Re: USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT

2001-06-05 Thread John Chris Wren
Sigh. What do half the answers always show up seconds after clicking 'Send'? I see there is a FILL_URB_INT macro in linux/usb.h, but the only things using it seem to be drivers (as opposed to usbstress, libusb, etc). The ioctl call supports USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB, but passing a

Re: SCSI is as SCSI don't...

2001-06-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:08:04PM -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: > The basic effect is that the kernel will not load. Something breaks hard > in it. Any clue on what the last thing printed to the kernel log is? Hardware you have? .config for the kernel? Come on Alan, I know you can give better bug

Re: USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT

2001-06-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:31:41AM -0400, John Chris Wren wrote: > > I was designing a USB based device and was looking through the 2.4.5 kernel > code, and noticed that while it supports bulk, iso, and control types, there > is no support for interrupt types. A grep through the entire

USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT

2001-06-05 Thread John Chris Wren
I was designing a USB based device and was looking through the 2.4.5 kernel code, and noticed that while it supports bulk, iso, and control types, there is no support for interrupt types. A grep through the entire kernel source code reveals that USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_INTERRUPT defined in

Re: SCSI is as SCSI don't...

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Olsen
Forgot to list my working environment... Redhat 7.1 patched to pretty close to the latest. (As of a week ago or so.) P-III 600 with 256 megs of ram and lots of disk, so resource starvation is not an issue. (Unless something got REALLY big in the last few patches.) On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Alan

SCSI is as SCSI don't...

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Olsen
I am trying to get 2.4.5 and/or 2.4.5-ac9 working. Both are choking on compile with an odd error message or four... In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac9/include/linux/raid/md.h:50, from ll_rw_blk.c:30: /usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac9/include/linux/raid/md_k.h: In function

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
Quite positive it's the right map file. I used -m and specified the exact file. David Jeff Garzik wrote: >David Ford wrote: > >> >>EIP; c01269f9<= >>Trace; c01b1021 >>Trace; c01b1c43 >>Trace; c01b2643 >>Trace; c0137fc0 <__emul_lookup_dentry+a4/fc> >>Trace; c0138871 >>Trace;

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Ford wrote: > >>EIP; c01269f9<= > Trace; c01b1021 > Trace; c01b1c43 > Trace; c01b2643 > Trace; c0137fc0 <__emul_lookup_dentry+a4/fc> > Trace; c0138871 > Trace; c0167ccb > Trace; c012e389 > Trace; c012e2c2 This trace looks corrupted to me... are you sure that System.map for

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread David Ford
2.4.5-ac8 has a brokenness about it. sshd stalled in [down] with the following, subsequent sshd attempts which needed a tty resulted in D state the same as the first: invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010086 eax:

Re: Network Performance Testing Summary

2001-06-05 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:52:03AM +, John William wrote: > > The curse of the HP Vectra XU 5/90 strikes again! > > What is interesting is that I tried the NetGear FA310, FA311, 3COM 3cSOHO > and 3C905C-TX cards and both the receive and transmit speeds (measured with > both iperf and

[PATCH] fix for initrd panic in 2.4.5

2001-06-05 Thread James Bottomley
Not many people have seen this, but the i_bdev field in fake_inode in ioctl_by_bdev() is uninitialised. Since this field is dereferenced by BLKFLSBUF in rd_ioctl, it can lead to a panic (depending on what happens to be on the stack). The attached fixes the problem and clears all the fields

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-05 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > > > > Because the 2.4 VM is so broken, and > > because my machines are frequently deeply swapped, > > The swapoff algorithms in 2.2 and 2.4 are basically identical. > The problem *appears* worse in 2.4 because it uses lots

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-05 Thread Derek Glidden
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:16:30PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > > > > Because the 2.4 VM is so broken, and > > because my machines are frequently deeply swapped, > > The swapoff algorithms in 2.2 and 2.4 are basically identical. > The problem *appears* worse in 2.4

Network Performance Testing Summary

2001-06-05 Thread John William
This is a follow up message to the original "Abysmal Receive Performance" message. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me with suggestions. Well, after poking around, I eventually narrowed the problem down to the fact that the system BIOS did not enable PCI->RAM write posting. After I enabled

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-05 Thread Andrew Morton
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > > Because the 2.4 VM is so broken, and > because my machines are frequently deeply swapped, The swapoff algorithms in 2.2 and 2.4 are basically identical. The problem *appears* worse in 2.4 because it uses lots more swap. > they can sometimes take over 30 minutes to

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-05 Thread Russell Leighton
I also need some 2.4 features and can't really goto 2.2. I would have to agree that the VM is too broken for production...looking forward to the work that (hopefully) will be in 2.4.6 to resolve these issues. "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Derek Glidden wrote: > > > > > After

IP ToS routing problem and fix

2001-06-05 Thread Mark Frazer
Hi Alexey. I've been having a problem getting ToS routing working properly, well, the way I wanted it to. Basically, it would not route using anything except the RFC 1349 ToS settings. I've prepared the attached patch to add a new configuration option to allow routing based on RFC 2474

Lockup in 2.4.5-ac2

2001-06-05 Thread Glenn Shannon
Hi all! Enjoying the -ac2 kernel except for one minor thing: it locks up. Problem occurs whenever large amounts of data are transferred across the network. This includes web pages, iso cd images, and compressed files. I can transfer large amounts of data from the internet and to the internet

SysRq bug for tErm and kIll with init

2001-06-05 Thread Adam Slattery
Good evening, The problem is annoying, the fix is trivial. I am not subscribed to the list, so PLEASE CC ME when replying. Summary: Magic SysRq behaves improperly with tErm and kIll in regards to how it deals with init. killalL is fine (ignoring the 0x8000 "Ugly hack" :) Description: When

Re: forcibly unmap pages in driver?

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Maas
>> Later, the program calls the ioctl() again to set a smaller >> buffer size, or closes the file descriptor. At this point >> I'd like to shrink the buffer or free it completely. But I >> can't assume that the program will be nice and munmap() the >> region for me > Look at drivers/char/drm,

Re: kswapd and MM overload fix

2001-06-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > that would fix it too indeed, OTOH I think changing the empty zone > handling in the kernel is beyond the scope of the bugfix (grep for > zone->size in mm/*.c :). Certainly making empty zones transparent to the > vm sounds much cleaner from a

Re: kswapd and MM overload fix

2001-06-05 Thread Roger Larsson
On Wednesday66 0666 6 June 2001 01:16, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Anybody running on a machine with some zone empty (<16Mbyte boxes (PDAs), > > <1G x86 with highmem enabled kernel or an arch with an iommu like alpha) > > probably noticed that the MM

Re: kswapd and MM overload fix

2001-06-05 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:16:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > but I think we should also make the init code clear the zone data for > empty zones so that these kinds of "use uninitialized stuff" things cannot > happen. No? that would fix it too indeed, OTOH I think changing the empty zone

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-05 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Derek Glidden wrote: > > After reading the messages to this list for the last couple of weeks and > playing around on my machine, I'm convinced that the VM system in 2.4 is > still severely broken. > > This isn't trying to test extreme low-memory pressure, just how the >

Re: forcibly unmap pages in driver?

2001-06-05 Thread Pete Wyckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > My driver uses a variable-size DMA buffer that it shares with user-space; I > provide an ioctl() to choose the buffer size and allocate the buffer. Say > the user program chooses a large buffer size, and mmap()s the entire buffer. > Later, the program calls the ioctl()

Re: kswapd and MM overload fix

2001-06-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Anybody running on a machine with some zone empty (<16Mbyte boxes (PDAs), > <1G x86 with highmem enabled kernel or an arch with an iommu like alpha) > probably noticed that the MM was unusable on those hardware > configurations (as I also

Re: Does anybody know, where is the MIPS linux mailing list ?

2001-06-05 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:21:50PM -0400, Alexandr Andreev wrote: > Hi all! I need to ask some questions about linux-2.4.3 for MIPS. [EMAIL PROTECTED], subscription handled via majordomo. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: forcibly unmap pages in driver?

2001-06-05 Thread Dan Maas
> That seems a bit perverse. How will the poor userspace program know > not to access the pages you have yanked away from it? If you plan > to kill it, better to do that directly. If you plan to signal it > that the mapping is gone, it can just call munmap() itself. Thanks Pete. I will

Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still need fixing to lock against format changes during a

kswapd and MM overload fix

2001-06-05 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Anybody running on a machine with some zone empty (<16Mbyte boxes (PDAs), <1G x86 with highmem enabled kernel or an arch with an iommu like alpha) probably noticed that the MM was unusable on those hardware configurations (as I also incidentally mentioned a few times on l-k in the last months).

Re: forcibly unmap pages in driver?

2001-06-05 Thread Pete Wyckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am writing a device driver that, like many others, exposes a shared memory > region to user-space via mmap(). The region is allocated with vmalloc(), the > pages are marked reserved, and the user-space mapping is implemented with > remap_page_range(). > > In my

Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-05 Thread Derek Glidden
After reading the messages to this list for the last couple of weeks and playing around on my machine, I'm convinced that the VM system in 2.4 is still severely broken. This isn't trying to test extreme low-memory pressure, just how the system handles recovering from going somewhat into swap,

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limitA

2001-06-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 23:00, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote: > > Swapping early causes many more problems than swapping late as > > extraneous seeks to the swap partiton severely degrade performance. > > That is not the case here at the spot in the

Re: reschedule_idle changes in ac kernels

2001-06-05 Thread Mike Kravetz
I ran the VolanoMark and TPC-H benchmarks on an 8 CPU system to observe the differences when changing the value at which preemptions are triggered. I used the 2.4.5 kernel as a basis and only changed the 'max_prio = ' statement in reschedule_idle() to change the preemption trigger threshold. In

HP scanner SCSI card with 53c400a

2001-06-05 Thread tomas . f
Hi I have an old SCSI card that came with old HP scanner. It contains NCR 53c400a chip, one 3pin jumper and some PAL logics. I tried modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_53c400a=1 ncr_addr=0x280 ncr_irq=255 as described in kernel docs, and it writes No device always. It works fine at address 0x280 under

[PATCH] more fs/super.c cleanups (5)

2001-06-05 Thread Alexander Viro
Chunk 5: * we put vfsmounts into hash, keyed by pair dentry/vfsmount of mountpoint. attach_mnt() and detach_mnt() do the obvious thing. * follow_down() and friends do lookup in that hash, instead of traversing ->d_vfsmnt. It kills scalability problem with many parallel trees (if

Re: 2.4.5-ac8 hardlocks when going to standby

2001-06-05 Thread Remi Turk
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:37:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 2.4.5-ac[4678] all lock hard (no sysreq) when pushing my > > power-button (setup from the bios to go to standby) or > > when running apm --standby. (apm version 3.0final, RH6.2) > > apm --suspend works the way it should. > > > >

[PATCH] more fs/super.c cleanups (4)

2001-06-05 Thread Alexander Viro
Chunk 4: OK, this one is interesting. * new function - graft_tree(what, where). It does necessary locking and checks and mounts existing vfsmount on given point. Basically, it's the common part of mounting and binding. Checks are usual - mountpoint is not dead, we are not trying to mount

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limitA

2001-06-05 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Yes. If we start writing out sooner, we aren't stuck with pushing a > > ton of IO all at once and can use prudent limits. Not only because of > > potential allocation problems, but because our

[PATCH] more fs/super.c cleanups (3)

2001-06-05 Thread Alexander Viro
Chunk 3: Takes the normal mounting into a helper similar to do_loopback() et.al., makes do_mount() cleaner. Please, apply Al diff -urN S6-pre1-do_mount/fs/super.c S6-pre1-do_add_mount/fs/super.c ---

Re: lots of pppd (down) stall SMP linux-2.4.x

2001-06-05 Thread Rico Tudor
Try your test with "High Memory Support" disabled. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[PATCH] more fs/super.c fixes (2)

2001-06-05 Thread Alexander Viro
Chunk 2: Since all branches of do_mount() (mounting, binding, remounting) do the same thing (lookup of directory) we can take that lookup in the beginning of do_mount() and pass to do_loopback() and do_remount() nameidata instead of name. Please, apply

[PATCH] more fs/super.c cleanups (1)

2001-06-05 Thread Alexander Viro
Linus, here's the next series of fs/super.c cleanups, cut into small chunks. Patches are incremental. Chunk #1: Switches special case in do_umount() to do_remount_sb() (from do_remount()); takes all per-superblock steps of remount into remount_sb(). That will allow to clean the

2.4.5-ac8 hardlocks when going to standby

2001-06-05 Thread Remi Turk
Hi, 2.4.5-ac[4678] all lock hard (no sysreq) when pushing my power-button (setup from the bios to go to standby) or when running apm --standby. (apm version 3.0final, RH6.2) apm --suspend works the way it should. 2.4.5/2.4.6-pre1 don't hardlock. lspci -vvxxx output and .config are attached.

smp errors in 2.4!!

2001-06-05 Thread Manfred Spraul
> I encounter this compilation error: > /usr/x.c:2112: struct has no member named > "event_Rsmp_7b16c344" I assume you have a variable called 'event', and that name got replaced by a versioned symbol. Yes, 'event' is a global variable in the kernel ;-) Do you include in that file? I usually

PID's

2001-06-05 Thread android
This is probably a mundane question, but... Is there a way to recycle unused PID's without rebooting the kernel? So instead of the next available PID always getting larger and larger, just reset it to use the first unused PID after 1. Is this possible? -- Ted - To

Re: PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root

2001-06-05 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > > But the problem still remains. How do I make my /sbin/init run with PID 1 > > using initial ramdisk under the new root change mechanism? I don't want to > > use the old change_root mechanism... > > I had the same problem when doing some

Re: PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root

2001-06-05 Thread Ivan Vadovic
> > But the problem still remains. How do I make my /sbin/init run with PID 1 > > using initial ramdisk under the new root change mechanism? I don't want to > > use the old change_root mechanism... > > I had the same problem when doing some development for mkCDrec. > This project uses busybox,

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limit

2001-06-05 Thread Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Yes. If we start writing out sooner, we aren't stuck with pushing a > ton of IO all at once and can use prudent limits. Not only because of > potential allocation problems, but because our situation is changing > rapidly so small corrections done

smp errors in 2.4!!

2001-06-05 Thread jalaja devi
I encounter this compilation error: /usr/x.c:2112: struct has no member named "event_Rsmp_7b16c344" The structure has that field and I don't have the conflicting structure name anywhere in my code and in the system files too. The makefile uses sed and *.d files. Could anyone help me out as

Re: patch for ide.2.4.5-ac8

2001-06-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
Thanks Todd, Everyone knows that I was not an english major ;-) Cheers, On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Todd M. Roy wrote: > Andre, > Minor typo fix: > --- ide-dma.c.~1~ Tue Jun 5 14:39:06 2001 > +++ ide-dma.c Tue Jun 5 15:04:54 2001 > @@ -708,15 +708,15 @@ > if ((!dma_base) &&

patch for ide.2.4.5-ac8

2001-06-05 Thread Todd M. Roy
Andre, Minor typo fix: --- ide-dma.c.~1~ Tue Jun 5 14:39:06 2001 +++ ide-dma.c Tue Jun 5 15:04:54 2001 @@ -708,15 +708,15 @@ if ((!dma_base) && (!second_chance)) { unsigned long set_bmiba = 0; second_chance++; - switch(dev->vender)

Re: kHTTPd hangs 2.4.5 boot when moduled

2001-06-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
"David Gordon (LMC)" wrote: > I found that when kHTTPd is compiled as a module, kernel 2.4.5 will hang > at boot. However, when kHTTPd is omitted or compiled into the kernel, > the boot is okay. This is very strange. Does your kernel do the same if you compile IPv6 as module and khttpd off ? -

Re: the value of PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY

2001-06-05 Thread Tsafrir Dan
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: > > am I correct ? > > and if so, is this what the authors meant, or did they simply forget > > to update PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY's value when moving from 2.2 to 2.4 ? > > I don't believe anyone has proposed a relation between nice > and cpu-affinity; the

[PATCH] reiserfs leak in errors paths

2001-06-05 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, A few of the reiserfs errors paths for i/o error neglect to release buffer heads. This patch makes sure things get released properly and if dirty buffers were prepared for the log, also makes sure the dirty bits are reset (by using unfix_nodes intead of pathrelse). Vladimir

RE: kHTTPd hangs 2.4.5 boot when moduled

2001-06-05 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
> I found that when kHTTPd is compiled as a module, kernel > 2.4.5 will hang ... > I run an Intel RH7.0 machine. Please note the following discrepancy between RH70 and the minimal required versions of the following 3 packages (I am ommitting others, like pci or reiserfs stuff, as these seem

Re: TRG vger.timpanogas.org hacked

2001-06-05 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:30:51AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:05:34AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > is curious as to how these folks did this. They exploited BIND 8.2.3 > > > to get in and logs indicated that someone was using a "back door" in > > Bind runs as

kHTTPd hangs 2.4.5 boot when moduled

2001-06-05 Thread David Gordon (LMC)
Hi CC at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if reply I found that when kHTTPd is compiled as a module, kernel 2.4.5 will hang at boot. However, when kHTTPd is omitted or compiled into the kernel, the boot is okay. I run an Intel RH7.0 machine. David Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

ethertap

2001-06-05 Thread Gábor Lénárt
Hi! According /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ethertap.txt I've tried to use ethertap for my experimental user space TCP/IP implementation testing. I'm using kernel 2.2.19 (UP). I load ethertap kernel module and configure it with ifconfig. Nice, ping works, ifconfig show tap0.

Re: [OOPS] 245ac7 - ncr53c8xx && reiserfs

2001-06-05 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, June 05, 2001 03:00:40 PM -0400 Carlos E Gorges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I get some problems w/ 2.4.5-ac7, ncr53c8xx w/ 2.4.4-ac18 works fine. > > I gave a small looked on problem .. > the problem apparently is w/ ncr53c8xx driver ( who accuses timeout ), > and

[PATCH 2.4.5] Fix NFS Oops w.r.t. unhashed inodes

2001-06-05 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi Linus, One consequence of the removal of the 'put_inode: force_delete' made for 2.4.5 mmap() is that we now use the 'magic nfs' codepath in iput(). The result is that when we unhash inodes due to staleness in nfs_revalidate_inode(), we now end up calling clear_inode() in iput without first

Problems with ipx on Kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-05 Thread Hans Freitag
Hi, is it possible that the novell ipx protokoll is a little bit broken on Kernel 2.4.5? -schnipp-- if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.5; fi depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in\ /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/ipx/ipx.o depmod: unregister_8022_client

Re: 2.4.6-pre1 unresolved symbols

2001-06-05 Thread Shawn Starr
Thanks, Patch applied. On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Shawn Starr wrote: > > > > I have noticed unresolves symbols for the netfilter modules. this occurs > > durning depmod -a. > > Note they are the same unresolved symbol. > > Ingo Molnar has posted a patch for this, entitled >

Re: [patch] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-05 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:11:01PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Iterating over memory areas twice is ugly. Hmm, yes. However, your patch isn't pretty, too. You may check the same area twice, and won't satisfy requested address > TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE. What do you think about following?

Re: Missing cache flush.

2001-06-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 14:57, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I don't know about the CRIS (never heard of it, what is it?) I wondered about that too. From Documentation/cris: What is CRIS ? -- CRIS is an acronym for 'Code Reduced Instruction Set'. It is the CPU architecture in Axis

Re: semaphores and noatomic flag

2001-06-05 Thread davide.rossetti
whould it be possible to use pthread semaphore/mutex/cond_var on shared-via-mmap() chunks of memory instead ? regards -- +--+ |Rossetti Davide INFN - Sezione Roma I - gruppo V, prog. APEmille| | web:

RE: TRG vger.timpanogas.org hacked

2001-06-05 Thread Brian Wellington
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Randal, Phil wrote: > Bind 8.2.4 was released on May 17th, with the standard > comment "BIND 8.2.4 is the latest version of ISC BIND 8. > We strongly recommend that you upgrade to BIND 9.1 or, if > that is not immediately possible, to BIND 8.2.4 due to > certain security

Re: Agpgart for AMD761

2001-06-05 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It seems to be working just fine here (kernel 2.4.5), provided that the "agp_try_unsupported=1" option is specified. This tells the driver to assume that it behaves like known chipsets from the same vendor. On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:00:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limit

2001-06-05 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Maybe we can have the best of both worlds. Is it possible to allocate the BH > early and then defer the IO? The idea being to make IO possible without having > to allocate. This would let us remove the async page limit but would ensure > we

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limit

2001-06-05 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Zlatko, > > > > I've read your patch to remove nr_async_pages limit while reading an > > archive on the web. (I have to figure out why lkml is not being delivered > > correctly to me...) > > > >

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limit

2001-06-05 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Exactly. And when we reach a low watermark of memory, we start writting > out the anonymous memory. > Hm, my observations are a little bit different. I find that writeouts happen sooner than the moment we reach low watermark, and many times

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limit

2001-06-05 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zlatko, > > I've read your patch to remove nr_async_pages limit while reading an > archive on the web. (I have to figure out why lkml is not being delivered > correctly to me...) > > Quoting your message: > > "That artificial limit hurts both

2.4.5-ac6: IDE deadlocks/bugs + unexpected IO-APIC

2001-06-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi ! I have an ABit VP6 (Dual PIII, infamous VIA686, onboard IDE + onboard HPT370). This is a new machine, so I didn't test it on several kernels. Using 2.4.4-ac11 (SMP), it started to deadlock really often when accessing the new disk (Seagate Barracuda, udma5, big reiserfs partition + swap) I

Re: strange network hangs using kdb

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:20:25 -0400, John Jasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:20:26 -0400, >> John Jasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >When we use kdb on one of the systems, the other system stops receiving >> >packets. >> >> man

[PATCH] reiserfs mark_journal_new

2001-06-05 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, The 2.2.x reiserfs journal code marks newly allocated metadata so that if it is freed in the same transaction (common due to balancing), it can immediately be reused as a data block. It also allows faster freeing for these blocks. This tested patch enables that code for 2.4.x, Alan

Re: Missing cache flush.

2001-06-05 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:29:28AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - even when it works, it is necessarily very very very slow. Not to be > >used lightly. As you can imagine, the work-around is even slower. > > i've measured it once, IIRC it was around 10-15 millisecs on normal > pentiums,

Re: Missing cache flush.

2001-06-05 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:57:03AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I don't know about the CRIS (never heard of it, what is it?), but on > an Athlon when benchmarking stuff, I could still see L1 cache hits > from data that was 15 seconds old under certain work-loads (obviously > not gcc!). Does

Re: PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root

2001-06-05 Thread W. Michael Petullo
>>> Well, I upgraded and found pivot_root and the problem is that how do I make >>> init run with PID 1. My linuxrc gets PID 7. >>> >>> 1 ?00:03:05 swapper >>> ... >>> 7 ?00:00:00 linuxrc >>> >>> init doesn't like running with any other PID than 1. I could probably

Re: 2.4.6-pre1 unresolved symbols

2001-06-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Shawn Starr wrote: > > I have noticed unresolves symbols for the netfilter modules. this occurs > durning depmod -a. Note they are the same unresolved symbol. Ingo Molnar has posted a patch for this, entitled [patch] softirq-2.4.6-B4 or you can edit kernel/ksyms.c yourself, and add

Re: 2.4.6-pre1 unresolved symbols

2001-06-05 Thread Shawn Starr
I have noticed unresolves symbols for the netfilter modules. this occurs durning depmod -a. Shawn. On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, George Bonser wrote: > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.6-pre1/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o > depmod: do_softirq > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols

Re: meaning of vmalloc shortcut comment in fault.c

2001-06-05 Thread Brian Gerst
Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > Can someone elaborate on why it's bad to refer to tsk directly below (this > is a 2.4.5 change in x86) and why it's needed on x86 and not other archs.. > > What should I do for an arch that does not have a "cr3" machine register > to check with ? %cr3 is the page table

Re: Exporting new functions from kernel 2.2.14

2001-06-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Well, my rebuild kernel / reboot / recompile module just finished. Unfortunately, the printk warning was still there. I replaced the unconditional #define MODVERSIONS with #include #ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS #define MODVERSIONS #include #endif this is at the top of my source file. (before

Does anybody know, where is the MIPS linux mailing list ?

2001-06-05 Thread Alexandr Andreev
Hi all! I need to ask some questions about linux-2.4.3 for MIPS. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: Exporting new functions from kernel 2.2.14

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 10:10:26 -0700, Stephen Wille Padnos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Arthur had pointed out that modules.h should be included, then kernel.h. Is >there a place where I can find out more about header file order dependencies? With the existing design for module symbol versions,

Re: Missing cache flush.

2001-06-05 Thread Vipin Malik
Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > I'd agree that to be really certain, a "flush_dcache()" function > should be implemented and used when an erase finishes. Like David Miller > wrote somewhere in the thread, one way is to use your knowledge of the > arch's cache and do suitable dummy accesses to flush it,

Re: TRG vger.timpanogas.org hacked

2001-06-05 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:05:34AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > is curious as to how these folks did this. They exploited BIND 8.2.3 > > to get in and logs indicated that someone was using a "back door" in > Bind runs as root. It doesn't have to. In fact, I just set up a RedHat 6.2

meaning of vmalloc shortcut comment in fault.c

2001-06-05 Thread Bjorn Wesen
Can someone elaborate on why it's bad to refer to tsk directly below (this is a 2.4.5 change in x86) and why it's needed on x86 and not other archs.. What should I do for an arch that does not have a "cr3" machine register to check with ? /BW vmalloc_fault: { /*

Re: Exporting new functions from kernel 2.2.14

2001-06-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
um. duh. Thanks. I guess it helps to know the right FM to R. :) Arthur had pointed out that modules.h should be included, then kernel.h. Is there a place where I can find out more about header file order dependencies? (damn - that sounds like a Microsoft help question) Keith Owens wrote: >

Re: Exporting new functions from kernel 2.2.14

2001-06-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Thanks. Actually, the symbols in question aren't in modules. The kernel is module enabled, but all drivers are being compiled in (this is for an embedded system). My external module (which needs to grab the timer interrupt) is in a separate source tree. Thanks for the printk info - I guess

can I call wake_up_interruptible_all from an interrupt service routine?

2001-06-05 Thread Bulent Abali
Interrupt service routine of a driver makes a wake_up_interruptible_all() call to wake up a kernel thread. Is that legitimate? Thanks for any advice you might have. please cc: your response to me if you decide to post to the mailing list. Bulent - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: linux-2.4.5[-ac8] warnings while compiling

2001-06-05 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Hello Leonid Mamtchenkov, Once you wrote about "linux-2.4.5[-ac8] warnings while compiling": LM> While compile kernel 2.4.5 or 2.4.5-ac8 I get lots of warning, which look like LM> this: LM> kernel.stderr start LM> In file included from

Re: TRG vger.timpanogas.org hacked

2001-06-05 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:07:05PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Connected to vger.timpanogas.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > SSH-1.5-1.2.27 > > Well known exploits downloadable at any of the better hacking sites. This _may_ be misleading. I had several boxes where I patched ssh

lots of pppd (down) stall SMP linux-2.4.x

2001-06-05 Thread Till Immanuel Patzschke
Hi folks, I have a pretty nasty problem w/ pppd (2.4.0) on SMP versions of 2.4.x (I've tried 2.4.0.SuSE to 2.4.4). I am running >25 pppds on a Dual-Pentium933, 3GB, Asus CUR-DLS motherboard (ServerWorks SE). The pppds are running fine (I am using pppoe plugin from Michael Ostrowski, and/or a

RE: Exporting new functions from kernel 2.2.14

2001-06-05 Thread Arthur Naseef
Steve: I still have not figured out the magic that creates the .ver files which would resolve your concern with the symbol versions, but I do know that you can edit the .ver file yourself (under /usr/src/linux/include/modules/) and add entries. This will eliminate the funny versioning, as in:

Re: USB requiring PCI

2001-06-05 Thread Bjorn Wesen
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know the details of the implementation, but the CRIS port > (ETRAX 100LX) has support for USB but no PCI. A builtin non-PCI USB-host controller, that is. And the driver is in the kernel so we do support it as well :) /BW > > > AC> o

uninterruptable sleep (usually IO)

2001-06-05 Thread 753 user
How can I kill such D state processes under 2.4.5? Have a bunch of "sleeping" mount requests, I can't even kill them. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - To

Agpgart for AMD761

2001-06-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was wondering what is the state of support for the AMD761 Northbridge chip, especially regarding agp operations since I don't see it listed in the kernel configuration for the AGPGart device. Please CC any answer to my address, since I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks in advance. Paolo

linux-2.4.5[-ac8] warnings while compiling

2001-06-05 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Hello All, While compile kernel 2.4.5 or 2.4.5-ac8 I get lots of warning, which look like this: kernel.stderr start In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac8/include/linux/raid/md.h:51, from init/main.c:25: /usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac8/include/linux/raid/md_k.h: In

Trident 9660 problem

2001-06-05 Thread Tomas Franke
Hi I have following problem: I have an old Olivetti computer as the router. After I upgraded it to 2.4.2 kernel (RedHat 7.1), the screen always blanks in the moment when it starts to write the boot messages. The screen is completely black and no signal on Hsync/Vsync on VGA conncetor. So the

IRQ conflicts

2001-06-05 Thread 753 user
>With 2.4.5 I *often* get kernel Oopses with IRQ >routing error messages. This never happend before >and the only one change was a a second network >card inserted into the mobo and changed kernel >from 2.4.3 to 2.4.5. As as wrote... Here is one of them, getting every 3 hours... CPU: 0 EIP:

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