Oops in 2.4.3: cat /proc/tty/driver/serial

2001-04-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I was just looking around and I found this: # cat /proc/tty/driver/serial Segmentation fault And this is the oops: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d00eff1c printing eip: d00eff1c *pde = 01505067 *pte = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010282

Re: bug in float on Pentium

2001-04-14 Thread Matt Billenstein
It's not that you found a new bug or that floats are inaccurate (they are just less exact than doubles)... For example, if you make your program print some more digits, you'll get: 5483.9899781721271574497222900390625000 5483.9902343750

Re: "uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

2001-04-14 Thread joker
i have this problem using intel 850mhz and 333mhz any know where to get update version of uname ? Ishikawa wrote: > Hi, > > On my athlong K7 optimized kernel prints "unknown" fir oricessir type. > (I have not realized what this "unknown" stood for until today.) > > #uname -p > unknown > #uname

Re: [PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-14 Thread Rod Stewart
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > That has an implicit race, a zombie can always appear as we are > execing init. > > I think init wants fixing > > > Rod, could you boot again with the unpatched kernel and send a sigchild > to init? > >

one step up from vi .config

2001-04-14 Thread Rick Hohensee
This is an example of a minimalist kernel config script using what I call "subtractive synthesis", rather than the additive synthesis method of make config and friends. This generates white-noise and then you filter it, rather than painstakingly constructing your timbre one sinewave at a time.

RE: Disorder?

2001-04-14 Thread George Bonser
> > What kernel are you running? That is 2.4.4-pre3 > This is disabled by default. search for > where FASTRETRANS_DEBUG is enabled (should be in linux/include/net/tcp.h > and set it someting low (like 1 which is the default. The actual error > message comes up in tcp_input.c (search fro

Re: Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-14 Thread Disconnect
> Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail > me > - CPU model/stepping vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 1202.743 (/proc/cpuinfo

Re: CML2 1.1.1, wiuth experimental fast mode

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > Release 1.1.1: Sat Apr 14 23:41:34 EDT 2001 > * Synchronized with 2.4.4-pre1. pre3 is out ;-) > * Added fast-mode command to suppress side-effect computation > on slow machines. > > I'd appreciate it if some of you with slow machines would

Re: Disorder?

2001-04-14 Thread Bart Trojanowski
What kernel are you running? This is disabled by default. search for where FASTRETRANS_DEBUG is enabled (should be in linux/include/net/tcp.h and set it someting low (like 1 which is the default. The actual error message comes up in tcp_input.c (search fro FASTRETRANS_DEBUG). Regards, Bart.

Re: Problem with k7 optimizations in 2.4.x?

2001-04-14 Thread Disconnect
Blew sky high. Booted stock 2.4.3-ac3, K7 optimizations, init=/bin/sh. First time it went fine for quite some time (10-15 mins, find / -print, etc) and then locked up hard on "open". Second time, it oops'd before hardlocking (which I copied out by hand.) The oops and decode are attached. On

CML2 1.1.1, wiuth experimental fast mode

2001-04-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 1.1.1: Sat Apr 14 23:41:34 EDT 2001 * Synchronized with 2.4.4-pre1. * Adam Lackorzynski's patch to make install-cml2 do the right thing with relative installation paths. * The

Disorder?

2001-04-14 Thread George Bonser
What's all this in syslog? I don't remember ever seeing it there before. ... Apr 14 13:58:31 foo kernel: Disorder0 3 5 f0 s2 rr1 Apr 14 13:58:32 foo kernel: Disorder0 3 5 f0 s1 rr1 Apr 14 13:58:41 foo kernel: Disorder0 3 8 f0 s0 rr1 Apr 14 13:58:44 foo kernel: Disorder0 3 5 f0 s0 rr1 Apr 14

Re: Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-14 Thread Moses Mcknight
Alan Cox wrote: > Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail > me > > - CPU model/stepping AMD Athlon Thunderbird 850Mhz Stepping - 2 > - Chipset VIA KT133A chipset, Iwill KK266 MB. According to a couple other people this problem may only occur on

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-14 Thread Roger Larsson
On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:52, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Okay but what will be used for a base for hardware that has critical > timing issues due to the rules of the hardware? > > I do not care but your drives/floppy/tapes/cdroms/cdrws do: > > /* > * Timeouts for various operations: > */ >

Re: usb-uhci.c problems in latest kernels?

2001-04-14 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1876 This is a known problem, here is the discussion that I initiated on linux-usb-devel: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=9860950851=2=1 The right fix is to comment that printout out. In fact, that is what I commited for Red Hat 7.1 release.

Re: SCSI tape corruption problem

2001-04-14 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > ... still, I've investigated on this because amverify gave me a ton of > crc errors... (I REALLY hope that amanda uses proper blocking :) yes, it does. This really looks like a st problem, or kernel. Or host adapter, or :) I have to try 2.4.x soon.

[NEED TESTERS] remove swapin_readahead Re: shmem_getpage_locked()/ swapin_readahead() race in 2.4.4-pre3

2001-04-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > There is a nasty race between shmem_getpage_locked() and > > swapin_readahead() with the new shmem code (introduced in > > 2.4.3-ac3 and merged in the main tree in 2.4.4-pre3): > > > I don't see any

2.4 stable when?

2001-04-14 Thread George Bonser
I have a web server farm that right now has about 125 apache processes running per machine. If I try to use 2.4.3 or even 2.4.3-ac6 it will go to about 400 (meaning it is slow in clearing connections), the load average will start to climb until it gets to close to 100 and then stops responding.

Re: Still cannot compile, 2.4.3-ac6

2001-04-14 Thread John Jasen
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Marko Kreen wrote: > Sorry. Who said it should not be tested? How else it could get > 'default compiler'? If the gcc-3.0 would start giving errors > on some old code then it could be gcc bug. But this rwsem code > is couple of days old. It is good to let it through

Re: DPT PM3755F Fibrechannel Host Adapter

2001-04-14 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:33:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly >through unavailability, and partly through inexperience. There is a nice suppary of current DPT driver status on Kernel Traffic #113:

Re: RealTek 8139 driver updated, tested requested

2001-04-14 Thread Stefan Becker
Hi! Jeff Garzik wrote: > A new version of the ethernet driver for RTL-8139-based 10/100 boards > has been posted at > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ > > This update includes a couple major bugfixes, and I am interested in > getting the widest testing possible for it. No

DPT PM3755F Fibrechannel Host Adapter

2001-04-14 Thread cacook
I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly through unavailability, and partly through inexperience. Found Ricky Beam's 2.4.0-test7 .diff, but lack the experience to retrofit it to 2.4.2. Tried patch -su http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:53:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Rod's init version (from RH 7.0) doesn't reap children that died before > > it was started. Is that an init bug or should the kernel reap them > > before the execve? > I would say thats an init bug It doesn't seem to be that

Re: How do I make a circular pipe?

2001-04-14 Thread bert hubert
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:44:46AM -0700, Rob Landley wrote: > Info. Never thought to check info. Here I am > checking linuxdoc's howtos, man pages, and google... > Sigh... I don't suppose there's an info2html tool > anywhere? 'pinfo' can also be very useful - looks a lot like lynx, but

Re: bizarre TCP behavior

2001-04-14 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > If the router claims to be RFC compliant then you may want to investigate > trading standards bodies. In the UK at least things like the advertising > standards agency get upset by people who claim standards compliance, are shown > not to be compliant and

Re: Still cannot compile, 2.4.3-ac6

2001-04-14 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:03:35AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:09:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser Geuer wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > I still cannot compile with gcc-3.0 from 08.04. > > Yes ? Who said gcc-3.0 is suitable compiler ? > > No doubt it some day will

Re: Writing to Pana DVD-RAM

2001-04-14 Thread Jeremy Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am running RedHat Wolverine (beta) with kernel 2.4.2. I have a SCSI subsystem >(AHA2740) with a Panasonic LF-D101 DVDRAM on it. > > I read that the CDROM driver is built to recognize DVDRAMs and allow writes; well I >can mount and read the UDF file

Re: Still cannot compile, 2.4.3-ac6

2001-04-14 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:09:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser Geuer wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I still cannot compile with gcc-3.0 from 08.04. Yes ? Who said gcc-3.0 is suitable compiler ? No doubt it some day will be the default compiler, but not yet. For that matter, what

Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update 2

2001-04-14 Thread Chip Salzenberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Nate Eldredge wrote: >> (32 bytes is the size of a cache line.) A memory tester might be >> something to try (I wrote a simple program that seemed to show the >> error better than memtest86; can send it if desired.) > >Already tried

Re: [PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > That has an implicit race, a zombie can always appear as we are execing init. > I think init wants fixing > Rod, could you boot again with the unpatched kernel and send a sigchild to init? #kill -CHLD 1 If I understand the init code correctly the

Writing to Pana DVD-RAM

2001-04-14 Thread cacook
Hello, I am running RedHat Wolverine (beta) with kernel 2.4.2. I have a SCSI subsystem (AHA2740) with a Panasonic LF-D101 DVDRAM on it. I read that the CDROM driver is built to recognize DVDRAMs and allow writes; well I can mount and read the UDF file system fine, but am not allowed writes.

Still cannot compile, 2.4.3-ac6

2001-04-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser Geuer
Dear Sirs, I still cannot compile with gcc-3.0 from 08.04. Yesterday I tried -ac5 (same problem reported earlier) and using egcs-2.91.66 for _only_ the peoblematic files (sys.c exec.c binfmt_elf.c and two others which I dont remember) but the kernel could not boot. Now I get: gcc -D__KERNEL__

Re: "uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

2001-04-14 Thread xcp
uname has printed unknown for the cpu vendor for as long as I can remember. There is a hacked uname.c distributed as "nuname" that works for cyrix intel and amd, maybe others. http://cds.duke.edu/pub/sunsite/utils/shell/nuname-1.0.tar.gz I *think* Cyrix shows up as CyrixInstead Dual P120 Linux

Re: comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Marko Kreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Using CML2 1.1.0 'menuconfig' on clean 2.4.3 (mach is PPro 180) > > Suggestions: > > * the 'N' should be shown as ' ' as in menuconfig - it is > visually much better to get overview of whole screenful. > 'Y'/'M' and 'N' are basically of 'same size' so you

Re: "uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

2001-04-14 Thread Bart Trojanowski
BTW this is also the case for AMD-K6-3 and I would imagine all other AMD processors. B. On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ishikawa wrote: > Hi, > > On my athlong K7 optimized kernel prints "unknown" fir oricessir type. > (I have not realized what this "unknown" stood for until today.) > > #uname -p >

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Arthur Pedyczak
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Aaron Lunansky wrote: Why not indeed? - should have thought about it myself Well, I wrote the script. It has been running for 10 minutes now mounting and unmounting an iso image. Nothing happens. I guess I should be happy. Still don't undertand where the original Oops came

Re: Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Lightfoot
[ sent to linux-kernel due to Alan rejecting all mail from Earthlink/Mindspring, I'm assuming he is still interested in the report though ] On Saturday 14 April 2001 09:13, Alan Cox wrote: > Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised > kernels all mail me I have two Athlon

"uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

2001-04-14 Thread Ishikawa
Hi, On my athlong K7 optimized kernel prints "unknown" fir oricessir type. (I have not realized what this "unknown" stood for until today.) #uname -p unknown #uname -a Linux duron 2.4.3 #2 Fri Apr 6 04:38:35 JST 2001 i686 unknown It would be nice to have the processor name printed. Is this

Re: comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
jeff millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Selecting IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS turns off IP_NF_CONNTRACK and friends. But, > I think CML1, allowed both support to the new iptables and compatibility > modes to allow old ipchains scripts to work with the new kernel. Would somebody who knows what these

Re: shmem_getpage_locked() / swapin_readahead() race in 2.4.4-pre3

2001-04-14 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > There is a nasty race between shmem_getpage_locked() and > swapin_readahead() with the new shmem code (introduced in > 2.4.3-ac3 and merged in the main tree in 2.4.4-pre3): > I don't see any clean fix for this one. > Suggestions ? As we discussed

Re: SCSI tape corruption problem

2001-04-14 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Now try this: > >cd ~archive >mt -f /dev/tapes/tape0 rewind >tar cvf - . | gzip -9 | dd of=/dev/tapes/tape0 bs=32k > > and then: > >mt -f /dev/tapes/tape0 rewind >dd if=/dev/tapes/tape0 bs=32k | gzip -d | tar --compare -v -f - > >

Re: [PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Rod's init version (from RH 7.0) doesn't reap children that died before > it was started. Is that an init bug or should the kernel reap them > before the execve? I would say thats an init bug > The attached patch reaps all zombies before the execve("/sbin/init"). That has an implicit race, a

Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update 2

2001-04-14 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Nate Eldredge wrote: > (32 bytes is the size of a cache line.) A memory tester might be > something to try (I wrote a simple program that seemed to show the > error better than memtest86; can send it if desired.) Already tried that... this system has passed some 20 hours

Re: SCSI tape corruption problem

2001-04-14 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > So you make gzip use blocks of 32 kB. no, infact it really makes it using blocks of 4k (a PIPE_SIZE is 4k), so it is really equivalent to bs=4k. dd doesn't re-join blocks when they are smaller then bs=, unless you specify obs=32k. I have been playing

Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Jan Dvorak
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:21:20AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > No, these codes cannot be larger than 127 today. > You can use the utility setkeycodes to assign keycodes to these keys. I always tought it is 8bit - more-than-128-keys keyboards exists quite long time. > [One of the things for

Re: Swap Corruption in 2.4.3 ?

2001-04-14 Thread Ishikawa
On 10 Apr 2001, Richard Russon wrote: > VM: Undead swap entry 000bb300 > VM: Undead swap entry 00abb300 > VM: Undead swap entry 016fb300 I have seen similar mysterious crashes of X server when I began accessing large web page using Netscape navigator. It was reproducible the first few times I

Re: SCSI tape corruption problem

2001-04-14 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Do you also mean it is illegal to use blocksize 10 kB (default tar, no gzip) > with a tape drive?? not at all. Infact, with the default settings of the st driver, any multiple of 512 bytes is ok. The additional dd step is just there to be sure

Re: CML2 1.1.0 bug and snailspeed

2001-04-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the menu the colour scheme is a bit strange but everyone has a > different taste. Would need some getting used to, but ok. It does seem > like a step back in time though, compared to the old menuconfig which had > nice windows feel and colours, IMHO. I

Re: Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail > me Just trying to privide you with usefull info. I'm NOT seeing any crashes at all. > - CPU model/stepping processor : 0 vendor_id :

Re: How do I make a circular pipe?

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Landley
> > Apparently, the pipe > > fd's evaporate when the process does an execve. > > Check out: > > #include > #include > >/* ... */ > > fcntl (fd, F_SETFD, (long) FD_CLOEXEC); > > to set/reset the close on exec bit. Cool. That's EXACTLY what I was looking

Re: patch for PLIP and slow, interrupt-less computers

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Schwab
"W. Michael Petullo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> Here is the patch: |> |> |> |> --- plip.c Tue Feb 13 16:15:05 2001 |> +++ /tmp/linux/drivers/net/plip.cThu Apr 12 16:07:07 2001 |> @@ -137,10 +137,10 @@ |>

Re: SCSI tape corruption problem

2001-04-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Now try this: > >cd ~archive >mt -f /dev/tapes/tape0 rewind >tar cvf - . | gzip -9 | dd of=/dev/tapes/tape0 bs=32k > > and then: > >mt -f /dev/tapes/tape0 rewind >dd if=/dev/tapes/tape0 bs=32k | gzip -d | tar --compare -v -f - >

shmem_getpage_locked() / swapin_readahead() race in 2.4.4-pre3

2001-04-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, There is a nasty race between shmem_getpage_locked() and swapin_readahead() with the new shmem code (introduced in 2.4.3-ac3 and merged in the main tree in 2.4.4-pre3): shmem_getpage_locked() finds a page in the swapcache and moves it to the pagecache as an shmem page, freeing the

CML2 1.1.0 bug and snailspeed

2001-04-14 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Ok, I tried the CML2 1.1.0. (Had to spend hours installing Python 2.0 until I found all required configure options and got the right modules compiled in, but ok, that's a one off and is not CML2's fault, also ran make test to make sure it works.) Installed cml, cwd to kernel, and ran make

[PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
Hi Alan, Rod's init version (from RH 7.0) doesn't reap children that died before it was started. Is that an init bug or should the kernel reap them before the execve? The attached patch reaps all zombies before the execve("/sbin/init"). I also found a bug in kernel/context.c: it doesn't acquire

2.4.3-ac6 config options with no Configure.help text.

2001-04-14 Thread Steven Cole
As of kernel 2.4.3-ac6, there are 575 config options which have no help text in Configure.help. Here is a list of these items which have been introduced recently, after 2.4.3-ac1. Each group is incremental, versus 2.4.3-ac[n-1]. If you see one of your options here, please consider generating

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Aaron Lunansky
If you're intent on making it oops why not write a script to mount/unmount it repeatedly? Regards, Aaron -Original Message- From: Arthur Pedyczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Linux kernel list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat

Re: [RFC][PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-14 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Also ISA adapters are not the only non-PCI adapters, > > there are the growing band of pseudo adapters that > > may or may not have a PCI bus at the bottom of some > > other protocol stack. > > An ioctl might be better. We already have an ioctl for querying the lun >

Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-14 Thread Rod Stewart
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > >> Ah. Of course. All (or most) kernel initialisation is > >> done by PID 1. Search for "kernel_thread" in init/main.c > >> > >> So it seems that in your setup, process 1 is not reaping > >> children, which is why this hasn't been reported before. >

Re: pci SDSL card

2001-04-14 Thread Samuli Kaski
The Xpeed X200/300. Go to http://www.xpeed.com/Products/x300/300ds.pdf Kernel support for the cards appeared in ftp://ftp.cs.helsinki.fi/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/people/alan/2.2.18pre/pre-patch-2.2.18-18.gz I guess it hasn't been ported to 2.4 yet. Samuli On Fri, 13 Apr 2001,

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-14 Thread Adam J. Richter
>>> = Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> = Adam J. Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > = Michael O'Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes, regarding the idea >> of having do_fork() give all of the parent's remaining time slice to >> the newly created child: >> >>>It

Re: comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-14 Thread jeff millar
Selecting IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS turns off IP_NF_CONNTRACK and friends. But, I think CML1, allowed both support to the new iptables and compatibility modes to allow old ipchains scripts to work with the new kernel. jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

patch for PLIP and slow, interrupt-less computers

2001-04-14 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have written a quick patch for the PLIP driver contained in the 2.4.3 version of the Linux kernel. This patch allows one to use PLIP with computers which have an interrupt-less parallel port and a slow processor. The stock PLIP driver constantly times out on my 80486-based laptop. This patch

Re: Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-14 Thread Tim lawless
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail > me > > - CPU model/stepping Athlon Thunderbird 700mhz /proc/cpu: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name

Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Cox
Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail me - CPU model/stepping - Chipset - Amount of RAM - /proc/mtrr output - compiler used Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: I can't read data from COM1

2001-04-14 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:36:30PM +0800, Green wrote: I ran into a similar problem with 2.4.3 where I couldn't enter anything when running mingetty on the console. Turned out that by default the CREAD flag isn't set on a serial interface in 2.4.3 after bootup so you need to initialize this.

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-14 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > > > [...] > > >If it turns out to be beneficial to run the child first (you > > >can measure this), why not leave everything the same as it is > > >now but have do_fork() "switch threads" internally ? > >

KERNEL: assertion (tp->lost_out == 0) failed at tcp_input.c(1202):tcp_remove_reno_sacks

2001-04-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
While running 2.4.3, I saw the following message a few times: KERNEL: assertion (tp->lost_out == 0) failed at tcp_input.c(1202):tcp_remove_reno_sacks Is that bad, or should I just ignore it? Kurt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Cox
> > This is a bug in the scsi layer. [EMAIL PROTECTED], not that any of > > the scsi maintainers seem to care about it right now. > > Err..., now I'm confused. Last time this issue popped up, it was my > understanding that it's generic_file_{read,write}'s limitation to filesystems > with

Re: bizarre TCP behavior

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Cox
> For example the Zyxel 681 SDSL-Router breaks ECN by > stripping 0x80 (ECN Cwnd Reduced) but not 0x40 (ECN Echo) > (TOS bits) on all SYN packets (!). > > I complained because of this two times more than a month ago > but they do not even respond. If the router claims to be RFC compliant then

Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Alan Cox
> > This is a bug in the scsi layer. [EMAIL PROTECTED], not that any > > of the scsi maintainers seem to care about it right now. > > Does this mean I can forget about using kernel 2.4.x? :-(( Can you give me a > hint where to look. Maybe I can fix it myself. The FAT layer asks for a 512 byte

Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
>> Ah. Of course. All (or most) kernel initialisation is >> done by PID 1. Search for "kernel_thread" in init/main.c >> >> So it seems that in your setup, process 1 is not reaping >> children, which is why this hasn't been reported before. >> Is there something unusual about your setup? > I

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-14 Thread Rogier Wolff
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Okay but what will be used for a base for hardware that has critical > timing issues due to the rules of the hardware? > > I do not care but your drives/floppy/tapes/cdroms/cdrws do: > > /* > * Timeouts for various operations: > */ > #define WAIT_DRQ

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-14 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > Also, have you managed to find a real difference with this? > > It actually makes a noticeable difference on lmbench, so I think adam is > 100% right. > > > If it turns out to be beneficial to run the

Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:08:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have a problem using my MO-Drive under kernel 2.4.3. I have several disks > > formated with a VFAT filesystem. Under kernel 2.2.19 everything works fine. > > Under kernel 2.4.3 I cannot write anything to the disk without hanging

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Samstag, 14. April 2001 14:28 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: > Does turning unmaskirq on help? Already tried this, but it doesn't help The actual settings (same on /dev/hdc): bash-2.04# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Ola Garstad
Just a tip: I had the same problems when I started to use 2.4.x kernels. It was the compiler that caused the problem. I switch to using kgcc (comes with RH 7.0) and all the problems when away. :-) - Original Message - From: "Arthur Pedyczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jens Axboe"

I/O errors after moving to 2.4

2001-04-14 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all After upgrading two 2-CPU servers (intel) from 2.2 to 2.4, users complain about their shell hangs for several seconds, sometimes minutes, when doing trivial stuff like doing a 'cat' or a 'vi' against a file. When trying to do more heavy I/O, the process in question will all of a sudden go

comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-14 Thread Marko Kreen
Using CML2 1.1.0 'menuconfig' on clean 2.4.3 (mach is PPro 180) Suggestions: * the 'N' should be shown as ' ' as in menuconfig - it is visually much better to get overview of whole screenful. 'Y'/'M' and 'N' are basically of 'same size' so you must look directly on letter to understand

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Arthur Pedyczak
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: [ SNIP..] > > = > > Apr 13 20:50:03 cs865114-a kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at >virtual address 7e92bfd7 > > Please disable syslog decoding (it sucks) and feed it through ksymoops > instead. > > In

RealTek 8139 driver updated, tested requested

2001-04-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
A new version of the ethernet driver for RTL-8139-based 10/100 boards has been posted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ This update includes a couple major bugfixes, and I am interested in getting the widest testing possible for it. Please report bugs to the bug tracking

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:38:06AM +0200, Andreas Peter wrote: > Am Samstag, 14. April 2001 09:04 schrieb David Rees: > > > OK, so it's not the RAID setup. There's two things that can cause this. > > One is that DMA is turned off (what does hdparm /dev/hda and hdparm > > /dev/hdc show?), the

OOPS in khttpd, 2.4.4-ac3

2001-04-14 Thread Boris Pisarcik
Hello. I was performing some benchmarks of http transfer with program 'ab' (apache benchmark), comparing, how it will perform with/without kernel khttpd support. I've got oops several times, the error is replicable on my machine, without appache even started. The exact order of actions i

Re: bizarre TCP behavior

2001-04-14 Thread Stefan Traby
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:21:42AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Try echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > If it helps complain to the sites that their firewall is broken. Not always firewall related. There are companies like Zyxel that ship broken router too. For example the Zyxel 681

generic_osync_inode/ext2_fsync_inode still not safe

2001-04-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, As described earlier, code which wants to write an inode cannot rely on the I_DIRTY bits (on inode->i_state) being clean to guarantee that the inode and its dirty pages, if any, are safely synced on disk. The reason for that is sync_one() --- it cleans the I_DIRTY bits of an inode, sets

Re: why can't include /sys/types and /linux/fs.h in the same file

2001-04-14 Thread Philip Blundell
>#include >#include >int main () >{ >; // contains no C programs, >} >and give the command " cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include to compiler >the program . You can't mix environments. Either you're building part of the kernel, in which case you need to use -D__KERNEL__ and headers,

why can't include /sys/types and /linux/fs.h in the same file

2001-04-14 Thread vivid_liou
Dear All: I wrote a very small program as following : #include #include int main () { ; // contains no C programs, } and give the command " cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include to compiler the program . A lot of parser error messages show on the screen . Does anybody know why ? - To

Re: [PATCH- new driver] Maxi Radio FM 2 driver (GemTek) (3)

2001-04-14 Thread Fabien CHEVALIER
I can't send any attachment to the list, what's wrong? I got this mail : // Norton AntiVirus quarantined an attachment in a message you sent. De : NAV for Microsoft Exchange-EXCHANGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : 'Fabien CHEVALIER' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : Sat, 14 Apr 2001

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 20:11 schrieb Tim Moore: > Try 'hdparm -tT' with simultaneous /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3. This gives > you a baseline on the actual partitions involved. hdparm -tT simultanous on /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3: /dev/hda3: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.29 seconds

[PATCH- new driver] Maxi Radio FM 2 driver (GemTek) (2)

2001-04-14 Thread Fabien CHEVALIER
>Hi, >I've wrote this driver for my Maxi Radio Fm 2 card. > i hope it can be usefull for somebody. >This card uses a GemTek chip, but the GemTek driver wasn't working very well >: >the card was left uninitialized, and so it didn't mute. >I didn't wrote a patch for the GemTek driver because the

module load/unload race protection?

2001-04-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Does the kernel's module loader (kernel/module.c, not kmod) protect adequately against concurrent load/load or load/unload requests? The question applies to both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. I'm trying to track down a problem where a user using a RedHat 2.2.17-14 SMP kernel managed to trigger a

Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

2001-04-14 Thread Detlev Offenbach
Hi Alan, thanks for the reply. Am Freitag, 13. April 2001 15:08 schrieb Alan Cox: > > I have a problem using my MO-Drive under kernel 2.4.3. I have several > > disks formated with a VFAT filesystem. Under kernel 2.2.19 everything > > works fine. Under kernel 2.4.3 I cannot write anything to the

Re: SW-RAID0 Performance problems

2001-04-14 Thread Andreas Peter
Am Samstag, 14. April 2001 09:04 schrieb David Rees: > OK, so it's not the RAID setup. There's two things that can cause this. > One is that DMA is turned off (what does hdparm /dev/hda and hdparm > /dev/hdc show?), the second was that the drives are on the same channel > (which obviously

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > [...] > >If it turns out to be beneficial to run the child first (you > >can measure this), why not leave everything the same as it is > >now but have do_fork() "switch threads" internally ? > > That is an elegant idea. I doubt it. It

can't compile -ac6

2001-04-14 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac6/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c sys.c sys.c: In function `sys_gethostname': /usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac6/include/asm/rwsem-xadd.h:153:

[PATCH] prune_icache() changes

2001-04-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, The following patch should fix the OOM deadlock condition caused by prune_icache(), and improve its performance significantly. The OOM deadlock can happen because prune_icache() tries to sync _all_ dirty inodes (under PF_MEMALLOC) on the system before trying to free a portion of the clean

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-14 Thread Michael O'Reilly
"Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes, regarding the idea > of having do_fork() give all of the parent's remaining time slice to > the newly created child: > > >It could upset programs which use threads to handle > >relatively IO poor things

Re: [BUG] tmpfs and loop

2001-04-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <01041321112600.23961@oscar> you wrote: > oscar% sudo mount /tmp/disk /snap -oloop -text2 > ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument are you sure you have a working loop device? Try to verify it in a non tmpfs filesystem. > stat64("/dev/loop0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(7,

Re: SCSI tape corruption problem

2001-04-14 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Now try this: cd ~archive mt -f /dev/tapes/tape0 rewind tar cvf - . | gzip -9 | dd of=/dev/tapes/tape0 bs=32k and then: mt -f /dev/tapes/tape0 rewind dd if=/dev/tapes/tape0 bs=32k | gzip -d | tar --compare -v -f - The above is the proper way to talk to a tape drive through

Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update 2

2001-04-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Nate Eldredge wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, the 2.2 distributed with Mandrake 7.2 works fine ... :) > > > > Hmmm... 32 CONSECUTIVE bytes are a very peculiar error. What can it be? > > > > Still experimenting... > > I once ran into a problem with 32-byte

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