Re: Disk schedulers

2008-02-15 Thread Zan Lynx
e to 1024) fills up, and pdflush and friends can stuff write requests into it much more quickly than any other programs can provide read requests. CFQ and ionice work very well up until iostat shows average IO queuing above 1024 (where I set the queue number). -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Disk schedulers

2008-02-15 Thread Zan Lynx
other programs can provide read requests. CFQ and ionice work very well up until iostat shows average IO queuing above 1024 (where I set the queue number). -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: MM kernels 2.6.24-rc*-mm*, 2.6.24-mm1: gnome-terminal stuck in tty_poll

2008-02-06 Thread Zan Lynx
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:44 +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:38:42 -0700 > Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This doesn't happen often so it is rather hard to nail down, but I am > > fairly sure it didn't happen before I started running the 2

MM kernels 2.6.24-rc*-mm*, 2.6.24-mm1: gnome-terminal stuck in tty_poll

2008-02-06 Thread Zan Lynx
This doesn't happen often so it is rather hard to nail down, but I am fairly sure it didn't happen before I started running the 2.6.24 MM series kernels. gnome-terminal gets stuck. It stops processing X events or anything else. It can be kicked out by strace'ing it or connecting with GDB, and

MM kernels 2.6.24-rc*-mm*, 2.6.24-mm1: gnome-terminal stuck in tty_poll

2008-02-06 Thread Zan Lynx
This doesn't happen often so it is rather hard to nail down, but I am fairly sure it didn't happen before I started running the 2.6.24 MM series kernels. gnome-terminal gets stuck. It stops processing X events or anything else. It can be kicked out by strace'ing it or connecting with GDB, and

Re: 2.6.24-mm1 - build error, AMD MCE using Intel ifdef'd log function

2008-02-04 Thread Zan Lynx
ent' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 I looked in MAINTAINERS for MCE, MACHINE and CHECK, but didn't spot any likely entries to CC. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.24-mm1 - build error, AMD MCE using Intel ifdef'd log function

2008-02-04 Thread Zan Lynx
: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 I looked in MAINTAINERS for MCE, MACHINE and CHECK, but didn't spot any likely entries to CC. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Zan Lynx
Jon Masters wrote: I wouldn't quite say that. I wasn't going to comment, but...personally, I actually disagree with the assertions that ndiswrapper isn't causing proprietary code to link against GPL functions in the kernel (how is an NDIS implementation any different than a shim layer provided

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-01-29 Thread Zan Lynx
Jon Masters wrote: I wouldn't quite say that. I wasn't going to comment, but...personally, I actually disagree with the assertions that ndiswrapper isn't causing proprietary code to link against GPL functions in the kernel (how is an NDIS implementation any different than a shim layer provided

Re: Fwd: show label for swap partition.

2008-01-28 Thread Zan Lynx
000 hSwap... 430: * ff0: 5357 4150 5350 4143 4532 ..SWAPSPACE2 You can see it is marked as SWAPSPACE2. The label is FlashSwap. Looks like it appears at offset 0x41c.

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Zan Lynx
For testing purposes, go with stable. I'm not sure why it won't run his screen though. I can use nv to run a 1920x1200 laptop LCD. It *is* dog slow (although nouveau was not any better with a NV17 / 440-Go -- render support for AA fonts seems to be missing), but it does work. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Fwd: show label for swap partition.

2008-01-28 Thread Zan Lynx
... 430: * ff0: 5357 4150 5350 4143 4532 ..SWAPSPACE2 You can see it is marked as SWAPSPACE2. The label is FlashSwap. Looks like it appears at offset 0x41c. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Zan Lynx
fonts seems to be missing), but it does work. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-25 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 04:09 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 17:25 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote: > > Have y'all been following the /dev/mem_notify patches? > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/628653 > > Having the notification be via poll() is a very r

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-24 Thread Zan Lynx
warded" by having the OOM > killer less likely to target that particular thread. Have y'all been following the /dev/mem_notify patches? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/628653 -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-24 Thread Zan Lynx
. Have y'all been following the /dev/mem_notify patches? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/628653 -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.24-rc8-mm1 NULL deref in reiser4_tree_by_page

2008-01-23 Thread Zan Lynx
nfigfs usb_storage usbhid hid libusual joydev psmouse serio_raw evdev nvidiafb fb fb_ddc i2c_algo_bit cfbcopyarea vgastate i2c_core cfbimgblt cfbfillrect snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec ehci_hcd ohci_hcd ac97_bus snd_pcm usbcore snd_timer snd sg snd_page_alloc -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL

2.6.24-rc8-mm1 NULL deref in reiser4_tree_by_page

2008-01-23 Thread Zan Lynx
fb_ddc i2c_algo_bit cfbcopyarea vgastate i2c_core cfbimgblt cfbfillrect snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec ehci_hcd ohci_hcd ac97_bus snd_pcm usbcore snd_timer snd sg snd_page_alloc -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?

2008-01-18 Thread Zan Lynx
ptions about global state. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Zan Lynx
ways starts freezing up during this as well. I don't suppose LatencyTop would help track anything down in that case, would it? -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [2.6.24-rc8-mm1] Locking API boot-time self-tests hangs.

2008-01-18 Thread Zan Lynx
bimgblt cfbfillrect snd_intel8x0m snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ehci_hcd psmouse ohci_hcd serio_raw ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer usbcore evdev snd sg snd_page_alloc -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Zan Lynx
don't suppose LatencyTop would help track anything down in that case, would it? -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?

2008-01-18 Thread Zan Lynx
functions (in their internal implementations) do not touch some other, unknown to this code, global variable. This is why GCC has the pure and const function attributes. These attributes are more powerful than the const keyword, and do allow optimizations with assumptions about global state. -- Zan

Re: [2.6.24-rc8-mm1] Locking API boot-time self-tests hangs.

2008-01-18 Thread Zan Lynx
snd_page_alloc -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.24-rc8-mm1 and boot lockup during locking self-test

2008-01-17 Thread Zan Lynx
set # # Library routines # CONFIG_BITREVERSE=y CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=m CONFIG_CRC16=m # CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T is not set CONFIG_CRC32=y # CONFIG_CRC7 is not set CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=m CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS=y CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS=y CONFIG_PLIST=y CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=

Re: echo mem > /sys/power/state

2008-01-17 Thread Zan Lynx
t; Sorry, but I've had it with this stuff and I'm tired of fixing everyone else's > stuff. I'm just going to ship it. Good luck. Heh. Laptop suspend to anything has been so broken for so long in the -mm series on my Compaq R3000 that I didn't even know it was ever supposed to work. -- Zan L

Re: echo mem /sys/power/state

2008-01-17 Thread Zan Lynx
it with this stuff and I'm tired of fixing everyone else's stuff. I'm just going to ship it. Good luck. Heh. Laptop suspend to anything has been so broken for so long in the -mm series on my Compaq R3000 that I didn't even know it was ever supposed to work. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED

2.6.24-rc8-mm1 and boot lockup during locking self-test

2008-01-17 Thread Zan Lynx
=y # CONFIG_CRC7 is not set CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=m CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS=y CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS=y CONFIG_PLIST=y CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Zan Lynx
n read or write disk, net, netlink or other device IO, I don't believe the system can actually claim to be working. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Zan Lynx
or other device IO, I don't believe the system can actually claim to be working. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-08 Thread Zan Lynx
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 02:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:01:33 -0700 Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + > > > Za

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-08 Thread Zan Lynx
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 02:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:01:33 -0700 Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cut] Now with MM

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + > Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [cut] > > > > Now with MM kernels 2.6.24 rc1-4 the PCMCIA adapter works again, but I > > > > only get read rates of 1.6 MB/s.

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + > Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:02 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:38:24 + >

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:02 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:38:24 + > Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > While I'm reporting problems I'll get this one out there. > > > > I normally use a USB-2 memory card reader but I also have

2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and excessive block IO errors

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
528288 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector 528672 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector 546392 -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
81001e1808c0 start 3 [1/2 us] usb 3-1.4.3: unlink qh4-3804/81001e1808c0 start 3 [1/2 us] ehci_hcd :00:02.2: reused qh 81001e1808c0 schedule usb 3-1.4.3: link qh4-3804/81001e1808c0 start 3 [1/2 us] Hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and /proc//status Name: field

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
: init State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 1 Pid:1 PPid: 0 TracerPid: 0 ... -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:02 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:38:24 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm reporting problems I'll get this one out there. I normally use a USB-2 memory card reader but I also have a PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter that I use

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cut] Now with MM kernels 2.6.24 rc1-4 the PCMCIA adapter works again, but I only get read rates of 1.6 MB/s. When it used to work in 2.6.20 I got at least

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:02 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:38:24 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm reporting

2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and excessive block IO errors

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
528288 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector 528672 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector 546392 -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and /proc/pid/status Name: field

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
: init State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 1 Pid:1 PPid: 0 TracerPid: 0 ... -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Zan Lynx
margin! -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1

2007-11-13 Thread Zan Lynx
Andrew Morton wrote: [cut] hm, that was supposed to shut itself off after 100 messages: if (unlikely(clone_flags & (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED))) { static int __read_mostly count = 100; if (count && printk_ratelimit()) { char

Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1

2007-11-13 Thread Zan Lynx
Andrew Morton wrote: [cut] hm, that was supposed to shut itself off after 100 messages: if (unlikely(clone_flags (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED))) { static int __read_mostly count = 100; if (count printk_ratelimit()) { char

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 ACPI Battery Info in /sys but not /proc/acpi

2007-10-19 Thread Zan Lynx
e ACPI info in /proc had been missing I would have suspected something like this right away. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 ACPI Battery Info in /sys but not /proc/acpi

2007-10-19 Thread Zan Lynx
info in /proc had been missing I would have suspected something like this right away. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Zan Lynx
ueues like CFQ than the MD closest-head. An implementation would also need to be benchmarked against the MD raid-1. Along with the time to submit it to LKML, get it reviewed and polish it up, it might make a good student project. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.23-mm1

2007-10-15 Thread Zan Lynx
reverse-engineering might be needed. Hmm. I can add more data to this. My x86_64 mode laptop is running 2.6.23-mm1 with Reiser4 and does not experience problems. I am using 64-bit kernel, libata (I think, whatever the SCSI-like PATA is called), and Reiser4. Both libata and Reiser4 are built-in, not modules. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.23-mm1

2007-10-15 Thread Zan Lynx
-like PATA is called), and Reiser4. Both libata and Reiser4 are built-in, not modules. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Zan Lynx
to be benchmarked against the MD raid-1. Along with the time to submit it to LKML, get it reviewed and polish it up, it might make a good student project. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [patch] reiser4: do not allocate struct file on stack

2007-10-05 Thread Zan Lynx
recompiled. I am now running with 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 + this patch and things seem good. (Except for some issues with ACPI battery info moving out of proc and confusing the heck out of HAL and the GNOME power management scripts). -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [patch] reiser4: do not allocate struct file on stack

2007-10-05 Thread Zan Lynx
applied with fuzz. I manually applied hunk #1 and recompiled. I am now running with 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 + this patch and things seem good. (Except for some issues with ACPI battery info moving out of proc and confusing the heck out of HAL and the GNOME power management scripts). -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL

2.6.23-rc8-mm2 NULL dereference in __mnt_is_readonly in ftruncate

2007-09-27 Thread Zan Lynx
m # CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T is not set CONFIG_CRC32=y # CONFIG_CRC7 is not set CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=m CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS=y CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS=y CONFIG_PLIST=y CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.23-rc8-mm2 NULL dereference in __mnt_is_readonly in ftruncate

2007-09-27 Thread Zan Lynx
is not set CONFIG_CRC32=y # CONFIG_CRC7 is not set CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=m CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS=y CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS=y CONFIG_PLIST=y CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - memory layout change? - lost support for MAP_32BIT? - mono crashes

2007-08-23 Thread Zan Lynx
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 11:28 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Zan Lynx wrote: > > > After installing this new wonder kernel on my AMD-64 laptop, I > > discovered that Beagle wouldn't start. While enjoying how fast my > > system felt ( :) ) I also d

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - memory layout change? - lost support for MAP_32BIT? - mono crashes

2007-08-23 Thread Zan Lynx
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 11:28 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Zan Lynx wrote: After installing this new wonder kernel on my AMD-64 laptop, I discovered that Beagle wouldn't start. While enjoying how fast my system felt ( :) ) I also discovered that Evolution wouldn't start

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - memory layout change? - lost support for MAP_32BIT? - mono crashes

2007-08-22 Thread Zan Lynx
t's not a 32-bit address... -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - memory layout change? - lost support for MAP_32BIT? - mono crashes

2007-08-22 Thread Zan Lynx
not a 32-bit address... -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Zan Lynx
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:09 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > > I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou > > ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things. I run it, anyway. > > > >

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Zan Lynx
e' patch. I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things. I run it, anyway. http://klive.cpushare.com/ -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Zan Lynx
, uptime and other things. I run it, anyway. http://klive.cpushare.com/ -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to make -mm a more viable testbed (was: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD)

2007-08-13 Thread Zan Lynx
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:09 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: I thought most people running -mm were running klive, which shou ld tell kernel versions, uptime and other things. I run it, anyway. http://klive.cpushare.com/ If that's

Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

2007-08-07 Thread Zan Lynx
th the volatile removed: main: .LFB2: movqtptr(%rip), %rax movl$0, (%rax) .L2: jmp .L2 If the compiler can see it clearly, it will optimize out the load without the volatile. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

2007-08-07 Thread Zan Lynx
If the compiler can see it clearly, it will optimize out the load without the volatile. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Zan Lynx
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:52 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: > > > > > > > I was pla

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Zan Lynx
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:52 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 7/31/07, Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-07-31 Thread Zan Lynx
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: > > > I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like > > "ls" work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and the > >

2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-07-31 Thread Zan Lynx
@" I don't have any more info than that at the moment but I could reproduce it with whatever, on request. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.23-rc1-mm1 Reiser4 / SLUB padding overwritten error

2007-07-31 Thread Zan Lynx
] ktxnmgrd+0x0/0x1a0 [] ktxnmgrd+0x141/0x1a0 [] ktxnmgrd+0x0/0x1a0 [] kthread+0x4b/0x80 [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [] restore_args+0x0/0x30 [] kthread+0x0/0x80 [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 INFO: lockdep is turned off. Hangcheck: hangcheck value past margin! SysRq : Resetting -- Zan Lynx <[EM

2.6.23-rc1-mm1 Reiser4 / SLUB padding overwritten error

2007-07-31 Thread Zan Lynx
value past margin! SysRq : Resetting -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-07-31 Thread Zan Lynx
HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes export HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge export HUGETLB_VERBOSE=1 exec $@ I don't have any more info than that at the moment but I could reproduce it with whatever, on request. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-07-31 Thread Zan Lynx
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and the system slowly stops running. One

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-25 Thread Zan Lynx
speed improvement over swapping to laptop disk. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-25 Thread Zan Lynx
can't help but think it'd be more efficient than recursing every directory and adding a watch. Or maybe a netlink thing that could buffer events since filesystem mount until a daemon could get around to starting, so none were lost. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description:

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-25 Thread Zan Lynx
be more efficient than recursing every directory and adding a watch. Or maybe a netlink thing that could buffer events since filesystem mount until a daemon could get around to starting, so none were lost. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-25 Thread Zan Lynx
, and hence to find updatedb more painful. A well done swap-to-flash would help here. I sometimes do it anyway to a 4GB CF card but I can tell it's hitting the read/update/write cycles on the flash blocks. The sad thing is that it is still a speed improvement over swapping to laptop disk. -- Zan

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-17 Thread Zan Lynx
it's largely XFS that's the problem? No problems > with LVM/MD and say plain ext? There *are* crashes from LVM and ext3. I had to change kernels to avoid them. I had crashes with ext3 on LVM snapshot on DM mirror on SATA. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [patch 0/3] reiser4 fixups

2007-07-17 Thread Zan Lynx
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 22:50 +0400, Edward Shishkin wrote: > Zan Lynx wrote: > ... > > >Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > RIP: > > [] reiser4_tree_by_page+0x4/0x20 [snip] > This is bug in Zam's new file_read:

Re: [patch 0/3] reiser4 fixups

2007-07-17 Thread Zan Lynx
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 22:50 +0400, Edward Shishkin wrote: Zan Lynx wrote: ... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at RIP: [8033d324] reiser4_tree_by_page+0x4/0x20 [snip] This is bug in Zam's new file_read: unlocked page was reclaimed

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-17 Thread Zan Lynx
? No problems with LVM/MD and say plain ext? There *are* crashes from LVM and ext3. I had to change kernels to avoid them. I had crashes with ext3 on LVM snapshot on DM mirror on SATA. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 reiser4_tree_by_page NULL pointer

2007-07-13 Thread Zan Lynx
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 14:31 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > Edward Shishkin wrote: > > > > I have found the bug, which kills data > > when booting after crash, power loss, etc. > > The patch is attached. > > Please, ping me, if it doesn't help.. > > It appears

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 reiser4_tree_by_page NULL pointer

2007-07-13 Thread Zan Lynx
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 14:31 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: Edward Shishkin wrote: I have found the bug, which kills data when booting after crash, power loss, etc. The patch is attached. Please, ping me, if it doesn't help.. It appears to be holding up well so far. About 5 hours of Gentoo

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 reiser4_tree_by_page NULL pointer

2007-07-12 Thread Zan Lynx
Edward Shishkin wrote: I have found the bug, which kills data when booting after crash, power loss, etc. The patch is attached. Please, ping me, if it doesn't help.. It appears to be holding up well so far. About 5 hours of Gentoo updating and compiling. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 reiser4_tree_by_page NULL pointer

2007-07-12 Thread Zan Lynx
Edward Shishkin wrote: I have found the bug, which kills data when booting after crash, power loss, etc. The patch is attached. Please, ping me, if it doesn't help.. It appears to be holding up well so far. About 5 hours of Gentoo updating and compiling. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-11 Thread Zan Lynx
Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it's time to make 4K stacks the default and to start considering removing the 8K stack option alltogether soon? One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-11 Thread Zan Lynx
Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it's time to make 4K stacks the default and to start considering removing the 8K stack option alltogether soon? One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a

2.6.22-rc6-mm1 reiser4_tree_by_page NULL pointer

2007-07-10 Thread Zan Lynx
CONFIG_CRC32=y # CONFIG_CRC7 is not set CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=m CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y CONFIG_PLIST=y CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6.22-rc6-mm1 reiser4_tree_by_page NULL pointer

2007-07-10 Thread Zan Lynx
=y -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 Intel DMAR crash on AMD x86_64

2007-06-28 Thread Zan Lynx
s on request, and when I get the chance. This is a heads-up on the BUG in case someone has an "ah ha!" moment. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 Intel DMAR crash on AMD x86_64

2007-06-28 Thread Zan Lynx
someone has an ah ha! moment. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22-rc3-mm1 reiser4 bug

2007-06-02 Thread Zan Lynx
s long as the partition is formatted ReiserFS. It can't be a simple bug, because I am running 2.6.22-rc3-mm1 and Reiser4 on / right now, and it works well for me. I am using a busybox initramfs that does the actual mounting. I don't know if that makes a difference. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL

Re: 2.6.22-rc3-mm1 reiser4 bug

2007-06-02 Thread Zan Lynx
. It can't be a simple bug, because I am running 2.6.22-rc3-mm1 and Reiser4 on / right now, and it works well for me. I am using a busybox initramfs that does the actual mounting. I don't know if that makes a difference. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-05-23 Thread Zan Lynx
rget3:0:3 PM: Removing info for No Bus:target3:0:3 PM: Adding info for No Bus:target3:0:4 PM: Removing info for No Bus:target3:0:4 PM: Adding info for No Bus:target3:0:5 PM: Removing info for No Bus:target3:0:5 PM: Adding info for No Bus:target3:0:6 PM: Removing info for No Bus:target3:0:6

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-05-23 Thread Zan Lynx
for No Bus:target3:0:7 PM: Removing info for No Bus:target3:0:7 usb-storage: device scan complete -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Zan Lynx
audience :) But I'll see what happens. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Zan Lynx
. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default

2007-04-28 Thread Zan Lynx
t work crashed once a week while running rdiff-backup off a snapshot. Installing a 64-bit kernel stopped the crashes, and I believe the 64-bit still uses the bigger stacks. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default

2007-04-28 Thread Zan Lynx
once a week while running rdiff-backup off a snapshot. Installing a 64-bit kernel stopped the crashes, and I believe the 64-bit still uses the bigger stacks. -- Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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