memory.c:83: bad pmd 0000000000000001

2000-11-12 Thread Tom Holroyd
memory.c:83: bad pmd 0001 Alpha DP264 UP 2.4.0-test10 (not pre) I never got a bad pmd before. I booted test10 on Nov 6, and I've gotten bad pmd's about once a day (5 so far) since then. I don't think it's hardware. I was running test10preX (circa Oct 24) for a while, and never go

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-12 Thread willy tarreau
Ok, Matti, here's a final patch against the bonding patch I posted on Friday. Could you tell me if it fits your needs ? If so, I would repost (offline) the complete one against 2.2.18pre21. Anyway, for those curious here, it's available at the following URL: http://www-miaif.lip6.fr/willy/pub/lin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-12 Thread richardj_moore
Alexander Viro wrote: > It's not a good idea, it's an obvious fact. Oh, you mean forking the tree? Again I find your terminology at odds with mine; what do you mean by forking the tree? I get the impression that it's a very restrictive notion where any functional ehancement applied as a patch o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-12 Thread richardj_moore
Andi Kleen wrote: > It will just help some people who have a unrational aversion against kernel >recompiles and believe in vendor blessed binaries. An interesting remark Andi, especially in the light of your note to me regarding your use of DProbes - i.e. you'd rather use DProbes to dump out

test11-pre4 ?

2000-11-12 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, Did I miss an email from Linus to l-k announcing test11-pre4 or was it released w/o an announcement? Regards, Frank - 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/

test11pre3: MD module compile fail, sysctl.h again

2000-11-12 Thread Hans Grobler
make -C md modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3/drivers/md' kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.

initcalls in pre4?

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alas... --- include/linux/init.h2000/10/30 19:37:38 1.1.1.5 +++ include/linux/init.h2000/11/13 04:30:02 1.1.1.6 @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ -#define __init __attribute__ ((__section__ (".text.init"))) +#define __init /* __attribute__ ((__section__ (".text.init"))) *

Re: /net/ip_vs.h in stock kernels

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:52:38PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > Jeff V. Merkey said once upon a time (Fri, 10 Nov 2000): > > > > > I noticed that the ip_vs.h include is not in the main kernel tree or ip > > virtual switch support while I was attempting to buid the pirahnna web > > server. Is this

Re: Announce: NFS-client & NIS-client UID/GID remapper

2000-11-12 Thread Karel Zatloukal
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:21:24PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > The UID/GID mapper should be sepatate from the regex rewriting rules. This is already done - the code is independent, it is just written in the same source file. Any problems from it? > Both should be separate from NFS, bec

Re: Where is it written?

2000-11-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I think it doesn't worth to break binary compatilibity at this late stage. > > > design such.) One issue: ideally you want to use 64-bit regs on AMD > > Hammer for long longs,

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:38:31AM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > It is good that you raised the issue - THanks Jeff > > Cheers, > > jjs > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please r

Re: Dual XEON - >>SLOW<< on SMP

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:26:55PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:03:25PM -0700, "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > > Marc Lehman verified that PII systems will generate tons of AGIs with > > gcc. > > It is a bit late (just came back from the systems'00

analog.c MODULE_PARM, attention Vojtech Pavlik

2000-11-12 Thread Keith Owens
Originally sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that host is not resolving. drivers/char/joystick/analog.c in 2.4.0-test10 has these lines. MODULE_PARM(js,"1-16s"); #define ANALOG_PORTS16 static char *js[ANALOG_PORTS]; static int analog_options[ANALOG_PORTS]; Instead of hard coding 16 in

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:39:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * USB: fix setting urb->dev in printer, acm, bluetooth, all serial >drivers (Greg KH) {CRITICAL} (test10-pre1) Confirmed, this is in the latest version and is fixed. thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com ht

Re: Compile error with 2.4.0-test11-pre3 PCMCIA

2000-11-12 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:41:20 +0100 (MET), "Peter H. Ruegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just tried to compile my first 2.4-Kernel. While dep, bzImage and >modules all seemed to work well, I've got the following errors while >trying to make modules_install: > >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /l

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread David Ford
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > * 2.4.0-test10 pcmcia fails to detect IRQ's correctly, and will > >sometimes kill all software interrupts on card insertion on a NEC > >Versa LX (David Ford) > > Still does this with test11-pre-latest? I'll test this tomorrow, I can't interrupt my lapt

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 4. Boot Time Failures > * Various Alpha's don't boot under 2.4.0-test9 (PCI-PCI bridges are >not configured correctly Michal Jaegermann; Richard Henderson may >have an idea what's failing.) Move to patch-exists-but-not-merged. rth has patches, co-

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-12 Thread David Ford
I have found that lowering the MTU helps a lot. If it is a particular route, simply add an additional route with the lower limit set. The tradeoff of efficiency v.s. reliability is improved. -d Horst von Brand wrote: > In my experience, if you try to send large messages over unreliable > netw

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:39:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >6. In Progress > * DRM and MTD cannot use AGP support module when CONFIG_MODVERSIONS > is defined (issue with get_module_symbol caused fix proposed by > John Levon to be rejected) (Keith Owens has fix) Fix included in

Re: [patch] nfsd optimizations for test10 (recoded to use list_head)

2000-11-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday November 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > This is the recoded racache that uses list_head for several lists, e.g., > lru and free lists. I have tested it under SPEC SFS runs, and several other > NFS loads myself. Ok, I have taken a closer look at this code: 1/ Why did you cha

Re: Linux-2.2.x-BUG(?) memmory not detected

2000-11-12 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:43:44 Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Hi, > > Just noticed that both 2.2.18pre21 and RedHat-7.0-patched-2.2.16 kernels > only detect 64Mb out of 192Mb RAM on my Dual Celeron/Intel 440GX chipset > based workstation. - I haven't tried any other 2.2 kernels on that > particula

[patch] nfsd optimizations for test10 (recoded to use list_head)

2000-11-12 Thread Ying Chen/Almaden/IBM
Hi, This is the recoded racache that uses list_head for several lists, e.g., lru and free lists. I have tested it under SPEC SFS runs, and several other NFS loads myself. Here is the whole patch against test10. = diff -ruN nfsd.orig/nfsd.h nfs

Re: Documentation/proc.txt update

2000-11-12 Thread Jorge Nerin
Jorge Nerin wrote: > > Hello, this is a patch with some updates to the Documetation/proc.txt > file, basically it contains updates to the new files in /proc/, new > files in /proc, and a paragraph about /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn. It's > far from complete, but it's a start point. > Well, netsca

Re: [PATCH] Unresolved Symbols in wavefront module ( k 2.2.17 )

2000-11-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Carlos E. Gorges] > This fixes the unresolved symbol detect_wf_mpu to module > wavefront . > > Patch attached. 1) Do not use gzipped attachments -- in fact do not use attachments at all, unless the file you wish to attach is already in binary form, or is extremely long. Inline text is less tr

Re: latest 2.2.18-X patch?

2000-11-12 Thread Michael Rothwell
Thanks everyone! I've discovered that it works with my USB scanner, but the IBMCAM doesn't work at all with the usb-uhci driver. It works once with the uhci driver. Subsequent access using xawtv causes instantaneous lock-up. No oops, nothing. Just freezes the entire system. Not even the keyboard

Linux-2.2.x-BUG(?) memmory not detected

2000-11-12 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, Just noticed that both 2.2.18pre21 and RedHat-7.0-patched-2.2.16 kernels only detect 64Mb out of 192Mb RAM on my Dual Celeron/Intel 440GX chipset based workstation. - I haven't tried any other 2.2 kernels on that particular PC so maybe this is a general 2.2.x thing. The setup is one 64Mb

Re: test11-pre2 (ksymoops output)

2000-11-12 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:08:39AM +0100, Rafal Maszkowski wrote: > > > SPARCstation 10, 1 CPU, Fore 200e SBA, 64 MB RAM > > > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) > > > Linux etest.icm.edu.pl 2.2.17 #1 Fri Oct 27 03:43:05 MEST 2000 sparc unknown > I will try to analize t

[PATCH] Unresolved Symbols in wavefront module ( k 2.2.17 )

2000-11-12 Thread Carlos E. Gorges
Hi all, This fixes the unresolved symbol detect_wf_mpu to module wavefront . Patch attached. cya; -- _ Carlos E Gorges ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tech informática LTDA Brazil __

success with 11-pre3

2000-11-12 Thread Sebastian Benoit
hi, 11-pre2 crashed on me with Unused swap offset entry in swap_dup 0008 memory.c:83: bad pmd 0040. memory.c:83: bad pmd 0040. VM: Bad swap entry 0008 after 15 minutes. but pre3 has an uptime of 11h now. keep up the good work. /B. -- ---

Re: Q: nfs over tcp status ?

2000-11-12 Thread Neil Brown
(please remove linux-kernel from future followups) On Sunday November 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > (I hope this is not the wrong mailing list to ask this question..) Not "wrong" exactly, but not "best" either. Look in the MAINTAINERS file of a recent kernel source tree, look for r

PATCH - highmem support for ramdisk and raid5

2000-11-12 Thread Neil Brown
While reading a recent discussion of highmem support in ramfs, I was reminded that my recent patch to rd.c removed highmem support (as that support came through the create_bounce call in __make_request, and with my change, rd requests no longer go though __make_request). The following patch rect

Documentation/proc.txt update

2000-11-12 Thread Jorge Nerin
Hello, this is a patch with some updates to the Documetation/proc.txt file, basically it contains updates to the new files in /proc/, new files in /proc, and a paragraph about /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn. It's far from complete, but it's a start point. --- old/proc.txtMon Oct 23 15:20:00

Re: latest 2.2.18-X patch?

2000-11-12 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Michael Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where's the best place to get the latest 2.2.18 kernel? ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ala/2.2.18pre/ where * is your country (us, fr, de, etc..) > And does it include the USB backport? yes -- MandrakeSoft Inc

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.11.3: sysctl.h fixes

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Neil Brown wrote: > The declaration of: > > struct file; > > in sysctl.h is a bit counter intuitive isn't it? Nope. It's a useful technique that I was reminded of recently by DaveM. Have you ever looked at the -nasty- include nesting that occurs because key kernel headers include other key

RE: latest 2.2.18-X patch?

2000-11-12 Thread Dunlap, Randy
ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2 for linux-2.2.17.tar.{gz,bz2} and then ftp.??.kernel.org.pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.18pre for pre-patch-2.2.18-21.{gz,bz2} Yes (USB backport). ~Randy_ |randy.dunlap_at_intel.com503-677-5408| |NOTE: Any

latest 2.2.18-X patch?

2000-11-12 Thread Michael Rothwell
Where's the best place to get the latest 2.2.18 kernel? And does it include the USB backport? - 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/

Re: Compile error with 2.4.0-test11-pre3 PCMCIA

2000-11-12 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, What are your modutils and pcmcia versions? Regards, Frank --On Sunday, November 12, 2000 11:41 PM +0100 "Peter H. Ruegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello there, > > I just tried to compile my first 2.4-Kernel. While dep, bzImage

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:20:19PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Actually it just occurred to me that this stack assess is buggy. You haven't > set up a stack yet so. [..] Yes, ss and esp are inherit from the decompression code right now. > [..] Only the boot/compressed/head.S did and that

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.11.3: sysctl.h fixes

2000-11-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday November 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rasmus Andersen wrote: > > I tried to include in md.c and had to include > > also. Otherwise I got the following: > > Here is the solution I prefer... md builds fine with this, core kernel builds fine >with this, and > I'm about 3/4 of the wa

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:39:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * USB: system hang with USB audio driver {CRITICAL} (David >Woodhouse, Randy Dunlap, Narayan Desai) (Fixed with usb-uhci; >uhci-alt is unknown -- randy dunlap) I can still hang the system with XMMS (1.0.1) u

Compile error with 2.4.0-test11-pre3 PCMCIA

2000-11-12 Thread Peter H. Ruegg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there, I just tried to compile my first 2.4-Kernel. While dep, bzImage and modules all seemed to work well, I've got the following errors while trying to make modules_install: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test11-pre3/p

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:57:15AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Nope you rely on cs & ds as well. cs is just a duh the codes running > so it must be valid. But ds is needed for lgdt. Right. The ds just needs to be valid as cs and ss needs to be valid as well (for obvious reasons I didn't e

RE: What protects f_pos?

2000-11-12 Thread David Schwartz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > This looks like it's a bug to me although if you have multiple > > threads hitting a file descriptor at the same time, you're pretty much > > asking for trouble. > > Yes, I haven't been able to come up with an example that might trigger > this that wasn't dubi

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 doesn't compile (ax25 and md)

2000-11-12 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Either md.c or sysctl.h needs to include . It actually needs -- Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - 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/l

Q: nfs over tcp status ?

2000-11-12 Thread Andre Holzner
Hello, (I hope this is not the wrong mailing list to ask this question..) Does somebody know what the status of the support of nfs via tcp (instead of udp) of Linux is ? Is there a version supporting this (client and server) ? Are there some plans to support this under Linux ? best regards & m

Compile Error linux-2.2.17 and RedHat7.0

2000-11-12 Thread juergen . heisel
Hi there, I updated my system from RedHat 6.0 -> RedHat 7.0 and Murphy is still working. [1] I can't compile Kernel 2.2.17 since the update. (make bzImage) [2] Error Message: make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/arch/i386/lib' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include

[patch] Re: Compile and link errors in irda in test11-pre3[patch] Re: Compile and link errors in irda in test11-pre3

2000-11-12 Thread Dag Brattli
Linus, Here is a patch that fixes the compile and link errors in the latest IrDA code in linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3. Changes: o Fixes some errors in the change_speed name for a couple of drivers. Includes the previous patch I sent you (nsc-ircc) (me) o Fixes irport driver where the netdev time

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread adrian
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, adrian wrote: > vt82c686a. Also, I can't seem to find which VPx is generally associated Heh.pci.ids Regards, Adrian - 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:

Re: problems with sync_all_inode() in prune_icache() and kupdate()

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:01:25AM -0800, Ying Chen/Almaden/IBM wrote: > try to sync_inodes periodically anyway, but I don't know if this has other > implications or not. I don't see a problem with this myself. In fact, I Not running sync_all_inodes() from prune_icache() has the only implication

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread adrian
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, adrian wrote: > Does this include VPx were x does not exist? Geez. Excuse me. I should watch my assumptions. Out of curiosity, is there a reason why lspci reports vt82c586 and the kernel reports vt82c686a at bootup? The board is documented to have the vt82c686a. Also,

Fw: [linux-usb-devel] 2.4.0-test11-pre3: Compile error indrivers/usb/usb.c

2000-11-12 Thread David Brownell
See the attached patch. Also, for LKML readers, you may be interested in the attached /sbin/hotplug script; it's pretty current, even if it may not be the latest from CVS (at http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/). - Dave - Original Message - From: "David Brownell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

UHCI broken on K7V since test10pre6

2000-11-12 Thread Werner Hager
Hi, test10pre6 works fine here with an IntelliExplorer and ELSA ML56k USB. Later kernels produce: Interrupt 5/9? (test11pre1) Nov 10 01:13:50 antheus kernel: uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 5 Nov 10 01:13:50 antheus kernel: uhci.c: detected 2 ports Nov 10 01:13:50 antheus kernel: uhci: host

Re: Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread adrian
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > 2. Capable Of Corrupting Your FS/data > > * Use PCI DMA by default in IDE is unsafe (must not do so on via >VPx, x < 3) (Vojtech Pavlik --- requires chipset tuning to be >enabled according to Andre Hedrick --- we need t

Linux 2.4 Status/TODO page (test11-pre3)

2000-11-12 Thread tytso
OK, here's an updated version of the TODO list. The version on linux24.sourceforge.net hasn't been updated over the weekend, due to the SSH daemon on the sourceforge projects server being dead. I'll get the web version synced up by tomorrow, hopefully.

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andi Kleen
[This is quite a bizarre discussion, but I'll answer anyways. I am not exactly sure what your point is] On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:57:15AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > I can tell you don't have real hardware. The non obviousness > > I need to retract this a bit. You are still build

Re: USB mouse stops working

2000-11-12 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:19:47AM +0100, Gerald Haese wrote: > 18: 14845 14797 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci Can you try the uhci.o host controller driver, to see if it has the same problem? thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com http://immunix.org/~greg - To unsubscribe from this

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 06:14:36AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > x86-64 doesn't load the segment registers at all before use. > > Yes, before switching to 64bit long mode we never do any data access. We do a > stack access to clear eflags only

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3: Compile error in drivers/usb/usb.c

2000-11-12 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:08:59PM +0100, Gert Wollny wrote: > compiling usb as module i get: > drivers/usb/usb.c 723: hotplug_path unknown ... Need to select CONFIG_HOTPLUG for USB now. This will be fixed (one way or the other) soon. thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com http://immuni

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 [gus_midi.c breakage]

2000-11-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:31:26PM +0100, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:58:48PM +1100, john slee wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:22:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >- > > > > - pre3: > >

Newby help. Tons and tons of Oops

2000-11-12 Thread David Won
I'm not really that much of a newby (2 years of linux) but I am a newby to kernel dumps. I'm running Redhat 7 with the latest kernel compiled using kgcc. I get many many oops, lockups and mysterious reboots. Can anybody help me determine what is causing this from ksymoops output below. I though

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 06:14:36AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > x86-64 doesn't load the segment registers at all before use. > > Yes, before switching to 64bit long mode we never do any data access. We do a > stack access to clear eflags only

2.4.0-test11-pre3: Compile error in drivers/usb/usb.c

2000-11-12 Thread Gert Wollny
compiling usb as module i get: drivers/usb/usb.c 723: hotplug_path unknown ... bye Gert - 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/

[PATCH] fix compile problem in belkin_sa.c

2000-11-12 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here's a patch that fixes the compile time problem in 2.4.0-test11-pre3 for the belkin_sa.c usb serial driver. It also takes care of the two compile time warnings. Thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com diff -Naur -X /home/greg/linux/dontdiff linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3/drivers/usb/s

bkl usage

2000-11-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Hi. In my efforts to understand the linux kernel v2.4 I found the bkl being used in kernel/acct.c to lock seemingly local data. Would someone please explain what races this prevents vs. say: --- linux/kernel/acct.c Mon Oct 30 01:02:56 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test10/kernel/acct.c Mon Oct 30 01:10:20

IDE tape problem in 2.2.17 on Intel SMP

2000-11-12 Thread jim
I wrote on Nov 2nd about IDE tapes no longer working in 2.2.17. The write seems to work fine, but the verify pass causes read errors and a tar abort. I tried changing the priority of the tar process to higher than all others (it was running as a very low priority job and I thought that might be

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 04:44:17PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > The current simulator seems to be buggy in that it checks the SS,DS segments >that were pushed as part of the interrupt stack on iretd [..] That's the first thing I thought too indeed 8), but it maybe because at iret time the CPU doesn

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:09:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > a while), but you're right, for now the limit is 8 MB *uncompressed.* s/8/7/ (kernel starts at 1M) Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plea

Re: Where is it written?

2000-11-12 Thread Olaf Titz
> Well it's safer if you are lazy about prototyping varargs functions. > But of course by doing that you're treading on thin ice anyway, in > terms of type promotion and portability. So I guess it's much better > to say "varargs functions MUST be prototyped" and use the registers. make -Wmissing

Re: Missing ACKs with Linux 2.2/2.4?

2000-11-12 Thread kuznet
Hello! > The probability of just exactly the zero packet hitting you is very small. ... long laughter ... Andi, I see you are not very strong in methematics. 8) Timestamp is not a random number, so that probability of PAWS failure does not depend on restricting it at all. The only thing which c

ppp.txt

2000-11-12 Thread Mircea Damian
Hello, I just want to say that the file 'Documentation/networking/ppp.txt' (as it is mentioned in Configure.help at CONFIG_PPP option) does not exists. -- Mircea Damian E-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://taz.mania.k.ro/~dmircea/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I can tell you don't have real hardware. The non obviousness > > Current code definitely works fine on the simnow simulator so if current code > shouldn't work because it's buggy then at least the simulator is sure buggy as >

Re: The IrDA patches !!! (was Re: [RANT] Linux-IrDA status)

2000-11-12 Thread Horst von Brand
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > > I spent my full day going through my archives and splitting > > the big patch of Dag into lots of small patches (see attached). I'm > > glad I've got a big hard drive full of junk. > > When I say mu

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-12 Thread Horst von Brand
"Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: [...] > > Ok. So please now show a tcpdump trace during the `sendmail -q` so we > > can see what's going wrong in the TCP connection to the smtp server: > > > > tcpdump port smtp > I tried to send

Compile and link errors in irda in test11-pre3

2000-11-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. When I try to compile 2.4.0-test11-pre3 I get the following in the link phase: drivers/net/irda/irda.o: In function `nsc_ircc_hard_xmit_fir': drivers/net/irda/irda.o(.text+0x346e): undefined reference to `nsc_ircc_change_speed_complete' drivers/net/irda/irda.o: In function `toshoboe_hard_xm

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 06:14:36AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > x86-64 doesn't load the segment registers at all before use. Yes, before switching to 64bit long mode we never do any data access. We do a stack access to clear eflags only while we still run in legacy mode with paging disabled

Re: sound problems caused by masking irq for too long

2000-11-12 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote: > Hi! > > In some cases sound gets interrupted for a moment, this happens in two > occasions. When unmaskirq flag is off on ide cdrom and it is accessed, > and when tdfxfb console (800x600) flashes (tput flash, or `set bell-style > visible' in .i

PATCH 2.4.0.11.3: sysctl.h fixes

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rasmus Andersen wrote: > I tried to include in md.c and had to include > also. Otherwise I got the following: Here is the solution I prefer... md builds fine with this, core kernel builds fine with this, and I'm about 3/4 of the way through a "build everything" build with this. I tried to a

Re: Missing ACKs with Linux 2.2/2.4?

2000-11-12 Thread kuznet
Hello! > NetBSD ignores 0 timestamps. Although that's a hack it is IMHO a reasonable one and > Linux should probably do it too. Even when the 0 is generated legitimately by >wrapping > counters it is probably not a big problem to lose timestamps for such few packets. Sorry, ignoring some value

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 doesn't compile (ax25 and md)

2000-11-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:22:49AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Arjan Filius wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I noticed also md.c doesn't compile (gcc version 2.95.2 ) > > Here is the (stripped) output from a make -i modules: > > > > make -C md modules > > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linu

sound problems caused by masking irq for too long

2000-11-12 Thread Alexander V. Lukyanov
Hi! In some cases sound gets interrupted for a moment, this happens in two occasions. When unmaskirq flag is off on ide cdrom and it is accessed, and when tdfxfb console (800x600) flashes (tput flash, or `set bell-style visible' in .inputrc). It seems the problem is caused by masking irq for too

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:35:46PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > With respect to .bss issues we should clear it before we set up page tables. > > We could sure do that but that's a minor win since we still need a > large mapping (more than 1 p

unknown bus type 130 & can't decode I/O address space 0xbc00 inmultibus PCI

2000-11-12 Thread Barrie Selack
Title: unknown bus type 130 & can't decode I/O address space I had posted this to the newsgroup.. then realized I should post to the mailing list (which I joined) messages from boot with test11-pre (same results with test10) Seems to be problems identifying the bus (there are 4 plug-in 4 slot

How to know how stable my new kernel works?

2000-11-12 Thread Nick Cheng
Dear sirs, Thanks to Andrea Arcangeli, Alan Cox, and all the gentlemen here. I've installed my New kernel 2.4.0 with support of BIGMEM and support of megaraid.o . I wanna know how it works because I need a stable system with high performance. How can I plan a test of my system with high w

[PATCH] net/ax25/sysctl_net_ax25.c Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 doesn'tcompile

2000-11-12 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, f5ibh wrote: > > Hi! > > here is the message : > > 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 -DMODULE -c -o sysctl_net_ax25.o sysctl_net_ax2

Re: Where is it written?

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 05:17:49PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > I'd say go for it -- set up a mailing list and flesh out a better x86 > ABI. [..] I think it doesn't worth to break binary compatilibity at this late stage. > design such.) One issue: ideally you want to use 64-bit regs on AMD >

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 doesn't compile (ax25 and md)

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Arjan Filius wrote: > > Hello, > > I noticed also md.c doesn't compile (gcc version 2.95.2 ) > Here is the (stripped) output from a make -i modules: > > make -C md modules > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3/drivers/md' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wa

Re: catch 22 - porting net driver from 2.2 to 2.4

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote: > the thing is I need to prevent Tx/Rx when a topology change is initiated > from the ioctl (registering a virtual adapter is just one example), so they > all share a single lock and I must use spin_lock_bh from the ioctl. I do not think that they all need to shared a single

Something very wrong with time fbcon and FSBR

2000-11-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I wanted to measure negative impact of FSBR on my system. I did time cat /etc/termcap. I have fbcon, so it is quite slow operation. It took 13 seconds. Then I made system use the FSBR, and did cat /etc/termcap. It was visually much slower, but it gave 13 seconds again. So I did the same tes

Re: catch 22 - porting net driver from 2.2 to 2.4

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote: > > So how come I get the "RTNL: assertion failed at > devinet.c(775):inetdev_event" when I call register_netdevice without > rtnl_lock/unlock ? Uh. Don't do that. You MUST call register_netdevice with rtnl_lock held. > and what about rmmod causing the panic when I use

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 doesn't compile (ax25 and md)

2000-11-12 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, I noticed also md.c doesn't compile (gcc version 2.95.2 ) Here is the (stripped) output from a make -i modules: make -C md modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3/drivers/md' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-fram

2.4.0-test11-pre3 doesn't compile

2000-11-12 Thread f5ibh
Hi! here is the message : 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 -DMODULE -c -o sysctl_net_ax25.o sysctl_net_ax25.c sysctl_net_ax25.c: In function `ax25_register_sysctl':

RE: catch 22 - porting net driver from 2.2 to 2.4

2000-11-12 Thread Hen, Shmulik
So how come I get the "RTNL: assertion failed at devinet.c(775):inetdev_event" when I call register_netdevice without rtnl_lock/unlock ? could it be a 2.4.0-test9 thing ? (haven't used test10 or 11 yet). and what about rmmod causing the panic when I use unregister_netdev or never completing the o

RE: catch 22 - porting net driver from 2.2 to 2.4

2000-11-12 Thread Hen, Shmulik
and you don't get the "RTNL: assertion failed at devinet.c(775):inetdev_event" in 2.4.x ? the thing is I need to prevent Tx/Rx when a topology change is initiated from the ioctl (registering a virtual adapter is just one example), so they all share a single lock and I must use spin_lock_bh from t

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 [gus_midi.c breakage]

2000-11-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:58:48PM +1100, john slee wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:22:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >- > > > - pre3: > > > - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: sound and drm driver init fixes and > >

Re: bzImage ~ 900K with i386 test11-pre2

2000-11-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:35:46PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > With respect to .bss issues we should clear it before we set up page tables. We could sure do that but that's a minor win since we still need a large mapping (more than 1 pagetable) for the bootmem allocator. (and we need at lea

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 [gus_midi.c breakage]

2000-11-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:58:48PM +1100, john slee wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:22:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >- > > - pre3: > > - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: sound and drm driver init fixes and > > cleanups > > this breaks for me, gcc 2.95.2: > > gus_midi.c:206: p

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3

2000-11-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - Alan Cox: SCSI driver NULL ptr checks Which needs the following fix: --- linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3/drivers/scsi/a2091.c.orig Sun Nov 12 10:50:26 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test11-pre3/drivers/scsi/a2091.cSun Nov 12 11:14:15 2000 @@ -207,8 +207

Re: [PATCH] show_task() and thread_saved_pc() fix for x86

2000-11-12 Thread Richard Henderson
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Reminds me that the Alpha implementation of get_wchan() looks to me like > it doesn't handle all cases of schedule() being called from another > scheduler function correctly. Certainly not -- it's impossible. > I'd really like to se

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre3 [gus_midi.c breakage]

2000-11-12 Thread john slee
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:22:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >- > - pre3: > - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: sound and drm driver init fixes and > cleanups this breaks for me, gcc 2.95.2: gus_midi.c:206: parse error before `gus_midi_init' gus_midi.c:207: warning: return-type defaul

Re: Where is it written?

2000-11-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:21:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > We tried once; at that point the register-based ABI support in gcc was > too buggy to be useful. We might try again in 2.5 since we now have > increased the minimum gcc version for kernel compiles. Binutils needs no > change.

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