Re: [PATCH] ahci.c: fix ati sb600 sata IRQ_TF_ERR

2007-08-26 Thread Ulrich
Hi, my system has an Nvidia "nForce 630A MCP" chipset. (Asrock ALiveNF7G-HDready mainboard) If it helps, I've uploaded the output of "lspci -vvxxx" to: http://datenparkplatz.de/DiesUndDas/lspci-vvxxx.output.txt. Best wishes, Ulrich - To unsubscribe from

3.0.38: strange boot message: "Time: 165:165:165 Date: 165/165/65" with Xen

2012-09-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
o map I/O space 00f0 (XEN) mm.c:833:d2 Non-privileged (2) attempt to map I/O space 00f0 It's not a big issue, but maybe if the RTC cannot be read, it's better to skip rather tan outputting a wrong date/time. Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

[PATCH] perf: remove duplicate block from Makefile

2013-10-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
This looks like a merge error, the code is duplicated with the first copy doing something else as well. Just remove the second block. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper Makefile |8 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) Index: perf/config/Makefile

Re: [RFC] apparently broken RLIMIT_CORE

2013-10-06 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I doubt it is intentional, but I also cannot really feel that we care > deeply. Afaik we don't really honor the size limit exactly anyway, ie > we tend to check only at page boundaries etc. So do we really care? I could imagine in the case A

Re: [PATCH 9/9] clocksource: dw_apb_timer: special variant for rockchip rk3188 timers

2013-07-11 Thread Ulrich Prinz
Hey guys, according the dw_apb_timer I need your statement... Am 06.07.2013 23:00, schrieb Thomas Gleixner: > Ulrich, > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2013, Ulrich Prinz wrote: > >> I got the message. With modifying the existing driver to support more >> function pointers in its sys

read stalls with large RAM: transparent huges pages, dirty buffers, or I/O (block) scheduler?

2013-10-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
e to process the dirty buffers. For reference: The machine in question is at 3.0.74-0.6.10-default with the latest SLES11 SP2 kernel being 3.0.93-0.5. I'd like to know what the gurus thing about that. I think with increasing RAM this issue will become extremely important soon. Regards, Ulric

Antw: read stalls with large RAM: transparent huges pages, dirty buffers, or I/O (block) scheduler?

2013-10-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
I forgot to mention: CPU power is not the problem: We have 2 * 6 Cores (2 Threads each), making 24 logical CPUs... >>> Ulrich Windl schrieb am 10.10.2013 um >>> 10:15 in Nachricht <52566237.478 : 161 : 60728>: > Hi! > > We are running some x86_64 server

ext3 corruption in 3.0 kernel (SLES11 SP2 x86_64 (AMD Opteron))

2012-12-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
: 2 (I know this CPU has some bugs with virtualization; is filesystem corruption one of them?) Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.

Q: using cgroups in real life

2012-11-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
in an reliable way. Being paranoid, the user should at most be able to limit his own processes. I cannot envision a proper solution with the current interface. Would anybody share some good ideas with me? (I'm not subscribed to the kernel list, so please CC:) Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubs

3.0: blk-cgroup.c: allow '*' for device selection for "throttle.read_bps_device" and alike

2012-11-16 Thread Ulrich Windl
dm-15 HP,HSV200 CBW_DB_BTD-E2 (3600508b4001085dd000115ad) dm-14 HP,HSV200 DP_DB_10k-E1 (3600508b4001085e3f246) dm-20 HP,HSV200 CBW_DB_10k-E2 (3600508b4001085dd000115a5) dm-9 HP,HSV200 CBW_DB_10k-E1 (3600508b4001085e3f35f) dm-13 HP,HSV200 The code is in blkio_policy_parse_and_set() of

"floppy0: floppy timeout called", https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799559

2013-06-06 Thread Ulrich Windl
openSUSE 12.3... Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 3/9] clocksource: dw_apb_timer: quirk for variants with 64bit counter

2013-07-06 Thread Ulrich Prinz
isters rk3188-dw-apb-timer64-osc: will load 64bit variant of 64bit registers > > > Copy and paste is a conveniant thing, right? It just should have a pop > up window assigned which asks at the second instance of copying the > same thing whether you really thought about it. We th

Re: [PATCH 9/9] clocksource: dw_apb_timer: special variant for rockchip rk3188 timers

2013-07-06 Thread Ulrich Prinz
e way you explained in your replies. Just the courage was missing I guess :) Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-i

Wtrlt: Q: NFS: directory XX/YYY contains a readdir loop.Please contact your server vendor.

2013-08-16 Thread Ulrich Windl
Re-sent due to "5.7.1 Content-Policy reject msg: The capital Triple-X in subject is way too often associated with junk email, please rephrase. ": >>> "Ulrich Windl" schrieb am 16.08.2013 um 10:29 in Nachricht <520e15ef.ed38.00a...@rz.uni-regensburg.de>: >

chown: s-Bits: to clear or not to clear

2013-07-16 Thread Ulrich Windl
know this is the wrong list for discussing utils). Regards, Ulrich Windl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FA

Possible mmap() write() problem in SLES11 SP2 kernel

2013-08-01 Thread Ulrich Windl
and a truncate, just in case you wonder... Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Antw: Re: Possible mmap() write() problem in SLES11 SP2 kernel

2013-08-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> Hugh Dickins schrieb am 04.08.2013 um 00:37 in Nachricht : > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Ulrich Windl wrote: >> Hi folks! >> >> I think I'd let you know (maybe I'm wrong, and the kernel is right): >> >> I write a C-program that maps a file into

message (3.0.80) "kernel: [440682.559851] blk_rq_check_limits: over max size limit."

2013-08-06 Thread Ulrich Windl
. Is this problem fixed in a newer kernel? For the curious: I tuned queue/max_sectors_kb for the paths in a multipath device, but didn't tune the multipath device itself... Regards, Ulrich P.S.: Plese keep CC: as I'm not subscribed to the list -- To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: sendfile and EAGAIN

2013-03-02 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > I don't understand the issue. > > sendfile() returns -EAGAIN only if no bytes were copied to the socket. There is something wrong/unexpected/... I have a program which can use either sendfile or send. When using sendfile to transmit a large

Re: sendfile and EAGAIN

2013-03-02 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Using non blocking IO means the sender (and the receiver) must be able > to perform several operations, as long as the whole transfert is not > finished. Certainly, and this is implemented. But the receiver never gets the rest of the data

bad time after boot (read from absent hardware?): "Time: 165:165:165 Date: 165/165/65"

2013-05-28 Thread Ulrich Windl
originates from read_magic_time() in /drivers/base/power/trace.c. I'm running kernel 3.0.74-0.6.8-xen (SLES11 SP2) on x86_64. Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo

Suggestion for improving kernel messages on ext3-mount for consistency

2013-03-28 Thread Ulrich Windl
00 [xfsbufd/dm-12] 5561 ?S 0:00 [xfsaild/dm-12] 5593 ?S 0:00 [xfsbufd/dm-13] 5594 ?S 0:00 [xfsaild/dm-13] 5875 tty1 S+ 0:00 grep xfs Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Q: diskstats for MD-RAID

2012-08-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
please keep me in CC: as I'm not subscribed to the list. Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Q: Seeing the microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo

2012-08-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
Wouldn't you agree that seeing the microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo would be nice? For those CPUs lacking the feature one could hard-wire the value "none" (which would be also "kind of true")... Regards, Ulrich (not subscribed, so please CC: you replies to me) -- To unsubsc

Antw: Re: Q: Seeing the microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo

2012-08-14 Thread Ulrich Windl
SLES11 SP2. In openSUSE 12.1 (kernel 3.1.10) it's also still missing. Anyway, it's nice to see that others also thought this feature is useful. Thanks & best regards, Ulrich >>> Borislav Petkov schrieb am 14.08.2012 um 15:12 in Nachricht <20120814131211.ga25...@x1.osrc.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: use XSI-complaint version of strerror_r() instead of GNU-specific

2012-07-23 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > The right way to fix it is to switch to XSI-compliant version. And why exactly would this be "the right way"? Just fix the use of strerror_r or use strerror_l. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: use XSI-complaint version of strerror_r() instead of GNU-specific

2012-07-23 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > + const char *err = strerror_r(errnum, buf, buflen); > + > + if (err != buf && buflen > 0) { > + size_t len = strlen(err); > + char *c = mempcpy(buf, err, min(buflen

Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf: use XSI-complaint version of strerror_r() instead of GNU-specific

2012-07-23 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > They are bugs. > > Let's fix strerror_r() usage. > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: [RFC 0/4] perf tool: Adding ratios support

2013-01-16 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > $ perf stat -f formula.conf:cpi kill > usage: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] pid ... > kill -l [ signal ] I do like this proposal. The only comment I have is that perhaps the command line syntax isn't ideal. What you use above is

Re: [RFC 0/4] perf tool: Adding ratios support

2013-01-16 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > I was thinking having config files (global and arch specific) > comming with perf having predefined formulas. All the more reason to not mention the file name or really any source for the definition of the formula in the name, > 1) -e 'ratio/

Antw: Re: /sys and access(2): Correctly implemented?

2012-07-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> Ryan Mallon schrieb am 09.07.2012 um 01:24 in Nachricht <4ffa16b6.9050...@gmail.com>: > On 06/07/12 16:27, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Recently I found a problem with the command (kernel 3.0.34-0.7-default from > SLES 11 SP2, run as r

Re: Antw: Re: /sys and access(2): Correctly implemented?

2012-07-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! Still the problem seems to be related to the sysfs: # cd /tmp # touch testfile # chmod u=w,go= testfile # F=/tmp/testfile # test -r "$F" && cat "$F" So it seems access(2) works correctly for root and "normal" filesystems. That's why I came up with

Antw: [PATCH 0/5] kfifo cleanup and log based kfifo API

2013-01-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
kernel development. Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

pthreads & gdb: zombie threads?

2001-04-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
ely a kernel problem, a library problem, or a gdb problem? Naively I thought when exiting the process, all threads would die... Ulrich P.S. Not subscribed here - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: struct stat{st_blksize} for /dev entries in 2.4.3

2001-04-08 Thread Ulrich Drepper
nd there is no guarantee that any of the _SC_* constants are defined as macros. You'll have to add a configure test. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--&

Re: announce: PPSkit patch for Linux 2.4.2 (pre6)

2001-04-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
time warps). As any problem, it can be solved with some overhead, but should it be done? Replies to me too, as I'm not subscribed, please. Ulrich On 9 Apr 2001, at 18:39, Andreas Bussjaeger wrote: > > from the current CPU. All these values seem highly suspect. However a > > fe

2.4.2 bug in handling vfat?

2001-04-10 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Ulrich Lauther ph: +49 89 636 48834 fx: ... 636 42284 Siemens CT SE 6 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

2.2.19: config help text about "TCO timer"

2001-04-11 Thread Ulrich Windl
frequently. What has this to do with costs? Confused, Ulrich - 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://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.2 bug in handling vfat? (fwd)

2001-04-12 Thread Ulrich Lauther
> Hi, > > I think that it is the bug of FAT-fs. > Please try the following patch. > thanks a lot, the patch fixes the problem -- -ulrich lauther ---- Ulrich Lauther ph: +49 89 636 48834 fx

Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available

2001-04-12 Thread Ulrich Drepper
data. It is a programmer problem. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available

2001-04-12 Thread Ulrich Drepper
rogrammers to not initialize. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-13 Thread Ulrich Drepper
people apparently want. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-18 Thread Ulrich Drepper
cesses. The rest seems OK. Thanks, -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
r dealing with the common case without syscalls can be applied here as well. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
lemented using fd = open (name) addr = mmap (..fd..) close (fd) sem_syscall (addr) i.e., it can be mapped to a memory reference again. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
e like the shmfs. > So you have unix file permissions on them ? See above. Permissions are only allowed for named semaphores. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
sions to the file change? The kernel representation of the mutex must not be disassociated from the shared memory region. Even if you all think very little about Solaris, look at the kernel interface for semaphores. -- ---. ,-. 1

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
#x27;t really care what the final implementation will be like. For UP and SMP machines I definitely want to have as much as possible at user-level. If you need a special libpthread for NUMA machines, so be it. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
doing this her/himself. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
1 + 1; i = (int *) (m2 + 1); while (1) { ++*i; pthread_mutex_unlock (m1); pthread_mutex_lock (m2); } return 0; } ~~~~~~~ -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---'

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does attached patch fix it? Yes. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' dr

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
mplement something else I couldn't care less since it's useless for me. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-20 Thread Ulrich Drepper
zes the FPU. This was always the case and necessary to implement the fast lazy FPU saving/restoring. Processes which never use the FPU never initialize it. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyva

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-20 Thread Ulrich Drepper
kernel code and the features of the processor first. The kernel can detect when the FPU is used for the first time. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--'

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-23 Thread Ulrich Windl
IMHO the POSIX is doable to comply with POSIX. Probably not what many of the RT freaks expect, but doable. I'm tuning the nanoseconds for a while now... Ulrich On 17 Apr 2001, at 11:53, george anzinger wrote: > I was thinking that it might be good to remove the POSIX API for the >

patch-proposal: extended adjtime()

2001-04-24 Thread Ulrich Windl
range (maybe even more). The patch tries to keep binary compatibility, too. Opinions? Regards, Ulrich --- kernel/243time.cMon Apr 16 20:14:27 2001 +++ kernel/xxxtime.cMon Apr 16 20:41:15 2001 @@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ write_lock_irq(&xtime_lock); xtime.tv_se

2.2.18: static rtc_lock in nvram.c

2001-02-25 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi, browsing the sources for some problem I wondered why nvram.c uses a static spinlock named rtc_lock, hiding the global one. Regards, Ulrich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

2.2.18/ext2: special file corruption?

2001-02-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
So either the kernel corrupts the very same inode every time, or e2fsck does not really fix it, or the error simply doesn't exist. I think the kernel doesn't temporarily set the size to non-zero, so this seems strange. Regards, Ulrich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: 2.2.18: static rtc_lock in nvram.c

2001-02-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
nes. In the former it's called "CMOS-RAM", in the latter * "NVRAM" (NV stands for non-volatile). Regards, Ulrich - 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://

Re: 2.2.18/ext2: special file corruption?

2001-02-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 26 Feb 2001, at 10:48, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Ulrich Windl writes: > > I had an interesting effect: Due to NVdriver I had a lot of system > > freezes, and I had to reboot. Using e2fsck 1.19a (SuSE 7.1) I got the > > message that one specific "Special (device

Re: RFC: changing precision control setting in initial FPU context

2001-03-03 Thread Ulrich Drepper
pid idea. No kernel and no libc modifications necessary. This is the end of the story as far as I'm concerned. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat

[PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2

2001-03-04 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
mment typo in asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h. Ciao, Uli Kunitz -- Ulrich Kunitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- linux-2.4.2/include/asm-i386/pgalloc.h Thu Feb 22 01:09:57 2001 +++ linux/include/asm-i386/pgalloc.hSun Mar 4 20:14:50 2001 @@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ free_page((unsigned lon

Re: [RFC, PATCH] TLB flush changes for S/390

2001-01-04 Thread Ulrich Weigand
David Miller wrote: >From: Ulrich Weigand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:15:26 +0100 (MET) > > * Is there some reason why ptep_test_and_clear_young should > *not*, after all, flush the TLB? > > Yes, because the accuracy of that s

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-06 Thread Ulrich Drepper
> +} This is wrong. You cannot execute libc.so.5. This only works with glibc. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `-

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Drepper
les there). -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Drepper
bc5) => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 and then look in that directory (/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib). -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Drepper
fi > ;; Why don't you, as the other script suggested, execute libc.so.6? Symlinks can be missing or can be wrong. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 9408

2.4.0test12: problems timing events

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
: Regards, Ulrich - 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/

suggest: diff-2.4.0-test12_to_2.4.0

2001-01-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
I thought I'd find a diff between 2.4.0test12 (last test release) to the final 2.4.0 release, but did not. Wouldn't it be (have been) a good idea? Regards, Ulrich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: suggest: diff-2.4.0-test12_to_2.4.0

2001-01-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 8 Jan 2001, at 14:16, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >>>>> Ulrich Windl writes: > > > I thought I'd find a diff between 2.4.0test12 (last test release) to > > the final 2.4.0 release, but did not. Wouldn't it be (have been) a good > > idea?

2.4: header file confusion (interrupts)

2001-01-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
Inspecting some code I found out that in 2.4.0test12 request_irq() is declared in sched.h, and not in interrupt.h, SA_SHIRQ is declared in asm/signal.h, and not in interrupt.h Isn't that a bit confusing? Maybe for 2.5 let's re-sort some things to clean up dependencies... Regar

some issues for 2.4.0

2001-01-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
01.149 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36

2.2.18: writing an R/O floppy

2001-01-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
I could guess that the disc- change ore write-protect status was not updated in some case. Maybe it rings some bell for one of you; if not, never mind. Regards, Ulrich - 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/

2.4.0 vm BUG

2001-01-10 Thread Ulrich Schwarz
page_alloc.c:74! Jan 10 22:14:54 kernel: invalid operand: So long. Ulrich - 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: 2.4.0 vm BUG (ksymoopsed)

2001-01-10 Thread Ulrich Schwarz
jne2a <_EIP+0x2a> c0126127 Code; c012610e 11: 68 c5 01 00 00push $0x1c5 In /var/log/kernlog, this incident was reported as follows: Jan 10 22:14:54 kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:74! Jan 10 22:14:54 kernel: invalid operand: So long. Ulrich -

Re: 2.4.0 vm BUG (ksymoopsed)

2001-01-10 Thread Ulrich Schwarz
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:21:57PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> kernel BUG at vmscan.c:452! >> invalid operand: > Does reiserfs patch changes vmscan.c ? No, it doesn't. It's strange that the console reported vmscan.c:452 whilst kern.log reports page_alloc.c:

[PATCH] two comment typos, kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-20 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
ear to obtain the old pte + * not possible, use ptep_get_and_clear to obtain the old pte * value and then use set_pte to update it. -ben */ static inline void set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte) -- Ulrich Kunitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

2.4.0 i386: Why free_xxx_slow() instead free_xxx_fast()?

2001-01-20 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
t(pmd) #define pmd_free_kernelpmd_free #define pmd_alloc_kernel pmd_alloc -- Ulrich Kunitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - 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/

patch: 2.4.0/2.5.0: nanoseconds time resolution

2001-01-21 Thread Ulrich Windl
not to have a /proc/sys/kernel/time directory, I'd also suggest to accept the patch for /usr/src/linux/include/sysctl.h for the standard kernel. Currently I have allocated "50" for the "time" entry. I'd like to have a sta

Re: patch: 2.4.0/2.5.0: nanoseconds time resolution

2001-01-22 Thread Ulrich Windl
onds on network and non-UNIX filesystems? >:-) You mean to say that a leap second is an implicit time update? I can Implement it without any trouble, if you all can agree that the idea is acceptable. BTW: Same applies for RTCs using local time, and we switch from/to DST: The kernel doesn'

2.2.16: How to freeze the kernel

2000-11-24 Thread Ulrich Windl
ng... The driver being used was Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4 After that, everything worked fine. Regards, Ulrich - 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/

2.4.0test11: some issues and a possible show stopper

2000-12-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
got a conflict between and , but it was too late to investigate. (I had done over 4 hours merging rejected diffs, and I was tired from pressing C-d C-d C-n in Emacs ;-)) Regards, Ulrich - 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/

poll: nanoseconds in 2.5?

2000-12-06 Thread Ulrich Windl
/pub/linux/daemons/ntp/PPS on most mirrors of quality ;-) Regards, Ulrich - 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/

bug: merge_segments vs. lock_vma_mappings?

2000-12-07 Thread Ulrich . Weigand
situations. What's the correct way to fix this? In mlock and mprotect, potentially many segments could be freed; do we need to call lock_vma_mappings on all of them before calling merge_segments? Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand Linux for S/390 D

Re: 2.2.16: OOPS 2 & VFS panic

2000-08-29 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 30 Aug 2000, at 8:49, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > > The syslog (2.5kB) with surrounding messages is attached. > > No it's not :) 8-( It happened because of forwarding the bounced message from vger.rutgers.edu. Now it is a

2.2.16: OOPS 2 & VFS panic

2000-08-29 Thread Ulrich Windl
nning that kernel on that machine before without problems. Only kswapd seemed instable in 2.2.16. My machine, a P100, has 64MB RAM. The syslog (2.5kB) with surrounding messages is attached. Regards, Ulrich P.S. The library issue is probably due to SuSE-7.0. - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
plementation. [1] Since Linus says so it must be true. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscrib

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
ase about just that. And I know that there are many other users with this problem. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
problem: you cannot send a signal explicitly to this thread (to implement pthread_kill). The PID of this initial thread is now used as the PID of the thread group. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
ds. That's the whole purpose of this exercise. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
e first clone() but this is solvable. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
In a second stage where we have m kernel threads and n user-level threads (the ultimate goal) things might be different. But this is beyond what is needed in the 2.4 kernel so lets just skip the SA_NOCLDWAIT stuff for now. -- ---. ,-. 1325

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
g. You have of course to swap before the clone since the new thread will use the stack. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
problems with changing UID/GID It will require some investigation to see whether we can implement the restart semantics correctly without a manager thread. If yes, we should be able to live with the simple loop. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Dr

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Ulrich Drepper
#x27;s see what I have next week. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Linux & nanoseconds

2000-09-04 Thread Ulrich Windl
rrent modification (based on PPSkit-0.9.3) is "nanofix.diff.gz", both located on your favourite Linux mirror in pub/linux/daemons/ntp/PPS (or very similar). Regards, Ulrich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Question regarding kernel_threads

2000-09-05 Thread Ulrich Drepper
se it this way. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread Ulrich Drepper
already used CLONE_SIGHAND and is not prepared for thread groups all hell breaks loose. I've told Linus several times about this problems but he puts out one test release after the other without this fixed. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terra

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread Ulrich Drepper
r is someone already working on this? "Fixing" alone won't cut it. I've started a rewrite and send Linus more comments about what is needed but not even got a reply. Seems the short interest span is already over. -- ---.

Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

2000-09-11 Thread Ulrich Drepper
tely unrelated. The fix for your problem is to change the CLONE_SIGHAND flag back to it's original behavior. Changing linuxthreads to take advantage of the new kernel functionality is on a different plate. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapea

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