Re: WARNING: filesystem loop0 was created with 512 inodes, the real maximum is 511, mounting anyway

2020-09-28 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 09:29, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:23 AM Tigran Aivazian > > No, this is not an issue. In the latest change to BFS I added the > > following comment to the header fs/bfs/bfs.h, which explains it: > > > > /* In theory BF

Re: WARNING: filesystem loop0 was created with 512 inodes, the real maximum is 511, mounting anyway

2020-09-28 Thread Tigran Aivazian
d with such "impossible to fill up" number of inodes */ Kind regards, Tigran

Re: [PATCH v8 06/20] fs: Fill in max and min timestamps in superblock

2019-08-20 Thread Tigran Aivazian
I see no problems for BFS. Acked-By: Tigran Aivazian

Re: [PATCH 4.19 051/118] flexfiles: use per-mirror specified stateid for IO

2018-12-11 Thread Mkrtchyan, Tigran
Hi Greg, Thanks for pushing this into sable as well. However, I think patch makes more sense with 320f35b7bf8cccf1997ca3126843535e1b95e9c4 Tigran. - Original Message - > From: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" > To: "linux-kernel" > Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman&

Re: [PATCH 4.14 26/67] flexfiles: use per-mirror specified stateid for IO

2018-12-11 Thread Mkrtchyan, Tigran
Hi Greg, Thanks for pushing this into sable as well. However, I think patch makes more sense with 320f35b7bf8cccf1997ca3126843535e1b95e9c4 Tigran. - Original Message - > From: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman&

Re: [patch set 4.19.6] BFS updates

2018-12-03 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Re-sending the patches with the "Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org" included in the sign-off area, as per Option 1 of the rules Greg referred me to. I hope that now I have done everything by the rules. On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 21:42, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > just wanted to add: although

Re: [patch set 4.19.6] BFS updates

2018-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
just wanted to add: although the subject says "4.19.6" the patches apply perfectly to the top of "torvalds/linux" tree from github. On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 21:01, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > I attached two incremental patches for BFS: > > 1. Make i

[patch set 4.19.6] BFS updates

2018-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Linus, I attached two incremental patches for BFS: 1. Make inode bitmap allocation static (applies on top of 4.19.6) 2. Strengthen the superblock sanity checking code (applies on top of 1. above) Kind regards, Tigran From: Tigran Aivazian Subject: [PATCH 4.19.6 1/2] BFS updates Make in

Re: [PATCH 4.19.6] BFS: static inode bitmap and extra sanity checking

2018-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
quot;-mm" tree and then into "linux-next" tree. I am happy to split it into multiple logical patches and send them to Linus, of course. Kind regards, Tigran

[PATCH 4.19.6] BFS: static inode bitmap and extra sanity checking

2018-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
tested under 4.19.6 kernel. Kind regards, Tigran From: Tigran Aivazian Subject: [PATCH 4.19.6] BFS: static inode bitmap and extra sanity checking Strengthen validation of BFS superblock against corruption. Make in-core inode bitmap static part of superblock info structure. Print a warning when

Re: [PATCH 4.19 033/110] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-29 Thread Tigran Aivazian
opment, I presume the basic fundamental fact that no patch is accepted if the relevant maintainer has objections to it is still intact. And I am both the author and the maintainer of the BFS filesystem. Kind regards, Tigran

Re: [PATCH 4.19 033/110] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-29 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 16:07, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:23:00PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > Yes, of course I object to it. > I can not apply a patch to the stable trees that are not in Linus's tree > first. So there's nothing I can do here wi

Re: [PATCH 4.19 033/110] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-29 Thread Tigran Aivazian
4.20 was applied (as "linux-next", I don't know why it is not in 4.20-rc4 yet), but 4.19.2 version was not applied yet, so here it is attached again (with the proper changelog etc). It applies to 4.19.5 cleanly as well, so please use this version (attached). Kind regards, Tigran On T

Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 1/9] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-22 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 19:42, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hm, but this one is not upstream yet? I'll wait with it until it gets > some time to soak upstream. It is in linux-next, so I assume it will propagate to the numbered releases soon, see here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/l

Re: [patch 14/15] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-15 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ot;Signed-off-by:" line and diffstat output. And now I've also cc'd the linux-kernel mailing list. Kind regards, Tigran From: Tigran Aivazian Subject: bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap Strengthen validation of BFS superblock against corruption. Make in-core inode b

Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 1/9] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 19:40, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 08:31, Tigran Aivazian > wrote: > > Andrew, if you would like me to make the same patch against 4.19.1 as > > well, please let me know. > > I decided to just go ahead and backport it to 4.

Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 1/9] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 08:31, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Andrew, if you would like me to make the same patch against 4.19.1 as > well, please let me know. I decided to just go ahead and backport it to 4.19.1 anyway (see attached). Tested thoroughly under 4.19.1. From: Tigran Aivazian Subjec

Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 1/9] bfs: add sanity check at bfs_fill_super()

2018-11-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
heck) patch to Andrew Morton a couple of days ago against 4.20-rc1. Andrew, if you would like me to make the same patch against 4.19.1 as well, please let me know. Kind regards, Tigran > > Link: > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525862104-3407-1-git-send-email-penguin-ker...@i-love.sak

Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/microcode: Add SPDX license identifiers

2018-11-09 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Borislav, Ok, that's fine. I noticed these things when changing BFS code a couple of days ago and wondered what they were --- now I know :) Kind regards, Tigran On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 15:04, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > From: Borislav Petkov > > ... and drop the GPL v2

Re: [PATCH] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in find_first_zero_bit

2018-06-15 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Andrew, Here is the detailed information about the bug which Tomas fixed. As for the word-wrapping --- I enabled "plain text mode" in Gmail. However, just in case, I am sending the combined patch as a text file attachment. Is this ok? Kind regards, Tigran On 15 June 2018 at 19

Re: WARNING: kmalloc bug in bfs_fill_super

2018-05-01 Thread Tigran Aivazian
OWARN and printf(). > > [1] > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=16a87c236b951351374a84c8a32f40edbc034e96 > > Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa > Reported-by: syzbot > Cc: Tigran A. Aivazian > --- > fs/bfs/inode.c | 9 ++--- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-

Re: [PATCH] bfs: Fix sanity checks for empty files

2017-05-09 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, If you had created the filesystem with the proper mkfs under SCO UnixWare 7 you (probably) wouldn't encounter this issue. But since commercial Unix-es are now part of history and the only proper way is the Linux mkfs.bfs utility, your patch is fine. Kind regards, Tigran On 5 May 2017

patch to candidate for stable kernel 4.10

2017-04-09 Thread Mkrtchyan, Tigran
Dear stable kernel maintainers, Please consider commit f17f8a14e82cdf34cd6473e3644f3c672b3884f6 to be included into 4.10 kernel. As long as it crashes kernels used by some distors, we have to disable corresponding functionality on the NFS servers. Thanks in advance, Tigran.

Re: MAINTAINERS without commits in the last 3 years

2016-08-25 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Joe, I would suggest that those addresses which bounce should certainly be removed, but the rest should be left alone. Kind regards, Tigran PS. Joe, sorry if you received this message twice --- my first attempt to reply failed because gmail used html by default :) On 25 August 2016 at 00:33

pNFS client behavior confirmation

2014-06-11 Thread Mkrtchyan, Tigran
ded to use MDS Thanks, Tigran. -- 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: HID device calibration - how to override mapping?

2012-08-08 Thread Tigran
clutch = joyInfo->ax[cmd[CMD_CLUTCH].val]; // dirty stuff, sorry if (clutch <= 0) clutch = -clutch; else clutch = 2.0 - clutch; clutch /= 2.0; car->_clutchCmd = fa

Re: [PATCH 5/9] bfs: move function prototype to the proper header file

2008-01-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
hings like that, which are best left to the author of the code to decide which declaration should be where? Kind regards Tigran

Re: [PATCH 5/9] bfs: move function prototype to the proper header file

2008-01-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
*); + Functions should not be externed, remove extern keyword. why not? In (roughly, because ^extern pattern is not ideal) 3959 cases only in include/linux/*h they are: $ grep ^extern include/linux/*h | wc -l 3959 Kind regards Tigran -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 5/9] bfs: move function prototype to the proper header file

2008-01-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Ooops, I didn't look at the _name_ of the function, i.e. it being dump_imap(), an internal helper --- of course it shouldn't be extern'd you are right :) On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Heikki Orsila wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:32:04A

Re: umask ignored in mkdir(2)?

2007-01-14 Thread Tigran Aivazian
/lib/modules). I cc'd linux-kernel as someone may wish to fix this. (see below for the actual report). Kind regards Tigran On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Tigran Aivazian wrote: I forgot to mention that on another machine running the same kernel version with the same (as close as a UP machine

Re: [PATCH] microcode: Fix mc_cpu_notifier section warning

2006-12-19 Thread Tigran Aivazian
nside #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU. Kind regards Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] microcode: Fix mc_cpu_notifier section warning

2006-12-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
driver isn't declared __cpuinitdata... But to tidy up one should add __cpuinitdata as you suggest (to guard for the case if these two slip out of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, although they are meaningless if cpu hotplug support is not configured in). Kind regards Tigran On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Jean De

[patch-2.6.19.1] remaining fixes for my email address.

2006-12-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Andrew, As Adrian pointed out recently, there were still a couple of places where I should have fixed my email address. The patch is attached (as attachment so as to not let pine corrupt it). The patch is against 2.6.19.1. Kind regards Tigran--- arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c.0 2006

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
I see Alan Cox already replied and I agree with both you and Alan on this. Kind regards Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Pl

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
me? Start with the top --- Linus Torvalds :) Try finding an obsolete email address for him in the kernel. By 2030 my turn may come :) Kind regards Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordo

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
--- I only saw it now via lkml archive. Kind regards Tigran On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:00 -0800, Hua Zhong wrote: I am curious, what's the point? These email addresses serve a "

RE: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-01 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ree, so I should have included in the patch the change to MODULE_AUTHOR (in both microcode and bfs). Or maybe MODULE_AUTHOR shouldn't contain the email address, if the module is mentioned in the MAINTAINERS which does contain it? Why repeat the data and so have to remember to main

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Sorry, it was a "red herring", namely my module's Makefile still had "-mregparm=0" in CFLAGS, so that is why kdb showed it's arguments correctly (and then paniced on the way out). So we still have to deal with DWARF2 data then... Ok, will look into it. Kind rega

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Tigran Aivazian wrote: I already solved this paricular problem. And the solution is (but don't tell me you knew it, for then why didn't you tell anyone) simply --- compile the kernel with -g and that includes enough debug information to be able to decode the sta

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
must never compile the kernel with -g either...) Kind regards Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-17 Thread Tigran Aivazian
t the "magic stuff" which gdb does is in fact a dwarf2 implementation (and this is what's missing in kdb on x86_64). Kind regards Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: [discuss] Re: [2.6 patch] x8664_ksyms.c: unexport register_die_notifier

2005-01-17 Thread Tigran Aivazian
us. Please don't apply this, it was especially intended for modular debuggers. There is already a hacvked kdb around that uses it. eh didn't Tigran just mail lkml claiming that kdb and x86-64 really don't mix ?? No, I emailed saying that kdb on x86_64 does NOT show the values of param

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-17 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ce and actively maintained piece of work, so it should be fixed to show the parameter values correctly in the backtrace. Kind regards Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://

Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

2005-01-17 Thread Tigran Aivazian
e these frames correctly, right? I just want someone who knows the answer to confirm the last statement and so then I can go ahead and (try to) implement the solution by mimicking gdb behaviour (or help Jack Vogel implement it if he prefers doing it himself as defacto kdb/x86_64 maintainer) K

Re: function of getname() function

2001-06-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Sathish, The function of getname() is to allocate some (kernel-space) memory for the userspace-passed filename and copy it from user space to kernel space. Regards, Tigran On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, SATHISH.J wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this question is too silly. > > I could not

Re: dget()

2001-05-15 Thread Tigran Aivazian
it is stripped of extra (unnecessary, imho) logic and turned into a plain one I suggested above. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-

Re: dget()

2001-05-15 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ux/dcache.h" This assumes you have built the tags by: # cd /usr/src/linux # find -name '*.[ch]' | ctags -L- & # echo "set tags=tags" >> .vimrc And, btw, it is a static inline, not a function per se. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: kdb wishlist

2001-05-08 Thread Tigran Aivazian
t you objected and that is fine, but at least making it optionally possible would be _very nice_, please. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kern

Re: 2.2.19 breaks iBCS2: Patch

2001-04-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
far beyond the bounds of IA32 architecture -- it is portable, flexible and, in one word, perfect :) Regards, Tigran On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > in 2.2.19, linux/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h is missing the line > > #define strlen_user(str) strnlen_user(str, ~0UL >>

Re: Questions about Enterprise Storage with Linux

2001-03-08 Thread Tigran Aivazian
urnalling filesystem etc... Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
l stop here/now but I will definitely come back to this interesting problem in 24 hours. But if anyone fixes it before then, I won't cry :) Of course, before sending anything I will make sure my patch works on _all_ my machines without any exceptions. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscrib

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
quot; in the code) then they should remain constant when one is overclocking, right? As for my question on the evenness of the calls to identify_cpu() -- ignore it, it was obvious, of course (called from check_bugs() on boot_cpu_data and then on SMP on each cpu_data + id) Regards, Tigran - To

cpu/bus speed detection (was Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
(KERN_ERR "lo=%x hi=%x\n", lo, hi); produces the output: # dmesg | grep lo= lo=c5100800 hi=0 lo=c5100800 hi=0 lo=c5000800 hi=0 Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

Re: [patch] ps2fix-2.4.2-A0

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > + if (c == &misc_list) { > > > > This should be (c != &misc_list) > oops, I didn't notice -- ignore the patch I sent a minute ago :) Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

[patch-2.4.2-ac8] misc_register() fix (was Re: Linux 2.4.2ac8

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > 2.4.2-ac8 > > o Stop two people claiming the same misc dev id (Philipp Rumpf) > > is this what has broken misc devi registration on my machine? I have two > misc devices -- microcode

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac8

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ot gpm generates an "oops" from gpm.c(968) saying "/dev/mouse: No such device" So, ac8 has two problems for me: 1. /proc/cpuinfo shows wrong info about bus (claims to be overclocked) -- I will get back to you with the info you requested shortly 2. misc device registration is broke

Re: 2.4.2ac8 lost char devices

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
o with misc device registration as I lost not just psaux but microcode device (which happens to be misc as well) Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kern

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-01 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, José Luis Domingo López wrote: > Linux 2.4.2-ac7 reports wrong CPU speed and model name for a Pentium III > correctly detected on, at least, 2.2.18, 2.4.2 and 2.4.2-ac4. The > processor is a 600 MHz one, with a 133 MHz front bus. same here with PIII550MHz/100MHz bus. Actually,

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-01 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ted to without breaking any userland. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Tigran Aivazian
use it is illegal (without going through proper steps of publishing them), I shouldn't even be saying that they show Linux to be much faster :) Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

[patch-2.4.2] bugfix -- ENXIO for read/write beyond end of raw device

2001-02-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
- why not consider it sooner rather than later? Regards, Tigran diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/drivers/char/raw.c vmfs/drivers/char/raw.c --- linux/drivers/char/raw.cMon Oct 2 04:35:15 2000 +++ vmfs/drivers/char/raw.c Thu Feb 22 07:21:26 2001 @@ -277,8 +277,11 @@ if ((

Re: awe_ram.c

2001-02-26 Thread Tigran Aivazian
play with this and see if it detects my ISA-PNP SB AWE64 card. Give the above patch a try and see if you figure out the values to plug in there sooner than I do. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: 128MB lost... where ?

2001-02-21 Thread Tigran Aivazian
back ? > when you compile your 2.4.x kernel make sure you set the "4G of RAM" option, i.e. CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. If you chose "up to 1G" then it means "up to 986M" (or something like that) -- the number in Help is just rounded up to confuse the dummy user :) Re

Re: Detecting SMP

2001-02-21 Thread Tigran Aivazian
yes, just run the famous mptable program. If the machine is SMP then it will have a valid Intel MP 1.4 configuration tables so the program will show meaningful output. Regards, Tigran On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Burton Windle wrote: > Hello. Is there a way, when running a non-SMP kernel, to detect

Re: Detecting SMP

2001-02-21 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > yes, just run the famous mptable program. If the machine is SMP then it > > will have a valid Intel MP 1.4 configuration tables so the program will > > show meaningful output. >

Re: Detecting SMP

2001-02-21 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > yes, just run the famous mptable program. before I am snowed under with questions about where to get this program, here is the src and binaries that I use -- it is quite possible that there is a newer version (I suspect Ingo Molnar might know bet

Re: 128MB lost... where ?

2001-02-21 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > > > Perhaps this is a faq... > > I have a dual-800 (mb asus, no AGP) with 1GB ram, > > but according to /proc/meminfo tells I only have > > 90KB. I tri

RE: 128MB lost... where ?

2001-02-21 Thread Tigran Aivazian
e like David Parsons will probably be interested in your configuration... Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

2001-02-16 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ry big) ext2 filesystem with 0 processes killed. The kernel I use is 2.4.2-pre3. The machine has 6G RAM with the 3G given to kernel virtual. The amount of swap is massive (2G) but it is never used. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Re: [patch-2.4.1-ac10] unsetting TASK_RUNNING

2001-02-14 Thread Tigran Aivazian
e to find bugs in them and _mandate_ that I accept the fixes (if they are correct) -- I have no right to neglect them. Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[patch-2.4.1-ac10] unsetting TASK_RUNNING

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
een some people setting this TASK_RUNNING incorrectly, based on a mere observation that "official Linux kernel code does so" -- so the patch below is not just an optimization but serves for education (i.e. to stop people copying unnecessary code). Regards, Tigran PS. Btw, I still haven&#x

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
uot;) and create a pipe, just use shell input redirection facility "<". Regards, Tigran On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Thomas Foerster wrote: > Hi folks, > > sorry for the silly question, but i can't get it to work : > > I have linux-2.4.1 unpacked, configured and install

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
counting to ten lately? > yes, my fingers are okay -- I frequently check the mapping between the items in Exodus 20 and the fingers to make sure I still have the right number (of both). Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
suspicious. Regards, Tigran On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > When you say 2.2.x works does that include 2.2.18. > > > > no, I meant the plain 2.2.x as of Red Hat 7.0 which is labelled as > > "2.2.16-22". > > Can you try 2.2.18/2.2.19pre. T

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
s email about was -- I get the same effect licq (just lost "in" before licq!) so it is not xterm-specific but probably that is not importt anymore (just lost "an" in "important").. (lost a . in "..." :) Tgran (unbelievable -- it doesn't even let me spell

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
d, nor APM in the kernel. Regards, Tigran On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > Hi, Tigran. > > Internal keyboard, or external? > > Does it happen on the console or just in X? (How come you can't > tell whether it's the k/b driver or the PTY driver?) > >

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
.4 handle keyboard error cases quite differently (less so as of 2.2.18) > When you say 2.2.x works does that include 2.2.18. no, I meant the plain 2.2.x as of Red Hat 7.0 which is labelled as "2.2.16-22". > > The next stage then is probably to log when you see errored keyboard byte

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > PPS. No, my laptop is fine -- rebootingnto 2.2.x makes it type without > loosing characters... > just to clarify -- it does _not_ add characters -- the "loosing" vs "losing" thing is my own frequent typo :) Ti

lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
k fine previously -- like in the days of 2.3.99 and 2.4.0-teX series (yes, teX was meant to be "testX"!) So, the keyboard or pty driver is badly broken. Regards, Tigran PS. This only happens on this Dell latitude CPx (notice lost shift in Latitude?) H450GT. PPS. No, my laptop is fine -

Re: sysinfo.sharedram not accounted for on i386 ?

2001-02-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
hange ig you stay within i386 architecture). It is available to programs by including header. Tigran - 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: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Doug, I confirm that ac7 fixed all the aic7xxx problems on my machine. Thanks, Tigran - 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: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-08 Thread Tigran Aivazian
two mistakes: a) [EMAIL PROTECTED], not veritas.com! (it was pine, not me -- default domain etc :) b) it was ac6 which fixed it, not ac7 (but I am running ac7) On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Doug, > > I confirm that ac7 fixed all the aic7xxx problems on my machine. &g

[bug] aic7xxx panic Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac5

2001-02-07 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Error detected (scsi0) SEQADDR=0x58 Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT The Linux 2.4.2-pre1 works fine. Next thing I was thinking was to try ac4 and also to try on a different machine which has a different revision of the same type of aic7xxx HBA. Any more ideas? Regards, Tigran - To

[reiserfs] SPEC SFS fails at low loads...

2001-02-07 Thread Tigran Aivazian
-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (0 1) not found and the run aborts. Any clues? Regards, Tigran - 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: Q. on marking __initdata

2001-02-05 Thread Tigran Aivazian
and, while you are at it, you should (probably) also mark pin_2_irq() and IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector() functions as __init as well, for exactly the same reason as what you noticed. Regards, Tigran On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > Hi, > > Just a question (not a patch

Re: Linux2.4.1-pre1, Kernel is too big for standalone boot fromfloppy

2001-02-05 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Basically, I badly needed to be able to build kernels of arbitrary size not just "to build", but "to boot", of course :) Also, while we are in a history lesson, I might as well add that this was precisely the time when h

Re: Linux2.4.1-pre1, Kernel is too big for standalone boot fromfloppy

2001-02-05 Thread Tigran Aivazian
tural that one should printf a warning. So, in short, such kernels are okay to boot with LILO (and most other bootloaders) but not if you just dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0, i.e. not by bootsect.S If you want the date... it was approximately the beginning of 2000, I think. Regards, Tigran

Re: [patch-2.4.2-pre1] rootfs boot parameter

2001-02-05 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ok, since so many people ask for it to be called "rootfstype=", I will do so and resend the patch. Any other comments? I think on the last round I have incorporated all the comments (except the "rootfs" -> "rootfstype" one)... Tigran On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, We

[patch-2.4.2-pre1] rootfs boot parameter

2001-02-05 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ad another filesystem made on it if it's superblock is left intact. Regards, Tigran diff -urN -X ../dontdiff linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt rootfs/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt --- linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Sat Dec 30 19:23:13 2000 +++ rootfs/Documentation/kernel

Re: SMP Race in brelse

2001-02-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
whole brelse() could just contain a single atomic_dec() and that is all. Regards, Tigran PS. Having thought about it -- it was neither sct, nor Alan, nor even Andrea -- it was Linus who explained it :) On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > There is a rare SMP race in brelse: >

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy, last one today I promise :-)

2001-01-25 Thread Tigran Aivazian
SFS benchmark suite)? Regards, Tigran - 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: A little patch for i386/kernel/microcode.c (fwd)

2001-01-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ly". (for this to work in practice you would need to instruct the editor of the suitable buffer sizes or to furnish the driver with a huge amount of extra logic to accumulate the chunks received of any size into appropriate ones). So, in short, no, your patch is of no use, thank you. Regards, Tigran

Re: 2.4.1-pre8/10 klogd taking 100% of CPU time -- bug?

2001-01-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > So, since kdb was unable to tell me what's going on (and truss also can't > attach to it) one will have to debug it the old-fashioned way -- manually, > i.e. by trussing klogd from the beginning and reading it's sources... act

Re: 2.4.1-pre8/10 klogd taking 100% of CPU time -- bug?

2001-01-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog. This is very similar to what one has to do if he wants to use NFSv3 client/server and latest nfsutils on Red Hat systems (they are broken by default) Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: 2.4.1-pre8/10 klogd taking 100% of CPU time -- bug?

2001-01-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On 23 Jan 2001, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Btw, this only happens on my laptop and not on the desktop. It only > > happens _after_ some activity but I have not yet managed to narrow down > > exactly what activity. &

2.4.1-pre8/10 klogd taking 100% of CPU time -- bug?

2001-01-23 Thread Tigran Aivazian
nd not on the desktop. It only happens _after_ some activity but I have not yet managed to narrow down exactly what activity. Regards, Tigran PS. No, I don't use power management or anything fancy/unproven like that -- laptop is just a small/portable desktop, imho. - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: 2.4.0 bug: file /proc/dri 4 times in ls listing

2001-01-16 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Fixing this requires either a new filesystem type (drifs) or > (simpler!) redesigning dri to separate common things into a separate > dri_core thing shared amongst them. just for completeness -- there is the 3rd option -- one could just fix

Re: 2.4.0 bug: file /proc/dri 4 times in ls listing

2001-01-16 Thread Tigran Aivazian
ixing this requires either a new filesystem type (drifs) or (simpler!) redesigning dri to separate common things into a separate dri_core thing shared amongst them. Regards, Tigran On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Bobo Rajec wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running kernel 2.4.0 on Redhat 7.0. I trie

Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits

2001-01-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Ware 7.1.1+ -- this would be a very useful exercise as I vaguely remember some people claiming that Linux PAE implementation is not ideal (if it is true then it ought to be made ideal to be inline with the rest of the kernel). Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

[patch-2.4.0-ac4] bugfix in the microcode driver.

2001-01-03 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Alan, I sent this one-liner to Linus ages ago but he didn't notice it. The bug is obvious -- the goal of microcode_init() is to succeed at least in one of either devfs or misc registration. Regards, Tigran --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Mon Dec 11 21:42:08 2000 +++ work/arch

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