Alan,
Do you remember if the reports you've got always oopsed the same
address (004) ?
They vary in report
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Hi
I try to activate APIC interrruption on a single processor(PIII) with
kernel2.4.0-test11.
I activate APIC interruption with the configuration of linux kernel
2.4.0test-11. In the linux kernel configuration under processor type and
features I activate "APIC and IO-APIC support on
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Alan,
Do you remember if the reports you've got always oopsed the same
address (004) ?
They vary in report
Doesn't it sounds like memory problems?
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Hi Linus,
block_truncate_page() function unecessarily calls mark_buffer_dirty(),
which may wait on bdflush, while holding a locked page.
The following patch against 2.4.0test13pre4 makes block_truncate_page call
balance_dirty() (which may wait for bdflush) after when we unlocked the
page and
Alan,
Do you remember if the reports you've got always oopsed the same
address (004) ?
They vary in report
Doesn't it sounds like memory problems?
For -ac Im working on the assumption I introduced a bug into the mm code
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I activate APIC interruption with the configuration of linux kernel
2.4.0test-11. In the linux kernel configuration under processor type and
features I activate "APIC and IO-APIC support on uniprocessor", and I
desactivate "Symmetric multi-processing support". The
On 28 Dec 2000, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I activate APIC interruption with the configuration of linux kernel
2.4.0test-11. In the linux kernel configuration under processor type and
features I activate "APIC and IO-APIC support on uniprocessor", and I
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
I've made a small debugging patch that simply checks
for this illegal state in add_page_to_active_list and
add_page_to_inactive_dirty_list.
I bet it won't catch the real bad guy, which almost certainly is the
"remove_from_swap_cache()" thing (it
On Thursday, December 28, 2000 16:15:48 +0100 Daniel Phillips
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
It's logical that PageDirty should never be get for ramfs,
No. Not setting PageDirty will cause the system to
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
It's logical that PageDirty should never be get for ramfs, and a ramfs
page should never have buffers on it.
What?
No no no.
You're obviously right that ramfs will never have buffers on the page, but
why shouldn't a ramfs page be dirty?
Of
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
I think a dirty page without a writepage func seems a bit
broken. How about we give ramfs a writepage func that just
returns 1. That way nobody does any special if
(ramfs_page(page)) kinds of tests...
This will lead to the ramfs pages staying on the
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Hi Linus,
block_truncate_page() function unecessarily calls mark_buffer_dirty(),
which may wait on bdflush, while holding a locked page.
Good catch. It should be ok to sleep for bdflush while holding the page,
but at the same time it's
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
I've made a small debugging patch that simply checks
for this illegal state in add_page_to_active_list and
add_page_to_inactive_dirty_list.
I bet it won't catch the real bad guy, which almost
On 28 Dec 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
First we need the following patch since otherwise we use a swap entry
without having the count increased:
No, that shouldn't be needed.
Look at the code-path: the kernel has the page locked, so nothing will
de-allocate the swap entry - so it's
Do you remember if the reports you've got always oopsed the same
address (004) ?
Hi - Here's another Oops from the same machine. It looks to be in a totally
different place in the code which probably means it's a memory problem? I'll
try installing on another box to
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Hi Linus,
block_truncate_page() function unecessarily calls mark_buffer_dirty(),
which may wait on bdflush, while holding a locked page.
Good catch. It should be ok to sleep for bdflush
Hi
I have try to activate APIC in my BIOS, but I didn't have this option.
Have you ever try it?
Tanks
Francis Pieraut
Francis Pieraut
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, John Levon wrote:
On 28 Dec 2000, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
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I activate APIC interruption with the
On Thursday, December 28, 2000 15:51:24 -0200 Rik van Riel
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
I think a dirty page without a writepage func seems a bit
broken. How about we give ramfs a writepage func that just
returns 1. That way nobody does any special
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you remember if the reports you've got always oopsed the same
address (004) ?
Hi - Here's another Oops from the same machine. It looks to be in a totally
different place in the code which probably means it's a
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
If we call mark_buffer_dirty() on an already dirty buffer, we may sleep
waiting for bdflush even if we haven't caused _any_ real disk IO (because
the buffer was already dirty anyway).
I think it makes more sense if we only call balance_dirty
Francis Pieraut wrote:
I try to activate APIC interrruption on a single processor(PIII) with
kernel2.4.0-test11.
I activate APIC interruption with the configuration of linux kernel
2.4.0test-11. In the linux kernel configuration under processor type and
features I activate "APIC and IO-APIC
[in vmscan.c]
Between line 573 and 594 the page can have 1 user and be unlocked, so it
can be removed by invalidate_inode_pages, and the mapping will be
cleared here:
http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lxr/source/mm/filemap.c?v=v2.3#L98
This seems like the obvious thing to do:
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
- Introduces a kernel-wide macro `SMP_KERNEL'. This is designed to
be used as a `compiled ifdef' in place of `#ifdef CONFIG_SMP'. There
are a few examples in __wake_up_common().
Please don't do this, it screws up the config option
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
this remind me; perhaps you or Al could answer this.
How hard would it be to have ramfs backed by swap? The goal being
try to achieve something like a FreeBSDs mfs.
I use ramfs for /tmp on my laptop -- it's very handy because it
extends
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
[in vmscan.c]
Between line 573 and 594 the page can have 1 user and be unlocked, so it
can be removed by invalidate_inode_pages, and the mapping will be
cleared here:
I use ramfs for /tmp on my laptop -- it's very handy because it
extends the amount of the the disk had spent spun down and therefore
battery life; but writing large files into /tmp can blow away the
system or at the very least eat away at otherwise usable ram. Not
terribly desirable.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
No, I'd much rather have
if (PageDirty(page)) BUG();
there, and then have the free_swap_cache code clear the dirty bit.
We don't want to lose dirty bits by mistake. The only cases where it's ok
to clear the dirty bit is when we truncate a page completely
On Thursday, December 28, 2000 16:49:14 +0100 Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[ dbench 48 test on the anon space mapping patch ]
This benchmark doesn't seem to suffer a lot from noise, so the 7%
slowdown with your patch likely real.
Ok, page_launder is supposed to run through
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
Linus and Rik are cc'd in to find out if this is a good idea in
general.
Probably.
There are some arguments for starting the writeout early, but there are
tons of arguments against it too (the main one being "avoid doing IO if
you can do so"), so
Hi Linus, Alan, Stephen,
the patch below implements trivial RSS ulimit enforcement
for the 2.4 kernel.
The hard limit (rlim_max) is enforced as a true hard limit,
both at page fault time and again from kswapd. The soft
limit is "enforced" by simply scanning and swapping the
process more
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000, Udo A. Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
;
; Hi all,
;
; After enabling the option "EEPRO100_PM" and upgrading to test13-pre4
; my problems with the eepro100 driver mysteriously ceased to exist.
; I no longer see any "Card reports no RX buffers" or "Card reports no
;
The main notables are the network fixes (uninitialized skb-dev could and
did cause oopses in ip_defrag) and the mm fixes (dirty pages without
mappings etc, causing problems in page_launder).
The mm cleanups also include removing "swapout()" as a VM operation, as
nobody can sanely do anything
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I would actually prefer not having the balance_dirty() in
mark_buffer_dirty() at all, and then just potentially adding an explicit
balance_dirty to strategic places. There would probably not be that many
of those strategic places.
As it stands,
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
This still doesn't tell "sync()" about dirty pages (ie the "innd loses the
active file after a reboot" bug), but now the places that mark pages dirty
are under control. Next step..
Do you really want to split the per-address-space pages list in
Linus Torvalds wrote:
We don't want to lose dirty bits by mistake. The only cases where it's ok
to clear the dirty bit is when we truncate a page completely (so it won't
be needed and obviously really shouldn't be written out) and when we've
lost the last user of a swap cache entry.
Any
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
OK, I see you just posted -pre5 while I was making the patch, but here
it is anyway, as a cross-check.
Ok, pre-5 should have all the same places you found already fixed, but
please do give it some heavy-duty testing to make sure there isn't
I've posted these problems several times before, but I've never received
any response, and I'd really like this problems worked out. I'd be happy
to try anything that I can to assist in the bug tracking process.
Basically,
the kernel locks up on my Alpha PC164 when network load is high. It
does
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
If somebody (you? hint, hint) wants to do this,
Ok, I'll do it because I love Tove.
I'd be very happy - I can do it myself, but because it's my birthday
I'm supposed to drag myself off the computer soon and be social, or
Tove will be grumpy.
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Hello!
I've just joined this mailing-list so forgive-me if I do some mistakes.
I've done a little add-on to the linux kernel source in order to build
directly the driver for the em8300 chip. This chip is the main chip
of the DXR3 and Hollywood Plus mpeg decompression cards. Since now, the
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
If somebody (you? hint, hint) wants to do this,
Ok, I'll do it because I love Tove.
Marcelo, you should buy some glasses ;)
Tove != Tux
It's ok and probably safe to love Tux, the nice cuddly
penguin
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
If somebody (you? hint, hint) wants to do this,
Ok, I'll do it because I love Tove.
Marcelo, you should buy some glasses ;)
Tove != Tux
It's ok
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
LT
LT The mm cleanups also include removing "swapout()" as a VM operation, as
swapout was not removed from drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.c; the
following does so (compiles and produces sound, someone who
this has to be a dumb idea -- either it's way harder to implement than i think,
or it's just plain impossible. but i'm curious why it won't work.
So, if you fork, all the pages in both the child and the parent are marked COW.
Since the text segment is read only, it'll never be written to; all
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
does anyone other than me think that the pm code is *way* too agressive about
spinning down the hard drive? my 256mb laptop (2.2.16) will only spin down the
disk for about 30 seconds before it decides it's got something else it feels
Hi,
with the fix below, newer versions of modutils won't
complain about the (missing) symbol debug...
Could you please apply this for the next pre-patch?
thanks,
Rik
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
- global dirty list for global syn(). We don't have one, and I don't
think we want one. We could add a few lists, and split up the active
list into "active" and "active_dirty", for example, but I don't like
the implications that would probably have for the LRU
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:23:43PM +, Paul Jakma wrote:
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Ian Stirling wrote:
The PCI bus can move around 130MB/sec,
in bursts yes, but sustained data bandwidth of PCI is a lot lower,
maybe 30 to 50MB/s. And you won't get sustained RAID performance
sustained PCI
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Ari Heitner wrote:
this has to be a dumb idea
Not really, you're just 8 (9?) years too late...
The question is, why shouldn't it be possible to share the text
segments of *all* running programs?
Linux uses shared mmap() for "loading" executables (well,
they're just
Jeff Garzik, is offline for the next three weeks..
He claims that his wrists hurt from the keyboard ;-)...
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:19:37 +0100 (CET),
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I wanted to share what I've done but since I'm very new to kernel hacking
I don't know what to do with my patch. Could you give me some hints?
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:23:43PM +, Paul Jakma wrote:
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Ian Stirling wrote:
The PCI bus can move around 130MB/sec,
in bursts yes, but sustained data bandwidth of PCI is a lot lower,
maybe 30 to 50MB/s. And you won't
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 28 Dec 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
First we need the following patch since otherwise we use a swap entry
without having the count increased:
No, that shouldn't be needed.
Look at the code-path: the kernel has the page locked, so
All,
Had another nfsd oops today. I was listening to a mp3
that is located on a nfs partition mounted off the machine
that oops'd with no other network activity.
Ksymoops output is attached as well as the regular console
text.
What the heck, I say what the heck is goin on here?
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Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are fundmental things shm* can do that mmap cannot. Does posix
shm handle those (leaving segments alive but unattached being the
obvious one)
Yes:
shmget == shm_open (+ ftruncate(fd, size))
shmat== mmap (0, size,
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:59:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
- we absolutely do _not_ want to make "struct page" bigger. We can't
afford to just throw away another 8 bytes per page on adding a new list
structure, I feel. Even if this would be the simplest solution.
BTW..
The
You can get the Linux special behaviour to be able to attach to a
removed segment by its shmid by passing the file descriptor for the
posix shm from the attached process to the attaching process.
Did I miss something?
Not that I've ever used 8)
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I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web cam, what
would be a good choice?
I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.
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Hi Linus,
I know this is probably not the birthday present you've been
hoping for, but here is a patch agains 2.4.0-test13-pre5 which
does the following - trivial - things:
1. trivially implement RSS ulimit support, with
p-rlim[RLIMIT_RSS].rlim_max treated as a hard limit
and .rlim_cur
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:24:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have a Sager NP9820 laptop with an ALI chipset and a TI PCI1251BGFN
PCMCIA chipset. For some reason, when I use the yenta module under 2.4.0,
it gets an incorrect IRQ assignment. It uses IRQ11, which is also
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:
I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web
cam, what would be a good choice?
The ov511-based cameras seem to work really nicely.
(this is a cheap chip, used in lots of different cameras)
And while we're on the topic of webcams:
Em Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:32:15PM -0500, Wakko Warner escreveu:
I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web cam, what
would be a good choice?
I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.
one based on the ov511 chipset, like the Creative Web Cam
Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2000 17:40 schrieb Tony Hoyle:
Dieter Nützel wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2000 11:07 schrieb Nils Philippsen:
Hi all,
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Dieter [iso-8859-1] Nützel wrote:
I got this since test13-pre1 (pre4, now):
SunWave1depmod -e
Hard hand in 2.2.19
If you open a non-existant md device (i.e. /dev/md11) from userspace
with an open() call, then send an ioctl() command, it results in the
following message then hard hangs the entire system if you attempt
to open any /dev/mdXX device with a minor number greater than 10.
If you open a non-existant md device (i.e. /dev/md11) from userspace
with an open() call, then send an ioctl() command, it results in the
following message then hard hangs the entire system if you attempt
to open any /dev/mdXX device with a minor number greater than 10.
Used to work on
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:09:34PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
If you open a non-existant md device (i.e. /dev/md11) from userspace
with an open() call, then send an ioctl() command, it results in the
following message then hard hangs the entire system if you attempt
to open any /dev/mdXX
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
BTW..
The current 2.4 struct page could be already shortened a lot, saving a lot
of cache.
Not that much, but some.
(first number for 32bit, second for 64bit)
- Do not compile virtual in when the kernel does not support highmem
(saves 4/8
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:15:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
(first number for 32bit, second for 64bit)
- Do not compile virtual in when the kernel does not support highmem
(saves 4/8 bytes)
Even on UP, "virtual" often helps. The conversion from "struct page" to
the linear
On 2000.12.28 Wakko Warner wrote:
I really hate to ask on the list, but if I was to buy a usb web cam, what
would be a good choice?
I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.
Try a fresh new kernel, at least 2.2.18 or any 19-preX. They include usb
right 'out of
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
Hopefully all the "goto out" micro optimizations can be taken out then too,
"goto out" often generates much more readable code, so the optimization is
secondary.
I recently found out that gcc 2.97's block moving pass has the tendency
to move the
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:37:51PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
Hopefully all the "goto out" micro optimizations can be taken out then too,
"goto out" often generates much more readable code, so the optimization is
secondary.
I was more
Linus,
The following patch changes swap_writepage() to try to do write clustering
of phisically contiguous pages which are dirty and in the swapcache.
Do you want to include it in 2.4 ?
diff -Nur --exclude-from=exclude linux.orig/include/linux/mm.h linux/include/linux/mm.h
---
Hi Linus, Alan, lkml-readers,
I first sent this two weeks ago, but other than a suggestion from a
linux-kernel reader, I got no response. This small patch didn't appear
in a 2.4.0-test kernel either, so I'm just submitting it again.
This is a tiny patch to make the int15/e820 memory
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
- make "SetPageDirty()" do something like
if (!test_and_set(PG_dirty, page-flags)) {
spin_lock(page_cache_lock);
list_del(page-list);
list_add(page-list, page-mapping-dirty_pages);
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:32:15PM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote:
I would have tried linux-usb, but I didn't know where it was, sorry.
try http://www.linux-usb.org/
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:26:06PM +0100, Manfred wrote:
David wrote:
Same old story, bugger still does it. Have to set the link down/up to
get it running again.
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev
20)
I missed your earlier mails, could you
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:19:37 +0100 (CET),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wanted to share what I've done but since I'm very new to kernel hacking
I don't know what to do with my patch. Could you give me some hints?
linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Ok. Since it's a new category,
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:37:51PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Too bad. Maybe somebody should tell gcc maintainers about programmers that
know more than the compiler again.
I know that {p,}gcc-2.95.2{,.1} are not officially supported.
Did you know that it's impossible to compile nfsv4
Hi all,
When mounting a 700 MB CD-RW in my Plextor CD-ROM, my machine
reliably oopses. Below is the first oops decoded.
Can someone explain to me what all those ksymoops warnings are
about?
-Udo.
ksymoops 2.3.5 on i686 2.4.0-test13-pre4. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:14:56PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 00:17:21 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:54:52PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
To make things like "page - mem_map" et al. use shifts instead of
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:33:07PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:17:22 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would you consider patches for any of these points?
To me it seems just as important to make sure struct page is
a power of 2 in size,
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:33:07PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date:Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:17:22 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would you consider patches for any of these points?
To me it seems just as important to make
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:58:36 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why exactly a power of two ? To get rid of -index ?
To make things like "page - mem_map" et al. use shifts instead of
expensive multiplies...
Later,
David S. Miller
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
We also want to move the page to the per-address-space clean list in
ClearPageDirty I suppose.
I would actually advice against this.
- it's ok to have too many pages on the dirty list (think o fthe dirty
list as a "these pages _can_ be
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Stefan Traby wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:37:51PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Too bad. Maybe somebody should tell gcc maintainers about programmers that
know more than the compiler again.
I know that {p,}gcc-2.95.2{,.1} are not officially supported.
Hmm, I
On 2000.12.28 Keith Owens wrote:
Yes. Some arch files change CROSS_COMPILE after CC has been set and
expect the change to flow into the definition of CC. This "feature"
only works because '=' stores the value as text and reevaluates the
text each time, automatically picking up any
Hi all,
I'm expiriencing a problem with thttpd web server
(www.acme.com/software/thttpd) on recent linux 2.2 kernels with Andrea's
VM-global patches. Without the patch server runs normally with its usual
dose of complaints on the linux platform (it's being developed on BSD
afaik), but with the
On Fri, Dec 29 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
Hi all,
When mounting a 700 MB CD-RW in my Plextor CD-ROM, my machine
reliably oopses. Below is the first oops decoded.
EIP; c01be6df cdrom_log_sense+f/70 =
Fixed in pre5
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I am fairly confident something in ac2 is fishy. I can repeatable get
ac2 to fail with PCMCIA and also reiserfs under load, I absolutely
cannot get these failures without ac2.
The PCMCIA thing is unlikely to be related (there are no changes on any PCMCIA
that actually worked on 13pre4).
: On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:50:53 +0100, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote:
: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:34:46 + (GMT), Alan Cox wrote:
2.2.18 might help and also as an '8139too' driver rewrite which may work
Advancing further to a 2.4-test12 kernel (with the latest available
8139too driver - 0.9.12)
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:54:52PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:58:36 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why exactly a power of two ? To get rid of -index ?
To make things like "page - mem_map" et al. use shifts instead of
expensive
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:54:52PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:58:36 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why exactly a power of two ? To get rid of -index ?
To make things like "page - mem_map" et al.
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 00:17:21 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:54:52PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
To make things like "page - mem_map" et al. use shifts instead of
expensive multiplies...
I thought that is what -index is for ?
It is
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:32:32AM +0100, Jure Pecar wrote:
Hi all,
I'm expiriencing a problem with thttpd web server
(www.acme.com/software/thttpd) on recent linux 2.2 kernels with Andrea's
VM-global patches. Without the patch server runs normally with its usual
Before the -7 revision the
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:29:53AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:32:32AM +0100, Jure Pecar wrote:
Hi all,
I'm expiriencing a problem with thttpd web server
(www.acme.com/software/thttpd) on recent linux 2.2 kernels with Andrea's
I downloaded the sources
On Tue Apr 04 2000 - 23:19:12 EDT, Stephen Rothwell posted a patch to linux-kernel.
See http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week15/0481.html
To quote:
This patch (against 2.3.99pre4-4) does the following:
Allow user mode programs to reject standby and suspend
hi!
kernel: 2.4.0.test12
hardware: Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter (19160)
problem: kernel hangs when using my cdrom with cdparanoia to read cdda data.
(i have nothing else on the bus for now.)
i'd like 2 provide more info, but after 2 *long* fsck ... (maybe tomorrow :-(
i've
Try pre5
Later,
David S. Miller
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My fault. The ia64 patch was the
problem.
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Matthew D.
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Subject: linux 2.4.0-test12 compile
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Forgive me if this question has already been
answered. I am
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:54:52PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:58:36 +0100
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why exactly a power of two ? To get rid of -index ?
To make things like "page - mem_map" et
All,
You are some damn smart people.
Whatever evil was happening is fixed in test13-pre5.
I pounded it with 3 successive full backups of my
multigig nfs mounted home directory to my Onstream
drive while downloading a kernel and doing multiple
100M file copies over nfs at the same time while
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