Re: oops in 2.4.4-ac9 (mm/slab.c)

2001-05-17 Thread Andreas Franck
Alan Cox wrote: > Its a deliberate debugging trap. > > > #if DEBUG > > if (cachep->flags & SLAB_POISON) > > if (kmem_check_poison_obj(cachep, objp)) > > BUG(); > > ^^ This one is triggered > > Someone freed memory and then

Re: oops in 2.4.4-ac9 (mm/slab.c)

2001-05-17 Thread Andreas Franck
Alan Cox wrote: Its a deliberate debugging trap. #if DEBUG if (cachep-flags SLAB_POISON) if (kmem_check_poison_obj(cachep, objp)) BUG(); ^^ This one is triggered Someone freed memory and then scribbled on it.

oops in 2.4.4-ac9 (mm/slab.c)

2001-05-16 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello people, I triggered an "invalid operand" oops in linux-2.4.4-ac9 today, and could trace it back to the line mm/slab.c:1244. I did nothing really special when this happened, and I was not able to log in onto any console or terminal afterwards (probably because tty_open failed very miserably

oops in 2.4.4-ac9 (mm/slab.c)

2001-05-16 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello people, I triggered an invalid operand oops in linux-2.4.4-ac9 today, and could trace it back to the line mm/slab.c:1244. I did nothing really special when this happened, and I was not able to log in onto any console or terminal afterwards (probably because tty_open failed very miserably

Re: [PATCH] 2nd try: i386 rw_semaphores fix

2001-04-11 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello David, > I've been discussing it with some other kernel and GCC people, and they > think > that only "memory" is required. Hmm.. I just looked at my GCC problem report from December, perhaps you're interested, too: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-12/msg00554.html The example in

Re: [PATCH] 2nd try: i386 rw_semaphores fix

2001-04-11 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello David and people, > I've just consulted with one of the gcc people we have here, and he says > that > the '"memory"' constraint should do the trick. > > Do I take it that that is actually insufficient? I don't remember exactly, it's been a while, but I think it was not sufficient when I

Re: [PATCH] 2nd try: i386 rw_semaphores fix

2001-04-11 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello David and people, I've just consulted with one of the gcc people we have here, and he says that the '"memory"' constraint should do the trick. Do I take it that that is actually insufficient? I don't remember exactly, it's been a while, but I think it was not sufficient when I came

Re: [PATCH] 2nd try: i386 rw_semaphores fix

2001-04-11 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello David, I've been discussing it with some other kernel and GCC people, and they think that only "memory" is required. Hmm.. I just looked at my GCC problem report from December, perhaps you're interested, too: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-12/msg00554.html The example in there

ATAPI burner and IDE SCSI emulation

2001-03-26 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello people, after having "upgraded" (?) my distro from my wonderfully hand-configured Debian system (which I unfortunately wrecked up lately) to S*SE 7.1, I'm now really displeasured about the IDE-SCSI emulation thing for my ATAPI CD roaster. Not that I was not able to set it up correctly,

ATAPI burner and IDE SCSI emulation

2001-03-26 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello people, after having "upgraded" (?) my distro from my wonderfully hand-configured Debian system (which I unfortunately wrecked up lately) to S*SE 7.1, I'm now really displeasured about the IDE-SCSI emulation thing for my ATAPI CD roaster. Not that I was not able to set it up correctly,

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Andreas Franck
Hi together, seems like a hot discussion going on, but I couldn't resist and would like to throw in my $0.02. Besides misunderstandings and general displeasure, some very interesting facts have shown up in the discussion (oh, yeah), which I'd like to know more about, and just extend them with a

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Andreas Franck
Hi together, seems like a hot discussion going on, but I couldn't resist and would like to throw in my $0.02. Besides misunderstandings and general displeasure, some very interesting facts have shown up in the discussion (oh, yeah), which I'd like to know more about, and just extend them with a

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-28 Thread Andreas Franck
happy my disk did too :-) Many thanks for the fine work! Greetings, Andreas -- ->>>------- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>--- ->>> Keep smiling! <<<- - To unsubs

Re: Kernel 2.4.0 loop device still hangs

2001-01-28 Thread Andreas Franck
happy my disk did too :-) Many thanks for the fine work! Greetings, Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling! - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: IDE-Floppy and devfs

2001-01-19 Thread Andreas Franck
Good work guys. I like it very much too, and can't appreciate to see it in all its beauty when all the ugly peculiarities have been hacked out and the drivers have all been adapted to work just fine... it's really a great idea! Greetings, Andreas -- ->>>--- Andr

Re: IDE-Floppy and devfs

2001-01-19 Thread Andreas Franck
to see it in all its beauty when all the ugly peculiarities have been hacked out and the drivers have all been adapted to work just fine... it's really a great idea! Greetings, Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling

[revisited] Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and GCC snapshots

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Franck
reaction on my bug report yet. Along with it is a small fix for a typo in fs/umsdos/mangle.c, which was detected by GCC's new preprocessor (#elseif instead of #else). Greetings and a happy new year to everyone, Andreas -- ->>>------- Andreas Franck <<<-

[revisited] Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and GCC snapshots

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Franck
reaction on my bug report yet. Along with it is a small fix for a typo in fs/umsdos/mangle.c, which was detected by GCC's new preprocessor (#elseif instead of #else). Greetings and a happy new year to everyone, Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2000-12-27 Thread Andreas Franck
phore pointer! So __down() works on a random memory location instead of the semaphore, which is guaranteed to fail badly. I've added linux-kernel as CC again, so everybody can now hear that this is definitely a GCC bug, and not a kernel issue. Greetings, Andreas -- ->>

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

2000-12-27 Thread Andreas Franck
memory location instead of the semaphore, which is guaranteed to fail badly. I've added linux-kernel as CC again, so everybody can now hear that this is definitely a GCC bug, and not a kernel issue. Greetings, Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2000-12-25 Thread Andreas Franck
ession of what's going on. It seems that whyever, the cause for this failure is actually the down(sem) call on a not yet up()'ed semaphore, and this is where it starts to get ugly. -- ->>>------- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2000-12-25 Thread Andreas Franck
e down to rather low-level functions. Greetings, Andreas -- ->>>------- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>--- ->>> Keep smiling! <<<- - To unsubscribe from thi

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

2000-12-25 Thread Andreas Franck
to rather low-level functions. Greetings, Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling! - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

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

2000-12-25 Thread Andreas Franck
of what's going on. It seems that whyever, the cause for this failure is actually the down(sem) call on a not yet up()'ed semaphore, and this is where it starts to get ugly. -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling

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

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Franck
ening and still merry christmas to the people westward of Europe :-) Andreas -- ->>>------- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>--- ->>> Keep smiling! <<<- - To unsub

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

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Franck
christmas to the people westward of Europe :-) Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling! - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

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

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
ctively. Perhaps someone could look over it? Thanks and happy hacking, Andreas -- ->>>--- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>--- ->>> Keep smiling! <<<- buffer-2.95.2.S buffer-2.97.S

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

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
rong. Geetings and a nice christmas to everybody! Andreas -- ->>>------- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>--- ->>> Keep smiling! <<<- - To unsubscribe from this li

Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
2.0.6 Mount 2.10f Net-tools 2.05 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded snd-mixer-oss snd-mixer snd soundcore mga autofs4 rtc floppy serial isa-pnp agpgart sr_mod cdrom ide-scsi scsi_mod ide-

Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
ide-floppy ---snip--- -- -------- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling! - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
christmas to everybody! Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling! - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

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

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Franck
it? Thanks and happy hacking, Andreas -- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling! - buffer-2.95.2.S buffer-2.97.S

Re: IDE-Floppy and devfs

2000-10-25 Thread Andreas Franck
plementing any of these, as far as time permits. And I suggest further advice from the more experienced gurus here... Greetings, Andreas -- ->>>--- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>--- ->>> Keep smil

Re: IDE-Floppy and devfs

2000-10-24 Thread Andreas Franck
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Guest section DW wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:33:57AM +0200, Andreas Franck wrote: > > + printk(KERN_INFO "calling ide_register_module\n"); > ide_register_module(_module); > + printk(KERN_INFO "ide_register_mo

Re: IDE-Floppy and devfs

2000-10-24 Thread Andreas Franck
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Guest section DW wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:33:57AM +0200, Andreas Franck wrote: + printk(KERN_INFO "calling ide_register_module\n"); ide_register_module(idefloppy_module); + printk(KERN_INFO "ide_register_module finished

Re: IDE-Floppy and devfs

2000-10-23 Thread Andreas Franck
to CC linux­[EMAIL PROTECTED] im my mail to Paul and Richard, which didn't work as I could have expected, if it wasn't that late. -- ->>>----------- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] --->>>--- ->>> Keep smiling! --

Re: IDE-Floppy and devfs

2000-10-23 Thread Andreas Franck
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IDE-Floppy and devfs

2000-10-22 Thread Andreas Franck
here. Its still quite hackish, but I'm sure you can follow my ideas with what I explained above - if not, don't hesitate to ask. ->- snip -<- -- ->>>------- Andreas Franck <<<- ---<<< [EMAIL

IDE-Floppy and devfs

2000-10-22 Thread Andreas Franck
here. Its still quite hackish, but I'm sure you can follow my ideas with what I explained above - if not, don't hesitate to ask. -- snip -- -- -------- Andreas Franck - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Keep smiling! - - To unsubscribe from