Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread The Doctor What
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001224 16:27]: > One thing we _could_ potentially do is to simplify the CPU selection a > bit, and make it a two-stage process. Basically have a > > bool "Optimize for current CPU" CONFIG_CPU_CURRENT > > which most people who just want to get the best

sysmips call and glibc atomic set

2000-12-24 Thread Joe deBlaquiere
I'm working with a vr4181 target and started digging into the atomic test and set stuff in the kernel and glibc. The first problem I had was that the glibc code assumes that all mips III targets implement the mips III ISA (funny assumption, no?) but the vr4181 doesn't include the

Re: Proposal: devfs names ending in %d or %u

2000-12-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Eric Shattow wrote: [snip] > when i insert a FAT formatted disc with a PC partition table, the partition > i want to mount is part1. when i insert a HFS formatted disc with a MAC > partition table, the partition i want to mount is part4. this is very ugly, and it has nothing to do with devfs.

Re: Proposal: devfs names ending in %d or %u

2000-12-24 Thread Eric Shattow
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote: > I propose to change the devfs registration functions > to allow registrations of devices ending in %d or %u, in which > case it will use the first value, starting at 0, that generates a > string that already registered. So, if I have disc0,

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Andreas Franck wrote: > Hello Mike, hello linux-kernel hackers, > > Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Yes, hmm indeed. Try these two things. > > > > 1. make DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(sem) in bdflush_init() static. > > 2. compile with frame pointers. (normal case for IKD) > > > >

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Augusto César Radtke
Marco d'Itri wrote: > And I have another problem: I'm experiencing random hangs using X[1] with > 2.4.0-test12. After a variable amount of time, some of the times I use X > (I mostly use console) it just freezes hard (no caps lock activity). > I'm not sure if this only happens while using X or

Proposal: devfs names ending in %d or %u

2000-12-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
It seems that just about everything that uses devfs contains some logic that attempts to construct an unused device name with something like: static devnum = 0; sprintf (name, "lp%d", devnum++); devfs_register_device(..., name,...); Besides duplicating a

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 02:25:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Indeed. Some of the issues end up just becoming compiler flags, which > means that anything that uses C is "tainted" by the processor choice. And > happily there isn't all that much non-C in the kernel any more. > > One thing

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Dan Aloni
On 25 Dec 2000, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer > > > around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: > > > > Speaking of page_launder()

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 24, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /* The page is dirty, or locked, move to inactive_dirty list. */ > if (page->buffers || TryLockPage(page)) { > ... > >and change the test to > > if (page->buffers || PageDirty(page) || TryLockPage(page)) {

Re: sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-24 Thread Ron Calderon
test8 is borked too. I'll try test7 next ron --- Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:48:44PM -0800, Ron > Calderon wrote: > > I just finished compiling 2.4.0-test5 and that > worked > > fine with 512M ram. I'll start going thru the > other > > kernels. It'll

shmat returning NULL with 0 sized segment

2000-12-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, I'm trying to debug a weird problem with Xine - its screwing up its use of shared memory for regions I haven't sussed yet. One odd consequence is that it has apparently successfully managed to allocate a 0 byte chunk of shared memory; shmat is then called with shmaddr=0 and shmflg=0; the

Re: css hang; somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2

2000-12-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Actually... I just remembered that I have my kernel patched to bring it up-to-date with udf cvs. Dave Gilbert wrote: > > Hi, > Somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2 (sheesh the version > numbers.) CSS on ATAPI DVD ROM drives has stopped working. > > Playing a CSS disc (using xine)

Re: css hang; somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2

2000-12-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Works fine under test13-pre4 here on a x86 and an ATAPI Creative 2x dvd drive using xine or dxr2 player. Dave Gilbert wrote: > > Hi, > Somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2 (sheesh the version > numbers.) CSS on ATAPI DVD ROM drives has stopped working. > > Playing a CSS disc (using

css hang; somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2

2000-12-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, Somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2 (sheesh the version numbers.) CSS on ATAPI DVD ROM drives has stopped working. Playing a CSS disc (using xine) causes a complete system hang (machine doesn't ping - sysrq-b still works) on test13pre4ac2. On test12 it is still OK. This is on

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer > > around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: > Speaking of page_launder() I just stumbled upon two oopsen today on the UP build.

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello Mike, hello linux-kernel hackers, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Yes, hmm indeed. Try these two things. > > 1. make DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(sem) in bdflush_init() static. > 2. compile with frame pointers. (normal case for IKD) > > My IKD tree works with either option, but not with neither. I

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Tim Wright wrote: > > > > Which is all fine, but maybe the kernel really ought to detect that > > problem and complain at boot time? > > > > Or does that happen already? > > There was a similar thread to this recently. The issue is that if you > choose the wrong

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It looks like PG_dirty is now being used only for swap_cache pages, and > not for buffer cache and page cache pages, is that correct? No. PG_dirty is used for all memory mapped pages - be they anonymous or not. These days the buffer dirty

Re: [patch] support for FDC37N769 IRDA chip

2000-12-24 Thread Willy Tarreau
G ! For Christmas, I'd like to get a new mailer which doesn't eat my patches :-) here it is again, after cut'n'paste. Please apply by hand or "patch -l". Cheers, Willy --- linux-2.2.18/drivers/net/irda/smc-ircc.cSat Jun 24 14:57:49 2000 +++ linux/drivers/net/irda/smc-ircc.c Sun Dec 24

[patch] support for FDC37N769 IRDA chip

2000-12-24 Thread wtarreau
Hello Dag, I discovered that my notebook supported FIR, but I didn't know the chip (and it was not documented). So I disassembled it completely and found an SMC FDC37N769 inside. It's now correctly detected with the following trivial patch against kernel 2.2.18 (the same entry should be added to

Re: sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-24 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:48:44PM -0800, Ron Calderon wrote: > I just finished compiling 2.4.0-test5 and that worked > fine with 512M ram. I'll start going thru the other > kernels. It'll take me sometime since compileing takes > a long time. I've not yet started active searching. However:

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 23.12.00 in ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, michael chen wrote: > > > I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option > > > of Pentium III or

Re: sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-24 Thread Ron Calderon
I just finished compiling 2.4.0-test5 and that worked fine with 512M ram. I'll start going thru the other kernels. It'll take me sometime since compileing takes a long time. ron --- Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:57:21PM -0800, Ron > Calderon wrote: >

[mwelmor@kre8tive.org: Masquerade hangups]

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Elmore
OK. I went back to 2.2.18 (released) and things work better. Since it appears the debug flags don't work in the 8139too module, how can I turn on some debug flags in the 2.4.0-test13-pre4 driver so I can see where this thing is hanging? -mwe - Forwarded message from Mike Elmore

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmm.. I wonder if such a dirty page might have been moved to the > "inactive_clean" list some way? It shouldn't really be there, as the page > had users, but if it gets on that list we'd not have tested the dirty bit. > > Marco, would you mind changing the test in

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Dietmar Kling
> > Get back there in front of the computer NOW. Christmas can wait. > > Linus "the Grinch" Torvalds Hoo - Hoo - Hoo, you've been very naughty Linus. Asking people to work on Christmas evening. My god Linus, that's so naughty that I add it to my list... As soon as I'm

Re: FEATURE (was Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-24 Thread rkreiner
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > it is not a problem, it is a feature. (and a useful one!) > yes, mount devices several times it would be a nice feature, but do something like: /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd1 /mydrive ext2 ro,noauto,user 1 1 as user: mount /mydrive as root: mount /dev/hda2 /mydrive as user:

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer > around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: Yeah, yeah, it's 7PM Christmas Eve over there, and you're in the middle of your Christmas dinner. You might feel that it's unreasonable

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 24, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the > >> daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. > > > >Could you send me both files? BTW, which

Re: test13-pre4 ip defrag oops

2000-12-24 Thread kuznet
Hello! > eax: 20202037 ebx: d3a406c0 ecx: cf683024 edx: c734a2a0 Ough... found eventually. skb->dev turns out to be not initialized. 8)8) This patchlet surely fixes the bug. (plus writes are ordered) Alexey --- ../vger3-001222/linux/net/core/skbuff.c Fri Dec 22 19:37:54 2000 +++

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > diff -Nur linux/include/asm-i386/system.h linux.new/include/asm-i386/system.h > --- linux/include/asm-i386/system.h Mon Dec 11 19:26:39 2000 > +++ linux.new/include/asm-i386/system.h Sat Dec 23 16:06:01 2000 > @@ -274,7 +274,14 @@ > #ifndef CONFIG_X86_XMM > #define mb() __asm__

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Andreas Franck wrote: > Hi Mike, hello linux-kernel audience, > > > I had the same, with the last few snapshots I tried, but 20001218 seems > > to work ok. > > dmesg|head -1 > > Linux version 2.4.0-test13ikd (root@el-kaboom) (gcc version gcc-2.97 > > 20001218

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 24, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the >> daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. > >Could you send me both files? BTW, which filesystem it is? I use ext2. The files are not

Masquerade hangups

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Elmore
Hello, I have a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 mb machine with a PCI rtl8139 card connected to my local net and a ISA 3c509 card connected to my dsl link. Masquerade is set up. I seem to get pretty good performance from internet->masq box and from masq box->internal lan, but when a internal box tries

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:23:33AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > ack. This patch against 2.2.19pre3 should fix all races. (note that wait->flags doesn't need to be initialized in the critical section in test1X too)

Re: IDE woes:linux and BIOS won't agree on C/H/S detection

2000-12-24 Thread Ishikawa
I sent out a longish response a few minutes ago which explained the my problem was solved somehow! One thing I missed explaining in my original post is the AMI BIOS on the GA-7IXE4 motherboard has a very spartan set of options. For the geometry translation of ATA disk, only On/Off choice was

Re: IDE woes:linux and BIOS won't agree on C/H/S detection

2000-12-24 Thread Ishikawa
Guest section DW wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:11:41AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: > > > I have to think more deeply then what the best measure would be. > > I suppose you can get all systems involved to agree on 255 heads > if you select LBA in the BIOS. > > Andries Hi, I think I

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 04:17:10PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > I was talking about a different scenario: > > add_wait_queue_exclusive(>wait_for_request, ); > for (;;) { > __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); > /* WINDOW */ >

Kernel-Patch

2000-12-24 Thread Marcel Schmidt
Hello to everybody This is a kernel patch against linux-2.4.0-test12. It includes only a few small code changes to make my Compiler (GCC 2.97) not complaining so much. Cheers Marcel patch

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-24 Thread Cesar Eduardo Barros
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:14:55AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:31:56PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > > > I've been doing some experiments with the keepalive code in 2.4.0-test10 here > > (I want to avoid the 2.2.x NAT I'm using (for which I don't have root)

Re: recommended gcc compiler version

2000-12-24 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anuradha Ratnaweera) wrote on 22.12.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > For i386 > > > > 2.2.18 > > gcc 2.7.2 or egcs-1.1.2 > > Just a remainder for debian users. There is a debian package gcc272 which > is said to be the "GNU C

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Jeff Lightfoot
"Marco d'Itri" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can confirm the bug which loses updates to the inn active file when > it's unmapped is present again in 2.4.0-test12. It is also still in 2.4.0-test13-pre4 in case someone thought they had fixed it. -- Jeff Lightfoot --jeffml at pobox.com

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 23.12.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, michael chen wrote: > > I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option > > of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the > > system hang at very

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:45:14AM +0100, Jeffrey Rose wrote: > I also have a Celeron 600 in my Compaq 5000, but even with the output > below, I am not sure this is what Linus is talking about! I believe > Linus is trying to say, "We HAVE configurations set for that specific > architecture, so

Re: Q: natsemi.c spinlocks

2000-12-24 Thread Manfred
Andrew Morton wrote: > > start_tx() > { Yes, I overlooked start_tx. Hmm. start_tx also assumes that the cpu commits writes in order, I'm sure the driver is unreliable on RISC cpus. Perhaps the driver should use pci_alloc_consistent and pci_map_single? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this

Re: sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-24 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:57:21PM -0800, Ron Calderon wrote: > My sparc 10 seems to hang with any 2.4.0-test12+ > kernel ...but 2.4.0-test11-X kernels are fine? Well, good info;) > if I add mem=128M it boots fine, but anything above > 128M wont boot it just hangs. Is there something I've >

2.2.19pre3 clock timer config lost ?

2000-12-24 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
never seen this before. I run 2.2.19pre3 on a BP6. No OC, no vmware. just the kernel wilt lm-sensors stuff patched in. I found that the kernel was somewhat sluggish now and then, and this morning, this popped up in the logs : Dec 24 02:05:05 grobbebol kernel: probable hardware bug: clock

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Rose
Erik Mouw wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:21:51AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > A Celeron isn't a PIII, and you shouldn't tell the configure that it is. > > Well, some Celerons are. My laptop has a Celeron with a Coppermine > core, so it is PIII based. Here is the output from

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:31:56PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > I've been doing some experiments with the keepalive code in 2.4.0-test10 here > (I want to avoid the 2.2.x NAT I'm using (for which I don't have root) from > timing out my connections). To test it, I reduced both

Re: bigphysarea support in 2.2.19 and 2.4.0 kernels

2000-12-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Eric W. Biederman writes: > If you are doing a real time task you don't want to very close > to your performance envelope. If you are hitting the performance > envelope any small hiccup will cause you to miss your deadline, > and close to your performance envelope hiccups are virtually certain.

innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
I can confirm the bug which loses updates to the inn active file when it's unmapped is present again in 2.4.0-test12. I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. Alexander Viro posted this test case:

Re: bigphysarea support in 2.2.19 and 2.4.0 kernels

2000-12-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Jes Sorensen writes: > Albert D Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [about using huge physical allocations for number crunching] >> 2. Programming a DMA controller with multiple addresses isn't >> as fast as programming it with one. > > LOL > > Consider that allocating the larger block of

Re: bigphysarea support in 2.2.19 and 2.4.0 kernels

2000-12-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Jes Sorensen writes: Albert D Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [about using huge physical allocations for number crunching] 2. Programming a DMA controller with multiple addresses isn't as fast as programming it with one. LOL Consider that allocating the larger block of memory is going

innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
I can confirm the bug which loses updates to the inn active file when it's unmapped is present again in 2.4.0-test12. I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. Alexander Viro posted this test case:

Re: bigphysarea support in 2.2.19 and 2.4.0 kernels

2000-12-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Eric W. Biederman writes: If you are doing a real time task you don't want to very close to your performance envelope. If you are hitting the performance envelope any small hiccup will cause you to miss your deadline, and close to your performance envelope hiccups are virtually certain.

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:31:56PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: I've been doing some experiments with the keepalive code in 2.4.0-test10 here (I want to avoid the 2.2.x NAT I'm using (for which I don't have root) from timing out my connections). To test it, I reduced both

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Rose
Erik Mouw wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:21:51AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: A Celeron isn't a PIII, and you shouldn't tell the configure that it is. Well, some Celerons are. My laptop has a Celeron with a Coppermine core, so it is PIII based. Here is the output from /proc/cpuinfo:

2.2.19pre3 clock timer config lost ?

2000-12-24 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
never seen this before. I run 2.2.19pre3 on a BP6. No OC, no vmware. just the kernel wilt lm-sensors stuff patched in. I found that the kernel was somewhat sluggish now and then, and this morning, this popped up in the logs : Dec 24 02:05:05 grobbebol kernel: probable hardware bug: clock

Re: sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-24 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:57:21PM -0800, Ron Calderon wrote: My sparc 10 seems to hang with any 2.4.0-test12+ kernel ...but 2.4.0-test11-X kernels are fine? Well, good info;) if I add mem=128M it boots fine, but anything above 128M wont boot it just hangs. Is there something I've missed?

Re: Q: natsemi.c spinlocks

2000-12-24 Thread Manfred
Andrew Morton wrote: start_tx() { Yes, I overlooked start_tx. Hmm. start_tx also assumes that the cpu commits writes in order, I'm sure the driver is unreliable on RISC cpus. Perhaps the driver should use pci_alloc_consistent and pci_map_single? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:45:14AM +0100, Jeffrey Rose wrote: I also have a Celeron 600 in my Compaq 5000, but even with the output below, I am not sure this is what Linus is talking about! I believe Linus is trying to say, "We HAVE configurations set for that specific architecture, so please

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 23.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, michael chen wrote: I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a Celeron's PC, it could cause the system hang at very

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Jeff Lightfoot
"Marco d'Itri" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can confirm the bug which loses updates to the inn active file when it's unmapped is present again in 2.4.0-test12. It is also still in 2.4.0-test13-pre4 in case someone thought they had fixed it. -- Jeff Lightfoot --jeffml at pobox.com --

Re: recommended gcc compiler version

2000-12-24 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anuradha Ratnaweera) wrote on 22.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: For i386 2.2.18 gcc 2.7.2 or egcs-1.1.2 Just a remainder for debian users. There is a debian package gcc272 which is said to be the "GNU C compiler's C part",

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-24 Thread Cesar Eduardo Barros
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:14:55AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:31:56PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: I've been doing some experiments with the keepalive code in 2.4.0-test10 here (I want to avoid the 2.2.x NAT I'm using (for which I don't have root) from

Kernel-Patch

2000-12-24 Thread Marcel Schmidt
Hello to everybody This is a kernel patch against linux-2.4.0-test12. It includes only a few small code changes to make my Compiler (GCC 2.97) not complaining so much. Cheers Marcel patch

Re: IDE woes:linux and BIOS won't agree on C/H/S detection

2000-12-24 Thread Ishikawa
Guest section DW wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:11:41AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: I have to think more deeply then what the best measure would be. I suppose you can get all systems involved to agree on 255 heads if you select LBA in the BIOS. Andries Hi, I think I misunderstood one

Re: IDE woes:linux and BIOS won't agree on C/H/S detection

2000-12-24 Thread Ishikawa
I sent out a longish response a few minutes ago which explained the my problem was solved somehow! One thing I missed explaining in my original post is the AMI BIOS on the GA-7IXE4 motherboard has a very spartan set of options. For the geometry translation of ATA disk, only On/Off choice was

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:23:33AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: ack. This patch against 2.2.19pre3 should fix all races. (note that wait-flags doesn't need to be initialized in the critical section in test1X too)

Masquerade hangups

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Elmore
Hello, I have a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 mb machine with a PCI rtl8139 card connected to my local net and a ISA 3c509 card connected to my dsl link. Masquerade is set up. I seem to get pretty good performance from internet-masq box and from masq box-internal lan, but when a internal box tries

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 24, Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. Could you send me both files? BTW, which filesystem it is? I use ext2. The files are not corrupted, they

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Andreas Franck wrote: Hi Mike, hello linux-kernel audience, I had the same, with the last few snapshots I tried, but 20001218 seems to work ok. dmesg|head -1 Linux version 2.4.0-test13ikd (root@el-kaboom) (gcc version gcc-2.97 20001218 (experimental)) #18 Sat

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! diff -Nur linux/include/asm-i386/system.h linux.new/include/asm-i386/system.h --- linux/include/asm-i386/system.h Mon Dec 11 19:26:39 2000 +++ linux.new/include/asm-i386/system.h Sat Dec 23 16:06:01 2000 @@ -274,7 +274,14 @@ #ifndef CONFIG_X86_XMM #define mb() __asm__

Re: test13-pre4 ip defrag oops

2000-12-24 Thread kuznet
Hello! eax: 20202037 ebx: d3a406c0 ecx: cf683024 edx: c734a2a0 Ough... found eventually. skb-dev turns out to be not initialized. 8)8) This patchlet surely fixes the bug. (plus writes are ordered) Alexey --- ../vger3-001222/linux/net/core/skbuff.c Fri Dec 22 19:37:54 2000 +++

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 24, Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. Could you send me both files? BTW, which filesystem it

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: Yeah, yeah, it's 7PM Christmas Eve over there, and you're in the middle of your Christmas dinner. You might feel that it's unreasonable of

Re: FEATURE (was Re: PROBLEM: multiple mount of devices possible2.4.0-test1 - 2.4.0-test13-pre4

2000-12-24 Thread rkreiner
Tigran Aivazian wrote: it is not a problem, it is a feature. (and a useful one!) yes, mount devices several times it would be a nice feature, but do something like: /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd1 /mydrive ext2 ro,noauto,user 1 1 as user: mount /mydrive as root: mount /dev/hda2 /mydrive as user:

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Dietmar Kling
Get back there in front of the computer NOW. Christmas can wait. Linus "the Grinch" Torvalds Hoo - Hoo - Hoo, you've been very naughty Linus. Asking people to work on Christmas evening. My god Linus, that's so naughty that I add it to my list... As soon as I'm

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
Linus Torvalds wrote: Hmm.. I wonder if such a dirty page might have been moved to the "inactive_clean" list some way? It shouldn't really be there, as the page had users, but if it gets on that list we'd not have tested the dirty bit. Marco, would you mind changing the test in

[mwelmor@kre8tive.org: Masquerade hangups]

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Elmore
OK. I went back to 2.2.18 (released) and things work better. Since it appears the debug flags don't work in the 8139too module, how can I turn on some debug flags in the 2.4.0-test13-pre4 driver so I can see where this thing is hanging? -mwe - Forwarded message from Mike Elmore

Re: sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-24 Thread Ron Calderon
I just finished compiling 2.4.0-test5 and that worked fine with 512M ram. I'll start going thru the other kernels. It'll take me sometime since compileing takes a long time. ron --- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:57:21PM -0800, Ron Calderon wrote: My

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 23.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, michael chen wrote: I found that when I compiled the 2.4 kernel with the option of Pentium III or Pentium 4 on a

Re: sparc 10 w/512 megs hangs during boot

2000-12-24 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:48:44PM -0800, Ron Calderon wrote: I just finished compiling 2.4.0-test5 and that worked fine with 512M ram. I'll start going thru the other kernels. It'll take me sometime since compileing takes a long time. I've not yet started active searching. However:

[patch] support for FDC37N769 IRDA chip

2000-12-24 Thread wtarreau
Hello Dag, I discovered that my notebook supported FIR, but I didn't know the chip (and it was not documented). So I disassembled it completely and found an SMC FDC37N769 inside. It's now correctly detected with the following trivial patch against kernel 2.2.18 (the same entry should be added to

Re: [patch] support for FDC37N769 IRDA chip

2000-12-24 Thread Willy Tarreau
G ! For Christmas, I'd like to get a new mailer which doesn't eat my patches :-) here it is again, after cut'n'paste. Please apply by hand or "patch -l". Cheers, Willy --- linux-2.2.18/drivers/net/irda/smc-ircc.cSat Jun 24 14:57:49 2000 +++ linux/drivers/net/irda/smc-ircc.c Sun Dec 24

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Tim Wright wrote: Which is all fine, but maybe the kernel really ought to detect that problem and complain at boot time? Or does that happen already? There was a similar thread to this recently. The issue is that if you choose the wrong processor type, you

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello Mike, hello linux-kernel hackers, Mike Galbraith wrote: Yes, hmm indeed. Try these two things. 1. make DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(sem) in bdflush_init() static. 2. compile with frame pointers. (normal case for IKD) My IKD tree works with either option, but not with neither. I haven't

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: Speaking of page_launder() I just stumbled upon two oopsen today on the UP build. Maybe it

css hang; somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2

2000-12-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, Somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2 (sheesh the version numbers.) CSS on ATAPI DVD ROM drives has stopped working. Playing a CSS disc (using xine) causes a complete system hang (machine doesn't ping - sysrq-b still works) on test13pre4ac2. On test12 it is still OK. This is on

Re: css hang; somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2

2000-12-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Works fine under test13-pre4 here on a x86 and an ATAPI Creative 2x dvd drive using xine or dxr2 player. Dave Gilbert wrote: Hi, Somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2 (sheesh the version numbers.) CSS on ATAPI DVD ROM drives has stopped working. Playing a CSS disc (using xine)

Re: css hang; somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2

2000-12-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Actually... I just remembered that I have my kernel patched to bring it up-to-date with udf cvs. Dave Gilbert wrote: Hi, Somewhere between test12 and test13pre4ac2 (sheesh the version numbers.) CSS on ATAPI DVD ROM drives has stopped working. Playing a CSS disc (using xine) causes

shmat returning NULL with 0 sized segment

2000-12-24 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, I'm trying to debug a weird problem with Xine - its screwing up its use of shared memory for regions I haven't sussed yet. One odd consequence is that it has apparently successfully managed to allocate a 0 byte chunk of shared memory; shmat is then called with shmaddr=0 and shmflg=0; the

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 24, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* The page is dirty, or locked, move to inactive_dirty list. */ if (page-buffers || TryLockPage(page)) { ... and change the test to if (page-buffers || PageDirty(page) || TryLockPage(page)) { Done, no

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Dan Aloni
On 25 Dec 2000, Zlatko Calusic wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Marco, would you mind changing the test in reclaim_page(), somewheer around line mm/vmscan.c:487 that says: Speaking of page_launder() I just stumbled

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 02:25:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Indeed. Some of the issues end up just becoming compiler flags, which means that anything that uses C is "tainted" by the processor choice. And happily there isn't all that much non-C in the kernel any more. One thing we

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Augusto César Radtke
Marco d'Itri wrote: And I have another problem: I'm experiencing random hangs using X[1] with 2.4.0-test12. After a variable amount of time, some of the times I use X (I mostly use console) it just freezes hard (no caps lock activity). I'm not sure if this only happens while using X or it's

Proposal: devfs names ending in %d or %u

2000-12-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
It seems that just about everything that uses devfs contains some logic that attempts to construct an unused device name with something like: static devnum = 0; sprintf (name, "lp%d", devnum++); devfs_register_device(..., name,...); Besides duplicating a

Re: Fatal Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and recent GCC snapshots

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Andreas Franck wrote: Hello Mike, hello linux-kernel hackers, Mike Galbraith wrote: Yes, hmm indeed. Try these two things. 1. make DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(sem) in bdflush_init() static. 2. compile with frame pointers. (normal case for IKD) My IKD tree

Re: Proposal: devfs names ending in %d or %u

2000-12-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Eric Shattow wrote: [snip] when i insert a FAT formatted disc with a PC partition table, the partition i want to mount is part1. when i insert a HFS formatted disc with a MAC partition table, the partition i want to mount is part4. this is very ugly, and it has nothing to do with devfs.

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