[3.18.3] poll() on gpio pins broken

2015-01-29 Thread folkert
Or have I been doing it wrong and did that became visible? Please advise. thanks Folkert van Heusden -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/major

nbd randomly disconnecting

2012-08-09 Thread folkert
are workstation 7.1.4 with the vmware tools modules not installed because I have not gotten around to upgrade them to a 3.5 kernel. It is a 64 bit system with 8GB ram. Folkert van Heusden -- -- Phone: +31-6-41278122, P

Re: problem with baycom driver - bisect help requested

2012-08-02 Thread folkert
ks up. > What to do now? This 3.1.0-rc9+ is, by the way, a kernel build on a different amd64 system using fakeroot make dep-pkg Version 3.0.0-12 (I used an ubuntu kernel image) works fine by the way: it boots, but it also succeeds in emitting AX.25 data via the baycom driver. Folkert van Heu

Re: problem with baycom driver - bisect help requested

2012-08-02 Thread folkert
> It seems the baycom driver (for ham radio) needs some attention. I'm trying to bisect this problem. The problem now is, that the 3.1.0-rc9 crashes just after it loads the initramfs. Well, it says it is doing that and then all fans speed-up and the system locks up. What to do now? Fol

problem with baycom driver

2012-07-28 Thread folkert
ing if I full duplex mode but I'm not entirely sure of that (no second modem setup). I verified the problem by listening with a second radio. Folkert van Heusden -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kern

Re: Is it possible to change IRQ for certain device?

2008-01-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
example. They hate to share their irq. In fact: they refuse to work when their irq is shared. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail na wan makriki wrokosani fu tan luku den logfile nanga san den commando spiti puru. Piki puru spesrutu sani, wroko nanga difrenti kroru, tya kon makandra, nang

Re: [RS232] setting trigger-level of fifo

2008-01-09 Thread Folkert van Heusden
outp(up, UART_FCR, fcr); /* set fcr */ } serial8250_set_mctrl(&up->port, up->port.mctrl); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags); } But I don't know how to interface this to an ioctl or so. All help is appreciated! Folkert van Heus

[RS232] setting trigger-level of fifo

2008-01-09 Thread Folkert van Heusden
. Can someone tell how I can proceed with this? Is it at all possible to do this setting? Folkert van Heusden -- Multi tail barnamaj mowahib li mora9abat attasjilat wa nataij awamir al 7asoub. damj, talwin, mora9abat attarchi7 wa ila akhirih. http://www.vanheusden.com/mult

Fw: G965 & on-board serial port

2008-01-09 Thread Folkert van Heusden
d via fiddling with signalling lines (for a dcf-77 radio clock) don't work. To be honest I used a vendor kernel, a Debian 2.6.22-3-amd64 image. Is this a known problem? Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail cok yonlu kullanimli bir program, loglari okumak, verilen kommandolari yerine getirebil

G965 & on-board serial port

2008-01-01 Thread Folkert van Heusden
radio clock) don't work. To be honest I used a vendor kernel, a Debian 2.6.22-3-amd64 image. Is this a known problem? Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail cok yonlu kullanimli bir program, loglari okumak, verilen kommandolari yerine getirebilen. Filter, renk verme, merge, 'diff- v

spreading the heat?

2007-11-21 Thread Folkert van Heusden
maybe such processes should be scheduled to other cores as well? Folkert van Heusden -- Multitail - gibkaja utilita po sledovaniju log-fajlov i vyvoda kommand. Fil'trovanie, raskrašivanie, slijanie, vizual'noe sravnenie, i t.d. http://www.vanh

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
laptop build so it takes > > less than 30min to build a kernel. > > Ehh? You do it once, then leave it aside or in /proc/config.gz, on new > kernel copy it back, "make oldconfig", answer several questions and here > we go. Ah yes, but then you buy a new s

[2.6.23.1] possible circular locking dependency detected

2007-10-13 Thread Folkert van Heusden
[ 7393.914433] [] generic_file_aio_write+0x58/0xc4 [ 7393.914440] [] ext3_file_write+0x2d/0xba [ 7393.914445] [] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x116 [ 7393.914448] [] vfs_write+0x158/0x15d [ 7393.914452] [] sys_write+0x3d/0x64 [ 7393.914455] [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 7393.914460] ===

Re: [PATCH] NTFS error messages: replace static char pointers by static char arrays

2007-10-13 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ysdn_net.c:char *hysdn_net_revision = "$Revision: 1.8.6.4 $"; ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva_didd.c:char *DRIVERRELEASE_DIDD = "2.0"; ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasmain.c:char *DRIVERRELEASE_DIVAS = "2.0"; ./drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasi.c:char *D

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
SCSI disk support' is required for SATA/PATA HDDs!" > depends on ATA && !BLK_DEV_SD Yes! Maybe create some status-line at the bottom of the screen in which these hints scrollby. Like powertop does. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail är en flexibel redskap för att fälja logf

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
epending on your hardware configuration. Yes but that would mean that you have to open the help for each item that you add. > A popup makes some sense, but I don't know if menuconfig knows how to > do popup warnings... and it needs to be done for all *configs, > not just menucon

Re: sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
t > with only sr support. Ok, but that's not the most common situaties. What I'm suggesting is a warning or a please note popup. Not neccessarily an error or refusing to continue thing. Folkert van Heusden -- www.vanheusden.com/multitail - win een vlaai van multivlaai! zorg ervoor da

sata & scsi suggestion for make menuconfig

2007-09-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, Maybe it is a nice enhancement for make menuconfig to more explicitly give a pop-up or so when someone selects for example a sata controller while no 'scsi-disk' support was selected? Folkert van Heusden -- Multi tail barnamaj mowahib li mora9abat attasjilat wa nataij awamir

Re: [2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-09-02 Thread Folkert van Heusden
prepare_write+0x28/0x3b [ 7382.929953] [] ext3_prepare_write+0xe3/0x17e [ 7382.929957] [] generic_file_buffered_write+0x1b4/0x614 [ 7382.929961] [] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x23a/0x533 [ 7382.929966] [] generic_file_aio_write+0x58/0xc4 [ 7382.929970] [] ext3_file_write+0x2d/0xba [ 7382.92

Re: intel_rng: FWH not detected (and no entropy)

2007-08-24 Thread Folkert van Heusden
/ (for video4linux) a try. And no, audio-entropyd won't fill up the entropy pool in a second, it takes a while. And often video-entropyd bails out because of not enough noise in the video-signal. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail er et flexible tool for å kontrolere Logfiles og commandoer. Med filt

[2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-08-24 Thread Folkert van Heusden
53041] [] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x23a/0x533 [ 346.353121] [] generic_file_aio_write+0x58/0xc4 [ 346.353200] [] ext3_file_write+0x2d/0xba [ 346.353281] [] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x116 [ 346.353364] [] vfs_write+0x158/0x15d [ 346.353444] [] sys_write+0x3d/0x64 [ 346.353524] [] syscal

Re: Software based ECC ?

2007-08-12 Thread Folkert van Heusden
on and an idea: Q: is ecc guaranteed to detect all bitflips? Idea: what about a multicore system (3 or more) that runs the same processes on 2 cores and a third core verifying that they both do the same? As I think it is not only ram that can become faulty. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail

Re: where is the code for read system call?

2007-07-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> My application reads from socket. I need to change the behavior of read > system call for an experiment. Can someone point me to code? Wouldn't it be easier to create a preload-library-wrapper around glibc? Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail is a versatile tool for watching l

Re: [2.6.21.1] totally hanging altough not crashed

2007-07-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
h (family) { 51 case AF_INET: 52 h ^= __xfrm4_daddr_saddr_hash(daddr, saddr); 53 break; I very much hope it is of any help. Folkert van Heusden -- www.vanheusden.com/multitail - win een vlaai van multi

Re: [2.6.21.1] totally hanging altough not crashed

2007-07-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
152 &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); 153 spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock); 154 schedule(); 155 finish_wait(&journal->j_wait_transaction_locked, &wait); 156 goto re

[2.6.21.1] totally hanging altough not crashed

2007-07-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
[783336.561432] CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7af3000 CR3: 1dd3c000 CR4: 06d0 [783336.561473] === I've put the output of alt+srq+t at http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/~folkert/ast.txt as it is halve a megabyte in size. Anyone can give a suggestion of what is going on? And

[2.6.21.1] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!

2007-07-13 Thread Folkert van Heusden
] [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38 [169034.198162] === Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail ist eine flexible Applikation um Logfiles und Kommando Eingaben zu überprüfen. Inkl. Filter, Farben, Zusammenführen, Ansichten etc. http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail

[2.6.21.1] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1

2007-07-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
[228719.552886] [] cpu_idle+0x6b/0x85 [228719.552982] [] start_secondary+0xe8/0x30a [228719.553086] [<>] 0x0 [228719.553207] === Folkert van Heusden -- Feeling generous? -> http://www.vanheusden.com/wis

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-06-10 Thread Folkert van Heusden
escription: > This patch adds code to the signal-sender making it log a message when > an unhandled fatal signal will be delivered. New version. This one also informs the user about the sende pid/uid of the signal (when applicable). Signed-of by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[2.6.21.1] soft lockup detected on CPU#1 - timers

2007-06-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
puzzled why cpu_idle is called anyway as the load of the system is on average at least 2.5 (see http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/load.png ). Folkert van Heusden -- Multitail - gibkaja utilita po sledovaniju log-fajlov i vyvoda kommand. Fil'trovanie, raskrašivanie, slijanie, vizual'

which is the cause of interrupts

2007-06-03 Thread Folkert van Heusden
how can I find which device is triggering those "ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, wcfxo" interrupts? Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail ist eine flexible Applikation um Logfiles und Kommando Eingaben zu überprüfen. Inkl. Filter, Farben, Zusammenführen, Ansichten etc. http://www.vanh

Re: [PATCH] Re: [2.6.21.1] soft lockup when removing netconsole module

2007-05-30 Thread Folkert van Heusden
if (delayed_work_pending(&npinfo->tx_work)) { > cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&npinfo->tx_work); > flush_scheduled_work(); > - > - kfree(npinfo); >

[2.6.21.1] running powertop 1.5 for 10 seconds causes a kernel panic

2007-05-30 Thread Folkert van Heusden
_stats+0x4e/0x6f [361753.930807] [] hrtimer_interrupt+0x184/0x1e3 [361753.930890] [] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x55/0x5b [361753.930973] [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x39 [361753.931055] [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38 [361753.931139] === Folkert van Heusden -- Mul

Re: Seeding /dev/random not working

2007-05-29 Thread Folkert van Heusden
a NIC whose device > > driver hasn't been configured to feed entropy, you're definitely > > hosed. > > Can we get at least time-of-boot from rtc clock to the pool? We really > should not be getting identical outputs... And add readings from lm-sensors as well? I gue

Re: [2.6.21.1] soft lockup when removing netconsole module

2007-05-26 Thread Folkert van Heusden
en 10 ret -110 [ 1292.121131] usb 7-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd newhidups rqt 161 rq 1 len 10 ret -110 and about the nfs server temporarily not available. Please note that I did not do the rmmod from a nfs mountpoint. Folkert van Heusden -- Multitail - gibkaja u

Re: [2.6.21.1] soft lockup when removing netconsole module

2007-05-26 Thread Folkert van Heusden
s 100% cpu, so it busy loops at some place. Looking at the stack > trace this seems to be in: > void cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq, >struct delayed_work *dwork) > { > while (!cancel_delayed_work(dwork)) >

Fw: Re: [2.6.21.1] soft lockup when removing netconsole module

2007-05-26 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ing 100% cpu and not returning). Because now when the destination system gets a new network-card or anything else changes I need to reboot the complete (sending) machine. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail est un flexible tool pour suivre de logfiles et execution de commandements. Filtrer, pourvoir de c

Re: [2.6.21.1] soft lockup when removing netconsole module

2007-05-26 Thread Folkert van Heusden
on/312: ok | [ 44.537216] hard-irq read-recursion/321: ok | [ 44.537454] soft-irq read-recursion/321: ok | [ 44.537693] --- [ 44.537733] Good, all 218 testcases passed! | [ 44.537774] -

[2.6.21.1] soft lockup when removing netconsole module

2007-05-26 Thread Folkert van Heusden
exit even with kill -9. It also sucks up 100% cpu. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail es una herramienta flexibele para consiguir archivos de log, y para ejecutar ordenes. Filtrar, añadir colores, merger y vista de las differencias. http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-23 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> >> t->pid, t->uid, t->gid, t->comm); > > > > Gargh ... why does this want to be in the *kernel*'s logs? In any case, can > you please make this KERN_INFO (or lower) instead of KERN_WARNING. Description: This patch adds code to the signal-sender mak

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-21 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ks if the handler is set to default - which is it is not taken care > > of. > What about ptrace()'d processes? I don't think we should log signals for > them... Why not? Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail es una herramienta flexibele para consiguir archivos de log, y

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-21 Thread Folkert van Heusden
patch adds code to the signal-sender making it log a message when an unhandled fatal signal will be delivered. Signed-off by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/signal.c.org 2007-05-20 22:47:13.0 +0200 +++ kernel/signal.c 2007-05-21 14:46:05.0 +0200 @@ -739,

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-21 Thread Folkert van Heusden
process and only then emit a message. So when an application takes care itself of handling it nothing is printed. Signed-off by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/signal.c.org 2007-05-20 22:47:13.0 +0200 +++ kernel/signal.c 2007-05-21 12:59:52.0 +020

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
rnally? Afaik these are fatal, stopping the > process. So using them internally would be a little tricky. > > But I think your list is far too long anyways. > > So, which ones would you like to have removed then? (and why, of course, to enlighten me: some are educated guesses) F

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
So using them internally would be a little tricky. > But I think your list is far too long anyways. So, which ones would you like to have removed then? Folkert van Heusden -- To MultiTail einai ena polymorfiko ergaleio gia ta logfiles kai tin eksodo twn entolwn. Prosferei: filtra

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ith switch(), I would assume gcc transforms it into using > a jump table (aka "JMP [table+sig]") > I tried it: with switch(), gcc transforms this into a > bitmap comparison ("MOV eax, 1; SHL eax, sig; TEST eax, 0x830109f8"), > which seems even cheaper than a jump table

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
th 2.6.21.1 it still applies altough > > > >with a small offsets. Works like a charm. > > > > > > > >Signed-off by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >--- linux-2.6.18.2/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-0

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ugh > >with a small offsets. Works like a charm. > > > >Signed-off by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >--- linux-2.6.18.2/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-04 02:33:58.0 +0100 > >+++ linux-2.6.18.2.new/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-17 15:59:13.

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-19 Thread Folkert van Heusden
charm. Signed-off by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.18.2/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-04 02:33:58.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.18.2.new/kernel/signal.c 2006-11-17 15:59:13.0 +0100 @@ -706,6 +706,15 @@ struct sigqueue * q = NULL; int ret = 0

Re: [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-19 Thread Folkert van Heusden
s uid... Yeah well it's all captured by syslogd/klogd and written to a file and diskspace is cheap. Folkert van Heusden -- Feeling generous? -> http://www.vanheusden.com/wishlist.php -- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28

Re: [2.6.21.1] OOPS in timer stats code

2007-05-16 Thread Folkert van Heusden
achine to give more details right now (19:00 gmt+1 i can). > > > > >> For now, this is the oops: > > > > >> [13092.479019] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual > > > > >> address b9d0458f > > > > Timer

Re: [2.6.21.1] OOPS in timer stats code

2007-05-16 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ht now (19:00 gmt+1 i can). > > >> For now, this is the oops: > > >> [13092.479019] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual > > >> address b9d0458f > > Timer hash list contains a user address. > > Dammit. It's a HT enabled box again. I don&#x

Re: [2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
s a fix. Andrew, > would you add it? Thanks. > > Honza > > On Mon 14-05-07 19:43:18, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > [adding Jan and fsdevel to CC] > > > > Hi Folkert, > > > > On 14/05/07, Folkert van Heusden <

[2.6.21.1] OOPS in timer stats code

2007-05-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, After an uptime of, say, 4 hours I got an oops on my P4 with HT and 2GB ram. It has dynamic ticks enabled as well has timer stats. I cannot reboot the machine to give more details right now (19:00 gmt+1 i can). For now, this is the oops: [13092.479019] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging req

Re: [2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-14 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> [adding Jan and fsdevel to CC] > Hi Folkert, > >When I cleanly reboot my pc running 2.6.21 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram > >and system on an 1-filesystem IDE disk, I get the following circular > >locking dependency erro

[2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-14 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, When I cleanly reboot my pc running 2.6.21 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram and system on an 1-filesystem IDE disk, I get the following circular locking dependency error: [330961.226405] === [330961.226489] [ INFO: possible circular locking de

[2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-14 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, When I cleanly reboot my pc running 2.6.21 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram and system on an 1-filesystem IDE disk, I get the following circular locking dependency error: [330961.226405] === [330961.226489] [ INFO: possible circular locking de

statistics of filesystem-journal usage

2007-05-11 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, Maybe it is a nice idea to export statistics on the usage of a journal of a filesystem as well. That way one can more easy see if it would help to put a journal on an other harddisk. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail es una herramienta flexibele para consiguir archivos de log, y para

Re: [2.6.21] kernel panic

2007-05-09 Thread folkert
It looks like this solves the hid-problem. But I still get the occasional 'not responding but still forwarding network-traffic(!)' and 'ext3 circular lock failure' problems. Folkert van Heusden -- To MultiTail einai ena polymorfiko ergaleio gia ta logfiles kai tin ekso

Re: [2.6.21] kernel panic

2007-05-06 Thread Folkert van Heusden
dev code for a pretty long time. It is the first time this happened altough with 2.6.21 I get relatively frequent warnings of circular locks dependencies. This is the first time it was followed by an oops. Connected via hid are 2 temperature sensors and an UPS. Has been running fine for ages.

[2.6.21] kernel panic

2007-05-06 Thread Folkert van Heusden
3/0xf6 [10371.138541] [] hid_irq_in+0x164/0x169 [10371.138633] [] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x47/0xa4 [10371.138719] [] uhci_giveback_urb+0x74/0x130 I reported other bugs on circular locks also happening in this show_trace_log_lvl part. Folkert van Heusden -- Temperature outside:23.562500, tempe

Re: [2.6.20.1] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!

2007-05-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:31:23PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 03/05/07, Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My P4 with HT and 2GB of ram on an IDE disk succeeded in triggering > >another bug: > > > >[273187.872796] usb 7-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL

[2.6.20.1] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!

2007-05-03 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ondary+0xe8/0x30a [286630.886991] [<>] 0x0 [286630.887088] === [290177.972351] usb 7-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd newhidups rqt 161 rq 1 len 10 ret -110 My .config can be found here: http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/~folkert/config-2.6.21.1 Folkert

[2.6.21] possible circular locking dependency detected IN FILESYSTEM CODE (ext3)

2007-04-27 Thread Folkert van Heusden
eneric_file_aio_write_nolock+0x2ae/0x5ad [ 7429.855422] [] generic_file_aio_write+0x58/0xc4 [ 7429.855426] [] ext3_file_write+0x2d/0xba [ 7429.855430] [] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x116 [ 7429.855433] [] vfs_write+0x158/0x15d [ 7429.855440] [] sys_write+0x3d/0x64 [ 7429.855445] [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 7429

Re: [2.6.20] system sometimes stops responding

2007-04-27 Thread Folkert van Heusden
point with the last message being: Apr 26 23:47:11 muur upsd[2828]: Client on 127.0.0.1 logged out On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:58:06PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > System: kernel 2.6.20 > P4 > 2GB ram > 512 MB swap > > Situation: > Sometimes syste

[2.6.20] system sometimes stops responding

2007-04-23 Thread Folkert van Heusden
istering. parent: vc, set: devices [3535514.470260] kobject_uevent_env [3535514.470305] fill_kobj_path: path = '/class/vc/vcsa3' (as you can see, the login process gets shot by signal 3 (SIGQUIT)) Anything else I can try? I also found a list of stacktraces of all processes running in the syste

Re: [patch] add file position info to proc

2007-03-26 Thread Folkert van Heusden
rsing a few GB of data and forgot to add some progress counter. When after an hour of processing the script still has not stopped, I'd like to see how much it processed so that I can estimate how long I still have to wait and if it is worthwhile to stop the script for optimalisations and such

Re: kmalloc() with size zero

2007-03-25 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > I'd say "feature", glibc's malloc also returns an address on > > malloc(0). > > > This is implementation defined-the standard allows for return of either > null or an address. Entirely for entertainment: AIX (5.3) returns NULL, IRIX re

Re: [PATCH] Re: [2.6.20] BUG: workqueue leaked lock

2007-03-21 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> I thought you are trying to diagnose a bug and maybe Folkert could test, > if this patch makes any difference. Sorry, if I missed the real problem. Yes please let me know when I can test a patch. Folkert van Heusden -- www.biglumber.com <- site where one can exchange PGP key s

Re: [2.6.20] BUG: workqueue leaked lock

2007-03-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:50:14 +0100 Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > ... > > [ 1756.728209] BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic: nfsd4/0x/3577 ... > > [ 1846.684023] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > Oleg, that's

[2.6.20] BUG: workqueue leaked lock

2007-03-13 Thread Folkert van Heusden
un_workqueue+0x167/0x170 [ 137.472779] [] worker_thread+0x146/0x165 [ 137.472861] [] kthread+0x97/0xc4 [ 137.472943] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 137.473026] === Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail is a versatile tool for watching logfiles and outpu

Re: [PATCH] baycom_ser_fdx: also allow i/o ports >= 0x1000 and enhanced failure logging

2007-03-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
S is the define to use. Ok, changed: Signed-off-by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ./drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c.org 2007-03-04 22:24:47.0 +0100 +++ ./drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c 2007-03-04 22:42:51.0 +0100 @@ -413,11 +4

[PATCH] baycom_ser_fdx: also allow i/o ports >= 0x1000 and enhanced failure logging

2007-03-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, The baycom_ser_fdx driver did not allow i/o ports >= 0x1000. Now that there are pci cards (with rs232 ports) which use for example 0xb800 this limit should not exists. Also, for non kernel coders find the cause of problems was challenging so I added extra logging. Signed-off-by: Folkert

[2.6.20] possible circular locking dependency detected

2007-02-14 Thread Folkert van Heusden
+0x2d/0xba [ 141.715666] [] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x116 [ 141.715671] [] vfs_write+0x182/0x187 [ 141.715675] [] sys_write+0x3d/0x64 [ 141.715679] [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 141.715682] === System is a P4 with HT, 3.2GHz, 2GB ram. Filesystem is ext3. Folkert van Heusden ww

[2.6.19.1] panic in usb system

2007-01-26 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ing- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- Folkert van Heusden p.s. maybe we should change the console to white on blue after a panic? that's a little more consistent with other crashing comput

Re: chaostables-0.2 & 2.6.19.1

2007-01-01 Thread Folkert van Heusden
re more people run into the same problem) Not wanting to put you under pressure but when is that version expected? Folkert van Heusden -- Looking for a cheap but fast webhoster with an excellent helpdesk? http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/redir.php?id=1001 ---

Re: replace "memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE)" calls with "clear_page()"?

2006-12-31 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > regarding alignment that don't allow clear_page() to be used > > copy_page() in the memcpy() case), but it's going to need a lot of Maybe these optimalisations should be in the coding style docs? Folkert van Heusden -- Ever wonder what is out there? Any alien race

Re: replace "memset(...,0,PAGE_SIZE)" calls with "clear_page()"?

2006-12-31 Thread Folkert van Heusden
r an entire page" > instruction there has been hardware like that in the past, even on > x86, just it's no longer sold afaik) Folkert van Heusden -- www.biglumber.com <- site where one can exchange PGP key signatures --

Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER

2006-12-15 Thread Folkert van Heusden
abused email >address owners. Spammers will fake the from-address, possibly using the address of a spam-trap for the from-field. Your challenge will then be sent to the spam-trap, causing vger to be blacklisted. Folkert van Heusden -- Temperature outside:8.562500, temperature l

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-25 Thread Folkert van Heusden
from a video4linux device, e.g. a webcam or a framegrabber or whaterver Folkert van Heusden -- www.vanheusden.com/multitail - win een vlaai van multivlaai! zorg ervoor dat multitail opgenomen wordt in Fedora Core, AIX, Solaris of HP/UX en win een vlaai naar

PROBLEM: oops while booting using serial console [2.6.17]

2006-11-19 Thread Folkert van Heusden
: yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge cmov mmx fxsr sse fxsr_opt up bogomips: 2001.30 Folkert van Heusden -- www.biglumber.com <- site where one can exchange PGP key signatures ---

Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

2006-11-18 Thread Folkert van Heusden
roblems with processes you dind't know they have bugs and flakey hardware (sig 11). Folkert van Heusden -- Ever wonder what is out there? Any alien races? Then please support the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project: setiathome

Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

2006-11-17 Thread Folkert van Heusden
in glibc, to have not only > > stderr, but syslog, or /dev/kmsg copy of fatal messages? > Afaik when a proces gets shot because of a segfault, also the libraries > it used are shot so to say. iirc some of the more fatal signals are > handled directly by the kernel. Also: what a

Re: [PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

2006-11-17 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ave not only > stderr, but syslog, or /dev/kmsg copy of fatal messages? Afaik when a proces gets shot because of a segfault, also the libraries it used are shot so to say. iirc some of the more fatal signals are handled directly by the kernel. Folkert van Heusden -- www.biglumber.com <-

[PATCH] emit logging when a process receives a fatal signal

2006-11-17 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, I found that sometimes processes disappear on some heavily used system of mine without any logging. So I've written a patch against 2.6.18.2 which emits logging when a process emits a fatal signal. Signed-off-by: Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.18.2/kern

testing a kernel - how can i help?

2005-09-09 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Running klive on a sparc. Now I wonder: what should/can I run to help by testing a kernel? The sun is dedicated for the testing so everything is possible. Folkert van Heusden -- Try MultiTail! Multiple windows with logfiles, filtered with regular expressions, colored output, etc. etc

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

2005-09-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> 05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] > 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Give 'ndiswrapper' a try. Works pretty well for me. Folkert van Heusden -- Try MultiTail! Multiple windows with logfiles, filtered with regular expressions

Re: zero-copy read() interface

2005-08-18 Thread Folkert van Heusden
osal, it cooperates with the page > cache. Doesn't that one also use copying? I've also heard that using mmap is expensive due to pagefaulting. I've found, for example, that copying a 1.3GB file using read/write instead of mmap & memcpy is seconds faster. Folk

zero-copy read() interface

2005-08-18 Thread Folkert van Heusden
in the proces' memory. Of course copying a sector from kernel- to userspace can be done pretty fast but i.m.h.o. all possible speedimprovements should be made unless unclean. Folkert van Heusden -- Auto te koop, zie: http://www.vanheusden.com/daihats

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-08 Thread Folkert van Heusden
1PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Respin of the dynamic ticks patch for i386 by Tony Lindgen and Tuukka > Tikkanen > with further code cleanups. Are were there yet? > > Cheers, > Con > --- > > Folkert va

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-02 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > > Maybe new desktop systems - but what about the tens of millions of old > > > systems that don't. > > > > Does anyone really give a shit about saving power on the desktop anyway? > > This is basically a laptop issue. > > Eh yes, very much.

Re: [PATCH] random : prefetch the whole pool, not 1/4 of it

2005-07-30 Thread Folkert van Heusden
ool, wordmask*4); Isn't it cleaner to replace the line above with: + prefetch_range(r->pool, wordmask * sizeof(__u32)); as the pool contains u32 words? > input_rotate = r->input_rotate; > add_ptr = r->add_ptr; >

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Doesn't park here: ehm:/home/folkert# ./park /dev/hda head not parked 4c ehm:/home/folkert# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=IC25N060ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO3OAD5A, SerialNo=MRG357K3KKN0XH Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:41 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:26:28AM -0500, Eric Rannaud wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:02 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > modprobe nvidia || m-a -t prepare nvidia && m-a -t build nvidia && m-a -t > > > install nvidia && modprobe

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread folkert
7;- > > value. > I'd like to retain ability to read suspend image in any order (so that > code can be reused for swap encryption, etc). In that case: encrypt the blocknumber with the key, and then use the outcome as IV for the encryption of the data. Or calculate a hash over the

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-11 Thread folkert
.. You probably should use > block number as a IV or something like that. Or use a feedback loop: xor your data with the outcome of the previous round. And for the initial block use 0x00...00 for 'previous block'- value. Folkert van Heusden Auto te koop, zie: http://www.vanheusden.

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 0/3] encrypted swsusp image

2005-04-11 Thread folkert
data. > This works on my x86_64 laptop (64bit mode) and probably needs testing > on other platforms. What about an option for an user-defined key? One that can be set when suspending? Folkert van Heusden Auto te koop! Zie: http://www.vanheusden.com/daihatsu.php Op zoek naar een IT of Finan

2.6.x (x=4|10|11) doesn't detect my scsi devices on my aic7880 scsi interface

2005-04-01 Thread folkert
11757 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx, usb-uhci, eth0 Folkert van Heusden Auto te koop! Zie: http://www.vanheusden.com/daihatsu.php Op zoek naar een IT of Finance baan? Mail me voor de mogelijkheden! +--+ |UNIX admin? Then give Mult

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-28 Thread folkert
> I already posted one, posts ago. > >>[snip] > >Imporved version: > >[snip] > >char *dummy = (char *)malloc(1); > That cast is not supposed to be there, is it? (To pretake it: it's bad.) What is so bad about it? Folkert van Heusden Op zoek naar e

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-28 Thread folkert
gt; int main() > { > while(1){ > while(fork()){ > malloc(1); > } > } > } Imporved version: int main() { while(1) { while(fork()) { char *dummy = (char *)malloc(1);

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