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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Frank de Lange wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:54:31PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > I have found one combination that doesn't hang with the unpatched > > 8390.c, but network throughput is down to 1/2. I hope that's due to the > > debugging changes. > > Hm, could it be that the fact

Re: generic_file_write change in 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-12 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > > Hi guys, > > This code for generic_file_write calls vmtruncate without i_sem held. Is > that intentional? It should cause problems for reiserfs at least... Erm... generic_file_write() grabs i_sem upon entry and drops it on exit. This call of

Re: [CONT PROBLEM] 2.4.1-pre3 - Undefined symbol `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-12 Thread Shawn Starr
Well, when i Make bzImage it uses -O2 for optimization. Is there any fix? change the optimization to -O0 ? Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:02:15PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > Nope, its not ;/ > > > > Im on a Intel Pentium 200Mhz PC, 64MB RAM, > > > > init/main.o: In function

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I want to see the code to handle the apparent VIA DMA bug. At this point, > > preferably by just disabling DMA on VIA chipsets or something like that > > (if it has only gotten worse since 2.2.x, I'm not interested in seeing any > > experimental patches

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
> Remind me: what polarity are your io-apic irq's? Level, edge, sideways? > Anything else that might be relevant? Well, sideways ofcourse! :-) here's a cat /proc/interrupts from the (BP6) box: CPU0 CPU1 0: 104936 105433IO-APIC-edge timer 1:

Re: [DOS] emulation under linux

2001-01-12 Thread Justin Zygmont
www.dosemu.org On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jim M. wrote: > 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. >

Re: [CONT PROBLEM] 2.4.1-pre3 - Undefined symbol `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-12 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:02:15PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > Nope, its not ;/ > > Im on a Intel Pentium 200Mhz PC, 64MB RAM, > > init/main.o: In function `check_fpu': > init/main.o(.text.init+0x53): undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment' > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 > > same fatal

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-12 Thread Russell King
Eric W. Biederman writes: > Hmm. I would think that increasing the logical page size in the kernel > would be the trivial way to handle virtual aliases. (i.e.) with a large > enough page size you can't actually have a virtual alias. There are types of caches out there that no matter how large

Fix for Adaptec Starfire resource handling

2001-01-12 Thread Ion Badulescu
Hi, The starfire driver in 2.4.0 (and 2.4.0-ac8) forgets to release its MMIO region when the module is unloaded, which makes it impossible to load it a second time. The attached patch fixed this problem; I tested it here on a 2-port card. Please apply. Thanks, Ion -- It is better to keep

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:54:31PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > I have found one combination that doesn't hang with the unpatched > 8390.c, but network throughput is down to 1/2. I hope that's due to the > debugging changes. Hm, could it be that the fact that network throughput is halved

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:51:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > great. Back when i had the same problem, flood pinging another host (on > the local network) was the quickest way to reproduce the hang: > > ping -f -s 10 otherhost > > this produced an IOAPIC-hang within seconds. Apart from

Adaptec 29160N + Quantum Atlas 10K = Kernel 2.4 will _NOT_ boot.

2001-01-12 Thread Andreas Henriksson
from "Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy": > Another way of putting it: if you have a patch, ask yourself what > would happen if it got left off the next > RedHat/SuSE/Debian/Turbo/whatever distribution CD. Would it really > be a big problem? If not, then I'd rather spend the time _really_

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > okay - i just wanted to hear a definitive word from you that this fixes > your problem, because this is what we'll have to do as a final solution. > (barring any other solution.) > Ingo, is that possible? The current fix is "disable_irq_nosync() and enable_irq() cause

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

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > PATCHED 8390.c (using irq_safe spinlocks instead of disable_irq) > PATCHED apic.c (focus cpu ENABLED) > STOCK io_apic.c > > No problems under heavy network load. > > Gentleman, this (the patch to 8390.c) seems to fix the problem. great. Back when i

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

2001-01-12 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > okay - i just wanted to hear a definitive word from you that this fixes > your problem, because this is what we'll have to do as a final solution. > (barring any other solution.) Patching 8390.c won't fix this for me. The only thing on IRQ19 when I saw

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:37:24PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > okay - i just wanted to hear a definitive word from you that this fixes > your problem, because this is what we'll have to do as a final solution. > (barring any other solution.) Now running with this config: PATCHED 8390.c (using

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:34:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > ? this is x86-only code. There is no hot-pluggable CPU support for Linux > AFAIK. (But in any case, the code is basically ready for hot-pluggable > CPUs, just take a few precautions and change cpu_online_mask and a couple > of other

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

2001-01-12 Thread Mark Hahn
> This way we are 100% consistent and we don't lose the "cpu_has" information. but /dev/cpu/*/{msr|cpuid} are "cpu has". - 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: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated?

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > It is. As I already mentioned in other messages, I already tested with > JUST the patched 8390.c driver, no other patches. It was stable. I > then patched apic.c AND io_apic.c, which did not introduce new > instabilities. Unless you think that

Re: kernel.org signer broken?

2001-01-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Matti Aarnio wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:48PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The signature on man-pages-1.34.tar.gz is bad: > > > > > > Hmm, thought I had corrected that already. > > > Is it correct now? > > > > > > Andries > > > > Because an

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:31:15PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > > > WITH or WITHOUT the changed 8390 driver? I can already give you the > > results for running WITH the changed driver: it works. I have not yet > > tried it WITHOUT the changed 8390

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

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > BTW, does this (TARGET_CPUS cpu_online_mask) not wreak havoc with > systems with hot-pluggable CPUs (many Suns, etc...)? Wouldn;t it be > better to make this a config option (like the optional PCI fixes for > crappy BIOSs)? ? this is x86-only code.

Re: kernel.org signer broken?

2001-01-12 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:48PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The signature on man-pages-1.34.tar.gz is bad: > > > > Hmm, thought I had corrected that already. > > Is it correct now? > > > > Andries > > Because an updated signature has the same timestamp and

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

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > WITH or WITHOUT the changed 8390 driver? I can already give you the > results for running WITH the changed driver: it works. I have not yet > tried it WITHOUT the changed 8390 driver (so that would be stock 8390, > patched apic.c, stock io_apic.c).

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:19:53PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > In addition, I patched apic.c (focus cpu enabled) > > In addition, I patched io_apic ((TARGET_CPUS 0xff) > > please try it with the focus CPU enabling change (we want to enable that > feature, i only disabled it due to the

generic_file_write change in 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, This code for generic_file_write calls vmtruncate without i_sem held. Is that intentional? It should cause problems for reiserfs at least... -chris diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.4.0/mm/filemap.c linux.ac/mm/filemap.c ---

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:57:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I've got a vt82c586 here (bought it just for testing of this problem), > > and I wasn't able to create any corruption using that board and the 2.4 > > drivers. > > The fact that it works on one board doesn't mean that it works

Re: kernel.org signer broken?

2001-01-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The signature on man-pages-1.34.tar.gz is bad: > > Hmm, thought I had corrected that already. > Is it correct now? > > Andries Because an updated signature has the same timestamp and size, it can take up to 24 hours for it to hit ftp.kernel.org, and even longer

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

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > In addition, I patched apic.c (focus cpu enabled) > In addition, I patched io_apic ((TARGET_CPUS 0xff) please try it with the focus CPU enabling change (we want to enable that feature, i only disabled it due to the stuck-ne2k bug), but with

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:11:29PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Frank, please clarify: > you still run without disable_irq_nosync() in 8390.c? I am running with your patched version of 8390.c (so WITHOUT disable_irq_nosync()). In addition, I patched apic.c (focus cpu enabled) In addition, I

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I'd like to know _which_ of the two makes a difference (or does it only > trigger with both of them enabled)? And even then I'm not sure that it is > "the" solution - both changes to io-apic handling had some reason for > them. Ingo, what was the focus-cpu thing? >

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:59:25AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Could this really be the solution? > > I'd like to know _which_ of the two makes a difference (or does it only > trigger with both of them enabled)? And even then I'm not sure that it is > "the" solution - both changes to

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

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank de Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As per Linus' suggestion, I removed the disable_irq/enable_irq statements from >the 8390 core driver, and replace the spinlocks with irq-safe versions. This >seems to solve the network hangs, as I am currently running a

Re: Linux-2.4.0-ac7: Unresolved symbol "queued_sectors" in scsi_mod.o

2001-01-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Jan 12 2001, Chris Rankin wrote: > Hi, > > I have just compiled 2.4.0-ac7, and this kernel boots up OK (no more > processes missing from the output of "ps -ef", either). However, I am > now getting an unresolved symbol "queued_sectors" in scsi_mod.o when I > run depmod. Fixed in -ac8

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

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] Ingo, what was the focus-cpu thing? well, some time ago i had an ne2k card in an SMP system as well, and found this very problem. Disabling/enabling focus-cpu appeared to make a difference, but later on i made experiments that show that in

[CONT PROBLEM] 2.4.1-pre3 - Undefined symbol `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-12 Thread Shawn Starr
  Nope, its not ;/ Im on a Intel Pentium 200Mhz PC, 64MB RAM, ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \  --start-group \  arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o

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

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:33:15PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > Frank, the 2.4.0 contains 2 band aids that were added for ne2k smp: > > > > * From Ingo: focus cpu disabled, in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c > > * From myself: TARGET_CPU =

Linux-2.4.0-ac7: Unresolved symbol "queued_sectors" in scsi_mod.o

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have just compiled 2.4.0-ac7, and this kernel boots up OK (no more processes missing from the output of "ps -ef", either). However, I am now getting an unresolved symbol "queued_sectors" in scsi_mod.o when I run depmod. I've done a "make mproper; ; make oldconfig; make dep" and none of

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > I've got a vt82c586 here (bought it just for testing of this problem), > and I wasn't able to create any corruption using that board and the 2.4 > drivers. The fact that it works on one board doesn't mean that it works on _every_ board. This is,

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:33:15PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Frank, the 2.4.0 contains 2 band aids that were added for ne2k smp: > > * From Ingo: focus cpu disabled, in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c > * From myself: TARGET_CPU = cpu_online_mask, was 0xFF. > > Could you disable both bandaids? I

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:21PM -0500, Martin Laberge wrote: > > > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller: > > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) > > > > There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:15:45AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > I've never seen anything like it before, which I'm happy for. The system > had been running a standard RedHat 7 kernel for days without any problems, > but who wants to run a 2.2 kernel? I compiled 2.4.0 for it, rebooted, and >

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:55:22AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Well that "experimental patch" is designed to get out of the dreaded > >"DMA Timeout Hang" or deadlock that is most noted by the PIIX4 on the >

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Frank de Lange wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:04:24PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > I removed the disable_irq lines from 8390.c, and that fixed the problem: > > no hang within 2 minutes - the test is still running. > > > > Frank, could you double check it? > > I'm currently running my

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > My setup looks like this, I boot from hde > > I configured my BIOS to boot from SCSI (I have no scsi-adapter but the > > promise card reports

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

2001-01-12 Thread Laramie Leavitt
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:35:24AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Andreas argument was that earlier kernels weren't consistent, and as > > such we shouldn't even bother to try to make newer kernels consistent. > > We would be better off reporting our internal inconsistencies the way > >

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:04:24PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > I removed the disable_irq lines from 8390.c, and that fixed the problem: > no hang within 2 minutes - the test is still running. > > Frank, could you double check it? I'm currently running my own patched version, which uses

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

2001-01-12 Thread Christian Zander
> >> I ran into this while hacking the Nvidia kernel driver to work with > >> 2.4.0. I got the driver working but it's not 100% > >> > >> Also where did get_module_symbol() and put_module_symbol() go? > > > >Patches for the NVIDIA binary X drivers following all these kernel > >changes can be

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:04:24PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Linus wrote: > > Does this seem to happen mainly with drivers that use "disable_irq()" > > and "enable_irq()"? I know the ne drivers do (through the 8390 module), > > and some others do too (3c59x). > > I removed the

Re: 2.4.0 Keyboard and mouse lock

2001-01-12 Thread Andrea Ferraris
Sorry for the noise, it has happened again, but this time I had sysreq active and it worked. CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE or ALT+FX didn't work. With sysreq I synced, umounted and rebooted without trouble. I think that could be a mouse and/or X and/or Netscape problem, since the system (apart input

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
As per Linus' suggestion, I removed the disable_irq/enable_irq statements from the 8390 core driver, and replace the spinlocks with irq-safe versions. This seems to solve the network hangs, as I am currently running a heavy network load (which would have killed a non-patched driver within

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Linus wrote: > Does this seem to happen mainly with drivers that use "disable_irq()" > and "enable_irq()"? I know the ne drivers do (through the 8390 module), > and some others do too (3c59x). I removed the disable_irq lines from 8390.c, and that fixed the problem: no hang within 2 minutes -

Kernel oops in tcp_ipv4.c

2001-01-12 Thread Patrick
I am running a medium-high traffic web server on an SMP machine. I have always had problems with linux hanging (No syslog messages and no console response). I have tried kernel versions 2.2.12, 2.2.14 and 2.2.16 Recently I tried 2.2.17, this kernel was up for about a month, before there was a

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

2001-01-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:35:24AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Andreas argument was that earlier kernels weren't consistent, and as > such we shouldn't even bother to try to make newer kernels consistent. > We would be better off reporting our internal inconsistencies the way > earlier

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

2001-01-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Michael Rothwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How about using fcntl(), O_ASYNC and SIGIO? Don't think that's supported for disk files yet, at least by the kernel. glibc does aio emulation with threads, which isn't great. > Or maybe a broader question: > what's the preferred/working way to

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well that "experimental patch" is designed to get out of the dreaded >"DMA Timeout Hang" or deadlock that is most noted by the PIIX4 on the >Intel 440*X Chipset groups. Since it appears that their bug was copied >but

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

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > 2.4 spreads the vectors for the external (hardware, from io apic) > interrupts, but 5 ipi vectors have the same priority: reschedule, call > function, tlb invalidate, apic error, spurious interrupt. my reading of the errata is that the lost APIC

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > we *already* reorder vector numbers and spread them out as much as > possible. We do this in 2.2 as well. We did this almost from day 1 of > IO-APIC support. If any manually allocated IRQ vector creates a '3 vectors > in the same 16-vector region' situation then thats a

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The PCI ids I kill autodma on for 2.2 to cover this are: > >/* > * Don't try and tune a VIA 82C586 or 586A > */ >if (IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(devid, DEVID_VP_IDE))

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

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The fact that 2.2.x has bad control over capabilities and is messy is NOT >> an excuse to screw up forever. > >2.2 has a mix of 'can I use' and 'does the cpu have' so using 2.2 as an >example doesnt work The above was

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

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The processor's local APIC includes an in-service entry and a holding >entry for each priority level. To avoid losing interrupts, software >should allocate no more than 2 interrupt vectors per priority. > > >Ok,

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

2001-01-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:35:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:42:32AM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > > > > Its fine either way on current x86 and many other platforms, but falls > > > on its face in

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:51:36PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Frank, I've attached a proposed kick_IOAPIC pin. Could you try it? > I'm rebooting with that patch right now. I added the patch, and tried it out. When the network hangs, I am able to revive it with ALT-SYSRQ-Q. The debug log

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > Scratch that patch it has 2 typos that are in amd74xx.c > > > > will do it again.. > > I will scratch your new patch too. > > I want to see the code to handle the apparent VIA DMA

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

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > The PPro local apic documentation says: > <<< > The processor's local APIC includes an in-service entry and a holding > entry for each priority level. To avoid losing interrupts, software > should allocate no more than 2 interrupt vectors per

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
> I want to see the code to handle the apparent VIA DMA bug. At this point, > preferably by just disabling DMA on VIA chipsets or something like that > (if it has only gotten worse since 2.2.x, I'm not interested in seeing any > experimental patches for it during early 2.4.x). It hasnt gotten

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Frank, could you try what happens with the NMI oopser disabled? > > > > The second major difference I'm immediately aware of is the number of > > the reschedule/tlb flush/etc interrupt: 2.2 uses the lowest priority, > > 2.4 the highest priority. > > Im trying to remember

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Frank de Lange wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:16:36PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > I would first concentrate on the differences between 2.2 and 2.4: > > > > Frank, could you try what happens with the NMI oopser disabled? > > Here's the results with nmi_watchdog=0 > > > After

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Scratch that patch it has 2 typos that are in amd74xx.c > > will do it again.. I will scratch your new patch too. I want to see the code to handle the apparent VIA DMA bug. At this point, preferably by just disabling DMA on VIA chipsets

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

2001-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
> The fact that 2.2.x has bad control over capabilities and is messy is NOT > an excuse to screw up forever. 2.2 has a mix of 'can I use' and 'does the cpu have' so using 2.2 as an example doesnt work - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

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

2001-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Frank, could you try what happens with the NMI oopser disabled? > > The second major difference I'm immediately aware of is the number of > the reschedule/tlb flush/etc interrupt: 2.2 uses the lowest priority, > 2.4 the highest priority. Im trying to remember what they were, but some APIC

Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Laberge
Alan Cox wrote: > > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller: > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) > > There are several people who have reported that the 2.4.0 VIA IDE driver > trashes hard disks like that. The 2.2 one also did

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

2001-01-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:42:32AM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > > Its fine either way on current x86 and many other platforms, but falls > > on its face in the presence of asymetric MP. > > Point taken, feel free to have a can_I_use

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:16:36PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > I would first concentrate on the differences between 2.2 and 2.4: > > Frank, could you try what happens with the NMI oopser disabled? Here's the results with nmi_watchdog=0 Before network hang (nmi_watchdog=0)

Re: [DOS] emulation under linux

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Laberge
Try "dosemu" package the dosemu home page will tell you all about it Martin Laberge [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jim M." wrote: > 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

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > IRR for interrupt 19 is set, that means the IO APIC has sent the > > interrupt to a cpu but not yet received the corresponding EOI. > > OK, but couldn't we reset it by sending an extra EOI when the drivers > decide that they've missed interrupts? How? You

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

2001-01-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:42:32AM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > It doesn't make much sense to me to put the "can_I_use" global information in > > the per-cpu slots, that's obviously the wrong place for it. We simply need to > > add a new

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

2001-01-12 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > IRR for interrupt 19 is set, that means the IO APIC has sent the > interrupt to a cpu but not yet received the corresponding EOI. OK, but couldn't we reset it by sending an extra EOI when the drivers decide that they've missed interrupts? -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe

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

2001-01-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Let's decode it: > IO APIC #2.. > NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: > 12 0FF 0F 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 91 > 13 0FF 0F 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 99 IRR for interrupt 19 is set, that means the IO APIC has sent the interrupt to a cpu but not yet received the corresponding EOI. That bit is read

[PATCH] srcdocs for sysctl

2001-01-12 Thread John Levon
This patch is some documentation for sysctl API. It also fixed a warning with fs/super.c, and makes the default target for the DocBook makefile a little saner (though everyone should be using make htmldocs of course) It's against 2.4.0ac8 thanks john diff -Naur -X

Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-12 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.12 Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > 2.4.0-ac8 I was not sure to ask this, because one of your answers to one other mail suggested that you will take a parallel way to linux updates. But as you seem to be tracking close the

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

2001-01-12 Thread Alexander V. Lukyanov
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:40:55AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > be true; but perhaps I am doing something wrong. If I open() a file (on > > 2.2.18) from a floppy or NFS mount (to test in a slow environment) with > > O_NONBLOCK|O_RDONLY, read() will still block. If I try to select() on > > the file

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:56:57AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > > > The MMU on these systems is a CAM, and the mmu table is thus backwards to > > > convention. (It also means you can notionally map two physical addresses to > > > one virtual but

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

2001-01-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:26:04PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:40:04PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Here is a debugging patch. Could you please apply this, > rebuild and: > > 1: Type ALT-SYSRQ-A when everything is good > 2: Type ALT-SYSRQ-A when everything is bad > 3: send the resulting logs. And, for completeness' sake, here's

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Stephen Torri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote: > My setup looks like this, I boot from hde > I configured my BIOS to boot from SCSI (I have no scsi-adapter but the > promise card reports itself as one at boottime) > > boot = /dev/hde3 > delay = 50 >

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm having difficulty booting from the Promise controller. Here is the > story: > > I originally had my system setup with all drives working off the > mainsboard IDE controller (Intel 82371AB

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:40:04PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Here is a debugging patch. Could you please apply this, > rebuild and: > > 1: Type ALT-SYSRQ-A when everything is good > 2: Type ALT-SYSRQ-A when everything is bad > 3: send the resulting logs. OK, here's the results I get...

Linux 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.0-ac8 o Fix PS/2 mouse ack/echo handling behaviour (Julian Bradfield) | Let me know if you see 'odd' ps/2 stuff (Chris Hanson) | in 2.4.0ac8 not in ac7 o Merge Linus 1pre3. Drop out some of

Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Stephen Torri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having difficulty booting from the Promise controller. Here is the story: I originally had my system setup with all drives working off the mainsboard IDE controller (Intel 82371AB PIIX4). The setup was /dev/hda - ST310232A, FwRev=3.09

Re: khttpd beaten by boa

2001-01-12 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:36:41PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > 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

Re: Ingo's RAID patch for 2.2.18 final?

2001-01-12 Thread Oliver Teuber
hi use the 2.2.18aa2 patch from andrea ... raid 0.9 is included! cu, oli ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.18aa2.bz2 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:42:33PM +0100, Takacs Sandor wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I tried to apply it. If I

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

2001-01-12 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From: Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: 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

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

2001-01-12 Thread Tim Wright
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:30:46AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > what worries me about this is the Apache-flock-serialisation saga. > > Back in -test8, kumon@fujitsu demonstrated that changing this: > > lock_kernel() > down(sem) > > up(sem) > unlock_kernel() > >

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

2001-01-12 Thread Frank de Lange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:40:04PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Frank de Lange wrote: > > > > Quick and dirty conclusion: as soon as the apic comes in to play, things get > > messy... > Here is a debugging patch. Could you please apply this, > rebuild and: > > 1: Type ALT-SYSRQ-A when

Re: APIC ERRor on CPU0: 00(02) ...

2001-01-12 Thread Mark Hahn
> I have a Motherboard BP6 with two Celeron 500 (Not overclocked) and ... > APIC error on CPU1: 00(08) ... > What wrongs ? Abit designed the board wrong. there are things you can do to reduce the incidence of this error: upgrading the bios, better cooling, more powerful power supply, replacing

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

2001-01-12 Thread Michael Rothwell
Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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 floppy or NFS mount (to test in a

Re: kernel.org signer broken?

2001-01-12 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> The signature on man-pages-1.34.tar.gz is bad: Hmm, thought I had corrected that already. Is it correct now? Andries - 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/

APIC ERRor on CPU0: 00(02) ...

2001-01-12 Thread V.P.
I have a Motherboard BP6 with two Celeron 500 (Not overclocked) and Linux Kernel-2.4 and I have de message APIC error on CPU0: 00(02) APIC error on CPU1: 00(08) APIC error on CPU1: 08(04) APIC error on CPU0: 02(08) APIC error on CPU0: 08(08) APIC error on CPU1: 04(04) APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)

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

2001-01-12 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > No, I'm judging based on the fact that I found reports from people > using NE2K-PCI with several cards as well as tulip-based cards > (different driver) on abit BP6 as well as Gigabyte motherboards, > mostly on 2.3.x/2.4.x kernels. I found some postings with these >

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