2.4.0: Small observation in /proc/sys/net/unix/

2001-01-11 Thread Darryl Miles
# ls -il /proc/sys/net/unix/ total 24 4446 -rw--- 1 root root0 Jan 11 11:06 max_dgram_qlen 4446 -rw--- 1 root root0 Jan 11 11:06 max_dgram_qlen Identical filenames, nothing bad appears to be happening it just looks weird. -- Darryl Miles - To

Re: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver)

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred
Zitiere Troels Walsted Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all. I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it encounters a zero byte in the kernel logging output, the text parser enters a busy loop. That finally explains the "klogd eats 100% cpu time" reports with ~2.2.10: We (I

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hubert Mantel writes: is this part of 2.2.19pre7 really a good idea? Even in 2.4.0 the size field is still a short. #define NFS_MAXFHSIZE 64 struct nfs_fh { - unsigned short size; + unsigned int size;

Re: 2.4.0: Small observation in /proc/sys/net/unix/

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Grobler
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Darryl Miles wrote: # ls -il /proc/sys/net/unix/ total 24 4446 -rw--- 1 root root0 Jan 11 11:06 max_dgram_qlen 4446 -rw--- 1 root root0 Jan 11 11:06 max_dgram_qlen Identical filenames, nothing bad appears to be

Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac5

2001-01-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: The bug here seems to be that we're using the same bit (X86_FEATURE_APIC) to report two _different_ features. i think that the AMD APIC is truly 'compatible', but we are trying to enable the APIC and program performance counters in an Intel-way.

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

2001-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Frank de Lange wrote: Hi'all, Ever since I put two ethernet-cards (cheap Winbond W89C940 based PCI NE2K clones) in my BP-6 system, I've been experiencing intermittent network hangs. A hang manifests itself as a total failure to communicate through either network card, and can only be

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct-unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And what a pile of crud those patches are!! Instead of using the clean replacement interface for get_module_symbol, nvidia/ patch-2.4.0-PR hard codes the old get_module_symbol algorithm as inline code. Taking away get_module_symbol() and providing a replacement

ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Lowery
Hi, I have a Sony VAIO C1XE (Picturebook) that is giving me some grief with 2.4.0. I compiled it with ACPI compiled as a module and APM not compiled in at all, but on booting I get the following. ACPI: System description tables found ACPI: System description tables loaded and then

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
David Hinds wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: There's one other annoyance: The config files for pcmcia-cs expect the 3c575_cb driver, so I either have to hack the configuration files or load the 3c59x driver by hand. Yes, I'm not sure how to best

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

2001-01-11 Thread Karsten Hopp (Red Hat)
--- ./drivers/net/rcpci45.c.origThu Jan 11 12:49:19 2001 +++ ./drivers/net/rcpci45.c Thu Jan 11 12:47:04 2001 @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ { RC_PCI45_VENDOR_ID, RC_PCI45_DEVICE_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, }, { } }; -MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, rcpci_pci_table);

Re: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver)

2001-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Troels Walsted Hansen wrote: Hi all. I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it encounters a zero byte in the kernel logging output, the text parser enters a busy loop. I came upon it when the 3c59x driver from kernel 2.4.0 started outputting two zero bytes for the

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a "reporting problems" section at the end of Documentation/networking/vortex.txt. Should help. okidoki, have read it, thanks Probably the most important thing is inserting the driver module with `debug=7', opening the device, sending some traffic

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

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Grobler
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Karsten Hopp (Red Hat) wrote: --- ./drivers/net/rcpci45.c.origThu Jan 11 12:49:19 2001 +++ ./drivers/net/rcpci45.c Thu Jan 11 12:47:04 2001 @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ { RC_PCI45_VENDOR_ID, RC_PCI45_DEVICE_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, }, { } };

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred
Zitiere Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The API changed: struct nfs_mount_data { int version;/* 1 */ int fd; /* 1 */ - struct nfs_fh root; /* 1 */ + struct nfs2_fh old_root;

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

2001-01-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
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 up and claim responsibility here: The patch is mine and I apparently messed

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread Matthias Juchem
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 the Ctrl-D thingy when entering text.

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:10:27AM -0500, Manfred wrote: Zitiere Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The API changed: struct nfs_mount_data { int version;/* 1 */ int fd; /* 1 */ - struct nfs_fh root;

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct-unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:42:24 +, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taking away get_module_symbol() and providing a replacement which has link order problems wasn't really very sensible. It's too late to do the sensible thing and deprecate the old version rather than having a 'flag

Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

2001-01-11 Thread mo6
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:17:47PM +0100, Robert Kaiser wrote: On Die, 09 Jan 2001 you wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: if someone had pressed the reset button. The same kernel boots fine on 486 and Pentium Systems. Any ideas/suggestions ? is "Checking if this processor honours

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred
Zitiere Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:10:27AM -0500, Manfred wrote: Zitiere Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The API changed: struct nfs_mount_data { int version;/* 1 */ int fd;

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct-unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Q. With your suggested static method, what happens when Y initialises before X, calls inter_module_get, retrieves X's static data and starts to use it before X has initialised? A. Oops! No. You'd explicitly only use the static registration when object X

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

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
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 and without MATH_EMULATION, if that makes any difference. If you boot

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 02:32:09 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EIP; c013f911 filldir+20b/221 = Trace; c013f706 filldir+0/221 Trace; c0136e01 reiserfs_getblk+2a/16d Here is a patch against our 2.4 code (3.6.25) that does the same as

Re: 2.4.0-ac6: mm/vmalloc.c compile error

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
The following error occurred while compiling 2.4.0-ac6..The strange thing is that I checked mm/vmalloc.c (line 188, and the entire file) and didn't see PKMAP_BASE mentioned. My guess is that there is a problem with one of the header files. Its defined in asm/highmem.h/ Probabyl a missing

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct-unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:32:10 +, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not suggesting that we change it drastically, only that we add the option of static (compile-time) registration for those entries which require it. So you want two services, one static for code that does not do

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
cyrix processor, chipset and amd/lance ethernet chipset onboard. It' working fine with 2.2.x but not with 2.4.x kernels with the same driver version of the pcnet32 networkdriver. What problems do you see - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:11:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, we can easily support the notion of CLONE_CRED if we absolutely have to (and sane people just shouldn't use it), so if somebody wants to work on this for 2.5.x... But is it really worth the pain? I'd hate to

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct-unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
Stick to one method that works for all routines, dynamic registration. If that imposes the occasional need for a couple of extra calls in some routines and for people to think about initialisation order right from the start then so be it, it is a small price to pay for long term stability

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:56:04PM +, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:11:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, we can easily support the notion of CLONE_CRED if we absolutely have to (and sane people just shouldn't use it), so if somebody wants to

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Stephen C Tweedie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:11:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, we can easily support the notion of CLONE_CRED if we absolutely have to (and sane people just shouldn't use it), so if somebody wants

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct-unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:09:13 + (GMT), Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stick to one method that works for all routines, dynamic registration. If that imposes the occasional need for a couple of extra calls in some routines and for people to think about initialisation order right from

es1371 module dependencies problem

2001-01-11 Thread David
kernel: 2.4.0 modutils: 2.3.23 loading the es1371 module gives me the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec_Rsmp_1c61c357 soundcore.o loads ok, but es1371 not. Looking through the sources, i've found that ac97_codec.c exports the

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct-unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So you want two services, one static for code that does not do any initialisation and one dynamic for code that does do initialisation. Can you imagine the fun when somebody adds startup code to a routine that was using static registration? Oh come on. If you

IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread James Brents
Hello, Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am submitting this. I have recently started using DMA mode on my harddisk. However, I occasionally (not often/constant, but sometimes) get CRC errors: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda:

Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-11 Thread kenbo
The problem I'm seeing must be different. I tried your suggestion of booting with nmi_watchdog=0, and I still see the same crashes. I'm now in the process of getting a SMP Dell to try and do the same testing. Thanks! kenbo __ Firebirds rule, `stangs serve! Kenneth

CRC and ECC error burning CD (adaptec 2940), kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-11 Thread Wojciech Czuba
Hi, Please, get the information below and help me, if possible... Regards, Wojtek Czuba [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1.] CRC and ECC error burning CD (adaptec 2940), kernel 2.2.18 [2.] VMWARE Workstation said that my cdrom will work as an audio device with Windows 9x under the vmware with the

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
Jan 11 12:45:49 multimedia kernel: eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 07f3. Jan 11 12:46:01 multimedia last message repeated 12 times hot from the ethernet wire: more info just arrived: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, status 07f3, resetting. Ring data

RE: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver)

2001-01-11 Thread Troels Walsted Hansen
Yep. %02x%02x it now is. I suppose it might be worthwhile to search the kernel sources for other instances of printk("%c"), there's no telling when all distributions will be up to date with new sysklogd releases... The code in question was snitched from pcmcia-cs's 3c575_cb.c, and I assume

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Matthias Juchem wrote: http://www.brightice.de/src/bugreport.sh I have a suggestion, there is a kernel patch to add a config.gz entry in the /proc fs. It reflects the configuration used in building the running kernel, which may differ from the one you have in /usr/src/linux. It's part of the

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:12:05PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: What's wrong with copy-on-write style semantics? IOW, anyone who wants to change the credentials needs to make a private copy of the existing structure first. Because COW only solves the problem if each task is only

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread Matthias Juchem
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: I have a suggestion, there is a kernel patch to add a config.gz entry in the /proc fs. It reflects the configuration used in building the running kernel, which may differ from the one you have in /usr/src/linux. It's part of the suse

PCMCIA Cards on 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I have a Digital HiNote VP. PCMCIA's works fine with Kernel 2.4.0 test12 (I think that I cannot change pcmcia card with the computer running because the new PCMCIA is not detected). With Kernel 2.4.0 and the same .config PCMCIA don't work. It is detected on boot, yenta socket, assigns two

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Danny ter Haar wrote: Jan 11 12:45:49 multimedia kernel: eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 07f3. Jan 11 12:46:01 multimedia last message repeated 12 times hot from the ethernet wire: more info just arrived: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out,

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jamie Lokier wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: [things that can benefit from dnotify] locate (reindex only those directories that have changed, keep index database current). Not a chance. dnotify doesn't work recursively, so you can't monitor just a few top level directories like

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread dep
On Thursday 11 January 2001 08:33 am, James Brents wrote: | Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I | am submitting this. | I have recently started using DMA mode on my harddisk. However, I | occasionally (not often/constant, but sometimes) get CRC errors: | hda:

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Jim Gettys
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:03:03 -0800 (PST) To: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Zlatko Calusic [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Eric W. Biederman" [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Hahn
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 udma, of course.) occasionally (not often/constant, but sometimes)

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
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 scsi bug reports I get are adaptec

2.4.0 ne2k-pci lockup

2001-01-11 Thread Jon Miles
Hey, After upgrading from -test11 to 2.4.0, I find that under heavy network load the eth0 interface seems to lockup... with the following output in dmesg: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x97, t=18556. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit

[PATCH] dgrs.c: kmalloc release on failure

2001-01-11 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying, comments in the patch. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.0-ac6/drivers/net/dgrs.c Tue Dec 19 11:25:40 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac6.acme/drivers/net/dgrs.c Thu Jan 11 11:05:05 2001 @@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ * into the kernel. * - Better handling of multicast

Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Nathan Thompson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:51:59PM +1100, Robert Lowery wrote: I compiled it with ACPI compiled as a module and APM not compiled in at all, but on booting I get the following. ACPI: System description tables found ACPI: System description tables loaded and then the system locks up.. I

Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nathan Thompson wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:51:59PM +1100, Robert Lowery wrote: I compiled it with ACPI compiled as a module and APM not compiled in at all, but on booting I get the following. ACPI: System description tables found ACPI: System description tables loaded and

Re: es1371 module dependencies problem

2001-01-11 Thread Doug McNaught
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kernel: 2.4.0 modutils: 2.3.23 loading the es1371 module gives me the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec_Rsmp_1c61c357 It works for me (tm). Kernel 2.4.0, modutils 2.3.23-2 (Debian woody).

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Doug McNaught
James Brents [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am submitting this. I have recently started using DMA mode on my harddisk. However, I occasionally (not often/constant, but sometimes) get CRC errors: hda: dma_intr:

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 10:48:23PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: Losing both NICs at the same time could be the elusive "APIC stops generating interrupts" problem. Yup, that's what I thought... But the real question is, is this a software/configuration problem or a hardware problem which can

Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Robert Kaiser wrote: The one I'm currently using is an old Olivetti 386SX with 5 MB, I also tried two more boards, one 386SX, one 386DX, both with 8MB. All showed the same behavior. I tested 2.4.0 on probably the exact same box - an Olivetti M300-05 386sx with 5MB and it came up ok,

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Jamie Lokier
Daniel Phillips wrote: DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody opens a subdirectory of the top level directory, you receive notification and register for events on the subdirectory, and so on, down to

Re: Possible deadlock with -writepaged version offlush_dirty_buffers() and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 05:56:09 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, It seems there is a possible deadlock condition with your patch which changes flush_dirty_buffers() to use -writepage (something which we _definately_ want for 2.5). Take a look: Yes,

[PATCH] 2.4.1p2: compile fix (PKMAP_BASE undefined)

2001-01-11 Thread Peter Blomgren
Three one-liners to make 2.4.1p2 compile. --- linux/fs/proc/kcore.c.orig Thu Jan 11 07:35:16 2001 +++ linux/fs/proc/kcore.c Thu Jan 11 07:36:29 2001 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ #include linux/vmalloc.h #include asm/uaccess.h #include asm/io.h - +#include linux/highmem.h static int

RE: cs46xx only works as a module still (post 2.4.0)

2001-01-11 Thread Woller, Thomas
appreciate the info. i'll look at it. glad it works as a module :) tom -Original Message- From: David Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:35 PM To: LKML; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cs46xx only works as a module still (post

Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac6

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.0-ac6 o Fix athlon crash on boot with local apic/nmi(Ingo Molnar) Still crashes here with -ac6 on my Athlon. I'll have to write down the oops by hand later on or set up a serial console, but once that's done I'll post the trace - unless someone already knows

[PATCH] dgrs.c: kmalloc release on failure

2001-01-11 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.0-ac6/drivers/net/hp100.c Tue Dec 19 11:25:41 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac6.acme/drivers/net/hp100.cThu Jan 11 11:52:34 2001 @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ ** along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software ** Foundation, Inc.,

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jamie Lokier wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody opens a subdirectory of the top level directory, you receive notification and register for events on the

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred Spraul
Trond Myklebust wrote: As for the issue of casting 'fh-data' as a 'struct knfsd' then that is a perfectly valid operation. No it isn't. fh-data is an array of characters, thus without any alignment restrictions. 'struct knfsd' begins with a pointer, thus it must be 4 or 8 byte aligned.

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

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Just some commentary and a bug report on your patch Andrew: 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

Re: Benchmarking 2.2 and 2.4 using hdparm and dbench 1.1

2001-01-11 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
[regarding the buffer cache hash size and bad performance on machines with little memory... (32MB)] On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: Where is the size defined, and is it easy to modify? Look in fs/buffer.c:buffer_init() I experimented some, and increasing the huffer cache hash to

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this patch help at all? Nope, unfortunatly it didn't filename="pcnet32.patch" pcnet32_probe_pci: found device 0x001022.0x002000 ioaddr=0x00fce0 resource_flags=0x000101 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0 PCnet chip version is

Is ECN useful yet?

2001-01-11 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
Does anyone know if ECN is supported by the Internet backbone routers yet, i.e. will I gain anything by enabling ECN in my Linux boxes at this point? (except pushing this excellent technology, of course). /Tobias - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Jesse Pollard
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jamie Lokier wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody opens a subdirectory of the top level directory, you receive

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Grobler
Hi Danny, If you're willing, would you please follow "REPORTING-BUGS" and send some more info. Also cat /proc/interrupts. This one's intriging... -- Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the

Kernel (2.4.0) lock-up in write (using PTS).

2001-01-11 Thread Alvaro Lopes
Hi all This is somewhat odd, but I seemed to have found some kind of bug in 2.4.0. I tested the same program in 2.2.17 and it run perfectly. So, here goes the description: 2.4.0 Kernel hangs up when I do the following stuff: * Create a new PTY using openpty(); * Fork using

IDE DMA problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
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 { Busy } hdc: DMA disabled ide1: reset: success I got

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Stephen C. Tweedie writes: On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:11:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, we can easily support the notion of CLONE_CRED if we absolutely have to (and sane people just shouldn't use it), so if somebody wants to work on this for 2.5.x... But is it really worth

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

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
Do you get any transmit timeout messages in the logs? If so, send them. In addition to my previous message, here's what I get from the debug log facility: Jan 10 22:56:51 behemoth kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jan 10 22:56:51 behemoth kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost

[PATCH-2.4] verify_write not needed 486 up

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Gortmaker
The existing CONFIG_WP_WORKS_OK can be used to exclude verify_write from being built into kernels for 486 and higher. Paul. --- arch/i386/mm/fault.c~ Mon Nov 20 04:19:42 2000 +++ arch/i386/mm/fault.cThu Jan 11 09:03:50 2001 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 1995 Linus Torvalds

[PATCH-2.2] verify_write not needed 486 up

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Gortmaker
The existing CONFIG_WP_WORKS_OK can be used to exclude verify_write from being built into kernels for 486 and higher. Paul. --- arch/i386/mm/fault.c.orig Thu May 11 16:41:59 2000 +++ arch/i386/mm/fault.cThu Jan 11 09:16:48 2001 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 1995 Linus Torvalds

Kernel (2.4.0) lock-up using ppp_async - SEVERE - EXPLOIT RUNS AS ANY USER.

2001-01-11 Thread Alvaro Lopes
Hi all, hi Paulus. Is somewhat odd how I got it, but here it goes. I found a bug in 2.4.0 async PPP driver. I tested the same program in 2.2.17 and it run perfectly (and without hanging). So, here goes the description: 2.4.0 Kernel hangs up when I do the following stuff: * Create a

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

2001-01-11 Thread Franz Sirl
At 01:44 2001-01-11, Greg KH wrote: Hi, Here's a fix for the USB Config for 2.2.19-pre7. I messed up and took out the HID devices in the patch I sent you for 2.2.19-pre6. Why do the input handlers depend on CONFIG_USB_HID? On PPC we already have trouble with them depending on CONFIG_USB, so

Re: Is ECN useful yet?

2001-01-11 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:36:32PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: Does anyone know if ECN is supported by the Internet backbone routers yet, i.e. will I gain anything by enabling ECN in my Linux boxes at this point? (except pushing this excellent technology, of course). No, at least not

Re: Kernel (2.4.0) lock-up in write (using PTS).

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
2.4.0 Kernel hangs up when I do the following stuff: * Create a new PTY using openpty(); * Fork using forkpty. Now, the child process does this: - Set the fd 0 line discipline to PPP; - tries infinitely to read the standard input. The parent

Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Here a valid configuration (no AGP, but all DRM set) compiling [2.4.0]: r128_cce.c: In function `r128_cce_init_ring_buffer': r128_cce.c:339: structure has no member named `agp' r128_cce.c:333: warning: `ring_start' might be used uninitialized in this function r128_cce.c: In function

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

2001-01-11 Thread junio
"AC" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 and without

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-11 Thread David Hinds
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:55:38PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: The other problem is that in 2.4 cardmgr isn't told the name of the interface which was bound to the newly-inserted NIC. I don't know why more people aren't getting bitten by this with pcmcia-cs+2.4. 2.4 cardmgr should be fixed

Oops while loading ppa in 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread f5ibh
I got this non-fatal oops while loading the ppa module for my IOMEGA parallel port ZIP drive. included : -- - raw oops - oops processed by ksymoops - configuration raw oops : -- ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.2.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit ppa:

Re: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver)

2001-01-11 Thread David Hinds
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:03:31PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: Yep. %02x%02x it now is. The code in question was snitched from pcmcia-cs's 3c575_cb.c, and I assume David would have heard if it was busting klogd. Maybe there's a klogd version problem, or maybe your NIC's EEPROM is hosed?

Re: PPP: VJ decompression error

2001-01-11 Thread Joseph Anthony
Thanks, that seemed to do the trick, thanks also for the ppp list info. -Joe On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Miles Lane wrote: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:13:00 -0800 From: Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPP: VJ decompression error Joseph

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and w

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:31:21AM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: CONFIG_MK7=y I'm looking into it. Andrea - 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/

2.4.0-ac6 : Processes missing from ps -ef output

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have been trying out 2.4.0-ac6, and the RedHat 6.1 init scripts really don't like it. (They liked 2.4.0-ac3 OK.) The visible symptom is that rc.sysinit now hangs, waiting for me to press 'i'. Once I do, it successfully hands over to the correct runlevel script, and I can go back to

Re: Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Robert M. Love
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Giacomo Catenazzi spoke: Here a valid configuration (no AGP, but all DRM set) compiling [2.4.0]: [...] DRM requires AGPGART. -- Robert M. Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:50:21AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Stephen C. Tweedie writes: But is it really worth the pain? I'd hate to have to audit the entire VFS to make sure that it works if another thread changes our credentials in the middle of a syscall, so we either end

[OOPS] APIC on Athlon [was Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac6]

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.0-ac6 o Fix athlon crash on boot with local apic/nmi(Ingo Molnar) Still crashes here with -ac6 on my Athlon. I'll have to write down the oops by hand later on or set up a serial console, but once that's done I'll post the trace

Re: Oops while loading ppa in 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:29:27PM +0100, f5ibh wrote: 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:

AMD760/765 DDR Athlon testers needed....

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
Calling AMD Geeks^H^H^H^H^HUsers, I have one of these DDR boxes from AMD with the AMD760/765 cores, if you have one please let me know if you wnat to test this new code? It is only ATA66 limited and the DOCS I have do not have the ATA100 timings. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and w

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:31:21AM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: CONFIG_MK7=y I'm looking into it. The fxsr fixes from 2.4.1-pre1 allows athlon to correctly use FXSR too (when nofxsr isn't passed to the kernel of course).

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Manfred Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trond Myklebust wrote: As for the issue of casting 'fh-data' as a 'struct knfsd' then that is a perfectly valid operation. No it isn't. fh- data is an array of characters, thus without any alignment

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and w

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:46:45PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Until I fix the 3dnow code to use the i387.c library please workaround this way: --- ./arch/i386/config.in.~1~ Thu Jan 11 17:52:05 2001 +++ ./arch/i386/config.in Thu Jan 11 18:38:29 2001 @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jesse Pollard wrote: Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jamie Lokier wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody opens a subdirectory of the top level

swap size

2001-01-11 Thread Mike Black
Now that bigmem and bigfiles are supported in 2.4.0 what's the maximum swap size now? I couldn't seem to find any reference to it. Michael D. Black Principal Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 321-676-2923,x203 http://www.csihq.com Computer Science

Apology for duplicates (was Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 (fwd))

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred Spraul
Mark Hahn wrote: hi. I've received 8 copiies of this message (via linux-kernel) so far. headers indicate that the following hop is being repeated: 8. That's weird - according to my maillogs colorfullife.com (my own server) only sent 6 copies to everyone. The attached one is the 5.

Re: Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Matthew D. Pitts
Robert, On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Giacomo Catenazzi spoke: Here a valid configuration (no AGP, but all DRM set) compiling [2.4.0]: [...] DRM requires AGPGART. What if your motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot? I'm running an older Micro Star pentium with a ATI All-in-Wonder with the Rage 128

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