Hi, ALL.
> > I tested kernel 2.2.18-pre16. And include/asm-i386/delay.h is modified
> > from 2.2.17. Some non generous kernel modules use udelay() function in
> > its file. But, The function __bad_udelay in delay.h is referred but
> > any instance does not exist. So it's caused Unresolved Symbol
Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Yeah, a lot of the add/remove device ATM code (and, IMO, even the vcc
> open/close) code is pretty suspect.
That's actually a bit of an understatement: device removal and module
unloading it were never really meant to work :-) About the only thing
that might be okay rig
Hello Developers
Please help me get my head around this.
The newer PCI sound cards like the EMU10K1 use page tables and
a translation lookaside buffer to convert virtual to physical
addresses. I think understand why this is done and the generalities
of how but do not understand the specifics rel
Hello,
I am still not sure why you cannot use an IPI for this... on the CPU that
you want to access this resource, send an IPI to all other CPUs, and add
code in handling that IPI that they should spin and wait till you are done
with accessing the chip... then let the other CPUs continue.
Best
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>
> Hello!
>
> > Using linux-2.4.0-test9, bind() incorrectly allows a bind to a non-local
> > address. The correct behavior should be a return code of -1 with errno
> > set to EADDRNOTAVAIL.
>
> You can bind to any address, it is your right. You will not able
> to rece
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:20:22PM -0600, Matt Peterson wrote:
> Your argument for supporting dynamic interfaces is valid, I really like
> the idea of being able to bind to an interface that is not up yet. I can
> definitely see where this would be helpful -- too bad is is not part of
> the spec.
> Assuming that my "compatibility argument" is not considered valid. What
> I really need is some good ammunition for going back to Sun to ask them
> to change the JRE spec -- like some significant kernel features or Linux
> applications that relies on this new bind() behavior.
The XNS specifica
Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:20:22 -0600
From: Matt Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Assuming that my "compatibility argument" is not considered valid.
What I really need is some good ammunition for going back to Sun to
ask them to change the JRE spec -- like some significant kerne
> e100.o is network module provided by Intel. I used version 1.3.14. The
> second nin_cs.o is for PCMCIA-CS SCSI card. It's located in
> ftp://projects.sourceforge.net/pub/pcmcia-cs/contrib/NinjaSCSI3-1.0.2.tar.gz.
Ask the authors of those modules to use mdelay() which does millisecond level
dela
On Tue, Oct 17 2000, Thomas Molina 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:
> > >
>
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:47:40 -0700,
Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_USB) += usbcore.o usb.o
>
>We still need your help. Using this usb/Makefile change gives
>me errors on all (?) exported symbols when I try to build all
>of USB into the k
John Levon wrote:
> should get_module_symbol() die ?
Please no. I use it for a situation where two drivers can be used
independently. However, when they're loaded at the same time they
communicate. Having a third module _just_ to work out how the devices
are related (based on PCI bus topology)
David S. Miller wrote:
> How about first finding out why their buggy JRE detects whether an
> address is local by trying to bind() to it :-)
I don't know why the JRE does it, but I've seen that sort of thing used
to decide whether to try X shared memory.
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extern void x25_kill_by_neigh(struct x25_neigh *);
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with this, the file failed to compile -- the kernel compiles fine with it
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Robert M. Love wrote:
> for file include/net/x25.h, test10-pre4 contains this patch:
> with this, the file failed to compile -- the kernel compiles fine with it
> added back.
i wrote too fast -- while there is a problem with x25 in the current
kernel, it may not be the line
Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:13:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert M. Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
with this, the file failed to compile -- the kernel compiles fine
with it added back.
Are you sure you didn't mis-patch your tree?
There is only one line in the include you say needs to be
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 01:46:26 +0200,
Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Levon wrote:
>> should get_module_symbol() die ?
>
>Please no. I use it for a situation where two drivers can be used
>independently. However, when they're loaded at the same time they
>communicate. Having a thir
Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> > Yeah, a lot of the add/remove device ATM code (and, IMO, even the vcc
> > open/close) code is pretty suspect.
>
> That's actually a bit of an understatement:
Well, I was trying to be polite to the original author ;-)
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> Nice and clean. WEAK_EXTERN does some magic to create a NULL pointer
> at link time or load time if the symbol is not resolved.
It also has to do the rest of the magic to handle module load/unload in
parallel but that can be done as per the current code
> Linus, do you want a patch for this?
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:44:19 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote
>> Nice and clean. WEAK_EXTERN does some magic to create a NULL pointer
>> at link time or load time if the symbol is not resolved.
>
>It also has to do the rest of the magic to handle module load/un
> modprobe would attempt to satisfy weak external references as if they
> were normal references, including all the module dependency chains and
> reference counts. If the reference cannot be satisfied, it is set to
> zero instead of causing an error. No changes to load/unload.
I dont believe m
> The XNS specification seems loose enough to allow the Linux
> behaviour. I don't
> think we should however adopt it as default behaviour. Programs
> that dont care
> about addresses use INADDR_ANY.
>
> Alan
I worry that an application may use ability to bind to determine whether an
ad
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 01:56:38 +0100 (BST),
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote
>> modprobe would attempt to satisfy weak external references as if they
>> were normal references, including all the module dependency chains and
>> reference counts. If the reference cannot be sati
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/kbuild/
Release 0.8.1: Wed Oct 18 21:17:56 EDT 2000
* Rules file synchronized with 2.4.0-test9.
CML2 is stable, working, and ready to replace the old system.
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Admittedly I can't remember the last time I used cdp, but this seems
> > like a recent problem. Are we going to look for a workaround? I've
> > tried a number of player apps and they all appear to fail in the same
> > way.
> >
> > Judging from past
Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > How about first finding out why their buggy JRE detects whether an
> > address is local by trying to bind() to it :-)
> I don't know why the JRE does it, but I've seen that sort of thing used
> to decide whether to try X shared m
Has anyone tried this board with any recent 2.2 or 2.4 kernel?
It has:
Onboard Intel 82559 Ethernet controller
Onboard Adaptec AIC-7899 dual channel Ultra160 SCSI controller
ServerWorks ServerSet III HE-SL Chipset
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:
> Has anyone tried this board with any recent 2.2 or 2.4 kernel?
>
> It has:
> Onboard Intel 82559 Ethernet controller
> Onboard Adaptec AIC-7899
This is just to give folks something to sync against. Test it by all means
however.
Must fix stuff left to do for 2.2.18final
- Merge the S/390 stuff and make S/390 build again
- Fix the megaraid (revert if need be)
- Fix the ps/2 misdetect bug that has appeared
- NFSv3 ha
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Anyway, I didn't realize you were talking about the sound drivers use of
> remap_page_range(). That's not the original reason for remap_page_range()
> at all, and in fact it's the _ugly_ way to do things. It's simple and it
> works, but it's not pretty.
>
> Quite frankly,
Hi
Just had the following happening right after booting into the fresh
kernel. Started X, and after firing up StarOffice, everything stopped
responding. I could switch back to a vc, and use Alt+SysRq to at least
sync/unmount the fs. Registers showed:
SysRq: Show Regs
EIP: 0010:[acpi_idle+819/
Hello All , on a compaq proliant 6000, 4 ppro 200Mhz 512k cpu's,
4.3Gb seagate system drive attached to onboard 53c875 ctrlr,
Smart Array 2/P, 392Mb, 4 18.Gb seagate st118273 raid 5,
Digital DE500(tulip), 3.5 Floppy, ide cdrom .
since I have upgraded from
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In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> How about first finding out why their buggy JRE detects whether an
> address is local by trying to bind() to it :-)
>
> Really, when an application feeds a specific address in
> Looks like the application on the Linux system is issuing a close() on
> the socket before reading all of the available data. That always
> causes a RST to be sent.
Here's some stripped down code to generate bogus (I think) TCP
resets on 2.2.14-17.
The RST is generated when the server closes
Hi all,
I would like to transfer a huge buffer (say 128k) from user space to kernel
space and return the result in the same buffer so that the user can access
the processed data from that... since these pages passed from the user spcae
may be fragmented how do i make them contiguous from user spa
Kernel == 2.2.17
CPU == AMD K6-2 350
Clock set to 300Mhz
2 root@asdf:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
^^
Shouldn't it be K6-2?
stepping: 12
cp
I started work on the removal of get/put_module_symbol and immediately
hit problems, these functions are not being used the way we thought.
Instead of being used as weak linkage from one module to another,
people are using get_module_symbol in kernel code to decide if a module
needs to be loaded a
Hi,
Here's the patch that removes usb-core.c and moves its functions into
usb.c. It's against 2.4.0-test10-pre4.
This should solve the versioned modules with a USB core compiled into
the kernel problem that people were having.
Thanks,
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:45:36AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:47:40 -0700,
> Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Keith Owens wrote:
> >> +obj-$(CONFIG_USB) += usbcore.o usb.o
> >
> >We still need your help. Using this usb/Makefile change gives
> >me er
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:03:34PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> This should solve the versioned modules with a USB core compiled into
> the kernel problem that people were having.
Actually, that isn't completely true, as the Makefile still has the same
problem as before. Keith's comments get us cl
> model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
> Shouldn't it be K6-2?
nope
A plain K6:
model : AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions
A K6-2:
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
A K6-3:
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor
A K6-2+:
model name : AMD-K6(tm)-III P
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:21:53AM -0700, David Rees wrote:
>
> Nothing else odd changed. Here's the boot sequence and messages which
> repeated endlessly after booting 2.2.18pre16 with the usb-uhci driver:
This kinda looks like you have a flaky hub. It is a self powered hub?
If so, try making
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:51:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:21:53AM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> >
> > Nothing else odd changed. Here's the boot sequence and messages which
> > repeated endlessly after booting 2.2.18pre16 with the usb-uhci driver:
>
> This kinda looks li
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:47:16PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
>
> This is on a Tyan Trinity 1598 Socket 7 motherboard. No hubs of any sort.
No external hubs? Then why is the hub driver seeing both a 2 port root
hub, and a 4 port "normal" hub? Does this motherboard have more than 2
external USB
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:02:27PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:47:16PM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> >
> > This is on a Tyan Trinity 1598 Socket 7 motherboard. No hubs of any sort.
>
> No external hubs? Then why is the hub driver seeing both a 2 port root
> hub, and a 4 por
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:50:24AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Kernel == 2.2.17
> CPU == AMD K6-2 350
>
> Clock set to 300Mhz
>
> 2 root@asdf:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 5
> model : 8
> model name : AMD-K6(tm)
I've been trying to get xsane-win32 working with a linux server.
It keeps failing because read() on the win95 box returns an error
just before the data transfer is complete.
Dumping the conversation, I see linux sending a TCP RST:
00:26:29.260171 > porky.cisco.com.1034 > scan.1029: P 2185689:21
Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:37:44 -0700
From: Brian Craft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Why is it sending a reset? Because the FIN was ACK'ed twice? Is
this correct behavior? I've tried 2.2.14 and 2.2.17, with the same
result.
Looks like the application on the Linux system is issuing a
Yo Mike!
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Help! See below for my kernel oops. I have not been able to use any
> > kernel after 2.4.0-test5 due to this problem. It happens shortly
> > after booting the kernel and is very repeatable.
> Are you sure that you used the right System
Hi,
i have small problem; kernel 2.4.0-test9+reiserfs
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.0-test9. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/ (default)
-m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default)
Warning: You did not tel
ISDN failed for me with 2.4.0-test9, it would dial but couldn't
get more than 130 cps or so, which is completely useless.
Fortunately, 2.4.0-test10-pre3 works well.
Helge Hafting
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I was wondering if someone could explain something to me. I've got a
dual-boot Red Hat 6.2/Win95B box, AMD K6-500, NVidia / SGS
Thomson|Riva128 video card w/8MB memory, BTC-1817 sound card, 64MB RAM,
and a Phoebe 56K modem. On the Win95 side, when I shutdown the system
it goes through the shutdo
Linus Torvalds wrote:
...snip...
>
> Anyway, I didn't realize you were talking about the sound drivers use of
> remap_page_range(). That's not the original reason for remap_page_range()
> at all, and in fact it's the _ugly_ way to do things. It's simple and it
> works, but it's not pretty.
>
>
FORT David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I totally agree, I'm really wondering if the current API would allow to
> create a tree which would contain only files needed on
> machine. Typically i never use sparc or mips file in kernel
> compilation. I'm dreaming of a day when i could download the
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Mike!
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > Help! See below for my kernel oops. I have not been able to use any
> > > kernel after 2.4.0-test5 due to this problem. It happens shortly
> > > after booting the kernel and is very
> In Linux, "shutdown -h now" results in Linux going through the process,
> but at the end I get the following:
>
The bit I need is the EIP value from the first crash. Looking at the address
involved I think you have a BIOS bug
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Hi!
The isapnp change in 2.4.0-test10-pre beaks the detection of
my non-pnp soundblaster AWE32 card (compiled into the kernel,
as modular operation oopses - see mail with Subject:sound related OOPS
(2.4.0-test9-pre7) from Sun, 1 Oct 2000 15:49:46). The kernel
hangs after printing the message
sb:
Hello,
I have some trouble with an initrd configuration where it seems the
wrong partition is mounted as root (/), even though it seems fine in
/etc/fstab, and mount and df all display that it's fine.
I realized that the kernel messages are not as helpful as possible:
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ex
Amit D Chaudhary wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When trying to create a patch with linux 2.2.17 sources, I found the
> following files to be of size 0 in linux-2.2.17.tar.gz.
> linux/include/linux/dasd.h
> linux/include/linux/coda_opstats.h
>
> Since the file is the most latest in the kernel/v2.2 directory
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> I am very unimpressed with the current OOM killer.
[...]
> We need to decide on a better algorithm,
> albeit simple, that will alleviate this problem before 2.4.0 final comes out.
We don't need to decide on one, you can provide a
Most likely reason is that the server calls close() while there is
still data pending to be read. As TCP is a reliable transport, this
loss of data causes a RST.
An application bug.
-tony
On 18-Oct-2000 Brian Craft wrote:
> I've been trying to get xsane-win32 working with a linux server.
> I
We've release v1.1 of DProbes - deatils and code is on the DProbes web
page.
the enhancements include:
- DProbes for kernel version 2.4.0-test7 is now available.
- Provision to invoke other debug facilities (SGI KDB, Crash Dump and
coredumps) from a probe program.
- Probe points can now be a
Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> 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
http://www.bitwizard.nl/maxtor_2.speeds.gif
(yes, vertical axis is MB per second)
is what my measurement tool makes
> 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 difference?
I like to know what I get. One reason to disable modules on servers
here. Only reason I use them here is a Bug 'n Pray S
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael H. Warfield 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
>> > eith
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Wolf wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 03:15:01 -0500
> From: Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: "Shutdown" not shutting down...
>
> I was wondering if someone could explain something to me. I've got a
> dual-boot Red Hat 6.2/Win95B box, AMD K6-500, N
"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael H. Warfield 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 th
HI all
I received and discussed Processor-affinity on the SMP-Kernel-list and I
only wanted to ask if there is something in preparation or if someone
(especially Linus :)) is against this ... I was asked this question
beacause someone wanted to do some Matrix-Operations on his SMP machine
and wna
Hi,
We're trying to make the module refcounting 'secure' against
concurrent SMP unloads.
For example in net/atm/resources.c:
---
static void free_atm_dev(struct atm_dev *dev)
{
if (dev->prev) dev->prev->next = dev->next;
At 12:56 PM 10/17/00, you 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 isdn is being compiled, even tho
Rogier Wolff wrote:
> We're trying to make the module refcounting 'secure' against
> concurrent SMP unloads.
>
> For example in net/atm/resources.c:
Yeah, a lot of the add/remove device ATM code (and, IMO, even the vcc
open/close) code is pretty suspect. If you want to look through and
liberal
Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Rogier Wolff wrote:
> As far as module_unload, isn't that protected by lock_kernel? What am
> I missing?
Would "binding a socket to a VCC" also be protected by lock_kernel?
If it isn't then, THAT's the problem.
Roger.
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
> 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
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> It's RNCD: Roman Numeral Coded Decimal. The new standard for
> information interchange. A new proprietary feature of Intel
> CPU's that will bring new high performance web sites to the reach
> of the masses! Now you can access these special custom
Hello,
I need to clear the interrupts on a SMP machine!
Before everybody jumps up and says 'idiot', let me
assure you that I know about spin locks. Here's the
problem:
spin_lock_irqsave(&local_lock, flags);
Muck_With_The_RTC_Chip();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local_lock, fl
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:26:07PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Maybe you mean PG_reserved?
Yes of course. (sorry for the typo)
> Quite frankly, the way I'd conceptually prefer people do these kinds of
> DMA buffers etc is to just have a "nopage()" function, and let that
> nopage() function j
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:42:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - get PTE entry, clear it out.
> - if PTE was dirty, add the page to the swap cache, and mark it dirty,
>but DON'T ACTUALLY START THE IO!
> - free the page.
>
> Basically, we removed the page from the virtual mapping, and it
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There's something else wrong in the config to make this be needed at all.
> You need to figure out what the real problem is, and what is causing the
> AGP symbols to not get version information. Probably a file is missing
> from the "export-objs" list.
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