Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-20 Thread Kaigai Kohei
Hello, everyone. Andrew Morton wrote: > Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Since the need of Linux system accounting has gone beyond what BSD >>accounting provides, i think it is a good idea to create a thin layer >>of common code for various accounting packages, such as BSD accounting, >>CSA,

Re: Merging fails reading /dev/uba1

2005-02-20 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 20 2005, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Hi, Jens: > > I think this question belongs to your domain, but please let me know > if I'm mistaken, so I can pursue this elsewhere. > > I encountered a strange performance anomaly. I do the following: > > <- Plug USB key > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ti

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-20 Thread Ray Bryant
Paul Jackson wrote: You have to walk to full node mapping for each array, but even with hundreds of nodes that should not be that costly I presume if you knew that the job only had pages on certain nodes, perhaps due to aggressive use of cpusets, that you would only have to walk those nodes, right

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-20 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: Do you have any better way to suggest, Andi, for a batch manager to relocate a job? The typical scenario, as Ray explained it to me, is - Give the shared libraries and any other files a suitable policy (by mapping them and applying mbind) - Then execute migrate_pages() for the

Problem: how to sequence reset of PCI hardware

2005-02-20 Thread Jon Smirl
Secondary video cards need to be reset before they will work. How can we get the kernel to do this? I can not come up with a good solution for triggering this from a device driver. One sequence I tried: modprobe driver driver registers sysfs class and triggers hotplug probe code fail because HW is

2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02 crash out of nowhere

2005-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just came back in here after a 2 hour nap, to find the box crashed, 100%. Uptime was at least 2 days for 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02, and no hints of impending doom. The .config is attached. The system was quiet except for kmail's timed mail fetching runs, x-6.8.1 (built on site) was

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 22:40 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My opinion FWIW: I'm all for regularizing the pagetable loops to > > work the same way, changing their variables to use the same names, > > improving their efficiency; but I do like to see wh

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm2] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-02-20 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:50 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:55 +0100, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > > It's a new patch that implements a fork connector in the > > kernel/fork.c:do_fork() routine. The connector sends information about > > parent PID and child PID over a

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2005-02-20 Thread Christof Dorner
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Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-20 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 21 February 2005 00:43, Miles Bader wrote: > "Theodore Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The "cost" of using BK seems to be primarily more theoretical, and > > ideological, than real. > > I've never used BK (not allowed to), but some things I've read about it > sound quite annoying.

Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-20 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:16 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since the need of Linux system accounting has gone beyond what BSD > > accounting provides, i think it is a good idea to create a thin layer > > of common code for various accounting packages, such

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-20 Thread Andrew Morton
Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My opinion FWIW: I'm all for regularizing the pagetable loops to > work the same way, changing their variables to use the same names, > improving their efficiency; but I do like to see what a loop is up to. > > list_for_each and friends are very widel

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-20 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > The problem is just that these walker macros when they > > do all the lazy walking stuff will be quite complicated. > > And I don't really want another uaccess.h-like macro mess. > > > > Yes currently they look simple, but that w

Re: Panic in 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Andrew Morton
Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) > SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) > SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back >sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 > Attached scsi dis

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-20 Thread Miles Bader
"Theodore Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The "cost" of using BK seems to be primarily more theoretical, and > ideological, than real. I've never used BK (not allowed to), but some things I've read about it sound quite annoying. For instance: * Every source tree contains your entire reposit

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-20 Thread Miles Bader
Dustin Sallings writes: > but the nicest thing about arch is that a given commit is immutable. > There are no tools to modify it. This is also why the crypto > signature stuff was so easy to fit in. > > RCS and SCCS storage throws away most of those features. Yeah, the basic way arch organizes i

Re: [autofs] automount does not close file descriptors at start

2005-02-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:57:22 +0800, Ian Kent said: > This is the first time I've heard this and the first time I wrote a Unix > daemon was fifteen years ago. > > As far as I'm concerned redirecting stdin, stdout and stderr to the null > device, then closing it and setting the process to a be the

Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-20 Thread Alex Adriaanse
As of this morning I've experienced some very odd data corruption problem on my server. Let me post some background information first. For the past few years I've been running this server under Linux 2.4.x and Debian Woody. It has two software RAID 1 partitions, one for the ReiserFS root filesys

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tuning task-migration

2005-02-20 Thread Paul Jackson
A long long time ago (Oct 2004) Ingo wrote: > the following patch adds a new feature to the scheduler: during bootup > it measures migration costs and sets up cache_hot value accordingly. Ingo - what became of this patch? I made a quick search for it in Linus's bk tree and Andrew's *-mm patches,

Re: -rc3 leaking NOT BIO [Was: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?]

2005-02-20 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:38 pm, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:52 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > So it's probably an ndiswrapper bug? > > > > Andrew, > > It looks like it is a kernel bug triggered by NdisWrapper. Without > > NdisWrapper, and with just 8139too pl

Re: [autofs] automount does not close file descriptors at start

2005-02-20 Thread Ian Kent
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Hi, > > My latest autofs package for Debian (4.1.3+4.1.4beta2-1) had problems > installing, freezing after install; I've worked around this now > (4.1.3+4.1.4beta2-2 is on its way up to the archive), but I've been told this > is really a bug in a

Re: Help - really messed up kernel

2005-02-20 Thread Joshua Hudson
Thinks for trying. I finally found the problem myself. There is some incompatability between syslinux 2.10 and kernel 2.6.10 Using lilo on the first floppy fixed the problem Oh, and no I am *not* using an initrd. I am using the old paramiters that cause the kernel to load the ramdisk after it boot

[PATCH #2] Re: slab corruption on 2.6.10-rc4-bk7

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Actually, here's a better fix. Jeff = drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 1.116 vs edited = --- 1.116/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2005-02-01 20:23:51 -05:00 +++ edited/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c 2005-02-20 23:34:32 -05:00 @@ -2800,7 +2800,7 @@ return 1; /* fall through */ - + def

[PATCH] Re: slab corruption on 2.6.10-rc4-bk7

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (This has actually been there for a while, but I only noticed it in dmesg this morning). During boot on a dual em64t I see .. scsi2 : ata_piix isa bounce pool size: 16 pages slab error in cache_free_debugcheck(): cache `size-2048': double f

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-20 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 09:56 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Steven, does this fix it without the need for any kernel command line (or > any other patches, for that matter - ie revert all the transparency- > changing ones)? > > Linus > Hi Linus, I just tried it out (after removing

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-20 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: But we are least at the level of agreeing that the new system call looks something like the following: migrate_pages(pid, count, old_list, new_list); right? For the external case probably yes. For internal (process does this on its own address space) it should be hooked into mbin

Merging fails reading /dev/uba1

2005-02-20 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hi, Jens: I think this question belongs to your domain, but please let me know if I'm mistaken, so I can pursue this elsewhere. I encountered a strange performance anomaly. I do the following: <- Plug USB key [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# time dd if=/dev/uba of=/dev/null bs=10k count=10240 10240+0 r

Re: driver compile Parse error with gcc-3.4.3

2005-02-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Anil Kumar wrote: Hi, I am new to linux. I am trying to build one of my drivers for 2.6.9-5.EL, RHEL 4, I am getting compile parse errors as follows: error: parse error before '(' token Complete gcc output plus driver source file would help a lot. #gcc -v Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/usr/

Re: [PATCH] /proc/kmalloc

2005-02-20 Thread Baruch Even
Matt Mackall wrote: I've been sitting on this for over a year now, kicking it out in the hopes that someone finds it useful. kernel.org was down when I was tidying this up so it's against 2.6.10 which is what I had handy. /proc/kmalloc allocation tracing This quick hack adds accounting for kmalloc/

Re: Help - really messed up kernel

2005-02-20 Thread Pedro Venda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Hudson wrote: | I am trying to install linux on a laptop that cannot boot from cdrom. | I got a stripped-down kernel to boot from floppy, ran lspci to get | the hardware information. | | I then reconfigured and rebuilt the kernel for the image. |

driver compile Parse error with gcc-3.4.3

2005-02-20 Thread Anil Kumar
Hi, I am new to linux. I am trying to build one of my drivers for 2.6.9-5.EL, RHEL 4, I am getting compile parse errors as follows: error: parse error before '(' token #gcc -v Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/usr/adaptec/build/gcc343-32bit --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --target=

Re: Panic in 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Ben Greear
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Hi! The first one is allocation error (linuxrc wants to get/read memory, but the allocation fails?). The other errors are _maybe_ caused by the first error (the scheduler schedules while a atomic operation is in progress). Is your Kernel configuration different to t

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Marcos D. Marado Torres
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Michal Januszewski wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: How many distros do use some variant of bootsplash? SuSE does, from above url I guess gentoo does, too... Does RedHat do something similar? [Or

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-20 Thread Paul Jackson
> - Give the shared libraries and any other files a suitable policy > (by mapping them and applying mbind) Ah - I think you've said this before, and I'm being a bit retarded. You're saying that one could horse around with the physical placement of existing files mapped into another tasks space b

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/appletalk/: make firmware static

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes some needlessly global firmware static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ffdrv.h |2 +- drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ltdrv.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/lp486e.c: make some code static

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/lp486e.c |8 +--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/lp486e.c.old 2005-02-16 16:08:34.0 +01

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/ne3210.c: cleanups

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: - if (ei_debug > 0) - printk(version); I agree the version variable is outdated, but I disagree that the driver intro banner should be removed completely. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/sb1000.c: make some variables static

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
this patch eats formfeeds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/seeq8005.c: cleanups

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
this patch needlessly eats formfeeds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/smc-mca.c: cleanups

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global function static - make three needlessly global structs static Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file smc-mca.h was empty except for two #define's, I've also killed the rest of smc-mca

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin J. Bligh wrote: --Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:30:53 -0500): Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the time will not b

Re: Help - really messed up kernel

2005-02-20 Thread Joshua Hudson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 15:22 -0800, Joshua Hudson wrote: > > I am trying to install linux on a laptop that cannot boot from cdrom. > I handled this by putting smart-boot http://btmgr.webframe.org/ in the > hard drive MBR from a dos floppy, smart-boot c

Re: Help - really messed up kernel

2005-02-20 Thread Brian Beattie
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 15:22 -0800, Joshua Hudson wrote: > I am trying to install linux on a laptop that cannot boot from cdrom. I handled this by putting smart-boot http://btmgr.webframe.org/ in the hard drive MBR from a dos floppy, smart-boot can boot from a cdrom. Then as long as you don't wipe

Re: [RFC] pdirops: vfs patch

2005-02-20 Thread Alex Tomas
> Jan Blunck (JB) writes: JB> With luck you have s_pdirops_size (or 1024) different renames altering JB> concurrently one directory inode. Therefore you need a lock protecting JB> your filesystem data. This is basically the job done by i_sem. So in JB> my opinion you only move "The Problem

Re: PROBLEM: agpgart-via: probe fails with error -22

2005-02-20 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:57:22PM -0500, Kenton Groombridge wrote: > [1.] PROBLEM: agpgart-via: probe fails with error -22 > > [2.] When loading agpgart/agpgart-via the following occurs: > > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones > agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset

Re: [RFC] pdirops: vfs patch

2005-02-20 Thread Jan Blunck
Alex Tomas wrote: +static inline struct semaphore * lock_sem(struct inode *dir, struct qstr *name) +{ + if (IS_PDIROPS(dir)) { + struct super_block *sb; + /* name->hash expected to be already calculated */ + sb = dir->i_sb; + BUG_ON(sb->

Help - really messed up kernel

2005-02-20 Thread Joshua Hudson
I am trying to install linux on a laptop that cannot boot from cdrom. I got a stripped-down kernel to boot from floppy, ran lspci to get the hardware information. I then reconfigured and rebuilt the kernel for the image. I built this kernel from stock 2.6.10 from www.kernel.org. This is the confi

cifs connection loss hangs

2005-02-20 Thread Cameron Harris
Being a wireless user i experience the occasional connection loss due to walking out of range or something, recently after starting to use cifs mounts instead of smbfs, I've noticed that stuff tends to break if i lose connection. I first noticed this when my bootscript brought down the wireless bef

Re: ASUS P2B-DS

2005-02-20 Thread Tim Schmielau
> Hi Vise People, > > > ASUS P2B-DS board seems NOT work very well with default kernel in FED > Core 3. smp-kernel hangs booting at various stages. I am goig to try > 2.6.10 today. non-smp-kernel boots fine. This is my first time I try to > test with smp-kernels so I don't know what I could try.

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-20 Thread Andi Kleen
> Do you have any better way to suggest, Andi, for a batch manager to > relocate a job? The typical scenario, as Ray explained it to me, is - Give the shared libraries and any other files a suitable policy (by mapping them and applying mbind) - Then execute migrate_pages() for the anonymous pag

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-20 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi wrote: > I still think it's fundamentally unclean and racy. External processes > shouldn't mess with virtual addresses of other processes. It's not really messing with (changing) the virtual addresses of another process. It's messing with the physical placement. It's using the virtual addre

Re: proc path_walk glitch ?

2005-02-20 Thread Bodo Eggert
Der Herr Hofrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cd /proc/8655 > kill -9 8655 > ls > /usr/bin/ls: .: Stale NFS file handle Seems to be fixed in 2.6.10-ac9 or earlier - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH] /proc/kmalloc

2005-02-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sünndag 20 Februar 2005 21:47, Matt Mackall wrote: > I've been sitting on this for over a year now, kicking it out in the > hopes that someone finds it useful. kernel.org was down when I was > tidying this up so it's against 2.6.10 which is what I had handy. > > /proc/kmalloc allocation tracing

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2: lockup in sys_timer_settime

2005-02-20 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> When running a Posix conformance test (from posixtestsuite), the kernel > locks up with: > > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0 > > Pid: 1873, comm: 10-1.test > EIP: 0060:[] CPU: 0 > EIP is at sys_timer_settime+0xfa+0x1f0 > EFLAGS: 0282 Not tainted (2.6.11-rc3-mm2) > EAX: 0282 EBX: 0

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-20 Thread Andi Kleen
> >Perhaps node masks would be better and teaching the kernel to handle > >relative distances inside the masks transparently while migrating? > >Not sure how complicated this would be to implement though. > > > >Supporting interleaving on the new nodes may be also useful, that would > >need a polic

[PATCH] typo in include/linux/compiler.h

2005-02-20 Thread Olaf Hering
small nitpick, __KERNEL__ is the inner ifdef. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -purN linux-2.6.11-rc4.orig/include/linux/compiler.h linux-2.6.11-rc4-klibc/include/linux/compiler.h --- linux-2.6.11-rc4.orig/include/linux/compiler.h 2005-02-13 04:06:55.0 +0100 ++

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI

2005-02-20 Thread David Härdeman
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Russell, what do your eagle-eyes think of a patch like this? Steven, does this fix it without the need for any kernel command line (or any other patches, for that matter - ie revert all the transparency- changing ones)? Linus I tried the patch on my G40

Re: proc path_walk glitch ?

2005-02-20 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Der Herr Hofrat wrote: HI ! I noticed a slight proc filesystem strangness in the 2.4.2X and 2.6.X (atleast up to 2.6.8). Assuming that process 8655 exists and is running long enough (ls -lR / or so) cd /proc/8655 kill -9 8655 ls /usr/bin/ls: .: Stale NFS file handle open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOC

Re: Panic in 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Ben Greear wrote: I see this panic when booting 2.6.11-rc4 (plus some of my own patches...but my modules have not loaded at the point of the crash). The system is a Shuttle system with the FB65 motherboard. CPU is 3.0Ghz P4 with 1MB cache and hyperthreading. HD is an 80GB SATA disk. NVIDIA ca

[PATCH] /proc/kmalloc

2005-02-20 Thread Matt Mackall
I've been sitting on this for over a year now, kicking it out in the hopes that someone finds it useful. kernel.org was down when I was tidying this up so it's against 2.6.10 which is what I had handy. /proc/kmalloc allocation tracing This quick hack adds accounting for kmalloc/kfree callers. Thi

ASUS P2B-DS

2005-02-20 Thread Kari Laine
Hi Vise People, ASUS P2B-DS board seems NOT work very well with default kernel in FED Core 3. smp-kernel hangs booting at various stages. I am goig to try 2.6.10 today. non-smp-kernel boots fine. This is my first time I try to test with smp-kernels so I don't know what I could try. Could someone

6300ESB watchdog driver

2005-02-20 Thread David Härdeman
Hi I wrote earlier to the list[1] asking for a driver for the watchdog included in the 6300ESB chipset. I got a 2.4 driver via private email from Ross Biro which I've changed into what I hope resembles a 2.6 driver (which was done by looking a lot at the watchdog drivers already in the 2.6 tree

Re: Wake-on-LAN/PCI Linux support

2005-02-20 Thread Piotr Rzezniczak
> Does Linux currently support Wake-on-LAN/PCI? I have a 3Com > 3c905 TX-M NIC which supports wake-on-LAN and wake-on-PCI. > On Windows XP, I have configured the system so that I can use > "ether-wake" to wake up mysystem from standby/hibernation > remotely through the network. (cut) > However,

Re: Panic in 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Ben Greear
Ben Greear wrote: I see this panic when booting 2.6.11-rc4 (plus some of my own patches...but my modules have not loaded at the point of the crash). Same things happens with a kernel built w/out any of my patches, by the way... Ben -- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Candela Technologies Inc http:

proc path_walk glitch ?

2005-02-20 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
HI ! I noticed a slight proc filesystem strangness in the 2.4.2X and 2.6.X (atleast up to 2.6.8). Assuming that process 8655 exists and is running long enough (ls -lR / or so) cd /proc/8655 kill -9 8655 ls /usr/bin/ls: .: Stale NFS file handle open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_D

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-20 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Rogério Brito wrote: On Feb 20 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Rogério Brito wrote: I am willing to test any patch and configuration (let's call me a "guinea pig"), but I don't know what I should do. I have, OTOH, reported my problem many times in the past few days. :-( I will retry sen

Panic in 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Ben Greear
I see this panic when booting 2.6.11-rc4 (plus some of my own patches...but my modules have not loaded at the point of the crash). The system is a Shuttle system with the FB65 motherboard. CPU is 3.0Ghz P4 with 1MB cache and hyperthreading. HD is an 80GB SATA disk. NVIDIA card is installed (bu

[PATCH][2.4] Fix timer override on nforce

2005-02-20 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Per our discussion, i've ported the 2.6 nforce skip timer override (and early PCI access) code to 2.4. This fixes an issue whereupon nforce systems have incorrect override values for irq0. Architectures affected are i386 and x86_64 Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # This is a

Re: http://kernel.org down

2005-02-20 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Stephen R. Bordeleau wrote: I get time-outs when trying to access kernel.org but the ftp works. Is this scheduled? thanks. should be ok now. -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

PROBLEM: agpgart-via: probe fails with error -22

2005-02-20 Thread Kenton Groombridge
[1.] PROBLEM: agpgart-via: probe fails with error -22 [2.] When loading agpgart/agpgart-via the following occurs: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M agpgart: unable to determine ap

http://kernel.org down

2005-02-20 Thread Stephen R. Bordeleau
I get time-outs when trying to access kernel.org but the ftp works. Is this scheduled? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 20 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > >I am willing to test any patch and configuration (let's call me a > >"guinea pig"), but I don't know what I should do. I have, OTOH, > >reported my problem many times in the past few days. :-( > > > >I will retry sending my mes

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But the PCI allocations are not at all limited by MAXMEM - they want to be > in the low 4GB, but that's the only real limit. So using "max_low_pfn" to > determine where to start PCI allocations is pretty bogus. > > I'll try to write something tha

USB Storage problem (usb hangs)

2005-02-20 Thread me
Hi. The device is: USB2.0 to IDE 3.5" hard disk enclosure. Producer: Seven. Part of /var/log/messages with USB debug enabled in kernel is attached to this email. Kernel: 2.6.9, 2.6.10 (i cant remember from which one is attached log). Distribution: Gentoo. I'm not subscribed to the list, pleas C

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:36:12PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > BIOS-e820: - 0009f000 (usable) > > BIOS-e820: 0009f000 - 000a (reserved) > > BIOS-e820: 000d - 000d4000 (reserved) > >

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-20 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Rogério Brito wrote: On Feb 20 2005, Folkert van Heusden wrote: My linux laptop says: irq 5: nobody cared! (...) Does anyone care? :-) Well, I'm getting similar stack traces with my system and those are sure scary, but it seems that my e-mails to the list are simply ignored, unfortu

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-20 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> [] (ndis_irq_th+0x0/0xf0 [ndiswrapper]) > Disabling IRQ #5 > > Does anyone care? :-) doubt it ... ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Plea

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 20 2005, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > My linux laptop says: > irq 5: nobody cared! (...) > Does anyone care? :-) Well, I'm getting similar stack traces with my system and those are sure scary, but it seems that my e-mails to the list are simply ignored, unfortunately. I am willing to test

2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, My linux laptop says: irq 5: nobody cared! [] __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x90 [] note_interrupt+0x61/0x90 [] __do_IRQ+0x13b/0x150 [] do_IRQ+0x23/0x40 [] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [] __do_softirq+0x2e/0x80 [] do_softirq+0x27/0x30 [] irq_exit+0x35/0x40 [] do_IRQ+0x28/0x40 [] common_interru

Re: Needed faster implementation of do_gettimeofday()

2005-02-20 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Sunday 20 February 2005 05:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 985913    8.6083  vmlinux                  mark_offset_tsc > 584473    5.1032  libc-2.3.2.so            getc What makes you think mark_offset_tsc is slow? Do you have any comparative numbers? It might just be that the workload you a

Re: [PATCH] i2c.h: Fix another gcc 4.0 compile failure

2005-02-20 Thread Mickey Stein
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:58:48AM -0800, Mickey Stein wrote: From: Mickey Stein Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk7, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc rawhide from 19Feb DL) gcc4 cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file": Error msg: include/linux/i2c.h:{55,194} error: a

GL520SM Sensor Chip driver fix

2005-02-20 Thread Adam 'dredzik' Kuczynski
Hi, I've been recently trying to get my lmsensors working under 2.6.9, and i've found this: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Feb/2856.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/11/90 kernel patch for gl520 chip, but after applying it kernel refused to compile. So I've fixed it using gl51

[PATCH][2.6.11-rc3-mm2] perfctr-2.7.10 API update 4/4: ppc32

2005-02-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
perfctr-2.7.10 update, 4/4: - Update ppc32 syscall table for perfctr-2.7.10 API changes. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S |5 ++--- include/asm-ppc/unistd.h |7 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -rupN linux-2.6.11-

Frequent Oops on Shutdown 2.6.10

2005-02-20 Thread AndyLiebman
Hi, I compiled the 2.6.10 kernel with HyperThreading optimization (I'm running a 3.06 Ghz single Xeon processor with HT enabled). More or less, I'm running Mandrake 10 Official, but with my own kernel. Can anybody help explain why I'm getting this Oops on shutdown? It doesn't happen all the

[PATCH][2.6.11-rc3-mm2] perfctr-2.7.10 API update 3/4: x86_64

2005-02-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
perfctr-2.7.10 update, 3/4: - Update x86_64 syscall table for perfctr-2.7.10 API changes. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h |8 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -rupN linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.

[PATCH][2.6.11-rc3-mm2] perfctr-2.7.10 API update 1/4: common

2005-02-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andrew, This set of patches form the first half of a major perfctr API update. The goal is to change the upload-new-control-data system call to be much more generic and independent of struct layouts. To this end the upload-new-control-data syscall will become ret = sys_vperfctr_write(fd, n

[PATCH][2.6.11-rc3-mm2] perfctr-2.7.10 API update 2/4: i386

2005-02-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
perfctr-2.7.10 update, 2/4: - Update i386 syscall table for perfctr-2.7.10 API changes. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/i386/kernel/entry.S |3 +-- arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S |3 +-- include/asm-i386/unistd.h|7 +++ include/asm-x86_

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-20 Thread Martin J. Bligh
> I've noticed this problem for a while, but only now decided to ask. > Interrupt balancing doesn't do anything on my system. > >CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 31931808 0IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 76595 0IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 8: 1 0IO-AP

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-20 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:30:53 -0500): > Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >> You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it >> has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the >> time will not be good on ca

Re: Question on CONFIG_IRQBALANCE / 2.6.x

2005-02-20 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> > there's something I don't understand: With IRQBALANCE *enabled* almost >> > all interrupts are processed on CPU0. This changed in an unexpected way >> > after disabling IRQBALANCE: now all interrupts are distributed uniformly >> > to both CPUs. Maybe it's intentional, but it's not what I ex

[BK PATCHES] ide-2.6 update

2005-02-20 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, Please do a bk pull bk://bart.bkbits.net/ide-2.6 This will update the following files: drivers/ide/Kconfig |2 +- drivers/ide/ide-io.c |5 +++-- drivers/ide/ide.c|4 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) through these ChangeSets: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Intel Gigabit NIC (2.6.5 -> 2.6.10) Bug(?) Found

2005-02-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
What is this e-mail about? Something in the kernel changed regarding the Intel e1000 driver from 2.6.5 to 2.6.10. The change resulted in thousands of errors when the NIC is receiving data. For the past two weeks I have thought about this and tried everything I could think of, it had really been

[PATCH] Replaces (2 * HZ) with DATA_TIMEOUT in /drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c

2005-02-20 Thread Telemaque Ndizihiwe
This Patch replaces "(2 * HZ)" with "DATA_TIMEOUT" which is defined as #define DATA_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ) in /drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c in kernel 2.6.10. Signed-off-by: Telemaque Ndizihiwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.10/drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c.orig2005-02-20 12:44:22.23526784

Kernel 2.4.29 (Sparc64) and iproute

2005-02-20 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, I'm trying to use iproute (20041019) with 2.4.29 official kernel on a UltraSparc 1E. I have marked all packets that come from an intranet server (192.168.0.130:3000 / tcp) like this : Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT 13344 packets, 1830K bytes) pkts bytes ta

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > Yes, I agree, almost anything is more sane than code I posted :-(. My > only requirement is that it works with radeonfb and similar low-level > drivers (so that I can get suspend-to-ram to work) and that it gets > past our brand

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-20 Thread Michal Januszewski
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:03:26PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Pavel, I agree with Michal, take a look at this version of the code > instead of the version that you posted. It's a _whole_ lot more sane, > and possibly even mergable. > > Michal, any thoughts on submitting it for inclusion? It seems

Re: Why does printk helps PCMCIA card to initialise?

2005-02-20 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Martin Drohmann wrote: > #ifdef CONFIG_PCI > if (s->cb_dev) { > ret = pci_bus_alloc_resource(s->cb_dev->bus, res, num, 1, > min, 0, pcmcia_align, &data); > } else > #endif > -

Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators

2005-02-20 Thread Nick Piggin
Andi Kleen wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:30:31PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:03:42 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c While doing 4level I think I

Re: Why does printk helps PCMCIA card to initialise?

2005-02-20 Thread Vicente Feito
Hello On Sunday 20 February 2005 11:44 am, you wrote: > > diff -u -U 7 /linux-2.6.11-rc4.changed/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_nonstatic.c > ../linux-2.6.11-rc4/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_nonstatic.c > --- /linux-2.6.11-rc4.changed/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_nonstatic.c > 2005-02-20 11:37:39.0 +0100 > +++

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-20 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 10:20 +, Russell King wrote: > BTW, try passing: > > reserve=0x3fefa000,0x6000 > > to the kernel - this will mark the "hole" reserved and should reallocate > the resources which are clashing with the RAM. > I just tried this on 2.6.9 (with no patches) and it wor

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