/i386/msr.c to here.
* Keith Owens.
*/
/* Note: "err" is handled in a funny way below. Otherwise one version
of gcc or another breaks. */
extern inline int wrmsr_eio(u32 reg, u32 eax, u32 edx)
{
int err;
asm volatile(
"1: wrmsr\n"
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:17:41 + (GMT),
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
jeremyhu wrote
See below for my origional problem. It seems the problem lies in the
module versioning option.
Not quite
Probably is.
When the system boots, I am spammed with the following line:
insmod:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:38:50 +1100,
Antony Suter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Allen Unueco wrote:
I ran into this while hacking the Nvidia kernel driver to work with
2.4.0. I got the driver working but it's not 100%
Also where did get_module_symbol() and put_module_symbol() go?
Patches for
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:23:33 + (GMT),
Mark Hindley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I use the kernel module autoloader I also have a cron entry for rmmod -a
which runs every so often to clear out the unused modules. Although
the logs record rmmod running, they don't say what if any modules were
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:42:24 +,
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Taking away get_module_symbol() and providing a replacement which has link
order problems wasn't really very sensible.
It's too late to do the sensible thing and deprecate the old version rather
than having a 'flag
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:32:10 +,
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not suggesting that we change it drastically, only that we add
the option of static (compile-time) registration for those entries which
require it.
So you want two services, one static for code that does not do
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:09:13 + (GMT),
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stick to one method that works for all routines, dynamic registration.
If that imposes the occasional need for a couple of extra calls in some
routines and for people to think about initialisation order right from
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:12:47 +0100,
Ingo Oeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So why don't we use sth. like depmod for these issues and get the
link order automagically (like we get module load order)?
depmod handles dependencies on symbols. Module Y needs a symbol from
module X so modprobe must
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:27:34 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
A typical graph would have scsi disk depends on scsi host adaptor group
which depends on pci.
No. sd will happily take over any existing devices when as and when
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:01:12 +0100,
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith Owens wrote:
I want to completely remove this multi layered method for setting
initialisation order and go back to basics. I want the programmer to
say "initialise E and F after G, H and I". The ke
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:11:30 +0100,
Christian Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Saying that I should have made use of this mechanism for the specific
code in the Nvidia driver that we are talking about clearly shows that
you didn't look at it. The module used get_module_symbol to search its
own
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:46:44 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
Actually, my testing showed that modutils was quite OK with symbols which
may or may not be present. But compiling such code into the kernel, at
least on MIPS and m68k
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:46:00 +0100,
Christian Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see what you mean. What do you suggest should be done in the context of
the driver? As you can easily tell, I'm not overly familiar with the
internal workings of the kernel. That and the mere impossibility to get
any
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:33:47 -0400,
"Garst R. Reese" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
-march=i586-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ksyms.c
In file included from
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:09:40 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lack of [module symbol] runtime typechecking isn't a showstopper.
It is when users try to insert modules from kernel A into kernel B when
the ABI changed between A and B. This is not type checking to catch
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:12:13 -0500 (EST),
Werner Puschitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a safe way to add debug information like simple string prints in
arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.s and in arch/i386/kernel/head.S
so that I can see at the console where the boot process hangs?
Time for
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:43:21 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
That forces the maintenance load back onto the binary supplier and
removes the questions from l-k, including many of the oops reports with
binary only drivers
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:47:29 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
That's the one flaw in the inter_module_get() stuff - we could do with a
way to put entries in the table at _compile_ time, rather than _only_ at
run time.
Ok, I can
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 END_OF_CODE+385bfe34/ =
Trace; f889d966 END_OF_CODE+385bf756/
It seems the oops is happening in a module's function.
You have to make
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:54:56 +1100,
David Luyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a proposed v2.4 "quick fix" to allow specifying "module parameters" to
any of the many drivers without option parsers when built in to the kernel.
Fundamental problem: you assume that each module is built from a
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:18:40 +0100 (MET),
Michael Palme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ive got a problem with the EXPORT_SYMBOL() macro.
d801e0dc symbol_exported_R__symbol_exported
FAQ alert! http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:55:23 + (GMT),
Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm, don't we already have all that __setup() stuff laying around? Ok,
it might not be built into the .o for modules, but it could be. Could
we not do something along the lines of:
1. User passes parameters on the
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modutils-2.4.2.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.4.2-1.src.rpmAs above, in SRPM format
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:48:14 +,
Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The procedure I have gone through to compile the kernel are as
follows:
a) Copy the .config file safe
b) Remove the previous kernel tree
c) Extract the pristine 2.4.0 kernel tree
d) Apply the 2.4.0-ac10 patch
make
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:11 +,
Anders Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even if it is a pristine kernel tree? What function does the 'make
mrproper' fill on an unused kernel tree?
Depends on how you removed the old tree. If you did 'rm -rf *' then
some dot files are left around. make
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:34:15 -0500,
"MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way to strip symbols from modules .o files ?
Not safely. Some symbols must be kept to assist insmod and hot
plugging, strip does not know about these special symbols.
Why do you need to
. Not tested since 1998, YMMV. At the
very least it needs to be updated to keep MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE()
symbols.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Given a list of objects, strip all static symbols except those
# required by insmod.
#
# Copyright Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]. GPL.
# Sat Feb 1
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:32:35 -0500,
Paul Gortmaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious as to what boot argument equivalent you envision for e.g.
options ne io=0x280,0x300 irq=10,12 bad=0,1
ne.io=0x280,0x300 ne.irq=10,12 ne.bad=0,1. I might even be generous
and handle ne{io=0x280,0x300
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:59:07 +0100,
"J . A . Magallon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a silly question. The pcmcia modules in 2.4.x get installed in
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia, instead of
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/whatever
Is there any special reason for that or is just a harmelss
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:46:12 -0800 (PST),
"Sergey Kubushin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Modules still don't load:
=== Cut ===
ide-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 32131
ide-probe-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 256950710
ide-disk.o: Can't handle sections of type 688840897
ext2.o: Can't
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X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999
From: Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Peter Kaczuba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: "Sergey Kubushin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac12
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:06:57 BST."
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:21:41 -0700,
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to know what options a running kernel was compiled with,
if you dont have access to the source or configure files it was compiled
off of?
No. You have to insist that whoever distributes the kernel binary
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:13:48 -0500,
"Matthew Pitts" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some distributions DO include the config. It may be located
in the /boot dir with a name CONFIG-2.2.10 or similar. I
know that Caldera 2.3 shiped that way(2.4 may also). If you
have the install CDROM, the kernel source
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:46:12 -0800 (PST),
"Sergey Kubushin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Modules still don't load:
=== Cut ===
ide-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 32131
ide-probe-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 256950710
ide-disk.o: Can't handle sections of type 688840897
ext2.o: Can't
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:16:06 +0100,
SR (c) 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my /proc/ksyms shows that the exported symbols from 8390.o are different
from the other symbols because they have "_R__ver_" in front of them.
FAQ http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8
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The _modinst_post_pcmcia target was added to Makefile in 2.4.0-test6-pre3,
August 5 2000. It was a compatibility aid until people upgraded to a
version of pcmcia-cs that used modprobe instead of insmod. Five months
later, it is time to remove _modinst_post_pcmcia.
Linus, please apply at any
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:41:31 -0800,
Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should someone submit a patch to copy the .config to a standard location as
part of "make install" or "make modules_install"? If included in the
official sources, that good example would encourage the distribution
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:47:02 +1100 (EST),
Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking more closely at a 2.2.18 bootup tonight I see that apm stuff
appears in dmesg before dmi_scan does (I added "#define DUMP_DMI" in
dmi_scan.c).
If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken.
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/drivers/acpi'
Makefile:29: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
Which version of make are you
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:20 -0600 (CST),
Jason Michaelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build
it. At the tail end of a make modules_install, the following error occurs:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:08:12 -0800,
Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-miropcm20.o
depmod:aci_write_cmd
depmod:aci_indexed_cmd
depmod:aci_write_cmd_d
Those symbols are defined in
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:57:44 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:09:48 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
You mean that nobody reads Documentation/Changes any more?
Seldom, only once or twice a day. Guess that's not often enough
to keep up on the new tool re
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:27:40 -0500,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:20 -0600 (CST),
Jason Michaelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build
it. At the tail end of a make
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:46:19 +0100 (CET),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arjan van de Ven) wrote:
Unfortionatly, this is impossible. The miropcm config question is asked
before the "sound" question, and the aci question is asked after that (all
in ake config). In 2.2.x we have an #ifdef in the driver that
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:54:22 +1100 (EST),
Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this is a correct and justifiable fix for 2.2 then in 2.4 should
dmi_scan.o be included in export-objs? Or is there a "better" way of
doing this?
It should already be correct in 2.4. In 2.2 the OX_OBJS list is
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:44:29 -0500 (EST),
Eric Kasten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quick bug report for kernel 2.4.1. There needs to be a
EXPORT_SYMBOL(name_to_kdev_t); at the bottom of linux/init/main.c.
name_to_kdev_t is used by the md driver (and maybe others). If the
driver is built as a
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:17:56 -0700,
"Josh Higham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c
You compiled your kernel with support for ELF objects as a module. You
execute an ELF program, the kernel tries to autoload the ELF module
using modprobe which is an ELF
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:02:03 -0800,
LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This seems to serialize the delete, run the mod-installs in parallel, then run the
depmod when they are done.
It works, until somebody does this
make -j 4 modules modules_install
There is not, and never has been, any
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:13:17 -0800,
LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith Owens wrote:
It works, until somebody does this
make -j 4 modules modules_install
---
But that doesn't work now.
Agreed, but letting modules_install parallel run increases the risk of
somebody doing
On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:25:29 +0100 (BST),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is I have a driver that includes syncppp.h which in the releases
from kernel.org is in linux/drivers/net/wan/ up to and including 2.4.2 after
which it moves to linux/include/net/.
Do it in the Makefile. Untested:
On Thu, 10 May 2001 08:46:43 -0500,
Moses McKnight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I get the following error trying to compile 2.4.4-ac6 using gcc
2.95.4 (debian package).
plip.c:1412: __setup_str_plip_setup causes a section type conflict
The first __initdata is marked as const, the second is
On Fri, 11 May 2001 05:47:16 -0400 (EDT),
Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever I post to linux-kernel with your name in the Cc or To,
the mail bounces back 5 days later
Your mail is coming from 24.70.141.118 which has no reverse DNS and is
somewhere in shaw.ca. I have received too
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:52:24 -0400 (EDT),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.4-ac6. Options used
Warning (read_object): no symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.4-ac6/build/drivers/pnp/pnp.o
ksymoops should not be reading objects from /build/. It looks like you
are
On Mon, 14 May 2001 00:16:50 -0400 (EDT),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After running make menuconfig (and it's friends) you get told
to type make bzImage which is only right for i386, and IMHO should be
changed to be arch dependant.
The 2.5 Makefile rewrite splits the kernel build into three
On Mon, 14 May 2001 23:55:37 +0100 (BST),
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And lilo ?
Also hdparm
raidtools
psmisc
mtools
mt-st
gpm
joystick
kmod, /etc/modules.conf:
alias block-major-what-random-number-did-the-kernel-pick-this-time driver_name
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On Tue, 15 May 2001 18:04:35 +0930 (CST),
Jonathan Woithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.2.19. Options used
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol module_list_R__ver_module_list not found in
System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
module_list was added to the export list
Bug in include/linux/module.h. Patch against 2.2.19. This does not
explain your oops, the ksymoops message is a separate bug.
Index: 19.1/include/linux/module.h
--- 19.1/include/linux/module.h Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:37:17 +1100 kaos
(linux-2.2/F/51_module.h 1.1.7.2 644)
+++
On Thu, 17 May 2001 16:07:40 +0200,
Martin.Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Please turn off MIME when sending to linux-kernel, especially those
useless vcards at the end of your mail.
When I diff config files pocessed by make [old]config and make
On Thu, 17 May 2001 20:50:46 +0200 (CEST),
Joel Cordonnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's the first time that i try to compile my own
kernel. At the moment, I have an old RH 6.1 with a
2.2.12 kernel.
- make modules_install == PROBLEM !
FIRST the message say that no argument -F exist for
the
On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400,
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete
and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such
that it can be passed directly to printk like
printk(version);
Nit
On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:14:33 -0400,
Ben Bridgwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To present a dumbed down UI targeted for Aunt Millie or
whoever against the protests of the mainstream kernel tool audience
makes zero sense to me, as don't Eric's repeated antagonistic comments.
How many times do we
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:18:56 -0400,
Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The dependencies in CML1 are (supposed to
be) absolute - the 'advisory' dependencies you're adding are arguably a
useful feature, but please don't make
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:47:38 -0400,
Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somebody failed to track a module name change.
-obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc_i2c.o
bbc-objs := bbc_i2c.o bbc_envctrl.o
The module is bbc.o, bbc_i2c.o is
On Mon, 21 May 101 16:38:45 +1000 (EST),
Allan Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711
if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d-devid, DEVID_CS5530)
for (i = 0; i 1000; ++i)
printf(I must scan kernel archives before report bugs\n);
On Sun, 20 May 2001 17:34:48 -0400,
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(let me know if the following test is flawed)
[jgarzik@rum tmp]$ cat sectest.c
#include linux/module.h
#include linux/init.h
static const char version[] __initdata = foo;
[jgarzik@rum tmp]$ gcc -D__KERNEL__
On Mon, 21 May 2001 10:26:20 +0200 (CEST),
kees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got a next hang with my SMP system, kdb log attached. Something strange
with the backtrace for CPU 0. Here is the first cut from the kdb log..
I do not trust either of those backtraces. There is no way to get from
On Mon, 21 May 2001 16:38:34 -0400,
John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All that CML2 does is enforce dependencies in the configuration
language. You can't make a .config which conflicts. Admittedly
there's nothing stopping you from hacking it with vi after the fact,
but why?
CML2 will not
On Tue, 22 May 2001 11:24:54 +0200,
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 02:59, Keith Owens wrote:
# Not a real dependency, this checks for hand editing of .config.
$(KBUILD_OBJTREE)include/linux/autoconf.h: $(KBUILD_OBJTREE).config
@echo Your .config
Is drivers/char/ser_a2232fw.ax supposed to be included? Nothing uses it.
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On Wed, 23 May 2001 05:36:20 -0400,
Olivier Galibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:07:38PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
What is the point of including it in the kernel source tree without the
code to convert it to ser_a2232fw.h? Nobody can use ser_a2232fw.ax, it
is just
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On Fri, 18 May 2001 10:53:53 -0400,
Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(a) Back off the capability approach. That is, accept that
people doing configuration are going to explicitly and
exhaustively specify low-level hardware.
No,
On Fri, 25 May 2001 08:31:24 -0700 (PDT),
dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
another possibility for a debugging mode for the kernel would be to hack
gcc to emit something like the following in the prologue of every function
(after the frame is allocated):
IKD already does that, via the
On Sat, 26 May 2001 18:05:29 +0200,
Marc Schiffbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have problems with the new aic7xxx-Driver. These problems exist
with vanilla (2.4.4, 2.5.5, other d.k.) and -ac
May 26 17:52:33 homer kernel: EIP:
0010:[usbcore:usb_devfs_handle_Re9c5f87f+161255/198895517]
May 26
On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:27:53 +0200,
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:25:57PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
Nothing in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c uses a task gate, they are all
interrupt, trap, system or call gates. I guarantee that kdb on ix86
and ia64 uses the same
On Fri, 25 May 2001 08:11:07 +0100,
David Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not use a task gate for the double fault handler points to a
per-processor TSS with a seperate stack. This would allow limited recovery
from a kernel stack overlay.
It is far too late by then. struct task is at the
On Sun, 27 May 2001 06:04:28 +0200 (CEST),
Rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm I feel quite certain that I am using /dev/tty - is there some way I
can check this?
/etc/inittab, lines for mingetty, getty or agetty.
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On Sat, 27 May 2001 21:11:25,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph S Price) wrote:
Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
Synopsis: Updated modutils fixing local root security bug available
Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:108-02
Issue date:2000-11-16
Updated on:2000-11-16
On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:20:15 +0200,
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:53:47PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
The only way to avoid those problems is to move struct task out of the
kernel stack pages and to use a task gate for the stack fault and
double fault handlers
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:54:36 +0200,
Nico Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a small question, what could be the reason I have a broken
Makefile ?
This seems to happen frequently, if there is a need
to name it into the lkml. I am surprised
a makefile gets screwed up ?
It is the makefile
On 30 May 2001 11:38:13 +0200,
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dawson Engler writes:
Is there any way to automatically find these? E.g., is any routine
with asmlinkage callable from user space?
This is only universally done in generic and
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:32:46 +1000,
Matt Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've found that if you compile IRDA into the kernel, irda_proto_init
gets called twice - once at do_initcalls time, and once explicitly
in do_basic_setup - eventually resulting in a hang (as
register_netdevice_notifier gets
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/kdb-v1.8-2.4.5-ac6.gz is
available.
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:08:49 -0400 (EDT),
Chris Meadors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about those of us who don't have modules enabled. "make
modules_install" complains.
I'm still like the idea of /lib/kernel or /lib/linux. Keep /lib/modules
for modules. Or on my machines I won't even have
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 21:44:16 -0700,
Richard Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:09:00PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
Compiling 2.4.0-test7 with the latest IA64 toolchain, gcc version
2.96-ia64-000717 snap 000828. It complained about various include
files, "pa
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"Certainly, this virus begins a new era in computer virus creation,"
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:49:44 +0100 (BST),
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use a different gcc. There are reasons people shipping 2.96 for intel x86 also
include egcs. The kernel isnt ready for 2.96
Out of curiousity, which compiler would you recommend for IA64 kernels?
The latest unwind code
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:07:13 -0400 (EDT),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahaa! Aye... Does this imply that there will, in the future, be
other than '/kernel/drivers' as modules? Or is this (I fear) another
change that; "Doesn't have to be better, only different..."
On 08 Sep 2000 01:40:55 +0200,
"Juan J. Quintela" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi
I only can guess that you are using a wrong System.map for
doing the ksymoops. __mon_yday is an array, not a function,
the backtrace
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:14:26 -0500,
Michael Elizabeth Chastain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah. Long transition, plus user education (which never works, dontcha
know), plus probably a helper tool akin to checkconfig.
I think it would help to have a well documented "module writers kit".
(Maybe
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:39:11 -0300,
Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My modules.dep has the following lines:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.o \
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:39:11 -0300,
Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My modules.dep has the following lines:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.o:
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test8-pre1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.o \
Just had an ext2 filesystem on SCSI that was corrupt. The first two
words of the group descriptor had been overwritten with 0xdeadbeef,
0x. The filesystem is fixed now but trying to track down the
problem is difficult, there are 50+ places in the kernel that use
0xdeadbeef.
I strongly
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 04:24:16 -0400 (EDT),
Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
Just had an ext2 filesystem on SCSI that was corrupt. The first two
words of the group descriptor had been overwritten with 0xdeadbeef,
0x. The filesystem is fixed
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:33:35 +0200,
Kenneth Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some way I can fix the old report I don't have a unprocessed
version of the oops as klogd "fixed" it automatically.
The raw data has been lost. Do you feel like grubbing through
whichever System.map klogd
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:50:32 -1100,
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I boot up, I have a netfilter init script. It loads many netfilter
modules, among them, ipt_LOG, ipt_state, and ipt_limit. When they load,
whammo, instant OOPS.
ip_conntrack_irc is also among them.
You might have
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:09:14 +0200,
Kenneth Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have now put "-k /boot/System.map-$(uname -r)" as argument to klogd
so it can't possibly choose the wrong file but is there some
reason to turn off the lookup in klogd and use ksymoops ??
klogd only handles some
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 19:20:15 +0100,
Ralph Corderoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
01:52:30 EIP:0010:[dput+77/328]
I believe I should be able to look up dput in the System.map klogd is
using, add on the offset, and then look that number up in the real
System.map. Is this doable?
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