Re: mm: gpf in find_vma

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Merillat
Resent due to Thunderbird completely mangling it the first time around: (Apologies if this is a third copy, gmail told me it didn't send) On 09/07/2013 05:32 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running latest > -next kernel, I've > stumbled

Re: mm: gpf in find_vma

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Merillat
On 09/07/2013 05:32 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running latest > -next kernel, I've > stumbled on the following: > > The disassembly is: > > /* Check the cache first. */ > /* (Cache hit rate is typically around 35%.)

Re: mm: gpf in find_vma

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Merillat
Resent due to Thunderbird completely mangling it the first time around: On 09/07/2013 05:32 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running latest > -next kernel, I've > stumbled on the following: > > The disassembly is: > > /* Check

Re: mm: gpf in find_vma

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Merillat
Resent due to Thunderbird completely mangling it the first time around: On 09/07/2013 05:32 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: Hi all, While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running latest -next kernel, I've stumbled on the following: The disassembly is: /* Check the cache

Re: mm: gpf in find_vma

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Merillat
On 09/07/2013 05:32 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: Hi all, While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running latest -next kernel, I've stumbled on the following: The disassembly is: /* Check the cache first. */ /* (Cache hit rate is typically around 35%.) */

Re: mm: gpf in find_vma

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Merillat
Resent due to Thunderbird completely mangling it the first time around: (Apologies if this is a third copy, gmail told me it didn't send) On 09/07/2013 05:32 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: Hi all, While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running latest -next kernel, I've stumbled on the

IO stalls on one disk stall entire system

2012-09-01 Thread Dan Merillat
I have a known-broken WD15EADS, which has the hilariously terrible 1000ms IO response time. Yes, that's the right number of zeros. I'm using it as a convenient way to hunt down a general feeling of unresponsiveness under disk load In this case, the failing drive is mounted to /backup, and I'm

IO stalls on one disk stall entire system

2012-09-01 Thread Dan Merillat
I have a known-broken WD15EADS, which has the hilariously terrible 1000ms IO response time. Yes, that's the right number of zeros. I'm using it as a convenient way to hunt down a general feeling of unresponsiveness under disk load In this case, the failing drive is mounted to /backup, and I'm

Re: [37/50] Fix inet_diag OOPS.

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Merillat
On 9/24/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > netlink_run_queue() doesn't handle multiple processes processing the > queue concurrently. Serialize queue processing in inet_diag to fix > a oops in netlink_rcv_skb caused by netlink_run_queue passing a > NULL for the skb. I just got this one on

Re: [37/50] Fix inet_diag OOPS.

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Merillat
On 9/24/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: netlink_run_queue() doesn't handle multiple processes processing the queue concurrently. Serialize queue processing in inet_diag to fix a oops in netlink_rcv_skb caused by netlink_run_queue passing a NULL for the skb. I just got this one on

reset during bootup - solved

2007-08-12 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/11/07, Dan Merillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one is going to be fun, since it's a hard reset back to bios, no > OOPS or anything shown. It may be about the time RadeonFB kicks in, > but it's impossible to tell. I'd guess 15-20 lines into dmesg. > > I'm in the

reset during bootup - solved

2007-08-12 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/11/07, Dan Merillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one is going to be fun, since it's a hard reset back to bios, no OOPS or anything shown. It may be about the time RadeonFB kicks in, but it's impossible to tell. I'd guess 15-20 lines into dmesg. I'm in the process of bisecting

reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)

2007-08-11 Thread Dan Merillat
This one is going to be fun, since it's a hard reset back to bios, no OOPS or anything shown. It may be about the time RadeonFB kicks in, but it's impossible to tell. I'd guess 15-20 lines into dmesg. I'm in the process of bisecting, currently 94c18227..d23cf676. Any guesses of a specific

reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)

2007-08-11 Thread Dan Merillat
This one is going to be fun, since it's a hard reset back to bios, no OOPS or anything shown. It may be about the time RadeonFB kicks in, but it's impossible to tell. I'd guess 15-20 lines into dmesg. I'm in the process of bisecting, currently 94c18227..d23cf676. Any guesses of a specific

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/1/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, this does not use indefinite stack. > > loop will schedule each request to be handled by a kernel thread, so > requests to 'loop' are serialised, never stacked. > > In 2.6.22, generic_make_request detects and serialises recursive calls, > so

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/1/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:33:58 +0200 > Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tweaking kernel ptes is prohibitive during clone() because that's > > kernel memory and it would require a flush tlb all with IPIs that > > won't scale (IPIs are

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/1/07, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:33:58 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tweaking kernel ptes is prohibitive during clone() because that's kernel memory and it would require a flush tlb all with IPIs that won't scale (IPIs are really the

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Merillat
On 8/1/07, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, this does not use indefinite stack. loop will schedule each request to be handled by a kernel thread, so requests to 'loop' are serialised, never stacked. In 2.6.22, generic_make_request detects and serialises recursive calls, so unlimited

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Merillat
On 7/31/07, Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, what I had did only that, so it was still a matter of probabilities... How expensive would it be to allocate two , then use the MMU mark the second page unwritable? Hardware wise it should be possible, (for constant 4k pagesizes, I have

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Merillat
On 7/31/07, Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, what I had did only that, so it was still a matter of probabilities... How expensive would it be to allocate two , then use the MMU mark the second page unwritable? Hardware wise it should be possible, (for constant 4k pagesizes, I have not

Re: sata_promise disk error 2.6.22-rc5 with hrt1 patch

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Merillat
On 6/24/07, Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (cc: linux-ide added) The 300 TX4 model is causing transient errors for several people, and we don't yet know why. In your case, port_status 0x1000 means that "host bus is busy more than 256 clock cycles for every ATA I/O transfer"

Re: sata_promise disk error 2.6.22-rc5 with hrt1 patch

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Merillat
On 6/24/07, Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (cc: linux-ide added) The 300 TX4 model is causing transient errors for several people, and we don't yet know why. In your case, port_status 0x1000 means that host bus is busy more than 256 clock cycles for every ATA I/O transfer

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-15 Thread Dan Merillat
For raid5 on an array with more than 3 drive, if you attempt to write a single block, it will: - read the current value of the block, and the parity block. - "subtract" the old value of the block from the parity, and "add" the new value. - write out the new data and the new parity. If the

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-15 Thread Dan Merillat
For raid5 on an array with more than 3 drive, if you attempt to write a single block, it will: - read the current value of the block, and the parity block. - subtract the old value of the block from the parity, and add the new value. - write out the new data and the new parity. If the

2.6.20-rc4 gfs2 bug

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Merillat
Running 2.6.20-rc4 _WITH_ the following patch: (Shouldn't be the issue, but just in case, I'm listing it here) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:03:57 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fileserver 2.6.20-rc4MAX_ARGS

2.6.20-rc4 gfs2 bug

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Merillat
Running 2.6.20-rc4 _WITH_ the following patch: (Shouldn't be the issue, but just in case, I'm listing it here) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:03:57 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux fileserver 2.6.20-rc4MAX_ARGS #4

Re: AMI MegaRAID support in 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-20 Thread Dan Merillat
> (please cc: me any response, I only keep up with linux-kernel via the archives) Dan Merillat writes: > Apparently the chip is too new for driver version 1.07b, (not recognized > at all by the kernel) and 1.14g has the problems I'm going over here. An update... driver version 1e0

Re: AMI MegaRAID support in 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-20 Thread Dan Merillat
(please cc: me any response, I only keep up with linux-kernel via the archives) Dan Merillat writes: Apparently the chip is too new for driver version 1.07b, (not recognized at all by the kernel) and 1.14g has the problems I'm going over here. An update... driver version 1e08 (stupid

AMI MegaRAID support in 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-19 Thread Dan Merillat
(please cc: me any response, I only keep up with linux-kernel via the archives) I see pre4 has an updated megaraid.c... It Just Don't Work(tm) I thought it might be a part of Alan's merges, but it's not in the -ac tree. Linus, who sent you this patch? Recognizes the controller, accesses my

AMI MegaRAID support in 2.4.3-pre4

2001-03-19 Thread Dan Merillat
(please cc: me any response, I only keep up with linux-kernel via the archives) I see pre4 has an updated megaraid.c... It Just Don't Work(tm) I thought it might be a part of Alan's merges, but it's not in the -ac tree. Linus, who sent you this patch? Recognizes the controller, accesses my

Re: 2.4.0/2.4.1 crashes in ext2

2001-02-05 Thread Dan Merillat
Alan Cox writes: > > Ok, here's the crash I'm getting in 2.4.0. Same thing is happening in 2.4. 1, > > but It's dying harder so getting syslog info out is tougher. > > What I/O subsystem Adaptec 2940, although it appears to have been spontainous PCI bus death. I've never seen a system die

3 more traces, 2.4.1 this time.

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Managed to get 2.4.1 to Oops without locking up entirely: I have no idea what's causing this... I just mkfs'ed all the drives fresh, so there shouldn't be any filesystem corruption. Ideas? Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d8958100 c0130704 *pde = Oops:

2.4.0/2.4.1 crashes in ext2

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Ok, here's the crash I'm getting in 2.4.0. Same thing is happening in 2.4.1, but It's dying harder so getting syslog info out is tougher. Looks like it's trying to write WAY past the end of a drive (from some messages that unfortunatly did not get logged, but were scrolling on the screen) but

2.4.0/2.4.1 crashes in ext2

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Ok, here's the crash I'm getting in 2.4.0. Same thing is happening in 2.4.1, but It's dying harder so getting syslog info out is tougher. Looks like it's trying to write WAY past the end of a drive (from some messages that unfortunatly did not get logged, but were scrolling on the screen) but

3 more traces, 2.4.1 this time.

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Managed to get 2.4.1 to Oops without locking up entirely: I have no idea what's causing this... I just mkfs'ed all the drives fresh, so there shouldn't be any filesystem corruption. Ideas? Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d8958100 c0130704 *pde = Oops:

No Subject

2001-01-14 Thread Dan Merillat
Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:372! Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: invalid operand: Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: CPU:0 Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: EIP:0010:[clear_inode+51/228] Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: eax:

No Subject

2001-01-14 Thread Dan Merillat
Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:372! Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: invalid operand: Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: CPU:0 Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: EIP:0010:[clear_inode+51/228] Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Jan 15 00:09:55 news kernel: eax:

IDE hang when using v4l (bttv) on all kernels.

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Merillat
I've had this problem for a while now, reported it back in 2.3.x somewhere. I havn't needed v4l so I ignored it. Playing with my bttv again and having a lot of trouble After some (random) amount of frame grabs, my system loses. Badly. ethernet quits forwarding, IDE refuses to respond... All

IDE hang when using v4l (bttv) on all kernels.

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Merillat
I've had this problem for a while now, reported it back in 2.3.x somewhere. I havn't needed v4l so I ignored it. Playing with my bttv again and having a lot of trouble After some (random) amount of frame grabs, my system loses. Badly. ethernet quits forwarding, IDE refuses to respond... All