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
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
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,
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
" " == 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
[ 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
"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
" " == 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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?
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.
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,
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
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];
}
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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,
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
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
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
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
* 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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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];
}
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.
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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
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
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
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...
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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)
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
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
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.
It requires too much people overhead. I have proposed another idea which is at
about 10 months in or
Makes me wonder why my PIIX3 (i430HX) Tyan Tomcat IVD has never had a
problem with an ISA SoundBlaster AWE32 even with Passive Release enabled
and such devices as PCI TV cards, PCI Ethernet controllers, and ISA modems
in it. I've burned CD's on an IDE HP CD-Writer+ (hdb) from an IBM hard
Alan,
Were Linux to go totally modular in 2.5, development cycles will be
reduced by 1/2 to 1/3. This is because you could always roll back to
known good modules to post a release. The way you guys are going, if
Linux stays monolithic, your cycles will get longer and longer.
Modularity will
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:14:58AM -0400, Mark Salisbury wrote:
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
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joerg Schilling wrote:
However it may be a broken hp7100: I suspect that all drives ever
made are now dead because of bad quality.
Mine still works as a reader. ;)
Attempting to actually write produces a lovely "power calibration failed"
and a coaster faster than you can
There are some details in error in this document, and the discussion of
cache-coherence might be expanded or dropped altogether, rather than hinted
at. I've sent a long note to the author with "diffs' for a next edition.
Thanks for pointing it out, I know of several situations in which it will
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:40:12AM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
I compiled using "gcc -S -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -m486" to generate
the assembler code. The old code is 17 instructions long and the new code
is 11 instructions. As well as being shorter, simple timing test indicate
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:06:35PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
also don't see why any bug with kiobufs can't be fixed without the
expensive and complex pinning.
IMHO pinning the page in the pte is less expensive and less complex than making
rawio and the VM aware of those issues.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:34:18AM +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
Same problem I have. I used to work for me and I have not changed anything.
But other people are complaining on problems to burn faster than speed=4 and
I can't even see the drive ??
yep if at least i could see the drive and
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Tue, Oct 17 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:
CD Recording seems to work correctly under 2.4.0-test10-pre3. I'm using
cdrecord 1.9 with a Phillips CDD3610. However, playing back an audio cd
using cdp gives the following error:
sr0: CDROM (ioctl)
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:04:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
It so happens that the vmscan stuff won't ever remove a physical page
mapping, but that's simply because such a page CANNOT be swapped out. How
So if I write a mechanism that allows those driver-private-pages that are used
for DMA
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
2/ Arrange your filesystem so that you write new data to an otherwise
unused stripe a whole stripe at a time, and store some sort of
chechksum in the stripe so that corruption can be detected. This
implies a log structured filesystem (though
How do I step through the mountd program ? gdb doesn't allow me to do it.
If someone understands that code, could you please send me a briefing
on the code flow.
Thanks.
Samar
[root@nbv-pc-1 mountd]# gdb mountd
GNU gdb 4.18
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software,
e2fsck froze up (waited 10 minutes before rebooting) after checking
70.0% of a 63Gb scsi partition (41Gb used) under 2.4.0test9.
This was repeatable.
fsck'd fine when booting from 2.2.17pre19.
Both kernels are PIII SMP, compiled with up-to-date Debian stable,
machine has 1Gb Ram, Adaptec
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Tue, Oct 17 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:
CD Recording seems to work correctly under 2.4.0-test10-pre3. I'm using
cdrecord 1.9 with a Phillips CDD3610. However, playing back an audio cd
using cdp gives
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:21:04PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I wonder if q40_keyb has the same thing to worry about
It seems no, it looks like we can remove the irqsave from there.
Andrea
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Jeff,
Here it is, resubmitting after rediffing wrt 2.4.0-test10-pre3.
- Arnaldo
--- linux-2.4.0-test10-3/drivers/block/cpqarray.c Fri Oct 13 18:40:39 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test10-3.acme/drivers/block/cpqarray.c Tue Oct 17 11:38:53 2000
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
*If you want to
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
Alan,
Were Linux to go totally modular in 2.5, development cycles will be
reduced by 1/2 to 1/3. This is because you could always roll back to
known good modules to post a release. The way you guys are going, if
Linux stays monolithic, your cycles will get longer
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