Re: i386/x86_64 segment register issuses (Re: PATCH: Fix x86 segment register access)

2005-03-30 Thread Pau Aliagas
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, H. J. Lu wrote: That is what the assembler generates, and should have generated, for "movw %ds,(%eax)" since Nov. 4, 2004. Could this be the reason for the reported slowdown in the last six months? Can you elaborate? There's an unexplained slowdown of kernel 2.6 detailed in

Re: i386/x86_64 segment register issuses (Re: PATCH: Fix x86 segment register access)

2005-03-30 Thread Pau Aliagas
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, H. J. Lu wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:57:28AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: There is no such an instruction of "movl %ds,(%eax)". The old assembler accepts it and turns it into "movw %ds,(%eax)". I disagree. Violently. As does the old assembler, which does not turn "mov"

Re: i386/x86_64 segment register issuses (Re: PATCH: Fix x86 segment register access)

2005-03-30 Thread Pau Aliagas
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, H. J. Lu wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:57:28AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: There is no such an instruction of movl %ds,(%eax). The old assembler accepts it and turns it into movw %ds,(%eax). I disagree. Violently. As does the old assembler, which does not turn mov into

Re: i386/x86_64 segment register issuses (Re: PATCH: Fix x86 segment register access)

2005-03-30 Thread Pau Aliagas
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, H. J. Lu wrote: That is what the assembler generates, and should have generated, for movw %ds,(%eax) since Nov. 4, 2004. Could this be the reason for the reported slowdown in the last six months? Can you elaborate? There's an unexplained slowdown of kernel 2.6 detailed in this

processes stuck in D state

2001-04-04 Thread Pau Aliagas
Since 2.2.4-ac28 and 2.4.3 I keep on getting processes in D state that I cannot kill, usually mozilla or nautilus which use a large amount of RAM. Today is galeon: A ps -eo pid,stat,pcpu,nwchan,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o args shows the following: 11520 D 0.0 105db1 down_write_failed

processes stuck in D state

2001-04-04 Thread Pau Aliagas
Since 2.2.4-ac28 and 2.4.3 I keep on getting processes in D state that I cannot kill, usually mozilla or nautilus which use a large amount of RAM. Today is galeon: A ps -eo pid,stat,pcpu,nwchan,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o args shows the following: 11520 D 0.0 105db1 down_write_failed

Re: 2.4.3-pre8 xircom_tulip_cb missing symbols

2001-03-28 Thread Pau Aliagas
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, David Brownell wrote: > Same problem shows up with most of the USB network > drivers too. /proc/ksyms has the macro-wrapped version > of those names, not the mangled one. > > Haven't established whether there's a problem when these > drivers are statically linked. I've

Re: 2.4.3-pre8 xircom_tulip_cb missing symbols

2001-03-28 Thread Pau Aliagas
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, David Brownell wrote: Same problem shows up with most of the USB network drivers too. /proc/ksyms has the macro-wrapped version of those names, not the mangled one. Haven't established whether there's a problem when these drivers are statically linked. I've been sent

2.4.2-ac26 -> processes in D state

2001-03-27 Thread Pau Aliagas
I've tried 2.4.2-ac26 to test the new xircom_cb driver but I have had to reboot on 2.4.3-pre7 as some processes got stuck on D state. The processes were large apps: once nautilus and once mozilla. I couldn't get any other information. Pau - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

2.4.2-ac26 - processes in D state

2001-03-27 Thread Pau Aliagas
I've tried 2.4.2-ac26 to test the new xircom_cb driver but I have had to reboot on 2.4.3-pre7 as some processes got stuck on D state. The processes were large apps: once nautilus and once mozilla. I couldn't get any other information. Pau - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: pcmcia-issues with 2.2.18 & 2.4.0

2001-02-12 Thread Pau Aliagas
On 13 Feb 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: > I have a Xircom Combo CardBus (32 bit) 10/100 Ethernet Card + 56k > Modem (didn't try the modem part) that I have not been able to run > under 2.2.18 or 2.4.0. The weird part is that everything seems to load > fine, and I am able to configure the card with

Re: pcmcia-issues with 2.2.18 2.4.0

2001-02-12 Thread Pau Aliagas
On 13 Feb 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: I have a Xircom Combo CardBus (32 bit) 10/100 Ethernet Card + 56k Modem (didn't try the modem part) that I have not been able to run under 2.2.18 or 2.4.0. The weird part is that everything seems to load fine, and I am able to configure the card with an

missing symbols in prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Pau Aliagas
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/net/irda/toshoboe.o depmod: __bad_udelay depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/video/atyfb.o depmod: __bad_udelay Pau - To unsubscribe from this list: send

missing symbols in prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Pau Aliagas
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/net/irda/toshoboe.o depmod: __bad_udelay depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/video/atyfb.o depmod: __bad_udelay Pau - To unsubscribe from this list: send