Re: SMP and ACPI.

2008-03-18 Thread arshad hussain
I hope, there is some way out. Otherwise, the option i'm thinking of is - running the Redmond OS as host and installing the linux server in a uniprocessor virtual machine. Suggestions gladly welcome. If your idea is to run linux and not the latest kernel , then give OpenSUSE 10.2

RE: question about SCSI commands

2008-03-18 Thread vichy
Hi: I know there is also a number behind Linux instructions. But I have no idea whether the number behind Linux instructions has the same meaning as one behind SCSI. I found these numbers from the specs and some kind friends have already told me what it means, the bytes it transfer. Sincerely

UML kernel problem

2008-03-18 Thread ravikumar
Hi all, I'm reading about UML , in that process i've just built the UML and tried to run the UML binary 'linux'. I got the following error message. Couldn't stat root_fs : err = 2 Failed to initialize ubd device 0 :Couldn't determine size of device's file VFS: Cannot open root device 98:0 or

Re: UML kernel problem

2008-03-18 Thread ravikumar
Yes, now it is working after i specified the root_fs Thanq Manish Katiyar wrote: Hi, Apart from building the kernel, did you download the filesystem from the UML official page. Once you have downloaded you can run using ./linux ubd0=root_fs mem=512M The second memory parameter is not

Re: UML kernel problem

2008-03-18 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi.. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:13 PM, ravikumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm reading about UML , in that process i've just built the UML and tried to run the UML binary 'linux'. I got the following error message. Couldn't stat root_fs : err = 2 exactly, how do you start it?

Re: UML kernel problem

2008-03-18 Thread ravikumar
After specifying the root_fs it was started booting , but i did not get the login prompt. The last few boot line messages are as below VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDSIGACCEPT called INIT: version 2.84 booting EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running

Re: spin_lock() around sleepable function?

2008-03-18 Thread Arvin Moezzi
On 3/17/08, Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at schedule_work() below: fs/file.c: fddef = get_cpu_var(fdtable_defer_list); spin_lock(fddef-lock); fdt-next = fddef-next; fddef-next = fdt; /* vmallocs

Re: spin_lock() around sleepable function?

2008-03-18 Thread Peter Teoh
On 3/18/08, Arvin Moezzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/17/08, Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at schedule_work() below: fs/file.c: fddef = get_cpu_var(fdtable_defer_list); spin_lock(fddef-lock); fdt-next =

Re: Compile flags for kernel for maximum debugging symbols (for UML)

2008-03-18 Thread Manish Katiyar
hmmm when I used -Os I got the below error (last few lines) LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 mm/built-in.o: In function `index_of': /home/mkatiyar/personal/uml/linux-2.6.23.12/mm/slab.c:341: undefined reference to `__bad_size'

Re: Compile flags for kernel for maximum debugging symbols (for UML)

2008-03-18 Thread Erik Mouw
Please do not top-post. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:54:48PM +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote: hmmm when I used -Os I got the below error (last few lines) LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 mm/built-in.o: In function `index_of':

Re: spin_lock() around sleepable function?

2008-03-18 Thread Arvin Moezzi
Discussion thread is here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/892870?do=post_view_flat#892870 I am still replying his email...trying to understand these Thnx Peter. Ok. I think i got it now. get_cpu_var is to fetch the data (and disable the local preemption of