URGENT help needed

2001-04-21 Thread Pooja Gupta
Hello there!! I am begineer in kernels. I would like to know more about Cache Kernel. Can anyone tell me some good links for Cache Kernel? I have seen the stanford paper. Can you suggest something other than that? Pooja _ Chat with your frie

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone

2001-04-21 Thread rmk
Tom Leete writes: > $ diff -6 ... > will give 6 lines of context. patch will understand the output without any > extra help. Indeed, but I can't do that to a patch that Alan or Linus produces. -- Russell King ([EMAIL PROTECTED])The developer of ARM Linux http://www.a

Re: SMP in 2.4

2001-04-21 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> > testb %al, intr_pending > > jnz somewhere_away_to_handle_defered_interrupt > > > > And - of course - interrupt checks intr_lock in its entry and if it is > > zero, sets intr_pending and exits immediatelly. > > And immediately gets called again. You have to mask the irq which is non t

Re: PCI power management

2001-04-21 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:56:15PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > It's not so complicated to have the minimum flexibility for the driver > to tell it's maximum supported power level, and I don't see why it would > be a problem to use D2 instead of D3 when we don't support D3 for a given >

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac11

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
> On 04.21 Alan Cox wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > gcc-2.96 spits warnings about possibly-used-before-initialized vars in > mtrr.c, line 2004: Its right actually... that could only bite what I believe to be never issued chips but its right. - To u

unresolved symbols of 2.4.3-ac11

2001-04-21 Thread Byeong-ryeol Kim
I see follwing error messages while 'make modules_install' after compiling 2.4.3-ac11 kernel. make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac11/arch/i386/lib' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac11/arch/i386/lib' cd /lib/

I can't find out the answer

2001-04-21 Thread gis88530
Hello, I want to calculate the total memory usage of kernel. I wonder that we just need to add these(*1) in slabinfo or we need to add each line(*1 and *2) in slabinfo. Thanks. AND I know the size of size-512 is 512 bytes, but I want to know the size of tcp_tw_bucket, tcp_open_request, etc. How

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-21 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 03:07 21/04/2001, Lee Leahu wrote: >On Friday 20 April 2001 20:39, you wrote: > > Lee Leahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >my boss rememebres reading a very indepth article in one of the msdn >magazines. i could scan the articles in and compress them and send them >to the developers. Since you

Re: Athlon problem report summary

2001-04-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I wrote a set of programs to tune the MMX code. Arjan I suspect did similar > when he reoptimised the code for the newer Athlon. My app is at http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/athlon.c - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: SMP in 2.4

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
> > especially if you want to do it right on the BX. But you can do this and rtlinux > > does > > There is already desc->handler->ack(irq) in do_IRQ which does that. Is any > more special handling needed? You need to keep the IRQ line masked not just ack it. The code for handling all the BX and

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-21 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So how risky is this? Risky enough. I had to chkdsk once for half an hour after copying on an NTFS 5. Of course, I'm not familiar with the internals of it. > > Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does anyone > know

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-21 Thread Olaf Titz
> This is guaranteed behaviour of UNIX. You get file handles in order, or > you don't get them at all. You get the _next free_ file handle in order. What if your program assumes they are all contiguous, and it is called by some other program which forgot about FD_CLOEXEC and has some higher fds s

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-21 Thread lk
I have installed a Win2000 and you do not have to switch to NTFS. W2000 can be installed on a FAT32 partition. I have installed it on a FAT32 partition and hasn't caused me any problems. You might wanna give it a try. good luck, /me On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Where d

Re: RTC !

2001-04-21 Thread npunmia
Can someone help me with this !!! With Regards, --Niraj Niraj Punmia 04/21/2001 03:42 PM To: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: RTC ! (Document link not converted) The version of gcc , i am using is also egcs-2.91.66 !! How come i am getting this problem??? Jesper Juh

A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread lk
I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.). Thank you, /me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: SMP in 2.4

2001-04-21 Thread Mikulas Patocka
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > especially if you want to do it right on the BX. But you can do this and rtlinux > > > does > > > > There is already desc->handler->ack(irq) in do_IRQ which does that. Is any > > more special handling needed? > > You need to keep the IRQ line masked

Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)

2001-04-21 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 02:17:18AM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > One reason for this misdependency is that the IDE is initialized before > the cdrom driver, register_cdrom() gets called from inside the IDE > initialization functions. (ide_init() -> ide_init_builtin_drivers() -> > ide_cdrom_init() -> i

Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread Rasmus Bøg Hansen
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.). I _think_ some MMX is used if y

Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)

2001-04-21 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Apr 21 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 02:17:18AM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > > One reason for this misdependency is that the IDE is initialized before > > the cdrom driver, register_cdrom() gets called from inside the IDE > > initialization functions. (ide_init() -> ide_in

Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
> I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.). In almost all cases - no. The MMX instructions are mostly not useful. A few g

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-21 Thread mirabilos
> Thanks to all who offered suggestions, both on the list and privately. Rather > than answer them all individually, I'm going to respond in this one message. > > Unfortunately the upgrade is not going to be done by me, but by our PC support > team. Our laptops originally were set up with two FAT

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-21 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > If it can't be mechanically verified that the symbol has a correct > reference pattern within the tree, then it's broken. That's a > definition. Here's an alternative definition: If the symbol has the letters 'F', 'I', 'S' and 'H' in it, in any order, then it's bro

Re: [3C905x e401]

2001-04-21 Thread Francois Cami
okay, testing will begin monday (when it's under load). any advice on which value i begin with ? (20 ?) François Cami Andrew Morton wrote: > > Francois Cami wrote: > > > > Vibol Hou wrote: > > ... > > > > > Apr 17 16:10:12 omega kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401. > > > > I

Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread lk
Thank you all who have responded my question. Have a nice day! /me On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > > used by the kernel in this ope

APIC-Errors+Crashes on GA 586DX, 2.2.17/2.4.3

2001-04-21 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Hi, I am using for my Internet-Gateway a dual Pentium MMX 200Mhz with a Gigabyte 586DX Motherboard (with the Intel 430HX Chipset). The last year I used Linux-2.2.16,2.2.17 with it and had several hangs of the network and ISDN subsystem. The network dies like this (when copying huge amount of data

Inspiron 8000 does not resume after suspend

2001-04-21 Thread Daniel Dorau
Hello, my Inspiron 8000 (BIOS A09) notebook running 2.4.3 does not resume after suspending. I have APM compiled in with the following options: - Enable PM at boot time - Make CPU Idle calls whe ide - Enable console blanking using APM - RTC stores time in GMT Suspending with apm -s seem to work

Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread Tim Walberg
MMX **is** potentially used in the md (RAID-5) code for parity calculation, IIRC, though. That's about the only place that I can think of that it's used, but I don't claim to know the inner workings of the entire kernel, either... tw On 04/21/2001 13:55 +0300, [EMAIL PRO

2.4.3-ac11 request for help texts for recenty introduced config options

2001-04-21 Thread Steven Cole
As of kernel 2.4.3-ac11, there are 464 config options which have no help text in Configure.help. Here is the list of these items which have been introduced after 2.4.3-ac1. Each group is incremental, versus 2.4.3-ac[n-1]. If you see one of your options here, please consider generating a patch

[BUG] lvm beta7 and ac11 problems

2001-04-21 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, building a kernel with 2.4.3-ac11 and lvm beta7 + vfs_locking_patch-2.4.2 yields: oscar# depmod -ae 2.4.3-ac11 depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac11/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o depmod: get_hardblocksize ideas? Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I would suggest the following: > > - the generic semaphores should use the lock that already exists in the >wait-queue as the semaphore spinlock. Ok, that is what my generic code does. > - the generic semaphores should _not

Question about system generation

2001-04-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser Geuer
Hello, I want to do a new "distro" (home-brew) in some weeks, when kernel 2.4 runs fine with gcc-3.0 when it's finished. I want to use libc5 because I prefer it over GNU and it's smaller. Is it possible or do I have to expect major problems? I know that I won't be able to use IPv6 etc. but that's

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:03:27PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I would suggest the following: > > > > - the generic semaphores should use the lock that already exists in the > >wait-queue as the semaphore spinlock. > >

Re: [kbuild-devel] Dead symbol elimination, stage 1

2001-04-21 Thread Armin Schindler
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > The following patch cleans dead symbols out of the defconfigs in the 2.4.4pre4 > > source tree. It corrects a typo involving CONFIG_GEN_RTC. Another typo > > involving CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI doesn't nee

Re: [BUG] lvm beta7 and ac11 problems

2001-04-21 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Apr 21 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, > > building a kernel with 2.4.3-ac11 and lvm beta7 + vfs_locking_patch-2.4.2 yields: > > oscar# depmod -ae 2.4.3-ac11 > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac11/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o > depmod: get_hardblocksize > >

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:03:27PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I would suggest the following: > > > > > > - the generic semaphores should use the lock that

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread rmk
Andrea Arcangeli writes: > That it is allowed by my generic code that does spin_lock_irq in down_* and > spin_lock_irqsave in up_* but it's disallowed by the weaker semantics of the > generic and x86 semaphores 2.4.4pre[2345] (or + David's last patch). Hang on, who's code is in 2.4.4-pre5? It cl

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:03:27PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I would suggest the following: > > > > - the generic semaphores should use the lock that already exists in the > >wait-queue as the semaphore spinlock. > >

All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()

2001-04-21 Thread Russell King
Hi, For ARM, I require pgd_alloc to take a struct mm_struct argument (so the pgd_alloc prototype becomes "pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *)". Why? Because ARM must always have the first virtual page allocated and present - its used for the hardware vectors, and in order to allocate the page

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One might consider this a bug that hasn't happened yet - thanks Eric! Thank you very much for your cooperation. This is the third real problem that the CONFIG_ namespace audit has turned up, and a good example of the sort of thing I have been hoping to accom

[PATCH] maestro3 2.4.4-pre5 fixes

2001-04-21 Thread Zach Brown
The maestro3 driver has a error cleanup bug that would leave its reboot notifier registerd after exiting init_module with an error. Bayad. It also had a minor bug where it didn't explicitly set the codec->id before probing.. this patch vs 2.4.4-pre5 (I hope, its really vs jeff's cvs :)) fixes bo

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:37:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli writes: > > That it is allowed by my generic code that does spin_lock_irq in down_* and > > spin_lock_irqsave in up_* but it's disallowed by the weaker semantics of the ^

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:37:42PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:03:27PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I would suggest the following: > > > > > > - the generic semaphores should use the lock that

Re: Athlon problem report summary

2001-04-21 Thread Disconnect
> I wrote a set of programs to tune the MMX code. Arjan I suspect did similar > when he reoptimised the code for the newer Athlon. Simple stuff like Alan - your proggy ran (no output) for about 5 seconds or so, then exited. Arjan - from yours, I get the results below. Either way, no OOPs, no er

Re: [BUG] lvm beta7 and ac11 problems

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
> building a kernel with 2.4.3-ac11 and lvm beta7 + vfs_locking_patch-2.4.2 yields: > > oscar# depmod -ae 2.4.3-ac11 > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac11/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o > depmod: get_hardblocksize > > ideas? get_hardblock_size has been removed. Take

Re: Question about system generation

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
> when kernel 2.4 runs fine with gcc-3.0 when it's > finished. I want to use libc5 because I prefer it > over GNU and it's smaller. Is it possible or do > I have to expect major problems? I know that I won't It should work due the compatibility calls. It will probably cease to work well in 2.5 ho

Re: I can't find out the answer

2001-04-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, gis88530 wrote: > I want to calculate the total memory usage of kernel. > I wonder that we just need to add these(*1) in slabinfo or > we need to add each line(*1 and *2) in slabinfo. Thanks. > AND > I know the size of size-512 is 512 bytes, but I want to know > the size of

Re: Inspiron 8000 does not resume after suspend

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
> With an older BIOS version that I upgraded because of a newer > ATI BIOS needed, it woke up execpt some PCI bridge(?) that I > could re-activate with a setpci-script that I found in a > linux-kernel archive. So I think the problem is the same as > before. > Is there any way to fix that? I would

Cache Kernel Doubt

2001-04-21 Thread Pooja Gupta
Hello there!! I am begineer in kernels. I would like to know more about Cache Kernel. Can anyone tell me some good links for Cache Kernel? I have seen the stanford paper. Can you suggest something other than that? Pooja _ Chat with your

Re: Bug report: tcp staled when send-q != 0, timers == 0.

2001-04-21 Thread Eugene B. Berdnikov
Hello. On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:28:43PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > However, this is _not_ a staled state. When I resume ssh on 194.190.166.31, > > buffer gets empty and connection behaves as normal. I made this experiment > > waiting for keepalive packets from both sides, as well

2.4.3ac11: [drm:r128_do_wait_for_idle] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_idle failed!

2001-04-21 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Hallo world! I don't know, if I'm here at the right mailinglist, but I found another posting for this problem right here, so I decided to post this additional question here too. I'm using kernel 2.4.3ac11 (or previous) and actual DRI-sources from dri.sourceforge.net with an ATI EXPERT2000 gra

try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi, A printk added to 2.4.4-pre5 try_to_swap_out()... drop_pte: mm->rss--; { int age = page->age; int count = page_count(page); int cache = PageSwapCache(page); printk("[pid-%d] page:%p deact:%d cache:%d age:%d count:%d\n",

Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux kernel sources. The goal of the system is to make it easy for people reading any given piece of code to identify the responsible maintainer. The motivation for this proposal is that the present system, a single top-level MAINTAI

Re: RFC: pageable kernel-segments

2001-04-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:49:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > There is a proposal (several it seems) to make 2.5 replace the conventional > > unix swap with a filesystem of backing store for anonymous objects. That will > > mean each object has i

a way to restore my hd ?

2001-04-21 Thread Ville Holma
Hello all, I'm affraid this list is my last chance at saving my harddrive. I hope this kind of question is appropriate here and if not, my appologies. Anyway, here's the deal. I upgraded my hardware to 1GHz Athlon with a 133 kHz FSB, Via KT133A chipset motherboard and 256 Mb of 133 sdram. I'm r

Re: Cache Kernel Doubt

2001-04-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On 21 Apr 2001, Pooja Gupta wrote: > I am begineer in kernels. I would like to know more about Cache > Kernel. Can anyone tell me some good links for Cache Kernel? I have > seen the stanford paper. Can you suggest something other than that? Could you stop repeating this question to linux-kernel

Re: APIC-Errors+Crashes on GA 586DX, 2.2.17/2.4.3

2001-04-21 Thread Karsten Keil
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:07:22PM +0200, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > Hi, > I am using for my Internet-Gateway a dual Pentium MMX 200Mhz with a > Gigabyte 586DX Motherboard (with the Intel 430HX Chipset). The last year > I used Linux-2.2.16,2.2.17 with it and had several hangs of the network > an

Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
Oops.. looking at aging too hard :) What kind of page is it? -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://ww

Re: rwsem.o listed twice as export-objs

2001-04-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Hi David, > > please remove rwsem.o from the list of exported objects, if it is > not used. No! The whole point of 'export-objs' is to _always_ list the objects there to make the makefiles smaller and cleaner. Christoph -- Of course it doesn

Re: a way to restore my hd ?

2001-04-21 Thread Ville Holma
I forgot to mention earlier that I'm not subscribed to the list so i'd appreciate if the possible replies were CC'd directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Karsten Keil
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: ... > If this proposal meets with approval, I am willing to do three things: Sounds good for me. > > 1. Generate a patch to distribute the information presently in the >MAINTAINERS file into map blocks and %Map files. > > 2.

Re: a way to restore my hd ?

2001-04-21 Thread Karsten Keil
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:52:01PM +0300, Ville Holma wrote: ... > > debian:~# e2fsck /dev/hdb7 > e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > Corruption found in superblock. (frags_per_group = 2147516416). > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > file

Crash: XFree86 4.0.3 and Kernel 4.0.3

2001-04-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
I hate to report this again, I saw some reports that it was fixed with 4.0.3 of XFree86, so I tried XF86 4.0.3 with RedHat 7.1. Any time it tries to turn the monitor off, it crashes. I get no oopses. Nothing. Has anyone figured out why it crashes? How can I fix it besides remove the power sa

Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > 30:04: [pid-4] page:c10599f4 deact:0 cache:0 age:29 count:164 [164? 1] > 30:04: [pid-4] page:c10599a8 deact:0 cache:0 age:26 count:164 > 1. what kind of page has 164 references? mmap(/lib/libc.so, FLAGS); > 2. why deactivate pages (lots) with coun

Re: Problems with Toshiba SD-W2002 DVD-RAM drive (IDE)

2001-04-21 Thread Stefan Jaschke
Hi Jens, I took some time to try to understand why "mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc" wants 500MB memory. Here is a first explanation: # mke2fs -m 0 -n /dev/hdc mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 406650880

Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Francois Romieu
Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrit : [...] > What's wrong with: > [xml] I'd rather use c/etags. Seriously, it won't create maintainers automagically. I don't see the benefit. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Bug report: tcp staled when send-q != 0, timers == 0.

2001-04-21 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Im my case P-MTU discovery Sorry, I lied. Not pmtu discovery but exaclty opposite effect is important here: collapsing of small frames to larger ones. Each such merge results in loss of 1 "sack" in 2.2. > I only wrote that it was active when got stuck. It may be idle before - > I do

Re: Cache Kernel Doubt

2001-04-21 Thread Alex Ramos
"Pooja  Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello there!! > > I am begineer in kernels. I would like to know more about Cache Kernel. Can anyone >tell me some good links for Cache Kernel? I have seen the stanford paper. Can you >suggest something other than that? > As Rik from Conectiva st

Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsembenchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

2001-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Russell King wrote: > > Erm, spin_lock()? What if up_read or up_write gets called from interrupt > context (is this allowed)? Currently that is not allowed. We allow it for regular semaphores, but not for rw-semaphores. We may some day have to revisit that issue, but I s

Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)

2001-04-21 Thread Dan Aloni
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > In order to get my kernel to boot, I've made the following temporary > > workaround patch. I'd be glad to hear about other ways of solving this. > > The link order is wrong. So why not changing the link order then? I remember doing what the patch below

Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What I _am_ worried about is the fact that we do this to pages with >a really high page age. These things are in active use and cannot >be swapped out any time soon, yet we do claim swap space for it ... Ehh... And if we

Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > 30:04: [pid-4] page:c10599f4 deact:0 cache:0 age:29 count:164 [164? 1] > > 30:04: [pid-4] page:c10599a8 deact:0 cache:0 age:26 count:164 > > > 1. what kind of page has 164 references? > > mmap(/lib/libc.s

Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What I _am_ worried about is the fact that we do this to pages with > >a really high page age. These things are in active use and cannot > >be swapped out any time soon, y

Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ehh... And if we didn't do that, then how could they every become less > > active? > > > > We should _absolutely_ do the swap space reclaiming without looking at > > the page count. > > page->age != page->

Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2

2001-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > We should _absolutely_ do the swap space reclaiming without looking at > > the page count. > > page->age != page->count It's all the same thing. The page age and count are used to decice when the page actually gets thrown _out_ of memory. That'

Re: Crash: XFree86 4.0.3 and Kernel 4.0.3

2001-04-21 Thread Juri Haberland
Trever L. Adams wrote: > I hate to report this again, I saw some reports that it was fixed with > 4.0.3 of XFree86, so I tried XF86 4.0.3 with RedHat 7.1. > > Any time it tries to turn the monitor off, it crashes. I get no oopses. > Nothing. > > Has anyone figured out why it crashes? How can

Re: rwsem.o listed twice as export-objs

2001-04-21 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:06:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > please remove rwsem.o from the list of exported objects, if it is > > not used. > > No! The whole point of 'export-objs' is to _always_ list the objects there > to make the makefile

Re: 2.4.3-ac11 request for help texts for recenty introduced config options

2001-04-21 Thread johan . adolfsson
I have fixed most of the CONFIG_ETRAX stuff, many of them are not visible in CML1... (at least not with menuconfig) some of the LED stuff should probably not even be there. Björn can probably submit a patch within a few days. /Johan - Original Message - From: Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: a way to restore my hd ?

2001-04-21 Thread Steve Bromwich
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ville Holma wrote: > Anyway now that I try to boot up the system I get a kernel panic like this: > > EXT2-fs: #blocks per group too big: 2147516416 > fatfs: bodus cluster size > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:47 > > So I set up another linux box and tried

2.4.3+ sound distortion

2001-04-21 Thread Victor Julien
Hi, I've never posted here before, so if i do anything wrong, just let me know. I have a problem with kernels higher than 2.4.2, the sound distorts when playing a song with xmms while the seti@home client runs. 2.4.2 did not have this problem. I tried 2.4.3, 2.4.4-pre5 and 2.4.3-ac11. They al

Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Tamas Nagy
Hello, Lot of people would like to know their data in secure place, and the frequent usage of compression softwares could be time-consuming and boring sometime. Idea: extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows for file-system level encryption instead of file-lev

Re: 2.4.3+ sound distortion

2001-04-21 Thread Nigel Gamble
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Victor Julien wrote: > I have a problem with kernels higher than 2.4.2, the sound distorts when > playing a song with xmms while the seti@home client runs. 2.4.2 did not have > this problem. I tried 2.4.3, 2.4.4-pre5 and 2.4.3-ac11. They al showed the > same problem. Try r

Re: [kbuild-devel] Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux kernel > sources. The goal of the system is to make it easy for people reading > any given piece of code to identify the responsible maintainer. The motivation > for this proposal is that the present

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Alistair Riddell
Have you tried: man losetup losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/hdxx -e DES mke2fs /dev/loop0 mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/ On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Tamas Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > Lot of people would like to know their data in secure place, and the > frequent usage of compression softwares could be time-consuming

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Hello, ftp://www.kerneli.org/pub/linux/kerneli/ For idea encryption, you just use losetup -e idea /dev/loop0 /filesystem Password: whatever mke2fs /dev/loop0 mount /dev/loop0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Tamas Nagy wrote: > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows > for file-system level encryption instead of file-level. This could be used > transparently for applications or even for file-system drivers. This > doesn't mean an encrypted f

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Peter Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Tamas Nagy") writes: > Idea: > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows > for file-system level encryption instead of file-level. That's is one of the things the loop device offers. For better encryption than XOR you need the patches from k

[PATCH] ppp_generic, kernel 2.4.

2001-04-21 Thread Tim Wilson
This patch corrects a bug in CCP establishment which can result in a major security hole. The bug can cause PPP to NOT install and use a compressor module for sending, even though the compressor is sucessfully negotiated by CCP. Since encryption is sometimes implemented as a compressor module (

Re: Crash: XFree86 4.0.3 and Kernel 4.0.3

2001-04-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
Juri Haberland wrote: > > Hi Trevor, > > I have the same problem with almost the same combination (RH 7.0 instead of > RH 7.1). Did you compile the XFree server yourself and if so, did you > optimize it for i686? The reason why I'm asking is that I did that and > suspected the optimazions to ca

Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)

2001-04-21 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:33:05PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > The link order is wrong. So why not changing the link order then? > > I remember doing what the patch below does. > It didn't help. Hmm, maybe you had a typo? > Did you try this patch? Yes,

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:21:44PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Tamas Nagy") writes: > > > Idea: > > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows > > for file-system level encryption instead of file-level. > > That's is one of the things the l

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Stefan Jaschke
On Saturday 21 April 2001 20:52, Tamas Nagy wrote: > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which > allows for file-system level encryption instead of file-level. This could > be used transparently for applications or even for file-system drivers. > This doesn't mean an e

Re: 2.4.3+ sound distortion

2001-04-21 Thread Victor Julien
That did not help. The distortion is no stuttering, but noise in the music. It's not specific to xmms, freeamp and xine also have the noise. The noise reminds me of years ago when my father used a electric shaver witch gave noise in the sound of my radio. Maybe that can give you an idea about t

Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:38:59PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > What's wrong with: [...xml horror deleted...] The myriads of external tools/libraries you will need (and that usually do not work properly, spewing out undecryptable error messages, or are currently not installed on yo

Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)

2001-04-21 Thread Dan Aloni
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:33:05PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > > The link order is wrong. So why not changing the link order then? > > > > I remember doing what the patch below does. > > It didn't help. > > Hmm, m

Re: [kbuild-devel] Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Giacomo A. Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We should use the same filed name of CREDITS e.g. D: for Description. > (maybe you can invert D: description and T: time of last update) Good point. > It whould nice also if we include the type of the license (GPL,...). > This for a fast parsing (and

Races in affs_unlink(), affs_rmdir() and affs_rename()

2001-04-21 Thread Alexander Viro
mkdir /A mkdir /B mkdir /C touch /A/a ln /A/a /B/b ln /A/a /C/c rm /A/a & rm /B/b can corrupt filesystem. Scenario: unlink("/B/b") locks /B, removes "b" and unlocks /B. Then it calls affs_remove_link(), which blocks. unlink("/A/a") locks /A, removes "a" and unlocks /A. Then it calls affs_remove

2.4.4-pre6 does not compile

2001-04-21 Thread Jochen Striepe
Hi, 2.4.4-pre6 actually is the 4th 2.4.4pre-Patch that does not compile without further patching on my system. :-( ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.4-pre6/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --star

Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Eric S. Raymond writes: > This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux > kernel sources. The goal of the system is to make it easy for > people reading any given piece of code to identify the responsible > maintainer. The motivation for this proposal is that the present >

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:21:44PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Tamas Nagy") writes: > > > Idea: > > > extend the current file-system with an optional plug-in system, which allows > > > for file-system level encryption instead of file

Re: 2.4.4-pre6 does not compile

2001-04-21 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:17:28PM +0200, Jochen Striepe wrote: > 2.4.4-pre6 actually is the 4th 2.4.4pre-Patch that does not compile > without further patching on my system. :-( > rwsem.o(.text+0x30): undefined reference to `__builtin_expect' > rwsem.o(.text+0x73): undefined reference to `__built

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