> "christian" == Christian Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
christian> Hi,
christian> i hope i am right here, and this problem wasn't mailed a thousand times
christian> before - but it is not older than 3 days (2.4.0-test10-pre5 is'nt
christian> older...)
christian> I am playing around
"christian" == Christian Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
christian Hi,
christian i hope i am right here, and this problem wasn't mailed a thousand times
christian before - but it is not older than 3 days (2.4.0-test10-pre5 is'nt
christian older...)
christian I am playing around with usb and
Hi Linus
I just resend this patch (the first time I forgot to put the
[PATCH] field). It fixes a leak in swapon reported by marcelo
quite time ago.
Later, Juan.
> "marcelo" == Marcelo de Paula Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
sorry for the delay (this problem has
Hi Linus
I just resend this patch (the first time I forgot to put the
[PATCH] field). It fixes a leak in swapon reported by marcelo
quite time ago.
Later, Juan.
"marcelo" == Marcelo de Paula Bezerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
sorry for the delay (this problem has been
Sorry if you received this twice, the first copy was sent to the old
vger address :(((
> "marcelo" == Marcelo de Paula Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
sorry for the delay (this problem has been posted some
time^Wmonths ago).
marcelo> I have noticed what looks like a
Sorry if you received this twice, the first copy was sent to the old
vger address :(((
"marcelo" == Marcelo de Paula Bezerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
sorry for the delay (this problem has been posted some
time^Wmonths ago).
marcelo I have noticed what looks like a kernel
> "anton" == Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > 2nd Question: Is there a sane way to queue an operation to be done in
>> >each specific CPU?
>>
>> smp_call_function().
anton> The slab code was using smp_call_function until davem fixed it.
anton> On sparc
"anton" == Anton Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2nd Question: Is there a sane way to queue an operation to be done in
each specific CPU?
smp_call_function().
anton The slab code was using smp_call_function until davem fixed it.
anton On sparc blocking interrupts
Hi
After some rethought over the patch (and feedback from Linus)
I have made another version that should work also on SMP
Sparc.
As always, any comment/feedback/Bug reports/... are welcome.
Later, Juan.
ChangeLog:
v2.0:
- shrink_[id]_caches don't return the number of
> "ingo" == Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
ingo> 2) introducing sys_flush(), which flushes pages from the pagecache.
It is not supposed that mincore can do that (yes, just now it is not
implemented, but the interface is there to do that)?
Just curious.
--
In theory, practice
> "chris" == Chris Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
chris> I am having problems with lockups on an SMP box running 2.4.0-test9-pre7 for
chris> weeks now. I am using it as a network monitoring machine and I am using the
chris> same software on a box running kernel 2.2.17 with no problems.
"chris" == Chris Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
chris I am having problems with lockups on an SMP box running 2.4.0-test9-pre7 for
chris weeks now. I am using it as a network monitoring machine and I am using the
chris same software on a box running kernel 2.2.17 with no problems. The error
"ingo" == Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
ingo 2) introducing sys_flush(), which flushes pages from the pagecache.
It is not supposed that mincore can do that (yes, just now it is not
implemented, but the interface is there to do that)?
Just curious.
--
In theory, practice and
Hi
After some rethought over the patch (and feedback from Linus)
I have made another version that should work also on SMP
Sparc.
As always, any comment/feedback/Bug reports/... are welcome.
Later, Juan.
ChangeLog:
v2.0:
- shrink_[id]_caches don't return the number of
Hi
In previous mails I reported that test9-preX (X>=3) freezes
when running in SMP mmap001. I have found that the problem
was in how was handing the slab cache by cpu. With this patch
mmap001 returns to work (i.e. it loops a lot in the VM layer,
but the
> "jason" == Jason Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jason> Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: invalid operand:
jason> Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: CPU:1
jason> Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: EIP:0010:[__find_get_page+7/300]
jason> Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
"jason" == Jason Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jason Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: invalid operand:
jason Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: CPU:1
jason Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: EIP:0010:[__find_get_page+7/300]
jason Sep 26 23:17:11 tacorp kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
jason Sep
Hi
In previous mails I reported that test9-preX (X=3) freezes
when running in SMP mmap001. I have found that the problem
was in how was handing the slab cache by cpu. With this patch
mmap001 returns to work (i.e. it loops a lot in the VM layer,
but the
> "edsel" == Edsel Adap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
edsel> Hi,
edsel> I'm suffering from the occasional Oops message, and from reading the
edsel> oops-tracing.txt file, it says:
edsel> cd /usr/src/linux/scripts/ksymoops
edsel> make ksymoops
you can got ksymoops package and no need to
> "ingo" == Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
>> Thank You! Seems to be much better now:
>>
>> Test of 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 + vmfixes-B2-deadlock.patch
ingo> note that this is effectively test8-pre7 (with a couple of more fixes and
ingo> the new multiqueue stuff),
"ingo" == Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
Thank You! Seems to be much better now:
Test of 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 + vmfixes-B2-deadlock.patch
ingo note that this is effectively test8-pre7 (with a couple of more fixes and
ingo the new multiqueue stuff), so you might
"edsel" == Edsel Adap [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
edsel Hi,
edsel I'm suffering from the occasional Oops message, and from reading the
edsel oops-tracing.txt file, it says:
edsel cd /usr/src/linux/scripts/ksymoops
edsel make ksymoops
you can got ksymoops package and no need to compile it
> "udo" == Udo A Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
udo> There's a little annoying bug with printing partitions upon bootup.
udo> Specifically my dmesg now looks like:
udo> Partition check:
udo> hda: hda1 hda1
udo> hdb: hdb1 hdb1 hdb2 hdb2 hdb3 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb5 hdb6 hdb6 hdb7 hdb7 hdb8
> "andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
andrea> I'm talking about the fact that if you have a file mmapped in 1.5G of RAM
andrea> test9 will waste time rolling between LRUs 384000 pages, while classzone
andrea> won't ever see 1 of those pages until you run low on fs
"andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
andrea I'm talking about the fact that if you have a file mmapped in 1.5G of RAM
andrea test9 will waste time rolling between LRUs 384000 pages, while classzone
andrea won't ever see 1 of those pages until you run low on fs cache.
Hi
while I am running mmap002 in test9-pre4 I got the computer
frozen, it don't answer to my open windows anymore, it answers
only to pings. I have got the attached traces. The machine
is SMP with IDE disks.
I had no additional/local patches applied.
Hi
while I am running mmap002 in test9-pre4 I got the computer
frozen, it don't answer to my open windows anymore, it answers
only to pings. I have got the attached traces. The machine
is SMP with IDE disks.
I had no additional/local patches applied.
> "christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
christoph> With both version I get the "booting linux" message and then the first
christoph> line of the kernel messages. Then its dead. Have tried to change the kernel
christoph> configuration but to no avail.
christoph>
"christoph" == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
christoph With both version I get the "booting linux" message and then the first
christoph line of the kernel messages. Then its dead. Have tried to change the kernel
christoph configuration but to no avail.
christoph 2.4.0test2
> "cort" == Cort Dougan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
cort> } Now multiply my experience by the several hundred kernel developers out
^
cort> } there, and you can easily see how the kernel development community could
"cort" == Cort Dougan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
cort } Now multiply my experience by the several hundred kernel developers out
^
cort } there, and you can easily see how the kernel development community could
cort }
> "bill" == Bill Wendling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
Linus, please don't apply.
bill> - The `head = >pages;' statement is useless inside the
bill> repeat, since head isn't modified inside the loop.
No, but we sleep inside the loop, and while we sleep, we don't have
> "david" == David S Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
david> In page_launder() about halfway down there is this sequence of tests
david> on LRU pages:
david> if (!clearedbuf) {
david> ...
david> } else if (!page->mapping) {
david> ...
david> } else if (page_count(page) > 1) {
david> }
"bill" == Bill Wendling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
Linus, please don't apply.
bill - The `head = mapping-pages;' statement is useless inside the
bill repeat, since head isn't modified inside the loop.
No, but we sleep inside the loop, and while we sleep, we don't have
locked
"david" == David S Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
david In page_launder() about halfway down there is this sequence of tests
david on LRU pages:
david if (!clearedbuf) {
david ...
david } else if (!page-mapping) {
david ...
david } else if (page_count(page) 1) {
david } else /*
> "rasmus" == Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rasmus> Hi.
rasmus> This patch does minor and strightforward cleanup in mm/swapfile.c.
Please, don't apply, SWP_WRITEOK is defined as two bits:
#define SWP_WRITEOK 3
that means that
((p->flags & SWP_WRITEOK) == SWP_WRITEOK) !=
"rasmus" == Rasmus Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
rasmus Hi.
rasmus This patch does minor and strightforward cleanup in mm/swapfile.c.
Please, don't apply, SWP_WRITEOK is defined as two bits:
#define SWP_WRITEOK 3
that means that
((p-flags SWP_WRITEOK) == SWP_WRITEOK) != (p-flags
Memory test suite v0.0.4
This intends to be a set of programs to test the memory management
system. I am releasing this version with the idea of gather more
programs for the suite. If you have some program to test the system,
please send it to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
> "david" == David A Gatwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
[stuff about unfair test]
I don't arguee if the test was fair or not.
david> and does not include a "null update", as that is an atypical usage pattern
david> for most trees that unfairly skews the test towards software or
Hi
I was running mmap001 over NFS when I got one Oops, with the
following backtrace. The problem is that the page->mapping is
NULL, and it causes a NULL access at filemap_write_page.
If you need any more info, let me know.
Later, Juan.
0xc29ff574 0xc012229f
Hi
I was running mmap001 over NFS when I got one Oops, with the
following backtrace. The problem is that the page-mapping is
NULL, and it causes a NULL access at filemap_write_page.
If you need any more info, let me know.
Later, Juan.
0xc29ff574 0xc012229f
"david" == David A Gatwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
[stuff about unfair test]
I don't arguee if the test was fair or not.
david and does not include a "null update", as that is an atypical usage pattern
david for most trees that unfairly skews the test towards software or kernels
Memory test suite v0.0.4
This intends to be a set of programs to test the memory management
system. I am releasing this version with the idea of gather more
programs for the suite. If you have some program to test the system,
please send it to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
> "kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
kenneth> Is there some way I can fix the old report I don't have a unprocessed version
of the oops as klogd "fixed" it automatically.
I don't think so. It is a good idea to run klogd with the -x option,
to prevent him from
"kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kenneth Is there some way I can fix the old report I don't have a unprocessed version
of the oops as klogd "fixed" it automatically.
I don't think so. It is a good idea to run klogd with the -x option,
to prevent him from doind the
Hi
this patch does:
- it moke use of the same locking for partial & complete pages, the
old version did busy-waiting in the case that the partial page was
locked.
- rewrites truncate_inodes_pages() using 2 auxiliar functions:
* truncate_partial_page() that truncates a partial
> "keith" == Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
keith> Agreed, and the kbuild team is already looking at a complete Makefile
keith> redesign for kernel 2.5. The latest makefile wishlist is in
keith> ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/makefile-wishlist-2.5-3.gz, all sensible
keith> comments
> "kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
hi
I only can guess that you are using a wrong System.map for
doing the ksymoops. __mon_yday is an array, not a function,
the backtrace don't make sense.
Later, Juan "waiting for a nice backtrace" :)))
Hi
I have found that we run botton handlers (in schedule()) when
we are in the middle of an interrupt. I think that is illegal, and
moved the test to the beginning of the function. In the case that the
running of the bottom handlers before the test is on purpose, could
somebody put a
> "andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
andrea> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> Well, now GCC does CSE across "asm" and will eliminate memory loads,
andrea> What is "CSE"?
Common Subexpresion Elimination. You can get a lot of info in "The
Dragon book".
Test
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"andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
andrea On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Well, now GCC does CSE across "asm" and will eliminate memory loads,
andrea What is "CSE"?
Common Subexpresion Elimination. You can get a lot of info in "The
Dragon book".
Later, Juan.
--
"keith" == Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
keith Agreed, and the kbuild team is already looking at a complete Makefile
keith redesign for kernel 2.5. The latest makefile wishlist is in
keith ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/makefile-wishlist-2.5-3.gz, all sensible
keith comments appreciated.
Hi
this patch does:
- it moke use of the same locking for partial complete pages, the
old version did busy-waiting in the case that the partial page was
locked.
- rewrites truncate_inodes_pages() using 2 auxiliar functions:
* truncate_partial_page() that truncates a partial page
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