Re: Oops in prune_dcache (2.4.0-prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Dan Aloni
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: While under massive disk and cpu load, 2.4.0-prerelease produced the following oops (decode see below) [..] Now, I assume this machine has been historically stable, with no history of memory

[patch] 2.4.0-prerelease acpi exported symbols

2001-01-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 04:39:50 +0100, "Udo A. Steinberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, I've read the FAQ about having been bitten by Makefile bugs with certain symbols and such, yet I still get these symbol warnings even after a mrproper rebuild. Any clues? Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base

Re: Oops in prune_dcache (2.4.0-prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Aloni wrote: After a bit of few code reviewing, it looks like the only code that assigns stuff to -d_op in a nonstandard way is in fs/vfat/namei.c. Udo, are you using vfat? If it was assigned by something that was supposed to set -d_op it would not get

Re: Timeout: AT keyboard not present?

2001-01-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:22:55PM +0100, Stefan Frank wrote: 2 days ago i upgraded to 2.4.0-prelease, today suddenly i had the same symptom. I've been running 2.4.0-test10 since it's been released and never saw this happen there. I get this on 2.2.18 too, and it never used to happen with

Re: kernel freeze on 2.4.0.prerelease (smp,raid5)

2001-01-03 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday January 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a deadlock with a normal (not irq) spinlock. Could you enable SysRQ and press Alt+SysRq+P ("showPc") Then write down the EIP values (including the [ ] brackets) and translate them with ksymoops. Ksymoops repeats only the EIP

Re: i82365 PCI-PCMCIA bridge still not working in 2.4.0-test11

2001-01-03 Thread Michel Salim
Manually inputting i365_base=0x1030 when loading the module results in the same freeze - nothing works at all, had to do a full hardware reset. This is on the latest 2.4.0-prerelease... David, any luck on your side? Sorry for the long absence, been a bit busy and then I went on holiday. Any

Re: i82365 PCI-PCMCIA bridge still not working in 2.4.0-test11

2001-01-03 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manually inputting i365_base=0x1030 when loading the module results in the same freeze - nothing works at all, had to do a full hardware reset. This is on the latest 2.4.0-prerelease... Is this the code in 2.4.0-prerelease or the code I sent you? Sounds like it's

Re: NFS root doesn't work with 2.2.18.

2001-01-03 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
OK, that makes two with the same problem. I checked your config file against mine and I can see no relevant differences, everything which matters for net booting is the same. However, in my case the NIC driver never comes in, neither does the serial driver (I tried using a serial console). Also,

Re: 2.2.18: Thread problem with smbfs

2001-01-03 Thread Hans-Joachim Baader
Hi Urban, Anyway, gdb is doing strange things to your testprogram on ext2 as well. Does it work for you? I have not been able to reproduce a gdb hang (you do know that there is a while(1); in main ... ;-), but it generates a lot of smbfs messages and in one case made smbfs stop working. I

strange swap behaviour - test11pre4

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Schlenter
Hi This seems strange to me: (from vmstat 1): procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id 1 0 0 107252956204 44024 2376 4 594 1 256 304 11 4 85 0 1

Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

2001-01-03 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
This is not a supported configuration. You cannot export NFS mounted filesystems with NFS. The protocol does not cope, and it implementation doesn't even try. NFS is for export local filesystems only. Just want to point out that this unsupported feature, which exists in the old user-space

Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

2001-01-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:37:08AM -0200, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: It would be nice if a way was found to implement this feature on knfsd. There is: just run unfsd too, bound to an own IP address to not conflict. More efficient would probably be a proxy though that just forwards packets. I see

Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

2001-01-03 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:52:36 +0100 From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jorge L. deLyra" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrzej Krzysztofowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], kernel list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem

Re: removing the bootlogo

2001-01-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:33:52AM +0100, Jens Nestel wrote: hi, I am using matroxfb with a MGA200 card, but I find the bootlogo quite annoying. Is there an easy way to remove it ? You dislike penguins? What about this one? This patch is for 2.4.0-prerelease with testing/prerelease.diff

Re: Oops in prune_dcache (2.4.0-prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Dan Aloni wrote: After a bit of few code reviewing, it looks like the only code that assigns stuff to -d_op in a nonstandard way is in fs/vfat/namei.c. Udo, are you using vfat? Yes. -Udo. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

[PATCH] /linux/drivers/char/serial.c: missing __devinitdata

2001-01-03 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, this small and obvious patch adds some missing __devinitdata directives to the 16x50 serial driver. Best regards, Andrey P.S. Question: why __init and friends are nop when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is defined ? IMHO only __devinit and __devinitdata should be nop, isn't it ? --

Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.0-testX fails to compile on my Athlon

2001-01-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Petr Vandrovec wrote: Unfortunately, real diff is at home... And it has one bad side effect, that you must rerun 'make dep' manually if you modify task_struct in linux/sched.h, as asm/asm_offsets.h - linux/sched.h dependancy is not handled by makefiles. But I do not do this modification

Re: kernel freeze on 2.4.0.prerelease (smp,raid5)

2001-01-03 Thread Otto Meier
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:19:41 +0100, Otto Meier wrote: Dual Celeron (SMP,raid5) As stated in my first mail I run actually my raid5 devices in degrated mode and as I remenber there has been some raid5 stuff changed between test13p3 and newer kernels. So tell us, why do you run your raid5

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

2001-01-03 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving its version when --version is used, should it? Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing behaviour; somewhere,

Fw: UDMA on 815e chipset

2001-01-03 Thread quintaq
Greetings Gurus, Have I found a tiny, perhaps irrelevant, bug ? I have recently installed SuSE 7.0 with the supplied 2.2.16 kernel on my homebuilt dual-boot machine, which has an 815e chipset (Asus CuSL2 board), plus 30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP HDD (hda). As I understand it both of these support

Re: [PATCH] VM fixes + RSS limits 2.4.0-test13-pre5

2001-01-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 28 Dec 2000, Mike Sklar wrote: If I wanted to adjust the rlim_cur value of a running processes, is there any sort of interface for that? Hmmm, I don't think there is an interface to adjust the per-process ulimit settings on-the-fly ... Does anybody know if there's an interface for

Re: scheduling problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: Feel is _vastly_ improved. Except while beating on it, I found a way to turn it into a brick. If I run Christoph Rohland's swptst proggy, interactive disappears to the point that login while it is running is impossible. ~15 minutes later I got 'login

Re: [OOPS] in __switch_to with 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-03 Thread Manfred
EIP: 0010:[__switch_to+33/180] Code: 00 0c 08 60 00 00 00 b0 89 ca 08 60 4f 73 08 60 4f 73 08 74 These asm instructions look wrong to me: 00 0c 08 -- add %cl, (%eax, %ecx, 1) 60 -- pusha Perhaps someone else overwrote random memory, and __switch_to crashed later. Could you run

Re: Oops in prune_dcache (2.4.0-prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: Dan Aloni wrote: After a bit of few code reviewing, it looks like the only code that assigns stuff to -d_op in a nonstandard way is in fs/vfat/namei.c. Udo, are you using vfat? Yes. In principle, it might be that d_find_alias() is

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

2001-01-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:05 +0100, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving its version when --version is used, should it? Historical

Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

2001-01-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:14:21AM -0200, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:52:36 +0100 From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jorge L. deLyra" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrzej Krzysztofowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Oops in prune_dcache (2.4.0-prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi, Alexander Viro wrote: In principle, it might be that d_find_alias() is broken. I don't see where it could happen, but then I'm half-asleep right now... While we are at it, do you have * autofs Yes. * knfsd * ncpfs No, neither of these two. -Udo. - To

Re: [PATCH] VM fixes + RSS limits 2.4.0-test13-pre5

2001-01-03 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:43:54AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2000, Mike Sklar wrote: If I wanted to adjust the rlim_cur value of a running processes, is there any sort of interface for that? Hmmm, I don't think there is an interface to adjust the per-process ulimit

Prerelease kernel will not hotplug a USB host-controller when it is inserted into a Cardbus slot.

2001-01-03 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Linus and Co., I am writing to let you know that in all test12-pre6+ kernels, I get a "Bad PCI invocation" error when hotplug attempts to handle the insertion of a USB host-controller into a Cardbus slot. I am aware that you most likely will ship 2.4.0 anyway, but thought you should at least

IBM ServeRAID 4L

2001-01-03 Thread dex
Heil Gurus, don't know where to seek for help, I digged the web and IBM's support site up'n down with not much luck. I need to install RedHat 7.0 on a IBM NetFinity 5100 with a ServeRAID 4L controller (firmware 4.40.03). The plain RedHat 7.0 install CD-Rom doesn't detect the controller therefore

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour

2001-01-03 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:37:50PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: Umm... OK, the last argument is convincing. Thanks... BTW, what was the reason behind doing preallocation for directories on ext2_bread() level? We both buy ourselves an oddity in directory structure (preallocated blocks

Re: Prerelease kernel will not hotplug a USB host-controller when it is inserted into a Cardbus slot.

2001-01-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Miles Lane wrote: Hi Linus and Co., I am writing to let you know that in all test12-pre6+ kernels, I get a "Bad PCI invocation" error when hotplug attempts to handle the insertion of a USB host-controller into a Cardbus slot. That message is coming from your hotplug scripts. At

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-03 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
David Woodhouse wrote: The IBM DTLA drives aren't in the hpt366 bad_ata66_4 list still. I'm using this drive with my BP6 without any problems. But to have stable system I would suggest to not use UDMA4 mode if you are stressing you harddrive to much. Use UDMA3 (hdparm -X67

Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

2001-01-03 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
That's a bit surprising that you have so many problems with unfsd, I know lots of installations where it is (still) used successfully in its limits. I did recently some mainteance work on it to fix it for reiserfs. Well, let me qualify that better. The problems were not really bad before

Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] clgenfb on PPC

2001-01-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote: Hey all. While going through the 2.4 tree and removing dead CONFIG_xxx's for PPC stuff, I noticed clgenfb still had CONFIG_PREP stuff (which may have partily explained why it no longer worked here). I've attached a patch, that with another patch to fix

Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Dr. David Gilbert
Hi, I got wondering as to whether the various journaling file system activities were designed to survive the occasional unclean shutdown or were designed to allow the user to just pull the plug as a regular means of shutting down. Thoughts? Dave --

Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

2001-01-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:49:54AM -0200, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: That's a bit surprising that you have so many problems with unfsd, I know lots of installations where it is (still) used successfully in its limits. I did recently some mainteance work on it to fix it for reiserfs. Well,

[patch-2.4.0-ac4] bugfix in the microcode driver.

2001-01-03 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Alan, I sent this one-liner to Linus ages ago but he didn't notice it. The bug is obvious -- the goal of microcode_init() is to succeed at least in one of either devfs or misc registration. Regards, Tigran --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Mon Dec 11 21:42:08 2000 +++

Re: Bugs in knfsd -- Problem re-exporting an NFS share

2001-01-03 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
You probably had a inode namespace collision. unfsd encodes the dev_t in the upper in ext2 unused bits of the inode to be able to export multiple file systems in a single export (knfsd dropped that broken feature) Well, not completely. There is now this option "nohide" on /etc/exports which

Re: strange swap behaviour - test11pre4

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Schlenter
[snip, vmstat stuff, me] There is a perl program running (80 Meg's in size, 20 Megs resident) that is chatting to a database and building up a large hash in memory. The machine has 64M of RAM. The bit that doesn't make sense is why the cache is so large - the VM seems to have got stuck paging

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-prerelease-ac4: i810_audio.c: Alternate VRA fix

2001-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
If we find that somebody needs this reset, we can move the VRA enabling code after the codec reset code. Thanks. That now all makes sense - 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

Re: scheduling problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Mike Galbraith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Could you try this patch just to see what happens? It uses semaphores for the bdflush synchronization instead of banging directly on the task wait queues. It's supposed to be a drop-in replacement for the bdflush

Re: Further ACPI woes with 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-03 Thread Manfred
ACPI: System description tables not found I would check the Tyan pages for bios upgrades. I had to upgrade my bios (gigabyte bxd dual cpu board) before w2k accepted the acpi tables. Linux still refuses to accept the acpi tables :-( -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Fw: UDMA on 815e chipset

2001-01-03 Thread Mike Dresser
Even though I see the error message, I think that UDMA 4 / ATA 66 must actually have been set, because hdparm now reports cache reads at 143.82 MB/sec and disk reads at 15.76 MB/Ssec. hdparm also reports that the HDD is in UDMA mode 4. This seems low, I have a pair of IBM DJNA-352030 20 gig's

Re: Timeout: AT keyboard not present?

2001-01-03 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Jan 2 21:20:33 asterix kernel: keyboard: unknown scancode e0 12 Jan 2 21:20:33 asterix kernel: keyboard: unknown scancode e0 71 Jan 2 21:20:33 asterix kernel: keyboard: unknown scancode e0 70 Jan 2 21:20:33 asterix kernel: keyboard: unrecognized scancode (71) -

Re: UDP ports 800-n used by NFS client in 2.2.17

2001-01-03 Thread Roy Hills
Thanks to Neil and everyone else who helped me understand this one. Here's my summary of what I've been told and what I've discovered: The port 800-n is indeed the source port that is used for NFS communications for the filesystem. Using tcpdump, we see communication between port 800 on the

Re: Timeout: AT keyboard not present?

2001-01-03 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:32:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How you got into scancode mode 1 I don't know (maybe by sending the command f0 01 to the keyboard). Kind of f00f bug? SCNR, JBG -- Fehler eingestehen, Größe zeigen: Nehmt die Rechtschreibreform zurück!!! /* Jan-Benedict Glaw

Re: LVM 0_9-1 woes on 2.4.0-prerelease+diffs

2001-01-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:09:32PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: # vgscan vgscan: error while loading shared libraries: vgscan: undefined symbol: lvm_remove_recursive This looks like an userspace compilation/installation problem of the new lvm tools.

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

2001-01-03 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not the functionality). Don't bother. It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd query until then. If you really want to get only the version number then this will work

Re: Timeout: AT keyboard not present?

2001-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
How you got into scancode mode 1 I don't know (maybe by sending the command f0 01 to the keyboard). Do things improve if you rip this strange messy AUX_RECONNECT stuff out of drivers/char/pc_keyb.c? 2.2.18 the aux reconnect handling is off by default - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Prerelease kernel will not hotplug a USB host-controller when itisinserted into a Cardbus slot.

2001-01-03 Thread David Brownell
I am writing to let you know that in all test12-pre6+ kernels, I get a "Bad PCI invocation" error when hotplug attempts to handle the insertion of a USB host-controller into a Cardbus slot. That's new info ... you'd previously thought that it wasn't even invoking /sbin/hotplug! The scripts

Re: scheduling problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Mike Galbraith wrote: Semaphore timed out during boot, leaving bdflush as zombie. Wait a sec, what do you mean by 'semaphore timed out'? These should wait patiently forever. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-03 Thread Alex Deucher
I've been using a maxtor udma/66 13.6GB drive on the hpt366 for over a year now with no problems whatsoever... even in udma/66 mode (also with several different BIOS revisions). I have not however, ever been able to get a cdrom to work on this controller either in windows 98/NT or in linux

[PATCH] drop-behind fix for generic_file_write

2001-01-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Linus, Alan, the following (trivial) patch fixes drop-behind behaviour in generic_file_write to only drop fully written pages. This increases performance in dbench by about 8% (as measured by Daniel Phillips) and should get rid of the logfile bottleneck Ingo Molnar found with the drop-behind

Re: scheduling problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Mike Galbraith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Could you try this patch just to see what happens? It uses semaphores for the bdflush synchronization instead of banging directly on the task wait queues. It's supposed

[PATCH] add PF_MEMALLOC to __alloc_pages()

2001-01-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Linus, Alan, Mike, the following patch sets PF_MEMALLOC for the current task in __alloc_pages() to avoid infinite recursion when we try to free memory from __alloc_pages(). Please apply the patch below, which fixes this (embarrasing) bug... regards, Rik -- Hollywood goes for world

PROBLEM: kernel oops with Linux 2.2.16 shortly after misc cronjob start

2001-01-03 Thread Sebastian Wenzler
1. Kernel oopses after cronjob starts 2. I recently noticed that my maschine crashes exactly on cronjob times. It seems to me that it is mainly caused (because it happened 2 times at 4 o clock) by the mandrake security scripts i installed (msec-0.9-14mdk) - after some network failure (eg router

Kernel 2.4.0-test12 hang

2001-01-03 Thread John Summerfield
This kernel VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 0 EXTRAVERSION = -test12 Sometimes locks solid (alt-sysrq doesn't work), sometimes less so (alt-sysrq does work) but more often reboots when a user (me with my usual account, me with an alternate little-user account) logs in and starts XFree,

Re: [PATCH] drop-behind fix for generic_file_write

2001-01-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: the following (trivial) patch fixes drop-behind behaviour in generic_file_write to only drop fully written pages. OK, please ignore. It is already in prerelease-diff in the testing/ directory .. ;) regards, Rik -- Hollywood goes for world

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dr. David Gilbert wrote: I got wondering as to whether the various journaling file system activities were designed to survive the occasional unclean shutdown or were designed to allow the user to just pull the plug as a regular means of shutting down. Thoughts? 1.

Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] clgenfb on PPC

2001-01-03 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:50:46PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote: Hey all. While going through the 2.4 tree and removing dead CONFIG_xxx's for PPC stuff, I noticed clgenfb still had CONFIG_PREP stuff (which may have partily explained why it no longer

Re: [PATCH] drop-behind fix for generic_file_write

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: Hi Linus, Alan, the following (trivial) patch fixes drop-behind behaviour in generic_file_write to only drop fully written pages. This increases performance in dbench by about 8% (as measured by Daniel Phillips) and should get rid of the logfile

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Michael Rothwell
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dr. David Gilbert wrote: I got wondering as to whether the various journaling file system activities were designed to survive the occasional unclean shutdown or were designed to allow the user to just pull the plug as a regular means of shutting down.

Re: Kernel 2.4.0-test12 hang

2001-01-03 Thread Patrizio Bruno
I had the same problem on my machine, I solved unloading agpgart and drm (r128.o for me, cause I have a Rage 128 video card), I think there's a bug into the XFree drm support, but when I post the problem I received no reply. P. On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, John Summerfield wrote: This kernel

Re: Timeout: AT keyboard not present?

2001-01-03 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Ordinarily a key-up event gets scancode of key-down but with high-order bit set. In scancode set 1, a key-up event get the scancode of key-down prefixed by 0xf0. Since the high-order bit is masked here, this 0xf0 would show up as 0x70. Moreover,

Re: scheduling problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Mike Galbraith wrote: Semaphore timed out during boot, leaving bdflush as zombie. Wait a sec, what do you mean by 'semaphore timed out'? These should wait patiently forever. IKD has a semaphore deadlock detector. Any place you take a semaphore

[PATCH] loops_per_sec

2001-01-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Two small fixes: - fix the comments in include/linux/delay.h - someone changed the actual calculation for s390 (added /HZ), but forgot to replace loops_per_sec by loops_per_jiffy --- linux-2.4.0-prerelease-ac4/include/linux/delay.hMon Jan 1 23:30:23 2001 +++

Re: scheduling problem?

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Mike Galbraith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Mike Galbraith wrote: Semaphore timed out during boot, leaving bdflush as zombie. Wait a sec, what do you mean by 'semaphore timed out'? These should wait patiently forever. IKD has a semaphore deadlock detector.

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kai Germaschewski wrote: I think the problem was that we relied on divert_if being initialized to zero automatically, which didn't happen because it was not declared static and therefore not in .bss (*is this true?*). This is true in this particular case, and your added

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour

2001-01-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Having preallocated blocks allocated immediately is deliberate: directories grow slowly and remain closed most of the time, so the normal preallocation regime of only preallocating open files and discarding preallocation on close just doesn't

VIA system timer (problem still in test13-pre7 and prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. Some time ago, Vojtech Pavlik sent a message stating that he had found a critical bug in some VIA chipsets, and suggested a patch. The bug would "cause X to blank the screen when it should not, squid to terminate connections with a 'timeout' randomly and other nice effects." The

sock_alloc_send_skb

2001-01-03 Thread Sourav Sen
Hi, why in sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, length+hh_len+15,0,flagsMSG_DONTWAIT, err) 15 is added to the length of the the data of the socket. Here length=data_len+ip_hdr+udp_hdr all we need is hrd_hdr ie hh_len which is being added here, why that 15 is needed? Sourav - To

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:26:18PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dr. David Gilbert wrote: I got wondering as to whether the various journaling file system activities were designed to survive the occasional unclean shutdown or were designed to allow the user to just

Re: Fw: UDMA on 815e chipset

2001-01-03 Thread quintaq
Mike / Mark, Thank-you very much for your replies. With regard to Mike, (a) I am using a PIII 800, so I really should be seeing better results than your Celeron. It seems, therefore, that my setup may be defective in more fundamental ways than I had imagined. (b) I do appreciate that I may

[PATCH] matroxfb as a module (PPC)

2001-01-03 Thread Tom Rini
Hello all. I've recently been playing with modules on my PPC system, and noticed that matroxfb doesn't work as a module, because of mac_vmode_to_par. But, after looking at other drivers which did work (aty and aty128) I noticed matroxfb was doing something it didn't need to be doing. First, the

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dr. David Gilbert wrote: I got wondering as to whether the various journaling file system activities were designed to survive the occasional unclean shutdown or were designed to allow the user to just pull the plug as a regular means of

Followup: 2.2.1x unknown kernel messages in syslog; 2.4.0 doesn't init sound card

2001-01-03 Thread Bill Priest
All, I installed 2.4.0 prerelease and the problem I was seeing w/ kernel: "seemingly random characters" went away. So it would appear that this is a 2.2 problem only. One thing I noticed in going to 2.4 was that my sound card initialization/parameters were/are not

Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync related changes

2001-01-03 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, Just noticed the filemap_fdatasync code doesn't check the return value from writepage. Linus, would you take a patch that redirtied the page, puts it back onto the dirty list (at the tail), and unlocks the page when writepage returns 1? That would loop forever if the writepage func

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: I don't doubt that if the 'power switch' method of shutdown becomes popular we will discover some applications that have windows where they can be hurt by sudden shutdown, even will full filesystem data state being preserved. Such applications are

swapoff and 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-03 Thread Lorenzo Allegrucci
I run 'swapoff -a' in the middle of 'make j10 bzImage' with 32M (by lilo) and got this: Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: VM: Undead swap entry 000f3100 Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: VM: Bad swap entry 000f3100 Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra kernel: VM: Bad swap entry 000f3100 Jan 3 17:30:07 lenstra

Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync related changes

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Chris Mason wrote: Hi guys, Just noticed the filemap_fdatasync code doesn't check the return value from writepage. Linus, would you take a patch that redirtied the page, puts it back onto the dirty list (at the tail), and unlocks the page when writepage returns 1? It would be a lot

Where's pre13-x.diff.gz ?

2001-01-03 Thread Patrick Mau
Hi all, just a small question. The pre13-x.diff.gz patches vanished from ftp.xx.kernel.org. I need pre13-5 and pre13-6 (and later, if there where any). They have not been moved to testing/old or something, hopefully they're not lost ? cheers, Patrick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Timeout: AT keyboard not present?

2001-01-03 Thread Andries . Brouwer
It looks like scancode mode 1 It looks like untranslated mode 2 Yes, that gives the same codes. (But you are right, this point of view gives a few more possibilities to get into this state.) Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour

2001-01-03 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al, you write: Folks, there is a pretty strange detail of the allocation policy - if cylinder group has no free blocks past the goal ext2 tries very hard to avoid allocation in the beginning of the group. I.e. order looks so: * goal * goal .. (goal+63) ~63 * goal

Re: feature flags set on rev 0 fs

2001-01-03 Thread Andreas Dilger
Chris, you write: I'm seeing a new warning with the 2.4.0-prerelease (could have been introduced in -pre11 or 12): EXT2-fs warning: feature flags set on rev 0 fs, running e2fsck is recommended Well I've run e2fsck (version 1.18) twice, and looked at the options for tune2fs. The feature

2.2.19pre5 on sparc64: Missing symbols

2001-01-03 Thread Horst von Brand
SS U1, RH 6.2 + updates depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre5/fs/binfmt_elf.o depmod: get_pte_slow depmod: get_pmd_slow depmod: pgt_quicklists -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Informatica

is eth header is not transmitted

2001-01-03 Thread Sourav Sen
Hi, In the function ip_build_xmit(), immediately after sk_alloc_send_skb(), skb_reserve(skb, hh_len) is called. Now skb_reserve(skb,len) only increment the data pointer and tail pointer by len amt. Now in a particular hard_start_xmit() say for rtl8139, the data transfer is

Re: Oops in prune_dcache (2.4.0-prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 3 Jan 01 at 13:08, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: Alexander Viro wrote: In principle, it might be that d_find_alias() is broken. I don't see where it could happen, but then I'm half-asleep right now... While we are at it, do you have * autofs Yes. * knfsd

Re: is eth header is not transmitted

2001-01-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:59:48PM +0530, Sourav Sen wrote: Hi, In the function ip_build_xmit(), immediately after sk_alloc_send_skb(), skb_reserve(skb, hh_len) is called. Now skb_reserve(skb,len) only increment the data pointer and tail pointer by len amt. Now in a

Loopback filesystem still hangs on 2.4.0-test13-pre7

2001-01-03 Thread William Stearns
Good day, all, This is just meant as an informational message, not a complaint. Ted, could you note that this still exists on 2.4.0-test13-pre7 in the todo page? Many thanks. [1.] One line summary of the problem: Loopback filesystem writes still hang on 2.4.0-test13-pre7. [2.]

Re: Benchmarking 2.2 and 2.4 using hdparm and dbench 1.1

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: 3) The 2.2 kernels outperform the 2.4 kernels for few clients (see especially the "dbench 1" numbers for the PII-128M. Oops! I noticed that too. Furthermore I noticed that the results of the more heavily loaded tests on the whole 2.4.0 series tend to be highly

usb dc2xx quirk

2001-01-03 Thread josh
Kernel Version: 2.4.0-test11 - 2.4.0-prerelease Platform: ix86 (PIII) Problem Hardware: Kodac DC280, firmware 1.01 Ever since test10 or after, removing my dc280 from the usb bus causes khubd to crash. I have tried both UHCI drivers and they produce the same effect. dmesg, syslog, messages,

Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] matroxfb as a module (PPC)

2001-01-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 3 Jan 01 at 10:54, Tom Rini wrote: I agree this sounds good. I just think it's too late to do it now. :) The vmode/cmode/vesa number stuff should stick around in 2.4 (it's too late now to remove it) but documented as obsolete, and removed in 2.5. I personally prefer

Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] matroxfb as a module (PPC)

2001-01-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote: Third, the nvram_read_byte needs to be protected by CONFIG_NVRAM. I'd really like to move the nvram part to mac_fb_find_mode() in macmodes.c, so it will work automagically for all drivers on PowerMac. I'd also like to remove the `vmode' and `cmode' `video='

Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] matroxfb as a module (PPC)

2001-01-03 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:44:59PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote: Third, the nvram_read_byte needs to be protected by CONFIG_NVRAM. I'd really like to move the nvram part to mac_fb_find_mode() in macmodes.c, so it will work automagically for all

Printing to off-line printer in 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-03 Thread Peter Osterlund
Hello, When trying to print to an off-line printer with 2.4 kernels, the "write" system call to /dev/lp0 stalls for 10 seconds and then returns EIO. This has the unfortunate effect that the printout will be lost, because the redhat print filters (in rh7) use "cat" to send data to the printer

linux 2.2.19pre5 /proc problem.

2001-01-03 Thread M Sweger
Alan, I have linux 2.2.19pre5 on a UMSDOS based Dell Optiplex Gx1 using libc5 v2.0.7. Below is my "lsmod" of all modules loaded. Note: the cpuid module when it isn'tloaded and oopsing the kernel is fixed now. However, I found a new problem in /proc. A). Problem: If you "cat

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Dr. David Gilbert
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: Tux2 is explicitly designed to legitimize pulling the plug as a valid way of shutting down. Hmm - that IMHO is a good thing; I'll have to look at Tux2. Metadata-only journalling filesystems are not designed to be used this way, and even with

[PATCH] dcache 2nd chance replacement

2001-01-03 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, I rediffed this trivial patch by Andrea (that went into 2.2.19-pre5) which adds 2nd chance replacement to the dentry cache, this should make our dcache behave a little bit better than the current FIFO. I know this probably isn't of any help under very low and very high loads, but it should

Re: [PATCH] dcache 2nd chance replacement

2001-01-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: I rediffed this trivial patch by Andrea (that went into 2.2.19-pre5) which adds 2nd chance replacement to the dentry cache, this should make our dcache behave a little bit better than the current FIFO. Looks ok, but I'd be happier if the

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