is why I prefer the higher layers handling the dirty/uptodate/xxx > bits. > Grin, I should have taken the hint when we talked about the buffer up to date checks for block_read_full_page, it made

Re: Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Buell
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > Is this where you got the sources? > > http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html (Thanks Steve) > > The linux driver is actually on the accompanying floppy disk. Without license > statement unfortunately. I got a floppy disk with the netgear

lvm 0.8 to 0.9 conversion?

2000-12-23 Thread Todd M. Roy
Now that in 2.4.0-test12-pre4, lvm 0.9 has replaced 0.8, is it possible to do a conversion of lvm created physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes from 0.8 to 0.9? Sorry if this is already a FAQ that I just haven't found yet. -- todd -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread Marcus Meissner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Is this where you got the sources? > http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html (Thanks Steve) The linux driver is actually on the accompanying floppy disk. Without license statement unfortunately. Ciao, Marcus - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Problem with tdfx drm module

2000-12-23 Thread A.
[root@neutron /root]# modprobe tdfx /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4-ac2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4-ac2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4-ac2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o:

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
Hi Mike, hello linux-kernel audience, > I had the same, with the last few snapshots I tried, but 20001218 seems > to work ok. > dmesg|head -1 > Linux version 2.4.0-test13ikd (root@el-kaboom) (gcc version gcc-2.97 > 20001218 (experimental)) #18 Sat Dec 23 17:43:29 CET 2000 Hmm, would have been

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > > I've updated to test13-pre4, and removed the hunk for submit_bh. > Looks as though pre4 changed the submit_bh callers to clear the dirty > bit, so my code does the same. Basically, I wanted to think of "submit_bh()" as a pure IO thing. When we call

Re: Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Is this where you got the sources? http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html (Thanks Steve) Alex Buell wrote: > > I recently bought a Netgear FA311 which does 10/100Mb/ethernet for my > first home network. I've looked and found driver sources which apparently --

RH 7 update of 2.96 gcc and make

2000-12-23 Thread Frank Jacobberger
Seems stable enough... the following are excerpts of some of the warnings on make bzImage: - -boundary=2 -march=i686-c -o tcp_input.o tcp_input.c tcp_input.c:1944:78: warning: pasting would not give a valid preprocessing token tcp_input.c:2478:76: warning: pasting would not give

FEATURE (was Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
it is not a problem, it is a feature. (and a useful one!) On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4 > > 2. its still possible to mount devices several times. >IMHO it shouldnt be possible like 2.2.18 >with

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-23 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, December 22, 2000 21:26:33 -0200 Marcelo Tosatti > If we use ll_rw_block directly on buffers of anonymous pages > (page->mapping == _space_mapping) instead using > dirty_list_writepage() (which will end up calling block_write_anon_page) > we can fix the buffer flushtime issue. >

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:56:42PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > If we elect to not address this problem in 2.2 and to rely upon the network I see. There are two races: 1) race inside __wake_up when it's run on the same waitqueue: 2.2.19pre3 is affected as well as 2.2.18aa2, and

Re: Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I don't know how its different from the FA310TX that I have. The 310TX uses the tulip drivers so you may want to give that a shot. Maybe you can get us a name/number off the IC on the card? Alex Buell wrote: > > I recently bought a Netgear FA311 which does 10/100Mb/ethernet for my > first home

8139too driver broken? (2.4-test12) - Was: Re: rtl8139 driver broken? (2.2.16)

2000-12-23 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:34:46 + (GMT), Alan Cox wrote: >2.2.18 might help and also as an '8139too' driver rewrite which may work Advancing further to a 2.4-test12 kernel (with the latest available 8139too driver - 0.9.12) improves the situation even further, but doesn't solve it. I still

2.4.0-test12 on Miata

2000-12-23 Thread Peter De Schrijver
Hi, Compiling 2.4.0-test12 for the Miata Alpha platform seems to result in a kernel which does not correctly handle (or initialize ?) ISA IRQ's. The result is that ps/2 keyboard and mouse and floppy don't work. I didn't check if the serial or parallel ports work. Compiling 2.4.0-test12 for the

Q: natsemi.c spinlocks

2000-12-23 Thread Manfred
Hi Jeff, Tjeerd, I spotted the spin_lock in natsemi.c, and I think it's bogus. The "simultaneous interrupt entry" is a bug in some 2.0 and 2.1 kernel (even Alan didn't remember it exactly when I asked him), thus a sane driver can assume that an interrupt handler is never reentered. Donald

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-23 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Andreas Franck wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I am not doing something particularly stupid here, but as Linus > encouraged curious people to try compiling the kernel with the > latest gcc snapshots, I have tried - as several weeks before, but again > in vain. > > Since I have

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, michael chen wrote: > I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option > of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the > system hang at very beginning boot stage, and I found the problem > is cause by the fact that Intel

PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-23 Thread rkreiner
1. multiple mount of devices possible 2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4 2. its still possible to mount devices several times. IMHO it shouldnt be possible like 2.2.18 with umount in /proc/mounts is still the real information, in /etc/mtab all corresponding mountpoints are deleted. 3.

Re: whats happening

2000-12-23 Thread keyser-lk
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Sourav Sen wrote: > In some parts of the kernel code I find expression like > > len = (len + ~PAGE_MASK) & PAGE_MASK ; > > Whats happening to len? It's being aligned properly. if you have a continuous array of objects that are each 8 bytes, you create a mask that's

test13-pre4 fails to compile

2000-12-23 Thread ebi4
ld: cannot open drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.a: No such file or directory make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 : Gene Imes http://www.ozob.net : - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read

minor bugs around fork_init

2000-12-23 Thread Manfred
I found 4 minor problems in the thread creation code: * 2.2 reserved 4 threads for root, and 2.4 still has the define (MIN_THREADS_LEFT_FOR_ROOT), but the code is missing :-( * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use. In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to

Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Buell
I recently bought a Netgear FA311 which does 10/100Mb/ethernet for my first home network. I've looked and found driver sources which apparently works only for 2.0.36. Ulp! Before I start cracking my knuckles and working my deep magic to get it to work on 2.2.x, is there any drivers already sorted

Re: recommended gcc compiler version

2000-12-23 Thread Matthew Vanecek
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Tim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >So > >egcs-1.1.2 is good for either, 2.7.2 is OK for 2.2, bad for 2.4. 2.95.2 and > >later are risky. RedHat just released a bugfixed "2.96" which is an unknown > >quantity AFAIK.

Re: ATI Mach 64 (2.4.0-test12)

2000-12-23 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Rok Pergarec wrote: > Hello, > > I have problems with the ATI Mach 64 (Rage 2) video card. After a boot, I > get just a blank screen with a few vertical lines, but the system boots up > normally beacuse I can reboot the machine anyway. I don't get a sigle > error in

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Phillips
Chris Mason wrote: > It is enough to leave buffer heads we don't flush on the dirty list (and > redirty the page), they'll get written by a future loop through > flush_dirty_pages, or by page_launder. We could use ll_rw_block instead, > even though anon pages do have a writepage with this patch

Re: "undefined reference" atm_lane_init & atm_mpoa_init with test13-pre4

2000-12-23 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > net/network.o(.text+0x3ff92): undefined reference to `atm_lane_init' > net/network.o(.text+0x40039): undefined reference to `atm_mpoa_init' Hi, The patch below should fix that. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven --- linux/net/atm/Makefile Fri Dec

fork/wait race in 2.4.0-pre?

2000-12-23 Thread Adam J. Richter
I reported this problem a few months ago in bug-glibc and did not get any response, although that is not unexpected since it is unclear where the problem is. So that bug report and this report will probably serve just to chronicle the problem in case anybody sees something similar.

"undefined reference" atm_lane_init & atm_mpoa_init with test13-pre4

2000-12-23 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, With 2.4.0-test13-pre4 i noticed "Networking options" LAN Emulation (LANE) support Multi-Protocol Over ATM (MPOA) support results with 'make bzImage' in: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test13-4/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -T

Re: Q: netdevice interface change

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Manfred wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > I have 2 questions about your netdevice2.txt: >http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/netdevice2.txt > > * is withdraw_netdevice() really required, can't unregister_netdev > check "hidden", and notify the protocols/hotplug based on that value? Yes, it's

Re: test13-pre4-ac2 - part of diff fails

2000-12-23 Thread Steven Cole
Daniel Stone wrote: >linux-2.4.0-test12 + reiserfs + test13-pre4 + reiserfs makefile fix (only >changes fs/reiserfs/Makefile) + netfilter patch-o-matic stuff (only touches >net/ipv4/netfilter) + test13-pre4-ac2. I was able to patch and build 2.4.0test13pre4-ac2. I did not see the problem with

oops 2.2.18

2000-12-23 Thread octave klaba
2.2.18 + VM-global-2.2.18pre25-7-to-2.2.18-1 + raid-2.2.18-A2-to-A3 + raid1readbalance-2.2.15-B2-to-2.2.18-A0 + ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.2.18-ovh. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.2.18-ovh/ (default) -m

Re: A way to crash an 2.4-test11 kernel

2000-12-23 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:25:31AM +, Ingo Rohloff wrote: > Hi, > > I found a way to crash an SMP 2.4-test11 kernel: > > 1. Create a BIG file (lets say about 300-400 MByte) > 2. use losetup and the loop device to create an >ext2 filesystem within the file > 3. mount the file > 4. copy

Q: netdevice interface change

2000-12-23 Thread Manfred
Hi Andrew, I have 2 questions about your netdevice2.txt: http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/netdevice2.txt * is withdraw_netdevice() really required, can't unregister_netdev check "hidden", and notify the protocols/hotplug based on that value? * I don't like the backward compatibility

Re: 2.4.0 test12 ipchains doesn't work as module

2000-12-23 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0500, John Covici wrote: > I configured 2.4.0 test12 to use the ipchains compatability option as > a module and I did a modprobe on all the other modules in that section > of such as iptable_filter, etc. When I tried to do the modprobe on > I'm not sure if

Re: why both kernel lock as well as semaphore

2000-12-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Sourav Sen wrote: > > In many parts of the kernel, I have seen both semaphore is taken > (eg. down(>mm->mmap_sem)) as well as kernel lock (lock_kernel()) > is also taken, why both are required? Whats the purpose of each? > because the semaphore is really needed (by design

Re: linux-2.2.19pre3

2000-12-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.23 kees wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to build 2.2.18+pe-patch-2.2.19-3 gives: > > > /usr/bin/cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > -O2 > -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce > -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2

linux-2.2.19pre3

2000-12-23 Thread kees
Hi, Trying to build 2.2.18+pe-patch-2.2.19-3 gives: /usr/bin/cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o

[patch] remove init_fddidev

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew Morton
This was pretty simple. Also did the SET_MODULE_OWNER thing. It affects two files: drivers/net/defxx.c drivers/net/ptifddi.c I'm not sure what the story is with ptifddi.c. It isn't mentioned in any of the kernel Makefiles? Now just 67 ethernet drivers to do :) ---

[patch] remove init_fcdev

2000-12-23 Thread Andrew Morton
Alan, the patch removes use of the unsafe init_fcdev() and replaces it with the new prepare_fcdev()/publish_netdev() API as described at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/netdevice2.txt I changed drivers/i2o/i2o_lan.c:i2o_lan_register_device() to use prepare_fddidev(). Not sure

Re: test13-pre4-ac2 - part of diff fails

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Stone
> > On 23-Dec-2000 Daniel Stone wrote: > >> > patching file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c > >> > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] > >> > Apply anyway? [n] y > >> > Hunk #1 FAILED at 278. > >> > Hunk #2 succeeded at 511 (offset 9 lines). > >> > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED --

Re: OS & Games Software

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Belits
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: OS & Games Software > > Are you still using an old operating system? Why not upgrade to a > newer and > more reliable version? You'll enjoy greater features and more > stability. > > Microsoft Dos 6.22$15 >

why both kernel lock as well as semaphore

2000-12-23 Thread Sourav Sen
In many parts of the kernel, I have seen both semaphore is taken (eg. down(>mm->mmap_sem)) as well as kernel lock (lock_kernel()) is also taken, why both are required? Whats the purpose of each? ~sourav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-23 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Dec 22 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > Jens, > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally > reads at 2-3x. Since test13-pre2 it's down to .6 - .7x. I've reverted > the following

whats happening

2000-12-23 Thread Sourav Sen
In some parts of the kernel code I find expression like len = (len + ~PAGE_MASK) & PAGE_MASK ; Whats happening to len? ~sourav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at

Re: test13-pre4-ac2 - part of diff fails

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Orr
On 23-Dec-2000 Daniel Stone wrote: >> > patching file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c >> > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] >> > Apply anyway? [n] y >> > Hunk #1 FAILED at 278. >> > Hunk #2 succeeded at 511 (offset 9 lines). >> > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre3

2000-12-23 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hello Alan, did you receive the mails I sent to you on lxorguk last sunday with the bonding driver updates ? I had mail problems, and received no ack. If you want a resend, please just let me now. Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

OS & Games Software

2000-12-23 Thread photon55
Are you still using an old operating system? Why not upgrade to a newer and more reliable version? You'll enjoy greater features and more stability. Microsoft Dos 6.22 $15 Microsoft Windows 3.11 $15 Microsoft Windows 95

Re: test13-pre4-ac2 - part of diff fails

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Stone
> > patching file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c > > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] > > Apply anyway? [n] y > > Hunk #1 FAILED at 278. > > Hunk #2 succeeded at 511 (offset 9 lines). > > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c.rej > > >

Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello, I hope I am not doing something particularly stupid here, but as Linus encouraged curious people to try compiling the kernel with the latest gcc snapshots, I have tried - as several weeks before, but again in vain. Since I have tried, the same following error on early boot (just after

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 05:24:43PM +0800, michael chen wrote: > I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option > of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the > system hang at very beginning boot stage, and I found the problem > is cause by

[PATCH] find_vma_prev rewrite

2000-12-23 Thread Matthew Wilcox
find_vma_prev doesn't return a pointer to the `prev' vma if the address is greater than the last existing vma. This doesn't matter unless you're on a PA-RISC machine :-) This rewrite should speed up & make find_vma_prev simpler, as well as fixing the previous behaviour. ---

Re: test13-pre4-ac2 - part of diff fails

2000-12-23 Thread Alan Cox
> patching file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] > Apply anyway? [n] y > Hunk #1 FAILED at 278. > Hunk #2 succeeded at 511 (offset 9 lines). > 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c.rej > > Works fine if

2.4.0 test13-pre4 causes CDROM ioctl errors

2000-12-23 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Since I've installed 2.4.0 test13-pre4, I see the following errors in my log: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. and xmcd reports: CD audio: ioctl error on /dev/scd0: cmd=CDROMVOLCTRL errno=95 This was working fine with 2.4.0 test12-pre5, which was the previous kernel

About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-23 Thread michael chen
Hi, I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the system hang at very beginning boot stage, and I found the problem is cause by the fact that Intel Celeron doesn't have a real memory

Re: bigphysarea support in 2.2.19 and 2.4.0 kernels

2000-12-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bigmem is 'last resort' stuff. I'd much rather it is as now a > > seperate allocator so you actually have to sit and think and > > decide to give up on kmalloc/vmalloc/better algorithms and > > only use it when the hardware sucks > > It isn't

Re: Oops with microcode update driver on 2.2.19pre3

2000-12-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Aaron, Although I have not looked at Oops report in detail (Sabbath is now on, can't do work!) but I am well aware of two (or more) bugs in that area and one of them may well be the cause of your oops I assumed the X86_FEATURE flags semantics to be the same on 2.2 as in 2.4 but then

New discoveries in the EEPro100 init saga

2000-12-23 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi all, After enabling the option "EEPRO100_PM" and upgrading to test13-pre4 my problems with the eepro100 driver mysteriously ceased to exist. I no longer see any "Card reports no RX buffers" or "Card reports no resources" messages. Since I don't think -pre4 changed anything from -pre3 that

ATI Mach 64 (2.4.0-test12)

2000-12-23 Thread Rok Pergarec
Hello, I have problems with the ATI Mach 64 (Rage 2) video card. After a boot, I get just a blank screen with a few vertical lines, but the system boots up normally beacuse I can reboot the machine anyway. I don't get a sigle error in compiling. I didn't noticed the 'ATI Mach64 display support'

ATI Mach 64 (2.4.0-test12)

2000-12-23 Thread Rok Pergarec
Hello, I have problems with the ATI Mach 64 (Rage 2) video card. After a boot, I get just a blank screen with a few vertical lines, but the system boots up normally beacuse I can reboot the machine anyway. I don't get a sigle error in compiling. I didn't noticed the 'ATI Mach64 display support'

New discoveries in the EEPro100 init saga

2000-12-23 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi all, After enabling the option "EEPRO100_PM" and upgrading to test13-pre4 my problems with the eepro100 driver mysteriously ceased to exist. I no longer see any "Card reports no RX buffers" or "Card reports no resources" messages. Since I don't think -pre4 changed anything from -pre3 that

Re: Oops with microcode update driver on 2.2.19pre3

2000-12-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Aaron, Although I have not looked at Oops report in detail (Sabbath is now on, can't do work!) but I am well aware of two (or more) bugs in that area and one of them may well be the cause of your oops I assumed the X86_FEATURE flags semantics to be the same on 2.2 as in 2.4 but then

About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-23 Thread michael chen
Hi, I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the system hang at very beginning boot stage, and I found the problem is cause by the fact that Intel Celeron doesn't have a real memory

2.4.0 test13-pre4 causes CDROM ioctl errors

2000-12-23 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Since I've installed 2.4.0 test13-pre4, I see the following errors in my log: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. and xmcd reports: CD audio: ioctl error on /dev/scd0: cmd=CDROMVOLCTRL errno=95 This was working fine with 2.4.0 test12-pre5, which was the previous kernel

[PATCH] find_vma_prev rewrite

2000-12-23 Thread Matthew Wilcox
find_vma_prev doesn't return a pointer to the `prev' vma if the address is greater than the last existing vma. This doesn't matter unless you're on a PA-RISC machine :-) This rewrite should speed up make find_vma_prev simpler, as well as fixing the previous behaviour. --- linux-t10/mm/mmap.c

Re: test13-pre4-ac2 - part of diff fails

2000-12-23 Thread Alan Cox
patching file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n] y Hunk #1 FAILED at 278. Hunk #2 succeeded at 511 (offset 9 lines). 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c.rej Works fine if I

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 05:24:43PM +0800, michael chen wrote: I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the system hang at very beginning boot stage, and I found the problem is cause by the

Re: test13-pre4-ac2 - part of diff fails

2000-12-23 Thread Daniel Stone
patching file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n] y Hunk #1 FAILED at 278. Hunk #2 succeeded at 511 (offset 9 lines). 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file arch/i386/kernel/smp.c.rej Works fine if

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