Running make install runs lilo on my Athlon but not my Pentium II.

2001-01-22 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, When I run "make install" on my Pentium II machine, lilo gets run after vmlinuz is built. When I do the same thing on my Athlon, vmlinuz gets built, but lilo does get run. Here are my architecture options for the Athlon: CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y CONFIG_UID16=y # # Code maturity level

[PATCH] ISA PnP support for the SMC EtherEZ

2001-01-22 Thread sluncho
The 2.4 kernel has a new ISA PnP interface, as described in Documentation/isapnp.txt. This patch adds support for this interface to the driver for the SMC EtherEZ ethernet card. It has been tested on 2.4.0 and 2.4.0-ac10 (and should also work with all other 2.4 versions). Feedback will be

Re: the remount problem [2.4.0] kind of solved [patch]

2001-01-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, for Short: I had a mail exchange with Vic Abell, the lsof Author, and in the next Version of lsof the open shared libs will be detected. So my Kernel Patch is no longer needed: # ~root/rw # rm /usr/lib/jabber/jsm/libjsm.so # ~root/ro mount: /usr busy # lsof_4.55A.linux/lsof -a +L1 /usr

Re: [PATCH] Re: Q: natsemi.c spinlocks

2001-01-22 Thread Manfred Spraul
Donald Becker wrote: However, natsemi.c's spinlock needs to be retained, and extended into start_tx(), because this driver has a race which has cropped up in a few others: ... if (np-cur_tx - np-dirty_tx = TX_QUEUE_LEN - 1) { /* WINDOW HERE */

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-22 Thread Howard Johnson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:53:33PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:42:25PM +, Howard Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:32:39PM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: Matthew Fredrickson wrote: My bet is ACPI/powermanagement messing with it ... Ah, APM. So often

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Scaramanga wrote: Under Linux 2.2.x I used to be able to use ipchains to send packet to a netlink socket so that my userspace application could further analyze the packet data. Since kernel 2.4 and iptables, I have not enjoyed the same functionality, has it been

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread Helge Hafting
James Sutherland wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Roman Zippel wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: But point-to-point also means that you don't get any real advantage from doing things like device-to-device DMA.

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, QUEUE means to pass the packet to userspace (if supported by the kernel). Looking at the code it seemed to do the same thing as the old netlink, but with more complexity, to what end though, i couldnt tell, was only a brief skim. $ sed -n -e '1874,1876p'

Re: 2.4.1pre8 Oops

2001-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Lightfoot wrote: Nothing special with this box. SMP no modules, Squid proxy and running VNC/Pan at the time. Using kernel version of reiserfs on filesystems other than root. Be glad to offer any other info if needed. Would I be correct in assuming that you're using a serial

Re: 2.4.1pre9 Oops (was Re: 2.4.1pre8 Oops)

2001-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Another NMI oops? You've deadlocked over my old friend console_lock. I can't see _why_ though. Was this with the same setup, using the serial console? If so then probably the other CPU was stuck in the serial console driver, holding console_lock. Jeff Lightfoot wrote: On Sunday 21

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel Stone
On 22 Jan 2001 10:26:00 +, Scaramanga wrote: Looking at the code it seemed to do the same thing as the old netlink, but with more complexity, to what end though, i couldnt tell, was only a brief skim. So you can do whatever you want with it. $ sed -n -e '1874,1876p'

Re: [PATCH] - filesystem corruption on soft RAID5 in 2.4.0+

2001-01-22 Thread Hans Reiser
We'll test and get back to you. Hans Neil Brown wrote: There have been assorted reports of filesystem corruption on raid5 in 2.4.0, and I have finally got a patch - see below. I don't know if it addresses everybody's problems, but it fixed a very really problem that is very reproducable.

Re: [PATCH] - filesystem corruption on soft RAID5 in 2.4.0+

2001-01-22 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: I've attached Holger's testcase (ext2, SMP, raid5) boot with "mem=64M" and run the attached script. The script creates and deletes 9 directories with 10.000 in each dir. Neil, could you run it? I don't have an raid 5 array - SMP+ext2 without

Re: Firewall netlink question...

2001-01-22 Thread Scaramanga
Hi, This is true. This is called ipqmpd or something similar and written by Harald Welte, yes? Your best option is to either check out libipq (can be found in the directory of the same name in the iptables sources), which provides clean C interfaces, or the PERL interface, available from

Re: pppoe in 2.4.0

2001-01-22 Thread Bernd Kaindl
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Daniel Mehrmnann wrote: #PPP alias char-major-108ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic Kann es sein, da wir das "alias /dev/ppp" fr ppp mit devfs brauchen? Hat das schon jemand getestet? Untersttzen wir devfs fr unseren 2.4 Kernel auf 7.1? Gibt es dafr schon

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Helge Hafting wrote: And when the next user wants the same webpage/file you read it from the RAID again? Seems to me you loose the benefit of caching stuff in memory with this scheme. Sure - the RAID controller might have some cache, but it is usually smaller than main

kernel BUG at file.c:79! (using vfat)

2001-01-22 Thread Stefan Ring
kernel BUG at file.c:79! Invalid operand fat and vfat are compiled as modules Compiler used: stock rh6.2 (egcs-1.1.2) I get this error with 2.4.0 when I do dd if=/dev/zero of=/somewhere/huge bs=1k on a vfat partition and the file size reaches the 4G mark. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Proper OOPS report

2001-01-22 Thread Tom
My apologies for not running it through ksymoops. No specific bit of code was referenced in the OOPS so I am assuming it is in the kernel itself. Tom Jan 21 22:02:36 hrafn kernel: c0108f75 Jan 21 22:02:36 hrafn kernel: Oops: Jan 21 22:02:36 hrafn kernel: CPU:0 Jan 21 22:02:36 hrafn

Networking strangeness 2.4.0-ac9 and earlier

2001-01-22 Thread John Cavan
Hi all, I've seen this for a while... the output from netstat and ifconfig do not agree on the MTU of the device: [root@lion /root]# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 10.1.11.0 * 255.255.255.0

[patch] 2.4.0, 2.2.18: A critical problem with tty_io.c

2001-01-22 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
Hello, There is a problem with handling of TTYs, which manifests itself for modular backends. I've been able to observe it with the serial.c backend. The symptoms are if open() fails for some reason (e.g. due to an inactive DSR line), the module count for the responsible backend decrements

Oops in 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Frisch
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 813de1c0 current-tss.cr3 = 015fa000, %cr3 = 015fa000 *pde = Oops: 0002 CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c09ef0e8] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010283 eax: c09ef0e0 ebx: c7fff740 ecx: 000f edx:

Re: md= broken. Found problem. Can't fix it. : (

2001-01-22 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:28:51PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:58:56PM -0500, Sandy Harris wrote: I suspect that I've misunderstood some constraint here. Perhaps the more complex code you posted is necessary, but I'd like to know why. strtok is not reentrant and

Re: Is this kernel related (signal 11)?

2001-01-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Rainer Mager wrote: particular problem still exists. In brief, X windows dies with signal 11. I [snip] Does it always happen when you are moving the mouse over a button or windowbar or some other on-screen object like that? Usually, when I have that happen, it's because I'm overclocking the

Re: Proper OOPS report

2001-01-22 Thread Henrik Stokseth
you were the one with the gcc 2.95.3 compiler right? even though this compiler is a prerelease of a stable branch i have confirmed errors in the optimalization passes. my advice: use a compiler which really IS stable (gcc-2.95.2 or egcs-1.1.2 are fine), or turn off all optimalizations. -henrik

Replicating Current Kernell

2001-01-22 Thread Plinio Barraza
Dear list, I am new to the list so please forgive me if I am repeating a recent thread. I have a kernel that is the result of a Red Hat distribution and works great. Only, I have to recompile the kernel in order to have policy routing capabilities. As I am very inexperienced, I would like

Driver crash 2.4.0 nicstar.c

2001-01-22 Thread Listuser AVA System
I compiled the nicstar ATM nic driver. The following happens : swapper(1): Kernel Bug 1 pc = [fc341df0] ra = [fc3c2154] ps = v0 = t0 = t1 = fc513c60 t2 = t3 = t4 = fc87002b00c8 t5 =

lilo and removable media

2001-01-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi, everyone. I have recently added an IDE ZIP drive to the system, and when I run lilo I get the following messages: Jan 22 16:01:05 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hda: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Jan 22 16:01:05 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hda: I/O error, pc = 1b, key =

[PATCH] 8139too.c min frame size check

2001-01-22 Thread Yuri Polyansky
Hi, Jeff! Recently i got 2.4.0 crashed with oops in rtl8139_rx_interrupt() due to packet with size = 0. Patch and oops message below. Cheers, -up patch-8139driver-2.4.0 ---

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-22 Thread Hubertus Franke
Per popular demand. Here are a few numbers for small thread counts running the sched_yield_test benchmark on a 2-way SMP with the following characteristics. model name : Pentium III (Katmai) stepping: 3 cpu MHz : 551.266 cache size : 512 KB I compare 2.4.1-pre8

Hard freeze on 2.4.1pre9 during fsck

2001-01-22 Thread Patrick Michael Kane
Hello! I am experiencing hard lockups (no oops, no response to ALT-SYSREQ) on a dual pentium pro running 2.4.1pre9. The system has two Promise IDE controllers installed (PDC20246 and PDC 20262) with a drive hanging off of each channel. In addition, the onboard PIIX4 has a single drive hanging

kapm-idled and cpu heating ...

2001-01-22 Thread Alan Schmitt
Hi, I've read the december thread, I've searched the web and I could not come out with an answer, so here I dare to ask (please cc me for any answer as I am not subscribed to the list, I just read the kernel cousin version). I just installed 2.4.0 on my laptop (dell cpi a366x). I noticed the

Re: PATCH: Pass module parameters to built-in drivers

2001-01-22 Thread Werner Almesberger
Keith Owens wrote: Inconsistent methods for setting the same parameter are bad. I can and will do this cleanly in 2.5. If your approach isn't overly intrusive (i.e. doesn't require changes to all files containing module parameters, or such), maybe you could make a patch for 2.4.x and wave it

RE: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan Earle
-Original Message- From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So, every good programmer should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to put comments to explain what code does. One should see this as stated in the CodingStyle doc. Ok, there are points where a

Re: Patch for aic7xxx 2.4.0 test12 hang

2001-01-22 Thread Gregory McLean
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Leslie Donaldson wrote: Jeff Hartmann wrote: There is also a known issue with U160 modes and the currently embedded aic7xxx driver. That's true the problem is the TCQ command seems to be sequencing wrong. You might want to try the Adaptec

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Harrold
-Original Message- From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So, every good programmer should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to put comments to explain what code does. One should see this as stated in the CodingStyle doc. Ok, there are points

Re: lilo and removable media

2001-01-22 Thread Patrizio Bruno
Have a look to the lilo.conf man page at the keyword "disk=". On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: Hi, everyone. I have recently added an IDE ZIP drive to the system, and when I run lilo I get the following messages: Jan 22 16:01:05 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hda: I/O error, pc

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: -Original Message- From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So, every good programmer should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to put comments to explain what code does. One should see

[patch] wait4-2.4.0-A0

2001-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
the attached patch (against -pre9) fixes a possibly dangerous sys_wait4() prototype mismatch. Ingo --- linux/include/linux/sched.h.origMon Jan 22 17:28:36 2001 +++ linux/include/linux/sched.h Mon Jan 22 17:29:17 2001 @@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ #define wake_up_interruptible_all(x)

Re: APIC errors

2001-01-22 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Jorge Nerin wrote: It's the first report of APIC errors on a P5 system I have seen, so it's probably not a result of a bad motherboard design. I'd recommend to check if the system doesn't get overheated. You may also be unlucky to have a faulty board. Hey, it's

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update

2001-01-22 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Monday 22 January 2001 08:57, Hubertus Franke wrote: Per popular demand. Here are a few numbers for small thread counts running the sched_yield_test benchmark on a 2-way SMP with the following characteristics. model name : Pentium III (Katmai) stepping: 3 cpu MHz :

RE: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-22 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Hi Duncan, From: Duncan Laurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi Petr, I didn't consider that your hardware would have subtle differences than Mr. Dunlap's Intel SBT2 board, but these could have made the hard-coded values in the patch invalid. So instead try the attached patch, and this

hda: dma_intr: errors

2001-01-22 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
(Please Cc: me for replies, as I'm currently not subscribed. Thanks.) Hello, with 2.4.0 I get lots of kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } errors. I already got those errors with the -test series.

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: WRONG!!! Not documenting your code is not a sign of good coding, but rather shows arrogance, laziness and contempt for "those who would dare tamper with your code after you've written it". Document and comment your code

RE: [Acpi] [PATCH] linux-2.4.1-pre9/include/linux/acpi.h broke acpid compilation

2001-01-22 Thread Grover, Andrew
acpi_get_rsdp_ptr is no longer used, so you can just remove its declaration. I'm putting together another patch not so I'll include this fix. Thanks -- Regards -- Andy -Original Message- From: Adam J. Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 12:23 AM To:

RE: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan Earle
-Original Message- From: Larry McVoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: -Original Message- From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So, every good programmer should know where to put comments. And

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread Val Henson
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:32:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Mansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current sendfile() has the limitation that it can't read data from a socket. Would it be another 5-minute hack to remove this limitation, so you could

Re: Interface statistics for Bonding bug in 2.4

2001-01-22 Thread Thomas Davis
The answer is in the source; in v2.4, stats are only collected on sent packets; in v2.2, stats are not collected at all; they are simply summed from the interfaces stats. It's not a bug; it's simply a design decision. Chris Chabot wrote: I recently upgraded my main server to a 2.4 kernel

more on scheduler benchmarks

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Kravetz
Last week while discussing scheduler benchmarks, Bill Hartner made a comment something like the following "the benchmark may not even be invoking the scheduler as you expect". This comment did not fully sink in until this weekend when I started thinking about changes made to sched_yield() in

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: -Original Message- From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So, every good programmer should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to put comments

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Val Henson wrote: There is a use for an optimized socket-socket transfer - proxying high speed TCP connections. It would be exciting if the zerocopy networking framework led to a decent socket-socket transfer. if you are proxying connextions you should really be looking

Re: more on scheduler benchmarks

2001-01-22 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Monday 22 January 2001 10:30, Mike Kravetz wrote: Last week while discussing scheduler benchmarks, Bill Hartner made a comment something like the following "the benchmark may not even be invoking the scheduler as you expect". This comment did not fully sink in until this weekend when I

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

2001-01-22 Thread Rick Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! is there really much value in the second request flowing to the server before the first byte of the reply has hit? Yes, of course, it has lots of sense: f.e. all the icons, referenced parent page

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Val Henson wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:32:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: However, for socket-socket, we would not have such an advantage. A socket-socket sendfile() would not avoid any copies the way the networking is done today. That _may_ change, of

Re: [NFS] Help: 2.2.18 NFS is corrupting our files

2001-01-22 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Patrick J LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This developer is now regularly seeing two problems which began with the 2.2.18 upgrade. First, remote clients occasionally get "stale NFS file handle" errors for no apparent reason. Second, some of the files are being

Re: [Lse-tech] more on scheduler benchmarks

2001-01-22 Thread Bill Hartner
Mike K, wrote : If the above is accurate, then I am wondering what would be a good scheduler benchmark for these low task count situations. I could undo the optimizations in sys_sched_yield() (for testing purposes only!), and run the existing benchmarks. Can anyone suggest a better

Re: [Lse-tech] more on scheduler benchmarks

2001-01-22 Thread Hubertus Franke
Mike, Deactivating that optimization is a good idea. What we are interested in is what the general latency of the scheduler code is. This should help to determine that. The only problem I have with sched_yield like benchmarks is that it creates artificial lock contention as we basically spent

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread Val Henson
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 10:27:58AM -0800, David Lang wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Val Henson wrote: There is a use for an optimized socket-socket transfer - proxying high speed TCP connections. It would be exciting if the zerocopy networking framework led to a decent socket-socket

Re: [NFS] Help: 2.2.18 NFS is corrupting our files

2001-01-22 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What filesystem are you exporting? Just ext2; all of our file systems are ext2. The disks here are a mixture of IDE, SCSI (aic7xxx and sym53c8xx), and Mylex DAC960 RAID. In this case, the machine running 2.2.18 has aic7xxx SCSI. I suspect I could

Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

2001-01-22 Thread Tim Wright
Thanks, this seems to confirm my suspicion that there's some incompatibility between the NMI watchdog code and the Serverworks chipset. Still trying to find out exactly what's wrong... Tim On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:26:37PM +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: You could try booting with

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread David Lang
how about always_defragment (or whatever the option is now called) so that your routing box always reassembles packets and then fragments them to the correct size for the next segment? wouldn't this do the job? David Lang On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Val Henson wrote: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001

Re: [Lse-tech] more on scheduler benchmarks

2001-01-22 Thread Bill Hartner
Hubertus wrote : The only problem I have with sched_yield like benchmarks is that it creates artificial lock contention as we basically spent most of the time other then context switching + syscall under the scheduler lock. This we won't see in real apps, that's why I think the chatroom

Re: Freeze: atyfb XFree4.0.1

2001-01-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: I just discovered a solid freeze: jbglaw@jbglaw-sid:~$ uname -r 2.4.1-pre8 jbglaw@jbglaw-sid:~$ grep aty /etc/lilo.conf append="video=atyfb:800x600 Parts of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section "Device" Identifier

Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-22 Thread Pete Elton
I have searched the previous posts and have not found a solution to the problem that I am facing. The short problem is that I need a way to turn off arping for the lo interface in the 2.4.0 kernel. In the 2.2 kernel, I could do the following: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden echo

RE: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Stephen Satchell
At 11:04 AM 1/22/01 -0500, you wrote: WRONG!!! Not documenting your code is not a sign of good coding, but rather shows arrogance, laziness and contempt for "those who would dare tamper with your code after you've written it". Document and comment your code thoroughly. Do it as you go along. I

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-22 Thread f5ibh
Hi Petr, Thank you for the answer. Are you sure that you did not enabled both vesafb and matroxfb? They cannot work together. Also, does this happen only in 8bpp mode, or does this happen in other color depths too? Yes, sure. I've read the docs and tested with vesafb enabled OR matroxfb

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-22 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 22 Jan 01 at 22:11, f5ibh wrote: Are you sure that you did not enabled both vesafb and matroxfb? They cannot work together. Also, does this happen only in 8bpp mode, or does this happen in other color depths too? Yes, sure. I've read the docs and tested with vesafb enabled OR matroxfb

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Mark I Manning IV
Stephen Satchell wrote: One goal of language designers is to REMOVE the need for comments. With a this is a crock of (deleted). You are chaising rainbows dood, you will NEVER remove teh need for comments but its obvious you remove teh comments. good fourth-generation or fifth-generation

Re: [Lse-tech] more on scheduler benchmarks

2001-01-22 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:23:05PM -0500, Bill Hartner wrote: Mike K, wrote : If the above is accurate, then I am wondering what would be a good scheduler benchmark for these low task count situations. I could undo the optimizations in sys_sched_yield() (for testing purposes only!),

Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-22 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Duncan Laurie wrote: ... The output you are looking for should look something like this: Device 00:0f.0 (slot 0): ISA bridge INTA: link 0x01, irq mask 0x0400 [10] ... Good luck, and feel free to send me the output from "dump_pirq" and "mptable" if it doesn't work.. Hi Duncan,

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-22 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:01:23 -0800 (PST), David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about always_defragment (or whatever the option is now called) so that your routing box always reassembles packets and then fragments them to the correct size for the next segment? wouldn't this do the job? It

Re: Running make install runs lilo on my Athlon but not my Pentium II.

2001-01-22 Thread Russell King
Miles Lane writes: When I run "make install" on my Pentium II machine, lilo gets run after vmlinuz is built. When I do the same thing on my Athlon, vmlinuz gets built, but lilo does get run. Have you checked for the existance of a /sbin/installkernel file on either machine? -- Russell King

Re: Is this kernel related (signal 11)?

2001-01-22 Thread Russell King
Rogier Wolff writes: Harware problems are normally not reproducable. Can you attach a debugger to your X server, and catch it when things go bad? (And give the Xfree86 people a backtrace) Bad RAM can be extremely reproducable though, and can certainly produce SEGVs. Evidence: I recently had

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Jens, Steven is a seeing a slowdown in his results, too. On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Steven Cole wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2001 14:49, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Steven, The issue is the difference between pre4 and pre8. Could you please try pre4 and report results ? Thanks

Re: Proper OOPS report

2001-01-22 Thread Russell King
Henrik Stokseth writes: you were the one with the gcc 2.95.3 compiler right? even though this compiler is a prerelease of a stable branch i have confirmed errors in the optimalization passes. my advice: use a compiler which really IS stable (gcc-2.95.2 or egcs-1.1.2 are fine), or turn off all

kernel BUG at slab.c:1542! (2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-22 Thread Jorge Nerin
Hello, this is perfectly reproductable, fresh RH7.0 kernel 2.4.1-pre9 compiled with kgcc, and the same bug in pre1, pre4 pre9. I only need to run xfontsel and the xfs dies, every time, prefectly reproductable. Using XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-1, and this XFree packages: XFree86-4.0.1-1

Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-22 Thread H . J . Lu
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:16:36PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: Hi, One of the things we've been lacking in the Linux implementation of RPC is the 'ping' routine. The latter is used on most *NIX implementations in order to test whether or not the RPC server is alive. To do so, it

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)

2001-01-22 Thread Shawn Starr
This is not a kernel bug, This is a bug in the XFree86 TrueType rendering extention. This has been discussed on the Xpert XFree86 mailing list. There is a fix in the works (depends on the TrueType fonts your using). Unless otherwise, Im using 2.4.1-pre9 with no such faults (XFree86 CVS X11R6.5.1

parallel mkfs on ia64 with 2.4.0

2001-01-22 Thread MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
Hi All, I ran mkfs on more than 1 scsi disk partitions in parallel in background on ia64 Lion machine with linux kernel 2.4.0. And after a few seconds, the system became damn slow. I can swith between the virtual terminals. But I cannot login from other virtual terminals. Also, I cannot do

Re: Via apollo KX133 ide bug in 2.4.x

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Horton
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:40:30PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:32:36PM -0500, safemode wrote: Peter Horton wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:38:12AM +, Peter Horton wrote: I think I'm suffering the same thing on my new Asus A7V. Yesterday I got a

Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

2001-01-22 Thread Andries . Brouwer
does partitioning slow things down? No. - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-22 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == H J Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got a report which indicates it may not be a good idea, especially for UDP. Suppose you have a lousy LAN or NFS UDP server for whatever reason, some NFS/UDP packets may get lost very easily while a ping request may get through.

Re: 2.4.1pre8 slowdown on dbench tests

2001-01-22 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 22 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Jens, Steven is a seeing a slowdown in his results, too. On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Steven Cole wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2001 14:49, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Steven, The issue is the difference between pre4 and pre8.

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Please don't listen to this. The only place you really want comments is a) at the top of files, describing the point of the file; b) at the top of functions, if the purpose of the function is not obvious; c) in line, when the code is not obvious. If you are writing code

Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

2001-01-22 Thread Andrew Clausen
Russell King wrote: Andrew Clausen writes: Why is this necessary? Can't the RAID drivers probe the device for signatures, the same way file systems do? One possible problem I can see here is to do with removal of RAID. Think of a RAID-1 array (2 or more disks containing identical

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c error handling and cleanup (241p9)

2001-01-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I hope I haven't missed any relevant lists :) ) The following patch makes drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c check the return code of request_region and release the irq properly in the error path. It applies cleanly against ac10 and 241p9. Comments? --- linux-ac10-clean/drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c

[PATCH] general cleanup of drivers/scsi/NCR53c406a.c (241p9)

2001-01-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I hope you are the NCR53c406a maintainer. If not, I apologize for the inconvenience and hope you can redirect me.) The following patch makes drivers/scsi/NCR53c406a.c use the return code of request_region instead of check_region and makes it release the proper resources in its error paths.

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/aha1740.c: check request_region return code (241p9)

2001-01-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I have not been able to determine a probable maintainer for this code.) The following patch makes drivers/scsi/aha1740.c use the return code of request_region instead of check_region. The change necessitated some changes to the folllowing error paths so I changed those to be forwards

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c check_region - request_region (241p9)

2001-01-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
(Sorry, forgot lk.) Hi. The following patch makes drivers/scsi/3w-.c use the return code from request_region instead of check_region. It applies cleanly against ac10 and 241p9. Comments? --- linux-ac10-clean/drivers/scsi/3w-.c Thu Nov 9 02:09:50 2000 +++

Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

2001-01-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Andrew Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Apart from that, the kernel couldn't care. You could set all your Ext2 partitions as ID 82, your swap as ID 83 and Linux would carry on as if nothing had changed. Exactly.

[PATCH] make drivers/scsi/fastlane.c check return code of request_irq (241p9)

2001-01-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I have not been able to find a maintainer for this code.) The following patch makes drivers/scsi/fastlane.c check the return code of request_irq and converts (some) error paths to use forward gotos. It applies cleanly against ac10 and 241p9. Comments? ---

Re: [NFS] [CFT] Improved RPC congestion handling for 2.4.0 (and 2.2.18)

2001-01-22 Thread H . J . Lu
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:00:29AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: " " == H J Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got a report which indicates it may not be a good idea, especially for UDP. Suppose you have a lousy LAN or NFS UDP server for whatever reason, some NFS/UDP packets

Module Profiling Problem

2001-01-22 Thread Chris K Cockrum
I have been developing a driver for an audio card and encountered a problem which I have duplicated in the test code below. My problem is that when trying to profile a section of code in a kernel module I get erratic results. My cycle counts are sometimes 73xxx cycles more that I expect

Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-22 Thread Duncan Laurie
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | (BTW, it's an STL2 board, not SBT2. And it's Randy, not Mr. Dunlap. :) | Hi Randy, (I'll spare you the formality ;) Oops, I knew it was an STL2, but somehow couldn't get it right in the message.. It looks like they both use ServerWorks LE

cardbus nic modules

2001-01-22 Thread Wakko Warner
I've noticed, everytime I use a cardbus card, pcmcia-cs uses the name of the driver instead of eth0 (or eth1). If I need to upgrade pcmcia-cs, that's fine, but it appears to be a bug. pcmcia-cs version: 3.1.20 (debian v2) -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals -

Re: Freeze: atyfb XFree4.0.1

2001-01-22 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
Hi Geert! On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:20:07PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: I just discovered a solid freeze: jbglaw@jbglaw-sid:~$ uname -r 2.4.1-pre8 jbglaw@jbglaw-sid:~$ grep aty /etc/lilo.conf append="video=atyfb:800x600

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:56:40PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: At 16:42 22/01/2001, Mark I Manning IV wrote: Stephen Satchell wrote: I got in the habit of using structures to minimize the number of symbols I exposed. It also

SCSI raid controllers

2001-01-22 Thread David Lang
what SCSI raid controllers would you guys reccomend for use under 2.4? there was a question friday about a specific Adaptec one that received no response, I know there is support in the kernel for some from compaq and from IBM, but I don't know how extensive this is and if it is a case of linux

ibmcam C-It usb

2001-01-22 Thread Wakko Warner
In 2.4.0, the camera I have no longer works. It did in test9 I believe. fccid is ksx-x9903 I would have mailed the author, but I couldn't remember his address. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Is this kernel related (signal 11)?

2001-01-22 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote: Evidence: I recently had a bad 128MB SDRAM which *always* failed at byte address 0x220068, and X is likely to be the biggest process by far on a box, so statistically will be the process that hits this bad byte the most. no? regards, -- Paul Jakma

Re: Turning off ARP in linux-2.4.0

2001-01-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Now for the long version of the problem. I am using the TurboLinux ClusterServer 6.0 product. This product uses what they refer to as an advanced traffic manager that has the ip address of the web site aliased to eth0. Thus this machine arps for the

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