Nigel Gamble wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
I misread the code, but the idea is still correct. Add a preemption
depth counter to each cpu, when you schedule and the depth is zero then
you know that the cpu is no longer holding any references to quiesced
structures.
Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:52:46PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Linus' latest pre-patch includes some Via changes. They are probably
from the 'ac' tree, and thus no help to you, but it would be worth
checking out. ftp://ftp.ru.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/
hapless :(
checked it - same as
Anton Blanchard writes:
I ported lockmeter to PPC and ran a few dbench runs on a quad CPU F50 here.
These runs were made to never hit the disk. The full results can be found
here:
http://samba.org/~anton/ppc/lockmeter/2.4.3-pre3_hacked/
It was not surprising the BKL was one of the main
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:04:56 -0800,
george anzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly so. The method does not depend on the sum of preemption being
zip, but on each potential reader (writers take locks) passing thru a
"sync point". Your notion of waiting for each task to arrive
"naturally" at
Andreas Dilger wrote:
With per-group (or maybe per-bitmap) locking, files could be created in
parallel with only a small amount of global locking if they are in different
groups.
...and then we can let the disc go nuts seeking to actually commit all
these new blocks. I suspect that this
Nigel Gamble wrote:
A task that has been preempted is on the run queue and can be
rescheduled on a different CPU, so I can't see how a per-CPU counter
would work. It seems to me that you would need a per run queue
counter, like the example I gave in a previous posting.
Ouch. What about all
slabinfo reports:
inode_cache 189974 243512480 30439 304391 : 124 62
dentry_cache 201179 341940128 11398 113981 : 252 126
^
nameused allocd | used allocd
in objects size in
I have multiple Gateway 166's that I would like to try and experiment
with Linux in a clustered environment. Any Advise?
Bill Tomasiewicz
Computer Specialist
Hi - try MOSIX, a very cool-looking clustering solution for Linux,
applied as a kernel patch to 2.2 kernels. The site is
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Mitchell Blank, Jr. writes:
Andreas Dilger wrote:
With per-group (or maybe per-bitmap) locking, files could be created in
parallel with only a small amount of global locking if they are in different
groups.
...and then we can let the disc go nuts seeking to actually commit all
these
Moin,
Could someone kindly tell me how to provoke a kernel panic? I need to do so
for testing some applications regarding system crash awareness.
Olli
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:32:48 -0500 (EST)
Mark Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hdparm -t cannot be effected by the filesystem
that lives in the partition, since hdparm is doing reads that don't
go through the filesystem. hmm, I wonder if that's it: if you mount
the FS that's in hda1, it
Zou Min writes:
Then how to interpret slabinfo in 2.2.16 box?
e.g. grep cache /proc/slabinfo
kmem_cache32 42
skbuff_head_cache 2676 2730
dentry_cache 15626 16988
files_cache 103108
uid_cache 10127
slab_cache85126
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:43:25 +0100,
"Antwerpen, Oliver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone kindly tell me how to provoke a kernel panic? I need to do so
for testing some applications regarding system crash awareness.
Create fs/example-module.c
#include linux/config.h
#include
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:21:10PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
The current Via-specific parport_pc.c code forces on the best possible
parallel port modes the chip can handle. In retrospect, what it should
be doing is reading the configuration BIOS has set up, and not touching
it.
Yes, I
inode_cache 189974 243512 480 30439 30439 1 : 124 62
dentry_cache 201179 341940 128 11398 11398 1 : 252 126
1) number of used objects
2) number of allocated objects
3) size of each object
4) number of slabs that are at least partially in use
5) number of slabs that are allocated for the cache
Lastly, which cache can be reclaimed, and which can't?
Slab cache will shrink if there are whole pages which are empty (it may
be that they have to be at the end of the cache). It is hard to tell
from the above numbers if any of the caches could shrink, because it
depends on the number
Hi
I am trying to implement some QoS in kernel(in the IP
layersimilar to TC. BTW TC works in the data-link layer). I am
dequeuing the packets from the IP queue when the function ip_forward is
called. After processing them, I am reinserting them back to the IP queue.
I
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:00:51 +0530 (IST),
Manoj Sontakke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a initlisation function (just like pktsched_init in
TC). Can anyone tell me, where in the kernel boot sequence should I make a
call to my initialisation function.
Welcome to the wonderful world of
Anton,
if you are doing SMP-intensive dbench runs, then check out the SMP
pagecache-scalability patch (against 2.4.2-ac20):
http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/smp-pagecache-patches/pagecache-2.4.2-H1
this patch splits up the main scalability offender in non-RAM-limited
dbench runs, which is
Hi,
http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/smp-pagecache-patches/pagecache-2.4.2-H1
this patch splits up the main scalability offender in non-RAM-limited
dbench runs, which is pagecache_lock. The patch was designed and written
by David Miller, and is being forward ported / maintained by me.
Hi,
in our workgroup we run simulation jobs that may take a few days at a time
to complete. Since recently, after upgrading some boxen to 2.4.2, we have
jobs flaking out with messages like
Trace/Breakpoint trap
without core dumps. Unfortunately this happens unpredictably but
consistently
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Anton,
if you are doing SMP-intensive dbench runs, then check out the SMP
pagecache-scalability patch (against 2.4.2-ac20):
http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/smp-pagecache-patches/pagecache-2.4.2-H1
this patch splits up the main scalability
In various scenarios where userland needs to interact with hardware,
userland often needs to know exactly what driver (and driver version) is
currently running on a given interface. Hotplugging and other
applications could -really- use the ability to find out bus information
for a given
Hello!
I'm new to the Mailinglist.
I've got a strange problem with /dev/isdninfo:
joern:~# cat /dev/isdninfo
idmap: Hisax...
chmap: 0 1 ...
foo
bar
phone: ??? ??? ...
-- cat /dev/isdninfo works :-)
Here's the problem:
joern:~# cat EOF cat2.c
#include unistd.h
#include fcntl.h
int main(int
[First posting, please don't eat me :-)]
I'm using kernel 2.4.2 and have never been able to shutdown my machine by
software. Neither 2.2.x nor 2.4.x, with and without Real Mode power off.
Bios is broken, no acpi tables can be found:
ACPI-0191: *** Warning: Invalid table signature found
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Joern Heissler wrote:
I've got a strange problem with /dev/isdninfo:
joern:~# cat /dev/isdninfo
idmap: Hisax...
chmap: 0 1 ...
-- cat /dev/isdninfo works :-)
Here's the problem:
open("/dev/isdninfo", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "", 200) = 0
Could someone please
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I was hoping that the
3w- driver developer users could join to make this
worthwhile. It was hard getting support for 3ware cards...
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:27:21 +0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steven Haryanto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
What are your parallel port settings in BIOS?
AFAICR there is only an option for setting the I/O port. I'll check
for anything else later (the machine in question is busy right now :).
Do you have Plug-n-Play OS enabled in BIOS?
Yes.
I am not sure
On 20 Mar, SodaPop wrote:
I have an IWill KK-266R motherboard with an athlon-c 1200
processor in it, and for the life of me I can't get more than
10 MB/sec through the on-board ide controller. Yes, all the
appropriate support is turned on in the kernel to enable dma
and specific chipset
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Antwerpen, Oliver wrote:
Moin,
Could someone kindly tell me how to provoke a kernel panic? I need to do so
for testing some applications regarding system crash awareness.
Olli
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If you want a real crash, rather than an induced panic(), just:
`cp /dev/zero
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
(about lstat(): IMO lstat() should not call into the lowlevel FS code.)
a) revalidation on network filesystems
b) just about anything layered would win from ability to replace the
normal stat()
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
???
checking 2.2.0
Nope, no calls into ext2/*. do_revalidate() seeing NULL -i_revalidate
and doing nothing, lnamei() doing usual lookup, cp_old_stat() not touching
fs code at all...
the problem was that it was calling lock_kernel(), not the
Will Newton wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I am not sure that I agree, however, that an "irq=none" on the kernel
cmd line should affect the operation of the Via code. I would much
rather fix the Via code as I suggest above.
irq=none seems pretty unequivocal to me, I'm
On 20-Mar-01 Olaf Hering wrote:
Hi,
this is a bogus bugreport.
The 2.4.2 kernel freezes on some machines here when I try to access (or
mount) a bad self burned ISO image, in this case the boot CD with the
install system.
There are different case:
I have an iBook and a bluewhite
Duh, before making such a claim you should consider the fact that
this is overclocking your PCI/AGP bus and I have yet to see any
graphic cards/IDE controllers/other devices which are rated for
37MHz PCI bus speed.
The "blue and white" PowerMac G3 and certain early PowerMac G4s used a
66MHz
Hi,
I have this mysterious 8 bit ISA card with nothing more then 2 smb-mounted
ic's
and a button. It seems to be something that should force a system memory
dump.
I think I can handle the code-writing, but since there's no documentation I
have
to find out how things are working.
Ok, the question
On Wed, Mar 21, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
This happens on my blue G3 with 2.2.x too. I think it's a bug in the IDE
driver. My old 7300 (mesh) with a SCSI cd just reported a read error on
the same disk.
Yes, I got that also with 2.2.18 on the G4 with cmd646.
Gruss Olaf
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Ok, the question is: does anyone know a place on the web where I can find
specifications of ISA-slots? I need to know what is supposed to be connected
to
the pins (1, 2, 6, etc.)
try the hardware book (hwb)
http://www.ntua.gr/electronics/hwb/menu_Connector.html
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Attempting to pretend that the parallel port is not in an interrupt
driven mode by passing irq=none is folly.
No, that's not what it's for. It means 'for Christ sake don't use
interrupts, I know what I'm doing'.
If irq=none is
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:24:59 +0100, Heusden, Folkert van wrote:
Ok, the question is: does anyone know a place on the web where I can find
specifications of ISA-slots? I need to know what is supposed to be connected
to the pins (1, 2, 6, etc.)
Are you talking about the the layout of the ISA-bus
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
I frequently build Mozilla from scratch on my (aging) dual Celeron
machine. [...]
real60m4.574s
user101m18.260s -- impossible no?
sys 3m23.520s
Why do numbers like this show up? I noticed some of this
Summary: My system freezes *completely* when doing an INQUIRY under 2.4.x
kernels. SCSI card is a Tekram DC390. Only inquiries to the DISK device cause a
hang, others succeed.
System details: AMD K63-400MHz, 128 Mb RAM, 1 IDE drive, 1 SCSI controller
(DC390) plus (output of cat
I frequently build Mozilla from scratch on my (aging) dual Celeron
machine. [...]
real60m4.574s
user101m18.260s -- impossible no?
sys 3m23.520s
Why do numbers like this show up? I noticed some of this after having
enabled SMP on my UP box.
Now why would
- hdlc.c requires ARPHRD_CISCO (Cisco HDLC) to compile. This should*
be ARPHRD_HDLC
- the PCI_VENDOR/DEVICE_xxx for drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c haven't been
included in the pci_ids db
- drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c relies on ARPHRD_RAWHDLC (it's initialized
as a transparent hdlc driver and I know no
My machine locked hard last night for an unknown reason under
2.4.3-pre4. Rebooted and it did it's fsck thing. Got alot of errors
about missing '..', fixed alot of things and moved some stuff to
/lost+found.
Some files got screwed up so I can't delete them.
[mhaque@viper html-blah]$ rm -r
You should use this patch instead, from Alan's tree, for updating
include/linux/if_arp.h...
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:19:54PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
Ouch. What about all the per cpu structures in the kernel, how do you
handle them if a preempted task can be rescheduled on another cpu?
int count[NR_CPUS], *p;
p = count+smp_processor_id(); /* start on cpu 0, count[0] */
if
Hi,
recently upgrading one of my two CPUs, I found kernel-2.4.2 to be unable to
handle the situation with 2 different CPUs (AMP = Assymmetric
multiprocessing ;-) correctly.
Some details on my system:
Dual BX board (DFI P2XBL/D), iPII 350 (Deschutes) + iPIII 850 (Coppermine)
Note: The difference
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:41:55AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On 20 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote:
real60m4.574s
user101m18.260s -- impossible no?
sys 3m23.520s
Why do numbers like this show up? I noticed some of this after having
enabled SMP on my UP box.
As
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] crit :
You should use this patch instead, from Alan's tree, for updating
include/linux/if_arp.h...
It adds confusion: do you imagine the poor soul who discovers hdlc in Linux
and sees ARPHRD_CISCO and ARPHRD_HDLC for the same use after some hours
of code-greping
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I decided to play around a little further. First, I deleted the "ide0=ata66" from
lilo.conf and second I ran bonnie a lot more times. I found that after the deletion
I occasionally (say one time in three or four), saw block reads a little over 3
KB/sec. I then
recently upgrading one of my two CPUs, I found kernel-2.4.2 to be unable to
handle the situation with 2 different CPUs (AMP = Assymmetric
multiprocessing ;-) correctly.
"correctly". Intel doesn't support this (mis)configuration:
especially with different steppings, not to mention models.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:41:55AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On 20 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote:
real60m4.574s
user101m18.260s -- impossible no?
sys 3m23.520s
Why do numbers like this show up? I noticed some of
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Anton Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was not surprising the BKL was one of the main offenders. Looking at the
stats ext2_get_block was the bad guy (UTIL is % of time lock was busy for,
WAIT is time spent waiting for lock):
Actually, I find the BKL fairly
things correctly they have enhanced Wake-on-LAN to allow you to do
things like reset the machine, update the BIOS and such by sending
magic packets which are interpreted by the network card. Or maybe I am
Normally 'sending magic packets resets the machine' is considered a feature
reported to
Ok, I see. Currently, the sleep process is started from an ioctl sent to
another driver, which will in turn call various notifier functions to
shut down bits of hardware and finally put the machine to sleep. It's not
a direct ioctl to the /dev/fb (which may not be opened).
[snip]...
I need to
Francois Romieu wrote:
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] crit :
You should use this patch instead, from Alan's tree, for updating
include/linux/if_arp.h...
It adds confusion: do you imagine the poor soul who discovers hdlc in Linux
and sees ARPHRD_CISCO and ARPHRD_HDLC for the same use
On 21 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
The big case seems to be ext2_get_block(), we'll fix that early in
2.5.x. I think Al already has patches for it.
Since the last August ;-) Bitmaps handling is a separate story (it got
less testing) but with the -gfp_mask in tree it will be much simpler.
Isn't that a job of the device drivers?
Well most of those resources are present on every PC motherboard.
In KGI we have our own keyboard driver which tries to allocate the
kayboard I/O range for itself, and when it does io_check_region() it
fails. What should I do?
This will also be the case
Does anyone have a working patch for the 2.2.18 kernel?
What is the most stable version of the kernel for the use of the patch?
Has the native i2o driver been updated to handle what the dpt card is
doing?
I tried, I never managed to get the board and our i2o driver to be happy. As
far as
Hi,
I suppose that many SCSI maintainers do read the linux-kernel
mailing list. However, just in case, I am quoting one of the
very interesting postings that come from people at Stanford.
They seem to be doing mechanical verification / checking of
linux source code to hunt for potentical bugs. In
Surprisingly, it works on lx164. :-)
Ivan.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:46:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
This has only been tested on i386 without PAE, and is known to break other
architectures. Ingo, mind checking what PAE needs? Generally, the changes
are simple, and really only implies
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:47PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Obext2: plug
Guys, help with testing directories-in-pagecache patch. It works fine
here and I would really like it to get serious beating.
Patch is on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/ext2-dir-patch-b-S2.gz (against
2.4.2, but applies
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
It's harmless.
It's really a warning that says: the mm that you allocated a new LDT for
may have multiple users, and while the LDT is added to all of them, we
don't guarantee _when_ the other users will actually see the LDT.
Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about the following (2.5 ?):
- dev-type = ARPHRD_HDLC;
+ dev-type = ARPHRD_CISCO;
I'll replace ARPHRD_HDLC with ARPHRD_CISCO in the whole (AC) tree when
2.4.x kernel with '#define ARPHRD_CISCO' is out, leaving
recently upgrading one of my two CPUs, I found kernel-2.4.2 to be
unable to handle the situation with 2 different CPUs (AMP =3D
Assymmetric multiprocessing ;-) correctly. Some details on my system:
Dual BX board (DFI P2XBL/D), iPII 350 (Deschutes) + iPIII 850
(Coppermine) Note: The
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 932 7486258+ b Win95 FAT32
...
I also ran hdparm -tT /dev/hda1:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.28 seconds =100.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.35 seconds =
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Heusden, Folkert van wrote:
Hi,
I have this mysterious 8 bit ISA card with nothing more then 2 smb-mounted
ic's
and a button. It seems to be something that should force a system memory
dump.
I think I can handle the code-writing, but since there's no documentation I
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
It would be nice to determine _why_ you can't unlink these files. If
it was just an issue of size 2GB, you should get EFBIG error or so.
People have been reporting undeletable files several times now... Before
you reformat, could you do some
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 932 7486258+ b Win95 FAT32
Try changing to 'c' (fat32+LBA) and check BIOS settings (s/b AUTO or USER,
and LBA).
rgds,
tim.
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:42:08AM -0600, Josh Grebe wrote:
This is what I'm afraid of, in my case we have millions of files that are
dealt with in no real order, and if cache fragmentation will keep the
memory from being freed, we're in for problems. This reading was taken
with the machine
a) mount it on some real place. And write there to register
entries instead of the bogus /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
b) add a couple of proc_mkdir() into fs/proc/root.c
c) stick with the previous binfmt_misc in 2.4 and leave the
filesystem with 2.5
Actually you would still need
is there a way to dynamically change the limit : kernel: ip_conntrack:
maximum limit of 16384 entries exceeded ?
grepping in the documentation didn't tell much here.
either a newssus scan or a weird ftp server I tried to connect to,
caused the table to fill pretty fast and all other
Hi,
I'm interested in one specific "bug" reported out of these 120 and
no one seems to have responded about it yet. It reports the error on
line 889 (drivers/scsi/sd.c), but line 825 also seems bad (memsetting
the pointer that was allocated before checking for NULL). This piece
of code seems
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Jan Harkes wrote:
I've been thinking about this a bit and one possible solution would be
to significantly lower the cost of prune_icache by removing the
sync_all_inodes and only let it prune inodes that do not have any
mappings associated with them. Then it might become
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I have a repeatable deadlock when SMP is enabled on my UP box.
Linus' version of do_anonymous_page() is racy too...
I know the one in my patch is uglier, but at least it doesn't
leak memory or lose data ;)
regards,
Rik
--
Virtual memory is like a
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I have a repeatable deadlock when SMP is enabled on my UP box.
Linus' version of do_anonymous_page() is racy too...
Umm, forget that, I was reading too much code at once and
missed a few lines ... ;)
Rik
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes. I'm so used to UP numbers I didn't think. I saw user larger than
real on my UP box yesterday during some testing, and then seeing this
post... oops.
Okay, so you see "user real" on a UP box running an SMP kernel.
First, I'm not really
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I have a repeatable deadlock when SMP is enabled on my UP box.
EIP; c021e29a stext_lock+1556/677b =
When you see something like this, please do
gdb vmlinux
(gdb) x/10i 0xc021e29a
and it will basically show you where the
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, James Lewis Nance wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:47PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Obext2: plug
Guys, help with testing directories-in-pagecache patch. It works fine
here and I would really like it to get serious beating.
Patch is on
Several months ago, kapmd was renamed to kapm-idled in an attempt to
signal users that it was a special process, and that its CPU time wasn't
"real CPU time." This hasn't silenced the bug reports and confusion.
And instrumenting the number of calls to the apm idle function I am
not convinced
Boy, do I hate doing this. Haven't gotten a post in several days,
haven't seen any updates on kernel.org since 3/12. What's up?
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Patrick O'Rourke wrote:
Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
from picking init.
Pat
--- xxx/linux-2.4.3-pre6/mm/oom_kill.c Tue Nov 14 13:56:46 2000
+++ linux-2.4.3-pre6/mm/oom_kill.c Wed
Eli Carter wrote:
Eli Carter wrote:
Russell King wrote:
Eli Carter writes:
What are you seeing that I'm missing?
Ok, after sitting down and thinking again about this problem, its not
the 9.ms case, but the 10.1 case:
[snip]
Like I say, this requires good
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Chuck Campbell wrote:
Looked at the config of the kernel and you'll see with cards/chipsets are
supported for ata100. I'm using the Promise ATA100 and works great with
ata100 disks and linux 2.4.x.
I've searched the kernel Documentation directory (linux 2.4.x) and I
Hi Jerome.
As Mr. Hafting says, is seems that there is a softirq missing somewhere.
If this is the case, it should help to make some add some systemcalls in
your program, since a softirq should happen at every system-call exit.
Try adding:
getpid();
in the innermost loop, and see if
Hi all,
I'm looking into upgrading my binutils to the latest stable release. I
do kernel work so I'm guessing from previous experience that I have to get
the Linux specific one. I tracked the linux specific versions down to
ftp.kernel.org but am not certain as to which one is the latest
Andre Hedrick wrote:
Okay not to worry, I now have a my hands on a VIA 686B and will look at
the changes that happened to the VIA686A
Have you run 2.2.18 plus my patches off kernel.org?
Ok, now its clear that I have a big troubles with hardware.
I compiled kernel 2.2.18+IDE_patches with
handle the situation with 2 different CPUs (AMP = Assymmetric
multiprocessing ;-) correctly.
"correctly". Intel doesn't support this (mis)configuration:
especially with different steppings, not to mention models.
Actually for a lot of cases its quite legal.
Alan has, or is working on,
Eli Carter wrote:
Having not looked at the code... Why not "if( p-pid 1 )"? (Or can
p-pid can be negative?!, um, typecast to unsigned...)
I simply mirrored the check done in do_exit():
if (tsk-pid == 1)
panic("Attempted to kill init!");
Since PID_MAX is 32768 I do
Patrick O'Rourke, who wrote:
Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
from picking init.
(Patch deleted)
What happens when init is not pid == 1, as is often the case
during installs, booting off of cdrom,
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote:
Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
from picking init.
One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on
anybody's system ?
I think that the
george anzinger writes:
By the by, if a preemption lock is all that is needed the patch defines
it and it is rather fast (an inc going in and a dec test comming
out). A lot faster than a spin lock with its "LOCK" access. A preempt
lock does not need to be "LOCK"ed because the only
Is anyone else seeing this build problem on linux
2.4.3-pre6? On linuxppc using out bitkeeper linuxppc_2_4
archive which has been updated to linux 2.4.3-pre6 I see
the following failure...
ld -T arch/ppc/vmlinux.lds -Ttext 0xc000 -Bstatic arch/ppc/kernel/hea
t/main.o init/version.o \
hi,
how does linux provide the hostid string?
on a sun box this is a guaranteed unique identifier, since AFAIK
intel architecture does not have this unique identifier can
two linux boxes end up with same hostid by chance?
thanks in advance
mark
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Lately we have had bounces from lots of places, INCLUDING @home.com !
However in your case I see no such events.
Everything seem to have worked just fine, until at circa 2:15 AM (EST)
on 16th of
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
It's a problem for uniprocessors as well.
Example:
#define current_cpu_data boot_cpu_data
#define pgd_quicklist (current_cpu_data.pgd_quick)
extern __inline__ void free_pgd_fast(pgd_t *pgd)
{
*(unsigned long *)pgd = (unsigned long)
Leif Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What happens when init is not pid == 1, as is often the case
during installs, booting off of cdrom, etc..
Well, after spending hours scrutinizing Patrick's one-line patch, I'll
guess that, in these cases, the patch does not prevent init from being
killed
how does linux provide the hostid string?
Its up to the C library
on a sun box this is a guaranteed unique identifier, since AFAIK
intel architecture does not have this unique identifier can
two linux boxes end up with same hostid by chance?
Easily. hostid is generally only useful to
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