Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think we should separate two things there:
- the place (files) where SIOCxxx values are defined
- the way we use ioctl call.
(1) and (2) may be related:
no sub-ioctl (2) + scattered files (1) = *ouch*
Sure.
Variant:
struct sub_req
Oops, I forgot to add the most important part from README.linux:
...
The 2.2 series kernels contain an older version of the kernel PPP
driver, one which doesn't support multilink. If you want multilink,
you need to run the latest 2.4 series kernel. The kernel PPP driver
was completely
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mike Kravetz wrote:
[...] Currently, in this implementation we only deviate from the
current scheduler in a small number of cases where tasks get a boost
due to having the same memory map.
thread-thread-affinity pretty much makes it impossible to use a priority
queue.
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
Hello,
there is something wrong with smbfs caching which makes my
applications fail. The behaviour happens with
linux-2.4.3-pre4 and linux-2.4.3-final.
Any version you know it doesn't happen with? (including 2.2 versions)
Consider following shell
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:38:08PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
Hello all. Without the attached patch, SysRq doesn't work over a serial
console here. Has anyone else seen this problem?
It is handled at the serial port driver level, not the tty level. You need
to turn on CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE and
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
(Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress)
The 2.4.3ac1 release is intended simply as a synchronization point and
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:16:04PM +0400, Vladimir Serov wrote:
Unfortunately the details of handling these requests aren't clear for me
and it's not simple to use Alan Cox patches on ARM cause there not
supported by Russell King and other people in ARM community (I mean no
patches again
Giuliano Pochini wrote:
I just got 2.4.3 up a running (on Abit BP6 Dual Celeron ) and
it reorderd my SCSI id's. Take a look. I don't like that my ZIP drive
becomes sda because if I ever remove it then I'll @#$% my harddrive dev
mappings again and have to change them again. Adaptec Driver
J . A . Magallon wrote:
On 04.03 Ben Ford wrote:
J . A . Magallon wrote:
If this has not been done for System.map, that is a much more important
info for debug and oops, and the de facto standard is to put it aside
kernel with some standadr naming, lets use the same method for config.
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:22:10 -0400
From: Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: l
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 11:03, Benjamin Redelings I wrote:
Hi, I'm glad somebody
I know there was a thread on this previously and I was thinking it had been
resolved (or was that only for a specific mobo mfg?). When I finally got my
VIA chipset machine up to date with a 2.4.3 kernel I noticed the following on
boot up:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
IRQ
Hi,
I recently acquired a 1.3GB MO drive. When I use small (230MB and 540MB)
MO disks which have normal 512 bytes/sector it all works flawlessly but
as soon
as a put in a 1.3GB disk which uses the 2048 bytes/sector format it all
goes
wrong. As soon as I write something to the disk by issuing a
I just got 2.4.3 up a running (on Abit BP6 Dual Celeron ) and
it reorderd my SCSI id's. Take a look. I don't like that my ZIP drive
becomes sda because if I ever remove it then I'll @#$% my harddrive dev
mappings again and have to change them again. Adaptec Driver 6.1.5
:-(
That's
MO disks which have normal 512 bytes/sector it all works flawlessly but
as soon
as a put in a 1.3GB disk which uses the 2048 bytes/sector format it all
goes
wrong. As soon as I write something to the disk by issuing a cp command
It will. Linux 2.4.x still hasn't had the scsi disk block size
I have decided to leave lkml because everybody else is doing it too.
Matthew Fredrickson
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Volume labels dont help for all cases. Its a bug in the 6.1.5 adaptec driver
which (to save Justin pointing it out) is fixed in 6.1.8
Actually, there is a component of this related to link order which is
fixed in the upcoming 6.1.9 driver release. The 7895, channel B
primary issue, is fixed in
I've had 0, Ziltch problems with ReiserFS at the moment. It's solid for
me.
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Hi folks,
If I get the DVD stuff working, then I won't need NT anymore, i.e.
I will have an empty disk.
What is your impression about ReiserFS? Does it work? Is it stable
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:56:57 -0500, Matthew Fredrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have decided to leave lkml because everybody else is doing it too.
I have decided to switch to Windows because everybody else is doing it too.
Oh, wait.. wrong mailing list. It's not hosted on aol.com. :-)
Ion
Unfortunately,
the only one that responds is sysrq-b, which boots the box without
syncing or unmounting the disks. Not only does that piss me off but it's
led to some fs corruption as well (which pisses me off even more). sysrq-b
is the *only* combination I can get working when this
Tim Waugh escribi:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:59:39AM +0200, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote:
Yes!!!. It works. I am happy now :-)
Unfortunately, the problem isn't solved, merely worked around. We
need to figure out why this is happening in the first place.
:-(
To recap, the system
I'm trying to make 3 copies of a 40 gig IBM deskstar
IDE drive. I've got red hat 7 booted into single user
mode, doing the following:
cat /dev/hda | count | tee /dev/hdb | tee /dev/hdc
/dev/hdd
The copy seems to work fine if I never let the console
blank. I copied 2 gigs worth of data (at
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:07:44PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:38:08PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
Hello all. Without the attached patch, SysRq doesn't work over a serial
console here. Has anyone else seen this problem?
It is handled at the serial port driver level,
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
this restriction (independence of the priority from the previous process)
is a fundamentally bad property, scheduling is nonlinear and affinity
decisions depend on the previous context. [i had a priority-queue SMP
scheduler
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
I also tried it with 2.2.18 there it works but it seems to be utterly
slow. I'm using kernel 2.4.2(XFS version to be precise).
M/O disks are slow. At a minimum make sure you are using a physical block size
of 2048 bytes when using 2048 byte media and
You write:
Can you anyhow find something in your logs/console/serial console messages
like 13.13.2000 kernel : Sysrq: Emergency Sync (this should be present - is
written within keyboard handler, not after shedule) and what's next logs ?
We could determine, if the bdflush thread got scheduled
Did you compile sysrq into your kernel?
I haven't yet. I'll enable it and see if I can trigger it next time I
reboot again.
ps -eo pid,stat,pcpu,nwchan,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o args
1230 D 0.0 105cc1 down_write_failed /home/data/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/mozilla-bin
Hopefully that helps
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:07:44PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:38:08PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
Hello all. Without the attached patch, SysRq doesn't work over a serial
console here. Has anyone else seen this problem?
It is handled at the serial port driver level,
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:20:24PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:06:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Device numbers/names have to be constant in order to detect
disk layout changes across boots.
Names stay constant, but why the NUMBERS? The names should stay
constant and
Hi,
I tried to install redhat 7.0 on a compaq presario 5685 with onboard
networkcard. According to the linux-kernel this card needs drivers for the
Digital DS21143 card.
But when loaded, this card wouldn't work. So i tried a diverent version of
the kernel by trying to install redhat rawhide. The
Please cc me the messages, i'm not subscribed...
Hey,
I just upgraded to kernel 2.4.3 on a k6 (233 mhz) with the processor
type set accordingly, all the proper drivers compiled in and I get
this big disgusting error message (my friend said that means i f***ed
up) Sorry I don't have it, but
Hi,
summary: e801 memory size detection call failure, but bios doesnt
set carry flag on error and hence get an incorrect memory size.
Since the 2.3.16 kernel, my PC has been unable
to run any newer kernels (2.3.16 or 2.4.x) without using the mem=64M
command line parameter. This was when the
Hello,
We're testing lvm over md (RAID 1) for a database application. Part of our
tests include simulating failure. So, we pulled the power on one of the
drives, and the kernel reported...
hdd: status error: status=0x00 { }
hdd: drive not ready for command
...
ide1: reset timed-out,
I forgot to say, we're running kernel 2.4.3 + Sistina LVM patch 0.9.1b6.
-Original Message-
From: Michael S. Fischer
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 5:09 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: md driver doesn't notice disk going out
Hello,
We're testing lvm
The master copy of this file is at http://www.linux.org.uk. Check there for
updates and errata
Linux 2.2.19 Release Notes
Platforms:Alpha, M68K, PowerPC, S/390, Sparc, X86
Introduction
Linux 2.2.19 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of
the box tree
Dear all,
I've spent my afternoon running some benchmarks to see if MQ patches would
degrade performance in the "normal case".
To measure performance I've used the latest lmbench and I have mesured the
kernel compile times on a dual pentium III box runing at 1GHz with an 133MHz
bus.
Results
the bios will set the carry flag on the return from the call should
there be an error. However, the BIOS on my PC doesnt do this- infact
it seems to simply return from the call without changing any registers.
Your BIOS is faulty. No new suprises.
meme801:
+ xorl%edx, %edx
Hi!
I still get from time to time the following errors when trying to use
ppp:
Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Plugin /usr/lib/passwordfd.so loaded.
Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: pppd 2.4.0 started by mahowi, uid 500
Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Perms of /dev/ttyS0 are ok, no
Alan,
for the "normal case" performance see my other message.
I agree that a better threading model would surely help in a web server, but to
me this is not an excuse to live up with a broken scheduler.
The X15 server I'm working on now is a sort of user-space TUX, it uses only 8
threads per
for the "normal case" performance see my other message.
I did - and with a lot of interest
I agree that a better threading model would surely help in a web server, but to
me this is not an excuse to live up with a broken scheduler.
The problem has always been - alternative scheduler,
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
(Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress)
2.4.3-ac2
o Add the VIA C3 to the mtrr/setup code (Dave
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 19:16, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:08:13AM +0200, Stefan Linnemann wrote:
the necessary features. I copied .config from the 2.2.17, superficially
checked the config, and remade and rebooted.
This was where I noted, that the parport, paride, epat
Hi Alan,
You still have the URL for www.bzimage.org in this announcement,
but there are no incremental patches there for either 2.4.3-ac1
or 2.4.3-ac2.
Miles
Alan Cox wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available
Alan Cox wrote:
for the "normal case" performance see my other message.
I did - and with a lot of interest
thanks! :)
I agree that a better threading model would surely help in a web server, but to
me this is not an excuse to live up with a broken scheduler.
The problem has always
This would be a shame, as he has been a valuable resource..
Why has the list become more restrictive?
I think that this is one list where we have to keep the ability to post
from individuals separate from the need to make sure that their ISP or
company is compliant to a set a of rules.. The
--On Tuesday, April 03, 2001 18:17:30 -0700 Fabio Riccardi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
Indeed, I'm using RT sigio/sigwait event scheduling, bare clone threads
and zero-copy io.
Fabio, I'm working on a similar solution, although I'm experimenting with
SGI's KAIO patch to see
diff -urN linux-2.4.3/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c
linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c
--- linux-2.4.3/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Sat Mar 31 00:12:41 2001
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Thu Mar 29 05:00:04 2001
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@
{ PCI_FIXUP_HEADER,
I am trying to adopt the new irq.c under arch/i386/kernel to a MIPS board and
hopefully to MIPS common code in general. This is in the anticipation that
the irq.c file will be moved to common kernel directory in 2.5.
While the rest look pretty self-explanatory, I do have a couple of questions
On Tuesday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NB Whenever you write to a file you change the inode - by changing the
NB modify time at least. Look at generic_file_write in mm/filemap.c.
NB Notice the code:
NBif (count) {
NB remove_suid(inode);
inode- i_ctime =
Three times now I've had 2.4.3 freeze on my dual CPU box while doing a
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=1024k" (a drive to be RMA'd :)). I got
bored and opened an rxvt, and as the machine was swapping in (I assume),
everything froze. The mouse still moved for about 5 seconds before the
freeze,
Three times now I've had 2.4.3 freeze on my dual CPU box while doing a
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=1024k" (a drive to be RMA'd :)). I got
Does it happen if you boot with 900Mb of ram ?
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Simon Kirby wrote:
Three times now I've had 2.4.3 freeze on my dual CPU box while doing a
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=1024k" (a drive to be RMA'd :)). I got
bored and opened an rxvt, and as the machine was swapping in (I assume),
everything froze. The mouse still
I am trying to set up a tunnel from my linux machine to the MBone.
My kernel (2.4.2) supports multicasting and advanced routing:
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
I have read http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO.html
and
Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You still have the URL for www.bzimage.org in this announcement,
but there are no incremental patches there for either 2.4.3-ac1
or 2.4.3-ac2.
They're made as i type ;-)
It's still done manually, and now with the 2.4.3 series we
have to adjust the scripts a
In article 9ae3qj$pc9$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
I wrote:
It's still done manually, and now with the 2.4.3 series we
have to adjust the scripts a bit.
Scripts adjusted, time for some sleep ;-)
Danny
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:18:03PM -0700, Fabio Riccardi wrote:
I have measured the HP and not the "scalability" patch because the two do more
or less the same thing and give me the same performance advantages, but the
former is a lot simpler and I could port it with no effort on any recent
Hello all,
I'm using slackware 7.1 with the 2.2.16 kernel,
And I'm trying to install the 2.4.3 kernel.
I configured and build it, and all looked OK.
But when I'm trying to load the new kernel from LILO,
It uncompressing the kernel, then says Ok, now booting the kernel gives
some dots,
and the it
:: I configured and build it, and all looked OK.
Did you select the right CPU type in the configuration?
-- Juha
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I was actually suspecting that the extra lines in your patch were there for a
reason :)
A few questions:
What is the real impact of a (slight) change in scheduling semantics?
Under which situation one should notice a difference?
As you state in your papers the global decision comes with a
Just like Steffen Grunewald, an infinite number of monkeys can type this:
I'm trying to figure out how to make a primaryly ram-disk based
Linux system (which should then be able to access "real" storage,
but that is really the last step).
initrd???
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Manfred H. Winter wrote:
Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid a
rgument
Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Exit.
Did you load the 'ppp_async.o' module?
Regards,
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