2.4.0 bug: file /proc/dri 4 times in ls listing

2001-01-15 Thread Bobo Rajec
Hi, I'm running kernel 2.4.0 on Redhat 7.0. I tried to get direct rendering running (it failed, but that's another story). Today I noticed something strange in /proc: dri appears there 4 times. ls /proc: ... -r--r--r--1 root root0 Jan 16 08:57 dma dr-xr-xr-x3 root

2.4.0ac9

2001-01-15 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, 2.4.0ac9 still kills the mouse on this machine. dmesg is attached. Something I find interesting is that the PCMCIA bridge is on IRQ12. We can't change the mouse or the PCMCIA bridges' interrupt. I'll be happy to provide additional info. Regards, Igmar Jan 16

"Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 13." when logging in via ssh

2001-01-15 Thread Allen Bolderoff
I get this message when logging into a box via ssh. the box is running 2.4 Kernel with devfsd installed on debian potato. I have a *hunch* that this may be to do with devfsd, and the fact that devfsd is not creating the /dev/pts/x files correctly (or in a timely manner) to prove this, I check

quota and 2.4.0-ac9

2001-01-15 Thread M T
When running 'quotaon -a' I get message 'quotaon: using /quota.user on /dev/hdc3: Invalid argument'. This occurs at least with 2.4.0-ac4 and 2.4.0-ac9, but not with 2.4.0. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at

Re: mmap()/VM problems in 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Vlad Bolkhovitine wrote: > > My box thinks quite highly of that patch fwiw, but insists that he needs > > to apply Jens Axboes' blk patch first ;-) (Not because of tiobench) > > New data: > > 2.4.1pre3 + Marcelo's patch > >File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read

Doc bug? Is Sangoma S514 PCI WAN card supported?

2001-01-15 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Under 2.4.0-ac4 I find lots of mentions of the Sangoma S514 PCI Multiprotocol Wide Area Networking card in drivers/net/wan/sdla* But in Documentation/Configure.help under CONFIG_VENDOR_SANGOMA I only see mention of the S502E(A), S503 and S508. These same cards are listed in

2.4.0 - lseek on /proc broken? [with patch]

2001-01-15 Thread Salvador Ortiz Garcia
Hi: After diging around for some problems (shutdown/unmount related) I found that some processes where hidden from ps, pidoff, ls /proc, etc. A strace reveled that: open("/proc", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 7 fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 fcntl(7, F_SETFD,

ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 16368 entries exceeded

2001-01-15 Thread rtviado
Hello, I got this in my logs: ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 16368 entries exceeded what does this mean, I know i can change the limits in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max, but I want to know what this is for. P.S. I looked into linux/Documentation but did not find any mention of this

Re: mmap()/VM problems in 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Vlad Bolkhovitine
Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On 15 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > > > "Vlad Bolkhovitine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Here is updated info for 2.4.1pre3: > > > > > > Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/sec > > > > > > with mmap() > > > > > > File Block Num

Re: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-15 Thread Tim Hockin
> And if anybody else understands pirq routing, speak up. It's a black art. > I have some experience with PIRQ and Serverworks, but I missed the first bit of this discussion - can someone catch me up? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, dean gaudet wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > just for kicks i've implemented sendpath() support. > > > > _syscall4 (int, sendpath, int, out_fd, char *, path, off_t *, off, size_t, size) > > hey so how do you implement transmit timeouts with

Re: Caches, page coloring, virtual indexed caches, and more

2001-01-15 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:16:57AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Heck if we wanted to we could even lie about PAGE_SIZE, and say it was huge. > I'd have to have a clear example before I give it up that easily. > mmap has never allowed totally arbitrary offsets, and mmap(MAP_FIXED) > is

Re: [patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9

2001-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > just for kicks i've implemented sendpath() support. > > _syscall4 (int, sendpath, int, out_fd, char *, path, off_t *, off, size_t, size) hey so how do you implement transmit timeouts with sendpath() ? (i.e. drop the client after 30 seconds of no

RE: int. assignment on SMP + ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > Thanks for looking into this. I'll be out of touch for > the rest of this week, but Petr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > should be able to test patches that Ingo comes up with. > > > Ok. That means that the problem is that we _should_ look at > > the pirq

Re: 2.4.1-pre7 build error.

2001-01-15 Thread Steven Cole
On Monday 15 January 2001 20:00, Steven Cole wrote: > Got this for 2.4.1-pre7 > > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/incl', needed by > `softirq.o'. Stop. > make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1-pre7/kernel' > make[1]:

Re: IDE not fully found (2.4.0)

2001-01-15 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Tim Hockin wrote: > Just built a new system with Linux-2.4.0. > > Motherboard (MSI 694D-AR) has Via Apollo Pro chipset, those IDE drives seem > fine. Board also has a promise PDC20265 RAID/ATA100 controller. On each > channel of this controller I have an IBM 45 GB ATA100

Re: Latency: allowing resheduling while holding spin_locks

2001-01-15 Thread george anzinger
Roger Larsson wrote: > > On Sunday 14 January 2001 01:06, george anzinger wrote: > > Nigel Gamble wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: > > > > A rethinking of the rescheduling strategy... > > > > > > Actually, I think you have more-or-less described how successful > > >

Re: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc

2001-01-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Right, but I'd also like to see the global flags exported explicitly to > > /proc/cpuinfo. > > That's desirable, but how

up_read/up_write redefinitions in asm/semaphore.h and linux/usbdevice_fs.h

2001-01-15 Thread Olaf Hering
Hi, I just asked on the linuxppc-dev list, but here is proably the better place to ask. We had a linuxppc_2_3 tree which had the #defines below disabled. The fresh linuxppc_2_4 tree doesn't have it anymore. The 2.4.0-ac9 patch has the current status of linclude/asm-ppc/semaphore.h: ...

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Aaron Sethman
On 15 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, I'm not saying your filesystem is toast. I'm just saying that if > you booted up in pre6, I'd suggest a quick reboot into a better kernel > might be a good idea (be a jock, and do a sync and just push the reset > button to force a proper fsck when it

IDE not fully found (2.4.0)

2001-01-15 Thread Tim Hockin
Just built a new system with Linux-2.4.0. Motherboard (MSI 694D-AR) has Via Apollo Pro chipset, those IDE drives seem fine. Board also has a promise PDC20265 RAID/ATA100 controller. On each channel of this controller I have an IBM 45 GB ATA100 drive as master. (hde and hdg?). BIOS sees these

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Linus Torvalds wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) > >> Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, [...] > >Too late... First and foremost, a

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) > Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, [...] Too late... First and foremost, a correction: The VM data I posted was for pre1, not pre5. Here is the VM data

2.4.1-pre7 build error.

2001-01-15 Thread Steven Cole
Got this for 2.4.1-pre7 make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/incl', needed by `softirq.o'. Stop. make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1-pre7/kernel' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 Waiting for 2.4.1-pre8. Steven - To

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, because the reiserfs merge got some dirty inode logic wrong. pre7 fixes just that one line and should be ok again. >Anyway, this may be a totally

Re: 2.4.1-pre3 kernel oops from kmem_cache_create(...)

2001-01-15 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 15 2001, David Michael Norris wrote: > During boot of the 2.4.1-pre3 kernel, I received this oops: > > BUG() in slab.c:804 > EIP: 0010:[] > Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8b 1b 81 fb 7c 52 27 c0 75 c2 a1 7c 52 27 c0 module_init marks loop_init __init, and ll_rw_blk:blk_dev_init calls it too.

Re: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-15 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:09:14 -0200 (BRST), Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rainer Mager wrote: >>>EIP; f889e044<= >Trace; f889d966 > >It seems the oops is happening in a module's function. > >You have to make ksymoops parse the oops output against a

2.4.1-pre3 kernel oops from kmem_cache_create(...)

2001-01-15 Thread David Michael Norris
During boot of the 2.4.1-pre3 kernel, I received this oops: BUG() in slab.c:804 EIP:0010:[] Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8b 1b 81 fb 7c 52 27 c0 75 c2 a1 7c 52 27 c0 ksymoops 2.3.5 on i586 2.4.1-pre2. Options used -V (default) -K (specified) -L (specified) -o

delete object file

2001-01-15 Thread Jim M.
Hi, How do i remove an object file. Like if I have a "mparallel.o" file and need to remove and regenerate it. how do i do this if i may ask?. "/lib/modules/misc/mparallel.o". J _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
$!@#@! pre6 is already out :) Anyway, this may be a totally subjective (and incorrect) perception, but it seems to me like the recent 2.4.x-test kernels and thereafter start swapping things out really quickly. Case in point: "diff -urN linux.vanilla linux" command swaps out Konqueror and

Re: Slot Number Question

2001-01-15 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:22:58PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > In any case, there is no way to correlate the device number with a > > PC connector slot just as there is no way to find out which of the > > 4 INT lines go to these

Is anyone working on kernel support for IEEE-1355? -- http://www.1355.org/

2001-01-15 Thread Miles Lane
It sounds like it might be useful in the embedded OS space. Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: FS corruption on 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday January 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jure Pecar wrote: > > > > > There is something not that usual about my setup: i run raid1 /boot and > > raid5 root with one disk disconnected (its simply too loud...), so the > > array is in degraded mode all the time.

a linux qos mailing list

2001-01-15 Thread J.D. Hollis
Is there a linux qos mailing list? thanks, j.d. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: FS corruption on 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-15 Thread Andreas Dilger
Jure, you write: > I was running 2.4.0test10pre5 happily for months and wanted to see how > things stand in the 'latest stuff'. Here's what i found: > > I compiled 2.4.0-ac8 with nearly the same .config as test10pre5 (with > latest gcc on rh7). Then i booted it and used X for some normal

RE: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rainer Mager wrote: > Ok, now were making progress. I did as you said and have attached (really!) > the new parsed output. Now we have some useful information (I hope). I still > got lots of warnings on symbols (which I have edited out of the parsed file > for the sake of

RE: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-15 Thread Rainer Mager
Ok, now were making progress. I did as you said and have attached (really!) the new parsed output. Now we have some useful information (I hope). I still got lots of warnings on symbols (which I have edited out of the parsed file for the sake of briefness). What's the next step? --Rainer >

matroxfb on 2.4.0 / PCI: Failed to allocate...

2001-01-15 Thread Chad Miller
Hi, all. I'm trying to get matroxfb running on a G400Max (dualhead). Of course, I have i2c bit-banging on and the relevant Matrox options turned on (as modules or compiled-in), and I don't see the expected `framebuffer: blah' after the `matroxfb: Matrox Millennium G400 MAX (AGP) detected'. I

Re: tcp no-ack bug can-rpt, w/script incl (this bugs 4 u)

2001-01-15 Thread John Cavan
> I have been trying to figure out > why linux tcp is failing to ack > properly in some situations. This is exactly the same problem I'm seeing with a Solaris box talking to my Linux box. It has a similar problem with Linux as well, but does not manifest as bad against a 2.2 kernel machine.

RE: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rainer Mager wrote: > I knew that, I was just testing you all. ;-) >>EIP; f889e044<= Trace; f889d966 Trace; c0140c10 Trace; c0140e7c Trace; c0140f9e Trace; c0140e7c It seems the oops is happening in a module's function. You have to make ksymoops parse the

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Albert Cranford wrote: > I have a working PA-2007 but use a small hard disk. Can I help. [...] > Detected 239.833 MHz processor. [...] > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [...] > hda: WDC AC2540F, ATA DISK drive > hda:

RE: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-15 Thread Rainer Mager
I knew that, I was just testing you all. ;-) \e hides his head in shame > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcelo Tosatti > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:47 AM > To: Rainer Mager > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Oops

Re: MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread David Wragg
David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A recent 2.4.0 ( not the final , but close ) kernel prints this : > > mtrr: detected mtrr type: intel > > I have an AMD K7 Duron 700 CPU > > Is this correct ? Yes. The K7 supports MTRRs exactly according to the Intel specs, as opposed to the

Re: Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rainer Mager wrote: > Attached is my oops.txt and the result sent through ksymoops. The results > don't look particularly useful to me so perhaps I'm doing something wrong. > PLEASE tell me if I should parse this differently. Likewise, if there is > anything else I

tcp no-ack bug can-rpt, w/script incl (this bugs 4 u)

2001-01-15 Thread Eric Taylor
Tcp developers: (Alan Cox: you probably could fix in a minute) I've been told that this is THE PLACE to contact linux kernel developers. Ok, I've got a repeatable bug that I've reported elsewhere to no avail. Hope this is the place: Includes 2 perl scripts to reproduce it and info about what I

Re: Problems with bigblock support of fat

2001-01-15 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Robert Reither wrote: > I encounted really bad problems with 2048 Bytes/sec MO-Drive. > I'm using an Olympus PowerMO 640. > MO was formated with FAT32. > > i try to read a file from it (used : 'pico /mo/file.txt') ... > And got a nice crash : Segmentation Fault Even

Oops with 4GB memory setting in 2.4.0 stable

2001-01-15 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi all, I have a 100% reproducable bug in all of the 2.4.0 kernels including the latest stable one. The issue is that if I compile the kernel to support 4GB RAM (I have 1 GB) and then try to access a samba mount I get an oops. This ALWAYS happens. Usually after this the system is frozen

Initio 9x00 SCSI driver status

2001-01-15 Thread Trevor Hemsley
I've been doing some work on the Initio 9100UW SCSI driver that is distributed with 2.4.0. I've fixed a couple of bugs and added /proc support to my copy of the source. Is there an active maintainer of this driver at present? Is there anything that tells what to do to add support for the new

Oops in 2.4.0 (fs corruption?)

2001-01-15 Thread Arthur Pedyczak
Hi all, I have been running 2.4.0 for 8 days with no problem. Then standard RedHat cron job (slocate.cron) generated an oops: ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0. Options used -v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux

Re: FS corruption on 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jure Pecar wrote: > Hi all, > > I was running 2.4.0test10pre5 happily for months and wanted to see how > things stand in the 'latest stuff'. Here's what i found: > > I compiled 2.4.0-ac8 with nearly the same .config as test10pre5 (with > latest gcc on rh7). Then i booted

FS corruption on 2.4.0-ac8

2001-01-15 Thread Jure Pecar
Hi all, I was running 2.4.0test10pre5 happily for months and wanted to see how things stand in the 'latest stuff'. Here's what i found: I compiled 2.4.0-ac8 with nearly the same .config as test10pre5 (with latest gcc on rh7). Then i booted it and used X for some normal browsing and mp3s.

Re: 4G SGI quad Xeon - memory-related slowdowns

2001-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
On 15 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The performance problem is _probably_ due to the kernel having to > double-buffer the IO requests, coupled with bad MTRR settings (ie > memory above the 4GB range is probably marked as non-cacheable or > something, which means that you'll get really bad

Bug in swapfs (2.4.0-ac9)

2001-01-15 Thread Gregor Jasny
I think I've found a bug in swapfs: fstab: swapfs /dev/shmswapfs defaults 0 0 swapfs /tmpswapfs defaults 0 0 When I hit on a tar.gz file in Midnight Commander nothing happens. If I do a umonut /tmp and hit again it works as It should (I see the archived

Re: ipppd == pppd? (was: Re: New features in Linux 2.4 - WonderfulWor...)

2001-01-15 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On 13 Jan 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Pranevich) wrote on 06.01.01 in ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >much of the code, including a long awaited combination of the PPP > >layers from the ISDN layer and the serial device PPP layer, such as > > I've heard about that

Re: bug (isdn-subsystem?) in 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > i have the following problem with kernel 2.4.0 (also with -ac6): > > kernel BUG at slab.c:1095! > invalid operand: > CPU: 0 I could reproduce the problem, the appended patch fixes it here. Linus, could you please apply this for 2.4.1? > ..

Re: Latency: allowing resheduling while holding spin_locks

2001-01-15 Thread Roger Larsson
On Sunday 14 January 2001 01:06, george anzinger wrote: > Nigel Gamble wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: > > > A rethinking of the rescheduling strategy... > > > > Actually, I think you have more-or-less described how successful > > preemptible kernels have already been

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

2001-01-15 Thread Trever Adams
I had a similar experience. All I can say is windows 98 and ME seem to have it out for Linux drives running late 2.3.x and 2.4.0 test and release. I had windows completely fry my Linux drive and I lost everything. I had some old backups and was able to restore at least the majority of

Re: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc

2001-01-15 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Right, but I'd also like to see the global flags exported explicitly to > /proc/cpuinfo. That's desirable, but how would we fit it into the existing layout? Would it be feasible to put it into /proc/cpuflags, instead? Anyway, with all necessary

Re: MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > > Last time I checked this was issued for perfectly known and valid bridges > > that advertice no IO resources. Isn't it a

Re: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc

2001-01-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > I would personally prefer to export the global flags separately from the > > per-CPU flags. Not only is it more correct, it would help catch these > > kinds of bugs!!! > > That's what I am going to do. Basically

Re: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc

2001-01-15 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I would personally prefer to export the global flags separately from the > per-CPU flags. Not only is it more correct, it would help catch these > kinds of bugs!!! That's what I am going to do. Basically to recode cpu_has_* macros to use global

Re: [Marcel Weber ] re:Adaptec AIC7xxx version 6.08BETA release

2001-01-15 Thread Roger Larsson
On Friday 12 January 2001 10:33, Marcel Weber wrote: > SuSE Linux 7.0, Kernel 2.4.0 > > Adaptec 3950U2 > Adaptec 2940 > > > Although the kernel is complaining about the following things: > > kernel: scsi0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr= 0x4e > kernel: scsi0: Data Parity

Re: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc

2001-01-15 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote: > That's how "notsc" used to behave, but since 2.4.0-test11 > "notsc" has left "tsc" in /proc/cpuinfo. setup.c has a bogus > "#ifdef CONFIG_TSC" which should be "#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC". Confirmed. > HPA, Maciej and I discussed that around 5 Dec 2000;

Re: 4G SGI quad Xeon - memory-related slowdowns

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We're having some problems with the 2.4.0 kernel on our SGI 1450, and >were hoping for some help. > The box is a quad Xeon 700/2MB, with 4GB of memory, ServerSet III HE >chipset, RH6.1 (slightly modified for local

ide-scsi not working in 2.4.0. Possible scsi subsystem problems?

2001-01-15 Thread Dan Egli
Ok. Here's a question for anyone. I have a computer here that I'm trying to get IDE-SCSI to work on. It seems to be a complete dud from this point of view. System config: Dual P3-550, 256MB Ram Scsi card: Adaptec 2940U2W. 2 Seagate LVD drives connected Primary

Re: SCSI scanner problem with all kernels since 2.3.42

2001-01-15 Thread Juergen E Fischer
Hi Doug, On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:53:02PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > There is also a problem report with the SnapScan 1236 <--> aha152x > combination also based on SANE 1.0.3 . This one is looking > like an "uninitialized errno" bug fixed in SANE 1.0.4 . This should be solved with the

Bonnie on NBD w/ memory pressure deadlocks (problem in wait_for_tcp_memory?)

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Raubitschek
running 2.4.0 with kdb patch [1.] Bonnie on NBD w/ memory pressure deadlocks (problem in wait_for_tcp_memory?) [2.] Full description This bug appears to be totally reproducable on different hardware and kernel versions. The conditions that create the problem: 2 machines (client, server)

Re: vmware 2.0.3, kernel 2.4.0 and a cdrom

2001-01-15 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 14 2001, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > Since I installed Kernel 2.4.0 VMware is no longer able to > recognize my cdrom drive. VMware shows a dialog box on power up > with following content: > [...] > CDROM: '/dev/scd0' exists, but does not appear tobe a CDROM device. > > Error connecting

oracle 8.1.7 on 2.4.0?

2001-01-15 Thread Margulies, Adam
Title: oracle 8.1.7 on 2.4.0? what is the status of oracle 8.1.7 on 2.4? Did the O_SYNC stuff ever get sorted out? Should I stick with 2.2.18?

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Albert D. Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ingo Molnar writes: >> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jonathan Thackray wrote: > >>> It's a very useful system call and makes file serving much more >>> scalable, and I'm glad that most Un*xes now have support for it >>> (Linux,

4G SGI quad Xeon - memory-related slowdowns

2001-01-15 Thread Paul Hubbard
We're having some problems with the 2.4.0 kernel on our SGI 1450, and were hoping for some help. The box is a quad Xeon 700/2MB, with 4GB of memory, ServerSet III HE chipset, RH6.1 (slightly modified for local configuration) distribution. a) If we compile the kernel with no high memory

Re: [PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc

2001-01-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hugh Dickins wrote: > > That's how "notsc" used to behave, but since 2.4.0-test11 > "notsc" has left "tsc" in /proc/cpuinfo. setup.c has a bogus > "#ifdef CONFIG_TSC" which should be "#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC". > > HPA, Maciej and I discussed that around 5 Dec 2000; but HPA > was of Andrea's

Re: mmap()/VM problems in 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Mike Galbraith
On 15 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > "Vlad Bolkhovitine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here is updated info for 2.4.1pre3: > > > > Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/sec > > > > with mmap() > > > > File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read Seq Write

[patch] sendpath() support, 2.4.0-test3/-ac9

2001-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
On 15 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > int fd = open(..) > fstat(fd..); > sendfile(fd..); > close(fd); > > is any slower than > > .. cache stat() in user space based on name .. > sendpath(name, ..); > > on any real load. just for kicks i've implemented

Re: mmap()/VM problems in 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Zlatko Calusic
"Vlad Bolkhovitine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is updated info for 2.4.1pre3: > > Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/sec > > with mmap() > > File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read Seq Write Rand Write > DirSize SizeThr Rate (CPU%) Rate

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Ingo Molnar writes: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jonathan Thackray wrote: >> It's a very useful system call and makes file serving much more >> scalable, and I'm glad that most Un*xes now have support for it >> (Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64). The next cool feature to add to >> Linux is

[PATCH] i386/setup.c cpuinfo notsc

2001-01-15 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote (under Subject: Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"): > > We _want_ /proc/cpuinfo to reflect the fact that the kernel considers > FSXR/XMM to not exist. That is true information, and is in fact something > that install scripts etc can find

Re: [PATCH] enable K7 nmi watchdog

2001-01-15 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 04:00:29 +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote: >(1) You missed some zeros in MSR_K7_ definitions Oops :-( >(2) AMD's MSR are real 64bit (well, 47bit) values, so high >MSR dword must be set to -1, not to 0 Correct. That was a copy-paste error from the P6 code. When writing to a

Re: Delay in authentication.gy

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > And have identical bad problems with auth failures. Right now I've given up > trying to make 2.4 and YP mix because my RH setup assumes NIS auth will fail > fast during boot up scripts and it doesnt. > > Unfortunately for the quickfix folks, Dave is right

Re: Slot Number Question

2001-01-15 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jack Hammer wrote: > My adapter configuration utility needs to instruct the user which physical > adapter needs attention ( when there may be multiple adapters in the system > ).My question is : How do I determine the ( machine ) slot number of a > PCI adapter ? > > In

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > One thing about 'sendfile' (and likely 'sendpath') is that > current (hammered into running binaries -> unchangeable) > syscalls support only up to 2GB files at

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Of course, you may be right on wuftpd. It obviously wasn't designed with > > security in mind, other alternatives may be better. > > I run proftpd on all my

Re: Updated zerocopy patches on kernel.org

2001-01-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Now against 2.4.1-pre2: > > ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p2-1.diff.gz Tried it with 2.4.1-pre3, didn't have any problem applying it, but when I rebooted the system it pretty much had no interest in talking

Re: MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > > Last time I checked this was issued for perfectly known and valid bridges > > that advertice no IO resources. Isn't it a bit silly to issue that > > warning for that case, or am I missing something?

Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce

2001-01-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > It looks like we let Microsoft fill the design guide void. > If you were to write "PC DESIGN GUIDE - For the Linux Operating > System" and a pile of test code, then there would be an > alternative to point people at. > > Complaining is pretty useless. I was

Re: MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:52:12AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > Last time I checked this was issued for perfectly known and valid bridges > > that advertice no IO resources. Isn't it a bit silly to issue that > > warning for that case, or am I

Re: 2.4.0-x features ?

2001-01-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Pierre Rousselet writes: > 1) top (procps-2.0.7) gives me the messages : > 'bad data in /proc/uptime' > 'bad data in /proc/loadavg' > cat /proc/uptime > 1435.30 904.74 > cat /proc/loadavg > 0.01 0.21 0.29 1/17 19444 > What is wrong ? Which 2.4.0-x kernel, and how was procps compiled? (the

Re: patch:reiserfs 3.6.25 + LVM(Fix oops reiserfs filesystem)

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Mason
On Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:41:51 PM -0800 hugang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ patch ] Odd, the create_vi op should never be null, so the real fix is somewhere else. We'll look into this. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > Last time I checked this was issued for perfectly known and valid bridges > that advertice no IO resources. Isn't it a bit silly to issue that > warning for that case, or am I missing something? Ehh - so what do they bridge, then? I'd say

Re: MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread David Balazic
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, David Balazic wrote: > > > It also reports something like : > > PCI chipset unknown : assuming transparent > > Are you sure it's not > > Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Might be, I don't remember the exact wording. -- David

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-15 Thread Tim Wright
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:01:04PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Tim Wright wrote: [...] > > p_lock(lock); > > retry: > > ... > > if (condition where we need to sleep) { > > p_sema_v_lock(sema, lock); > > /* we got woken up */ > > p_lock(lock); > > goto retry; > > } > > ... > >

Re: Disk geometry changed after running linux

2001-01-15 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:54:47PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: > Is there a way to change the geometry from fdisk ? > I tried expert mode and 'set sectors' and 'set heads', > but after I exit fdisk with 'w' , it is unchanged. As you know, a disk does not have a geometry, but the location of a

Re: MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, David Balazic wrote: > It also reports something like : > PCI chipset unknown : assuming transparent Are you sure it's not Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent (which is just about every kernel log I have seen...) Last time I checked this was issued for

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jonathan Thackray wrote: > It's a very useful system call and makes file serving much more > scalable, and I'm glad that most Un*xes now have support for it > (Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64). The next cool feature to add to > Linux is sendpath(), which does the open()

MTRR type AMD Duron/intel ?

2001-01-15 Thread David Balazic
A recent 2.4.0 ( not the final , but close ) kernel prints this : mtrr: detected mtrr type: intel I have an AMD K7 Duron 700 CPU Is this correct ? It also reports something like : PCI chipset unknown : assuming transparent I have a VIA KT133 chipset -- David Balazic -- "Be

Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce

2001-01-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
H. Peter Anvin writes: > "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> URRRK. I get a feeling these specs are either there to make life extra >>> difficult for programmers, because the people that design them are too >>> stupid to tie their own shoes, or because

Re: Caches, page coloring, virtual indexed caches, and more

2001-01-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:41:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > (Cc list truncated since probably not so many people do care ...) > > > shared mmap. This is the important one. Since we have a logical > > backing store this is easy to handle.

Re: [SOLVED + PATCH] Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

2001-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Robert Kaiser wrote: > > I finally found the reason why 386es have trouble booting the 2.4.0 kernel: Good job. > Pentiums are only lucky to not crash because they have a bigger TLB than 386s. Actually, with the 4M pages, it's not a question of luck any more - they just

Problems with bigblock support of fat

2001-01-15 Thread Robert Reither
I encounted really bad problems with 2048 Bytes/sec MO-Drive. I'm using an Olympus PowerMO 640. 230MB Media works fine, but if i try to use 640(2048B/S) medias i'm really in troubles. Looks quite the same as the problems i've reported for the 2.1.x kernels some time ago. (2.2.17/18 works fine 4

Slot Number Question

2001-01-15 Thread Jack Hammer
My adapter configuration utility needs to instruct the user which physical adapter needs attention ( when there may be multiple adapters in the system ).My question is : How do I determine the ( machine ) slot number of a PCI adapter ? In BIOS and other OS's this may be doneby examining the

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