Re: [Criticism] On the discussion about C++ modules

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Eray Ozkural] I can't say whether putting libstdc++ in a kernel module is a bad thing before I see one. This is a skel. code: -rw-r--r--1 root root 271528 Oct 10 09:54 /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so orion:opt$ ls -al /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a

Re: [Criticism]C++ Flamewar

2000-10-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Keith Owens wrote: [...] Interesting concept, linking a module with libg++. Would that be a dynamic or static link? If it is dynamic then you can absolutely forget about loading the module into the kernel, there is no way that modutils will ever support that. If it is a static link then

Re: [Criticism] On the discussion about C++ modules

2000-10-17 Thread Gbor Lnrt
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:11:36AM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: I can't say whether putting libstdc++ in a kernel module is a bad thing before I see one. This is a skel. code: -rw-r--r--1 root root 271528 Oct 10 09:54 /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so orion:opt$

New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
DiskPerf /dev/hde Device: Maxtor 91536H2 Serial Number: N200PGDD LBA 0 PIO Read Test = 5.32 MB/Sec (46.98 Seconds) LBA 1 PIO Read Test = 5.32 MB/Sec (46.99 Seconds) Outer Diameter Sequential PIO Read Test = 5.29 MB/Sec (47.24 Seconds) Inner Diameter

Re: PC speaker driver patch for 2.4.0-test10-pre3

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
Thanks to Erik Inge Bols=F8 for porting it to 2.3.45, this saving me m= ost of=20 the work. Is there a major compelling reason that this patch isn't included in the standard kernel tree? It goes hacking around with the clock - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
I wrote the SmartMedia FlashPath driver, and I can say that the SmartMedia is fine, but the FlashPath is a little silly. (And I sometimes feel very bad for what I was forced to write due to NDA and time constraints).. A lot of the NDA's on smart media are the smart media peoples

Re: want to hire a kernel hacker ...

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
I'd like some help in modifying linux networking code (IP, firewall, routing). There are several related projects. They have to start out proprietary, but I fully expect the resulting code to become free software before long. Given the GPL license the rest of us would reach the same

[PATCH] Make agpsupport work with modversions

2000-10-17 Thread John Levon
The patch below allows agpsupport to find the agp functions when modversions is set and both AGP and DRM are compiled into the kernel, and adds the dependency on CONFIG_MODULES explicitly. It applies cleanly to both 2.4.0-test10pre3 and 2.2.18pre16, but only tested on 2.4 thanks john ---

Re: remap_page_range

2000-10-17 Thread Eric Lowe
Hello, suppose i allocate an buffer by calling kmalloc. i want to map this buffer to user address space. will remap_page_range will automatically map this buffer to calling process's address space. it should do if have the struct vm_area_struct of the calling process. as far as i

Re: test10-pre3

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Salisbury
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Why Intel chose family 15 is still beyond me though. IV is 15 if you just translate the symbols, but ignore the meaning either that or someone was smoking alot of crack. --

Re: NFS in 2.4.x

2000-10-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:22:48AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: Ask RedHat. I'm _not_ using a Red Hat kernel. That is why I posted here, because Red Hat will tell me that I'm not using their kernel. People here know wether or not it needs to be

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Tom Leete
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Matti Aarnio] That depends mainly on question: Does your stack grow up or down ? [Ben Pfaff] No it doesn't. It depends mainly on whether the ABI for the machine says that arguments are pushed onto the stack in left-to-right or right-to-left order. You

How to obtain system time

2000-10-17 Thread Elisabete Reis
Hi, I need to measure the time that a packet is queued, so I´m interested in getting the system time at the entry and the output of the queue. My questions are the following: Does the macro PSCHED_GET_TIME return the system time in usec or in jiffies? I´m using a i586 processor, thus I

Insight on CD-RW/ATAPI Bugs in 2.2.18/2.4.0

2000-10-17 Thread root
I,ve been burning CD's all week, and I've run across some things that may shed some light on the CD burner bugs. I have seen this bug on two different systems, one APIC based, the other non-APIC based. In the case of the APIC based systems, the CD-RW I/O errors only occur during high

[PATCH] NIC drivers: check_region() removal continues

2000-10-17 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, check_region() removal continues ... Affected drivers: hp.c, hp-plus.c, es3210.c, e2100.c, 3c505.c Best regards, Andrey -- Andrey Panin| Embedded systems software engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]| PGP key: http://www.orbita1.ru/~pazke/AndreyPanin.asc diff

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:13:49AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Correct. But the problem is that the page won't stay in physical memory after we finished the I/O because swap cache with page count 1 will be freed by the VM. Rik has been waiting for an excuse to get deferred swapout

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:11:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: I'm sure this bug will get fixed too. And the fix probably won't end up even being all that painful - it's probably a question of marking the page dirty after completing IO into it and making sure the swap-out logic does

OOM Test Case - Failed!

2000-10-17 Thread Byron Stanoszek
I am very unimpressed with the current OOM killer. After 10 days of online time, I decided to try compiling gcc again, the very culprit that killed my last system using 2.4.0-test8 Friday night (to which I was unable to reset the system until Monday morning). GCC started compiling normally,

Re: 2.2.17 memory bug?

2000-10-17 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Hacksaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I apologize if this is a known issue. You may be running into the VM: do_try_to_free_memory_failed issue -- see earlier thread. I know we certainly see it here. Alan, it sure would be great if you could extract a minimal patch against 2.2.17 to

Re: now that NFS V3 is in 2.2.18pre, could we *please* add the ide-patch

2000-10-17 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! "Mike A. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: If they will be accepted, I will update them and maintain them. I just do not have the time to run two/three trees and prepare the stuff for 2.5 Because it is unmaintained? Once it is in

Re: 2.2.17 memory bug?

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
Alan, it sure would be great if you could extract a minimal patch against 2.2.17 to fix this from Andrea's stuff, and post an errata on your webpage. Im not convinced Andrea's stuff is correct. Thats one reason for not doing it. There are folks testing both Andrea's and another idea on this

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre16

2000-10-17 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Will this kernel still have the 'VM: do_try_to_free_memory failed' bug that is plaguing us here? If so, my I suggest adding a merge of Andrea's fix on the TODO list for 2.2.18 final? Take care, -- Camm Maguire[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-17 Thread Paul Jakma
For my own system : I don't care. But I can imagine that there are people out there that do care about these kind of issues. but the point is that though most cards hold firmware on a PROM, a few hold the firmware in the driver. firmware in PROM, firmware in driver... what's the

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre16

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
Will this kernel still have the 'VM: do_try_to_free_memory failed' bug that is plaguing us here? If so, my I suggest adding a merge of probably Andrea's fix on the TODO list for 2.2.18 final? I dont plan to. Now is not the time to do this. We also need to understand the issue in detail -

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [2.4.0test10-pre3]drm_proc_init incorrect when multiple device

2000-10-17 Thread Rik Faith
On Sun 15 Oct 2000 23:37:21 +0100, Tigran Aivazian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: or to write a "drmfs" (Al Viro's suggestion) or to abandon the original design of not-sharing the code and do share it (my suggestion but of course it's up to Rick and

Old DC10: Patch for 0.6

2000-10-17 Thread Serguei Miridonov
Hello, I have received a patch from Brian Flachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may fix this problem with older ZR36057 chips. The patch is available here. It must be applied against version 0.6 of the driver. If you have the problem with older DC10 cards, please, try this patch and send me a note

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:23:30AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Well, I know quite well what this can bring us - with precise profiling we could see the exact geometry of the drive LMbench has had something which does this for years. Look at http://www.bitmover.com/bw.gif

mountd code in nfs-utils-0.1.9.1

2000-10-17 Thread Samar Sharma
Does anyone know where is svc_run() defined ? This is used in mountd.c Also, where is xdr_sendmsg() defined. This is used in rmtcall.c Thanks. Samar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at

cs4281: dma time outs

2000-10-17 Thread Geoffrey Gallaway
Hello, I recently purchased a cs4281 based sound card (PCI, PNP). Under 2.4.0-test9 I get "cs4281: dma timed out??" at odd times. I can always reproduce this bug with mpg123 using "mpg123 http://cerebrum.dnalounge.com:8000/gronk/128". A split second of sound will play and then skip until I kill

Re: cs4281: dma time outs

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
2.4.0-test9 I get "cs4281: dma timed out??" at odd times. I can always reproduce this bug with mpg123 using "mpg123 Known problem. The Crystal guys posted a new driver with this fixed as a test so hopefully it will be in the main tree very soon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: why does ip route flush cache take two seconds to run?

2000-10-17 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:25:02 -0400 From: "Christopher Friesen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, from the time the command is issued until the cache is actually cleared is two whole seconds. I would have expected it to be essentially instantaneous. Does anyone know why this is

Re: mountd code in nfs-utils-0.1.9.1

2000-10-17 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Samar Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know where is svc_run() defined ? This is used in mountd.c Also, where is xdr_sendmsg() defined. This is used in rmtcall.c [trondmy@fyspc-epf03 trondmy]$ nm /lib/libc.so.6 | grep svc_run 00101024 T svc_run You should

Re: iBCS with 2.4?

2000-10-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
[ sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation last week ] On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:26:35AM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: just to add, that if I am wrong, and Linus does want it in the kernel If I unterstand David right, he seems to be interested (?). I am willing to spend some time

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.10.3: pc_keyb and q40_keyb cleanup

2000-10-17 Thread Jes Sorensen
"Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrea On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Andrea if you do: Andrea request_irq(my_irq_handler,... 0, ...) Andrea then my_irq_handler will be recalled with irq enabled. Which shouldn't matter as the irq

Re: NFS in 2.4.x

2000-10-17 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look into linux/Documentation/Changes. Oh, it fails to tell about the NFS stuff. o util-linux 2.10o # kbdrate -v The only thing missing is the nfs-utils version: the rule there is 'all versions work but

TCP: peer x.x.x.x:y/z shrinks window a:b:c...

2000-10-17 Thread Jordan Mendelson
I've begun to test 2.4.0 kernels on some high traffic machines to see what kind of difference it makes. I have seen a lot of these error messages in dmesg and although they don't seem to happen very often and seem harmless, I figured I'd report it anyway. They show up in groups (mostly) from the

Re: TCP: peer x.x.x.x:y/z shrinks window a:b:c...

2000-10-17 Thread David S. Miller
The IP addresses are important because we can use them to find out what TCP implementations shrink their offered windows. Actually, you don't need to tell me or anyone else what these IP addresses are, you can instead run one of the "remote OS identifier" programs out there to those sites and

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.10.3: pc_keyb and q40_keyb cleanup

2000-10-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:43:34PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: Which shouldn't matter as the irq source should be disabled. In fact I thought we were guaranteed not to be re-interrupted in a handler unless one explicitly does __sti(), has this changed? A single irq handler won't be

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:21:00AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:23:30AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Well, I know quite well what this can bring us - with precise profiling we could see the exact geometry of the drive

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: If you do all this, write a paper, Usenix loves this junk. Sorry dyslexic. How can LMbench access things that I can but a FS can not? raw disks? block disks? both work. Sorry, what I forgot to tell you is that I am doing direct access at

2.4.0 - isdn hisax - compilation error

2000-10-17 Thread David Relson
Greetings, I have compiled a 2.4.0 kernel for the first time, specifically 2.4.0-test9. Looking through the output for errors, I found "config.c:311: #error "HiSax: No cards configured". Checking further, it appears that isdn is being compiled, even though CONFIG_ISDN isn't set. See below

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.10.3: pc_keyb and q40_keyb cleanup

2000-10-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:26:23AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Well, the -spin lock- exists for serialization. My question is Why does pc_keyb irq handler disable local irqs for this case? What is the race/deadlock that exists with spin_lock in the irq handler, but does not exist with

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Larry McVoy writes: On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:21:00AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Expand 'traces' ... O-SCOPE analyizer? Insert a ring buffer into the disk sort entry point. Add a userland process which reads this ring buffer and gets the actual requests in the actual order they are

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Malcolm Beattie wrote: Larry McVoy writes: On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:21:00AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Expand 'traces' ... O-SCOPE analyizer? Insert a ring buffer into the disk sort entry point. Add a userland process which reads this ring buffer and gets

Re: 2.4.0 - isdn hisax - compilation error

2000-10-17 Thread Gbor Lnrt
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:56:54PM -0400, David Relson wrote: Greetings, I have compiled a 2.4.0 kernel for the first time, specifically 2.4.0-test9. Looking through the output for errors, I found "config.c:311: #error "HiSax: No cards configured". Checking further, it appears that

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Horst von Brand
Richard Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Bernd Schmidt wrote: The following one is wrong, tho - should be rather str[i] = dn[i]; i++; diff -x log.build -x .* -dru linux-2.4/drivers/isdn/sc/debug.c linux-2.4-fixe d/drivers/isdn/sc/debug.c ---

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:49:35AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: raw disks? block disks? both work. Sorry, what I forgot to tell you is that I am doing direct access at the IO level. This is underneath the driver. This is in the realm of bit-banging but with sanity. But does this give

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Horst von Brand
Bernd Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Richard Guenther wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Bernd Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Richard Guenther wrote: The following one is wrong, tho - should be rather str[i] = dn[i]; i++; Nope. (Well, at

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-17 Thread Horst von Brand
Igmar Palsenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAID: I take it then that you never use a hard drive in any of your systems on the grounds that it contains non-open source firmware which may affect the security of your system? ;) Tell me, what do you use to store all those Linux applications on?

[BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi Linus Alexander It seems that we were all wrong in assuming that ext2 was fixed wrt. filesystem corruption. test10pre3 once again has the potential to eat files (not sure about earlier versions). I finally managed to capture an oops (by hand), so bear with me that I didn't typo anywhere.

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Bill Wendling
Also sprach Mark Montague: } } dn[i], i++ evaluates to i, but str[i] = dn[i], i++ sets str[i] to } dn[i] first, then increments i returning its previous value, which is } discarded. Which was probably specified this way so } } for(i=1,j=2; something; something else) } } works as expected,

FIX: Nice oops from agpgart - 2.2 kernels and Alpha

2000-10-17 Thread Michal Jaegermann
I complained few days ago that 'agpgart.o' module from 2.2.18pre is causing a kernel oops. The problem turned out to be an apparent assumption that PCI memory - memory mapping is an identity and this is not always the case. Here is a patch applicable to all 2.2.18pre kernels with agpgart

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Bill Wendling
Also sprach Bernd Schmidt: } Looking at the above code, I noticed that there are a lot of ++ } operations. I rewrote the code as: } } setup_from[0] = setup_from[1] = eaddrs[0]; } setup_from[2] = setup_from[3] = eaddrs[1]; } setup_from[4] = setup_from[5] = eaddrs[2]; }

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Bill Wendling
Also sprach Tom Leete: } } You are correct that in C the rightmost argument is always } at the open end of the stack, and that varargs require that. } The opposite is called the Pascal convention. } Where in the standard does it say this? It's probably done most of the time in this fashion for

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:11:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Oh. So to fix a bug, you say "either delete the code, or do something else that is completely idiotic instead"? I'm not saying this because the "something else" doesn't look completly idiotic to me. Andrea, explain to me how

Re: problems with udma66

2000-10-17 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! No chance getting this to work on 2.2 now, try 2.4.0, it should work. I hope to fix 2.2 later ... Vojtech On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:05:40PM +0200, Francesc Oller wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use UDMA66 in my computer but haven't suceeded until now. Configuration: Epox EP-MVP3G2

quick questions: kernel stack size and call gates

2000-10-17 Thread Chris Swiedler
1. Does Linux use call gates (as specified in the Intel SDK vol.3) when a user process makes a system call? From what I understand, call-gates let a ring-3 process execute ring-0 code, which sounds exactly like a system call. I've found all of the actual system call functions (sys_ni etc.) in

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Bernd Schmidt
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: Richard Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The following one is wrong, tho - should be rather str[i] = dn[i]; i++; diff -x log.build -x .* -dru linux-2.4/drivers/isdn/sc/debug.c linux-2.4-fixe d/drivers/isdn/sc/debug.c ---

Are there around some eigrp Linux patches

2000-10-17 Thread Andrea Ferraris
Does somebody know if there are somewhere for some linux kernel some patches that implement eigrp? I know it's a proprietary Cisco protocol, but I don't know the licensing terms, so I'm asking if someone here know something about. Regards to all, thanks to replying people, Andrea -

Re: UMSDOS Problem with test10-pre2

2000-10-17 Thread Wayne . Brown
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and you're right: it booted normally and then gave me an oops. For now, I've managed to get my network card "sort of" working with 2.3.51, and I'm going to try to resolve the remaining problems with that. Also, now that I know it's a umsdos problem and

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: Sure, I did it over the protests of other people and I learned something, you have every right to do the same thing. In fact, it's great that you are doing it. Just don't get all bent out of shape if you tweaking the elevator alg does nothing (in

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hi, On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: It seems that we were all wrong in assuming that ext2 was fixed wrt. filesystem corruption. test10pre3 once again has the potential to eat files (not sure about earlier versions). I finally managed to capture an oops (by hand), so bear

GPL rewording fixes

2000-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
I'm progressing on the GPL license "wording" fixes however the patch files are 150k and likely will get larger as I hand fine tune things to keep things neat. What is the preferred method of doing this? Would one big "fix all license statements" patch be preferred, or multiple "fix this little

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: Kernel bug at ll_rw_blk.c: 713! unmapped buffer got to the ll_rw_block() Trace; c0184d53 ll_rw_block+163/1e0 Trace; c012fa31 bread+31/70 What? thinking OK, so we got a unmapped bh hashed at some point. Either it was inserted into hash while

Re: quick questions: kernel stack size and call gates

2000-10-17 Thread Brian Gerst
Chris Swiedler wrote: 1. Does Linux use call gates (as specified in the Intel SDK vol.3) when a user process makes a system call? From what I understand, call-gates let a ring-3 process execute ring-0 code, which sounds exactly like a system call. I've found all of the actual system call

Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

2000-10-17 Thread Larry McVoy
As someone pointed out, the URLs I sent are wrong, they are http://www.bitmover.com/disks/bw.gif http://www.bitmover.com/disks/seek.gif I forgot the disks part. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Andrea, explain to me how pinning _could_ work? Explain to me how you'd lock down pages in virtual address space with multiple threads, and how you'd handle the cases of: - two threads doing direct IO from different parts of the same

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: and the above is a perfectly fine backtrace, makes tons of sense, looks good. Except the strange beast between ext2_create() and ext2_new_inode(). HOWEVER. What doesn't make any sense at all is that bread() calls getblk() to find the buffer,

Re: Are there around some eigrp Linux patches

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
Does somebody know if there are somewhere for some linux kernel some patches that implement eigrp? I know it's a proprietary Cisco protocol, but I don't know the licensing terms, so I'm asking if someone here know something about. Firstly we dont put routing protocols in the kernel but

Re: Am I the only one with scsi-ide CDR problems?

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas Molina
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Scott Murray wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, David Riley wrote: safemode wrote: I'm just wondering if I'm the only person who has had problems with 2.4.0-test9 recording on ide-scsi cdr's? Nobody has posted anything about it and the test10-prex changefiles

Re: NFS in 2.4.x

2000-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: In other words, erase the word "Red Hat" from my question, and restate it "what version of nfs-utils is needed by 2.4.0test9"? Then I can compare with what I have regardless of dist. Look into linux/Documentation/Changes. Oh, it fails to tell about

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alexander Viro wrote: See another posting. More or less the same analysis. I don't see where it came from and it smells funny - looks like a loss of -b_count _or_ an active page returned by alloc_page() (to grow_buffers()). I wouldn't exclude the latter, BTW, but then I'm still

Re: linux-2.4.0 SMP does not compile on sparc32

2000-10-17 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001017 09:34]: This is the error message (yes, I am cross compiling): mm/mm.o: In function `smp_call_function_all_cpus': mm/mm.o(.text+0xb194): undefined reference to `smp_call_function' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 smp_call_function is defined in

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-17 Thread Ian Stirling
I take it then that you never use a hard drive in any of your systems on the grounds that it contains non-open source firmware which may affect the security of your system? ;) Tell me, what do you use to store all those Linux applications on? Your ATA drive can't tell you kernel

IDE-cd problem with 2.4-test9

2000-10-17 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, strange thing, wanted to burn some data ... but i do not see the CD anymore tryed to use the CD in ide-mode nothing... looked in /proc/ide no devices. so for some obscure reason the CD-player isn't found now i didn't use that thing very much, but it worked not so long

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: Trace; c014efde read_inode_bitmap+3e/90 Trace; c014f240 load_inode_bitmap+210/230 Trace; c014f6af ext2_new_inode+29f/700 Trace; c021e87e unix_write_space+2e/50 Huh? Trace; c01523af ext2_create+1f/c0 The rest of trace is OK, but WTF is

Re: test10-pre3

2000-10-17 Thread davej
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: Well as Intel isn't even shipping P4 samples yet, most of this is just guesswork based upon preliminary datasheets. I wouldn't be surprised if we find other fun things to work around when we start seeing silicone in use. Heck, you don't need to

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:36:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Andrea, explain to me how pinning _could_ work? Explain to me how you'd lock down pages in virtual address space with multiple threads, and how you'd handle the cases of:

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:32:43 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye, bye, performance. You might as well remove the whole thing completely. I don't think that is a common case relevant for performance. I seen it only as a case that we must handle

An excellent read on CPU caches

2000-10-17 Thread David Ford
http://www.systemlogic.net/articles/00/10/cache/print.php3 -- "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:img

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: For example if both threads are reading different part of disk using the same buffer that's also a wrong condition that will provide impredictable result (or if they're reading the same part of disk why are they doing it twice?). I'm not

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Eric Lowe
Hello, For example if both threads are reading different part of disk using the same buffer that's also a wrong condition that will provide impredictable result (or if they're reading the same part of disk why are they doing it twice?). If both threads are writing to different part of disk

Re: [BUG]: Ext2 Corruption in test10pre3 (incl. Oops)

2000-10-17 Thread Roger Larsson
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: Trace; c014efde read_inode_bitmap+3e/90 Trace; c014f240 load_inode_bitmap+210/230 Trace; c014f6af ext2_new_inode+29f/700 Trace; c021e87e unix_write_space+2e/50 Huh? Trace; c01523af ext2_create+1f/c0 The

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:27:30PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: Hint: smp_flush_tlb_page() Current kiobufs never need to do that, under any circumstances. This is not by accident. I don't understand. flush_tlb_page() done in the context of a thread won't care about the state of the

Re: [PATCH] Make agpsupport work with modversions

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Levon wrote: The patch below allows agpsupport to find the agp functions when modversions is set and both AGP and DRM are compiled into the kernel, and adds the dependency on CONFIG_MODULES explicitly. There's something else wrong in the config to make this be

Re: Patch to remove undefined C code

2000-10-17 Thread Raja R Harinath
Bill Wendling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also sprach Bernd Schmidt: } Looking at the above code, I noticed that there are a lot of ++ } operations. I rewrote the code as: } } setup_from[0] = setup_from[1] = eaddrs[0]; } setup_from[2] = setup_from[3] = eaddrs[1]; }

Re: Multiple redundant copies of GPL license file

2000-10-17 Thread André Dahlqvist
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:50:18AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: So Linus's COPYING file in the source root is correct, and the other two files can be deleted. Just make sure that no document points to these two files. -- André Dahlqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: 2.2.18pre16 and USB_UHCI_ALT

2000-10-17 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:49:56PM -0700, David Rees wrote: Well, the real interesting part is that I was using the usb-uhci.c driver in 2.2.18pre15, and now in 2.2.18pre16 it stopped working for my mouse with no apparent change to either of the uhci drivers. Kernel debug messages? Anything

Re: IDE-cd problem with 2.4-test9

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I am looking into this, and it really is looking like there's a low level driver bug somewhere either EIOing an interrupt twice, or missing one. Were you doing Network I/O at the time? Check 'ifconfig' when you get the errors and see if there were any RX errors reported by the LAN card when

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: IMHO pinning the page in the pte is less expensive and less complex than making rawio and the VM aware of those issues. (remap_page_range is so clean implementation exactly because it pins the page into the pte) You keep on bringing up

Re: IDE-cd problem with 2.4-test9

2000-10-17 Thread Bruno Boettcher
I am looking into this, and it really is looking like there's a low level driver bug somewhere either EIOing an interrupt twice, or missing one. Were you doing Network I/O at the time? Check 'ifconfig' when you the machine is also my local masquerade server there are 2 ehternet cards...

PCMCIA slot 1 invisible under 2.4.0-test10-pre3

2000-10-17 Thread kimoto
When I tried 2.4.0-test10-pre3 on my IBM Thinkpad 380XD (the 233 MHz flavor), PCMCIA slot #1 (the lower one) seemed to be dead: inserting and removing cards gave me no beeps and no log messages. Slot #0 (the upper one) behaved fine. It didn't matter whether I had one or two cards in.

Re: IDE-cd problem with 2.4-test9

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linux/Andre/Jens, Who owns the EOI and APIC code this week? (Peter Anvin? I think). Looks like we've got a problem down in the interrupt subsystem somewhere -- Bruno is seeing RX errors on the ethernet card when ide-scsi goes south for the winter. Forwaring to Andre and Jens ... Jeff Bruno

Re: [patch] 2.4 version of my duplicate IP and MAC detection patch

2000-10-17 Thread Werner Almesberger
Marc MERLIN wrote: Come on, Andi, it's not. You do DAD, you get your IP, I plug my laptop, use your IP, you don't even know it. My patch lets you know. The reason I wrote it is that I've seen this happen too many times already. Also, if the network is not operational at the time you configure

Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre8, usb, unresolved symbols

2000-10-17 Thread Claude LeFrancois (LMC)
Hello Greg, Ihave reproduced the problem on 2.4.0-test10-pre3. The information you have requested is attached to this message and. I also send you an ouput of dmesg, the result of the command "depmod -ae" and the content of /proc/ksyms. All the information I send to you are related to

Re: BLKSSZGET change will break fdisk

2000-10-17 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:53:40AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: (By the way, have you checked that replacing get_sectorsize by an empty routine, and specifying a -b option, works well?) (Do you know which disks have unusual sector size? So far I had only seen reports on a Fujitsu 640 MB.

Re: 2.4 MM overview?

2000-10-17 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 11:35:23PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote: We've kind of got 1.5-level page tables. There are actually 3 page tables. The system page table maps memory starting at 0x8000. The P0 process page table maps from 0x0 up and the P1 process page table maps from 0x7fff

Re: PCMCIA slot 1 invisible under 2.4.0-test10-pre3

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:17:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I tried 2.4.0-test10-pre3 on my IBM Thinkpad 380XD (the 233 MHz flavor), PCMCIA slot #1 (the lower one) seemed to be dead: inserting and removing cards gave me no beeps and no log messages. Slot #0 (the upper one)

three kernel trees?

2000-10-17 Thread Mirko Kloppstech
What about creating three kernel series: 2.2. stable 2.4. feature frozen 2.5 development? As soon as 2.4 comes out, 2.7 is created, 2.6test will be feature frozen. Development time would be shorter, and the nuisance with "this important feature has tz slip in" would be finished. Mirko

Re: ide-scsi + /dev/dsp == solid lockup

2000-10-17 Thread George
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Leigh Orf wrote: I hesitate to declare victory just yet, but I think my problem is solved (over a half hour of testing and no lockup). In reading the pdf docs on the motherboard, by chance I found the word "concurrency" here: Makes me wonder why my PIIX3 (i430HX) Tyan

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