Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 26 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > > > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > > > > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally > > ... cut ... > > > Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to > >

Re: [prepatch] 2.4 waitqueues

2000-12-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:57:12PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Oh, it's all still there, but it's now all in the header file: > > #ifdef DEBUG > #define foo() printk(stuff) > #else > #define foo() > #endif I intentionally didn't focused on such part of your patch because I understood from the

Re: [prepatch] 2.4 waitqueues

2000-12-26 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:29:06AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > - Got rid of all the debugging ifdefs - these have been folded into > > wait.h > > Why? Such debugging code is just disabled so it doesn't get compiled in, but if > somebody wants he can enable it

Re: [prepatch] 2.4 waitqueues

2000-12-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:29:06AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > - Got rid of all the debugging ifdefs - these have been folded into > wait.h Why? Such debugging code is just disabled so it doesn't get compiled in, but if somebody wants he can enable it changing the #define in the sources to

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Well, consider the scenario of an application which opens a control connection > and a data connection, and the data connection remains idle for some hours > while you get to the beginning of the queue, and then the transfer starts. The > data

test13-preX: DRM (tdfx.o) unresolved symbols fixed?

2000-12-26 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello to all of you, I got this since test13-pre1 (pre4, now): SunWave1>depmod -e depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o depmod: remap_page_range depmod: _mmx_memcpy depmod: __wake_up depmod: mtrr_add

Re: USB related crashes

2000-12-26 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:59:54PM -0500, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > How to crash kernel 2.2.17-18: > > Turn on the USB printer without paper and try > to print something. Wait for the "printer.c: usblp0: > out of paper" message and turn off the printer. > Ok, now "killall gs" will freeze the

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Here's my latest code, which uses ll_rw_block for anon pages (or > pages without a writepage func) when flush_dirty_buffers, > sync_buffers, or fsync_inode_buffers are flushing things. This > seems to have fixed my slowdown on 1k

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-26 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, Here's my latest code, which uses ll_rw_block for anon pages (or pages without a writepage func) when flush_dirty_buffers, sync_buffers, or fsync_inode_buffers are flushing things. This seems to have fixed my slowdown on 1k buffer sizes, but I haven't done extensive benchmarks yet.

Re: [KBUILD] How do we handle autoconfiguration?

2000-12-26 Thread Michael Elizabeth Chastain
esr> # PROCESSOR is string valued; we capture stdout from the probe esr> derive PROCESSOR from "myprobe1.sh" esr> esr> # FOOFEATURE is boolean; we look at the return status from myprobe2.py esr> derive FOOFEATURE from "myprobe2.py" I think this is cool. esr> (kbuild people, this is one reason

[prepatch] 2.4 waitqueues

2000-12-26 Thread Andrew Morton
It's been quiet around here lately... This is a rework of the 2.4 wakeup code based on the discussions Andrea and I had last week. There were two basic problems: - If two tasks are on a waitqueue in exclusive mode and one gets woken, it will put itself back into TASK_[UN]INTERRUPTIBLE state

How do we handle autoconfiguration?

2000-12-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I wrote: >Giacomo, what's the state of your project? Sigh, I got an address-invalid bounce from Giacomo. Looks like he may have fallen off the net. -- >>esr>> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

How do we handle autoconfiguration?

2000-12-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Linus, replying to Alan: >> If we do that I'd rather see a make autoconfig that does the lot from >> proc/pci etc 8) > >Good point. No point in adding a new config option, we should just have a >new configurator instead. Of course, it can't handle many of the >questions, so it would still have to

Another faulty motherboard

2000-12-26 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
In ide-dma.c one reads: * Some people have reported trouble with Intel Zappa motherboards. * This can be fixed by upgrading the AMI BIOS to version 1.00.04.BS0, * available from ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/bios/10004bs0.exe * (thanks to Glen Morrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for researching this).

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Rogier Wolff
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If we do that I'd rather see a make autoconfig that does the lot from > > proc/pci etc 8) > > Good point. No point in adding a new config option, we should just have a > new configurator instead. Of course, it can't handle many of the > questions, so it would still have

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-26 Thread Michael Peddemors
> 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 me to ask > you to test out my latest crazy idea. > > How selfish of you. > > Get back there in front of the computer NOW. Christmas can wait. > >

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
> > > > > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > > > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally ... cut ... > Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to > allocate 1' solution would be a simple compromise?

Re: controllerless pci device support

2000-12-26 Thread Alan Cox
> the modem on. also it is equally fustrating. will this situation improve > in time or what else can i do to get my modem working? arrrgh! even if Only the winmodem folks can tell you. Ask them when they intend to GPL their drivers or release them with source under other sane licensing.

Re: sysmips call and glibc atomic set

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Not having swap doesn't mean you're safe. Think of any kind of previously > > unmapped page. > > > > Is there a reason why it doesn't just force that page to be mapped > first? You can map it in... But background daemon can map it out in the meantime :-). You'd have to map in and

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 22 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > > Jens, > > > > The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance > > of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally > > reads at 2-3x. Since test13-pre2 it's down to .6 - .7x.

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > There was a similar thread to this recently. The issue is that if you > > choose the wrong processor type, you may not even be able to complain. > > Hmm ... I think I can see ways around that (essentially similar to

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Ian Stirling wrote: > Where are you getting 100MB/s? > The PCI bus can move around 130MB/sec, but RAM is lots faster. I'll clarify your clarification further. :) Your typical PC has 33MHz 32-bit PCI. Increasing it to 66MHz or 64-bit can double the transfer rate, and doing both can quadruple it.

CCFOUND and more

2000-12-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi everyone. Solving other things, I have realized that all that problem on fast CC detection (CCFOUND) is easily solved by doing: CC := $(.) instead of CC = $(.) The find of the suitable CC command is repeated many times along a kernel build. And CC is

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Ian Stirling
> > On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: > > Thus spake Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > One more detail: top says the CPU is 50% system when reading from either > > > > one of the disk or raid devices. That seems awfully high considering > > > > that the Promise controller

Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-26 Thread David Riley
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > > To Maintainer: > PCI SUBSYSTEM > P: Martin Mares > M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S: Supported > > This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate > subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not

Any idea about this - SCSI Scanner...

2000-12-26 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Hey all! I'm just now getting around to trying to get my SCSI based scanner (Mustek MFS-6000CX) working with Sane and ran into a problem. The Linux kernel doesn't seem to be recognizing it at all. The Adaptec BIOS shows it on the bus prior to bootup (target 2 on the SCSI bus) but when

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > 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

USB related crashes

2000-12-26 Thread Giuliano Pochini
How to crash kernel 2.2.17-18: Turn on the USB printer without paper and try to print something. Wait for the "printer.c: usblp0: out of paper" message and turn off the printer. Ok, now "killall gs" will freeze the system. (kernel 2.2.17-18, I did't try 2.4, GCC 2.95.3, PowerPC750) Bye. - To

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > The simple fix is along the lines of adding code to fsync() that walks the > > inode page list and writes out dirty pages. > > > > The clever and clean fix is to split the inode page list into two lists, > > one for dirty and one for clean pages, and

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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

2.4.0-test12: PCMCIA IRQ assignments?

2000-12-26 Thread indyj
Hello, I have a Sager NP9820 laptop with an ALI chipset and a TI PCI1251BGFN PCMCIA chipset. For some reason, when I use the yenta module under 2.4.0, it gets an incorrect IRQ assignment. It uses IRQ11, which is also used by my ATI Rage Pro card... therefore, when you install this module, the

2.2.19pre3 on sparc64: Undefined symbols in fs/binfmt_elf module

2000-12-26 Thread Horst von Brand
Ultra 1, Red Hat 6.2 + updates and binutils-2.10.0.33, modutils-2.3.22-1. Mostly modular kernel. depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre3/fs/binfmt_elf.o depmod: get_pte_slow depmod: get_pmd_slow depmod: pgt_quicklists These seem to be sparc64-specific

2.2.19pre3 on sparc64: Hangs on boot, "no cont in shutdown!"??

2000-12-26 Thread Horst von Brand
Red Hat 6.2 + updates (plus local hacks, like binutils-2.10.0.33) on sparc64 (Ultra 1). When booting, it detects the floppy drive (I left a floppy in by mistake, the floppy is OK, and the same boots fine with 2.2.18): [snip snap] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M after this, it just gives the

Re: sysmips call and glibc atomic set

2000-12-26 Thread Joe deBlaquiere
Ralf, firstly, thank you for the answers :) Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Ok, but since the kernel disables MIPS III you're limited to MIPS II anyway ... > This makes sense... > > > Read the ISA manual; sc will fail if the LL-bit in c0_status is cleared > which will be cleared when the

[PATCH] winbond-840.c update

2000-12-26 Thread Manfred
Here is a third update for the winbond driver: * tx_timeout implemented, the driver now actually recovers from timeouts ;-) * tx fifo underrun code modified * further cleanups The driver is stable under high load, please give it a try. I'll submit it to Linus in a few days if I get some

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: > Thus spake Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > One more detail: top says the CPU is 50% system when reading from either > > > one of the disk or raid devices. That seems awfully high considering > > > that the Promise controller claims to do

Re: Problems with Athlon CPU [long]

2000-12-26 Thread Arnaud S . Launay
Le Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:17:39AM -0500, Mike A. Harris a écrit: > >kgcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11 > Sig11 generally indicates bad RAM or overheating or some faulty > hardware. This is an FAQ. Read the lkml FAQ. Once upon a time, it was also buggy k6... check

Re: sysmips call and glibc atomic set

2000-12-26 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 01:18:48AM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote: > 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

[PATCH] swap write clustering for 2.4 (3rd time)

2000-12-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Linus, The following patch changes swap_writepage() to try to do write clustering of phisically contiguous pages which are dirty and in the swapcache. Do you want to include it in 2.4? diff -Nur --exclude-from=exclude linux.orig/include/linux/mm.h linux/include/linux/mm.h ---

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Alan Cox
> 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 kernel would use. Less > confusion that way. If we

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-26 Thread Alan Cox
> The simple fix is along the lines of adding code to fsync() that walks the > inode page list and writes out dirty pages. > > The clever and clean fix is to split the inode page list into two lists, > one for dirty and one for clean pages, and only walk the dirty list. Like the patches that

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: > Thus spake Felix von Leitner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Here is the result of my test program on the strip set: > > # rb < /dev/md/0 > > 30.3 meg/sec > > # > > One more detail: top says the CPU is 50% system when reading from either > one of

2.2.18 ide access warps time, stalls serial, slows MIDI, mouse

2000-12-26 Thread J.D.
I've noticed a possible problem in Linux 2.2.18 relating to a CD-R drive connected to the secondary ide port. I'm not certain whether the problem cause is in the kernel software, in the hardware, or in a combination thereof. Although I've found a way to bypass the problem, I'm including a

Re: minor bugs around fork_init

2000-12-26 Thread Manfred
Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use. > > > In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust > > > the 15 bit pid space. > > > > Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice. > > There is no great hurry, but on the

Re: [bug] test13-pre4 nfs/ip_defrag crash (smp)

2000-12-26 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 04:34:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Jasper Spaans wrote: > > > > I am having some reproducible crashes with 2.4.0-test13-pre4, whenever I > > do some 'heavy' nfs-ing.. decoded oops: > > It looks like most of what you have is modules. Is

2.4.0-13-4: raid on lvm: VFS: Unsupported blocksize on dev md(9,3)

2000-12-26 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, I get messages like (2.4.0-13-4): Dec 26 11:59:35 sjoerd kernel: VFS: Unsupported blocksize on dev md(9,3). when trying to mount these /dev/md? . It worked fine with the 2.4.0-12, and the ext2 on lvm seems to work properly (after the LVM 0.9 utils update) a 'cat /dev/md1 > /images/md1'

Re: minor bugs around fork_init

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use. > > In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust > > the 15 bit pid space. > > Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice. > There is no great hurry, but on the other hand, it is always > better to

Re: shmat returning NULL with 0 sized segment

2000-12-26 Thread Christoph Rohland
Dave Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Linux History Documentation Project

2000-12-26 Thread Owen Stampflee
Hello Everyone, I have a crazy idea, it popped into my mind while reading one of the many short History of Linux articles. I would like to document the complete history of Linux. In my opinion it would be best to have everything: opinions, quotes, original newsgroup postings. I have many ideas

Linux History Documentation Project

2000-12-26 Thread Owen Stampflee
Hello Everyone, I have a crazy idea, it popped into my mind while reading one of the many short History of Linux articles. I would like to document the complete history of Linux. In my opinion it would be best to have everything: opinions, quotes, original newsgroup postings. I have many ideas

Re: shmat returning NULL with 0 sized segment

2000-12-26 Thread Christoph Rohland
Dave Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: minor bugs around fork_init

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use. In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust the 15 bit pid space. Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice. There is no great hurry, but on the other hand, it is always better to make these

2.4.0-13-4: raid on lvm: VFS: Unsupported blocksize on dev md(9,3)

2000-12-26 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, I get messages like (2.4.0-13-4): Dec 26 11:59:35 sjoerd kernel: VFS: Unsupported blocksize on dev md(9,3). when trying to mount these /dev/md? . It worked fine with the 2.4.0-12, and the ext2 on lvm seems to work properly (after the LVM 0.9 utils update) a 'cat /dev/md1 /images/md1'

Re: [bug] test13-pre4 nfs/ip_defrag crash (smp)

2000-12-26 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 04:34:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Jasper Spaans wrote: I am having some reproducible crashes with 2.4.0-test13-pre4, whenever I do some 'heavy' nfs-ing.. decoded oops: It looks like most of what you have is modules. Is netfilter

Re: minor bugs around fork_init

2000-12-26 Thread Manfred
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! * get_pid causes a deadlock when all pid numbers are in use. In the worst case, only 10900 threads are required to exhaust the 15 bit pid space. Yes. I posted a patch for 31-bit pids once or twice. There is no great hurry, but on the other hand, it is

2.2.18 ide access warps time, stalls serial, slows MIDI, mouse

2000-12-26 Thread J.D.
I've noticed a possible problem in Linux 2.2.18 relating to a CD-R drive connected to the secondary ide port. I'm not certain whether the problem cause is in the kernel software, in the hardware, or in a combination thereof. Although I've found a way to bypass the problem, I'm including a

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake Felix von Leitner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Here is the result of my test program on the strip set: # rb /dev/md/0 30.3 meg/sec # One more detail: top says the CPU is 50% system when reading from either one of the disk or

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Alan Cox
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 kernel would use. Less confusion that way. If we do that

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-26 Thread Alan Cox
The simple fix is along the lines of adding code to fsync() that walks the inode page list and writes out dirty pages. The clever and clean fix is to split the inode page list into two lists, one for dirty and one for clean pages, and only walk the dirty list. Like the patches that were

[PATCH] swap write clustering for 2.4 (3rd time)

2000-12-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Linus, The following patch changes swap_writepage() to try to do write clustering of phisically contiguous pages which are dirty and in the swapcache. Do you want to include it in 2.4? diff -Nur --exclude-from=exclude linux.orig/include/linux/mm.h linux/include/linux/mm.h ---

Re: sysmips call and glibc atomic set

2000-12-26 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 01:18:48AM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote: 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

Re: Problems with Athlon CPU [long]

2000-12-26 Thread Arnaud S . Launay
Le Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:17:39AM -0500, Mike A. Harris a écrit: kgcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11 Sig11 generally indicates bad RAM or overheating or some faulty hardware. This is an FAQ. Read the lkml FAQ. Once upon a time, it was also buggy k6... check with

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One more detail: top says the CPU is 50% system when reading from either one of the disk or raid devices. That seems awfully high considering that the Promise controller claims to do UDMA.

Re: sysmips call and glibc atomic set

2000-12-26 Thread Joe deBlaquiere
Ralf, firstly, thank you for the answers :) Ralf Baechle wrote: Ok, but since the kernel disables MIPS III you're limited to MIPS II anyway ... This makes sense... Read the ISA manual; sc will fail if the LL-bit in c0_status is cleared which will be cleared when the interrupt

[PATCH] winbond-840.c update

2000-12-26 Thread Manfred
Here is a third update for the winbond driver: * tx_timeout implemented, the driver now actually recovers from timeouts ;-) * tx fifo underrun code modified * further cleanups The driver is stable under high load, please give it a try. I'll submit it to Linus in a few days if I get some

2.2.19pre3 on sparc64: Hangs on boot, no cont in shutdown!??

2000-12-26 Thread Horst von Brand
Red Hat 6.2 + updates (plus local hacks, like binutils-2.10.0.33) on sparc64 (Ultra 1). When booting, it detects the floppy drive (I left a floppy in by mistake, the floppy is OK, and the same boots fine with 2.2.18): [snip snap] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M after this, it just gives the

2.2.19pre3 on sparc64: Undefined symbols in fs/binfmt_elf module

2000-12-26 Thread Horst von Brand
Ultra 1, Red Hat 6.2 + updates and binutils-2.10.0.33, modutils-2.3.22-1. Mostly modular kernel. depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre3/fs/binfmt_elf.o depmod: get_pte_slow depmod: get_pmd_slow depmod: pgt_quicklists These seem to be sparc64-specific

2.4.0-test12: PCMCIA IRQ assignments?

2000-12-26 Thread indyj
Hello, I have a Sager NP9820 laptop with an ALI chipset and a TI PCI1251BGFN PCMCIA chipset. For some reason, when I use the yenta module under 2.4.0, it gets an incorrect IRQ assignment. It uses IRQ11, which is also used by my ATI Rage Pro card... therefore, when you install this module, the

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: 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 kernel would

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: The simple fix is along the lines of adding code to fsync() that walks the inode page list and writes out dirty pages. The clever and clean fix is to split the inode page list into two lists, one for dirty and one for clean pages, and only walk

USB related crashes

2000-12-26 Thread Giuliano Pochini
How to crash kernel 2.2.17-18: Turn on the USB printer without paper and try to print something. Wait for the "printer.c: usblp0: out of paper" message and turn off the printer. Ok, now "killall gs" will freeze the system. (kernel 2.2.17-18, I did't try 2.4, GCC 2.95.3, PowerPC750) Bye. - To

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: 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

Any idea about this - SCSI Scanner...

2000-12-26 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Hey all! I'm just now getting around to trying to get my SCSI based scanner (Mustek MFS-6000CX) working with Sane and ran into a problem. The Linux kernel doesn't seem to be recognizing it at all. The Adaptec BIOS shows it on the bus prior to bootup (target 2 on the SCSI bus) but when

Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-26 Thread David Riley
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: To Maintainer: PCI SUBSYSTEM P: Martin Mares M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S: Supported This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not obvious.

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Ian Stirling
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: Thus spake Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One more detail: top says the CPU is 50% system when reading from either one of the disk or raid devices. That seems awfully high considering that the Promise controller claims to do UDMA.

CCFOUND and more

2000-12-26 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi everyone. Solving other things, I have realized that all that problem on fast CC detection (CCFOUND) is easily solved by doing: CC := $(.) instead of CC = $(.) The find of the suitable CC command is repeated many times along a kernel build. And CC is

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Ian Stirling wrote: Where are you getting 100MB/s? The PCI bus can move around 130MB/sec, but RAM is lots faster. I'll clarify your clarification further. :) Your typical PC has 33MHz 32-bit PCI. Increasing it to 66MHz or 64-bit can double the transfer rate, and doing both can quadruple it.

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: There was a similar thread to this recently. The issue is that if you choose the wrong processor type, you may not even be able to complain. Hmm ... I think I can see ways around that (essentially similar to the 16

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
Jens Axboe wrote: On Fri, Dec 22 2000, David Mansfield wrote: Jens, The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally reads at 2-3x. Since test13-pre2 it's down to .6 - .7x. I've reverted

Re: sysmips call and glibc atomic set

2000-12-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Not having swap doesn't mean you're safe. Think of any kind of previously unmapped page. Is there a reason why it doesn't just force that page to be mapped first? You can map it in... But background daemon can map it out in the meantime :-). You'd have to map in and pagelock.

Re: controllerless pci device support

2000-12-26 Thread Alan Cox
the modem on. also it is equally fustrating. will this situation improve in time or what else can i do to get my modem working? arrrgh! even if Only the winmodem folks can tell you. Ask them when they intend to GPL their drivers or release them with source under other sane licensing. Its

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread David Mansfield
The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally ... cut ... Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to allocate 1' solution would be a simple compromise? That should

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-26 Thread Michael Peddemors
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 me to ask you to test out my latest crazy idea. How selfish of you. Get back there in front of the computer NOW. Christmas can wait.

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-26 Thread Rogier Wolff
Linus Torvalds wrote: If we do that I'd rather see a make autoconfig that does the lot from proc/pci etc 8) Good point. No point in adding a new config option, we should just have a new configurator instead. Of course, it can't handle many of the questions, so it would still have to fall

Another faulty motherboard

2000-12-26 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
In ide-dma.c one reads: * Some people have reported trouble with Intel Zappa motherboards. * This can be fixed by upgrading the AMI BIOS to version 1.00.04.BS0, * available from ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/bios/10004bs0.exe * (thanks to Glen Morrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] for researching this).

How do we handle autoconfiguration?

2000-12-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Linus, replying to Alan: If we do that I'd rather see a make autoconfig that does the lot from proc/pci etc 8) Good point. No point in adding a new config option, we should just have a new configurator instead. Of course, it can't handle many of the questions, so it would still have to fall

How do we handle autoconfiguration?

2000-12-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I wrote: Giacomo, what's the state of your project? Sigh, I got an address-invalid bounce from Giacomo. Looks like he may have fallen off the net. -- esr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

[prepatch] 2.4 waitqueues

2000-12-26 Thread Andrew Morton
It's been quiet around here lately... This is a rework of the 2.4 wakeup code based on the discussions Andrea and I had last week. There were two basic problems: - If two tasks are on a waitqueue in exclusive mode and one gets woken, it will put itself back into TASK_[UN]INTERRUPTIBLE state

Re: [KBUILD] How do we handle autoconfiguration?

2000-12-26 Thread Michael Elizabeth Chastain
esr # PROCESSOR is string valued; we capture stdout from the probe esr derive PROCESSOR from "myprobe1.sh" esr esr # FOOFEATURE is boolean; we look at the return status from myprobe2.py esr derive FOOFEATURE from "myprobe2.py" I think this is cool. esr (kbuild people, this is one reason I

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-26 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, Here's my latest code, which uses ll_rw_block for anon pages (or pages without a writepage func) when flush_dirty_buffers, sync_buffers, or fsync_inode_buffers are flushing things. This seems to have fixed my slowdown on 1k buffer sizes, but I haven't done extensive benchmarks yet.

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2000-12-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote: Hi guys, Here's my latest code, which uses ll_rw_block for anon pages (or pages without a writepage func) when flush_dirty_buffers, sync_buffers, or fsync_inode_buffers are flushing things. This seems to have fixed my slowdown on 1k buffer

Re: USB related crashes

2000-12-26 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:59:54PM -0500, Giuliano Pochini wrote: How to crash kernel 2.2.17-18: Turn on the USB printer without paper and try to print something. Wait for the "printer.c: usblp0: out of paper" message and turn off the printer. Ok, now "killall gs" will freeze the system.

test13-preX: DRM (tdfx.o) unresolved symbols fixed?

2000-12-26 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello to all of you, I got this since test13-pre1 (pre4, now): SunWave1depmod -e depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o depmod: remap_page_range depmod: _mmx_memcpy depmod: __wake_up depmod: mtrr_add

Re: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Well, consider the scenario of an application which opens a control connection and a data connection, and the data connection remains idle for some hours while you get to the beginning of the queue, and then the transfer starts. The data connection is

Re: [prepatch] 2.4 waitqueues

2000-12-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:29:06AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: - Got rid of all the debugging ifdefs - these have been folded into wait.h Why? Such debugging code is just disabled so it doesn't get compiled in, but if somebody wants he can enable it changing the #define in the sources to

Re: [prepatch] 2.4 waitqueues

2000-12-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:57:12PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: Oh, it's all still there, but it's now all in the header file: #ifdef DEBUG #define foo() printk(stuff) #else #define foo() #endif I intentionally didn't focused on such part of your patch because I understood from the

Re: cdrom changes in test13-pre2 slow down cdrom access by 70%

2000-12-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 26 2000, David Mansfield wrote: The cdrom changes that went into test13-pre2 really kill the performance of my cdrom. I'm using cdparanoia to read audio data, and it normally ... cut ... Anyway, do you think a 'try to allocate 8, if that fails, try to allocate 1'