On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:33:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Did you also remove the two lines that disabled pirq routing if an IO-APIC
> was enabled?
Yesterday not, today yes. But it's the same.
> > Kernel with these changes can't detect my SCSI drive. It prints these messages
> > in cycle
In article <9463fj$gsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> Basically, the _only_ think you should depend on is that st_size
> contains:
> - for regular files, the size of the file in bytes
> - for symlinks, the length of the symlink.
I don't think this is right - for a symlink, stat should return t
I have compiled 2.4.0-test11 kernel for my Toshiba Laptop. Everything
works fine except the CDdrive. When I am trying to mount a iso-cd, it is
giving the following error
_isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (1633681408, 2048)
I am attaching the Makefile for the compiled kernel and dmesg output in
th
We've just released version 1.3 of the Dynamic Probes facility. This has
2.4.0 and 2.2.18 support and some bug fixes, including Andi Kleen's
suggestions for fixing the races in handling of swapped out COW pages.
For more information on DProbes see the dprobes homepage at
http://oss.software.ibm.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>* For a socket or FIFO (S_IFSOCK, S_IFIFO) it reports the count of bytes
>waiting to be read.
Don't depend on it. That's pretty much implementation-defined: use the
FIONREAD ioctl to fetch available info from pipes, so
Please send patches for -ac kernels to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for
the time being
Thanks
Alan
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You're probably just hearing electrical noise from the memory buss; try
moving the 128 stick to the slot you put the 64 in (if you can) and run
that way -- you'll probably hear it there too.
I get something similiar to this with my SB Live (!... damn marketroids) on
a BP6 with 192MB as well. In m
I'm trying to pin down and document the behavior of the size field in
stat(2) on Linux and under various stat emulations on Windows and the
Mac. What I find out will be documented where it will do some good (in
particular I'll send a stat.2 man page patch to Andries Brouwer).
Here is what I thin
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Richardson wrote:
> Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542"
This BUG() has been been removed in the later -ac patches as it was meant
to be a temporary debugging help during the -test3 slab.c changes. This
does not however remove the c
Hi
I would like to know if there is any support in the 2.4.x kernels for
Adaptec SCSI RAID ASR-2100S cards. It seems that one can download a driver
or patch from Adaptec website for 2.2.x kernels...
Can someone point me for any patch or driver available for the 2.4
series?
Thanks in advan
On Jan 17 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote:
>
> Could those that were involved in the VIA chipset discussion email me
> privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Just to add a datapoint to the discussion, I'm using a VIA
chipset here (in fact, it's an Asus A7V board with a Duron), a
2
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bandit> I'm telling you all this because my BIOS keeps assigning shared
bandit> interrupts between the Geforce-TVCapture and NE2000-USB Hubs.
Look in your mainboard manual
I think you'll find that the PCI/AGP slots you are using for these dev
My hardware:
AMD Athlon K7 550
Shuttle AI61 (AMD750 based main board)
Diamond A200 Graphics card (Savage4 based)
Aopen Realtec 8139 based ethernet card
The Oops happens every time I do a cold boot.
Most of the time, a warm start (pressing the reset button)
makes the machine boot o
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:32:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> However, for socket->socket, we would not have such an advantage. A
> socket->socket sendfile() would not avoid any copies the way the
> networking is done today. That _may_ change, of course. But it might
> not. And I'd rather
With 2.4.0 thru 2.4.1-pre8 (could possibly be sooner than 2.4.0)
PCMCIA_CONFIG_NETCARD is getting defined with CONFIG_PCMCIA, even when no
PCMCIA net cards are selected:
458 # PCMCIA network device support
459 #
460 CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y
461 # CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETCARD is not set
Thi
Current half-assed changelog:
2.4.1-pre8:
- Don't drop a megabyte off the old-style memory size detection
- remember to UnlockPage() in ramfs_writepage()
- 3c59x driver update from Andrew Morton
- egcs-1.1.2 miscompiles depca: workaround by Andrew Morton
- dmfe.c module init fix: Andrew Mo
On 17 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > Second test: kernel compile make -j32 (empirically this puts the
> > > VM under load, but not excessively!)
> > >
> > > 2.2.17 -> make -j32 392.49s user 47.87s system 168% cpu 4:21.13 total
> > > 2.4.0 -> ma
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
> is it possible with linux2.4 to limit the relative CPU time
> per process or per UID?
The (more complex) userbeans patches are IMHO something that
should wait for 2.5, but I will be "porting" my fair share
scheduler to 2.4 RSN.
The fair share scheduler
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> I liked them a lot, and I bet I'm not alone. Are they gone for
> good, or have you just ceased writing them for test kernels?
I like them a lot too.
Without the changelogs Linus is just a "black box"
which outputs random patches.
With a good chan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> I looked at it a year or two ago myself, and came to the
>> conclusion that I don't want to blow up our page table size by a
>> factor of three or more, so I'm not personally i
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> > Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely.
>
> I ment that if the partiton has no persient data on it then the test can
> be run (the test wipes all data on the partition out during the test,
> right?) with no loss of d
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> /*
> * a simple page,offset,legth tuple like Linus wants it
> */
> struct kiobuf2 {
> struct page * page; /* The page itself */
> u_int16_t offset; /* Offset to start of valid data */
> u_int16_t
[Mo McKinlay]
> We went through this last time around. What happens to directories
> with streams?
Yeah, I agree, 'file/stream' is lousy syntax as well. If it weren't
for the possibility of having streams on directories, it would almost
be acceptible. I still don't know which (':' or '/') is t
> > I have a mirrored boot drive in a pair of firewalls / routers and to test
> > before I put them into service I pulled hda and the machine booted fine
> > from hdc and baring winging about the missing disk (all the drives are
> > mirrored) carried on as normal. A fresh disk was put and rebuilt
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:05:43AM +1100, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Simple. Because I stated before that I DON'T even want the
> > networking to use kiobufs in lower layers. My whole argument is
> > to pass a kiovec into the fileop instead of a pa
Tim Fletcher writes:
> You can already do this, just specify /dev/md0 as the device to install
> onto, and lilo does the rest
>
> > This would potentially allow you to boot from the second drive if the
> > first one fails, assuming the kernel does UUID or LABEL resolution for
> > the root device.
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > (This is why I worked so hard at getting the PageDirty semantics right in
> > the last two months or so - and why I released 2.4.0 when I did. Getting
> > PageDirty right was the big step to make all of the VM stuff possible in
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Call it 'pinned'... the pinned list would have pages with use
> count = 2 or more. A page gets off the pinned list when its use
> count goes to 1 in put_page.
I don't even want to start thinking about how this would
screw up the (already fragile) pag
> > > maybe but why?
> >
> > Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem?
>
> Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely.
I ment that if the partiton has no persient data on it then the test can
be run (the test wipes all data on the partitio
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I looked at it a year or two ago myself, and came to the
> conclusion that I don't want to blow up our page table size by a
> factor of three or more, so I'm not personally interested any
> more. Maybe somebody else comes up with a better way to do it,
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:46:07AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > My impression with the MM stuff is that everyone except linux is
> > trying hard to clone BSD instead of thinking through the issues
> > ourselves.
>
> I wasn't even thinking abou
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Simple. Because I stated before that I DON'T even want the
> networking to use kiobufs in lower layers. My whole argument is
> to pass a kiovec into the fileop instead of a page, because it
> makes sense for other drivers to use multiple pages,
N
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Vlad Bolkhovitine wrote:
> You can see, mmap() read performance dropped significantly as
> well as read() one raised. Plus, "interactivity" of 2.4.0 system
> was much worse during mmap'ed test, than using read()
> (everything was quite smooth here). 2.4.0-test7 was badly
> in
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition?
> >
> > maybe but why?
>
> Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem?
Well that is useless test them because you can not test things completely.
Andre Hedrick
L
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Rainer Mager wrote:
> Here is a newly parsed oops, this time using the /var/log/ksymoops method
> mentioned by Keith Owens. Does this look better?
Yes, and it sort of matches the other oops someone sent. Thanks.
I have a changed version now, based on the ncpfs directory ca
> What _would_ be interesting, and still not affect the boot loader proper,
> is to allow specifying multiple boot devices in /etc/lilo.conf (for e.g.
> RAID 1 setups), and then /sbin/lilo would put a boot sector on each such
> drive.
You can already do this, just specify /dev/md0 as the device t
> smb_rename suggests mv, but the process is ls ... er? What commands where
> you running on smbfs when it crashed?
>
> Could this be a symbol mismatch? Keith Owens suggested a less manual way
> to get module symbol output. Do you get the same results using that?
Here is a newly parsed oops, this
> > Hi!
> >
> > Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition?
>
> maybe but why?
Because it stores no data, hence the wiping out of it is no problem?
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> heh.
>
> I'm actually planning on grabbing console_lock and thoroughly strangling
> it
Ha Ha!!
> - Use a semaphore for serialisation.
I think this would be the best solution as well.
> - For printk in interrupt context, grab the
> semaphore (yes, you can do this).
Don't forget about the
Hi Phil,
I've forwarded it for you, however you likely didn't realize hat
lkml is an "open" mailing list, ie: you don't need to be a
subscriber to post. This is so that non-members can file bug
reports, and send spam, etc.. ;o)
Take care.
David Balazic writes:
> Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> > In the end I re-wrote most of the patch, so
> > that we resolve ROOT_DEV before calling mount_root(), just to be a bit
> > more consistent. I will release a new patch for 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 after
> > David Balazic has a look at i
On 2001.01.18 Joel Franco Guzmán wrote:
> 1. 128M memory OK, but with 192M the sound card generate a noise while
> use the DSP.
..
> the problem: The sound card generates a toc.. toc.. toc .. toc...while
> playing a sound using the DSP of the soundcard. Two "tocs"/sec
> aproxiumadetely.
>
>
>
Andreas Dilger writes:
> Same thing, really. You have to poke each drive to get the serial
> number. What if they are IDE or SCSI or FCAL or RAID array? Probably
> reading a block from a disk is safer than trying to find the drive
> serial number.
If you apply the "read block from disk" method
I've made little kernel module which enables high speed modes (230Kb and
460Kb) with VIA VT82C686* southbridge equipped motherboards. I've been using
module with ISDN-TA and haven't had any problems. If you want to try
module it's available at http://www.kati.fi/viahss/viahss-0.9.tar.gz.
Some bri
Hello,
Is there ibcs2 or abi for kernel 2.4.x ?
regards
haris peco
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> I can be a little more specific on this point. Netscape with
> kernel 2.4.0 _does_ connect/download at a few local (New Zealand)
> web sites (maybe 10% of those I've tried). I can't download
> from _any_ distant site. It doesn't die, it just doesn't function
> properly.
No se si entiendes español (por causa del .ch) pero lo escribo en mi
pesimo ingles.
Bug Report
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1. 128M memory OK, but with 192M the sound card generate a noise while
use the DSP.
2. i got the problem when I just put more 64M memory to the my machine.
With 128M the problem is not presen
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They have it because they heard Linux had it and they wanted to do
well in the next round of Mindcraft-like benchmarks. (sendfile() that is)
Jonathan
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (I also had one person point out that BSD's have the notion of TC
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote:
> >
> > (a) make sure that system call latency is low enough that there really
> > aren't any major reasons to avoid system calls. They're just function
> > calls - they may be a bit heavier than most functions, of course, but
> > people sh
(Ooops. Forgot to cc linux-kernel.)
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Hi.
The following patch makes drivers/scsi/sun3x_esp.c check the return
value of request_irq.
Comments?
--- linux-ac9/drivers/scsi/sun3x_esp.c~ Thu Jan 4 22:00:55 2001
+++ linux-ac9/dr
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Cute. Can it be run on say a swap partition?
maybe but why?
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
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well, i know there's a problem with the via apollo pro 133a chipset,
smp, apic, and usb. it looks like the usb driver (usb-uhci) doesn't
receive any interrupts if apic is enabled. if you disable apic from the
lilo prompt with "noapic", then it'll all work (of course, without
apic).
according
2.2.18 and below:
Jan 5 16:56:54 coredump kernel: hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CDROM drive
Jan 5 16:56:54 coredump kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive,
8192kB Cache, (U)DMA
2.4.x:
Jan 15 19:43:05 coredump kernel: hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CDROM drive
Jan 15 19:43:06 coredump kernel:
Hi.
The following patch makes drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c check the return code
from request_irq and get_free_pages. It also removes a line already done
a bit higher up (the dma_cache_wback_inv one).
Please comment.
--- linux-ac9/drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c.orgSun Jan 14 21:33:29 2001
+++ linux
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Scott A. Sibert wrote:
> I'm consistently getting an oops when accessing any smbfs mount whether
> running 'ls' inside the smbfs mount or hitting TAB for filename
> completion of a directory in an smbfs mount. I have another machine
> (dual P2/300 w/320MB memory) that does n
In 2.4.1-pre8, this info appears in dmesg:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: YAMAHAModel: CRW2100E Rev: 1.0H
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CD/DVD-
Hi.
(I have not been able to find a maintainer for this code.)
The following patch makes drivers/scsi/mvme147.c check the return code
from request_irq and scsi_register. It applies cleanly against 240p3
and ac9.
Please comment.
--- linux/drivers/scsi/mvme147.cTue Nov 28 02:57:34 2000
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote:
> >
> > > The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I
> > > don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files
> > > etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer stuf
Hi.
(I have not been able to find a maintainer for this code.)
This patch makes drivers/scsi/dec_esp.c check the return code of
request_irq. It applies cleanly against 240p3 and ac9.
In the search_tc_slot loop I made it continue the search on failure
for one slot. Would this be correct?
Please
Hi.
The following patch makes drivers/scsi/blz1230.c check request_irq's
return code. It applies cleanly against 240p3 and ac9.
It also swaps two lines in an existing error path (esp_deallocate/
scsi_unregister) since this seems wrong.
Comments?
--- linux-ac9/drivers/scsi/blz1230.c.org
Could those that were involved in the VIA chipset discussion email me
privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
I'm truly interested in solving this issue. I personally think it's more
than just the chipset causing the problems.
I'm looking for members of the list that are using the kernel support for
t
> > Now my problem.
> >
> > The Graphic-Card is a Geforce 2, Xfree is 4.02 (compiled under 2.2.17).
> >
> > When i start X, everything is fine. When i go back to text-console and
> > wait "some time" and then switch back to X the computer locks solid and i
> > have to press the Big-Red Button. (
> The underlying problem is of course that all those sanity checks should
> be done in user space, not in the kernel.
>
> (See also ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/slides/tmp-tc.ps.gz
> The bitching starts on slide 11, some ideas for fixing the problem on
> slide 16, but heed the warnin
Dean Gaudet wrote:
> consider the case where you're responding to a pair of pipelined HTTP/1.1
> requests. with the HPUX and BSD sendfile() APIs you end up forcing a
> packet boundary between the two responses. this is likely to result in
> one small packet on the wire after each response.
>
Hello.
I've got a Dell Precision 420 (dual P3/800 w/1gb RDRAM).
I'm consistently getting an oops when accessing any smbfs mount whether
running 'ls' inside the smbfs mount or hitting TAB for filename
completion of a directory in an smbfs mount. I have another machine
(dual P2/300 w/320MB mem
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rajiv Majumdar wrote:
>
>
> Sorry..the topic does not fit here. But wanted to know, how can we check
> validity of an email id "in advance"
You can't. Only think you can check is a valid domain that will in theory
accept mail, no way to check if it really dilivers.
> so t
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Petr Matula wrote:
>
> I did the changes above to 2.4.0 source.
Did you also remove the two lines that disabled pirq routing if an IO-APIC
was enabled?
> Kernel with these changes can't detect my SCSI drive. It prints these messages
> in cycle:
Which SCSI adapter is th
Hi,
I am trying to understand the new PCMCIA configuration. So far I am trying
to use the kernel PCMCIA driver. The yenta_socket driver is working fine.
Using 2.4.0, and cardmgr 3.1.23
When I insert my Iomega Clik drive, cardmgr correctly identifies it as an ATA
Fixed Disk and loads ide_cs
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> "no", because you don't have to do it in the kernel. You can mount by
> uuid or label. For the root FS, you do this from an initrd. Problem
> solved.
>
> The only cases when you really need to know the name of a disk is when
> - doing disk-level m
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I
> > don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files
> > etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer stuff really
> > isn't a generic solu
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:04:33PM +0100, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> (See also ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/slides/tmp-tc.ps.gz
> The bitching starts on slide 11, some ideas for fixing the problem on
> slide 16, but heed the warning on slide 15.)
Thanks for the pointer.
>
> Beside
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Martin Mares wrote:
> > I don't have the ServerWorks chipset documentation at hand, but I think your
> > patch is wrong -- it doesn't make any sense to scan a bus _range_. The registers
> > 0x44 and 0x45 are probably ID's of two
Thanks to everyone who replied :)
Sven Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:
>
> > What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
> >
> > For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
> > that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new
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> > Hmm, I would think that nagle would only come into play if those files
> > were each less than MSS and there were no intervening application level
> > reply/request messages for each.
>
> actually the problem isn't nagle... nagle needs to be turned off for
> efficient servers anyhow.
i'm
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> Just switched to 2.4.0-ac9 (+crypto patches) on our Dual-Pentium MMX
> webserver yesterday. Works fine so far, except i keep seeing those
> APIC erros (about 14 in 12 hrs) indicating receive, send and CS errors.
Make sure your system is free of dust..
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
Linux 2.4.0 ate my filesystems ...
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
after an uptime of about 10 days i wasnt able
to start a program because no shared
library could be loaded.
i could rescue my logfiles:
Jan 5 15:15:47 olibox kernel: raid5
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:32:30PM +0100, Sven Koch wrote:
> reverse the patch for 2.4.1pre7
>
> for example: cd /usr/src/linux ; zcat 2.4.1pre7.gz | patch -p1 -R
>
> after that apply pre8
You can also use interdiff:
$ interdiff 2.4.1pre7 2.4.1pre8 | patch -p1
It's mostly reliable.
Tim.
*/
Matti Aarnio wrote:
> 2.4.0 with devfs mounted at boot time into /dev/
Or /proc/partitions, which - according to the mount(8) man page - has
been around since 2.1.116. So we're not exactly talking crazy upgrade
paths here.
> This new style (which contains, hopefully, physical PCI location)
>
Werner, you write:
> Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
> > [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] The LILO boot loader and the LILO command
> > line utility should be changed for this. There are some issues when we have
>
> Grr, I was just waiting for this ...
>
> See sections 2.6 and 3.5 of
> ftp://icaftp.epfl.
Shawn Starr wrote:
>
> What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
>
> For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
> that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
> delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just
** Reply to message from Brian Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 17
Jan 2001 12:17:19 -0800
> The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this has changed in the 2.4
> kernel which I doubt. If you want a region of memory that large, use
> vmalloc(). Of course, this doesn't guarantee a conti
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote:
> > The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I
> > don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files
> > etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer stuff really
> > isn't a generic solutio
Padraig Brady wrote:
> man setrlimit (or ulimit)
> This is per user though, and only related
> to user accounting really as you can only
> set a limit on the number of CPU seconds
> used.
Yet this is _not_ what I want, especially not for server processes. :-)
>
>
> I would also really like th
I lost my root file-system last night to massive corruption
occurring while doing a automatic `tar` backup to tape.
Some corruption probably occurred while the ATIME was being
updated because most of the tape was good. Basically, e2fsck
could not recognize a valid file system. `od /dev/sdc1`
sho
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:
> What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
>
> For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
> that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
> delete the whole linux dir and untar
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:22:22PM +0100, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> The only cases when you really need to know the name of a disk is when
> - doing disk-level management, e.g. partitioning or creating file
>systems (*)
> - adding a swap partition (sigh)
> - telling your boot loader where
What is the best way to apply a patch on top of a patch already applied?
For example, with original sources 2.4.0 i applied 2.4.1pre7 but now
that pre8 is out, how do i apply those new patches without having to
delete the whole linux dir and untar 2.4.0 again just to apply pre8?
thanks,
Shawn S
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:54:20PM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
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> [please cc me on any responses]
>
> Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM.
> Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542"
>
The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this
Hello,
Below is a decoded oops from a standard 2.2.18 kernel.
If you need any additional info, please let me know.
Regards,
Udo.
ksymoops 2.3.5 on i686 2.2.18. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.2.18/ (default)
> The fact that I understand _why_ it is done that way doesn't mean that I
> don't think it's a hack. It doesn't allow you to sendfile multiple files
> etc without having nagle boundaries, and the header/trailer stuff really
> isn't a generic solution.
Hmm, I would think that nagle would only com
Im trying to create bounded class with two bouded childs, each one
having more than half bandwidth of their parent, whoose bandwidth they
should share, which sadly doesnt happen, when I tcpspray through both
childs in the same time, each one uses its full bandwidth, what is of
course togeather mor
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Environment: 2.4.0 released, Pentium III with 256MB's of RAM.
Problem: kmalloc() of 4M causes kernel message "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542"
Here is the dmesg output:
kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!
invalid operand:
CPU:0
EIP:0010:[]
EFLAGS: 0001028
On Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:56:10 AM -0800 Linus Torvalds
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
>> >
>> > While taking a look at page_launder()...
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > set_page_dirty() may lock the pagecache_lock which means potential
>> > deadlock since we have the page
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
> [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] The LILO boot loader and the LILO command
> line utility should be changed for this. There are some issues when we have
Grr, I was just waiting for this ...
See sections 2.6 and 3.5 of
ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/booting/bo
I'm having a crazy mm problem with the new 2.4.0 kernel. I've got a
device in which I do DMA i/o from user space.
I have a dd which allocs mem (for use as a DMA staging area) and then
I use remap_page_range() to map it into user land (via the mmap()
interface). I was using __get_dma_pages(), th
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ben Mansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> And no, I don't actually hink that sendfile() is all that hot. It was
>> _very_ easy to implement, and can be considered a 5-minute hack to give
>> a feature that fit very well in th
Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:11:52AM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote:
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>> Please tell me I just didn't just see this message??!?!?!?!
>> Please??!?!?!? What are you doing?
>> I mean no one person here any disrespect - please do the same.
>
>
> you just got paid for what
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, David L. Parsley wrote:
> Felix von Leitner wrote:
> > > close (0);
> > > close (1);
> > > close (2);
> > > open ("/dev/console", O_RDWR);
> > > dup ();
> > > dup ();
> >
> > So it's not actually part of POSIX, it's just to get around fixing
> > legacy code? ;-)
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> : >Agreed -- the hard-coded Nagle algorithm makes no sense these days.
> :
> : The fact I dislike about the HP-UX implementation is that it is so
> : _obviously_ stupid.
> :
> : And I have to say that I absolutely despise the BSD people. They did
> : se
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