Re: kmalloc() of 4MB causes "kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!"

2001-01-17 Thread Hans Grobler
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

Re: PRoblem with pcnet32 under 2.4.0 , was :Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-12 Thread Hans Grobler
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Danny ter Haar wrote: > According to Hans Grobler: > > If you're willing, would you please follow "REPORTING-BUGS" and send some > > more info. Also cat /proc/interrupts. This one's intriging... Thanks for the report (still studying it

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Grobler
Hi Danny, If you're willing, would you please follow "REPORTING-BUGS" and send some more info. Also cat /proc/interrupts. This one's intriging... -- Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ

Re: 2.4.0-ac6: drivers/net/rcpci45.c typo

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Grobler
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Karsten Hopp (Red Hat) wrote: > --- ./drivers/net/rcpci45.c.origThu Jan 11 12:49:19 2001 > +++ ./drivers/net/rcpci45.c Thu Jan 11 12:47:04 2001 > @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ > { RC_PCI45_VENDOR_ID, RC_PCI45_DEVICE_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, > PCI_ANY_ID, }, > { } > }

Re: 2.4.0: Small observation in /proc/sys/net/unix/

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Grobler
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Darryl Miles wrote: > # ls -il /proc/sys/net/unix/ > total 24 >4446 -rw--- 1 root root0 Jan 11 11:06 > max_dgram_qlen >4446 -rw--- 1 root root0 Jan 11 11:06 > max_dgram_qlen > > Identical filenames, nothing bad appears to be

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-10 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:37:06PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > > > Aren't you supposed to design the spec BEFORE you implement it? > > Try http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/softnet (minor details outdated) The softnet changes are most likely the primary source

Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac5

2001-01-10 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Nathan Walp wrote: > Here it is... I opted to cut out the 1200-odd warnings, which from the > look of them were all because i'm running it under 2.4.0-ac4 (which > boots fine). Thanks! My local mirror does not have -ac5 yet so I can't help immediately. From the -ac5 log & the

Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac5

2001-01-10 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Nathan Walp wrote: > First post to the list, hope I get this right... Could you please run this through ksymoops on your machine. Depending on which distribution you're using, this can be as simple as: ksymoops < oops.txt Remember to set the System.map to the correct one

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-10 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Dennis wrote: > At 02:57 PM 01/09/2001, Dennis wrote: > >Where might one find the definitive document on porting device drivers to > >2.4 kernels? > > should I assume that there are none? I don't think anyone has had the time yet. I'm sure someone will get around to this soon

Re: PROBLEM: SCSI hangs with aic7xxx in 2.4.0 SMP

2001-01-06 Thread Hans Grobler
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, mull wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:26:55PM -, Craig Freeze wrote: > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > SCSI hangs with aic7xxx in 2.4.0 SMP > > > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > > SCSI device errors and bus resets observed in 2.4.0 that do no

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease, AX25 problems

2001-01-01 Thread Hans Grobler
Hi Jean-Luc, On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, f5ibh wrote: > You wrote : > > Is the "previous test version" you talk about 2.4.0-test13-pre7? There > > weren't any changes since then that could explain this, except maybe: > Yes, I mean test13-pre[12134567] and other older versions too. > I've already had the

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease, AX25 problems

2001-01-01 Thread Hans Grobler
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, f5ibh wrote: > I've just compiled and tested 2.4.0-prerelease. My AX25 (hamradio) system does > not work with this new release. There is a timing problem. When a fram is sent > on the air, the frame is VERY long (switched off by the watchdog of my drsi > card) and contains no d

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease compile error in (maybe) mkiss

2000-12-31 Thread Hans Grobler
On 1 Jan 2001, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > Hi there... first compilation error of 2001 (at least in my timezone :-) > > ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext >arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ > --start-group \ >

Re: Linux 2.4.0test12pre3ac4

2000-12-21 Thread Hans Grobler
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > o Quota fixes/updates (Jan Kara) This patch (?) to breaks compiling without quota's... diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.13pre3/mm/vmscan.c linux.ac/mm/vmscan.c --- linux.13pre3/mm/vmscan.

Re: [BUG] Hard lockup using emu10k1-based sound card

2000-11-15 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Just as another data point, I, too, had trouble with lockups with the > emu10k1 (with the 2.4.0-test driver and ALSA both). I noticed that it was > sharing an interrupt with ACPI. As soon as I rebuilt the kernel with the > ACPI Interpreter option tur

Re: [BUG] Hard lockup using emu10k1-based sound card

2000-11-14 Thread Hans Grobler
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Rui Sousa wrote: > Which was the latest kernel you tried? A (easy to trigger) deadlock was > fixed around 2.4.0-test... It was around test7... I think. I remember seeing changes to emu10k1 in the patch and I tried that version. It still crashed. I work almost exclusively comm

Re: [BUG] Hard lockup using emu10k1-based sound card

2000-11-13 Thread Hans Grobler
were using mpg123 and working on the console? My system: RedHat 7.0 kernel 2.4.0-test11pre3 SMP (soundcore as modules) ALSA drivers 0.5.9d Gigabyte 440BX SMP (Dual Pentium II 450), 256MB, Intel Ethernet Pro 100, Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI -- Hans Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department

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.

Re: Request for net guru help: waitqueue oops

2000-10-04 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > > The timer routines (there are 4) are used to switch hardware states and > > must therefore be mutually exclusive with respect to the interrupt handler. > > There are no bottom halves used in this driver. Andrew Morton suggested > > that the problem coul

Re: Request for net guru help: waitqueue oops

2000-10-03 Thread Hans Grobler
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > None of these can sleep. netif_*_queue routines are quite simple. > They are all atomic so there is no need to protect them with locks. Ok. I originally had them outside locks as they appeared to be atomic. I moved them in incase they were the cause of t

Re: Request for net guru help: waitqueue oops

2000-10-03 Thread Hans Grobler
Hi Petkan, Thanks for your comment. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > > A driver I'm working on seems to be doing/triggering something related > > to waitqueues. This causes a perfectly reproducable oops (small mercies!). > > Since the oops is not happening in my driver, I'm having a ha

Request for net guru help: waitqueue oops

2000-10-03 Thread Hans Grobler
Hi all, A driver I'm working on seems to be doing/triggering something related to waitqueues. This causes a perfectly reproducable oops (small mercies!). Since the oops is not happening in my driver, I'm having a hard time figuring out whats going wrong. I suspect a networking guru will take one

linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

2000-09-30 Thread Hans Grobler
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Can spin_lock_irqsave and the disable_irq & spin_lock combinations be > > safely mixed, particularly with regards to the networking layer? This does > > not seem to be done anywhere in the kernel so I suspect that I'm trying > > to do something wrong/bogus

linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

2000-09-29 Thread Hans Grobler
Can spin_lock_irqsave and the disable_irq & spin_lock combinations be safely mixed, particularly with regards to the networking layer? This does not seem to be done anywhere in the kernel so I suspect that I'm trying to do something wrong/bogus ... More specifically, I have a card that requires l

[patch rfc] Tags generation to include local headers

2000-09-11 Thread Hans Grobler
Would anyone object to the inclusion of local header files (not under include/*) in the tags generation target? -- Hans Grobler --- linux.orig/Makefile Thu Aug 24 03:36:46 2000 +++ linux/Makefile Mon Sep 11 14:48:55 2000 @@ -286,14 +286,14 @@ TAGS: dummy etags `find include/asm