Re: Weird PCI interrupt delivery problem (resolution, sort of)

2006-01-24 Thread Craig Boston
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:43:49AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > What if you do a read of the lapic before the write? Maybe doing 'x = > lapic->eoi; lapic->eoi = 0;'? Reading the lapic before the write has no effect. Reading the lapic after the write makes it work. Craig __

CPU/case/disk temperature sensors for Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-01-24 Thread Surer Dink
All, (I was told this was /one/ of the appropriate forums for this message - however I did not want to cross-post - if this is not the correct place, please let me know and I will try the other suggestions [acpi- and ports-].) I have tried every means I could find to read the temperature sensors (

Re: Difference between a kthread and an ordinary process.

2006-01-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Scott Long wrote: Pranav Peshwe wrote: Hello, When a kthread is created using the kthread_create (9) function, i found out that a new instance of struct proc is created and allocated for the thread just as in case of a creation of a new process.Also, the thread is assigned a pid as in

Re: Weird PCI interrupt delivery problem (resolution, sort of)

2006-01-24 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 23 January 2006 21:25, Craig Boston wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:42:21PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:17:39PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > > This points to a bus coherency problem. I wonder if your BIOS is > > > incorrectly setting the memory region of

Re: Difference between a kthread and an ordinary process.

2006-01-24 Thread Scott Long
Pranav Peshwe wrote: Hello, When a kthread is created using the kthread_create (9) function, i found out that a new instance of struct proc is created and allocated for the thread just as in case of a creation of a new process.Also, the thread is assigned a pid as in the case of a proces

Re: Difference between a kthread and an ordinary process.

2006-01-24 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
On 1/24/06, Pranav Peshwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > What is the difference between a kernel thread and a normal process > created using fork ? except the address space sharing with swapper and more than one kernel thread can be associated with a process and they all share the same ad

Difference between a kthread and an ordinary process.

2006-01-24 Thread Pranav Peshwe
Hello, When a kthread is created using the kthread_create (9) function, i found out that a new instance of struct proc is created and allocated for the thread just as in case of a creation of a new process.Also, the thread is assigned a pid as in the case of a process. What is the differ