Re: test10 won't boot

2000-11-01 Thread Hans-Joachim Baader
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Hans-Joachim Baader wrote: > > test10, compiled with gcc 2.95.2, won't boot on one of my machine. > > It stops after the "now booting the kernel" message. Yes, I have > > configured Virtual Terminal and VGA text console. > > Does it boot with the attached patch? Nope, it do

Re: Announce: Via audio driver update

2000-11-01 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:01:09AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Please grab 1.1.14, there were a number of bug fixes since 1.1.10. You > can get this version in the recently-released 2.4.0-test10 kernel, or > download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ Hi! I'd like to report a bug, t

[BUG?] two swapping processes freeze 2.4.0-test10 (but not 2.2.18pre19)

2000-11-01 Thread Wayne Whitney
Hi, My group runs computations on a small linux cluster of RedHat 7.0 dual PIII-700's with 512MB RAM/512MB swap. We have been experiencing some lockups/poor performance on 2.4.x kernels when running two computations at once. I've narrowed it down to a reproducible problem under 2.4.0-test10 (g

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Morton
"Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > > I added show_stack(0); to the mm/page_alloc.c : > > /* No luck.. */ > printk(KERN_ERR "__alloc_pages: %lu-order allocation failed.\n", order) > show_stack(0); > return NULL; > > Then, when the first stack-dump came to kern.log, I gave

Re: [BUG] /proc//stat access stalls badly for swapping process, 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > > > I'd like to report what seems like a performance problem in the latest > > kernels. Actually, all recent kernels have exhibited this problem, but > > I was waiting for the new VM stuff to stabilize before

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread Vitezslav Samel
Hi! > My list of 2.4.0-testX problems > > Problem description: > > 1. kernel compiled w/o FB support. When attempting to switch > back to X from VC1-6 system locks hard for SMP. Nada thing > fixes this except hard reset... no Alt-SysRq-B, nothing > DRI not enabled. Vide

Re: test10 won't boot

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Hans-Joachim Baader wrote: > test10, compiled with gcc 2.95.2, won't boot on one of my machine. > It stops after the "now booting the kernel" message. Yes, I have > configured Virtual Terminal and VGA text console. > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541 (rev 04) > 00:01.0 PCI b

test10 won't boot

2000-11-01 Thread Hans-Joachim Baader
Hi, test10, compiled with gcc 2.95.2, won't boot on one of my machine. It stops after the "now booting the kernel" message. Yes, I have configured Virtual Terminal and VGA text console. The configuration also contains Reiserfs (as a module) but that shouldn't make a difference. The system is a

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I haven't seen yet is > an explanation of why kgcc can't be used for compiling *everything* It can. But if we are talking about 2.4.x, I want my kernel built with the improved gcc-2.95.2 -- unless there is a good reason not to do so -- and kgcc is egcs-1.1.2 not g

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:54:18PM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote: > Since you're setting yourself up as a proponent of this can you explain why > RedHat includes a compiler that doesn't work with the kernel? Don't get It actually does not compile only 2.2 kernels unless they are patched (the patches

Translation Filesystem

2000-11-01 Thread Amit S. Kale
Hi, I have started a new virtual filesystem project, Translation Filesystem at http://trfs.sourceforge.net/ Description of the project is given below. It's still at a concept stage. If someone has any ideas about any useful translators that fit in this framework please write to me. Any feedback

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Wayne . Brown
I've been following this kgcc discussion with interest for weeks now and there's one thing that still puzzles me. Everyone on both sides of the issue seems to be saying that kgcc (AKA egcs 1.1.2) is used because the gcc versions shipped by several vendors don't compile the kernel correctly. Wh

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.0-test10 locks up during kernel compiles on ToshibaCDT 1640

2000-11-01 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Pieter van Prooijen wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > During kernel compilation (or other heavy use of the machine), the > machine > locks up. No oops, no alt-sysreq, only a hardware reset is > possible. > > M

Re: Announce: Via audio driver update

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
TimO wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > An update of the Via audio driver for Linux 2.4.x kernels has been > > posted at > > > > http://gtf.org/garzik/drivers/via82cxxx/ > > > > Hi Jeff, > > Somewhere between v1.1.8 and 1.1.10 (I haven't tried 1.1.9), the output Please grab 1.1.14,

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mike Galbraith wrote: > [root]:# gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-linux-gnu/gcc-2.95.2/specs > gcc version gcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release) > [root]:# gcc -V 2.8.1 -v > Using builtin specs. <== danger Will Robinson. (think about includes etc) > gcc driver version gcc-2.95.2 19991024

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > Mandrake kgcc I believe is egcs 1.1.2 > > Correct... > > Though Richard Henderson's message recent about 'gcc -V ...' not doing > the right thing has me worried... egcs 1.1.2 not gcc 2.95.2 is > definitely being called when '/usr/bin

Re: Announce: Via audio driver update

2000-11-01 Thread TimO
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > An update of the Via audio driver for Linux 2.4.x kernels has been > posted at > > http://gtf.org/garzik/drivers/via82cxxx/ > Hi Jeff, Somewhere between v1.1.8 and 1.1.10 (I haven't tried 1.1.9), the output quality has degraded noticeably. The first thing I noti

Re: eepro100: card reports no resources [was VM-global...]

2000-11-01 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:32:44PM -0500, Michael O'Donnell wrote: [snip] > Also, here's a possibly useless personal note WRT the > eepro100 resource msgs, FWIW: I was recently using remote > KGDB to work on an unrelated problem on an MP Pentium > box with integrated eepro100. Whenever I'

overflow bugs in virtual memory routines?

2000-11-01 Thread Terence Ripperda
Hello, I believe I've found some corner-case overflow bugs in the virtual memory routines of the kernel. I'm tracking down some bugs with our driver on a 1 Gig system. This forces the kernel's VMALLOC_AREA into very high memory, exactly where based on the VMALLOC_RESERVE value, but roughly 0

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:12:31 Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> > > You're not changing 2.4.x to use kgcc, are you? It seems to be working > > fine under gcc 2.95.2+fixes... > > > > What means "using kgcc" ? Alan has a script in 2.2.x which attempts to find the best compiler

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre6: Use of abs()

2000-11-01 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:46:19 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:14:34PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Of corse right! BTW. There are tons of places where log2 is calculated > explicitly in kernel which should be replaced with the corresponding > built

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread David Ford
Yes..long standing bug, and I don't have sufficient time to get my feet wet in the IDE dept and fix it. -d "M.H.VanLeeuwen" wrote: > > Disable PIIXn tuning and recompile your kernel. How does it fare now? > > Yep, disabling (opposite of "enabling") does allow the kernel to boot just fine. > P

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:12:31 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> > You're not changing 2.4.x to use kgcc, are you? It seems to be working > fine under gcc 2.95.2+fixes... > What means "using kgcc" ?. I think it should be done even before. It is not using "egcs" as you seem to be thinking. You cant put your

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:48:16 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it > includes the same MM corruption bugfix that is been included into 18pre18) > > Andrea "Includes" means that the full patch is not included in pre18 ?. So, will

Re: test10 dies very early in boot

2000-11-01 Thread dek_ml
john slee writes: >hardware: > * abit be6-2 mainboard > * 533 celeron (not overclocked) > * 192mb sdram > * seagate 20gb ide disk (not on ata66 port) > >compiler: gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux) > >it gets as far as uncompressing the k

Issue compiling 2.4test10

2000-11-01 Thread Eric Reischer
I am attempting to cross-compile a 2.4 kernel for a PowerPC arch on an Intel machine, of which I have Debian 2.2 installed. I have successfully compiled a 2.4test9 kernel, but I got the following error message the first time I compiled (it failed due to this): powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-ld -T

"Greased weasel" problems on i686

2000-11-01 Thread Horst von Brand
RH 7.0 up to date, kgcc, binutils-2.10.0.33-1 intel SR440BX motherboard, P3/600; rock solid machine otherwise. 2.4.0-test10 shows a rather unholy appetite for ext2 filesystems (for some reason it munches down /dev regularly, and nibbles at others). Mounting an IDE CD (modular ide-cd, isofs) hang

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: > J. A. Magallon wrote: > > I have noticed that in latest patch for 2.4.0, the global Makefile > > no more tries to find a kgcc, and falls back to gcc. The global Makefile in 2.4.x -never- looked for kgcc. > > I suppose because 2.7.2.3 is no more good for kernel, but still you >

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jan Dvorak
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:04:38PM -0500, George wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: > >kgcc is a redhat'ism. They invented this package because their 2.96 fails > >compiling a stable kernel. However, it's not a good idea to dist specific > >code into the official kernel tree. > > Bi

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Jeff Garzik: > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > By default Debian comes > > with gcc 2.95.2 which compiles current 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels just > > fine. > > Linux-Mandrake 7.2 doesn't seem to be missing gcc patches that > Debian has... and in our testing we've found that some dr

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I think at least supporting a "kgcc" compiler makes sense, > conceptually (although it probably should have been called "kcc", but > it's too late now.) There was already some userland package named kcc, with a kcc binary. A Kanji converter of some sort

Re: New Membership

2000-11-01 Thread stockwatcher
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Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
> So other distro's did it too. Why did nobody complain till RedHat > did it? Because no one else decided to use, as the default, a bleeding edge > compiler that not only won't compile the kernel but won't even touch a lot of > userspace code either. Actually the first people to do exac

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
> } before on this list) and we didn't have time to implement and QA the > > Oh, my. Doing the QA on a kernel change of compiler is a long hard process. It took until 2.2.17 to apparently get a 2.2 kernel solid with gcc 2.95. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > We already know we are a bunch of pinheads wrt. the userland compiler > issue, full stop. It need not be restated several hundred more times. > Believe me, after such a large

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > By default Debian comes > with gcc 2.95.2 which compiles current 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels just > fine. Linux-Mandrake 7.2 doesn't seem to be missing gcc patches that Debian has... and in our testing we've found that some drivers are still miscompiled by gcc 2.95.

Re: working userspace nfs v3 for linux?

2000-11-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:33:34PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Aaron Denney wrote: > > I am not aware of any userspace NFSv3 server. Your best bet would > > probably to take the v2 server and mutate it. Why do you want this beast? > > So I can use Linux rather than Solaris 7 and the Solsti

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:57:34 +0100 > From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > kgcc is a redhat'ism. > >Debian has it too. Not quite. Debian does have an completely optional gcc272 package. It is _not_ ins

Re: possible bug in hd geometry detect code?

2000-11-01 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:37:00PM +0100, raptor wrote: : I've recently experienced a problem with hd geometry on Linux kernel : 2.2.17. I've got 2 identical hard drives, set up as LBA on BIOS. BIOS sees : them both with geometry 1245/255/63, while Linux sees the second one as : 19857/16/63.

Ethernet Sub-Interfaces disappearing?

2000-11-01 Thread kyle donald smith
Hello. We have a webserver running the Slackware distribution of Linux, with Kernel version 2.2.6. Our problem is that this machine looses the ethernet sub-interfaces (i.e. eth0:xx) and we are wondering why this is and what we need to do to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, also pleas

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:55:13PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > What about the fact anyone can crash a box using ioctls on net > > devices and waiting for an unload - was this fixed ? > The ioctls of network devices are generally unsafe on SMP, because > they run wit

Re: working userspace nfs v3 for linux?

2000-11-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Michael Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Aaron Denney wrote: > > I am not aware of any userspace NFSv3 server. Your best bet would > > probably to take the v2 server and mutate it. Why do you want this beast? > > So

Re: system call handling

2000-11-01 Thread Jamie Lokier
Richard B. Johnson wrote: > If you designed it with just one call-gate, with one entry point, > you would have exactly what we have now except you would execute > a `call CALL_GATE` instead of `int 0x80`. This turns out to be > 6 of one and 1/2 dozen of another when it comes to performance. The f

Re: working userspace nfs v3 for linux?

2000-11-01 Thread Michael Rothwell
Aaron Denney wrote: > I am not aware of any userspace NFSv3 server. Your best bet would > probably to take the v2 server and mutate it. Why do you want this beast? So I can use Linux rather than Solaris 7 and the Solstice Disk Suite, which performs like crap thanks to UFS, and the Linux NFS v2

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
"CRADOCK, Christopher" wrote: > > I have a similar hardware list and I don't observe any of these problems on > 2.4.0-test10x. Is it possibly a hardware conflict somewhere? > > What I do see occasionally is if X was ever heavy on the memory usage (say > I've run GIMP for a couple of hours) then

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:30:50PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yes, but what's more important is that all of these "kgcc" variants are > > gcc 2.7.2.x-based (unless there's one I don't know about). And we don't want > > 2.7.2.x, we want egcs 1.1.2 or newer (but not gcc 2.9x, unless you know what >

[2.2.17] 3c59x and Transmit list error

2000-11-01 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello, For some time now we're observing a very bad [tm] network problem with our 3Com 3c905B Cyclone card. After booting the network works just fine, but after a few days ( ranging from five to 10) really hard network problems occur, rendering the network accessabilty to zero; only manua

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
> kgcc is a redhat'ism. They invented this package because their 2.96 fails > compiling a stable kernel. > However, it's not a good idea to dist specific code into the official kernel > tree. The changes in 2.2.18pre for picking the compiler are actually for multiple distributions. The 'kgcc' con

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
David Ford wrote: > > "M.H.VanLeeuwen" wrote: > > > 3. Enabling PIIX4, kernel locks hard when printing the partition > >tables for hdc. hdc has no partitions. > >I think this problem is on Ted's problem list??? > > Disable PIIXn tuning and recompile your kernel. How does it fare now?

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread George
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: >On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:40:58PM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: >> I have noticed that in latest patch for 2.4.0, the global Makefile >> no more tries to find a kgcc, and falls back to gcc. >> I suppose because 2.7.2.3 is no more good for kernel, but sti

Re: fork in module?

2000-11-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Andreas Dilger wrote: > > You write: > > what would be the way of starting a sub-process in a module which then would > > run in the background? I guess plain fork() won't work? > > We did this in one of our filesystem modules to have our own async cache > flush daemon. One thing you need to wa

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:40:58PM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > I have noticed that in latest patch for 2.4.0, the global Makefile > no more tries to find a kgcc, and falls back to gcc. > I suppose because 2.7.2.3 is no more good for kernel, but still you > can use 2.91, 2.95.2 or 2.96(??). Is

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
> I have noticed that in latest patch for 2.4.0, the global Makefile > no more tries to find a kgcc, and falls back to gcc. > I suppose because 2.7.2.3 is no more good for kernel, but still you > can use 2.91, 2.95.2 or 2.96(??). Is that a patch that leaked in > the way to test10, or is for anothe

Re: working userspace nfs v3 for linux?

2000-11-01 Thread Aaron Denney
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 Michael Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:05PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > Is there a working userspace nfs v3 server for linux? > > > > Yes, just install user mode linux and use its v3 knfsd server. > > Does an

Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
I have noticed that in latest patch for 2.4.0, the global Makefile no more tries to find a kgcc, and falls back to gcc. I suppose because 2.7.2.3 is no more good for kernel, but still you can use 2.91, 2.95.2 or 2.96(??). Is that a patch that leaked in the way to test10, or is for another reason ?

RE: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Wow, I bet that's been there awhile. BTW, did you submit this patch earlier? I don't recall having seen it. I'll forward it. Thanks, ~Randy_ |randy.dunlap_at_intel.com503-677-5408| |NOTE: Any views presented here are mine alone| |& may not repres

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:42:17PM -0800, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > Is this bug in the usb-driver (usb-uhci), in the camera's driver > > (cpia_usb) or in the v4l? > ~~ > Could there be a memory leak as well? But I expect that > it's simply that memory is just fragme

Re: screensaver locks up 2.4.0-test10-pre7 hard

2000-11-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:43:16 -0500, Skip Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pentium 3, 256Mb RAM, kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre7 (as well as 2.4.0-test9). >I installed RH7, compiled the latest development kernels (using kgcc, as >required with RH7). After the "greynetic" screensaver (installed with >R

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:00:02PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > A -7 to apply to 2.2.18pre17 and _previous_ releases is in the directory Argh !! Damned sort order - I thought pre9 was the latest :( Thanks, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian

PROBLEM: 2.4.0-test10 locks up during kernel compiles on Toshiba CDT 1640

2000-11-01 Thread Pieter van Prooijen
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, During kernel compilation (or other heavy use of the machine), the machine locks up. No oops, no alt-sysreq, only a hardware reset is possible. Machine is a Toshiba CDT 1640 laptop: 475 MHz K6-II+, 128KB ca

2.2.17 toasting cache?

2000-11-01 Thread Simon Kirby
Hmm... This seems to be happening every 20 minutes or so on a mail server here. This box handles about 25-35 POP3 logins per second and has 1 GB of RAM (compiled with the kernel at 1GB currently, oops). I have 2.2.18pre15+VM_global on there ready to go, but we haven't rebooted it to that yet. Th

Re: eepro100: card reports no resources [was VM-global...]

2000-11-01 Thread drizzt . dourden
Decía Ville Herva: > Markus Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Oct 26 11:24:13 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > > > Oct 26 11:24:15 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > > > Oct 26 12:22:21 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > > > Oct 26 16:16:59 ns2

Re: binutils/gas problem with 'lcall'

2000-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
> but older binutils like 2.9.5 treat these as syntax errors. Sigh. > > So how do we want to handle this? > - ignore the warnings? (yuck; I hate compiler/assembler warnings) Correct ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

binutils/gas problem with 'lcall'

2000-11-01 Thread Mikael Pettersson
arch/i386/kernel/apm.c and pci-pc.c use the lcall instruction (call far indirect) for invoking BIOS services. The following syntax is used: (apm) lcall %cs:apm_bios_entry (pci-pc)lcall (%edi) This works ok with binutils 2.9.5, but binutils 2.10.0.18 (gas 2.10.90) as shipped wit

RE: 3-order allocation failed

2000-11-01 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Hi, > From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:57:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > > > __alloc

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Daniel Phillips wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > > > Speaking only for myself: on the technical side I don't think you can't be much > > > faster than moving the performance critical services into the kernel and by > > > skipping the copies (infact I al

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-11-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > Speaking only for myself: on the technical side I don't think you can't be much > > faster than moving the performance critical services into the kernel and by > > skipping the copies (infact I also think that for fileserving skipping th

Re: Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But I > > > can't, why?? > > > > Your version of `ifconfig` is probably broken (just like mine). > > `strace` it and see: > > ioctl(5,

Re: working userspace nfs v3 for linux?

2000-11-01 Thread Michael Rothwell
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:05PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Is there a working userspace nfs v3 server for linux? > > Yes, just install user mode linux and use its v3 knfsd server. Does anyone have any suggestions that aren't jokes, don't require a 2.4 kernel an

test 10 breaks on alpha

2000-11-01 Thread Mark Allen
Here's the patch to make it compile. I haven't tested this yet, but I will once I can actually get a chance to sit at the console... --- SNIP --- --- /usr/src/linux/include/asm-alpha/param.h.orig Wed Nov 1 12:31:56 2000 +++ /usr/src/linux/include/asm-alpha/param.hWed Nov 1 12:33:22

Re: Oops in test10 during module loading of 3c509

2000-11-01 Thread Luca Giuzzi
It seems the cleaning up of the network drivers has been a tad too aggressive :) There is no init_etherdev() anymore in 3c509.c The following patch seems to solve the problem. (the code is taken from a working test10pre5) Cheers, lg --- 3c509.c.test10-broken Wed Nov 1 17:12:08 2000 +++

Re: Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > > ioctl(5, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xb620) = 0 > > ioctl(5, SIOCSIFFLAGS, 0xb620) = 0 > > > > In this case the flags were gotten with SIOCGIFFLAGS, then the > > exact same stuff was written back with SIOCSIFFLAGS. > > IFF_BROADCAST is bit nu

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:03:27PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Andrea wrote: > > (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it > > includes the same MM corruption bugfix that is been included into 18pre

Re: Looking for better 2.2-based VM (do_try_to_free_pages fails, machine hangs)

2000-11-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: Andrea wrote: > (btw, make sure you're using the -7 revision of the VM-global patch, as it > includes the same MM corruption bugfix that is been included into 18pre18) Damn, I was using -6. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peo

Re: Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But I > > can't, why?? > > Your version of `ifconfig` is probably broken (just like mine). > `strace` it and see: > ioctl(5, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xb620) = 0 > ioctl(5, SIOCSIFFLAGS,

Re: working userspace nfs v3 for linux?

2000-11-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:59:05PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Is there a working userspace nfs v3 server for linux? Yes, just install user mode linux and use its v3 knfsd server. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: 2.2.18p18 eepro100 issues (packets per irq, shared irqs)

2000-11-01 Thread octave klaba
> > They share an irq, no matter if I'm using intels e100.o driver or the stock > > linux one. For performance reasons, can I make them each have a different > > irq? Doing it from ifconfig gives me a notsupported error, with either > > driver. > > Under 2.2 no. Under 2.4 maybe one question: u

[PATCH] tulip oops for some eeproms in 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread Jim Studt
(please cc me, I follow the list on a web page) The printk()s which enumerate media types during boot will oops for some eeproms. They use the media type as an index into an array of strings without doing any bounds checking. This patch fixes it. The leaf->type is the killer for my card, I ha

Re: [Fixed] - Repeatable oops mounting snapshots w/ test 10

2000-11-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 12:19:31PM -0800, J J Sloan wrote: > But why is the "official" release of the lvm utils so buggy? I guess it was a minor merging typo in the userspace tools and I'm sure Heinz will solve it shortly now that we're aware of the problem. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: PROBLEM: kernel panic while copying files

2000-11-01 Thread Jean-Francois Patenaude
Ok, I'll get back with the oops information ASAP ! Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > Jean-Francois, > > You are reporting a panic but missing the most important ingredient: > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jean-Francois Patenaude wrote: > > [5.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic infor

[Fixed] - Repeatable oops mounting snapshots w/ test 10

2000-11-01 Thread J J Sloan
Thanks Andrea, it all works like a charm with your lvm utils. But why is the "official" release of the lvm utils so buggy? Regards, jjs - 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.

Re: 2.2.18p18 eepro100 issues (packets per irq, shared irqs)

2000-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
> They share an irq, no matter if I'm using intels e100.o driver or the stock > linux one. For performance reasons, can I make them each have a different > irq? Doing it from ifconfig gives me a notsupported error, with either > driver. Under 2.2 no. Under 2.4 maybe > no kernel hacker...can

Re: PROBLEM: kernel panic while copying files

2000-11-01 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Jean-Francois, You are reporting a panic but missing the most important ingredient: On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jean-Francois Patenaude wrote: > [5.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic information > resolved (see Documentation/oops-tracing.txt) > > xx > If "xx" means "kiss-k

Re: Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But I > can't, why?? > Your version of `ifconfig` is probably broken (just like mine). `strace` it and see: ioctl(5, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xb620) = 0 ioctl(5, SIOCSIFFLAGS, 0xb620)

Re: Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, William T Wilson wrote: > If rwhod doesn't have an option as to which address to bind to, your only > choice is to block its communication with ipchains. I don't think you can specify the addresses. It looks at the interfaces and sends to the ones that can broadcast. I have

working userspace nfs v3 for linux?

2000-11-01 Thread Michael Rothwell
Is there a working userspace nfs v3 server for linux? -M - 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/

2.2.18p18 eepro100 issues (packets per irq, shared irqs)

2000-11-01 Thread KJ Pickett
First of all I would like to say that 2.2.18p18 does not have the 'card reports no resources' messages when I saturate the 100mbit network anymore. But I was wondering about two things: I have a 815EE board, which has an onboard eepro100 and a pci eepro100. They share an irq, no matter if I'm

Re: Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But > I can't, why?? Because ethernet is a broadcast medium (in contrast to P-t-P media) > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:6E:76:63 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcas

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread David Ford
"M.H.VanLeeuwen" wrote: > 3. Enabling PIIX4, kernel locks hard when printing the partition >tables for hdc. hdc has no partitions. >I think this problem is on Ted's problem list??? Disable PIIXn tuning and recompile your kernel. How does it fare now? -d -- "The difference between 'i

Re: Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But I > can't, why?? Broadcast determines the type of connection - broadcast or point-to-point (there can be other types also, but you will not see them much). You wouldn't want to do this

Broadcast

2000-11-01 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But I can't, why?? I have two network-cards in the machine and an application (rwhod) that wants to send it's messages out on every interface that can broadcast. But never want to broadcast anything on this interface so why not turn it

Re: ipac usb abnt2 (others?) keyboard fix

2000-11-01 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:46:26PM -0200, Carlos E. Gorges wrote: > 2.2.17 fix need a suse usb backport patch ( I use test2-pre2 ). FWIW, if you are using USB on the 2.2.x series, use 2.2.18preX as the backport patch is in there, plus a whole lot of other updates. thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kr

Re: [BUG] /proc//stat access stalls badly for swapping process, 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > I'd like to report what seems like a performance problem in the latest > kernels. Actually, all recent kernels have exhibited this problem, but > I was waiting for the new VM stuff to stabilize before reporting it. > > My test is: run 7 processes th

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Patch: linux-2.4.0-test10-pre7/drivers/usb/usb.c driver matching bug

2000-11-01 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 09:35:18AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > With the USB driver updates I've already seen, it looks like an > upcoming 2.4 kernel may no longer need those driver scripts; not > sure about the 2.2 backports though. I think one of the "rules" is that the 2.2.x kernel shouldn't

[BUG] /proc//stat access stalls badly for swapping process, 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread David Mansfield
Hi VM/procfs hackers, System is UP Athlon 700mhz with 256mb ram running vanilla 2.4.0-test10. gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) I'd like to report what seems like a performance problem in the latest kernels. Actually, all recent kernels have exhibited this problem, bu

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:35:50AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Wrong math. That's 330 million dollars for each compat more each year to > > fund more Linux development and make us all rich... > > Speaking only for myself: on the technical side I don't think yo

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre6: Use of abs()

2000-11-01 Thread Richard Henderson
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 09:46:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What versions of gcc produce the built-in functions? 2.95 and previous. In 2.96 somewhere we fixed a bug that automatically prototypes these builtin functions for you; ie with current code you get an undeclared function warning

physical end of disk

2000-11-01 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I want to know how does the ide driver calculate the end of the disk. Is there any function in the ide driver that finds the end of the disk? I dont know the particular ide mailing list.So I have posted to linux-kernel mailing list. with regards, Anil

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Patch: linux-2.4.0-test10-pre7/drivers/usb/usb.cdriver matching bug

2000-11-01 Thread David Brownell
> linux-2.4.0-test10-pre7/drivers/usb/usb.c introduced a really > cool feature, where USB drivers can declare a data structure that > describes the various ID bytes of the USB devices that they are > relevant to. It's the same tool architecture used with PCI: modules.pcimap (and now modules.isa

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread kuznet
Hello! > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:55:13PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > What about the fact anyone can crash a box using ioctls on net > > devices and waiting for an unload - was this fixed ? What do you mean? If I understood you correclty, this has been fixed in early 2.3 and never reap

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