[PATCH] Hotplug PCI driver for 2.4.6 and 2.4.5-ac24

2001-07-03 Thread Greg KH
I've made a patch for the Compaq/Intel Hotplug PCI driver against both 2.4.6 and 2.4.5-ac24 available at: http://www.kroah.com/linux/hotplug/ Here is a list of the things that have been changed since the last patch I sent out: - forward ported to 2.4.6 - added Configure.he

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-03 Thread pazke
What are advantages of this approach -- Andrey Panin| Embedded systems software engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]| PGP key: http://www.orbita1.ru/~pazke/AndreyPanin.asc PGP signature

Re: page reserved twice

2001-07-03 Thread michaelc
Wednesday, July 04, 2001, 8:19:27 AM, you wrote: DS> I'm curious if there is any significance to this, which occurs at each DS> reboot on an SMP system running noapic (sometimes Netscape manages to DS> produce a hard lockup on the system, sometimes a core dump indicates NS DS> had signal 7, bus e

__alloc_pages failure while burning a CD-R (fwd)

2001-07-03 Thread David Whysong
Hi, [Please CC replies to me, as I am not subscribed to linux-kernel.] When I use xcdroast to burn a CD, I see a zillion messages like this in the syslog: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. The burn inevitably stopes due to a "servo failure" bu

Re: [PATCH] update for ALi Audio Driver

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
This reverts important changes that are required for example for the trident audio built into the Alpha, or for using trident based audio with non x86 processors. Please sort out which are your actual changes and what is reverting other important stuff Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: Ideas for TUX2

2001-07-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 08:16, Ph. Marek wrote: > >> If a file's data has been changed, it suffices to update the inode and > >> the of free blocks bitmap (fbb). > >> But updating them in one go is not possible > > > >You seem to have missed some fundamental understanding of > >exactly how phase

Checking 'hlt' instruction

2001-07-03 Thread Armin Schindler
Hi all, I have a problem with the startup of my 2.4.3 kernel on a STPC Atlas (486), it hangs on the 'hlt' check. With a standard BIOS it works, but I'm writing my own bootloader to remove the BIOS, which works pretty good so far. Only when I use the 'no-hlt' parameter the kernel boots. Can som

Initio 9100 Driver for Linux

2001-07-03 Thread Ingo
Hallo, I have a problem with the driver for Initio SCSI Controller 9100 SCSI, a dual channel UW SCSI-Controller. On checking the SCSI bus the systems has problems to initialize the CD-RW Sanyo (aka Brainwave) BP4-N SCSI The CD-RW has SCSI-ID 6 on the second Controller. It is shown on system start

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-03 Thread Cort Dougan
There isn't such a crippling difference between straight-line and code with unconditional branches in it with modern processors. In fact, there's very little measurable difference. If you're looking for something to blame hurd performance on I'd suggest the entire design of Mach, not inline asm

Re: Ideas for TUX2

2001-07-03 Thread Ph. Marek
>> If a file's data has been changed, it suffices to update the inode and the >> of free blocks bitmap (fbb). >> But updating them in one go is not possible > >You seem to have missed some fundamental understanding of >exactly how phase tree works; the wohle point of phase >tree is to make atomic

[PATCH] update for ALi Audio Driver

2001-07-03 Thread Matt_Wu
Dear all, Here is ALi M5451 audio's patch file. In this new release ,version 0.14.8, we've made such modifications. 1, Set EBUF1 and EBUF2 to still mode to avoid that upon some platforms the audio will stop after playing for a while. 2, Reset m5451 controller to avoid ac97 access timeout erro

[PATCH] initial detailed VM statistics code

2001-07-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Well, I've started working on VM stats code for 2.4. vmstat output: # r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id # 0 1 1 102624 1412120 89472 90 9114 304 9160 336 1102 12 7 92 This is the already known part.. # launder launder_w ref_

Re: history of mrproper

2001-07-03 Thread David Chambers
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Sklar wrote: > > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. > Mr Proper looks like he's an alias of Mr. Clean (Procter and Gamble

Re: history of mrproper

2001-07-03 Thread Kip Macy
Mr. Proper On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Sklar wrote: > > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: history of mrproper

2001-07-03 Thread Kurt Maxwell Weber
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 22:33, Mike Sklar ignorantly blabbered: > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. To differentiate it from Mrs. Proper. -- Reg

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-03 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:37:28PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > In other words, if you know the push sequence of your C compiler's > function calls, you don't need asm("");. You are very much forgetting _inline_ asm. And if you think that's unimportant for performance, well, as Al would say, go

history of mrproper

2001-07-03 Thread Mike Sklar
Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to know what the *mr* might stand for. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-03 Thread Rick Hohensee
Because it's messy and unnecessary. Break this into asmlinkbuild, asmlink.c, asmlink.h and asmlink.S, chmod +x asmlinkbuild, run it, and behold a 6. __ #.. # asmlinkbuild gcc

What are rules for acpi_ex_enter_interpreter?

2001-07-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi Andrew, ACPI was reporting no S* states on my machine (ASUS A7V) for some time and today I finally got some time to debug it. Problem is that during initialization namespace init calls acpi_walk_namespace without interpreter lock held - but it is wrong - as you can see from stack trace, acpi_

Re: [PATCH] small patch to ide-tape.c

2001-07-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> This patch adds a missing semicolon that is noticed only if you define > IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE: > > John Guthrie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] It makes me curious, why do you need to define IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE? I fixed some stuff with files not restoring properly with last block corrupt. Talk

Re: USB printing == kernel lockup?

2001-07-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> When I do anything (print to it, query its ink levels with escputil, > etc.) with my Epson 870 while it's hooked to my computer via USB, the > whole machine locks hard. [...] > Has anyone else has seen this problem? I posted to the gimp-print and > linux-usb lists, but there was nary a response

Re: Sticky IO-APIC problem

2001-07-03 Thread Colin Bayer
"Randy.Dunlap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What mobo (model/name) is it? >Can you give us the output from "lspci -vv"? OK, it's an Intel BN810E Desktop Board; here's the output from lspci -vv: [root@fortytwo /root]# lspci -vv 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E GMCH [Graphics Memory C

page reserved twice

2001-07-03 Thread D. Stimits
I'm curious if there is any significance to this, which occurs at each reboot on an SMP system running noapic (sometimes Netscape manages to produce a hard lockup on the system, sometimes a core dump indicates NS had signal 7, bus error, in cases where it doesn't lock the system), 2.4.6-pre1 with

Re: 2.4.5 keyspan driver

2001-07-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
In the hopes that it might prove helpful, I reran coldsync after loading usbserial.o and keyspan.o with the "debug=1" option. Here's what was logged: - - Jul 3 19:10:45 glitch kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic Jul 3 19:10:45 glitch kernel: usb.c: registere

Re: Ideas for TUX2

2001-07-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Ph. Marek wrote: > If a file's data has been changed, it suffices to update the inode and the > of free blocks bitmap (fbb). > But updating them in one go is not possible You seem to have missed some fundamental understanding of exactly how phase tree works; the wohle point o

RPC: rpciod waiting on sync task!

2001-07-03 Thread Dima Brodsky
Hi, I modified the linux NFS client, kernel 2.4.5 and 2.4.6-pre7, to send an extra SETATTR, with special values, within nfs_open and nfs_release so that I would be able to track file open and close. For the server I am using a slightly modified linux user level nfs server. What I noticed is tha

[PATCH] small patch to ide-tape.c

2001-07-03 Thread John Guthrie
Hello all, This patch adds a missing semicolon that is noticed only if you define IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE: John Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] --CUT HERE- --- ide-tape.c.orig Tue Jul 3 18:20:22 2001 +++ ide-tape.c Tue Jul 3 18

Re: Sticky IO-APIC problem

2001-07-03 Thread Manfred Spraul
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > This shows that Linux mapped the APIC (part of the processor). > It says nothing about mapping any IO APICs (unless you deleted > that part :). > Correct. Linux always enables the APIC, but it needs some bios tables f

USB printing == kernel lockup?

2001-07-03 Thread Pete Toscano
Hello, I'm still looking into this, but has anybody else seen this problem? When I do anything (print to it, query its ink levels with escputil, etc.) with my Epson 870 while it's hooked to my computer via USB, the whole machine locks hard. If I change the connection over to a printer cable on a

SCHED_FIFO task blocks magic sysrq

2001-07-03 Thread David Mansfield
It seems like the sysrq code can get starved by a SCHED_FIFO task. I learned this by having an accidentally runaway SCHED_FIFO task which locked up my system. No SAK, no sync, no unmount, no reboot. Big Red Button. David -- David Mansfield (718) 963-

RE: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > BTW of course ACPI can be turned off via make menuconfig. > > Can you point me to the name of the option? I can't find it on my IA64 ACPI is required for IA64 to boot, so you can't disable it AFAIK. Sorry, I should have included that cavea

Re: Sticky IO-APIC problem

2001-07-03 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Colin Bayer scribed: | I have a Pentium III 933/133 (Coppermine, stepping 6) in an Intel-manufactured | i810 motherboard (hey, I What mobo (model/name) is it? Can you give us the output from "lspci -vv"? | know it's a lame chipset, but it was on sale). On boot, the kernel (version | 2.4.6-pre8)

[PATCH] 2.4.5 i810_audio.c, ac97_codec.c

2001-07-03 Thread Collin Park
Hello, Attached is a patch to the above files. Here's what they do: 1. ac97_codec.c, allow ad1886 to be recognized and brought up properly, and sets S/PDIF rate to the 48 kHz rate prescribed by ac97 2.2 spec. Reference for this is in... http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa/ftp/ma

Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread arjan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> walking into their top secret menwith hill base playing the >> mission impossible >> theme tune then chaining themselves to things.. > You're kidding.right? > BTW of course ACPI can be turned off via make menuconfig. Can you point me to the

Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
> This goes to the special nature of the Global Lock. If we cannot acquire it, > we set a bit, and the system interrupts when it is released. Please see > acpi_ev_acquire_global_lock(). Gotcha..now I follow - I read it as acquire or spin not acquire or fail > > if you make a callback from the AC

RE: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Grover, Andrew
Some of this discussion's getting a little X-Files-y. However, there are some points I'd like to touch on... > From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Well lets take a look at the asm shall we > 1.It doesnt have a seperate loop when it fails to take the lock > polling it (See intel

Re: O_DIRECT! or O_DIRECT?

2001-07-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 21:34 03/07/2001, Samium Gromoff wrote: [snip] >One more problem i see here, and i think it is an > *extremely* important one, that making open( ... , > BLA_BLA_BLA | O_DIRECT) is a thing some people may > overspeculate with. I mean that implementing O_DIRECT > in cp(1),

Re: serial port O_SYNC functionality in 2.4.5

2001-07-03 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:42:00PM -0400, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > Best way to get this in the serial driver is to do some patches for it > and send them to Ted. :-) Please copy them to me as well. The ARM tree has a core uart driver in currently which handles several different types of serial

Linux 2.4.5-ac24

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org 2.4.5-ac24 o Serverworks AGP support (Jeff Hartmann) o Split I/O requests on pdcraid/hptraid w

[PATCH] ppp_generic.c - kfree(ppp) called twice, kernel 2.4.0

2001-07-03 Thread Eli Chen
Hi, In ppp_destroy_interface(), there is a chance that kfree(ppp) is called twice, causing a kernel oops when ppp is opened again. I was able to cause this by running PPPOE, and killing -9 pppd and pppoe-daemon with one kill command. By doing this, the closing of ppp->dev causes a ppp_disconnec

2.2.19 kernel hang

2001-07-03 Thread Tim Peeler
Summary: Kernel 2.2.19 hang [stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU#0)] Description: After recently upgrading the kernel on a production server to kernel 2.2.19 with the reiserfs patch and kernel-patch-2.2.19-ide from Andre Hendrick, the system became hung. The server was responsive to pi

Re: O_DIRECT! or O_DIRECT?

2001-07-03 Thread kernel
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Samium Gromoff wrote: > Maybe i`m missing the whole point, and thus i want to > hear what other people will tell about it. Several of us are working on it. -ben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: serial port O_SYNC functionality in 2.4.5

2001-07-03 Thread Stuart MacDonald
From: "James R Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The overall size of the circular buffer would have to be decreased > too, but that's more of a hack to fix it now; Which I guess is what it > comes to. I see what you're saying; AFAIUnderstand, the low latency patches bypass the circular buffer. Or make

O_DIRECT! or O_DIRECT?

2001-07-03 Thread Samium Gromoff
HI folks, sometime ago i seen on lkml a post from >< regarding the implementation of O_DIRECT. The thing about to care, is the fact, that *nobody*, reacted on this post. It seems to me that nobody was happy enough about this to tell "oh yes! at last!" This is inte

wait_event() problems

2001-07-03 Thread Richard B. Johnson
I have been trying to get the following to work: atomic_t stop; struct wait_queue wait_queue_stuff, another_wait_queue; /* Initialized before use with init_wait_queue() */ kernel_thread() { for(;;) { if(atomic_read(stop)) interruptible_sleep_on(&wait_queue_stuff);

Re: serial port O_SYNC functionality in 2.4.5

2001-07-03 Thread James R Bruce
Re: serial port O_SYNC func.. by "Stuart MacDonald"@conne > From: "James R Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > As far as I can tell from observed operation and from perusing the > > code, O_SYNC doesn't seem to be supported by the serial driver in > > 2.4.5. Writes are forced as far as the serial.c'

eCos

2001-07-03 Thread Matthew M. DeLoera
Does anyone on the list use eCos (RedHat's embedded Linux)? I'm having some build and other general problems, and I'd like to ask someone about them off-list. Thanks... - Matt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux HA FC based cluster

2001-07-03 Thread Gabriele Turchi
First of all my apologies: I know linux-kernel is not the better place to post that mail, but trust me: is a little emercency for us. We are (sigh... very urgently) looking for any available info about succesfully running HA clusters based on Redhat Linux 6.2 (two systems sharing a single storage

Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Other ACPI problems, that come with the increased potential for malicious code: - Much easier for NSA to snoop machine activity undetected (hello paranoid people) - Much easier to write worms and virii and similar (it's much easier for someone malicious to patch an acpi table than bios binary cod

RE: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote: > We're depending on vendors (aka the BIOS) for all the ACPI tables, as well > as every other piece of a priori data we need to boot the OS. And this is the part that I find terrifying. The minute we rely on BIOS vendors, they seem to find wonderful new

Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
> > That is the case here. The Global Lock is for synchronizing accesses between > > the OS (that's us) and the firmware (SMI). Normal spinlocks are for intra-OS > > locking. Here, we're synchronizing access with the BIOS. It's different. > > I realize what the purpose of the global lock is... >

Re: Kernel Module tracing.

2001-07-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 29 June 2001 23:37, Tom spaziani wrote: > I've recently been laboring over a kernel module that allows other > kernel modules to send messages > and tracing statements. If anyone has any input on whether this would > be a usefull thing or not > please let me know. Here is a quick breakd

Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Grover, Andrew" wrote: > > > From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > events/evxface.c:610:acpi_acquire_global_lock -> > > events/evmisc.c:337:acpi_ev_acquire_global_lock -> > > include/platform/acgcc.h:52:ACPI_ACQUIRE_GLOBAL_LOCK > > > > My immediate objections are, > > (a) acgcc.h is r

Re: include/asm-i386/checksum.h

2001-07-03 Thread Erik Meusel
Ok. Sending dozens of patches today, I was asked if I could mail the whole files, not only the patch and send it Cc'ed to you, Linus. Here they are: linux/include/asm-i386/checksum.h and linux/include/asm-i386/floppy.h both based on stable linux-2.4.5. Well, have a lot of fun and thanks in adva

Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was reading through the ACPI spec, to see what was required to obtain > the IRQ routing table from AML. FWIW, ia64 already does this, if you're looking for the code to do it. JE - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: pte_val(*pte) as lvalue

2001-07-03 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:50:05PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >Can I ask what the nature of the PTE modification is, and where you > >are making this modification? > > > I've written a hack which enables PAT (Page Address Translation) for a > particular page: Firstly, I'll

Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
> We're depending on vendors (aka the BIOS) for all the ACPI tables, as well > as every other piece of a priori data we need to boot the OS. They have had enough problems getting simpler API's right. The ACPI spec is bloated, complex, and very hard to follow - and its written in my native languag

RE: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > events/evxface.c:610:acpi_acquire_global_lock -> > events/evmisc.c:337:acpi_ev_acquire_global_lock -> > include/platform/acgcc.h:52:ACPI_ACQUIRE_GLOBAL_LOCK > > My immediate objections are, > (a) acgcc.h is re-implementing spinlocks in a non-standa

Re: Strange thread behaviour on 8-way x86 machine

2001-07-03 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:25:12PM -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote: > Hi, > > I have observed a rather strange behaviour doing a multi-threaded CPU > benchmark on an 8-way machine running 2.4.2 SMP kernel. Even when the > priority is reniced to the highest possible value, I am still unable to reach

Re: pte_val(*pte) as lvalue

2001-07-03 Thread Timur Tabi
Russell King wrote: >Can I ask what the nature of the PTE modification is, and where you >are making this modification? > I've written a hack which enables PAT (Page Address Translation) for a particular page: void set_pte_pat(pte_t *pte, unsigned long pat_index) { unsigned long p = pte_val

PROBLEM: memory allocation error with token ring tms380/abyss modules[follow-up]

2001-07-03 Thread Brian McEntire
Hello, I got a few responses to this original problem... thanks! I've compiled the abyss.o and tms380 token ring drivers into the kernel as opposed to running them as modules. Yesterday the system crashed again and I copied down all the Oops stuff and ran it through ksymoops... I'm including the o

Re: pte_val(*pte) as lvalue

2001-07-03 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:32:36PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03 Jul 2001 01:33:42 +0200 > > set_pte(pte, mk_pte( ... )) > > I'm not sure how to use mk_pte. The first parameter is a struct page *, > which I don't have. All I'm doing is

Re: pte_val(*pte) as lvalue

2001-07-03 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03 Jul 2001 01:33:42 +0200 > Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > What is the accepted way to assign an integer to a pte that works in 2.2 and > > 2.4? > > set_pte(pte, mk_pte( ... )) I'm not sure how to use mk_pte. The

Strange thread behaviour on 8-way x86 machine

2001-07-03 Thread Sasha Pachev
Hi, I have observed a rather strange behaviour doing a multi-threaded CPU benchmark on an 8-way machine running 2.4.2 SMP kernel. Even when the priority is reniced to the highest possible value, I am still unable to reach more than 50% CPU utilization. My benchmark just creates a bunch of thre

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Monday 02 July 2001 20:42, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Marco Colombo wrote: > > I'm not sure that, in general, recent pages with only one access are > > still better eviction candidates compared to 8 hours old pages. Here > > we need either another way to detect one-shot activity

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
An ammendment to my previous post... > I see three page priority levels: > > 0 - accessed-never/aged to zero > 1 - accessed-once/just loaded > 2 - accessed-often > > with these transitions: > > 0 -> 1, if a page is accessed > 1 -> 2, if a page is accessed a second time > 1 -> 0, if a

Re: ufs on linux question/problem

2001-07-03 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
> > You need support of Solaris disklabels. isn't that what CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION is? > And UFS patches that are in > -ac. Then you can get more or less safe r/o mounts. r/w is hopeless > at that stage. that's ok, i only need to read. -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-03 Thread Steven J. Hill
Alan Cox wrote: > > > The way that I architected the raw NAND flash device driver was to > > break it into 2 parts. 'nand.c' contains the actual driver code and > > is considered to be device independent. 'spia.c' is the device > > dependent part. You should write your own version of 'spia.c' and

Regrding module programing

2001-07-03 Thread siva kumar
Hi all, I like to know whether the kernel modules concepts is present only in linux (or) it is also supported in some other flavour of unix operating systems. Can any one please update me, regarding this ? Thanks, siva __ Do You Yahoo!? Get per

ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
I used to be pretty excited about ACPI, until today. I was reading through the ACPI spec, to see what was required to obtain the IRQ routing table from AML. Continued reading... until I hit a section talking about the ACPI global lock. events/evxface.c:610:acpi_acquire_global_lock -> events/evm

Re: mmap

2001-07-03 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 02 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [1] IMHO it would be more useful if iobufs would use a scatterlist > instead of an struct page* array. No that would be horrible, at least with the current scatterlist. A page based scatterlist would be alright though -- but this boils down to t

Re: Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Upon further investigation, it seems I was mistaken. I apologise for my tone. Accepted. I wish more people had the grace you do, to apologize when you know you've been mistaken or unfair; it would make this list a better place. > Momenco Ocelot boot flash

Re: Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I put the symbols we discussed previously on my ignore list. What's > your beef this time? It looked like you were again reporting config symbols which the user can't be asked about - because they're only there as dependencies or as ifdefs in the code, rather than as

Re: ufs on linux question/problem

2001-07-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: > > Trying to mount a solaris x86 drive under linux. > kernel 2.4.5, ufs support and x86 partition support compiled in (no > module) > On boot, linux recognizes the drive, but shows no solaris partitions on > it. > Below, linux drive is hda, solar

Patch for IDE hang after resetting quirk drive

2001-07-03 Thread Dale Farnsworth
I have a Promise PDC20265 ide controller with one of the "quirk" drives, a Quantum Fireballp LM30. That drive has a bad sector and accessing it would result in a DMA timeout. Unfortunately, after the IDE driver resets the controller, the drive never responded. The following patch appears to cor

Re: Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread M. R. Brown
* Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Jul 03, 2001: > According to my cross-reference generator, the following symbols have > missing help in 2.4.6-pre9: > [...] > CONFIG_MAPLE > CONFIG_MAPLE_KEYBOARD > CONFIG_MAPLE_MOUSE These three are for the Dreamcast driver port. I can write help

Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-07-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > In pre7: > > > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" > > > > Can you be more verbose about this ? > > I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_I

ufs on linux question/problem

2001-07-03 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Trying to mount a solaris x86 drive under linux. kernel 2.4.5, ufs support and x86 partition support compiled in (no module) On boot, linux recognizes the drive, but shows no solaris partitions on it. Below, linux drive is hda, solaris is hdb. Jul 2 19:57:56 stevenjude2 kernel: PIIX4: chipset r

Re: Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Steven J. Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I can fill in the blanks on all of these for you. I won't clutter > up the mailing list with the complete descriptions. That would be excellent. Please do! -- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond The spirit of resistance to governm

Re: Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > According to my cross-reference generator, the following symbols have > > missing help in 2.4.6-pre9: > > Please fix your cross-reference generator as previously discussed before > posting these lists again. I put the symbols we

Re: Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread Steven J. Hill
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > CONFIG_MIPS_EV64120 > CONFIG_MIPS_EV96100 > CONFIG_MIPS_ITE8172 > CONFIG_MIPS_IVR > CONFIG_MIPS_PB1000 > CONFIG_MIPS_UNCACHED > CONFIG_NINO > CONFIG_NINO_16MB > CONFIG_NINO_4MB > CONFIG_NINO_8MB > I can fill in the blanks on all of these for you. I won't clutter up th

Re: Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > According to my cross-reference generator, the following symbols have > missing help in 2.4.6-pre9: Please fix your cross-reference generator as previously discussed before posting these lists again. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Kernel oops 2.4.2

2001-07-03 Thread HEUER,JOCHEN (HP-Germany,ex2)
Hello everyone, I got the following oops on a HP Netserver (single CPU) running Linux version 2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0 compiled with gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) with two modifications: --- v2.4.4/linux/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.cFri Feb 9 11:29:44 2001 +++ linux/fs/nfsd/n

Re: 2.4.6-pre9: Failed HPT370 detection

2001-07-03 Thread Gav
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 17:22, Gav wrote: > This kernel refuses to detect my HPT370 chipset. (where my root filesystem > is, on raid0). It just hangs where the detection usually takes place, so no > oops and no meaningfull bugreport :/ > > I have the same options set in my config as I always have

Cross-reference analysis reveals problems in 2.4.6pre9

2001-07-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
According to my cross-reference generator, the following symbols have missing help in 2.4.6-pre9: CONFIG_AU1000_UART CONFIG_BLUEZ_L2CAP CONFIG_DDB5477 CONFIG_EVB_PCI1 CONFIG_FORWARD_KEYBOARD CONFIG_GDB_CONSOLE CONFIG_HD64465_IOBASE CONFIG_IT8172_REVC CONFIG_IT8172_SCR0 CONFIG_IT8172_SCR1 CONFIG_L

2.4.6-pre9: Failed HPT370 detection

2001-07-03 Thread Gav
This kernel refuses to detect my HPT370 chipset. (where my root filesystem is, on raid0). It just hangs where the detection usually takes place, so no oops and no meaningfull bugreport :/ I have the same options set in my config as I always have, I've never had any problem with this before.

Fun with Athlon, VIA KX133, and kernel 2.4.x

2001-07-03 Thread Jeff Read
Hello, My system has a Procomp BVK1A mainboard sporting one of those dreaded VIA KX133 chipsets. I have been a virtual lurker, monitoring the archives, and have heard plenty of horror stories about this chipset, but let me make clear that this board was rock-solid for the better part of a year

Re: about kmap_high function

2001-07-03 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:47:20PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Stephen C. Tweedie writes: > > On PPC it is a bit different. Flushing a single TLB entry is > relatively cheap - the hardware broadcasts the TLB invalidation on the > bus (in most implementations) so there are no cross-calls

Re: O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5

2001-07-03 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 08:10:39AM -0700, Daryll Strauss wrote: > I recall hearing about a problem with the md device and raw IO. It was > something about the block sizes not matching causing performance > problems. Has anything been done to improve those issues? The problem is a combinatio

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-03 Thread Steven J. Hill
"Adam J. Richter" wrote: > > If there is no architecture on which > linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c will compile in its > "pristine" form, then the CONFIG_MTD_NAND_SPIA should be commented > out from drivers/mtd/nand/Config.in to avoid wasting the time of > users and automated bu

Re: Memory access

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
> My question: is the kernel using or protecting this area of the memory, > and is there a way to deprotect it??? (how dangerous!) The kernel maps ISA space at different addresses. What address and how it is accessed depends on the CPU and system isa_readb/readw/readl(addr) isa/w

Re: O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5

2001-07-03 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:42:53AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 02:39:00AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > It supports raw partitions, which is good; that might satisfy my > > boss (although the administration will be a pain, and I'm not > > sure whether it's really su

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 12:33, Marco Colombo wrote: > Oh, yes, since that PAGE_AGE_BG_INTERACTIVE_MINIMUM is applied only > when background aging, maybe it's not enough to keep processes like > updatedb from causing interactive pages to be evicted. > That's why I said we should have another way to

Re: Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

2001-07-03 Thread Olivier Sessink
On 0, Florian Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody else got these errors or knows about a solution for this ?? > > Same problem here, it won't run at all on newer kernels. But it isn't even > 100% stable in 2.2.x here - on very high network traffic the card stops > working. I

Re: Memory access

2001-07-03 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Guillaume Lancelin wrote: > Writing a device driver for a IO card, I have the following message from > the kernel: > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000d0804. > [then it gives the register values] > Segmentation fault." > > This address

Scsi errors on boot.

2001-07-03 Thread Alessandro Motter Ren
I am getting the follwing error messages on the kernel boot. Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? The kernel is 2.2.19. Thanks. Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 (scsi0:0:0:1) Synchronous at 160.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 63. (scsi0:0:0:1) CHECK_CON

Re: Memory access

2001-07-03 Thread Eli Carter
Guillaume Lancelin wrote: > > Writing a device driver for a IO card, I have the following message from > the kernel: > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000d0804. > [then it gives the register values] > Segmentation fault." > > This address (0xd0804) is the location of a

Re: Memory access

2001-07-03 Thread Brian Gerst
Guillaume Lancelin wrote: > > Writing a device driver for a IO card, I have the following message from > the kernel: > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000d0804. > [then it gives the register values] > Segmentation fault." > > This address (0xd0804) is the location of a

Re: Memory access

2001-07-03 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:45:32PM +0200, Guillaume Lancelin escreveu: > Writing a device driver for a IO card, I have the following message from > the kernel: > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000d0804. > [then it gives the register values] > Segmentation fault." > > Th

Memory access

2001-07-03 Thread Guillaume Lancelin
Writing a device driver for a IO card, I have the following message from the kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000d0804. [then it gives the register values] Segmentation fault." This address (0xd0804) is the location of a "mailbox" reserved by the IO card, and from

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