Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-06 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
On 06 Mar 2001 17:01:02 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: Hi Ettore, I have no idea if this is related to your problem since you didn't mention that key part, but with the same drive, I managed to trash my root partition incredibly badly by trying to use DMA and then do APM suspend or hibernate. On

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

2001-03-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Chip, I thought O grabbed that from you... On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote: With Andre's IDE subsystem, I found the below patch necessary to use my IDE tape drive (Exabyte Eagle TR-4). Frankly, it's been so long since I created this patch that I can't remember the detailed

Re: Drive corruption with VIA VT82C686A (ABIT KT7-RAID) - Still -

2001-03-06 Thread Peter DeVries
tried both 2.4.3-pre2 and 2.4.2-ac12. Same results with each. Let me know which reports are most important so I don't post more than necassary. I was able to get lspci -vvxxx, dmesg, hdparm -i, cat/proc/ide/via. I did notice it is detecting a 40w cable even though I am using a 80w. Could

Re: conducting TCP sessions with non-local IPs

2001-03-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:30:58PM -0800, Bryan Rittmeyer wrote: Hello linux-kernel, Is there any way to conduct TCP sessions (IE have a userland process connect out, or accept connections) using non-local IPs? By "non-local" I just mean IPs that aren't

Re: Linux installation problem (Microchannel)

2001-03-06 Thread Rick Hohensee
Standard Red Hat has no MCA support (sorry much as I love my PS/2 its rather hard to make an honest business case for the huge amount of extra work to build MCA boot disks/CD images). Debian I believe should install straight out of the box on most MCA bus PC systems Alan Hard if you want to

Re: 2.2.18 - do_try_to_free_pages failed

2001-03-06 Thread Thiago Rondon
Mar 6 16:35:32 osage kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Update your kernel to 2.2.19 and try again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Forcible removal of modules

2001-03-06 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:17:28 -0800 (PST), Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: Is there some better way of blocking all open() calls to a particular device driver while processes using it are being killed off? Not yet. There have been some off list discussions about redoing the

IP autoconfig via DHCP?

2001-03-06 Thread Kenn Humborg
Quick question... Back in 2.2, we could use DHCP to auto-config the IP setup. In fact, the choice was DHCP, BOOTP or RARP. Now there is only BOOTP or RARP. What happened to DHCP support? Later, Kenn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: conducting TCP sessions with non-local IPs

2001-03-06 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:46:39PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:30:58PM -0800, Bryan Rittmeyer wrote: Hello linux-kernel, Is there any way to conduct TCP sessions (IE have a userland process connect out, or accept connections) using

Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

2001-03-06 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you're a UP system, it never makes sense to spin in userland, since you'll just burn up a timeslice and prevent the lock holder from running. I haven't looked, but assume that their code only uses spinlocks on SMP. If you're an SMP system, then you shouldn't be

Re: conducting TCP sessions with non-local IPs

2001-03-06 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Mike Fedyk wrote: [snip] /sbin/ip addr add 10.2.0.0/24 dev eth0 Tada How would you deal with the other computer responding to the host "port not reachable"? What the hell kind of monster are you making? There's got to be another way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.2.18 - do_try_to_free_pages failed

2001-03-06 Thread David Relson
Thiago, I know that 2.2.19 is still in the -pre state. Is it that much better? Have significant VM problems been fixed? Thanks. David At 08:48 PM 3/6/01, Thiago Rondon wrote: Mar 6 16:35:32 osage kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... Update your kernel to 2.2.19 and

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: With respect, Rik. You haven't finished the 2.4 VM yet. It needs better design description. Could you please take the time to raise a commentary patch which describes the underlying design intent? OK, I'll go work on this... You are right, this

Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

2001-03-06 Thread Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan
Jeff Dike wrote: [ ... ] Another synchronization method popular with database peeps is "post/ wait" for which SGI have a patch available for Linux. I understand that this is relatively "light weight" and might be a better choice for PG. URL?

Re: 2.2.18 - do_try_to_free_pages failed

2001-03-06 Thread Thiago Rondon
I know that 2.2.19 is still in the -pre state. Is it that much better? Have significant VM problems been fixed? Yes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.2.18 - do_try_to_free_pages failed

2001-03-06 Thread Wayne Whitney
In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: I know that 2.2.19 is still in the -pre state. [ . . . ] Have significant VM problems been fixed? Yes, 2.2.19-pre incorporates what was known as Andrea's VM-global patch, and it is widely reported to fix the exact problem you mentioned. Wayne - To

Re: 2.4.2 ext2 filesystem corruption ? (was 2.4.2: What happened ? (No

2001-03-06 Thread Ben Greear
Alan Cox wrote: running a bad hdparm command while running a full GNOME desktop: (This was not a good idea...and I know, and knew that...but) hdparm -X34 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda (As found here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html?page=2 Sorry for the lame bug

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread God
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: I have not had problems with 2.4.2, just tried 2.4.2-ac12. About the IDE stage it just reboots. Does ac11 also reboot like that. -ac is currently testing versions of the new VIA IDE driver so knowing if the latest update did that would be very

Re: eject weirdness on NEC disc changer, kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-06 Thread Jim Breton
From: Walter Hofmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 15:19:10 EST cancelling a burn session with cdrecord I am unable to eject the disc. However that was on kernel 2.2.x and using "real" scsi (not ide-scsi). This was a bug in cdrecord which used generic scsi access to lock the

Re: conducting TCP sessions with non-local IPs

2001-03-06 Thread Bryan Rittmeyer
Gregory Maxwell wrote: I didn't pick-up on the fact that you planned on have other computers listening with those addresses. We won't--without getting into the specifics (NDA) we are developing a TCP/IP load balance tester that needs to act--similtaneously--as many machines. It is certainly

Re: conducting TCP sessions with non-local IPs

2001-03-06 Thread Bryan Rittmeyer
Jeremy Jackson wrote: What the hell kind of monster are you making? There's got to be another way. heh. As I mentioned in my other response, we're doing TCP/IP load balance testing--so we need one linux system to act as many hosts. The only solution, short of using bind/connect/accept/etc

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: the space allowed for arguments is not a userland issue, it is a kernel limit defined by MAX_ARG_PAGES in binfmts.h, so one could tweak it if one wanted to without breaking any userland. Which is

RE: Error compiling aic7xxx driver on 2.4.2-ac13

2001-03-06 Thread Phil Oester
I actually had the problem with lack-of-lex also, but worked through that... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Cox Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 4:51 PM To: J . A . Magallon Cc: Phil Oester; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error

Incoming TCP TOS: A simple question, I would have thought...

2001-03-06 Thread David Luyer
I've scrolled through various code in net/ipv4, and I can't see how to query the TOS of an incoming TCP stream (or at the least, the TOS of the SYN which initiated the connection). Someone has sent in a feature request for squid which would require this, presumably so they can set the TOS in

Re: kernel lock contention and scalability

2001-03-06 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here it is: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/postwait/ Check out the download section for a 2.4.0 patch. After having thought about this a bit more, I don't see why pw_post and pw_wait can't be implemented in userspace as: int pw_post(uid_t uid) {

Re: Drive corruption with VIA VT82C686A (ABIT KT7-RAID) - Still -

2001-03-06 Thread Jonathan Morton
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at

2.4.2-ac13 make modules_install error

2001-03-06 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, While 'make modules_install' on 2.4.2-ac13, I receive the following error: make -C kernel modules_install make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux/kernel' make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'modules_install'. .. make -C drivers modules_install make[1]: Entering directory

Re: Incoming TCP TOS: A simple question, I would have thought...

2001-03-06 Thread David Luyer
getsockopt(fd, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, .. Doesn't work. Returns the TOS of outgoing packets, which defaults to 0 even if there is a TOS set on incoming traffic... that was what I tried in my first test program. David. cheers, lincoln. At 03:00 PM 7/03/2001 +1100, David Luyer wrote: I've

Mapping a piece of one process' addrspace to another?

2001-03-06 Thread Jeremy Elson
Greetings, Is there some way to map a piece of process X's address space into process Y, without X's knowledge or cooperation? (The non-cooperating nature of process X is why I can't use plain old shared memory.) Put another way, I need to grant Process Y permission to write into a private

Re:Escape sequences console

2001-03-06 Thread James Simmons
I would say the escape sequence are for /dev/ttyX since only Vt emulate Dec VT 100s. The web site to look for this info is http://www.vt100.net MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.

Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

2001-03-06 Thread J. Dow
From: "Jens Axboe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Andre Hedrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Alan Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Linus Torvalds" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a LIE, it does not destroy the drive, only the partition table. Please recally the limited effects of "DiskDestroyer" and

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: Can you provide me with a dmesg from a boot with aic7xxx=verbose? I just tested this on a 3940AUW and the behavior was as expected. Perhaps you have a motherboard based controller that has no seeprom? I don't know how to detect flipped channels in that configuration

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
I've a Super P6SBS motherboard with a builtin dual channel Adaptec 7890 Ultra II scsi controller. I'm attaching the console grab when booting 2.4.3-pre2. The controller BIOS is configured to boot off the disk with scsi id 0 on channel B. It looks like Doug was right to think that the functions

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-06 Thread Jonathan Morton
I am not going to bite on your flame bate, and are free to waste you money. I don't flamebait. I was trying to clear up some confusion... No, SCSI does with queuing. I am saying that the ata/ide driver rips the heart out of the io_request_lock what to darn long. This means that upon execution

Re: Mapping a piece of one process' addrspace to another?

2001-03-06 Thread Alexander Viro
You are reinventing the wheel. man ptrace (see PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} and PTRACE_{ATTACH,CONT,DETACH}) Cheers, Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Justin T. Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a Super P6SBS motherboard with a builtin dual channel Adaptec 7890 Ultra II scsi controller. I'm attaching the console grab when booting 2.4.3-pre2. The controller BIOS is configured to boot off the disk with scsi id 0 on

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch

2001-03-06 Thread David Brownell
At the time, I didn't feel like creating a custom sub-allocator just for USB, ... I'd be good to get it done "properly" at some point though. Something like struct pci_pool *pci_alloc_consistent_pool(int objectsize, int align) struct pci_pool * pci_create_consistent_pool

Re: 2.4.2-ac13 make modules_install error

2001-03-06 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 00:04:08 -0500 (EST), Frank Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux/drivers/atm' mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.2-ac13/kernel/$(shell ($CONFIG_SHELL) $(TOPDIR)/scripts/pathdown.sh) /bin/sh: CONFIG_SHELL: command not found /bin/sh: TOPDIR: command

Re: conducting TCP sessions with non-local IPs

2001-03-06 Thread David
So, if I configure the interface as suggested ("/sbin/ip addr add 10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0") can I really bind to any IP in 10.0.0.0/24 and conduct TCP sessions (as a client or server) using that IP--assuming all the ARP, etc, issues are worked out? hostA: ip a a 10.0.0.0/24 brd + dev lo hostB:

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: Still doesn't make a difference - there is one revolution between writes, no matter where on disk it is. Oh it does, because you are hitting the same sector with the same data. Rotate your buffer and then you will see the difference. Because of

Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch

2001-03-06 Thread Manfred Spraul
David Brownell wrote: There are two problems I see. (1) CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG breaks the documented requirement that the slab cache return adequately aligned data ... adequately aligned for the _cpu_, not for some controllers. It's neither documented that HW_CACHEALIGN aligns to 16 byte

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
I suspect it's easier to just make the PCI layer call the probe function in that order, instead of working around it in your driver. Jeff? Would 'pci=reverse' do the trick already? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

RAID, 2.4.2 and Buslogic

2001-03-06 Thread Jauder Ho
Leonard, My story is somewhat similar to what Dick Johnson has encountered except this is with 2.4.2 running on a pentium 200. I encountered an oops last night while untarring a file. Upon reboot, it appears that the partition labels disappeared along with the superblock. Unfortunately, I was

Re: Mapping a piece of one process' addrspace to another?

2001-03-06 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: You are reinventing the wheel. man ptrace (see PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} and PTRACE_{ATTACH,CONT,DETACH}) With ptrace data will be copied twice. As far as I understood, Jeremy wants to avoid that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: 2.4.2-ac13 make modules_install error

2001-03-06 Thread Matt Johnston
Hi. I've had the same problem, it also happens in 2.4.2ac12 Cheers, Matt Johnston On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:04, Frank Davis wrote: Hello, While 'make modules_install' on 2.4.2-ac13, I receive the following error: make -C kernel modules_install make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

2001-03-06 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: The merging at the elevator level only works if the requests sent to it are right next to each other on disk. This means that randomly sending stuff

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