NULL pointer dereferences with 4.14.27

2018-03-17 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I've put 4.14.27 this morning in this machine and in about 2h it started showing null dereferences identical to the following one. There were several of them, with about 1/2h of interval. Strangely it continued to work and I saw no other anomalies. I've just reverted to 4.14.26. It only happened i

build warning in 2.6.24: section mismatch

2008-01-26 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Near the end of the build this appears: KSYM.tmp_kallsyms2.S AS .tmp_kallsyms2.o LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.head+0xe4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data.2:trampoline_level4_pgt (between 'ident_complete' and 'secondary_startup_64') WARNI

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-08 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Jeff Lessem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 November 2007 22:00: >Dan Williams wrote: > > The following patch, also attached, cleans up cases where the code looks > > at sh->ops.pending when it should be looking at the consistent > > stack-based snapshot of the operations flags. > >I tried thi

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

2001-02-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Sean Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 February 2001 17:26: >This is an application problem, not a kernel one. You need to upgrade your >netkit. Yes, I was quite confident of this. However, unaligned traps are a frequent problem with alphas. For a looong time we had zsh produce lots of it

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

2001-02-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Jan-Benedict Glaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 February 2001 15:48: >With my currently installed ping (netkit-ping 0.10-6 from Debian Woody) >I get unaligned accesses: > >ping(15953): unaligned trap at 0001200030e4: 000120026b34 29 1 >ping(15953): unaligned trap at 000120003110

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-13 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Trond Myklebust ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 13 February 2001 10:56: >--- net/sunrpc/ping.c.origTue Feb 13 10:47:20 2001 >+++ net/sunrpc/ping.c Tue Feb 13 10:50:03 2001 ** Oops, the BUG() call appears in xprt.c! Here's a patch that makes it compile. Let's see if it runs

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-13 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Trond Myklebust ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 13 February 2001 10:56: >Actually, since BUG() only seems to be defined on i386 platforms for >2.2.x, perhaps the easiest thing to do (unless somebody wants to >volunteer to backport all the `safe' definitions from 2.4.x) would be >to add the generi

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-12 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 12 February 2001 21:49: >The ideal solution would be for someone to provide BUG() on the >Alpha platform as in 2.4. That would sort things cleanly Hmm... Looks more difficult than I expected. Can we just change the one call to BUG to something sensible on a

2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-12 Thread Carlos Carvalho
When doing the final ld -o vmlinux on an alpha the linker complains: net/network.a(sunrpc.o): In function `xprt_ping_reserve': sunrpc.o(.text+0x4b94): undefined reference to `BUG' sunrpc.o(.text+0x4b98): undefined reference to `BUG' Looks like a problem in Trond's patches, also it doesn't h

Re: 2.2.19pre9 Kernel panic aic7xxx

2001-02-12 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Doug Ledford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 9 February 2001 16:41: >The latest patch I sent Alan had both the hosts.c fix and some other fixes, so >I'm thinking it hasn't made it into his 2.2.19pre9 kernel. The next one >should work fine as far as aic7xxx is concerned. I think you should post y

Re: CPU error codes

2001-02-06 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 31 January 2001 15:23: >> > In the intel databook. Generally an MCE indicates hardware/power/cooling >> > issues >> >> Doesn't an MCE also cover some hardware memory problems - parity/ECC >> issues etc? > >Parity/ECC on main memory is reported by the c

Re: Dual Promise Ultra66 PCI Cards

2001-02-04 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Adrian Chung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4 February 2001 15:53: >I've been attempting to get two Promise Ultra66 controllers working >with an Asus P2B-F motherboard. I've got one controller successfully >working, but as soon as I stick the second controller in the computer, >the system refus

Re: Bugfix in dquot_transfer()

2000-09-10 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4 September 2000 08:25: > Following patch fixes bug in dquot_transfer() - while we were sleeping >i_blocks might change and so number quota was miscounted. Patches are >against 2.2.16 and 2.4.0-test6 (but should apply well on newer versions). I seem to ha