Re: [Semi-OT] Dual Athlon support in kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:03:18AM +0200, Antwerpen, Oliver wrote: > I am also highly interested in information about dual Athlon (which > kernel/compiler/tools to use?), as we will get a dual Athlon sample before kernel >= 2.4.3 (better >= 2.4.4pre2 for other rasons) compiled for K7 and

Re: [Semi-OT] Dual Athlon support in kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:22:15AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Would the current state of athlon support be considered stable? yes. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

RE: [Semi-OT] Dual Athlon support in kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Antwerpen, Oliver
Moin Mike, > From: Mike A. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Would the current state of athlon support be considered stable? > I've got a colleague interested in getting a dual athlon box, and > I'll be making the decision as to what hardware to purchase. I'm > wondering is dual Athlon

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-23 Thread alad
Erik Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/24/2001 01:14:27 AM To: Christian Ehrhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Amol Lad/HSS) Subject: Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2 On 23 Apr 2001 18:11:48 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Thu,

Re: [lkml]Matrox FB console driver

2001-04-23 Thread thunder7
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:06:11PM -0500, Andy Carlson wrote: > I was playing around with a program that I was using to time differences > between kernels (a silly prime program that puts out 100 primes). I > noticed a very strange behaviour. On a fresh boot, with the Penguin > pictures

[Semi-OT] Dual Athlon support in kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
Would the current state of athlon support be considered stable? I've got a colleague interested in getting a dual athlon box, and I'll be making the decision as to what hardware to purchase. I'm wondering is dual Athlon viable for a business solution right now, or is it considered

rwsem benchmark [was Re: [PATCH] rw_semaphores, optimisations try #3]

2001-04-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:34:35PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:35:34PM +0100, D . W . Howells wrote: > > This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre6) makes a number of changes to the > > rwsem implementation: > > > > (1) Everything in try #2 > > > > plus > > > >

Re: USB problems since 2.4.2

2001-04-23 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kernel: 2.4.2 - latest (2.4.3-ac12) > > > Platform: x86 on mangled Slack7.1 > > > Hardware: MSI 694D Pro-AR > > > ( http://www.msicomputer.com/products/detail.asp?ProductID=150

Re: USB problems since 2.4.2

2001-04-23 Thread josh
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kernel: 2.4.2 - latest (2.4.3-ac12) > > Platform: x86 on mangled Slack7.1 > > Hardware: MSI 694D Pro-AR > > ( http://www.msicomputer.com/products/detail.asp?ProductID=150 ) > > > > Problem: USB devices timeout on address assignment.

Re: aic7xxx: first mount always fails

2001-04-23 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> >The first attempt at mounting a disc in my Traxdata CDR drive after >boot always fails. From the second on, everything works flawlessly. >Current setup is 2.2.18 kernel + 6.1.11-2.2.18 patch, but I've been >experiencing this behaviour since I bought the adapter (around 2.2.12 or so). >aic7xxx

SANE

2001-04-23 Thread Jim M.
Hi, I have a scsi camera of unknown brand and type. No driver. It has CCD chip on it. Can I use SANE as an interface to this camera?. I need to control it using my app that talks to SANE. J _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Andreas Dilger
Ed Tomlinson writes: > > Consider, when I was doing some fs benchmark, my inode slab cache was > > over 120k items on a 128MB machine. At 480 butes per inode, this is > > almost 58 MB, close to half of RAM. Reducing this to exactly ext2 > > sized inodes would save (50 - 27) * 4 * 120k = 11MB of

Re: [RFC][PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-23 Thread Douglas Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > Doug suggested looking at extending scsimon. This is a fine idea, and I've > made proposed changes available at http://domsch.com/linux/scsi/. (Doug may > want to clean this up). However, this, like my earlier changes to > /proc/scsi/scsi, doesn't

serial driver not properly detecting modem

2001-04-23 Thread Steven Walter
It would seem that I have a modem (hardware based, not winmodem) of PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER. This, unfortunately, prevents it from being automagically detected by the serial driver, which only looks for devices of PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_SERIAL. I've fixed this here merely by adding an

Re: USB problems since 2.4.2

2001-04-23 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kernel: 2.4.2 - latest (2.4.3-ac12) > Platform: x86 on mangled Slack7.1 > Hardware: MSI 694D Pro-AR > ( http://www.msicomputer.com/products/detail.asp?ProductID=150 ) > > Problem: USB devices timeout on address assignment. Course thats with

Re: [PATCH] Move __GFP_IO check in shrink_icache_memory to prune_icache()

2001-04-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Linus, > > With the prune_icache() modifications which were integrated in pre5 there > is no more need to avoid non __GFP_IO allocations to go down to > prune_icache(). > > The following patch moves the __GFP_IO check down to prune_icache(), >

Re: Problem with i810_audio driver

2001-04-23 Thread Doug Ledford
Eugene Kuznetsov wrote: > > Hello, > > I am a happy owner of Intel D815EEA2 mother board. This board > comes with integrated AC-97 audio. When I try to load i810_audio > driver for it, driver identifies the device as > "Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.02, 19:43:23 Apr 20 2001 > i810:

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-23 Thread David L. Nicol
Dale Amon wrote: > > Talk about syncronicity... I had just last week asked > about the pro's and con's on this on the crypto list and > have heard nothing at all back. So I'll drop the body > of that message in here: why not port one of the twenty or thirty preexisting tools that let you mount

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:45:05PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > BTW: Is it still less than one page? Then it doesn't make me > >nervous. Why? Guess what granularity we allocate at, if we > >just store pointers instead of the inode.u. Or do you

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Doug Ledford
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "Pawel Worach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was using mpg123 (xmms and c/o does exactly the same) > > if I run it like this Moby sounds very stupid... :) > > i got the same problem when using mpg123 compiled with esd on my dell > workstation (which has a need

Re: [RFC][PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > PCI ids can be derived from bus/slot/function. > > Even better. I'll remove the extraneous fields then, and only return those. > > typedef struct scsi_pci { > unsigned char bus_number; > unsigned intdevfn; /* encoded device &

RE: [RFC][PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-23 Thread Matt_Domsch
> PCI ids can be derived from bus/slot/function. Even better. I'll remove the extraneous fields then, and only return those. typedef struct scsi_pci { unsigned char bus_number; unsigned intdevfn; /* encoded device & function index */ } Scsi_Pci; Thanks, Matt --

USB problems since 2.4.2

2001-04-23 Thread josh
Kernel: 2.4.2 - latest (2.4.3-ac12) Platform: x86 on mangled Slack7.1 Hardware: MSI 694D Pro-AR ( http://www.msicomputer.com/products/detail.asp?ProductID=150 ) Problem: USB devices timeout on address assignment. Course thats with the non JE driver, with the JE driver the bus doesnt even say

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:45:05PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Last time we suggested this, people ended up with some OS trying > it and getting worse performance. > > Why? You need to allocate the VFS-inode (vnode in other OSs) and > the on-disk-inode anyway at the same time. You get better >

Re: [upatch] lib/Makefile

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Peter Samuelson] > > Introduced in 2.4.4pre4, I believe. $(export-objs) need not be > > conditional, and the if statement was not really correct either, > > although in this case it probably worked. [Tom Rini] > Er, are you sure changing the test for !"nn" is correct here? I > _think_ at

Got a Kernel OOPS, and the problem with OOPS itself.

2001-04-23 Thread Ishikawa
I got a kernel oops today. I had oopses twice this month. One thing I noticed about the latest kernel oopses in 2.4.3 and 2.4.4-pre4 which I am using: while I manually tried to copy the OOPS dump info on the CRT screen, somehow the interrupt was NOT disabled (!?) and some stray interrupt from

Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0

2001-04-23 Thread Tim Jansen
The Linux Device Registry (devreg) is a kernel patch that adds a device database in XML format to the /proc filesystem. It collects all information about the system's physical devices, creates persistent device ids and provides them in the file /proc/devreg. Devreg has three purposes: -

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-23 Thread John Fremlin
Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Are you sure? A suspend takes about 5-10 seconds on my laptop. You mean when you tell the apm driver from userspace to suspend? > (It was noticably faster with 2.3 kernels, btw. Now it spends a second > or two apparently not noticing the APM

Matrox FB console driver

2001-04-23 Thread Andy Carlson
I was playing around with a program that I was using to time differences between kernels (a silly prime program that puts out 100 primes). I noticed a very strange behaviour. On a fresh boot, with the Penguin pictures that the Matrox FB driver puts up, the prime program runs 1 minute, 30

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-23 Thread David S. Miller
Alan Cox writes: > 2.4.3-ac13 > oSwitch to NOVERS symbols for rwsem (me) > | Called from asm blocks so they can't be versioned Yes they most certainly can be versioned inside of an asm. Use the "i" constraint, we've been doing this on sparc64 for ages. Later, David S.

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-23 Thread Alexander Viro
On 24 Apr 2001, David Wagner wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >Ehh.. I will bet you $10 USD that if libc allocates the next file > >descriptor on the first "malloc()" in user space (in order to use the > >semaphores for mm protection), programs _will_ break. > > > >You want to take the bet? >

Re: compile error 2.4.4pre6: inconsistent operand constraints in an

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff Chua
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.4pre6 only builds with gcc 2.96. If you apply the __builtin_expect fixes > it builds and runs fine with 2.95. Not tried egcs. The gcc 3.0 asm constraints > one I've yet to see a fix for. So, should I upgrade to 2.96 from 2.95.3? But, from

Re: comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-23 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > * the colors are hard to see (red/blue on black). Probably > > matter of terminal settings. I do not have any productive > > ideas tho... Probably to get best experience to as much > > people as possible the less colors are used the

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-23 Thread David Wagner
Linus Torvalds wrote: >Ehh.. I will bet you $10 USD that if libc allocates the next file >descriptor on the first "malloc()" in user space (in order to use the >semaphores for mm protection), programs _will_ break. > >You want to take the bet? Good point. Speaking of which: ioctl(fd,

Re: Kernel hang on multi-threaded X process crash

2001-04-23 Thread Don Dugger
Alan- I certainly care to fix it (since I wrote the patch). Since `aviplay' seems to be the easy way to trigger it I'll look into it. On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:40:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Both mozilla and aviplay (which are both multithreaded) trigger this - I > > haven't tried with

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-23 Thread Jamie Lokier
John Fremlin wrote: > > > I'm wondering if that veto business is really needed. Why not reject > > > *all* APM rejectable events, and then let the userspace event handler > > > send the system to sleep or turn it off? Anybody au fait with the APM > > > spec? > > > > My thinkpad actually started

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Andreas Dilger wrote: > Consider, when I was doing some fs benchmark, my inode slab cache was > over 120k items on a 128MB machine. At 480 butes per inode, this is > almost 58 MB, close to half of RAM. Reducing this to exactly ext2 > sized inodes would save (50 - 27) * 4 * 120k = 11MB of

Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-23 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org This isnt a proper release as such, it should just deal with most of the compile failure/symbol failure problems. 2.4.3-ac13 o

Kernel make dependancies question

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff Golds
Hi folks, I was looking at linux/drivers/Makefile and noticed that "sound" (among others) was always put into the kernel whether it was configured on or not. Is there some reason for this? Also, in linux/Rules.make, "fastdep:" is making dependancies on "ALL_SUB_DIRS" which is "subdir-y",

Re: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-A1, massive swapping speedup

2001-04-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > >There seems to be one more reason, take a look at the function > > >read_swap_cache_async() in swap_state.c, around line 240: > > > > > >/* > > > * Add it to the swap cache and read

Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild

2001-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 9:10 AM +1000 4/24/01, Keith Owens wrote: > >I don't see how multiple source trees can be merged automatically with >>100% accuracy. > >I agree, multiple source trees only work 100% for non-overlapping code. >It does not matter how you implement separate source, the moment it >overlaps you

Re: ioctl arg passing

2001-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 11:09 PM +0100 4/23/01, Matt wrote: >| struct instruction_t { >| __s16 code; >| __s16 rxlen; >| __s16 *rxbuf; >| __s16 txlen; >| __s16 *txbuf; >| }; > >So far, I now know I can grab stuff across the user <-> kernel divide as I >planned. The only problem I'm left with,

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]

2001-04-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:27:23PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: > Well, take that back, I just got it to hang. Again, this is 2.4.4pre3 > with alpha-numa-3 and rwsem-generic-4. I saw it upon starting mozilla. > I also saw some scary filesystem errors that may or may not be related: > Apr 23

odd messages in dmesg (network I think)

2001-04-23 Thread Byron Albert
Hello, I am getting odd message in my dmesg I am running Linux extreme 2.4.2-ac28 #1 SMP Fri Apr 13 01:58:47 UTC 2001 i686 unknown and the messages look like Undo Hoe 64.22.x.x/4414 c3 l2 ss10/65535 p4 Undo Hoe 64.22.x.x/4414 c3 l1 ss10/65535 p3 Undo Hoe 64.22.x.x/4414 c3 l1 ss10/65535 p2 Undo

read perf improved by mounting ext2?

2001-04-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, I have some memory reading some similar question somewhere (here?) but I'm not sure there was an answer. I do observe strange behaviour if read performance fo my IDE harddisk as reported by hdparm (or doing linear reads with a self written program): My FUJITSU MPG3409AT E is supposed to

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]

2001-04-23 Thread Bob McElrath
Andrea Arcangeli [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: > > I'm at 2 days uptime now, and have not seen the process-table-hang. > > Looks like this fixed it. Previously I would get a hang in the first > > day or so. I'm using your alpha-numa-3

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > - keep a separate VFSinode and FSinode slab cache > > Yup. Would it make sense to unify these with the struct address_space ? regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml

[PATCH] Move __GFP_IO check in shrink_icache_memory to prune_icache()

2001-04-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Linus, With the prune_icache() modifications which were integrated in pre5 there is no more need to avoid non __GFP_IO allocations to go down to prune_icache(). The following patch moves the __GFP_IO check down to prune_icache(), allowing !__GFP_IO allocations to free clean unused inodes.

Re: i810_audio broken?t

2001-04-23 Thread Alan Cox
> Are you guys running esd with any special arguments? > > esd needs a special argument, -r RATE [iirc], in order to tell esd that > it is dealing with a locked rate codec. 48Khz esound support was fixed the day I got an i810 board 8). Its the rate conversions it cant handle - To unsubscribe

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Alan Cox
> Ok building mpg123 without eSound worked for me too, > so guess this is not a Linux kernel issue, sorry for this. Excellent. > eSound sux? esound has very broken rate conversion support (it converts the audio but rather damages it on the way). Gnome is moving towards using the KDE arts

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > - keep a separate VFSinode and FSinode slab cache Yup. > - allocate an enlarged VFSinode that contains the FSinode at the end, > with the generic pointer in the VFSinode part pointing to FSinode > part. Please, don't. It would help with bloat

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Richard Gooch
Alexander Viro writes: > > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > - keep a separate VFSinode and FSinode slab cache > > Yup. > > > - allocate an enlarged VFSinode that contains the FSinode at the end, > > with the generic pointer in the VFSinode part pointing to FSinode > >

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Pawel Worach
Ok i'll try :) It's a little bit slow and the high tones get kind of very high The first track of Moby Play sounds like you mixed Moby with Donald Duck (but it not fast), like I said it's hard to describe sound in text. :) I can record it on another box and give You the result if You like? :)

Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild

2001-04-23 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:03:45 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 05:25:24 -0400, >> Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >The attached patch, against kernel 2.4.4-pre3, adds a feature I call >> >"3rd-party support." >> >> Already covered

Re: NWFS broken on 2.4.3 -- someone removed WRITERAW

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:58:09AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > Whomever removed WRITERAW has broken NWFS. WRITE requests call > > _refile_buffer() after the I/O request and take my locally created > > buffer heads and

Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Keith Owens wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 05:25:24 -0400, > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The attached patch, against kernel 2.4.4-pre3, adds a feature I call > >"3rd-party support." > > Already covered by my 2.5 makefile rewrite[1] which has explicit > support for third party kernel

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > esd needs a special argument, -r RATE [iirc], in order to tell esd > that it is dealing with a locked rate codec. Isn't there an ioctl for that? -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: compile error 2.4.4pre6: inconsistent operand constraints in an

2001-04-23 Thread Alan Cox
> after having had trouble with compilation due to old gcc version, i have > updated to gcc 3.0 and received the following error: 2.4.4pre6 only builds with gcc 2.96. If you apply the __builtin_expect fixes it builds and runs fine with 2.95. Not tried egcs. The gcc 3.0 asm constraints one I've

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Richard Gooch
Albert D. Cahalan writes: > Richard Gooch writes: > > > We want to take out that union because it sucks for virtual > > filesystems. Besides, it's ugly. > > I hope you won't mind if people trash this with benchmarks. But they can't. At least, not for a well designed patch. If there is a real

Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

2001-04-23 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > So maybe make the original error message more informative ? > Just something like: > > - extern void __buggy_fxsr_alignment(void); > - __buggy_fxsr_alignment(); > + extern void

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Andreas Dilger
Ingo Oeser writes: > > We should get ext2 and friends to move the sucker _out_ of struct inode. > > As it is, sizeof(struct inode) is way too large. This is 2.5 stuff, but > > it really has to be done. More filesystems adding stuff into the union > > is a Bad Thing(tm). If you want to allocates

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Pawel Worach
Ok building mpg123 without eSound worked for me too, so guess this is not a Linux kernel issue, sorry for this. I tried the fstodell hack but it seems to be obsoluted. Now it works without any tweaks. eSound sux? Thanks guys! Back to work (with music :) - Original Message - From:

Re: 3-Ware Raid driver fails to update GenDisk head

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:45:35AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:13:12PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:55:00PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200,

Re: 3-Ware Raid driver fails to update GenDisk head

2001-04-23 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 23 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:13:12PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:55:00PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:08:52PM

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Richard Gooch writes: > We want to take out that union because it sucks for virtual > filesystems. Besides, it's ugly. I hope you won't mind if people trash this with benchmarks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:03:48PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Are you sure the trace is decoded correctly? > > > > CPU:0 > > > EIP:0010:[sys_mremap+31/884] > > Probably not. It looks like it was munged by klogd. Some distributions are > still

NWFS broken on 2.4.3 -- someone removed WRITERAW

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Hey guys, Whomever removed WRITERAW has broken NWFS. WRITE requests call _refile_buffer() after the I/O request and take my locally created buffer heads and munge them back into the linux buffer cache, causing massive memory corruption in the system. These buffers don't belong in Linus'

Re: 3-Ware Raid driver fails to update GenDisk head

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:13:12PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:55:00PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:08:52PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > > > I am

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Pawel Worach
It sounds like when you play music very loud with bad speakers and it's kind of slow. It's kind of "clinking", describing sound via e-mail can be very hard. what value shall i put for the clocking parameter? is it trial-and-error or is there some formula? And no, the cut off output does not

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Pawel Worach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was using mpg123 (xmms and c/o does exactly the same) > if I run it like this Moby sounds very stupid... :) i got the same problem when using mpg123 compiled with esd on my dell workstation (which has a need to have set explictely to a clocking of

Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

2001-04-23 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Your patch (tries to) transform a compile and link time check into a > runtime check. Not nice. It transforms a broken and cryptic compile-time check into a correct and informative runtime check. If you can provide a correct and informative compile-time check, that

Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

2001-04-23 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
> It's known at compile time, but not at preprocessing time, so it can't be > done with #error. If you can come up with a way of doing it at compile time > such that: > > 1. It's _guaranteed_ to work when the compiler does align the members > of the structure as we desire. > 2. It

Re: [upatch] lib/Makefile

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:16:24PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Introduced in 2.4.4pre4, I believe. $(export-objs) need not be > conditional, and the if statement was not really correct either, > although in this case it probably worked. Er, are you sure changing the test for !"nn" is

Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

2001-04-23 Thread Horst von Brand
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > Then the kernel should say so, rather than giving a cryptic message like > that, and containing code which isn't actually guaranteed to compile, even > with a compiler which _does_ align the structure as we want it. Your patch (tries to)

Re: [RFC][PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've proposed a SCSI ioctl that returns PCI bus, slot, function, primary and > subsystem vendor and device IDs. PCI ids can be derived from bus/slot/function. -- Jeff Garzik | The difference between America and England is that Building 1024| the English

[PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache

2001-04-23 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > Folks, IMO ext2-dir-patch got to the stable stage. Currently > it's against 2.4.4-pre2, but it should apply to anything starting with > 2.4.2 or so. > > Ted, could you review it for potential inclusion into 2.4 once > it gets enough

Re: [PATCH] rw_semaphores, optimisations try #3

2001-04-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, D.W.Howells wrote: > > Linus, you suggested that the generic list handling stuff would be faster (2 > unconditional stores) than mine (1 unconditional store and 1 conditional > store and branch to jump round it). You are both right and wrong. The generic > code does two

pgd_alloc to include mm_struct

2001-04-23 Thread rmk
Hi, This continues from my previous thread (subject line "All architecture maintainers: pgd_alloc()" on lkml), and for Linus' sake, here is the explaination I supplied: | For ARM, I require pgd_alloc to take a struct mm_struct argument (so the | pgd_alloc prototype becomes "pgd_t

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

2001-04-23 Thread Byeong-ryeol Kim
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Byeong-ryeol Kim wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Using /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o > > > > /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved > > > > symbol rwsem_up_write_wake > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Longstanding elf fix (2.4.3 fix)

2001-04-23 Thread Manfred Spraul
> Well looking a little more closely than I did last night it looks like > access_process_vm (called from ptrace) can cause what amounts to a > page fault at pretty arbitrary times. It's also used for several /proc/ files. I remember that I got crashes with concurrent exec+cat /proc//cmdline

RE: [RFC][PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-23 Thread Matt_Domsch
Thanks everyone for your input. Doug Gilbert said: > SANE (and probably some other applications) parses the > output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' so any change to its > format may trip SANE up. How about another entry in > the /proc/scsi directory that has a more parsable format > (e.g. xml :-) ).

[upatch] lib/Makefile

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
Introduced in 2.4.4pre4, I believe. $(export-objs) need not be conditional, and the if statement was not really correct either, although in this case it probably worked. Peter --- 2.4.4pre6/lib/Makefile~ Mon Apr 23 09:51:17 2001 +++ 2.4.4pre6/lib/Makefile Mon Apr 23 17:11:04 2001 @@

Re: ioctl arg passing

2001-04-23 Thread Matt
Matt mentioned the following: | struct instruction_t { | __s16 code; | __s16 rxlen; | __s16 *rxbuf; | __s16 txlen; | __s16 *txbuf; | }; So far, I now know I can grab stuff across the user <-> kernel divide as I planned. The only problem I'm left with, which was

Re: MO drives (2048 byte block vfat fs) in lk 2.4

2001-04-23 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:59:18PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > One error report stated that a MO drive with a vfat > fs based on 2048 byte sectors can be mounted and read Read? I don't think so. bread, yes, but read follows a NULL pointer and was never seen again. > but any significant

2.4.4-pre6 : THANKS! very snappy here [nt]

2001-04-23 Thread Colonel
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Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > We have this kind of stuff all over the place. If we allocate > some small amount of memory and and need some small amount > associated with this memory, there is no problem with a little > waste. Little? How about quarter of kilobyte per inode?

Re: rwsem.o undefined reference to __builtin_expect

2001-04-23 Thread Colonel
In list.kernel, you wrote: > > >cannot compile 2.4.4-pre6. This may have been reported, but I >haven't seen it. There was a solution mentioned Saturday. >rwsem.o(.text+0x30): undefined reference to `__builtin_expect' >rwsem.o(.text+0x73): undefined reference to `__builtin_expect' >make: ***

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pawel Worach wrote: > sorry the kernel version is 2.4.3-ac12, so it's kind of latest... > > I was using mpg123 (xmms and c/o does exactly the same) > if I run it like this Moby sounds very stupid... :) "very stupid" means "broken" obviously, but can you be more specific? music is faster?

[CFT][PATCH] namespaces patch (2.4.4-pre6)

2001-04-23 Thread Alexander Viro
Folks, updated namespace patch is on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/namespaces-c-S4-pre6.gz News: * ported to 2.4.4-pre6 * fixes for d_flags races (already in -ac, hopefully will go into the main tree soon) * fixes for sync_inodes()/kill_super() races (submitted to

Re: anybody home at device@lanana.org?

2001-04-23 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Kipp Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I've sent some messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but haven't received any > responses. Does anyone know if there's anybody home? > Yes, but there are some issues with respect to

Re: filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption

2001-04-23 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Are you sure the trace is decoded correctly? > > CPU:0 > > EIP:0010:[sys_mremap+31/884] Probably not. It looks like it was munged by klogd. Some distributions are still shipping with klogd configured to destroy the original information on the way to the

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:56:16PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Last time we suggested this, people ended up with some OS trying > > it and getting worse performance. > > Which OS? Neither BSD nor SVR4/SVR5 (or even SVR3) do that. Don't

Re: i810_audio broken?

2001-04-23 Thread Pawel Worach
sorry the kernel version is 2.4.3-ac12, so it's kind of latest... I was using mpg123 (xmms and c/o does exactly the same) if I run it like this Moby sounds very stupid... :) [root@whyami mp3]# mpg123 -r 48000 Moby_01.wav.mp3 unsupported playback rate: 44100 Audio device open for 44.1Khz,

Re: compile error 2.4.4pre6: inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm'

2001-04-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:11:14PM +0200, axel wrote: > after having had trouble with compilation due to old gcc version, i have > updated to gcc 3.0 and received the following error: Although bug reports about a kernel compiled with gcc-3.0 are welcome, this is still not the recommended

Re: [PATCH] rw_semaphores, optimisations try #3

2001-04-23 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:35:34PM +0100, D . W . Howells wrote: > This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre6) makes a number of changes to the > rwsem implementation: > > (1) Everything in try #2 > > plus > > (2) Changes proposed by Linus for the generic semaphore code. > > (3) Ideas from

Re: ioctl arg passing

2001-04-23 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Matt wrote: > Matt aka Doofus festures mentioned the following: > > | struct instruction_t local; > | __s16 *temp; > | > | copy_from_user( , ( struct instruction_t * ) arg, sizeof( struct >instruction_t ) ); > | temp = kmalloc( sizeof( __s16 ) *

anybody home at device@lanana.org?

2001-04-23 Thread Kipp Cannon
Hi. I've sent some messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but haven't received any responses. Does anyone know if there's anybody home? -Kipp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: high-res-timers start code.

2001-04-23 Thread Robert H. de Vries
On Monday 23 April 2001 22:43, George Anzinger wrote: > "Robert H. de Vries" wrote: > > On Monday 23 April 2001 19:45, you wrote: > > > By the way, is the user land stuff the same for all "arch"s? > > > > Not if you plan to handle the CPU cycle counter in user space. That is at > > least what I

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Richard Gooch
Ingo Oeser writes: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:36:24AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > Great idea. We allocate this space anyway. And we don't have to > > > care about the internals of this union, because never have to use > > > it outside the kernel ;-) > > > > > > I like it. ext2fs does

Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

2001-04-23 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > This is known at compile time, right? Would it not be better to > replace the printk with #error ? Why do I need to boot the bad kernel > to find out that it does not work, when it is known when compiling? It's known at compile time, but not at preprocessing time, so

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