Re: Update a newly-created '.config' file with some predefined values

2017-05-31 Thread Roman Storozhenko
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:28:34PM +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a host machine and I have a VM machine running CentOS 7 with 3.x. > There is > a kernel source tree on the host. I have made 'make menuconfig', > populated all options that I want to have in my

Re: Is vnode number also limit system-wide number of open file?

2017-05-31 Thread Okash Khawaja
> On 31 May 2017, at 14:37, Yubin Ruan wrote: > > I notice that there is a > >unsigned longi_ino; > > in definition of `struct inode' [1], which is the virtual filesystem inode. > Does that mean "inode number" and is it used for indexing in the

Re: Is vnode number also limit system-wide number of open file?

2017-05-31 Thread Yubin Ruan
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 08:34:09AM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote: > > > > On 31 May 2017, at 14:37, Yubin Ruan wrote: > > > > I notice that there is a > > > >unsigned longi_ino; > > > > in definition of `struct inode' [1], which is the virtual filesystem

Re: Is vnode number also limit system-wide number of open file?

2017-05-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 21:37 +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > I notice that there is a  > > unsigned long i_ino; > > in definition of `struct inode' [1], which is the virtual filesystem > inode. > Does that mean "inode number" and is it used for indexing in the > system-wide > inode

Re: cross compiling

2017-05-31 Thread loïc tourlonias
Hi On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 12:21 AM, juan pedro meriño wrote: > Toolchin for compiler linux? > Take a look at this page of kernelnewbies https://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/KernelCrossCompilation BR Loïc > ___ > Kernelnewbies mailing

Re: Is vnode number also limit system-wide number of open file?

2017-05-31 Thread Yubin Ruan
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 01:30:59PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 21:37 +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > > I notice that there is a  > > > > unsigned long i_ino; > > > > in definition of `struct inode' [1], which is the virtual filesystem > > inode. > > Does that

Re: Is vnode number also limit system-wide number of open file?

2017-05-31 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:15:29 +0800, Yubin Ruan said: > Regarding to inode number, I notice that nearly every filesystem has tree > representation of the inode number: > 1. on-disk inode number > 2. in-memory inode number > 3. VFS inode number > How are these related? I mean, if they

How Kernel command line parameters passed to kernel.

2017-05-31 Thread Madhu K
Hi All, I have a doubt, how kernel command line parameters are passed to kernel space. Before device tree, we used to pass command line parameters using ATAGS. But after device tree we are not using ATAGS. How we are passing command line parameters to kernel space? Thanks & regards, Madhu