Re: RedHat kernel RPM 2.2.16

2001-02-07 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: FWIW, the rpm -i did unpack the kernel to the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory, however, I had to manually untar the sources to /usr/src to get my kernel, move over the appropriate .config file, and manually run the patches to patch the sources. Forcing RPM to be

Re: [PATCH] updates for KLSI usb-ethernet

2001-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:38:52AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: Any thoughts on what would be more correct, a) device descriptor silently changes b) device magically disconnects/reconnects on its own Both seem a bit odd, but take your pick. :) b) is more like other devices. They use 1

Re: CPU error codes

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
Really? I thought it could be because of RAM. Here's the story: RAM talks to the chipset so I dont think it could (unless it confused the chipset) CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0004 Bank 4: b20401510Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt Ok that decodes as: Status

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread David Howells
More to add on the gcc 2.96 problems. After compiling a Linux 2.4.1 kernel on gcc 2.91, running SCI benchmarks, then compiling on RedHat 7.1 (Fischer) with gcc 2.96, the 2.96 build DROPPED 30% in throughput from the gcc 2.91 compiled version on the identical SAME 2.4.1 source tree.

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-07 Thread David Howells
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'd rather leave it in, but speed it up with the saner and faster if (bh-b_size (correct_size-1)) { I presume that correct_size will always be a power of 2... David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
always assume a stock kernel layout and will point to /usr/src/linux/include for modversioned includes and files. You can't assume that. The big problem is right now nobody has set an agreed location for kernel sources, you also cant assume they will be present. Its something the FHS needs

Re: Oopses in 2.4.1 (lots of them)

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
report got ignored). After running for 4 days I got many, many oopses. They were trigerred by xscreensaver, and some other X-related apps. After dopping to runlevel 3, the system seemed O.K. Nothing unusual in graphics: Riva TNT2 That makes it harder to say 'Use a 3.3.6 X server'. If you are

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
kernel on gcc 2.91, running SCI benchmarks, then compiling on RedHat 7.1 (Fischer) with gcc 2.96, the 2.96 build DROPPED 30% in throughput from the gcc 2.91 compiled version on the identical SAME 2.4.1 source tree. 30% is too big to be caused by a compiler. Way too big.I suggest you

Re: Problems with Linux 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
2) Frame-buffer mode does not work with my video card SiS630. But ok, frame-buffer mode is EXPERIMENTAL in linux. Computer boots, but screen is blank. All messages are fine. You might want to try -ac that has specific rather than vesafb support for the SIS framebuffers. 4) Sometimes

sync in strange state in 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Russell Coker
I have an Athlon 800 running 2.4.1 with two IDE hard drives, hda and hdc. hda has the OS on it, hdc is currently blank and unused. Today I had a bad sector error on hdc so I decided to wipe it properly with the following: for n in /dev/hdc? ; do cat /dev/zero $n ; done When running this I

Re: RedHat kernel RPM 2.2.16

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
I appreciate your comments, but the SOURCE is exactly what I am needing in order to compile in PCTel modem support. FYI, I'm not a newbie, so I do You want the kernel-source*rpm package. That provides a copy of the source tree in the typical Linus format (unpacked in /usr/src/linux) did not

Re: 2.4.x and oops on 'mount -t smbfs'

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
Any clues or similar experiences??? Known problem. There are some patches that seem to fix it so it should be fixed in the main 2.4 tree soon - 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

Re: Software Mestizo Manifesto

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
Your "ethical" statement is incompatible with the GPL. I disagree. Its a statement. Its a request. It says 'advice'. Anyone is entitled to advise how to use GPL software. The only issue is if someone chooses to require it is not used by XYZ person. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread A.Sajjad Zaidi
I just built a system that uses a K7V motherboard with the KT133 chipset. It has an onboard Promise PDC20265 ATA-100 controller. Im running RH6.2. I built a 2.4.1 kernel with support for the controller and it booted up fine with the "ide=reverse" parameter. It was when I tried adding new drives

2.4.1 and Adaptec Duralan aka Starfire.c

2001-02-07 Thread Stefan Majer
Hi All I installed a Adaptec Quad Port Ethernet Adapter called Quartet64 and after compiling 2.4.1 with starfire support i got the following messages in syslog after ifconfig eth2 172.17.1.4 netmask 255.255.0.0 up Feb 7 11:37:29 cerro kernel: eth2: Internal fault: The skbuff addresses do

toshiba tecra 8100

2001-02-07 Thread Nicolas Parpandet
Hello, On toshiba Tecra 8100 (latest bios), kernel 2.4.2-pre1 * APM + Pcmcia Xircom (tulip), Hangs on "ifup" either as module or staticly linked. (no more Sysrq) * Xircom alone without APM is ok. With ACPI big slowdown (as everybody else...) just for informational purpose as I cannot

Re: Software Mestizo Manifesto

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
It *does*, however, violate the DFSG, at least in spirit (since it is only a suggestion). For what it's worth, the DFSG is my standard for whether a particular project is worth my time to contribute code to. Vast amounts of debian included code contains suggestions about use. Also,

Re: Software Mestizo Manifesto

2001-02-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[ac] Vast amounts of debian included code contains suggestions about use. I'll not dispute your word because I know you for an objective person. But I don't remember coming across any such examples at least recently. Maybe I just don't remember them because they didn't sound like, well,

2.4.1 Kernel Crash

2001-02-07 Thread BaRT
Hi, On one of my linux boxen, that is used as an ISDN router after a 3 days of up time I get this: Thank for any help Feb 6 18:23:14 router kernel: Code: 8b 6d 00 39 53 48 0f 85 80 00 00 00 8b 44 24 24 39 43 0c 75 Feb 6 18:23:19 router kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

Re: 2.4.1 Kernel Crash

2001-02-07 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On one of my linux boxen, that is used as an ISDN router after a 3 days of up time I get this: Read http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s4-3 Particularly the "Don't even bother..." part. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: hotplugging with regular PCI cards

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
Hi Adam, I saw the same demo. It's not the machine as such that's interesting. The hotplug is achieved because of the chipset support. In fact the Compaq chipset that supports hotplug PCI is used in quite a few of the IBM Netfinity machines, and, I'm sure, many other servers. I'm going to be

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-07 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:10:32AM +, David Howells wrote: I presume that correct_size will always be a power of 2... Yes. --Stephen - 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

Enabling ACPI and APM at same time?

2001-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Is it possible to have _both_ ACPI and APM enabled? I really need APM on my notebook (so that machine suspends when it runs out of batteries, not powers off), but having /proc/power/* information would be *very* handy. Pavel --

Re: VIA silent disk corruption - fixed for me

2001-02-07 Thread Petr Vandrovec
I wrote on 6 Feb evening CET: On 6 Feb 01 at 15:24, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: So for today I'm back on [UMS]DMA disabled. I'll try downgrading BIOS today, but it looks to me like that something is severely broken here. Are your drives connected to the VIA or the Promise controller?

Re: [BUG] linux 2.4.1 to 2.4.1-ac3 hangs

2001-02-07 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, In retrospect it looks like there are three problems shown here. 1. The are the packet error messages which have just started appearing in ac3, but do not seem to hurt anything... I am forced to use pppoe and do have the mtu(s) set correctly (1500 on eth1, 1492 on ppp0 (which runs on

Re: Enabling ACPI and APM at same time?

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
From /usr/src/linux-2.4.X/Documentation/pm.txt: "No sorry, you can not have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at once. Some people with broken ACPI or broken APM implementations would like to use both to get a full set of working features, but you simply can not mix and match the two. Only

20 Million Fresh E-Mail Addresses

2001-02-07 Thread Luke2
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Re: acpi breaks async interface

2001-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I just found a strange thing in 2.4.1 (don't know, if the same occured in 2.4.0) and 2.4.1-ac3. When I enable ACPI, my serial port starts to drop some characters. When making ppp over this and doing ping, it causes great packet losts. If I turn ACPI in this configuration off, it works

Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Hans Reiser
I know that our number of users has increased, but I doubt that the increase is sufficient to match the marked increase in bug reports on reiserfs-list. Please be patient as we work on this. We will issue a patch this week that will fix some bugs (NFS i_generation count losing, and space

Re: increasing the 512 process limit at run-time?

2001-02-07 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Matt , At what uptime does one hit this limit ? uptime 4:40am up 444 days, 12:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 uname -a Linux filesrv2 2.2.6 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 20:33:30 PDT 1999 i686 unknown Not that that is anything spectacular , just looking for

Re: Oopses in 2.4.1 (lots of them)

2001-02-07 Thread Arthur Pedyczak
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: report got ignored). After running for 4 days I got many, many oopses. They were trigerred by xscreensaver, and some other X-related apps. After dopping to runlevel 3, the system seemed O.K. Nothing unusual in graphics: Riva TNT2 That makes it harder

UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection ordering

2001-02-07 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi, Mikael Pettersson pointed to me that current kernel code should not reenable local APIC on AMD K7, as it tests boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor. But boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor is uninitialized (or contains wrong value) when detect_init_APIC is invoked. As side effect I can confirm that APIC

Re: [RFC][PATCH] block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-07 Thread Andi Kleen
Michael E Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Problem Summary: There is no function exported to userspace to read or write the last 512-byte sector of an odd-size disk. The block device uses 1K blocksize, and will prevent userspace from seeing the odd-block at the end of the disk, if the

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-07 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 06:37:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: However, I really _do_ want to have the page cache have a bigger granularity than the smallest memory mapping size, and there are always special cases that might be able to generate IO in bigger chunks (ie in-kernel

maestro3 patch, resent

2001-02-07 Thread Zach Brown
duh. I sent this to rutgers originally.. --- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 07:42:25 -0500 From: Zach Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] maestro3 2.4.1-ac2 shutdown fix Its a wonder that anyone lets me write code. The following fixes a goofy shutdown problem with the 2.4

2.4.1-ac4 aic7xxx driver, heads-up re possible problem

2001-02-07 Thread glouis
Last night I installed 2.4.1-ac4 remotely on two machines that had been running -ac3. Neither was essential to production so I rebooted remotely to try it. One of them works fine. The other hangs at boot with an interrupt synch problem (sorry, but I'm away from the office and have only sketchy

Re: [RFC][PATCH] block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-07 Thread Michael E Brown
On 7 Feb 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: But what happens when you e.g. run a software blocksize of 4096 and the device has 1 inaccessible 512 byte sector at the end? I think it would be better to pass in a offset in 512 byte units to a special ioctl (and do error checking in the driver for

Lock in with 2.4.1 and NFS

2001-02-07 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hi, I have a strange problem on one of our server. I have 2.4.1 patched with ACLs 0.7.5 (from acl.bestbits.at) and some RAID + LVM volumes. At regular interval, NFS stops working (nfsd stops) and a stop/start of the NFS service doesn't work. The NFS service stop blocks in "exportfs -auv" when

Ioctl CDROMRESET has no effect

2001-02-07 Thread Paul Powell
I'm attempting to reset a CDROM using the CDROMRESET ioctl. The reset command only seems to reset the device if the device is not mounted. If the device is mounted, the reset command seems to have no effect. With the device unmounted, sending the reset command causes the drive to become active

RE: different IRQ settings for different MPS settings?

2001-02-07 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Hi, From: John R Lenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] With a MPS setting of 1.4 USB doesn't work on me; it timeouts, constantly. With MPS setting of 1.1 everything is OK. ... My question(s) is(are) is this a known bug, is this correct behaviour, am I missing something, and why is USB

[reiserfs] SPEC SFS fails at low loads...

2001-02-07 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, Under 2.4.1, after a little bit of running SPEC SFS (with NFSv3) I get these messages on the server: vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [0 1 0x0 SD] not found vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (0 1) not found vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (0 1) not found

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:47:09AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: Ok, how about we list the known bugs: zeros in log files, apparently only between bytes 2048 and 4096 (not reproduced yet). Could this bug be related to the reported corruption that people with new VIA chipsets have been also

Re: Ioctl CDROMRESET has no effect

2001-02-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Feb 07 2001, Paul Powell wrote: I'm attempting to reset a CDROM using the CDROMRESET ioctl. The reset command only seems to reset the device if the device is not mounted. If the device is mounted, the reset command seems to have no effect. With the device unmounted, sending the

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 08:38:54 AM -0800 David Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:47:09AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: Ok, how about we list the known bugs: zeros in log files, apparently only between bytes 2048 and 4096 (not reproduced yet). Could this

Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection ordering

2001-02-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Petr Vandrovec wrote: Hi, Mikael Pettersson pointed to me that current kernel code should not reenable local APIC on AMD K7, as it tests boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor. But boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor is uninitialized (or contains wrong value) when detect_init_APIC is invoked. As side effect

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:07:31PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: So.. It's likely that calling your performance issues 'gcc bugs' is about the same as saying that SGI cc is buggy because it can't compile the kernel. At least you managed to avoid calling RedHat names. :) I really have no

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:01:49AM +, David Howells wrote: More to add on the gcc 2.96 problems. After compiling a Linux 2.4.1 kernel on gcc 2.91, running SCI benchmarks, then compiling on RedHat 7.1 (Fischer) with gcc 2.96, the 2.96 build DROPPED 30% in throughput from the gcc

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:22:43AM +, Alan Cox wrote: kernel on gcc 2.91, running SCI benchmarks, then compiling on RedHat 7.1 (Fischer) with gcc 2.96, the 2.96 build DROPPED 30% in throughput from the gcc 2.91 compiled version on the identical SAME 2.4.1 source tree. 30% is too

reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff McWilliams
I'm having difficulty mounting a reiserfs partition after a power outage. This is 2.4.0-test9 compiled with reiserfs as a module, and the ide.2.4.0-t9-6.task.0923.path IDE patch - mostly to get updated support for the 3WARE IDE RAID controller. /dev/sda is the 3ware escalade raid mirror -

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:08:52AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Not supporting #ident for CVS managed code bases would see to me, at first glance, to be a show stopper to shipping a release of anything, since many folks need CVS support. Could you please explain what you mean by not

Re: APIC lockup in 2.4.x-x

2001-02-07 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: Martin Josefsson wrote: Hi I saw your patch for the APIC lockup and I saw that it was included in 2.4.1-ac2 so I tried that one.. but it didn't help.. I can begin with describing my machine: dual pIII 800 (133MHz FSB) Asus P3C-D

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:32:13PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:08:52AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Not supporting #ident for CVS managed code bases would see to me, at first glance, to be a show stopper to shipping a release of anything, since many folks need

Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection ordering

2001-02-07 Thread Mikael Pettersson
H. Peter Anvin writes: if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL) { printk("No APIC support for non-Intel processors.\n"); return -1; } Why is the test there in the first place? If the machine has an APIC, it should be

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 06:30:01 PM +0100 Xuan Baldauf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case, it's a SIS5513 board. I have to note that I now have one case which is between offset 9260 and 11016. So probably the tails unpacking theory does not work out. After a more systematical

Re: suspecious ide hdparm results with 2.4.1 (and a minor capacity question)

2001-02-07 Thread Andries . Brouwer
It's currently in LBA mode (I believe) and that, to my knowledge, wastes the most space. There are two entirely different things both called LBA. Neither of them wastes any space. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection ordering

2001-02-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mikael Pettersson wrote: In other words, I'd like to see a reason for making any vendor-specific determinations, and if so, they should ideally be centralized to the CPU feature-determination code. The Pentium 4 has a local APIC. It's not 100% compatible with the P6, and you

ACPI slowdown...

2001-02-07 Thread Tony Hoyle
I've been trying to track down what makes ACPI kill the system in 2.4.1. In the acpi_idle function (drivers/acpi/cpu.c), it seems to spend most of its time with interrupts disabled, only enabling them to check need_resched occasionally. In the 'sleep1' state the following code is executed:

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Xuan Baldauf
Chris Mason wrote: On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 06:30:01 PM +0100 Xuan Baldauf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case, it's a SIS5513 board. I have to note that I now have one case which is between offset 9260 and 11016. So probably the tails unpacking theory does not work out.

Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection ordering

2001-02-07 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Why is the test there in the first place? If the machine has an APIC, it should be able to use it. Presumably no other CPU uses the same MSR address (am I wrong?) for anything else -- if so, it should be able to poke it as long as the kernel

[PATCH] micro-opt DEBUG_ADD_PAGE

2001-02-07 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: - if (bh-b_size % correct_size) { + if (bh-b_size != correct_size) { Actually, I'd rather leave it in, but speed it up with the saner and fasterif (bh-b_size (correct_size-1)) { Micro-optimization season? ---

Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection ordering

2001-02-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: In other words, I'd like to see a reason for making any vendor-specific determinations, and if so, they should ideally be centralized to the CPU feature-determination code. It would be hard to decide how to classify it. It's something like "the CPU has a

Re: ACPI slowdown...

2001-02-07 Thread Tony Hoyle
Tony Hoyle wrote: I'm talking to myself :-) OK I see that safe_halt() will re-enable interrupts. However this is only called in S1. If your machine gets as far as S3 you have... for (;;) { unsigned long time; unsigned long diff;

Re: [PATCH] micro-opt DEBUG_ADD_PAGE

2001-02-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote: Micro-optimization season? I'd rather not do these kinds of things that the compiler should be able to trivially do for us. (gcc sometimes _does_ do these things. I've seen it. Why doesn't it do it here? Did you check the code? Have you asked the gcc

Re: Software Mestizo Manifesto

2001-02-07 Thread Roberto Diaz
Your "ethical" statement is incompatible with the GPL. I disagree. Its a statement. Its a request. It says 'advice'. Anyone is entitled to advise how to use GPL software. The only issue is if someone chooses to require it is not used by XYZ person. Please.. I am not lawyer... my

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:59:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: The second is that bh's are two things: - a cacheing object - an io buffer Actually, they really aren't. They kind of _used_ to be, but more and more they've moved

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:35:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: caching bmap() blocks was a recent addition around 2.3.20, and i suggested some time ago to cache pagecache blocks via explicit entries in struct page. That would be one solution - but it creates overhead. but there isnt anything

Re: Oopses in 2.4.1 (lots of them)

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
am not sure how to eliminate or confirm this. Recently I added some RAM (256-384) and decided to get rid of swap. This seemed to have destabilized the system, although nothing is obvious. I can try to stress the system by Get a copy of memtest86, its a standalone memory tester. - To

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Tim Wright
Umm, I don't know what compiler you've got etc. Jeff, but I just tried gcc-2.96 (-69) here, and '#ident' is supported and works perfectly. The only way to even get a warning is to use '-ansi -pedantic' which yields: junk.c:1:2: warning: ISO C does not allow #ident I don't think the problem is

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:59:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Actually, they really aren't. They kind of _used_ to be, but more and more they've moved away from that historical use. Check in particular the page cache, and as a really

[PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Hi Alan, Donald, This driver should call pci_enable_device before reading pdev-irq. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/starfire.c linux-dj/drivers/net/starfire.c ---

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Vedran Rodic
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:47:09AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: Ok, how about we list the known bugs: zeros in log files, apparently only between bytes 2048 and 4096 (not reproduced yet). preallocated block leak on crash (fix in testing) hidden directory entry cleanup (still

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 07:41:25 PM +0100 Vedran Rodic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So could some of this bugs also be present in 3.5.x version of reiserfs? Will you be fixing them for that version? This list of reiserfs bugs was all specific to the 3.6.x versions, and they don't

[PATCH] ne2k calling pci_enable twice.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Hi Alan, This looks odd to me, we're enabling the device twice. Patch against ac4. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c linux-dj/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c ---

[PATCH] eepro100 reads pdev- before pci_enable

2001-02-07 Thread davej
As in the previous patches, this driver also reads pdev-irq and pdev-resource before doing a pci_enable. This looks correct to me, and compiles, I lack the hardware to test this though. Comments ? regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN

IRQ Routing Troubles with 2.4.1?

2001-02-07 Thread Len Hatfield
Folks: We've been running successfully Slackware 7.1 (kernel 2.2.16) on a new Penguin Computing server (PIII uniprocessor with two 18gb Hitachi drives and the Adaptec 7896/7 onboard scsi controller). In attempting to upgrade to kernel 2.4.1, we began to get strange bugs apparently from the

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
Hummm. Where are the patches for 2.4 to correct this? They are not posted with the 7.1 release. They need to be. The compiler not supporting They don't need to be because the thing is just a warning. The kernel has plenty of warnings and this one is 100% harmless. #ident for CVS is a

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2001-02-07 Thread davej
Every mail I'm sending to l-k gets me a reply from [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying it's awaiting moderator approval. ISTR this happened last week also with another domain ? regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
I looked into this, and discovered that the gcc 2.96 compiler turned my rep movsd code into a rep movsb (???) with some evil looking C++ style If its hand coded asm then gcc shouldnt have touched it. If its an implicit memcpy then gcc will generate inline code designed for main memory

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:02:26PM +, Alan Cox wrote: Hummm. Where are the patches for 2.4 to correct this? They are not posted with the 7.1 release. They need to be. The compiler not supporting They don't need to be because the thing is just a warning. The kernel has plenty

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:06:55PM +, Alan Cox wrote: I looked into this, and discovered that the gcc 2.96 compiler turned my rep movsd code into a rep movsb (???) with some evil looking C++ style If its hand coded asm then gcc shouldnt have touched it. If its an implicit memcpy

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Ivan Pulleyn
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Chris Mason wrote: On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 07:41:25 PM +0100 Vedran Rodic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So could some of this bugs also be present in 3.5.x version of reiserfs? Will you be fixing them for that version? This list of reiserfs bugs was

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-07 Thread Richard Gooch
Stephen C. Tweedie writes: Hi, On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 06:37:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Absolutely. And this is independent of what kind of interface we end up using, whether it be kiobuf of just plain "struct buffer_head". In that respect they are equivalent. Sorry? I'm not

IDE PROBLEM 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 ...

2001-02-07 Thread Lourenco
hi! i am getting an error every time i try to copy a big file from my cdrom to one of my harddrives... my hardware: P2 333 128 MB Ram ONLY IDE BOARD BX i had run dmesg. PS : It works FINE with 2.2.* and other OS's... here it goes: ... VFS: Disk change detected on

Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
That would explain the %age certainly. How it happened is the next question I'll gen some code, and send to you. Thanks. - 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: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Xuan Baldauf
Hi Chris, this is the output of my zero block detection utility. Note that in all the files mentioned, zero bytes never can exist there, so every zero byte is a bug. The output format is: ${filename} ${decompressed?"d":"n"} ${startIndex} ${endIndex} ${length} The data (sorted):

[PATCH] Hamachi not doing pci_enable before reading resources

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Hi Alan, Another driver not doing pci_enable_device() early enough. Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/hamachi.c linux-dj/drivers/net/hamachi.c --- linux/drivers/net/hamachi.c Wed Feb 7

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Tim Wright wrote: Umm, I don't know what compiler you've got etc. Jeff, but I just tried gcc-2.96 (-69) here, and '#ident' is supported and works perfectly. The only way to even get a warning is to use '-ansi -pedantic' which yields: junk.c:1:2:

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
In file included from init.c:30: ../../prolog.h:344:8: invalid #ident It doesnt say #ident isnt supported it says your use of it is invalid. What precisely does that line read ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Hamachi not doing pci_enable before reading resources

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Applied locally: pci_device_enable() cleanups for hamachi, eepro100, starfire I'll have to look at ne2k-pci, I think a patch in -ac may be spurious. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns

[PATCH] natsemi pci_enable_device fixup.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
And they keep on coming. d. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/natsemi.c linux-dj/drivers/net/natsemi.c --- linux/drivers/net/natsemi.c Wed Feb 7 12:42:40 2001 +++ linux-dj/drivers/net/natsemi.c

Re: [OT] Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:22:19PM +, Alan Cox wrote: In file included from init.c:30: ../../prolog.h:344:8: invalid #ident It doesnt say #ident isnt supported it says your use of it is invalid. What precisely does that line read ? JJ tried it and it worked on some version he was

Re: [PATCH] natsemi pci_enable_device fixup.

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And they keep on coming. If you are so motivated, not all of them are in drivers/net (though I -certainly- appreciate the work you are doing here, too) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people,

Re: [PATCH] natsemi pci_enable_device fixup.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Jeff Garzik wrote... If you are so motivated, not all of them are in drivers/net (though I -certainly- appreciate the work you are doing here, too) *nod*, I'll move on to another dir after I've finished net/ I just felt in the mood to remove some of the simpler items that have been on my

Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Alan Cox
It is known bug which I reported to Andre already. Open drivers/ide/ide.c in favorite text editor, and replace strange body of ide_delay_50ms() with simple mdelay(50). Promise driver invokes ide_delay_50ms with interrupts disabled, so it freezes here forever. If you have NMI watchdog, you'll

RE: ACPI slowdown...

2001-02-07 Thread Grover, Andrew
From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] OK I see that safe_halt() will re-enable interrupts. However this is only called in S1. If your machine gets as far as S3 you have... I think you mean C1 and C3, but I know what you mean.. :) [C3 code snipped] There is no halt here... the

Bug in tcp_time_to_recover

2001-02-07 Thread Ramana Juvvadi
Consider the following code in tcp_input.c - static int tcp_time_to_recover(struct sock *sk, struct tcp_opt *tp) { /* Trick#1: The loss is proven. */ if (tp-lost_out) return 1; /* Not-A-Trick#2 : Classic rule... */

Re: [PATCH] Hamachi not doing pci_enable before reading resources

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Jeff Garzik wrote.. rejected -- 'irq' assigned a value before pci_enable_device called. better patch installed locally. Ugh, yep missed that one. Will look more carefully for those assignments. Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this

PCI-SCI Build Problems on RedHat 7.1

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:24:26PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Larry, Please provide to Alan Cox the exact versions and revision levels of the RedHat 7.1 build used for the SCI testing. Please provide him any other information he requests concerning the setup of this system. Jeff On

Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

2001-02-07 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 7 Feb 01 at 19:33, Alan Cox wrote: It is known bug which I reported to Andre already. Open drivers/ide/ide.c in favorite text editor, and replace strange body of ide_delay_50ms() with simple mdelay(50). Promise driver invokes ide_delay_50ms with interrupts disabled, so it freezes

changed proc permissions in 2.4

2001-02-07 Thread Olaf Hering
Hi, there seems to be a bug in the /proc permissions handling. What I need is a proc mount in a build chroot. This build chroot should not change the settings on the build host, therefore its mounted read only. This was ok with 2.2 kernels. The 2.4 kernel has appearently only one "handler" for

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