Re: test12-pre4: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

2000-12-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > On my box, with heavy load I saw: > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > Newer seen this message before. > > Linux (2.4.0.11.4) or my old slow box ? > > > giacomo > This is really "normal" occasionally, and probably should not be logged. This

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Synching up with Alan and various other stuff. The most important one > > being the fix to the inode dirty block list. > > It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata > you have a nice chanc

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-04 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Alan has it and Linus hasn't applied Alan's patch yet... Linus said. "[ Alan - I ahve your patches in my incoming queue still, I wanted to get an interim version out to check with Al on the block list and the VM stuff with Rik and people. ]" "Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > Did you send it

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-04 Thread Garst R. Reese
Did you send it Linus? It is not in pre5 Garst "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > Ok, so here's the proper patch for those who dont want to wait for t5 =) > Ignore previous. > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > the fix is in module.h which needs extra parens in the def of > > set_

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Agreed. However, is there any reason to have this as a separate > function? bforget() should _always_ remove the buffer from any inode > queue. You can make that operation conditional on (bh->b_inode != > NULL) if you want to avoid taking the l

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:01:36AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata > you have a nice chance to hit the BUG() in inode.c:83. I hope that patch > below closes all remaining holes. See analysis in previous posting > (basically,

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-04 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Ok, so here's the proper patch for those who dont want to wait for t5 =) Ignore previous. On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > the fix is in module.h which needs extra parens in the def of > set_module_owner... > > Jeff --

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Synching up with Alan and various other stuff. The most important one > > being the fix to the inode dirty block list. > > It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata > you have a nice chanc

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Nikhil Goel
I had the same error, The .config file is attached. Alan Cox wrote: >> Was borking on dummy.c. This seemed to fix it. Verification please? >> >> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/include -Wall >> -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe >> -mpreferred

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> > dummy.c: In function `dummy_init_module': > > dummy.c:103: invalid type argument of `->' > > make[2]: *** [dummy.o] Error 1 > > No, module.h needs fixing. I guess I didn't send that one to Alan... You did send it, you just didnt tell me the dummy patch depended on it and that I needed to se

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Was borking on dummy.c. This seemed to fix it. Verification please? > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include > /usr/src/li

Re: test12-pre4: BUG at swap.c:271!

2000-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Hi, > > When stressing swap (virgin test12-pre4), I encounter the repeatable > oops below once load builds to heavy. The vmscan.c:UnlockPage(page) > addition sets it off. Appears 100% repeatable. > Same here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
the fix is in module.h which needs extra parens in the def of set_module_owner... Jeff On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Patch posted here... > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=97590235825341&w=2 > > "Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > > > Fails to compile module

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Was borking on dummy.c. This seemed to fix it. Verification please? > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i6

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-03 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Patch posted here... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=97590235825341&w=2 "Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > Fails to compile module at line 103, > invalid type argument of -> > Sorry if this well known. > Garst > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

[PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Synching up with Alan and various other stuff. The most important one > being the fix to the inode dirty block list. It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata you have a nice chance to hit the BUG() in inode.c:83. I ho

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Tom Holroyd
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -mcpu=ev6 -Wa,-mev6-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c pci.c pci.c: In function `pci_read_bases': pci.c:576: `tmp' undeclared (first use in this function) pci.c:576:

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Was borking on dummy.c. This seemed to fix it. Verification please? gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.0-te