Re: How to programatically determine if policy-based routing is compiled into the kernel?

2000-12-06 Thread Tony Nugent
On Thu Dec 07 2000 at 00:44, Ben Greear wrote: > I have a product that is dependent on policy-based (source routing) > and would like to be able to scream loudly at install and startup if > policy-based routing is not enabled in the kernel. > > Is there some way to determine this?

D-LINK DFE-530-TX

2000-12-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
Which ethernet module works with this card? 2.2.17 kernel -- Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Open source advocate This message is copyright 2000, all rights reserved. Views expressed are my own, not

Re: [PATCH] ipchains log will show all flags

2000-12-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Rusty Russell wrote: >Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:40:12 +1100 >From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipchains log will show all flags > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write >: >>

Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux

2000-12-06 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Generic is not always good , thats why we have SIOCDEVPRIVATE. One thing Im > pondering is if we should make the hardware config ioctl take a hardware type > ident with each struct. That would help make all the ethernet agree, all the > wan agree, all the

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > >> Here is what goes wrong: >> >> Dec 6 04:21:32 agate kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register . > > > But it continues to work, right? I'll check. My system only has 80MB RAM, and I run Mozilla, which

How to programatically determine if policy-based routing is compiled into the kernel?

2000-12-06 Thread Ben Greear
I have a product that is dependent on policy-based (source routing) and would like to be able to scream loudly at install and startup if policy-based routing is not enabled in the kernel. Is there some way to determine this? Specifically, I'd love a way to find out through the /proc system, but

Re: 64bit offsets for block devices ?

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:07:57PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > Don't you think that we will run into problems anyway because soon > > there will be raid systems with a couple of Terrabytes of space to > > waste for mp3's ;-) > > A couple of terabytes is fine. That's 32 bits of blocks.

Re: Out of socket memory? (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-06 Thread Daniel Walton
I'm not quite clear how the settings under /proc/sys/vm/* would effect the problem. I neglected to mention in my previous post that all web content is served directly from the memory of the web server (no file accesses). The only file accesses that happen are from a MySQL server which

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre3: kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(00) /Gigabyte GA-586DX SMP_BOARD

2000-12-06 Thread Norbert Breun
Hallo Mark, there is one thing, that is some kind of curious: using 2.4.0-test12pre5 I've many apic errors with CPU1 a n d CPU0: Dec 7 06:52:04 nmb kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 04(00) Dec 7 06:52:04 nmb kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(00) Dec 7 06:52:04 nmb kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 04(00)

[PATCH]: sysctl to tune async and sync bdflush triggers

2000-12-06 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, At the moment the synchronous flush trigger for bdflush is hardwired to be double the asynchronous one. This is a pain for people with lots of RAM. This patch adds a new variable to the bdflush sysctl so both can be tuned independently. It also sets the defaults to 40% and 80% for async

Out of socket memory? (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-06 Thread Daniel Walton
Hello, I've been having a problem with a high volume Linux web server. This particular web server used to be a FreeBSD machine and I've been trying to successfully make the switch for some time now. I've been trying the 2.4 development kernels as they come out and I've been tweaking the

Re: test12pre6: BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115)

2000-12-06 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:00:12PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > Ragnar, > > Are you sure that was line 115? Could it have been line 515? Yes, yes, it was 515. 115 is the result of human cache corruption ;) > Also, do you have any Oops data? It just froze there. -- /| Ragnar Højland

Re: 64bit offsets for block devices ?

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Reto Baettig] > Imagine we have a virtual disk which provides a 64bit (sparse) > address room. Unfortunately we can not use it as a block device > because in a lot of places (including buffer_head structure), we're > using a long or even an int for the block number. Actually it should be

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > Here is what goes wrong: > > Dec 6 04:21:32 agate kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register . But it continues to work, right? I bet that your ethernet card is just unhappy that it couldn't get DMA in time, because the bus was so

Re: 2.2.18-24 intermittent PS/2 mouse problems

2000-12-06 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:10:19PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Alan, > > I am still seeing intermittent mouse problems with a PS2 mouse on a > 4 x PPro box with 2.2.18-24. When the system is first powered up, > the mouse detection is working great. If I reboot the machine without >

2.2.18-24 intermittent PS/2 mouse problems

2000-12-06 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan, I am still seeing intermittent mouse problems with a PS2 mouse on a 4 x PPro box with 2.2.18-24. When the system is first powered up, the mouse detection is working great. If I reboot the machine without powering it down, about 1 in 3 times I do this, the next kernel load fails to

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > > > here we have lost the "part" automatic variable in disk_name but > > > > I don't think so. Look again. Gulp... :-( Yes, your patch is indeed fine. I heartily recommend it (for whatever that is

Kernel Oops. Possible motherboard problem

2000-12-06 Thread Paul Marshall
Hi, I have been having trouble with a server crashing for the last few months. The machine seems to run fine for a few days and then unexpectedly crashes or locks up. I have tried numerous things to resolve the problem. At first the issue appeared memory related so I swapped the memory. Still

2.4.0-test12-pre6 on alpha

2000-12-06 Thread Wakko Warner
I'm glad to say that this is the first 2.4 kernel that works on my noritake alpha with a pci-pci bridge. I have a small problem. If I reboot, the srm console can't boot from dka0. Doing a: show dev doesn't list any of the hard drives in the machine. doing an init causes it to reset and find all

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Wakko Warner
Andrew Morton wrote: > Wakko Warner wrote: > > > > > - pre6: > > > - Andrew Morton: exec_usermodehelper fixes > > > > pre4 oopsed all over the place on my alpha with modules and autoloading > > turned on as soon as it mounted / and freed unused memory. I take it this > > was seen on i386

Multicast problems on 2.4.0?

2000-12-06 Thread Daniel Chemko
Hello, I am doing development work on the 2.4.0 kernel, and can not seem to get multicasting to work. I have included two test files which I attempted to run, one as a sender, and another as the receiver. The code worked as expected on a stock redhat 6.2 - linux 2.2.14-5.0 kernel. I have

RE: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > ... > Now, this is with a bog-standard PIIX irq router, so we > definitely know > that we have the pirq table parsing right. I even have unofficial > confirmation from intel engineers on this. > > But I see something obviously wrong there:

2.4.0-test12-pre7

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
The only reason for this pre7 is to resolve some warring patches in the cs46xx driver. Linus --- - test7: - Kai Germaschewski: ymfpci cleanups and resource leak fixes - me: UHCI drivers really need to enable bus mastering. - Trond Myklebust: fix up

[Fwd: lost need_resched flag re-introduced?]

2000-12-06 Thread Jun Sun
I did not get reply from Linus. Now try my luck with the kernel mailing list. Please cc your reply to my email account. I stopped watching the mailing list anymore. Thanks. Jun Jun Sun wrote: > > Linus, > > A while back I reported the lost need_resched flag bug ( it happens if >

RASTER driver for Xerox Printers

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Who has one or knows how to kick one to life? Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - 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

Re: 2.2.18pre and intel e100 net

2000-12-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: > > Anyone tryied to build the drivers from Intel for the e100 (pro/100) > network card using a 2.2.18pre kernel? I tried, and i'm gettting this > error: > > In file included from e100.c:124: > e100.h:265: conflicting types for `dma_addr_t' >

[PATCH] tulip driver, 2.4.0-test11 kernel, media type

2000-12-06 Thread Jesper Dangaard Brouer
Error/bug in the "tulip" network driver from the 2.4.0-test11 kernel, when detecting media type. The bug is quite simple. When detecting the media type, it's possible to access data outside/beyond the array "medianame[]". This leads to an kernel panic Oops. I detected the bug, when using

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Erik Mouw wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:38:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> But I see something obviously wrong there: you have busmaster disabled. >> >> Looking into the UHCI controller code, I notice that neither UHCI driver >> actually does the (required) >> >>

poll() blocking

2000-12-06 Thread J . A . Magallon
I saw some time ago some discussion about poll(). This is may question (if it remembers anyone a known issue): A driver poll_wait()s hardware and wants to raise an interrupt on hardware change. It works on 2.2 SMP but locks in 2.4 SMP. Works on 2.4 UP. Is any SMP issue with poll ? Thanks. --

The latest instance in the A20 farce

2000-12-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Okay, here is yet another A20 patch (against test12-pre6) this time for people to try out. This patch uses the following algorithm for enabling A20: 1. Try the BIOS call. If it works, we're cool. 2. Try the KBC (using Linus' lowered timeouts.) 3. If the KBC doesn't work, or is very slow, flip

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, James Lamanna wrote: > Here is an excerpt from /proc/pci: > > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 2). > IRQ 10. > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0x9400 [0x9407]. > I/O at 0x9000

Re: linux-2.4.0-test11 and sysklogd-1.3-31

2000-12-06 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:24:58 -0500 (EST), "Georg Nikodym" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sysklogd 1.3-31 no longer compiles using the latest headers in test11. > >Strictly speaking this isn't a kernel bug... > >sysklogd's ksym_mod.c includes Speaking as the modutils maintainer and the person who

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Jeff Garzik wrote: > eh? It's self-evident from Erik's patch that pci_enable_device's return > call is already being tested, thus you only need to add a call to > pci_set_master. Sorry. I'll shut up now and go back to doing something I actually am somewhat knowledgable about -- namely,

Re: test12pre6: BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115)

2000-12-06 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 6 Dec 00 at 14:00, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > Are you sure that was line 115? Could it have been line 515? > Also, do you have any Oops data? > Yesterday BUG in schedule at 515 happened for me with test12-pre4. As there were no data, and it was followed by NMI detected lockup on CPU24 ...

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Miles Lane wrote: > > Hmm. Your patch doesn't test whether pci_enable_device(dev) > was successful, does it? eh? It's self-evident from Erik's patch that pci_enable_device's return call is already being tested, thus you only need to add a call to pci_set_master. Jeff -- Jeff

Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:00:38 -0500 (EST) > From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd) > > > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:12:13 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > cc: Jaroslav

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. Your patch doesn't test whether pci_enable_device(dev) > was successful, does it? Umm, it does. If pci_enable_device wasn't successful, it returns -ENODEV. Your patch below calls pci_set_master if enabling the device fails and

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Hmm. Your patch doesn't test whether pci_enable_device(dev) was successful, does it? I think what you want is: diff -u --new-file drivers/usb/uhci.c~ drivers/usb/uhci.c --- drivers/usb/uhci.c~ Tue Dec 5 23:55:38 2000 +++ drivers/usb/uhci.c Wed Dec 6 14:50:00 2000 @@ -2380,8 +2380,10 @@

Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre6] truncate(2) permissions

2000-12-06 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > > This patch combines your previous patch with 2 changes I have just > > suggested. Both changes are obvious (and correct). > > Why remove the EROFS test? Tigran has a point - permission()

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Linus, Thanks for the reply. I agree with your analysis of the information I reported in this message. However, in previous related bug reports I mentioned actual functional conflicts between the drivers. Here is what goes wrong: Dec 6 04:21:32 agate kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO

linux-2.4.0-test11 and sysklogd-1.3-31

2000-12-06 Thread Georg Nikodym
sysklogd 1.3-31 no longer compiles using the latest headers in test11. Strictly speaking this isn't a kernel bug... sysklogd's ksym_mod.c includes In test11, added struct inter_module_entry. Its first member is "struct list_head list;". This necessitates the inclusion of . The trouble is

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Meadors wrote: > > On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent > > set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. > > > > And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, can we > have devfs create

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread James Lamanna
Here is an excerpt from /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 11, function 0: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 2). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x9400 [0x9407]. I/O at 0x9000 [0x9003]. I/O at 0x8800 [0x8807]. I/O at 0x8400

Re: test12pre6: BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115)

2000-12-06 Thread Mike Kravetz
Ragnar, Are you sure that was line 115? Could it have been line 515? Also, do you have any Oops data? Thanks, -- Mike Kravetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center 15450 SW Koll Parkway Beaverton, OR 97006-6063 (503)578-3494 On

Ext2-fs error

2000-12-06 Thread mkloppstech
The EXT2-fs errors I recently reported for test11 seem to be gone with test12-pre5. At least I couldn't reproduce the error, neither with overcommit_memory turned on nor off; maybe the error was due to turning on write cache of my hard disk. The error was a wrong reading of directory lengths and

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Neil Brown wrote: > > On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > > > [Roberto Ragusa] > > > > BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found > > > > about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). > > > > No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;"

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, James Lamanna wrote: > So you are saying that the Promise Fasttrak 100 chipset is > designed wrong? Because that's exactly what I have. > and isn't this driver supposed to support it? > Or are you saying the IDE controller on the MB is wrong? Clarify things first. PDC20267

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread James Lamanna
So you are saying that the Promise Fasttrak 100 chipset is designed wrong? Because that's exactly what I have. and isn't this driver supposed to support it? Or are you saying the IDE controller on the MB is wrong? Andre Hedrick wrote: > > <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes >

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Erik Mouw wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:38:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But I see something obviously wrong there: you have busmaster disabled. > > > > Looking into the UHCI controller code, I notice that neither UHCI driver > > actually does the (required) > > > >

Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
> > Ioctl 0x5401 is a mystery. I do not know what it is > > (looks like SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE without uppper bits). > > It is caused by an attempt to play at 5512 Hz. In fact, this time (I've I was wrong. It happens for all sounds when sox calls setvbuf (ft->fp,NULL,_IOFBF,sizeof(char)*BUFSIZ)

Re: [PATCH] Bug in date converting functions DOS<=>UNIX in FAT,NCPFS and SMBFS drivers [second attempt]

2000-12-06 Thread Urban Widmark
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Igor Yu. Zhbanov wrote: > Hello! Hello again > As I see now in 2.2.18pre24 NCPFS is fixed but VFAT and SMBFS doesn't. (This > happened because the maintainer of NCPFS resent my patch to Alan Cox but only the > part of patch related to NCPFS). So I resent you patch for VFAT

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > [Roberto Ragusa] > > > BTW, here is a little patch regarding a silly problem I found > > > about RAID partitions naming (/proc/partitions). > > > No more "md8" "md9" "md:" "md;" ... but "md8" "md9" "md10" "md11"

Re: [Linux-IrDA] Re: [IrDA]Oops while shutting down irattach

2000-12-06 Thread Jonathan Hudson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dag Brattli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DB> else. I''ve tried to find it, but I'm still clueless at the prompt. Fixed by the exec_usermodehelper fixes in 2.4.0test12pre6 (at least here:). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Nope you have a chipset that is designed wrong. Who makes an on-board chipset (not southbridge) which is designed right? Highpoint makes HPT370, but after HPT366 fiasco I'm not sure I trust them anymore... -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent > set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. > And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, can we have devfs create this directory for us? -Chris -- Two

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:38:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But I see something obviously wrong there: you have busmaster disabled. > > Looking into the UHCI controller code, I notice that neither UHCI driver > actually does the (required) > > pci_set_master(dev); > > Please add

Re: Serial Console

2000-12-06 Thread Vitaly Luban
Hi, Steve Hill wrote: > I'm building boxes with the console set to /dev/ttyS0. However, I can't > guarantee that there will always be a term plugged into the serial > port. If there is no term on the port, eventually the buffer fills and > any processes that write to the console (i.e. init)

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > If I insert both my 3c575 and Belkin BusPort Mobile USB host-controller > and then enable both of them, "modprobe usb-ohci" hangs. If I then > attempt "modprobe -r 3c59x", that process hangs, too. lsmod shows: > > usb-ohci 15072 1

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Did you set and mount a "/var/shm" point? > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. -hpa --

PROBLEM: ATAPI DMA hangs/fs corruption, on 2.4.0-test1x

2000-12-06 Thread ferret
1) ATAPI DMA hangs and fs corruption, Acer Aspire with 2.4.0-test1x 2) Using the 2.0.4-test1x Ali M15x3 driver in DMA transfer mode on my Acer Aspire (Running Debian/GNU Linux) with heavy network load I get DMA timeouts and/or (so far) minor filesystem corruption. Minor just means that nothing

Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:12:13 -0500 (EST) > > From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The native YMF PCI driver

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor > drives aren't quite safe with DMA. Depends on the controller. Maxtor drives play badly with Highpoint controllers, but are OK with Promise. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Did you set and mount a "/var/shm" point? On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. > > As others pointed out, it's probably something related to shared > memory, but it's definitely

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > I also have an A7V and both of my IBM IDE drives are connected to the > Promise controller, running in UDMA-5 mode. There hasn't been any > corruption on either of the drives that had to do with UDMA-5 mode. > And the ext2 bugs that 2.4 kernels had,

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. As others pointed out, it's probably something related to shared memory, but it's definitely hdparm that triggers it. I haven't got the hdparm sources here to look at what exactly it's doing, but there

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
I have not tested of checked the nature of the PCD20265 which is the onboard version. On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Skip Collins wrote: > After running 2.4.0-test11 for a while, my system would occasionally > hang during heavy disk activity resulting in a corrupt ext2 filesystem. > Fortunately, none of

fatfs BUG() in test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread David Woodhouse
This code in fs/fat/file.c::fat_get_block() is getting triggered when I run wine: if (iblock<<9 != MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private) { BUG(); return -EIO; } -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

64bit offsets for block devices ?

2000-12-06 Thread Reto Baettig
Hi Imagine we have a virtual disk which provides a 64bit (sparse) address room. Unfortunately we can not use it as a block device because in a lot of places (including buffer_head structure), we're using a long or even an int for the block number. Is there any way of getting a standardized way

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: > > > > Can you tell me what device it is that doesn't work for you? > > The USB controller. That's device 00:07.2: > > 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82440MX USB Universal Host Controller >(prog-if 00 [UHCI]) > Control: I/O+ Mem-

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > > Hi, > > Following the discussion in another thread where someone > reported fs corruption when enabling DMA with hdparm, I've > played around with hdparm and found that even the

Re: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Re: PCI clock... Something somewhere (can't find now) made me think that > > my MB is setting the PCI clock synchronously with the CPU clock, i.e. it > > is 25MHz in my case... Any ideas where I could see it?:-) > > I found it - it's in

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
<4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes <4>AMD7409: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 <4>AMD7409: chipset revision 7 <4>AMD7409: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later <4>ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA <4>ide1: BM-DMA at

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:38:51AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: > > So at first the PCI code can't allocate an IRQ for devices 00:00.1 > > (audio), 00:07.2 (USB), and 00:09.0 (winmodem), but after the audio and > > USB modules get inserted, IRQ 5 and 11 get

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Kress
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Brian Kress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > I got resounding silence to posting the patch last time, so I'm not > > sure if anyone actually wants this patch, > > Well, I like it, but admittedly it's mostly in the "cleanup" category > (though it does fix the LVM name issue)

Re: YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:12:13 -0500 (EST) > From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The native YMF PCI driver from Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre5 works on my card: I did

test12pre6: BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115)

2000-12-06 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
as per subject.. BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115) -- /| Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL Fingerprint 94C4B \ o.O| 2F0D27DE025BE2302C =(_)= "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for 104B78C56 B72F0822 U chaos

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > Following the discussion in another thread where someone > reported fs corruption when enabling DMA with hdparm, I've > played around with hdparm and found that even the rather > harmless hdparm operations are capable of trashing an ext2 >

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-06 Thread Nils Faerber
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2000 18:00, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I did confirm that 2.4.0-test11(final) works properly with sound and KDE > > > 2.0. > > Ok. That sounds even more like its PCI changes > I copied the cs46xx.c driver from 2.4.0-test11 to

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: > > So at first the PCI code can't allocate an IRQ for devices 00:00.1 > (audio), 00:07.2 (USB), and 00:09.0 (winmodem), but after the audio and > USB modules get inserted, IRQ 5 and 11 get allocated. No, the irq stuff is a two-stage process: at first it

Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > The protected-mode switch in INT 15 is probably the least tested BIOS > function ever. I wouldn't trust it, and relying on it will put further > burden on embedded Linux developers, many of whom don't even have a > BIOS. It is 'least tested' because there is no

Re: Fixing random corruption in raw IO on 2.2.x kernel with bigmem enabled

2000-12-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:28:54PM -0500, Peng Dai wrote: > > This patch fixes a subtle corruption when doing raw IO on the 2.2.x > kernel > with bigmem enabled. The problem was first reported by Markus Döhr while That patch is already part of the full bugfixed raw IO patchset I posted out

YMF PCI - thanks, glitches, patches (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! The Linux-sound list appears to be dead (I don't see my message in http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-sound/), so I'm sending to the authors and the people discussing the problem on the linux-kernel mailing list. An additional problem is that opl3 cannot find the device unless I

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:25:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Concering the PCI irq routing fixes in particular, I'd ask people with > laptops to start testing their kernels with PnP OS set to "yes" in the > BIOS setup. We shoul dbe at a stage where it should basically work all the > time,

Re: PCI irq routing..

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Martin Diehl wrote: > > problems with recent 2.4.0-test1* on my HP OmniBook 800 are probably > combined PCMCIA(CB) / PCI / APM issues. The point is my 16bit cards > (modem+ne2k) are working perfectly fine with yenta sockets until the first > suspend/resume. Afterwards the

Re: test12-pre4: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

2000-12-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > On my box, with heavy load I saw: > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > Newer seen this message before. > > Linux (2.4.0.11.4) or my old slow box ? > > > giacomo > This is really "normal" occasionally, and probably should not be logged.

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:25:15PM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > hdparm -tT /dev/hdb1 does the trick here. > > After that, several files are corrupted, such as /etc/mtab. > Reboot+fsck fixes the problem, however e2fsck never finds > any errors in the fs on disk. I'm currently trying to

Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: > > > INT 15-2401 disable A20 > > INT 15-2402 query status A20 > > INT 15-2403 query A20 support (kdb or port 92) > > > > IBM classifies these functions as optional, but it is enabled on a lot > > of > > new BIOS, no know conflicts, thus we can call this function to enable > >

Re: Kernel boot params

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Timothy A. DeWees] > Could someone be so kind to point me to a page where I can find a > list of parameters I can pass to a kernel on boot. Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi, Following the discussion in another thread where someone reported fs corruption when enabling DMA with hdparm, I've played around with hdparm and found that even the rather harmless hdparm operations are capable of trashing an ext2 filesystem quite nicely. hdparm version is 3.9 hdparm -tT

Re: Looping Oops

2000-12-06 Thread rmk
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler > invalid operand: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[] > EFLAGS: 00010292 >... > Aiee, killing interrupt handler > invalid operand: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[] > EFLAGS: 00010286 You are not the only one to find this. On the ARM kernels, I have had to

Fixing random corruption in raw IO on 2.2.x kernel with bigmem enabled

2000-12-06 Thread Peng Dai
Hi, This patch fixes a subtle corruption when doing raw IO on the 2.2.x kernel with bigmem enabled. The problem was first reported by Markus Döhr while running SAP DB on a variation of the 2.2.16 kernel with among others the following patches installed, > linux-2.2.16-rawio.patch >

Re: All INNOMINATE linux-list feeds are now killed...

2000-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rik van Riel wrote: >> >> Could you make it a one-way list this time? >> These two-way lists always give horrible problems >> and I would hate to killfile all of innominate ;) > >Allright, I think we have choice :-/

Re: DMA for WDC CA21600H CCC F6 details

2000-12-06 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hi I just received another reply from WD (after my repeated enquiry) - now they say my disk DOES support DMA... So, either - something is wrong with my kernel configuration / hdparm usage / kernel boot parameters / whatever else... OR BIOS... Which I don't know how to bypass... Regards

test12-pre4: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

2000-12-06 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On my box, with heavy load I saw: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. Newer seen this message before. Linux (2.4.0.11.4) or my old slow box ? giacomo My dmesg BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 @ (usable) BIOS-e820: 0400 @

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Skip Collins
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor > drives aren't quite safe with DMA. Using an IBM 45GB udma5 capable drive. The problems only occur under _heavy_ disk activity. I have -d 1 -c 3 -m 16 set. Have you tried thrashing your drive

Re: Traceroute without s bit

2000-12-06 Thread Olaf Kirch
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:35:14AM -0500, James Antill wrote: > I've just looked at it, but I'm pretty sure this is a bug in your > code. Ick. Thanks! Olaf -- Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/ | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah

Re: Traceroute without s bit

2000-12-06 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:07:38PM +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:05PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > IP_PKTINFO does not allow to set source addresses, only destination > > addresses. Source address depends on the boundage or the route. > > No. At least udp_sendmsg uses

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-06 Thread Steven Cole
On Tuesday 05 December 2000 18:00, Alan Cox wrote: > > I did confirm that 2.4.0-test11(final) works properly with sound and KDE > > 2.0. > > Ok. That sounds even more like its PCI changes > Some new information: I copied the cs46xx.c driver from 2.4.0-test11 to 2.4.0-test11-ac1, rebuilt, and I

Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > If you have had A20M# problems with any kernel -- recent or not -- > > > *please* try this patch, against 2.4.0-test12-pre5: > > > >

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Skip Collins wrote: > For now I am going to fall back to the slower ide bus. But I wanted to > let people know that there still may be problems with ext2 corruption in > the latest test kernel. If your kernel halts, you should not be surprised if you get file system errors.

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