> = Greg KH
>> = Jeff Garzik
>> I -want- there to be only one hotplug strategy, but Adam seemed to be
>> talking about the opposite, with his CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG suggestion.
>Here's Adam's proposal for CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG:
> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/2571/250/4599696/
[Zhiruo Cao]
> Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically
> even though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new
> buffers becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk.
kill -STOP {your cron process}
mount all ext2 filesystems with '-o noatime'
[Ian Grant]
> In 2.2.x we were able to build a kernel with RAID modules and have it
> autodetect RAID partitions at boot time - so we could use raid root
> partitions.
Really? Funny, because IIRC RAID autodetection does not even exist in
2.2.x kernels. Perhaps you are referring to vendor-patch
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It also changes the x86 NMI oopser so that it no longer shuts the
> console up after the first NMI oops. Instead, each CPU is allowed
> to print out NMI diagnostics a single time per reboot.
this is not how the NMI oopser works. It does *not* shut do
Hi Rik et al,
here I am again. I investigated more into the shm swapping in 2.4 and
discovered the following things:
- shm_swap is called from swap_out. Actually on my machine after a
while it only gets called without __GFP_IO set, which means it will
not do anything which again leads to
Forgot to append the patch...
Greetings
Christoph
diff -uNr 4-11-3/ipc/shm.c c/ipc/shm.c
--- 4-11-3/ipc/shm.cWed Oct 4 15:58:02 2000
+++ c/ipc/shm.c Tue Nov 14 17:43:01 2000
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
unsigned long shm_npages; /* size of segment (pages) */
p
>
> [Ian Grant]
> > In 2.2.x we were able to build a kernel with RAID modules and have it
> > autodetect RAID partitions at boot time - so we could use raid root
> > partitions.
>
> Really? Funny, because IIRC RAID autodetection does not even exist in
> 2.2.x kernels. Perhaps you are referring
Le 14-Nov-2000, Zhiruo Cao écrivait :
> Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even
> though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new buffers
> becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. I'm working
> on a notebook, and I found the perio
[Ian Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Of course we need an initrd with the raid modules on it before we can
> boot from a RAID root partition.
raidtools can't run from an initrd?
Peter
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Hi,
Looking at the latest drivers/net/Config.in changes I noticed, that
two (modified earlier) lines are buggy:
dep_tristate '3c523 "EtherLink/MC" support' CONFIG_ELMC $CONFIG_MCA
dep_tristate '3c527 "EtherLink/MC 32" support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_ELMC_II
$CONFIG_MCA $CON
Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu Nov 09, 2000 at 01:18:24AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > I have recently developed a patch that allows linux to directly boot
> > into another linux kernel.
>
> Looks very cool. I'm curious about your decision to use ELF images. T
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:31:27AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > "Val" == Val Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Val> Jes, I just downloaded the 0.48 acenic driver and it still has a
> Val> reproducible null dereference bug. Anyone can oops their machine
> Val> by doing:
>
> Bugger I thin
Hi everyone.
I have noticed that some kernel modules are installed under
/lib/modules/XXX/misc,
instead of /net. I have been checking the drivers/net/Makefile (little knowledge
of
kernel make infraestructure...), and MOD_LIST_NAME is set properly, but the only
content of modules/NET_MODULES is d
> this problem is that it would give any internet hackers the ability to
> discover the network topology (including which servers host NDS master
> and replica databases). Not very secure. The concern for Petr is if in
If knowing the server makes it vulnerable, the server has other
problems sti
> The original exploit had nothing to do with filenames masquerading as
> options, it was: ping6 -I ';chmod o+w .'. Then somebody pointed out
Why is there any reason that a shell should be invoked anywhere in the
request_module->modprobe->insmod chain?
If implemented correctly, this attack shoul
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > It also changes the x86 NMI oopser so that it no longer shuts the
> > console up after the first NMI oops. Instead, each CPU is allowed
> > to print out NMI diagnostics a single time per reboot.
>
> this is not how the NMI
James M wrote:
>
> Dunno what time it is over there
Just add seven hours to your time.
> but could you give this a try when you get a chance?
yeah, and the other thing i will do, is to go through the test7-pre
series, to see where the bug came to light.
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> [...] Problem is, we're getting some reported lockups in which we need
> to know what the other CPUs are doing (the other 1%). If a critical
> spinlock is stuck on, we don't get to type `dmesg'.
i know - but we cannot please everyone, so i went for th
"Pawe³ Kot" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The whole oops produced by the 2.4.0-test11pre4 with this patch is in the
> attachment. Other system info is tehere as well.
>
> Oops is produced when runnning big-tables test from mysql sql-bench.
> It's reproducable. The machine is running only mysqld.
Thank yo
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:43:54AM +0100, Olaf Titz wrote:
> > plus the
> > modprobe meta expansion algorithm.
>
> and I see no reason why modprobe should do any such thing, apart from
> configurations dealt with in modules.conf anyway.
If it helps, wordexp has a flag to prevent command substit
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Paweł Kot" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The whole oops produced by the 2.4.0-test11pre4 with this patch is in the
> > attachment. Other system info is tehere as well.
> >
> > Oops is produced when runnning big-tables test from mysql sql-bench.
> > It's r
"Pawe³ Kot" wrote:
>
> In attachment. But don't beat me. I think I found the oops reason.
> /dev/shm was not mounted. After mounting it I couldn't get an oops yet.
> Could this be a reason?
No.
>>EIP; c010b5ee <__read_lock_failed+6/18> <=
Trace; c02026f7
Trace; c0120404
Hi Keith,
Here is some fixes related to x86 capabilities changes in test11-pre5.
Against your latest patch (test11-pre5) from oss.sgi. Tested under
test11-pre5 on SMP.
Regards,
Tigran
--- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c.0 Wed Nov 15 11:20:34 2000
+++ arch/i386/kernel/traps.cWed Nov 15 11:28:20 20
I stumbled upon a strange bug in the 2.4.0-test[9-10] kernels,
which only happens on PII (Deschutes) processors: right after boot, it
starts spitting "floating point exception"s all over the place, every time
aborting the program it was executing. This begins to happen very early,
before a
I think I spotted a problem in the memory management of some (all?)
architectures in 2.4.0-test10. At the moment I am fighting with the 64bit
backend for the new S/390 machines. I experienced infinite loops in
do_check_pgt_cache because pgtable_cache_size indicated that a lot of pages
are in th
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Ian Grant]
> > In 2.2.x we were able to build a kernel with RAID modules and have it
> > autodetect RAID partitions at boot time - so we could use raid root
> > partitions.
>
> Really? Funny, because IIRC RAID autodetection does not even exist i
Hi guys,
The test11-pre5 seems to be unusable:
o starting up vim(1) takes many seconds instead of the usual <<1 second
o trying to strace vim takes even longer
o trying to ltrace vim panics the kernel but kdb is also unusable -- can't
decode stack traces etc. Perhaps I'll go back to non-kdb
Hi,
I am new to kdb. my keyboard is locked after kdb-session (either by
generating oops or manual).
is there any way to restore it without rebooting...
thanks
anil
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:39:13PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +extern pte_t empty_bad_pte_table[];
> extern __inline__ void free_pte_fast(pte_t *pte)
> {
> + if (pte == empty_bad_pte_table)
> + return;
I guess that should be BUG() instead of return, so that the caller
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > So... In this updated patch the console_silent() call remains
> > as you designed it, but the nmi_watchdog kernel boot parameter has
> > been overloaded so that
> >
> > nmi_watchdog=2
> >
> > will now cause _all_ NMI oops messages to be displayed on the console.
>
>> +extern pte_t empty_bad_pte_table[];
>> extern __inline__ void free_pte_fast(pte_t *pte)
>> {
>> + if (pte == empty_bad_pte_table)
>> + return;
>
>I guess that should be BUG() instead of return, so that the callers can be
>fixed.
Not really. pte_free and pmd_free are cal
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> OK, so the options are now:
>
> nmi_watchdog=0
> nmi_watchdog=1
> nmi_watchdog=1,verbose
looks good for me!
Ingo
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> Here is some fixes related to x86 capabilities changes in test11-pre5.
> Against your latest patch (test11-pre5) from oss.sgi. Tested under
> test11-pre5 on SMP.
>
small (but important!) typo fixed, thanks to George
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Yop,
Just a newbie question :
What do exactly Intel P6 Microcode.
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> > Here is some fixes related to x86 capabilities changes in test11-pre5.
> > Against your latest patch (test11-pre5) from oss.sgi. Tested under
> > test11-pre5 on SMP.
> >
>
> small
I didn't see this in the ChangeLog. Does this need backporting to
2.2.x as well?
Tim.
*/
Index: drivers/scsi/ppa.c
===
RCS file: /usr/local/src/cvsroot/linux/drivers/scsi/ppa.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -d -u -r1.5 ppa.c
--- d
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Fabrice Peix wrote:
>
>
> Yop,
> Just a newbie question :
> What do exactly Intel P6 Microcode.
it is applied to fix bugs, usually. No, there is no description which
exactly bugs are fixed by which revision of the microcode so what you do
is to always app
On 15 Nov 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> - shm_swap is called from swap_out. Actually on my machine after a
>while it only gets called without __GFP_IO set, which means it will
>not do anything which again leads to deadlock.
Only _without_ __GFP_IO ? That's not quite right since
that
After the rework of the page management in 2.4.0-test10 I tried again if we
could make use of the "invalidate page table entry" (ipte) in the s390
backend. Thanks to the great work of you guys we are almost there. To be
able to do that we would like to make the establish_pte an architecture
depe
Hi There,
i am new to kernal development.
i just need a good Kernal Programming-HowTo.
could someone please let me know about this and about other useful info
about kernal programming that can help me to start kernal programming.
thanks in advance
Aamir
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Hi,
Because I set up a diskless Linux-workstation, I want to swap over NFS.
For this purpose I found only patches for "older" Linux-versions (2.0, 2.1,
2.2?).
Does anyone know wheter there are patches for 2.4 or does anyone know
another solution for this problem?
Because of special hardware I can
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Aamir Dogar wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> i am new to kernal development.
~
> i just need a good Kernal Programming-HowTo.
~
> could someone please let me know about this and about other useful info
> about kernal programming that can he
At 02:53 AM 11/15/2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt
>handler"?
>
This brings another question. Has there been any work done to force linux
to reboot on all panics? Linux's propensity to crash drivers (say the
network card driver) and
Hi!
> Because I set up a diskless Linux-workstation, I want to swap over NFS.
> For this purpose I found only patches for "older" Linux-versions (2.0, 2.1,
> 2.2?).
> Does anyone know wheter there are patches for 2.4 or does anyone know
> another solution for this problem?
maybe you want to use
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andreas Osterburg wrote:
> Because I set up a diskless Linux-workstation, I want to swap
> over NFS. For this purpose I found only patches for "older"
> Linux-versions (2.0, 2.1, 2.2?).
> Does anyone know wheter there are patches for 2.4 or does anyone
> know another solutio
Dennis wrote:
> At 02:53 AM 11/15/2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> >Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt
> >handler"?
> >
>
> This brings another question. Has there been any work done to force linux
> to reboot on all panics? Linux's propensity to crash drivers (say
Please respond to Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Richard J Moore/UK/IBM@IBMGB
cc:
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:14:57AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Andrea,
>
> I am very greatful for your detailed analysi
Andrea,
I am very greatful for your detailed analysis. I have yet to digest
everything you commented but will get back to you on all points you raise
very soon. Here are my thoughts so far:
> I think gkhi should be renamed to something like "Fast Unregistered
Kernel
> Hook Interface" to avoid
Hello:
This may not be the right place for this so if not let me know where I
should send it.
Question:
I've got an HP 4mm DAT Autochanger here (Scsi detection shown below
from boot)...what I'm wondering is this: Is there a way to tell WHICH
ONE of the 6 tapes is in the actual tape drive from t
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> b) read the resources mentioned in the
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
>
> Regards,
> Tigran
Even better, just follow links from http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
which is a superset of this file (and links to the online version of it).
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>After some trickery with some special hardware feature (storage
>keys) I found out that empty_bad_pmd_table and empty_bad_pte_table have
>been put to the page table quicklists multiple(!) times.
This is definitely bad, and means that something else really
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andreas Osterburg wrote:
>
> > Because I set up a diskless Linux-workstation, I want to swap
> > over NFS. For this purpose I found only patches for "older"
> > Linux-versions (2.0, 2.1, 2.2?).
>
> > Does anyone know wheter there a
On 15 Nov 00 at 1:59, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your
> attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the
> flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features" so it otherwise fails
> complaining that my 2xP6 has
DESCRIPTION:
Happen on 2.4.0-testXX, doesnt on 2.2.X
pppd 2.4.0-b2,b4,release, ppp async in kernel
Sportster 14400 Vi (if that hell does matter)
AND! UART 16450!
I`ve described such a problem to PPP maintainers
about half-year ago, but got nothing.
Now i
On 15 Nov 00 at 17:47, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 15 Nov 00 at 1:59, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your
> > attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the
> > flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features
> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:29:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > If we are going to create CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG, we must -eliminate-
> > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG, and create CONFIG_PCI_HOTPLUG, and
> > > CONFIG_ANOTHERBUS_HOTPLUG and s
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 15 09:04:36 2000
>> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>> Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:29:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> > > If we are going to create CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG, we must -eliminate-
>> > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG, and create CONFIG
Apparently using the CDROMEJECT ioctl with kernel 2.4-testX fails on
a SCSI CD-ROM that does not have a disc in it. The errno returned
corresponds to the string ``No such file or directory.''
The Linux CD-ROM Standard states that CDROMEJECT opens the drive tray.
It does not mention any prerequis
Not even Intel can spell kernal [sic] - see 486 Programmer's reference -
description of protection mechanism.
BTW one of the enhancements to the Pentium was an improvement in the
spelling of kernel. :-)
Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (PISC).
http://oss.software.i
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> > Well, not necessarily so while lkcd is not get accepted into the standard
> > kernel source. [..]
>
> It won't until it uses a separate driver that doesn't depend on scsi or
> ide layer.
We're working on it ... can't quit my day job, you know ... :)
--Matt
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Hi,
I have a redhat 7.0 and I need to compile some codes.
I need to use JIT (just in time) compiler and JRE on this
redhat box. How do i know if have these on my system?.
Or the installl CD for the RH7.0 may have it...
J
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if possible, could you please stop sensding the e mails concerning the
linux... . As my father died a sudden death on the 2 oktober 2000.
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Hi,
I have the same problem with kdb.
In a controlled environment, I always start a script
before entering kdb:
while [ 1 ] ; do
sleep 3
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm restart > /dev/null
done
This will re-enable the kbd every 3 seconds.
But it would be nice to find the problem, eh?
~Randy
Hi,
both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels can't read `real sky' CDs from the
Space Telescope Science Institute containing lotsof directories (~100)
which each contain lots of small files (~700 files/dir). only ~10 directories
with ~10 files each are displayed, all the other files/diretories can't be
ac
Just as another data point, I, too, had trouble with lockups with the
emu10k1 (with the 2.4.0-test driver and ALSA both). I noticed that it was
sharing an interrupt with ACPI. As soon as I rebuilt the kernel with the
ACPI Interpreter option turned off, the problem went away.
It's not the first
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Just as another data point, I, too, had trouble with lockups with the
> emu10k1 (with the 2.4.0-test driver and ALSA both). I noticed that it was
> sharing an interrupt with ACPI. As soon as I rebuilt the kernel with the
> ACPI Interpreter option tur
It looks like I was mistaken in my original message. I have an AMD 5x86, not
a K5.
Nevertheless, menuconfig lists the 586 option as "586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX".
But, it fails to boot on my 5x86 and I have to compile for a 486 (for 2.4).
As I mentioned in my previous message, the 586/... option boot
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 15 Nov 00 at 1:59, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your
> > attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the
> > flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features"
Hi
this is what i get on 2.2.17
open("/dev/scd1", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 3
ioctl(3, CDROMEJECT, 0xbc78)= 0
close(3)= 0
In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote:
>Apparently using the CDROMEJECT ioctl with kernel 2.4-testX fails on
>a SCSI CD-ROM that
Hi friends,
I noticed a slight bug in my CPUID 2.4.0-test11-pre5, and when I
unwound it, found some interesting things.
This relates to the Machine Check Architecture code (bluesmoke.c),
which in the previous code was conditionalized on running on an Intel
CPU. It appears that that shouldn't be
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> >
> > Oh. I did not compiled 11-test5, as G450 finally arrived ;-) OK,
> > I'll release patch for vmware, as I cannot stop kernel developers
> > from changing field names :-)
>
> Act
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, James Stevenson wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> this is what i get on 2.2.17
>
> open("/dev/scd1", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 3
> ioctl(3, CDROMEJECT, 0xbc78)= 0
> close(3)= 0
>
>
>
> In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote:
> >Apparently using
I have updated the dmfe.c network driver for 2.4.0-test by adding proper
locking (I hope), and also made transmission much efficient.
I would appreciate any feedback from people using this driver, to confirm
that I did not break it.
It would also be great if someone could take a look at the lock
"Adam J. Richter" wrote:
> You were right: the
> __devinitdata being used in the USB drivers will probably crash the
> kernel if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not defined and the USB code attempts to
> recover from an error by faking disconnect/reconnect.
[...]
> Until there is __usbdev{init,exit}{,da
I was DDoS'd today while away and came home to find the firewall unable to
do anything network related (although my connection to irc was still
working oddly). a quick dmesg showed the problem.
ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 2048 entries exceeded
NET: 1 messages suppressed.
ip_conntrack: maximum
Hi Adam,
> From: Adam J. Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 15 09:04:36 2000
> >> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >>
> >> Greg KH wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:29:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> > > If we are going to create CONF
Hello,
I'll double check the locking later today, but not sure about the
transmission changes.
Regards,
Frank
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--On Wednesday, November 15, 2000 9:34 PM +0100 Tobias Ringstrom
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have updated the dmfe.c network driver for 2.4.0-test by adding pr
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:12:15PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the
> "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
> /dev/cpu/*/cpuid.
Is it also OK to use the cpuid opcode in userspace ? (after checking
for its presence
Michel LESPINASSE wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:12:15PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the
> > "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
> > /dev/cpu/*/cpuid.
>
> Is it also OK to use the cpuid opcode in user
I am trying to understand what is going on in the following code. The
reference for %2, i.e. "m"(*__xg(ptr)) seems like magic (from
.../include/i386/system.h). At the same time, the code "m" (*mem) from
the second __asm__ below (my code) seems to generate the required asm
code. Before I go with
Hi Rik,
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 15 Nov 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
>> - shm_swap is called from swap_out. Actually on my machine after a
>>while it only gets called without __GFP_IO set, which means it
>>will not do anything which again leads to deadlock.
>
>
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andreas Osterburg wrote:
>
> > Because I set up a diskless Linux-workstation, I want to swap
> > over NFS. For this purpose I found only patches for "older"
> > Linux-versions (2.0, 2.1, 2.2?).
>
> > Does anyone know wheter there are patches for 2.4
summary: can't play mp3 files on nfs mounted partition. the music starts
to play and then hangs after about 5 seconds. using xmms on the nfs
client.
leeloo (2.2.17) is the NFS server:
[root@leeloo /root]# exportfs
/usr/local/mp3 rush
rush (2.4.10-test10) is the NFS client:
[root@rush mp3]# mo
Hi!
> > > Sensibly configured power saving/speed throttle systems do not change the
> > > frequency at all. The duty cycle is changed and this controls the cpu
> > > performance but the tsc is constant
> >
> > Do you have an example of notebook that does powersaving like that?
> > I have 2 exam
On 15 Nov 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On 15 Nov 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> >> 2) Integrating it into the global lru lists and/or the page cache.
> >>
> >> I think the second approach is the way to go but I do not
> >> understand the global
Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > Intel PIIX-based systems will do duty-cycle throttling, for example.
>
> Don't think so. My toshiba is PIIX-based, AFAIC:
>
Interesting. Some will, definitely. Didn't know that wasn't universal.
Clearly, on a machine like that, there is no hope for RDTSC, at least
Hi!
>I've also never said OOM killer should be disabled. In theory the
>non-overcommitting systems deadlock, Linux survives. Ironically
>usually it's just the opposite in practice. Any user can
>deadlock/crash Linux [default install, no quotas] but not an
>non-overcommitting system
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2000 12:55:46 -0800
> I am trying to understand what is going on in the following code. The
> reference for %2, i.e. "m"(*__xg(ptr)) seems like magic (from
> .../include/i386/system.h). At the same time, the code "m" (
> However, since at least AMD Athlon actually advertises MCA, I would
> like to verify that the code works on these processors before
> submitting it to Linus.
The Athlon MCA is basically the same architecture-wise as Pentium Pro/II
But there are some differences.. Until AMD make document 21656
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> crash; I don't expect anyone to actually see an #MF exception in real
> life. I'm trying to get confirmation from AMD that the code should
> be correct even for Athlon.
Peter,
Would it be an idea to invite people to lower the voltage on their
CPUs a bit, to try and tri
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:46:03PM -0500, safemode wrote:
> I was DDoS'd today while away and came home to find the firewall unable to
> do anything network related (although my connection to irc was still
> working oddly). a quick dmesg showed the problem.
> ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 2048
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:19AM -0600, George R. Kasica wrote:
> I've got an HP 4mm DAT Autochanger here (Scsi detection shown below
> >from boot)...what I'm wondering is this: Is there a way to tell WHICH
> ONE of the 6 tapes is in the actual tape drive from the OS? And if so,
> a way to make
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>
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > crash; I don't expect anyone to actually see an #MF exception in real
> > life. I'm trying to get confirmation from AMD that the code should
> > be correct
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>
>
> > However, since at least AMD Athlon actually advertises MCA, I would
> > like to verify that the code works on these processors before
> > submitting it to Linus.
>
> The Athlon MCA is basical
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:19:23 Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:46:03PM -0500, safemode wrote:
>
> > I was DDoS'd today while away and came home to find the firewall unable
> to
> > do anything network related (although my connection to irc was still
> > working oddly). a quick dm
I recently installed Winlinux2000 on my Win98 machine.
When I removed a file from within the WinLinux environment from my mail
folder (Eudora for Windows), it screwed up the file permissions on all of
the files in that folder. It set the Read Only flag on for all of
them. It was actually a relie
Hi everyone,
I have just released a second bluesmoke patch:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/bluesmoke-2.4.0-test11-pre5-2.diff
This implements support for MCE on chips which don't support MCA (in
addition to enabling MCA for non-Intel chips, like Athlon, which
supports MCA.)
I
On 15 Nov 00 at 12:12, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the
> "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
> /dev/cpu/*/cpuid.
There are two problems, first breaking procfs field name for no good reason
(you can name x86 features
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have just released a second bluesmoke patch:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/bluesmoke-2.4.0-test11-pre5-2.diff
>
> This imp
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>"Adam J. Richter" wrote:
>> You were right: the
>> __devinitdata being used in the USB drivers will probably crash the
>> kernel if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not defined and the USB code attempts to
>> recover from an error by faking disconnect/reconnect.
>[...]
>> Until there
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