Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't > > > do justice to the VLB bus, the potential for user error is much smaller. > > > > Until today you had a vaild point! > >

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't > > do justice to the VLB bus, the potential for user error is much smaller. > > Until today you had a vaild point! > > Promise Ultra100TX2 (20268 chipset). > > This is a

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:30:24 -0700, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You killed yourself > > > > You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 > > You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't > do

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:30:24 -0700, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You killed yourself > > You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't do justice to the VLB bus, the potential for user error is much

module problem with new kernel

hello everyone! i recently installed suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.0-4GB on an IBM 600E laptop. it runs execellent! but i wanted to also have sound, so through make xconfig i added the sound module, then i found out i had to enable reiserfs (that's what fs i use) and pcmcia. now it's complaining that it

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

You killed yourself You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 You have now dived you clock timing in half. You should expect to have a driver time out before the device is completed. -- Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

linux-2.4.3-ac3.tfhsio2/drivers/ide/Makefile

Alan, Since this is no more than a chipset that is identical to piix.c Why is it setup as a loadable object? obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8172)+= it8172.o and not like below? ide-obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8172) += it8172.o Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:75! / exit.c

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > > > I'm running the 2.4.3 kernel and my system always (!) crashes when I try > > > to generate the "Linux kernel poster" from lgp.linuxcare.com.au. After > > > working for one hour, the kernel printed this message: > > > > I'd guess

Re: How do I compile properly after changing tcp_input.c etc?

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Bill Geissler wrote: > I need to modify the tcp_input.c and tcp_output.c code > for a thesis, and want to make sure that I don't mess > things up when I recompile the code. > > What do I need to do to properly recompile the tcp > functions with my modifications? As long as

How do I compile properly after changing tcp_input.c etc?

I need to modify the tcp_input.c and tcp_output.c code for a thesis, and want to make sure that I don't mess things up when I recompile the code. What do I need to do to properly recompile the tcp functions with my modifications? Any info would be appreciated. Bill

How to build modules outside the kernel tree? [Was: Proper way to release binary driver?]

Christopher Turcksin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > > > If what you are after is a way to release a driver that is not a > > hassle to add to an already working system, you will find a more > > receptive ear. I have heard some talk, that it would be a good idea > >

Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

Hallo, On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:52:25PM -0700, Paul McKenney wrote: > 1. On a busy system, isn't it possible for a preempted task > to stay preempted for a -long- time, especially if there are > lots of real-time tasks in the mix? The problem you're describing is probably

Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

Please accept my apologies if I am missing something basic, but... 1. On a busy system, isn't it possible for a preempted task to stay preempted for a -long- time, especially if there are lots of real-time tasks in the mix? 2. Isn't it possible to get in trouble even on a UP if a

mkinitrd and 2.4.x annoyances

While trying to upgrade a redhat 6.2 I've come across the following annoyance. Changes states that you need mkinitrd 2.9 or better. No problem. Go to redhat site and grab source rpm. In my case 3.0.5 was the one available. Build and install the package. Run it. Curse. Turns out that mkinitrd

[Fwd: No USB under 2.4.3 and 2.4.3-ac?]

-- Sid Boyce ... hamradio G3VBV ... Cessna/Warrior Pilot Linux only shop.. Tel. 44-121 422 0375 This happens on a PIII/GigaByte 6BXE, Athlon 900/ABit KT7 and on a friend's Cyrix M-II/333 with PC-Chips PC100 mobo and SIS chipset. The PIII is a SuSE 6.4 base +, the others are SuSE

No USB under 2.4.3 and 2.4.3-ac?

This happens on a PIII/GigaByte 6BXE, Athlon 900/ABit KT7 and on a friend's Cyrix M-II/333 with PC-Chips PC100 mobo and SIS chipset. The PIII is a SuSE 6.4 base +, the others are SuSE 7.1 + modutils-2.4.5 and a few other bits. During boot and "lsusb" ver 0.7 only show the

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:06:03AM -0700, Timothy D. Witham wrote: > Timothy D. Witham wrote : > > I propose that we work on setting up a straight forward test harness > > that allows developers to quickly test a kernel patch against > > various performance yardsticks. The Linux Test Project

Re: Seems to be a lot of confusion about aic7xxx in linux 2.4.3

"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > So, I conclude that the patch was created incorrectly, or that something > changed between cutting the patch and the tarball. Compiled fine for me without the complete tarball, just patched. Now, I went straight to ac2 (now ac3) without building the 2.4.3 stock

Re: modutils / sound

Sound modules don't autoload - when you start what? I noticed a strange thing too - when I start a light window-manager, like lfwm or fvwm2 and THEN start, say, kmix - modules do get loaded, however, if I try starting kde with sounds configured when the modules are NOT loaded, it complains 'no

Re: memory allocation problems

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote: > > As was pointed out to me in January, another solution for i386 would be to > fix a maximum stack size and have the mmap() allocations grow downward > from the "top" of the stack (3GB - max stack size). I'm not sure why that > is not currently done.

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Re: a quest for a better scheduler

Missing an important one, our VPN's routinely run on 16 MG Ram, no HD or swap.. Loaded from an initrd on a floppy.. Don't we need to test on minimalistic machines as well :) > So the server hardware configurations have evolved to look like > the following. > > 1 way, 512 MB, 2 IDE >

Re: [PATCH] Core dumps for threads

Don, I've searched the linux-kernel mail archives about this patch, and the most recent thing I can find is that it was waiting for verification. http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0102.3/0553.html Is there anything more recent? Has it been accepted? Also, if I apply this

RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > Here is a patch that removes the offending PPC PCI hacky area from the > driver (sym53c8xx_defs.h): > > --- sym53c8xx_defs.h Fri Apr 6 16:23:48 2001 > +++ sym53c8xx_defs.h.orig Sun Mar 4 13:54:11 2001 > @@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ > #define

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > BTW, my 2.4.3-pre8 kernel just said > > | sym53c875-0:0: ERROR (81:0) (3-21-0) (10/9d) @ (script 8a8:0b00). Illegal instruction detected. > | sym53c875-0: script cmd = 1100 > | sym53c875-0: regdump: da 10 80 9d 47 10 00 0d 00 03 80

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > ev6 works the way you described AFIK (to flush the write buffer you can use Thanks for the clarification -- you made me calm down. > wmb(), note that wmb() semantics doesn't require the cpu to really "flush" but > just to keep writes oredered

Re: memory allocation problems

> > note, though, that you *CAN* actually malloc a lot more than 1G: you > > just have to avoid causing mmaps that chop your VM at > > TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE: > > Neat trick. I didn't realize that you could avoid allocating the mmap() > buffers for stdin and stdout. noone ever said you had to use

Special packet inspecting bridging

Hi all, I'd like to start a project involving a packet inspecting Ethernet bridge/firewall/traffic shaper that is protocol independent ( I mean no ties to high level protocols like TCP/IP or IPX for ex.). What I want to do is get raw Ethernet packets from one

Re: memory allocation problems

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: > note, though, that you *CAN* actually malloc a lot more than 1G: you > just have to avoid causing mmaps that chop your VM at > TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE: Neat trick. I didn't realize that you could avoid allocating the mmap() buffers for stdin and stdout. As

Re: [CHECKER] __init functions called by non-__init

Rusty Russell writes: > It's incredibly poor taste, though, and if we ever implement __init > dropping for modules (Keith?), Jakub Jelinek implemented this about 2 years ago, right before we hit 2.2.x, Linus thought it was too late at the time so we dropped that work from our trees. It was

Re: [CHECKER] __init functions called by non-__init

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > where if you look in the code, the flagged routine generic_NCR53C400A_setup > does indeed not have __init: > void generic_NCR53C400A_setup (char *str, int *ints) { > internal_setup (BOARD_NCR53C400A, str, ints); > } As long

Re: 2.4.3 tcp window id causes problems talking to windows clients

Kevin Stone writes: > Is there any plan to include the zerocopy patches into the stock kernel? > The win2k dial-up/window id problem is really a showstopper but hasn't > generated much traffic on lkml or the digests. I submitted the patch to Linus, it will likely go into 2.4.4 but if

Re: memory allocation problems

> can get at most 2GB. Newer glibc's allow you to tune the definition > of "small" via an environment variable. eventually, perhaps libc will be smart enough to create more arenas in mmaped space once sbrk fails. note, though, that you *CAN* actually malloc a lot more than 1G: you just have

2.4.3 tcp window id causes problems talking to windows clients

From linux/include/net/ip.h (2.4.3): static inline void ip_select_ident(struct iphdr *iph, struct dst_entry *dst) { if (iph->frag_off&__constant_htons(IP_DF)) iph->id = 0; else __ip_select_ident(iph, dst); } This sets the id on the packet to zero if don't fragment is set.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:27:24PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > [..] You normally have > non-cached locations buffered (since you don't always need peripheral > device accesses to be posted immediately) and can force a writeback with a > memory barrier. [..] ev6 works the way you described

modutils / sound

I just upgraded to modutils 2.4.5, and my sound modules wont autoload anymore. They work fine if i manually load them but that is an unacceptable solution. alias char-major-14 sb options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options sound dmabuf=1 Those are the lines ive always used in

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

Timothy D. Witham wrote : [...] > I propose that we work on setting up a straight forward test harness > that allows developers to quickly test a kernel patch against > various performance yardsticks. [... (proposed large server testbeds) ...] OK, so I have received some feedback on my

Re: 2 times faster rawio and several fixes (2.4.3aa3)

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:36:21PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > 2/4Mbytes naturally aligned area). so probably I will take the vmalloc way As expected vmalloc additional 2 tlbs aren't visible in the numbers (that are mostly dominated by I/O anyways), I think it's the best solution to avoid

Re: syslog insmod please!

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, various people (Ion, David, James) wrote: >Recent versions of modutils .. log to .. /var/log/ksymoops >kmod only works when the user calles for the service .. >consider unix.o I'm still using 2.2 kernel where unix.o isn't a module and /var/log/ksymoops doesn't exist, so I

Re: gcc oopses with 2.4.3

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:33:03PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fre, 06 Apr 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > > sigbus from gcc usually points to the ram, have you run a tester? > > But sig 4 is sigill (whatever this may be) and 1ig11 sigsegv, so > no sigbus!? Illegal Instruction. Your CPU was

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

On 6 Apr 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I recall on the ev6 all memory accesses to locations with bit 40 set > are always to IO space are never cached and are never write buffered. If that is the case then EV6 is seriously flawed. You normally have non-cached locations buffered (since you

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > > Memory barriers are a separate issue. On the alpha the > > natural way to implement it would be in the page table fill code. > > Memory barriers are o.k. but the really don't help the case when what > > you want to do is read the latest value out

RE: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Stefano Coluccini wrote: > > I'm still waiting for other reports of st/sym53c8xx on PPC under > > 2.4.x. BTW, > > does it work on other big-endian platforms, like sparc? > > I don't know if it is the same problem, but ... > I have a Motorola MVME5100 (PowerPC 750 based

Re: ethernet phy link state info

Johan Adolfsson wrote: > I don't have an answer but a related question: > Is there any "standard ioctl" to force an interface > to a certain link state, eg. auto, 10Mbs, 100Mbps, > half/full duplex etc.? /sbin/mii-tool should do this on most network cards. -- Jeff Garzik | Sam: "Mind if

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

On 5 Apr 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > The point is on the Alpha all ram is always cached, and i/o space is > completely uncached. You cannot do write-combing for video card You don't want to cache fb memory, do you? All you want is write combining and you achieve it with memory barriers.

Re: ethernet phy link state info

Bernhard Bender wrote: > where do I find information about the current link state of the ethernet PHY > (e.g. 100mbit/s full duplex) ? > Something like /proc/sys/net/* ? /sbin/mii-tool -- Jeff Garzik | Sam: "Mind if I drive?" Building 1024 | Max: "Not if you don't mind me clawing at

[PATCH] 2.4.3-ac3 update Documentation/Changes URLs for e2fsprogs

Greetings all, It appears that the URLs listed in Documentation/Changes for e2fsprogs are stale. This patch, against 2.4.3-ac3, provides accurate URLs. Steven --- linux/Documentation/Changes.origFri Apr 6 11:13:10 2001 +++ linux/Documentation/Changes Fri Apr 6 11:15:00 2001 @@ -31,7

Re: 2 times faster rawio and several fixes (2.4.3aa3)

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:02:32PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:07:01PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > However we can probably stay with the 512k atomic I/O otherwise the iobuf > > structure will grow again of an order of 2. With 512k of atomic I/O the kiovec > >

Re: 2 times faster rawio and several fixes (2.4.3aa3)

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:07:01PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > However we can probably stay with the 512k atomic I/O otherwise the iobuf > structure will grow again of an order of 2. With 512k of atomic I/O the kiovec > structure is just 8756 in size (infact probably I should allocate some

Re: memory allocation problems

In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: > Essentially, the problem can be summarized to be that on a machine > with ample ram (2G, 4G, etc), I am unable to malloc a gig if I ask > for the memory in small ( <= 128k) chunks. Take a look at this message by Szabolcs Szakacsits:

Re: 2 times faster rawio and several fixes (2.4.3aa3)

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:34:40PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > 2.4.3aa3 with rawio-1: > > root@alpha:/home/andrea > time ./rawio-bench > Opening /dev/raw1 > Allocating 50MB of memory > Reading from /dev/raw1 > Writing data to /dev/raw1 > > real0m5.208s > user0m0.001s > sys

Re: gcc oopses with 2.4.3

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fre, 06 Apr 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > > sigbus from gcc usually points to the ram, have you run a tester? > > But sig 4 is sigill (whatever this may be) and 1ig11 sigsegv, so > no sigbus!? > > BTW: The last lines of a kernel compile: > > gcc

Re: gcc oopses with 2.4.3

On Fre, 06 Apr 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > sigbus from gcc usually points to the ram, have you run a tester? But sig 4 is sigill (whatever this may be) and 1ig11 sigsegv, so no sigbus!? BTW: The last lines of a kernel compile: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac3/include -Wall

NLS: koi8-u support

Please add support of KOI-8 Ukrainian (AKA koi8-u) encoding into kernel, because ukrainian users can't read files with ukrainian names from NTFS and SMB disks without it. Patch for 2.4.x kernels (2.4.0-test10 - 2.4.3): ==cut from here diff -urN

Re: Proper way to release binary driver?

On 04.06 Christopher Turcksin wrote: > > In practice, that doesn't work. A driver compiled with 2.2.16 doesn't > load with 2.2.16-5.0 (from RedHat 6.2) (just an example). > Thats is probably because RH 2.2.16-5.0 is not 2.2.16, but 2.2.17-pre-something. Due to the bad idea of distros to name

Re: gcc oopses with 2.4.3

On Fre, 06 Apr 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > Neat, looks like you've installed the all new extreiser2fs. Really though, > do you have ext2 on the box at all? Sounds great, yeah. No I have /tmpext2 /boot ext2 restreiserfs > sigbus from gcc usually points to the ram, have you run a

2 times faster rawio and several fixes (2.4.3aa3)

I merged some of SCT's fixes plus I fixed another couple of bugs and then I boosted the code to run faster. There's still room for improvements for example by using a ring of iobuf to walk pagetables and lock down pages for the next atomic I/O chunk while the I/O of the previous iobuf is in

Re: Proper way to release binary driver?

Hi, I'd take a look at how nvidia delivers the module for their video cards... http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html you build the module with your current kernel or download the one for your distribution (limited number) 4-front tenchnologies has also done a long-term good

[QUESTION]: Support and scalability on SMP Alpha

I am working on a project which will require a lot of CPU power. I will be running TCP, a managable number of busy threads, and gigabit ether. I was curious how good the alpha processor support is in Linux as compared to, say, i386. Also How well do alpha processors scale up on Linux 2.4 in a

linux 2.2.19 smp interrupt problems?

hi! i get a lot of messages of this kind: Apr 6 17:44:33 home kernel: eth0: RTL8139 Interrupt line blocked, status 4. Apr 6 17:44:33 home kernel: eth0: SMP simultaneous entry of an interrupt handler. linux 2.2.19 dual pentium 166 rtl8139 high network load (encrypted x applications over

Re: gcc oopses with 2.4.3

On Friday, April 06, 2001 05:44:42 PM +0200 Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I get frequent `internal compiler error', killed with Sig 4 or Sig 11 > and sometimes Ooops from compiling X or kernel. > > System: 2.4.3-vanilla, reiserfs, glibc-2.1.3 > [~] gcc -v > Reading

Proper way to release binary driver?

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > If what you are after is a way to release a driver that is not a > hassle to add to an already working system, you will find a more > receptive ear. I have heard some talk, that it would be a good idea > to figure out how to standardize how to compile a kernel

Re: [PATCH] Re: Race in fs/proc/generic.c:make_inode_number()

Maneesh Soni wrote: > > Just a couple of points: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:36:10AM -0400, Tom Leete wrote: > [...] > > +spinlock_t proc_alloc_map_lock = RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > > + > Why not make this static? > Initializer should be SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED. > Thanks, you're right on both counts.

Re: console.c unblank_screen problem

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:09:11 +0200 (MET DST), Mikael Petterson wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:40:03 +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >There is a problem with the power management code for console.c > > > >The current code calls do_blank_screen(0); on PM_SUSPEND, and > >unblank_screen()

gcc oopses with 2.4.3

Hi! I get frequent `internal compiler error', killed with Sig 4 or Sig 11 and sometimes Ooops from compiling X or kernel. System: 2.4.3-vanilla, reiserfs, glibc-2.1.3 [~] gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) Here a

Re: memory allocation problems

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:06:47AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Essentially, the problem can be summarized to be that on a machine > with ample ram (2G, 4G, etc), I am unable to malloc a gig if I ask > for the memory in small ( <= 128k) chunks. I've enclosed some results > and a

Re: ethernet phy link state info

Try http://www.scyld.com/diag/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Johan Adolfsson") writes: > I don't have an answer but a related question: > Is there any "standard ioctl" to force an interface > to a certain link state, eg. auto, 10Mbs, 100Mbps, > half/full duplex etc.? > > If not, can we create a standard

Re: syslog insmod please!

Hello Wichert , On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Artur Frysiak wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:43:29AM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not the

Seems to be a lot of confusion about aic7xxx in linux 2.4.3

I've been seeing a lot of complaints about aic7xxx in the 2.4.3 kernel. I think that people are missing the crucial point: aic7xxx won't compile if you patch up from 2.4.2, but if you download the complete 2.4.3 tarball, it compiles fine. So, I conclude that the patch was created incorrectly,

Re: ethernet phy link state info

I don't have an answer but a related question: Is there any "standard ioctl" to force an interface to a certain link state, eg. auto, 10Mbs, 100Mbps, half/full duplex etc.? If not, can we create a standard ioctl mechanism for it? /Johan - Original Message - From: Bernhard Bender

Re: syslog insmod please!

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:43:29AM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Wichert , > > On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now

ethernet phy link state info

Hi all, where do I find information about the current link state of the ethernet PHY (e.g. 100mbit/s full duplex) ? Something like /proc/sys/net/* ? Thanks Bernhard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: syslog insmod please!

Hello Wichert , On 6 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now root & > > having gained root is now attempting to from the command line > >

memory allocation problems

Hi. Im hoping someone on here can help me out. I posted something similar to this back in June 2000 when I was on the 2.2.X line and was waiting to see if the 2.4 kernel would provide a fix. Essentially, the problem can be summarized to be that on a machine with ample ram (2G, 4G,

Re: syslog insmod please!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now root & > having gained root is now attempting to from the command line > to load a module . How do we get this event recorded ? Recent

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

Ivan Kokshaysky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:20:22PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The point is on the Alpha all ram is always cached, and i/o space is > > completely uncached. You cannot do write-combing for video card > > memory. > > Incorrect. Alphas have

RE: a quest for a better scheduler

Torrey, nothing to worry about (or at least not yet). The new scheduler only replaces the current SMP scheduler, not the single cpu scheduler. So the devices that you refer to are not affected at all by these changes. The desire for interactivity etc, lead us to stick to the current proposed

Re: syslog insmod please!

>I'm not wonderfully impressed with the way that you can't load the FPU >emulation module on ARM at the moment without having some form of FPU >emulation in your kernel already, either :) Floating point on ARM is indeed something of a crock, but that particular case used to work -- can you

Re: VIA 82C686 Audio Codec: Clicks

Jani Monoses wrote: > > You could try the ALSA driver if you're certain it is not a hw problem.It > works better here than the one in the kernel. > Now, _this_ is an improvement! I tried the 0.9.0beta3 version of Alsa. No more clicks! Amazing. Many thanx for your help Harri - To

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files? [PATCH included]

- Original Message - From: Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Johan Adolfsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 13:34 Subject: Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files? [PATCH included] > Johan Adolfsson wrote: > > > > > This change

Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

Hi! > > > Ok, there are 2 bugs that are (afaics) impossible to fix without > > > checking for pending softirq's in cpu_idle(): > > > > > > a) > > > queue_task(my_task1, tq_immediate); > > > mark_bh(); > > > schedule(); > > > ;within schedule: do_softirq() > > > ;within my_task1: > > > mark_bh();

Re: [PATCH] Re: Race in fs/proc/generic.c:make_inode_number()

Just a couple of points: On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:36:10AM -0400, Tom Leete wrote: [...] > +spinlock_t proc_alloc_map_lock = RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > + Why not make this static? Initializer should be SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED. Maneesh Soni Linux Technology Center, IBM Bangalore. - To unsubscribe from this

Re: syslog insmod please!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log any > module that gets installed ? I know things like bttv get very verbose > in the module itself, and I tried patching insmod to log the first > argument and it seemed to work for me. Consider "insmod

very large file system

hi, Is it possible to have 12 To fs with linux ? if not what is the current limitation ? (2 To ??) and are they a work around ? all info welcome thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > > "Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:" > > Johan Adolfsson wrote: > > > > > > Having the help close to the config sounds like a good idea > > > from a maintenance point of view. > > > > But in 2.5.x the config.in are centralized, thus also > > Configure.help sould be

Re: 2.2.19 + ide 2.2.19 03252001 patch problem

>This is a problem the old via-code did "82C686A" fine but knew nothing >about "82C686B" and the new code does not do well with "82C686A" but good >with "82C686B". I'd be glad to test any patchesIn the meantime, is there an older patch that will work + apply relatively cleanly to 2.2.19?

Re: __switch_to macro

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's one thing that confuses me: don't you get a segment_not_present > fault? If so, traps.c's do_segment_not_present doesn't appear to search > the exception table, and the code in loadsegment would not work. > > >>> well.. I peeked into traps.c.. I do seem a call

Re: syslog insmod please!

Hello Ion , On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Why do it from user space? Simply add a printk() to sys_init_module() or > > similar. > Agreed, but at that point the solution has absolutely nothing to do with > insmod anymore. :-) >

A fork-like C-wrapper for clone()?

Hi all! is there a fork-like C-wrapper for clone which would let write something like: if ((pid=clone(0,SIGCHLD|CLONE_VM))==0) /* child */ { child_code; _exit(0); } else { assert(pid>0); /* mother */ mother_code; exit(0); } I'm not thinking in

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files? [PATCH included]

Johan Adolfsson wrote: > > > This change is too big for 2.4 kernel. > > It doesnt look that big to mee, so here it is for everyones consideration > (the mailprogram probably screws up tabs etc. but you get the idea, > I apologise if posting patches like this is the wrong way) > > The normal

IV calculation, blocksize (and CBC type encryptions) in loop.c

hello... On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > > I've had success w/ your lvm-stack-1 patch on my system... > > (next thing I'll testing will be w/ the real crypto patch) > Ok, good so far. well... after some hours of code reading and

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

"Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:" > Johan Adolfsson wrote: > > > > Having the help close to the config sounds like a good idea > > from a maintenance point of view. > > But in 2.5.x the config.in are centralized, thus also > Configure.help sould be centralized. > And in this case I think that a big

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:20:22PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > The point is on the Alpha all ram is always cached, and i/o space is > completely uncached. You cannot do write-combing for video card > memory. Incorrect. Alphas have write buffers - 6x32 bytes on ev5 and 4x64 on ev6, IIRC.

mirror

Hi all, there are some files on zeus.kernel.org that probably have some wrong permissions: Failed to get kernel/people/sct/ext3/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.spec: 550 kernel/people/sct/ext3/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs.spec: Permission denied Failed to get file 550

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files? [PATCH included]

- Original Message - From: Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Johan Adolfsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:39 Subject: Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files? > Johan Adolfsson wrote: > > > > > - IIRC there is only few ARCH

2.0.39 stat/inode handling race? [2.0.39 oopses in sys_new(l)stat]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:34:46PM +0200, you [David Weinehall] claimed: > > I'll look into it. A note, however: the additional oops:es that follow > the first one are almost never ever useful, because the system is no > longer in a consistent state after the first one. Apr 5 05:33:35 some

[DRIVER] New framebuffer driver for Permedia3 (2.2.x & 2.4.y)

[To:linux-kernel & CC:linux-fbdev-devel] Hello, I've written a framebuffer (fbdev) driver for the 3DLabs Permedia3 chipset, targeted at both kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.y, and available at: As mentioned on the page, the driver hasn't been

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

Johan Adolfsson wrote: > > > - IIRC there is only few ARCH specific configuration, thus we > > don't > > reduce the size of che Configure.help > > Note that the arch/config.in have to much configuration item > > (but they repeat in (nearly) all arch/config.in files, thus > > you > >

Kernel 2.4.3 compile error - why ??

Hi, I try to compile kernel downloaded from ftp.kernel.org. I have all programs that this kernel require. But I can't compile kernel :( Ooops, can't compile kernel modules: [...] make[3]: Opuszczam katalog `/users/cieciwa/rpm/BUILD/linux/drivers/media/radio' make -C video modules make[3]:

Re: __switch_to macro

Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/06/2001 03:18:13 PM To: Amol Lad/HSS@HSS cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: __switch_to macro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) What exactly is meant by ' stale segment register values' in the note. > 2) In the above macro, I think we recover

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