Re: linux 2.6.20-rc1: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235!

2006-12-24 Thread Alex Romosan
Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex Romosan wrote: >> this is on a thinkpad t40, not sure if it means anything, but here it goes: >> >> kernel: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235! >> kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] >> kernel: PREEMPT >> kernel: Modules linked in: radeon drm binfmt_misc n

Re: linux 2.6.20-rc1: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235!

2006-12-24 Thread Jiri Slaby
Alex Romosan wrote: > this is on a thinkpad t40, not sure if it means anything, but here it goes: > > kernel: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235! > kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] > kernel: PREEMPT > kernel: Modules linked in: radeon drm binfmt_misc nfs sd_mod scsi_mod nfsd > exportfs lockd sunrpc

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Robert Hancock wrote: > > From what I've seen it appears that smartctl has the same problem, it was also > reporting the device didn't support SMART.. No, there were actually two different problems, and to confuse people, they had the same _symptoms_. Commit 0e75f9063f5c5

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > >Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were > > >apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So > > >I'll write a small summary - the problem is t

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Robert Hancock wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were > >apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So > >I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some > >fragile code to chec

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-19 Thread Robert Hancock
Jens Axboe wrote: Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some fragile code to check the sense info, and this commit: http://git.kernel.d

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:50, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > Before I proceed with the horrors of an -rc1 bisection, could somebody > > > send me the ADMA patches so I can eliminate those first? > > > > Run > > >

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Alan wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500 Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did I miss an alternate method of handling ftape devices, or are these old beasts now unsupported? I occasionally have to be able to handle that media, since the industrial device using ftape for control

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Dec 18 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > That said: Jens - I think 0e75f906 was a mistake. "blk_rq_unmap()" really > > should be passed the "struct bio", not the "struct request *". Right now > > it does something _really_ strange with requests with

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Dec 16 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said: Jens - I think 0e75f906 was a mistake. "blk_rq_unmap()" really > should be passed the "struct bio", not the "struct request *". Right now > it does something _really_ strange with requests with linked bio's, and I > don't think your and FUJ

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 December 2006 10:45, Stefan Richter wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 17 December 2006 20:05, Stefan Richter wrote: >>>What's missing in our implementation is that the use count of ohci1394 >>>goes up too once a "high-level driver" uses resources of a host driven >>>by ohci1394.

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 20:05, Stefan Richter wrote: >>What's missing in our implementation is that the use count of ohci1394 >>goes up too once a "high-level driver" uses resources of a host driven >>by ohci1394. > > This needs some tlc then I assume? Yes. It's now logge

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 December 2006 20:05, Stefan Richter wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> The camera has been turned back off, but yes, it works absolutely >> normally now. With no dv1394 in memory! >> >> Then with the camera on and kino controlling it: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod|grep 1394 >> raw1394

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Stefan Richter
Gene Heskett wrote: > The camera has been turned back off, but yes, it works absolutely normally > now. With no dv1394 in memory! > > Then with the camera on and kino controlling it: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod|grep 1394 > raw139432264 4 > ohci1394 39088 0 > iee

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 December 2006 15:21, Stefan Richter wrote: [...] >What if you prevent dv1394 from ever being loaded, or don't build it in >the first place? CONFIG_IEEE1394_DV1394=n How about '# CONFIG_IEEE1394_DV1394 is not set'? Hand edited the .config and fired off my makeit script, which does it

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Stefan Richter
(Cc linux1394-devel, for the record) Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 13:31, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Is your version of kino still using dv1394 or does it work without >> dv1394 loaded too? >> > AFAIK, its kino is 0.9.3. Ok, while kino is running I did a modprobe -rv > dc1394 an

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 December 2006 13:31, Stefan Richter wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >... > >> while I didn't try >> to capture a 2 hour movie, I did use kino to control the camera >> playback, rewind etc stuff for about 10 minutes and had no problems >> whatsoever. > >... > >> The only entry in the messag

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Stefan Richter
Gene Heskett wrote: ... > while I didn't try > to capture a 2 hour movie, I did use kino to control the camera playback, > rewind etc stuff for about 10 minutes and had no problems whatsoever. ... > The only entry in the messages log for all this was: > > Dec 17 12:47:13 coyote kernel: WARNING:

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 December 2006 22:17, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Thursday 14 December 2006 12:48, Stefan Richter wrote: >[...] > >>(Anyway, that's unrelated to Gene's issues.) > >And which I haven't had a chance to check yet, the camera is still in > the truck and I've been busier than a one legged man

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it > > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works > > again. > > > > So I think thi

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alistair John Strachan wrote: It could simply be that bisect isn't working here because it's actually broken by two separate patches. Out of bad luck, I've ended up singling out the one that already has a "fix", and the "real bug" hasn't been found. I guess I should repeat the bisection, and whe

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 16 December 2006 21:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it > > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works > > again. > > > > So I think thi

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > In total isolation, v2.6.19..0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e it > breaks. Reverting just 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, it works > again. > > So I think this is the source, but I can't explain why it "goes away" before

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-15 Thread Alan
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500 Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did I miss an alternate method of handling ftape devices, or are these > old beasts now unsupported? I occasionally have to be able to handle > that media, since the industrial device using ftape for control updates >

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there. I'm _really_ hoping that we can keep the 2.6.20 release calmer and without any of the dragging-out-due-to-core-changes that we've had lately. We didn't actually merge any really core changes here, with the bigg

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 December 2006 12:48, Stefan Richter wrote: [...] > >(Anyway, that's unrelated to Gene's issues.) And which I haven't had a chance to check yet, the camera is still in the truck and I've been busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest today. I did get 2.6.20-rc1 built

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Friday 15 December 2006 00:48, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:20, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > Hi Jens, > > > > > > On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wro

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Alistair John Strachan wrote: I bisected all the way down to 0e75f9063f5c55fb0b0b546a7c356f8ec186825e, which git reckons is the culprit. I wasn't able to revert this commit to test, because it has conflicts. Any ideas? That would be this one I assume? [PATCH] block: support larger block pc

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:20, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Hi Jens, > > > > On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. > > > >

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 14 décembre 2006 à 18:22 -0500, Jeff Garzik a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Alistair John Strachan sms.ed.ac.uk> writes: > > > >> `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: > > > > → http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7581 > > I'm not sure I quite follow your bug repor

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Alistair John Strachan sms.ed.ac.uk> writes: `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: → http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7581 I'm not sure I quite follow your bug report. Are you saying that the patch you attached causes the problem? Jeff

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:50, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Before I proceed with the horrors of an -rc1 bisection, could somebody > > send me the ADMA patches so I can eliminate those first? > > Run > > git-whatchanged drivers/ata/sata_nv.c > > and that will gi

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alistair John Strachan wrote: Before I proceed with the horrors of an -rc1 bisection, could somebody send me the ADMA patches so I can eliminate those first? BTW a bisection need not be blindly horrific... You can look at the commit ids from git-whatchanged output mentioned in the previous e

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alistair John Strachan wrote: Before I proceed with the horrors of an -rc1 bisection, could somebody send me the ADMA patches so I can eliminate those first? Run git-whatchanged drivers/ata/sata_nv.c and that will give you a list of recent changes. To obtain the "diff -u" patch for

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:33, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Hi Jens, > > > > On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. > >>> > >>> If you can just tes

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alistair John Strachan wrote: Hi Jens, On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. If you can just test 2.6.19-git1, then we'll know if it's the SG_IO patch again. Actually, you should tes

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Hi Jens, > > On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. > > > > > > If you can just test 2.6.19-git1, then we'll know if it's th

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi Jens, On Thursday 14 December 2006 20:48, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. > > > > If you can just test 2.6.19-git1, then we'll know if it's the SG_IO > > patch again. > > Actually, you should test 2.6.19-git

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. > > If you can just test 2.6.19-git1, then we'll know if it's the SG_IO > patch again. Actually, you should test 2.6.19-git1 with this patch applied as well. From: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >Is the hddtemp source not available? > > > http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php says > http://www.guzu.net/files/hddtemp-0.3-beta15.tar.bz2 Thanks! I'll await the 2.6.19-git1 test to see how to proceede. -- Jens Axboe - To unsub

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jens Axboe wrote: Is the hddtemp source not available? http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php says http://www.guzu.net/files/hddtemp-0.3-beta15.tar.bz2 Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Alistair John Strachan sms.ed.ac.uk> writes: > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: → http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7581 - 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://v

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:57, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: > > > > Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it > >

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:57, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: > > Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it > that the 0x30d ioctl (which is HDIO_GET_IDENTITY) used to work

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it that the 0x30d ioctl (which is HDIO_GET_IDENTITY) used to work? If it's a SATA device, and you _used_

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it that the 0x30d ioctl (which is HDIO_GET_IDENTITY) used to work? If it's a SATA device, and you _used_ to use the PATA driv

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi Linus, `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: [root] 19:25 [~] hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdb: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdc: ATA Maxtor 6B200M0: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdd: AT

ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:32, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Ok, one not so silly Q (IMO) from the resident old fart. I saw, >>> sometime in the past week, a relatively huge ieee1394 update go by. >>> And I have some issues with t

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alan
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:59:23 +0100 "Alessandro Suardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there. > > Still need this libata-sff.c patch: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kerne

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Steve WIse
And the patch was reposted here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116594961106441&w=2 On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 14:59 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > On 12/14/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there. > > Stil

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On 12/14/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there. Still need this libata-sff.c patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116343564202844&q=raw to have my root device detected, ata_piix probe would otherwise fail a

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:32, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Ok, one not so silly Q (IMO) from the resident old fart. I saw, >> sometime in the past week, a relatively huge ieee1394 update go by. >> And I have some issues with the present 2.6.19 version

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ok, one not so silly Q (IMO) from the resident old fart. I saw, sometime > in the past week, a relatively huge ieee1394 update go by. And I have > some issues with the present 2.6.19 version causeing segfaults and kino > go-aways when trying to ca

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 21:06, Linus Torvalds wrote: >Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there. > Ok, one not so silly Q (IMO) from the resident old fart. I saw, sometime in the past week, a relatively huge ieee1394 update go by. And I have some issues with the present