Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am > > no: the only entities involved with udma crc's are the drive, > the controller (and the cable). the kernel is not involved in any way > (except to configure

Re: khttpd beaten by boa

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Lars Marowsky-Bree writes: > This just goes on to show that khttpd is unnecessary kernel bloat > and can be "just as well" handled by a userspace application, minus > some rather very special cases which do not justify its inclusion > into the main kernel. My take on this is that khttpd is

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! I'm the current maintainer of the VIA driver. I'm pretty sure the version in 2.4.0 programs the chips correctly for harddrives at various speeds, even leaving some margins where it shouldn't need to. I think there is not any problem with Western Digital drives, I've got many reports of them

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Christoph Rohland
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Same cam be applied to shm ? Thus kernel Documentation/Changes > should be changed: [...] > > none/dev/shmshm defaults0 0 > > to > > shm/dev/shmshm defaults0 0 > Yes, I thought that I changed that :-( I

Re: khttpd beaten by boa

2001-01-11 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2001-01-11T22:20:56, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Then we decided to switch persistant connection off... But boa still wins. > > What is wrong here? I would expect transferates of a 3-4 megabytes over a > localhost interface. The file is certainly in some kind of cache.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB Config fix for 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote: > Why do the input handlers depend on CONFIG_USB_HID? On PPC we already have > trouble with them depending on CONFIG_USB, so everybody has to select > CONFIG_USB even if he just has ADB hardware. Don't these input drivers _require_

Question regarding driver developement

2001-01-11 Thread Anders Johansson
Hi I am very sorry for disturbing the kernel development with this question which I suspect might be off topic. If I am totally off topic please tell me where to find help in your flame mails. I am developing a device driver (will be GPL) for a PCI board hosting two Digital Signal Processors

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-11 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Michael> Please read and comment! :) There should be some discussion on what to do about filenames which contain colons in such a setup. Moving a file w/ a colon from a fs which does not support named streams to one which does should DTRT; exactly what TRT is should be discussed. -JimC --

khttpd beaten by boa

2001-01-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
I got into a bragging game whose webserver is the fastest with Jim Nelson one of the authors of the boa webserver. We finally settled on the Zeus test to decide the battle. First boa won hands down because it supports persistant connections. Boa on port 6000. Khttpd on port 80:

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Could people with Athlons please verify that pre3 works for them? It works very well wrt. fxsr. -Udo. - 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: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread TimO
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Could people with Athlons please verify that pre3 works for them? > > > Linus Running nowuptime 6 minutes. === -- Tim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

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Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > us who have via chipset motherboards, suggesting that it is limited > > to that chipset, that chipset is ubiquitous, or via chipset > > motherboard owners are generally the complaining type. no idea which > > applies there, either. Sheesh, when you

[semi-OT] Historic Linux Kernels.

2001-01-11 Thread Nicholas Knight
on kernel.org you can get old kernels clear back to 0.01 in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ but some things are missing, though nothing major what's missing that I'm most interested in is the linux boot-disk that apparently came into being around .11. to quote from

2.4.1-pre3 UP

2001-01-11 Thread Garst R. Reese
I think you missed an ifdef in ksyms, We don't all have smp also update Makefile Garst - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[DOS] emulation under linux

2001-01-11 Thread Jim M.
Hi, There is a compiler package that runs on DOS but not on Linux. I was wondered how can i emulate DOS under linux so that i run the compile package?. I have kernel 2.2.14-12. RH 6.2. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: depmod -a and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David Ford
> pretty darned impressive :-). Another oddity that someone else > already reported: the ipv6 module shows a reference count of -1. a ref count of -1 means the module decides when to unload. -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.blue-labs.org adr:;; version:2.1

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Note that there was a precise reason for not implementing it as the TSC disable > (infact at first in 2.2.x I was clearing the bigflag in x86_capabilities too). > The reason is that the way TSC gets disabled breaks /proc/cpuinfo. No. It FIXES

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread John O'Donnell
Alan Cox wrote: >> us who have via chipset motherboards, suggesting that it is limited >> to that chipset, that chipset is ubiquitous, or via chipset >> motherboard owners are generally the complaining type. no idea which >> applies there, either. > > > Or there are a lot of them. 90% of

Re: Anyone else interested in a high-precision monotonic counter?

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred Bartz
"Christopher Friesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manfred Bartz wrote: > > > Why a new system call? > Well, you'd be accessing a different kernel variable--"ytime" instead of > "xtime". This new variable wouldn't be adjusted when the system > time/date was, it would start at zero and always

followup: depmod -a and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Bob_Tracy
Dooh! Please ignore earlier bogus report of module loading "trouble". This was my bad: an old init script was running "modprobe -a". Sigh... -- Bob Tracy[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "We might

depmod -a and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Bob_Tracy
Maybe I missed the discussion, but why might "depmod -a" result in every module getting installed? This didn't happen under any of the 2.4.0-testX releases that I recall, and I ran every one of those and the prerelease without this "trouble". Gotta say, the screen output from running "lsmod"

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1-pre2 - Undefined symbol `__buggy_fxsr_alignment' - (FIXED)

2001-01-11 Thread Shawn Starr
e i think it was just fixed in pre3 ;-) + if (offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.i387.fxsave) & 15) { + extern void __buggy_fxsr_alignment(void); + __buggy_fxsr_alignment(); + } > GCC 2.95.2 -> PGCC 2.95.2(3?) patched. 2.4.0 compiles fine > >

Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac7

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Jan 12 2001, Bill Crawford wrote: > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.0-ac7/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o > depmod: queued_sectors Apologies, I didn't think of modular SCSI/IDE for this... --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.0-ac7/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Fri

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:08:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Could people with Athlons please verify that pre3 works for them? It works fine. > It also makes the fxsr disable act the same way the TSC disable does. Note that there was a precise reason for not implementing it as the TSC

[PROBLEM] 2.4.1-pre2 - Undefined symbol `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-11 Thread Shawn Starr
GCC 2.95.2 -> PGCC 2.95.2(3?) patched. 2.4.0 compiles fine init/main.o: In function `check_fpu': init/main.o(.text.init+0x53): undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 On compiling (and recompiling) i get this fatal error. This function does not exist

[patch[ 2.4.1-pre3 HAVE_XMM compile error

2001-01-11 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
patch to let 2.4.1-pre3 compile on PIII we are moving from HAVE_XMM to cpu_has_xmm right? -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ [EMAIL

Linux 2.4.0-ac7

2001-01-11 Thread Bill Crawford
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-ac7/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o depmod: queued_sectors -- /* Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, ebOne, formerly GTS Netcom */ #include "stddiscl.h" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Floating point broken between 2.4.0-ac4 and -ac5?

2001-01-11 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:58:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A Duron box running 2.4.0-ac5 (and -ac6) shows NaN in many > places (such as df output showing usage "nan%"). Right now I > reverted back to 2.4.0-ac4 which does not show the problem. > The kernel was compiled with CONFIG_MK7

various issues/questions

2001-01-11 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Kernel 2.4.0-prerelease through 2.4.1-pre2 I recently got a Pioneer 105S 16x slot loading DVD drive and have been getting lots os the following messages when playing dvds and cdroms hdb: DSC timeout hdb: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb:

[depmod] question

2001-01-11 Thread Jim M.
Hello all, I have kernel verison 2.2.14-12 version with RH6.2. I do "cd /sbin" and i see "depmod" there in the /sbin directory. But somehow seems like load module is not working. Maybe this is the reason why system freezes happen in my RH. A driver for a custom built pci card is not loaded

O_NONBLOCK, read(), select(), NFS, Ext2, etc.

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Rothwell
The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return immediately and not block the calling process. This does not appear to be true; but perhaps I am doing something wrong. If I open() a file (on 2.2.18) from a

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:12:47 +0100, Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So why don't we use sth. like depmod for these issues and get the >link order automagically (like we get module load order)? depmod handles dependencies on symbols. Module Y needs a symbol from module X so modprobe must

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
Could people with Athlons please verify that pre3 works for them? It's basically Andrea's patch, but I moved the FPU save/restore games away from arch/i386/lib/mmx.c, so that everything is properly done in one place and others call the appropriate helper functions instead of thinking that they

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:14:54AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > kiobufs are crap. Face it. They do NOT allow proper multi-page scatter > gather, regardless of what the kiobuf PR department has said. It's not surprising, since they were designed to

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:36:13PM -0600, Jens Petersohn wrote: > My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for > Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but > it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in > my meager spare time. I had

Linux 2.4.0ac7

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.0-ac7 o Export a KMALLOC_MAXSIZE for drivers to check (Hans Grobler) | this is needed to verify things like firmware | sizes passed by users o Fix highmem compile issues (Ingo

ENOMEM on socket writes

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Mackerras
Using 2.4, and the prereleases since about early December or so, I have been seeing rsync dying with an error "write: unable to allocate memory". Rsync is writing on a socket which is set non-blocking and the write is apparently returning ENOMEM. Is this actually a new behaviour, or just

2.4.1-pre2: q: EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_release_task) and mmu_cr4_features

2001-01-11 Thread Bjoern Kriews
--- linux-2.4.1-pre2-rfs-i/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c~ Thu Dec 7 06:00:12 2000 +++ linux-2.4.1-pre2-rfs-i/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.cFri Jan 12 01:58:37 2001 @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(apm_info); EXPORT_SYMBOL(gdt); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mmu_cr4_features); +

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:14:44AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > >What happens when we get a loop in init order because of binding and other init > >order conflicts? > > The kernel does not support circular dependencies between providers and > consumers. It does not matter whether they are built

Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Longair
On Thursday 11 January, Richard B. Johnson wrote ("Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT"): [...] > You probably compiled your kernel with "CONFIG_INET_ECN" set. > If so, you need to turn it OFF in /proc/sys/net/...something_ecn. I don't have an ECN option available in

Re: [patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2001-01-11 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, rdunlap wrote: > Here's a patch to 2.2.19-pre7 that is essentially a backport of the > 2.4.0 gate-A20 code. > > This speeds up booting on my fast-A20 board (Celeron 500 MHz, no KBC) > from 2 min:15 seconds to . > > Kai, you reported that your system was OK with

[PATCH] fix nfs as module on 2.4.0-pre2

2001-01-11 Thread Kai Germaschewski
Obvious, I guess. --Kai diff -ur linux-2.4.1-pre2/net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c linux-2.4.1-pre2-makefixes-3/net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c --- linux-2.4.1-pre2/net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c Sat Apr 22 01:08:52 2000 +++ linux-2.4.1-pre2-makefixes-3/net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c Fri Jan 12 01:00:40 +2001

Re: [patch] Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20

2001-01-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
I think the way to go is to do the INT 15-first; possibly augmented with a "test before even doing INT 15"... -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Just out of curiosity, if you boot a Linux 2.4.0 kernel with the > "noapic" command line option, does behavior improve? For the curious, here's a summary of some tests I did: apic, 2 cpu's, no smp affinity -> network hangs under

Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT

2001-01-11 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Mark Longair wrote: > I'm having a problem where twice a day or so, any new tcp connection > it gets stuck in SYN_SENT. Eventually this situation rights itself, > but obviously in the meantime many services (e.g. squid, X) are > broken. The machine does IP masquerdading

RESEND: [ PATCH ] externalize (new) scsi timer function

2001-01-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
I sent this about a month ago. I think it's important. For what it's worth, Doug Gilbert thought it was a good idea too. Can you please reconsider and drop it in. - Late in the game, and possibly questionable, but it would be helpful to have the (new) scsi timer functions externalized

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Takacs Sandor wrote: > If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only > 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will apply > it by hand :) I've allready done it: http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/raid-2.2.18.bz2 But it's untested,

Critical compile bug: 2.4.1-pre2 alpha

2001-01-11 Thread Shawn Starr
init/main.o: In function `check_fpu': init/main.o(.text.init+0x53): undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 On compiling (and recompiling) i get this fatal error. This function does not exist anymore? Shawn Starr. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Longair
I'm having a problem where twice a day or so, any new tcp connection it gets stuck in SYN_SENT. Eventually this situation rights itself, but obviously in the meantime many services (e.g. squid, X) are broken. The machine does IP masquerdading with ipchains, and masqueraded connections through

kernel.org signer broken?

2001-01-11 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
The signature on man-pages-1.34.tar.gz is bad: gpg: Signature made Sun Dec 24 10:56:01 2000 CST using DSA key ID 517D0F0E gpg: BAD signature from "Linux Kernel Archives Verification Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" I retrieved the man pages from ftp.kernel.org and ftp.us.kernel.org

Re: Cannot compile my kernel due to unpredictible situations:

2001-01-11 Thread Yin Tan Cui
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Gregg Lloyd wrote: >Hi, >I have downloaded linux kernel 2.4. >In /usr/src, I did untar the file: >gzip -cd linux-2.4.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - >I see several files being copied to several locations (/linux/Documentation, >/linux/arch/..etc..). The problem is that there's no

Re: Cannot compile my kernel due to unpredictible situations:

2001-01-11 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.12 Gregg Lloyd wrote: > the right 2.4 kernel?? (Kernel howto talks about going to /usr/src/linux and > start compiling..but current /usr/src/linux is a link to my current 2.2.5 > kernel !!!) > So you have just wrote kernel2.4 OVER your kernel2.2. Kernel tarballs always untar and

Re: 2.4.0 Keyboard and mouse lock

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Ferraris
> > I don't know if it's the 2.4.0 I installed since few days, but before I > never seen that on my PC. > > The PC (RH 6.2 + updates), looked fully freezed and Sysreq didn't > work. Sorry, It couldn't: the sysreq value in /proc/kernel/sysreq was 0, as the log says. So maybe it could work and

Cannot compile my kernel due to unpredictible situations:

2001-01-11 Thread Gregg Lloyd
Hi, I have downloaded linux kernel 2.4. In /usr/src, I did untar the file: gzip -cd linux-2.4.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - I see several files being copied to several locations (/linux/Documentation, /linux/arch/..etc..). The problem is that there's no linux 2.4 directory created under /usr/src

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The "none" bit puzzles me the most. > > It is a common misconfiguration. Given a line > > device dir type options garbage > > in /etc/fstab, some umount versions will complain "device busy" > when the umount fails. Thus, it is better to use >

2.4.0 Keyboard and mouse lock

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Ferraris
I don't know if it's the 2.4.0 I installed since few days, but before I never seen that on my PC. The PC (RH 6.2 + updates), looked fully freezed and Sysreq didn't work. I had a Netscape window on my screen. The mouse didn't move. I login without problem from another PC. I tried to kill the X

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jens Petersohn wrote: > > > try http://www.linuxraid.org/ > > > Check lower on the page. There is a patch for the patch to bring it up > to A3. This resulting patch will apply semi-cleanly (with fuzz) to the > final kernel. Oh, I see it. So, mingo why not create an A3

[PATCH] missing export in sunrpc_syms.c

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Viro
rpc_release_task is required by nfs.o. --- net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.cFri Apr 21 19:08:52 2000 +++ net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.cThu Jan 11 18:01:50 2001 @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpciod_up); EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_new_task); EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_wake_up_status);

Re: Poll and Select not scaling

2001-01-11 Thread Micah Gorrell
I would just like to thank every one for your help. I have found the problem and it is now working wonderfuly. Micah -Original Message- From: "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micah Gorrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:42 PM

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread David Ford
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > "Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > > > > The very strange stuff is umount at reboot: > > > > umount: none busy - remounted read-only > > umount: /: device is busy > > Remounting root-filesystem read-only > > mount: / is busy > > Rebooting. Are you using devfs and do kernel

Re: 2.4.0-ac6: drivers/net/rcpci45.c typo

2001-01-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:06:32PM +0100, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Hans Grobler wrote: > > Yes we know about this one. This is a bug that was killed, and then came > > back to life. We're still trying to figure out how... :) > > > I feel that I must step

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Russell King
Andrea Arcangeli writes: > This patch looks fine w.r.t. alignment but given the below seems called > at runtime (not just at mount time) for performance and to save a dozen of bytes > of kernel stack it would probably better to use the nfs_fh structure in > 2.2.19pre7 for the in-kernel

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Petersohn
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) > > > > try http://www.linuxraid.org/ > > If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only > 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will

[PATCH] free_page(0) freed pagenr 0x40000

2001-01-11 Thread Hugh Dickins
sys_mount(), and probably others, calls free_page(0) when no page was got. free_pages() allows for this explicitly if CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, and _appears_ to allow for it generally by testing VALID_PAGE() - but that test is inadequate, if over 1GB of memory then pagenr 0x4 can be wrongly freed

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > These days umount is done by directory, not by device, > since a device may be mounted multiple times, so > I expect the silly message is gone. > (Is your umount recent?) > > [But this is only about the "none". I don't know what is > wrong in your situation.] My

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) > > try http://www.linuxraid.org/ If I see it there is no raid patch for 2.2.18 final, only 2.2.18pre13. This patch (raid-2.2.18-A2) rejects some diffs. I will apply it by hand :) --

RE: Poll and Select not scaling

2001-01-11 Thread David Schwartz
> I have been trying to increase the scalabilty of an email server that has > been ported to Linux. It was originally written for Netware, and there we > are able to provide over 30,000 connections at any given time. On Linux > however select stops working after the first 1024 connections. I

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> The "none" bit puzzles me the most. It is a common misconfiguration. Given a line device dir type options garbage in /etc/fstab, some umount versions will complain "device busy" when the umount fails. Thus, it is better to use proc/proc proc devpts /dev/pts devpts

Re: swap size

2001-01-11 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> what's the maximum swap size See mkswap(8), making sure you have a non-ancient page (one that mentions Linux 2.1.117). - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread David Ford
Matthias Juchem wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Richard Torkar wrote: > > > I do not have any PPP, and no kdb installed on that machine, neither do I > > have procinfo. Shouldn't it say N/A or not found instead of the above? The > > ppp part is not true ;-). > > > Other thing I thought about was

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
> I tried to apply it. If I finish it I will send the patch to mingo :) try http://www.linuxraid.org/ - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Takacs Sandor
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jens Petersohn wrote: > My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for > Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but > it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in > my meager spare time. I tried to apply it. If I

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Rothwell
CORRECTION: > existing, widely-deployed filesystems (e.g., NFS, XFS, BeFS, HFS, etc.), NTFS---^ - 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: [PATCH] improved IDE OnStream support for linux 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
Its cool with me... On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > Hi guys, > > Below is a patch to fix some problems in the OnStream tape drive support > in ide-tape.c. > > - It implements Early Warning (e.g. retuns ENOSPC) for reaching end-of-tape. > This fixes a real nasty problem when

[PATCH] improved IDE OnStream support for linux 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
Hi guys, Below is a patch to fix some problems in the OnStream tape drive support in ide-tape.c. - It implements Early Warning (e.g. retuns ENOSPC) for reaching end-of-tape. This fixes a real nasty problem when writing beyond end-of-tape, rendering the 'backup' more ore less useless. -

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:47:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Are you judging based on the error message? The 'netdev watchdog ...' > message is a generic error message that could have any number of > causes. It's just saying, well, what it says :) The kernel was unable > to transmit a packet

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Frank de Lange wrote: > > OK, just one last addition to what has nearly become my own thread... > > I now am fairly certain that the problem (network stalls on multiprocessor systems) >is not BP6 or NE2K-PCI specific. I found several postings which relate to similar >problems on dissimilar

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Andreas Dilger
Udo, you write: > Anyway, disabled both lpd and httpd from the startup scripts > and now the bug is triggered *every* time. I cannot reboot > a single time without partitions being busy. When neither > lpd nor httpd run, fsck finds nothing wrong. > > The very strange stuff is umount at reboot: >

Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Petersohn
My appologies if this has been asked before. I'm looking for Ingo Molnar's RAID patch for 2.2.18-final. I tried applying A2, but it has a number of conflicts in raid1.c which I cannot resolve in my meager spare time. Thanks in advance, --Jens Petersohn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
> I've checked a couple of other machines, different setups etc. > all with -ac6 and all show this behavior - also the umount stuff. Wait for -ac7 and see if that fixes it. I think I know whats up there - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Nigel Gamble writes: > That's why MontaVista's kernel preemption patch uses sleeping mutex > locks instead of spinlocks for the long held locks. Anyone who uses sleeping mutex locks is asking for trouble. Priority inversion is an issue I dearly hope we never have to deal with in the Linux

Re: Linux driver: __get_free_pages()

2001-01-11 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:01:08PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson escreveu: > If all you need is a kernel buffer to store the stuff that will be > written to NVRAM, then just use kmalloc(). It is virtual and will s/kmalloc/vmalloc/ > seem contiguous to your driver. - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
OK, just one last addition to what has nearly become my own thread... I now am fairly certain that the problem (network stalls on multiprocessor systems) is not BP6 or NE2K-PCI specific. I found several postings which relate to similar problems on dissimilar hardware. Another interesting one

2.4.0 eth0 timeout after wake from suspend

2001-01-11 Thread Mihai Christodorescu
I jsut upgraded to 2.4.0 and I started getting eth timeouts after the machine wakes from suspend. The sequence of log events is: Jan 11 07:16:34 HOST apmd[420]: System Suspend Jan 11 12:20:27 HOST kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0 Jan 11 12:20:41 HOST apmd[420]: Normal Resume

Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

2001-01-11 Thread Dragan Stancevic
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001, Kambo Lohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ; I am having the same problems, I have duplicated the hard lockups / ethernet ; hangs on two intel 815EE boards. It happens when send traffic through the ; onboard eepro100 is high, and sometimes running something like vmstat 1 in

Re: Linux driver: __get_free_pages()

2001-01-11 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Paul Powell wrote: > Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash > an adapter's firmware. This can require as much as > 512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ). We are using the > function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order > ) . The call is failing if

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > > The very strange stuff is umount at reboot: > > umount: none busy - remounted read-only > umount: /: device is busy > Remounting root-filesystem read-only > mount: / is busy > Rebooting. I just noticed another strange effect: ps uxa misses a couple dozen

Re: Linux driver: __get_free_pages()

2001-01-11 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:39:33PM -0800, Paul Powell escreveu: > Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash an adapter's > firmware. This can require as much as 512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ). > We are using the function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order) > . The

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Nigel Gamble
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Opinion: Personally, I think the approach in Andrew's patch >is the way to go. > >Not because it can give the absolute best results. >But rather, it is because it says "here is where a lot > of time is spent". > >

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:30:49PM +0100, Trond Myklebust > wrote: >> OK. In that case my patch, would just be amended to eliminate >> the redundant comparison as is the case below. > This patch looks fine w.r.t.

Linux driver: __get_free_pages()

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Powell
Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash an adapter's firmware. This can require as much as 512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ). We are using the function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order ) . The call is failing if 'order' is greater than 6. The problem is seen on

Re: Poll and Select not scaling

2001-01-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote: > select() is usually limited to 1024 file descriptors oh hey, this limit is only a libc limit these days. you can do this: #define MY_FD_SETSIZE (16384) typedef struct { __fd_mask __fds_bits[MY_FD_SETSIZE / __NFDBITS]; } my_fd_set; #define

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alexander Viro wrote: > > umount: none busy - remounted read-only > > > The "none" bit puzzles me the most. /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab > > look perfectly ok. > > > > Has anyone got an idea? Everything worked well with 2.4.0 and > > Alan's tree up to -ac4, didn't try ac5, and ac6 is what messes >

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
Hm, the noapic option seems to help, as I'm currently beating the network to death but it won't die... As the problem is elusive, it is hard to tell, and it would not surprise me if the net dropped dead the moment this mail went through, but current indication is that noapic makes the sudden

Re: IDE DMA problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > When copying huge files from one disk to another (hda->hdc), I get the > following error (after some hundred megabytes): > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 > hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd1

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > > /dev/hdb1: Inode 522901, i_blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED > umount: none busy - remounted read-only > The "none" bit puzzles me the most. /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab > look perfectly ok. > > Has anyone got an idea? Everything worked well with

Re: sym-2.1.0-20001230 vs. sg (cdrecord)

2001-01-11 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > Hi! > > I just wanted to let you know that I successfully ruined > a CD with 2.4.0 + sym-2.1.0-20001230. The system is a RH 7.0 > with glibc-2.2-9, cdrecord-1.9. Thanks for the report. But with so tiny information, it gives about no usefulness

Re: Oops while loading ppa in 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread f5ibh
Hi Tim, >> I got this non-fatal oops while loading the ppa module for my IOMEGA parallel >> port ZIP drive. >It doesn't look like it's related to the ZIP drive though: >> Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a list (from c8074fc1). >> Oops: 0002 >> CPU:0 >> EIP:

named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Rothwell
Now that 2.4 is out, it will probably be a few .x releases until 2.5 begins. A discussion on Named Streams and Extended Attributes was put off until 2.5 earlier in the 2.4 development cycle. For compatibility with existing, widely-deployed filesystems (e.g., NFS, XFS, BeFS, HFS, etc.), Linux

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