Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac24

2001-07-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
e support for Rage 128 and Radeon in the new atyfb has not been completed yet. Here is a patch to bring the atyfb in your tree in sync with the atyfb in Linus' tree. This does not include the changes to aty128fb, they can be copied from Linus' tree directly. --- linux-2.4.5-ac24/drivers/video/aty/aty

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac24

2001-07-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
for Rage 128 and Radeon in the new atyfb has not been completed yet. Here is a patch to bring the atyfb in your tree in sync with the atyfb in Linus' tree. This does not include the changes to aty128fb, they can be copied from Linus' tree directly. --- linux-2.4.5-ac24/drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c

Linux 2.4.5-ac24

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
nus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix dereference of freed memory in NetROM driv

Linux 2.4.5-ac24

2001-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix dereference of freed memory

Linux 2.4.5-ac23

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
net (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are d

Linux 2.4.5-ac23

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
in decnet (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers

[BUG] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac22

2001-06-29 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.5-ac20 > o Commence resync with 2.4.6pre5 I updated my laptop to 2.4.5-ac21 today. After reboot, I found a strange problem: My network card wouldn't initialize properly (eepro100). Jun 29 21:26:31 vaio kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $

Linux 2.4.5-ac22

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
ser space derefs in decnet (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buff

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Kept old atyfb code (someone needs to sort out which atyfb is the > one being worked on and get that tree into the kernel) The one in its own subdirectory (drivers/video/aty/) is the new one. I'll send it to Linus (one day)...

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
> pnp_bios.c: In function `pnp_dock_event': > pnp_bios.c:442: `hotplug_path' undeclared (first use in this function) > pnp_bios.c:442: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > pnp_bios.c:442: for each function it appears in.) > pnp_bios.c: In function `pnp_dock_thread': >

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Kept old atyfb code (someone needs to sort out which atyfb is the one being worked on and get that tree into the kernel) The one in its own subdirectory (drivers/video/aty/) is the new one. I'll send it to Linus (one day)...

Linux 2.4.5-ac22

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
direct user space derefs in decnet (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS

[BUG] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac22

2001-06-29 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.5-ac20 o Commence resync with 2.4.6pre5 I updated my laptop to 2.4.5-ac21 today. After reboot, I found a strange problem: My network card wouldn't initialize properly (eepro100). Jun 29 21:26:31 vaio kernel: eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Cox
pnp_bios.c: In function `pnp_dock_event': pnp_bios.c:442: `hotplug_path' undeclared (first use in this function) pnp_bios.c:442: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once pnp_bios.c:442: for each function it appears in.) pnp_bios.c: In function `pnp_dock_thread': pnp_bios.c:496:

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-28 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 29. Juni 2001 03:59 schrieb Dieter Nützel: > Hello Alan, > > you've missed the CONFIG_DRM_AGP thing. > Some other config objects (Input -> joysticks , SMB file system) are > broken, too. Keith Owens patch fixed it of course.

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-28 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello Alan, you've missed the CONFIG_DRM_AGP thing. Some other config objects (Input -> joysticks , SMB file system) are broken, too. Regards, Dieter can't read "CONFIG_DRM_AGP": no such variable while executing "list $CONFIG_DRM_AGP" (procedure "writeconfig" line 2352)

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-28 Thread Garett Spencley
> 2.4.5-ac21 > o Fix pnpbios compile failure and add docking (me) > station hotplug (/sbin/hotplug dock) gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2

Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
ord checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix derefere

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
> > This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre - treat this one with care, it may > > not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made > Yeah I borked that. The good news is it'll be fixed in ac21 _and_ that it'll do hotplug notification for dock/undock ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alan Cox wrote: > > This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre - treat this one with care, it may > not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac/drivers/pnp' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac/include -Wall -Wstrict-p

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread William Stearns
Good day, all, I also get an "Error in tcl script": Error: can't read "CONFIG_DRM_AGP": no such variable. The stack trace is: can't read "CONFIG_DRM_AGP": no such variable while executing "list $CONFIG_DRM_AGP" (procedure "writeconfig" line 2351) invoked from within

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread William Stearns
Good day, Alan, all, make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/scripts' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkcond.o tkcond.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer

Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
efs in ixj (me) | From Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in decnet (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o

Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
space derefs in ixj (me) | From Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in decnet (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread William Stearns
Good day, Alan, all, make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/scripts' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkcond.o tkcond.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread William Stearns
Good day, all, I also get an Error in tcl script: Error: can't read CONFIG_DRM_AGP: no such variable. The stack trace is: can't read CONFIG_DRM_AGP: no such variable while executing list $CONFIG_DRM_AGP (procedure writeconfig line 2351) invoked from within

Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-28 Thread Garett Spencley
2.4.5-ac21 o Fix pnpbios compile failure and add docking (me) station hotplug (/sbin/hotplug dock) gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-28 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 29. Juni 2001 03:59 schrieb Dieter Nützel: Hello Alan, you've missed the CONFIG_DRM_AGP thing. Some other config objects (Input - joysticks , SMB file system) are broken, too. Keith Owens patch fixed it of course. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=99378430115592w=2

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alan Cox wrote: This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre - treat this one with care, it may not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac/drivers/pnp' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre - treat this one with care, it may not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made Yeah I borked that. The good news is it'll be fixed in ac21 _and_ that it'll do hotplug notification for dock/undock ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Linux 2.4.5-ac19

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
ges for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix dereference of freed memory in NetROM drivers o Fix writing to freed mem

Linux 2.4.5: networking problems with bintec router

2001-06-27 Thread Andreas S. Kerber
! This problem occurs, nomatter wether ECN is enabled or disabled !: Since upgrading to Linux 2.4.5 (ECN disabled!) I'm unable to connect to any hosts which are located behind a Bintec Brick router (the brick performs port forwarding). When I'm trying to connect from a Linux 2.2 machine, I have

Linux 2.4.5: networking problems with bintec router

2001-06-27 Thread Andreas S. Kerber
! This problem occurs, nomatter wether ECN is enabled or disabled !: Since upgrading to Linux 2.4.5 (ECN disabled!) I'm unable to connect to any hosts which are located behind a Bintec Brick router (the brick performs port forwarding). When I'm trying to connect from a Linux 2.2 machine, I have

Linux 2.4.5-ac19

2001-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix dereference of freed memory in NetROM drivers o Fix writing

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: >>>oLave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) >>> probe for longer on cmd timeout >>> >> >> >>Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower >>case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their >>symbols, but not

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
> > o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) > > probe for longer on cmd timeout > > > > Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower > case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their > symbols, but not their names,

Linux-2.4.5-ac16/17/18: floppy driver problem with lilo boot disks?

2001-06-25 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello, I mount my bootdisk (minix filesystem) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt" and copy my new compiled kernel to it. After that I do a "lilo -v -C /mnt/lilo.conf". All following commands which are floppy related (filesystem) fall into the D state. Load goes up by 100 for every D state process. ls

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread David Lang
On 25 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Date: 25 Jun 2001 14:08:26 -0700 > From: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18 > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) > probe for longer on cmd timeout Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower

Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
ord checker o Fix direct user space derefs in ixj (me) | From Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in decnet (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5

Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in ixj (me) | From Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in decnet (me) | From Stanford checker 2.4.5-ac1 o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) probe for longer on cmd timeout Whimper Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is s (lower

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread David Lang
On 25 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Date: 25 Jun 2001 14:08:26 -0700 From: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18 Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel o Lave 1uS gaps

Linux-2.4.5-ac16/17/18: floppy driver problem with lilo boot disks?

2001-06-25 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello, I mount my bootdisk (minix filesystem) with mount /dev/fd0 /mnt and copy my new compiled kernel to it. After that I do a lilo -v -C /mnt/lilo.conf. All following commands which are floppy related (filesystem) fall into the D state. Load goes up by 100 for every D state process. ls

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) probe for longer on cmd timeout Whimper Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is s (lower case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their symbols, but not their names,

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-25 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: oLave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and(Masaru Kawashima) probe for longer on cmd timeout Whimper Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is s (lower case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their symbols, but not their names,

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One > > if it's pre-allocation, why does it

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One > > if it's pre-allocation, why does it

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Tom Vier
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One if it's pre-allocation, why does it show up as "used"? "reserved" would be a better

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Freitag, den 22. Juni 2001: > > 6 5 1 77232 2692 2136 47004 560 892 2048 1524 10428 285529 2 98 0 >^ > Was disk running? (I bet not.. bet it stopped just after stall began) There was no

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Ok, I managed to press SysRq-T this time ond got a trace for my hang. > Symbols are resolved by klog. If you prefer ksymopps please tell me, I > used klog because ksymopps seems to drop all lines without symbols. Someone else might want that and/or a

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-22 Thread Ingo Rohloff
> > Locking twice? But what happens if some program calls loop_set_status more > > than once? Losetup doesn't, but if such program exists, locking is still > > screwed. > > No, it calls loop_release_xfer always before init_xfer, which will release > the "permanent" use count. Calling lock twice

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2001: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 >^ > > Ok, I suspect that

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > FWIW, here is the vmstat output for the second (short) hang. Taken with > > ac14, vmstat 1 was started (long) before the hang and interrupted about > > five seconds after it. The machine has 128MB RAM and 256MB swap. > > >procs

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > One thing that _could_ be done about looping allocations is to steal > > a page from the clean list ignoring PageReferenced (if you have any). > > That would be a very expensive 'rob Peter to pay Paul'

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 >1 > >

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 > >

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > i having some strange vm behavour with -ac17 that didn't happen with -ac14 > (i haven't tried 15 or 16). it starts swapping even when i have hundreds of > megs of free ram. [...] > > vmstat: >procs memoryswap io

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: i having some strange vm behavour with -ac17 that didn't happen with -ac14 (i haven't tried 15 or 16). it starts swapping even when i have hundreds of megs of free ram. [...] vmstat: procs memoryswap io system

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: One thing that _could_ be done about looping allocations is to steal a page from the clean list ignoring PageReferenced (if you have any). That would be a very expensive 'rob Peter to pay Paul' trade

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: FWIW, here is the vmstat output for the second (short) hang. Taken with ac14, vmstat 1 was started (long) before the hang and interrupted about five seconds after it. The machine has 128MB RAM and 256MB swap. procs memory

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2001: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^ Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-22 Thread Ingo Rohloff
Locking twice? But what happens if some program calls loop_set_status more than once? Losetup doesn't, but if such program exists, locking is still screwed. No, it calls loop_release_xfer always before init_xfer, which will release the permanent use count. Calling lock twice in

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: Ok, I managed to press SysRq-T this time ond got a trace for my hang. Symbols are resolved by klog. If you prefer ksymopps please tell me, I used klog because ksymopps seems to drop all lines without symbols. Someone else might want that and/or a

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Freitag, den 22. Juni 2001: 6 5 1 77232 2692 2136 47004 560 892 2048 1524 10428 285529 2 98 0 ^ Was disk running? (I bet not.. bet it stopped just after stall began) There was no disk

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Tom Vier
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One if it's pre-allocation, why does it show up as used? reserved would be a better fit.

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One if it's pre-allocation, why does it show

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One if it's pre-allocation, why does it show up

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Vier
i having some strange vm behavour with -ac17 that didn't happen with -ac14 (i haven't tried 15 or 16). it starts swapping even when i have hundreds of megs of free ram. another strange thing is that the first time i tried to boot ac17, it machine checked in the palcode. i hit reset and it booted

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 21 June 2001 21:50, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Thursday 21 June 2001 07:44, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > Ok, I suspect that

Re: Linux-2.4.5-ac17 --- Where is the truncate_inode_pages speedup patch?

2001-06-21 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello Alan, I use it all the time and it is not pre6 stuff related...:-) Thanks, Dieter --- linux/mm/filemap.cMon May 28 13:31:49 2001 +++ linux/mm/filemap.c Mon Jun 11 23:31:08 2001 @@ -230,17 +230,17 @@ unsigned long offset; page =

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2001 07:44, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they > > > > can't block

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
> anyone working on a bootflag.c for alpha? > > init/main.o: In function `init': > main.c(.text+0x148): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' > main.c(.text+0x14c): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Just #define it to a null function. I don't believe ARC

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Gary White (Network Administrator)
On my system, flag problem and boot panic fixed with this version. -- Gary White Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Pathway Voice 601-776-3355Fax 601-776-2314 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Vier
anyone working on a bootflag.c for alpha? init/main.o: In function `init': main.c(.text+0x148): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' main.c(.text+0x14c): undefined reference to `linux_booted_ok' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key id 0x27371A2C - To

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
Ingo Rohloff writes: > PS: Because I try to understand the inner workings of the loop > device better, I have a question: > In lo_send is a loop: "while (len>0)". How can I configure > a loop device, so that this loop is executed more than once. > It seems this is only possible if

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
> between your tree and Linus' please? I haven't seen any ac stuff being > spooled into Linus' tree for a while and the trees seem to be drifting > further apart ... it would be nice if there wasn't much difference > other than the device name and the page cache VFS stuff. I know you're > both

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Craig Schlenter
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > [snip] > 2.4.5-ac17 [snip] Hi Alan Sorry to bug you but could you tell us what's up with the synchronisation between your tree and Linus' please? I haven't seen any ac stuff being spooled into Linus' tree for a while and the trees seem

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.5-ac17 > o Swapfile bugfix (Rik van Riel) Written by Stephen Tweedie ... regards, Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"

Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
ree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix dereference of freed memory in NetROM drivers o

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac16 kernel panic

2001-06-21 Thread Gary White (Network Administrator)
This is the boot panic message I get with the patch applied... Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket RSDT Table at 0x1FFEC000, size 536788992 bytes. kernel BUG at ioremap.c:73! invalid operand: > Try this - it

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 21 June 2001 07:44, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they > > > can't block on IO, so they loop insanely). > > > > Why doesn't the VM

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Andi Kleen
I think your mail is offtopic for linux-kernel: it doesn't mention Microsoft or user space java programming or pointer to random unrelated web pages, but an actual kernel bug. Ingo Rohloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If lo_open doesn't call the cipher lock function and > lo_release

Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Ingo Rohloff
, is against linux-2.4.5. I try to get this patch in the kernel for quite some time, but it seems I do something wrong (or no one is interested) ? Perhaps it will go in this time... so long Ingo PS: Because I try to understand the inner workings of the loop device better, I have a question:

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac16

2001-06-21 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.5-ac16 > o Drop the shmem/removepage changes to see if they(me) > are cuaisng the instabilities in ac15 Any conclusions on that? Greetings Christoph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 > >

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 >^ > > Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^ > Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they can't > block on IO, so

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^ Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they can't block on IO, so they

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^ Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^

Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Ingo Rohloff
[type]-lock is then called, when a cipher is selected for a specific loop device. Unlock is called when a cipher is deselected for a specific loop device. It doesn't matter if the device is opened or not, which isn't important for the locking anyway. The patch which is attached, is against linux

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Andi Kleen
sarcasm I think your mail is offtopic for linux-kernel: it doesn't mention Microsoft or user space java programming or pointer to random unrelated web pages, but an actual kernel bug. /sarcasm Ingo Rohloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If lo_open doesn't call the cipher lock function and

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 21 June 2001 07:44, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they can't block on IO, so they loop insanely). Why doesn't the VM hang the

Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
tree Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5 o Fix memory leak in wanrouter o Fix memory leak in wanmain o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are done in task context o Fix dereference of freed memory in NetROM drivers o

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.5-ac17 o Swapfile bugfix (Rik van Riel) Written by Stephen Tweedie ... regards, Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Craig Schlenter
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] 2.4.5-ac17 [snip] Hi Alan Sorry to bug you but could you tell us what's up with the synchronisation between your tree and Linus' please? I haven't seen any ac stuff being spooled into Linus' tree for a while and the trees seem

  1   2   3   4   >