On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty
trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all
that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very
high on my list of things to do.
'anybody who says "disk is cheap" deserves to be
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote:
*) systems include vger itself (it has died this week alone 4-5 times),
Yikes! That's not a very good advertisement. Anything
that the Linux-using public should know about?
Matthew.
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
Clearly? How do MTRR changes relate to rawio ?
RAWIO is about hardware level access not Stephens O_DIRECT stuff
So why is /proc/kcore access SYS_RAWIO then ?
I kind of overloaded CAP_SYS_RAWIO to restrict access to bits
of arbitrary memory.
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Fix your routing tables ?
and several other people have said similar things in the past.
I see the point, but it bites sufficiently often that I don't
understand why there is no interesting in improving this
behaviour.
I have several hosts with multiple or
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote:
Starting twelve days ago the load average has increased by one every
twenty-four hours. Normally, it remains close to 0. At the moment,
they are at twelve; I imagine that tomorrow, they will be at thirteen:
Does the kernel log show any oopses? I
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
I see the point, but it bites sufficiently often that I don't
understand why there is no interesting in improving this
behaviour.
For a large number of scenarios it makes vastly more sense.
Please forgive my obtuseness, but I am unable to conceive of
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
Odd. I started seeing mailbox corruption the day before the first post
showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at
weird. currently my pine crashes on me when i close my bugtraq
folder.
Ohh, so
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/\"correct\"_arp_reply_interface_selection
It is called arpfilter. Here is the old 2.2.16 version (applies to 2.4
with minor changes)
It is useful for various things, one of them being automatic load
balancing for incoming
Hi,
In the past few days, a couple of our webservers (dual P3s)
have started to emit $SUBJECT into the kernel logs fairly
frequently:
Sep 7 06:41:04 web2 kernel: initial req-mss below 8
Sep 7 06:56:03 web2 last message repeated 18 times
Sep 7 07:56:04 web2 last message repeated 18 times
Sep
hde and hdf. /proc/scsi/scsi shows only three, but
/proc/partitions shows six.
More information is below in a correspondance that I had
with the 395 driver author.
Is this a familiar picture to anyone?
Matthew.
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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:41:36 +0100 (BST)
Fr
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote:
2.4 seems to have problems scanning SCSI busses.
Could you try out this patch. The module_init/exit stuff in sd.c has
given some people a real headache.
I don't have sd modularised. Will it make any difference?
MAtthew.
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
[1] I understand the RAID issue with disk format compatibility, which
makes the current RAID patch unacceptable for official 2.2 usage.
I just wish somebody would *solve* that issue.[2]
Solve that and the tool back compatibility problem for
Hi,
It seems that it's fairly easy to get a ramfs stuck:
# mkdir bar
# mount -t ramfs bar bar
# umount bar
# mount -t ramfs bar bar
# chown nobody bar
# umount bar
umount: /root/bar: device is busy
#
This doesn't appear to affect ext2 filesystems, though.
Matthew
--
$ grep -c ramfs
Tsk, forgot the cc.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:59:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Matthew Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH] RAID autorun fix
Hi,
The attached diff makes RAID autorun work for me.
It transpired
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, safemode wrote:
Reply ALL also results in 2 mails being sent instead of one but of
course this is usually not a problem since one is going direct and the
other is going through vger, but still... it's kind of wasteful to
resources and i dont see any harm in Reply-to
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
Does anyone think that allocating skbs during system idle time
would be useful?
I really don't like these sorts of things, because it makes an
assumption as to what memory is about to be used for.
I agree. Surely The Linux Way (tm) would
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
Over on the freebsd-questions mailing list you can see desperate
people trying to convert Linux systems over to that other OS to
escape Linux 2.2.xx NFS. This is kind of serious, you know?
So basically the situation is that people prefer
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, icognito wrote:
anyone know if there is an updated repository for the linux-wlan
project? i need drivers for the baystack 660 and none of the wlan n
modules in the distro in the site
(http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/linux-wlan-0.3.4.tar.gz) compile
under 2.4.2... i
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Jonathan Lahr wrote:
[ sorry to reply over another reply, but I don't have
the original of this ]
Tridge and I tried out the postgresql benchmark you used here and this
contention is due to a bug in postgres. From a quick strace, we found
the threads do a load of
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
Could the default target install names int the std kernel be changed to
System.map - System.map-$(KERNELRELEASE)
vmlinuz- vmlinuz-$(KERNELRELEASE)
and then symlink to that ?
I think everyone that has a stable2.2, a devel 2.2 and a test24 is
Hi,
It looks like the random driver in 2.4test will return a
short read, rather than blocking. This is breaking vpnd
(http://sunsite.dk/vpnd/) which breaks with "failed to
gather random data" or similar.
Here's a sample strace:
open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3,
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "q\321Nu\204\251^\234i\254\350\370\363\"\305\366R\2708V"..., 72) = 29
close(3)= 0
I've seen that happen with kernel version 2.2.16!
Indeed, you are correct.
Hi,
The aforementioned kernel seems to have a minor bug on
(at least) my laptop -- it looks like a potential off-
by-one in the socket handling:
After a clean bootup:
# cardctl status 0
no card
# cardctl status 1
no card
Insert a card in socket 0
# cardctl status 0
no card
# cardctl
Hi,
It seems that the BUG() at skbuff.c:175 (2.4.0test12pre7)
kills the machine dead; BUG() isn't (or doesn't appear to
be) interrupt safe:
alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c0194b81
kernel BUG at skbuff.c:175!
invalid operand:
[..]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 89 f6 83 e7 fe be 20 c5
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
I once managed to make it assign a socket 0 card to both sockets
and completely ignore socket 1, but can't reproduce this now.
Did it again. It seems that if I boot with anything
in socket 0, socket 1 becomes useless.
Matthew.
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Frédéric L . W . Meunier wrote:
I disagree with the patch. The bug is in printk
No problem. So, it's a bug report instead. I have no clues, and just
thought it'd be a fix :)
Not sure if 2.2.17 reported the double %% from syslog. I usually look
at my dmesg.
If it
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Paul Powell wrote:
'console=ttys0','console=cua0','console=ttys0,9600n8', etc
^
console=ttyS0
Matthew.
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
(Please forgive this snippage making Jeff look less literate
than he is, even after several beers.)
We need a format that allow
[..]
the right one based on architecture.
Oh, we already have that. It's called source code.
Matthew.
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Russell King wrote:
Therefore, it should be reserved independent of whether we have the
driver loaded/in kernel or not.
Is this not an argument for a more flexible resource allocation
API? One offering both:
res = allocate_resource(restype, dev, RES_ALLOC_UNUSED,
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Russell King wrote:
C: CONFIG_SCSI_BLARG
F: drivers/scsi/blarg.c
F: drivers/scsi/blarg.h
And what would:
C: CONFIG_ARM
tell you? Nothing that is not described in the rest of the "ARM PORT"
entry.
True, but it would tell it to a script without intervention.
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, dean gaudet wrote:
responses come back from both eth0 and eth1, listing each of their
respective MAC addresses... it's essentially a race condition at this
point as to whether i'll get the right MAC address. ("right" means
the MAC for server:eth1).
2.2.18 and 2.4
Hi,
I'm looking for a fast way to initialise a file to zeroes
(without holes) and reckoned that sendfile from /dev/zero
would be the way to go.
But, unfortunately, sendfile (in 2.2 and 2.4) appears not
to support sendfile(2)ing a device:
$ cat foo.c
main()
{
if(sendfile(1, 0, 0, 1024)
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
But, unfortunately, sendfile (in 2.2 and 2.4) appears not
to support sendfile(2)ing a device:
Correct... sendfile(2) is only for sources/destinations that can be
ripped through the page cache.
I knew that, but was surprised that /dev/zero didn't
least get some other work done :)
Thanks.
Below is what Andi Kleen sent me last time this came up.
Matthew.
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 22 15:19:51 2001
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:06:02 +0200
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Matthew Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Robert Read wrote:
Please apply one line patch to the top level Makefile. This points
the build tools at the correct linux include dir.
Or please don't, it's incorrect.
It breaks cross-compiling, and just generally wrong. If your
system won't build without this, it's
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty
> trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all
> that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very
> high on my list of things to do.
'anybody who says "disk is cheap" deserves to be
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Russell King wrote:
> > C: CONFIG_SCSI_BLARG
> > F: drivers/scsi/blarg.c
> > F: drivers/scsi/blarg.h
> And what would:
>
> C: CONFIG_ARM
>
> tell you? Nothing that is not described in the rest of the "ARM PORT"
> entry.
True, but it would tell it to a script without
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> *) "systems" include vger itself (it has died this week alone 4-5 times),
Yikes! That's not a very good advertisement. Anything
that the Linux-using public should know about?
Matthew.
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, icognito wrote:
> anyone know if there is an updated repository for the linux-wlan
> project? i need drivers for the baystack 660 and none of the wlan n
> modules in the distro in the site
> (http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/linux-wlan-0.3.4.tar.gz) compile
> under
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Jonathan Lahr wrote:
[ sorry to reply over another reply, but I don't have
the original of this ]
> > Tridge and I tried out the postgresql benchmark you used here and this
> > contention is due to a bug in postgres. From a quick strace, we found
> > the threads do a load
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Please consider applying.
And then please don't apply.
>case MTRRIOC_ADD_ENTRY:
> - if ( !suser () ) return -EPERM;
> + if ( !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ) return -EPERM;
Please think further about these random
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Actually, microcode driver checks CAP_SYS_RAWIO only on open() so it
> would allow access to the receiver of fd even he has no CAP_SYS_RAWIO
> privilege. Hmmm, maybe I should put it back into write() method, as
> Linus (or someone else) did at some
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Clearly? How do MTRR changes relate to rawio ?
> >
> > RAWIO is about hardware level access not Stephens O_DIRECT stuff
>
> So why is /proc/kcore access SYS_RAWIO then ?
I kind of overloaded CAP_SYS_RAWIO to restrict access to bits
of arbitrary
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > And why is nvram access not SYS_RAWIO ?
> >
> > You cant make the nvram tamper with arbitary memory
>
> But it is clearly hardware access isn't it ?
So is /dev/fd0. And you can set a lot of interesting
ioctl()s with a handle to that and
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Fix your routing tables ?
and several other people have said similar things in the past.
I see the point, but it bites sufficiently often that I don't
understand why there is no interesting in improving this
behaviour.
I have several hosts with multiple
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> Starting twelve days ago the load average has increased by one every
> twenty-four hours. Normally, it remains close to 0. At the moment,
> they are at twelve; I imagine that tomorrow, they will be at thirteen:
Does the kernel log show any oopses?
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I see the point, but it bites sufficiently often that I don't
> > understand why there is no interesting in improving this
> > behaviour.
>
> For a large number of scenarios it makes vastly more sense.
Please forgive my obtuseness, but I am unable to
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > Odd. I started seeing mailbox corruption the day before the first post
> > > > showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at
> > >
> > > weird. currently my pine crashes on me when i close my bugtraq
> > >
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/\"correct\"_arp_reply_interface_selection
> It is called arpfilter. Here is the old 2.2.16 version (applies to 2.4
> with minor changes)
>
> It is useful for various things, one of them being automatic load
> balancing for incoming
Hi,
In the past few days, a couple of our webservers (dual P3s)
have started to emit $SUBJECT into the kernel logs fairly
frequently:
Sep 7 06:41:04 web2 kernel: initial req->mss below 8
Sep 7 06:56:03 web2 last message repeated 18 times
Sep 7 07:56:04 web2 last message repeated 18 times
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
[ outrageous cc: list trimmed ]
> > >We simply keep track of how old the oldest request
> > >in the queue is, and when that request is getting
> > >too old (say 1/2 second), we /stop/ all the others
> >
> > Going in function of time is obviously wrong.
hde and hdf. /proc/scsi/scsi shows only three, but
/proc/partitions shows six.
More information is below in a correspondance that I had
with the 395 driver author.
Is this a familiar picture to anyone?
Matthew.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:41:36 +0100 (BST)
Fr
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote:
> > 2.4 seems to have problems scanning SCSI busses.
> Could you try out this patch. The module_init/exit stuff in sd.c has
> given some people a real headache.
I don't have sd modularised. Will it make any difference?
MAtthew.
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > [1] I understand the RAID issue with disk format compatibility, which
> > makes the current RAID patch unacceptable for official 2.2 usage.
> > I just wish somebody would *solve* that issue.[2]
> Solve that and the tool back compatibility problem
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote:
> > 2.4 seems to have problems scanning SCSI busses.
> Could you try out this patch. The module_init/exit stuff in sd.c has
> given some people a real headache.
Worked great, thanks.
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Hi,
It would appear that the changes in pre3 and pre4 break
RAID autorun. This is rather bothersome for those who
have RAIDed root filesystems.
It's probably solely an init-order thing but, short of
moving the software RAID drivers into drivers/md/, I
can't see an easy way to fix it.
cheers,
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > moving the software RAID drivers into drivers/md/,
> Make it so.
OK. Apply the attached diff and then:
$ mv drivers/block/{md,raid{0,1,5},xor}.c drivers/md/
and all might be well.
The Config.in should probably move at some stage too.
I'm not
Hi,
It seems that it's fairly easy to get a ramfs stuck:
# mkdir bar
# mount -t ramfs bar bar
# umount bar
# mount -t ramfs bar bar
# chown nobody bar
# umount bar
umount: /root/bar: device is busy
#
This doesn't appear to affect ext2 filesystems, though.
Matthew
--
$ grep -c ramfs
Tsk, forgot the cc.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:59:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Matthew Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [PATCH] RAID autorun fix
Hi,
The attached diff makes RAID autorun work for me.
I
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, safemode wrote:
> Reply ALL also results in 2 mails being sent instead of one but of
> course this is usually not a problem since one is going direct and the
> other is going through vger, but still... it's kind of wasteful to
> resources and i dont see any harm in Reply-to
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> Could the default target install names int the std kernel be changed to
> System.map -> System.map-$(KERNELRELEASE)
> vmlinuz-> vmlinuz-$(KERNELRELEASE)
> and then symlink to that ?
>
> I think everyone that has a stable2.2, a devel 2.2 and a
Hi,
It looks like the random driver in 2.4test will return a
short read, rather than blocking. This is breaking vpnd
(http://sunsite.dk/vpnd/) which breaks with "failed to
gather random data" or similar.
Here's a sample strace:
open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3,
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 3
> > read(3, "q\321Nu\204\251^\234i\254\350\370\363\"\305\366R\2708V"..., 72) = 29
> > close(3)= 0
> I've seen that happen with kernel version 2.2.16!
Indeed, you are
Hi,
The aforementioned kernel seems to have a minor bug on
(at least) my laptop -- it looks like a potential off-
by-one in the socket handling:
After a clean bootup:
# cardctl status 0
no card
# cardctl status 1
no card
Insert a card in socket 0
# cardctl status 0
no card
# cardctl
Hi,
It seems that the BUG() at skbuff.c:175 (2.4.0test12pre7)
kills the machine dead; BUG() isn't (or doesn't appear to
be) interrupt safe:
alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c0194b81
kernel BUG at skbuff.c:175!
invalid operand:
[..]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 89 f6 83 e7 fe be 20 c5
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> I once managed to make it assign a socket 0 card to both sockets
> and completely ignore socket 1, but can't reproduce this now.
Did it again. It seems that if I boot with anything
in socket 0, socket 1 becomes useless.
Matthew.
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Frédéric L . W . Meunier wrote:
> > I disagree with the patch. The bug is in printk
>
> No problem. So, it's a bug report instead. I have no clues, and just
> thought it'd be a fix :)
>
> Not sure if 2.2.17 reported the double %% from syslog. I usually look
> at my dmesg.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
>Does anyone think that allocating skbs during system idle time
>would be useful?
>
> I really don't like these sorts of things, because it makes an
> assumption as to what memory is about to be used for.
I agree. Surely The Linux Way (tm)
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
>Over on the freebsd-questions mailing list you can see desperate
>people trying to convert Linux systems over to that other OS to
>escape Linux 2.2.xx NFS. This is kind of serious, you know?
>
> So basically the situation is that people
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Paul Powell wrote:
> 'console=ttys0','console=cua0','console=ttys0,9600n8', etc
^
console=ttyS0
Matthew.
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
(Please forgive this snippage making Jeff look less literate
than he is, even after several beers.)
> We need a format that allow
[..]
> the right one based on architecture.
Oh, we already have that. It's called source code.
Matthew.
-
To
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Russell King wrote:
> Therefore, it should be reserved independent of whether we have the
> driver loaded/in kernel or not.
Is this not an argument for a more flexible resource allocation
API? One offering both:
res = allocate_resource(restype, dev, RES_ALLOC_UNUSED,
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, dean gaudet wrote:
> responses come back from both eth0 and eth1, listing each of their
> respective MAC addresses... it's essentially a race condition at this
> point as to whether i'll get the right MAC address. ("right" means
> the MAC for server:eth1).
2.2.18 and 2.4
Hi,
I'm looking for a fast way to initialise a file to zeroes
(without holes) and reckoned that sendfile from /dev/zero
would be the way to go.
But, unfortunately, sendfile (in 2.2 and 2.4) appears not
to support sendfile(2)ing a device:
$ cat foo.c
main()
{
if(sendfile(1, 0, 0, 1024)
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > But, unfortunately, sendfile (in 2.2 and 2.4) appears not
> > to support sendfile(2)ing a device:
>
> Correct... sendfile(2) is only for sources/destinations that can be
> ripped through the page cache.
I knew that, but was surprised that /dev/zero
now. (it could be entirely
> wrong, but it's letting me at least get some other work done :)
Thanks.
Below is what Andi Kleen sent me last time this came up.
Matthew.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 22 15:19:51 2001
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:06:02 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECT
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Robert Read wrote:
> Please apply one line patch to the top level Makefile. This points
> the build tools at the correct linux include dir.
Or please don't, it's incorrect.
It breaks cross-compiling, and just generally wrong. If your
system won't build without this, it's
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