AW: Questionable SIGSEGV signal handling bug concerning siginfo.si_addr on i386-linux 2.4.2

2001-06-26 Thread Hugo Mildenberger
Dear Brian, it is hard to admit, but you are right even if a structure was not directly involved. The corresponding high level statements were double guarded_log( double *arg ) { try { return log( *arg ); // e.g. arg==0 or arg==0x1234. } catch ( s2e::SCN(SIGSGEV)*e ) {

Re: Questionable SIGSEGV signal handling bug concerning siginfo.si_addr on i386-linux 2.4.2

2001-06-26 Thread Brian Gerst
Hugo Mildenberger wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I'm working on a library, which is able to map (at least synchronous) kernel > signals to c++ exceptions in a way, that c++ exception handlers can > determine reason and location of failure in a very detailed manner. Within > that context, I detecte

Questionable SIGSEGV signal handling bug concerning siginfo.si_addr on i386-linux 2.4.2

2001-06-26 Thread Hugo Mildenberger
Dear friends, I'm working on a library, which is able to map (at least synchronous) kernel signals to c++ exceptions in a way, that c++ exception handlers can determine reason and location of failure in a very detailed manner. Within that context, I detected a surprising difference in the behavio

Re: can't use printk in linux 2.4.2 module

2001-04-15 Thread James Simmons
Try the following patch to linux/kernel/Makefile. If it works fine let me know and we can get it into the standard tree. MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease. James Simmons [[EMAIL PROT

can't use printk in linux 2.4.2 module

2001-04-15 Thread vivid_liou
Dear All : I wrote a small module to print "hello world " . when I comiple it under kernel 2.2 , everything works fine. the output " printk unsolve " appear under 2.4.2 . with kernel 2.2. , I can find "printk " in the /proc/ksyms , but with kernel 2.4.2 , only "printk_Rsmp" symbol . Does anyon

Re: bug in natsemi driver 1.07 for linux 2.4.2

2001-04-12 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
ernel > filters them correctly in allmulti or promiscuous mode. I've tested > driver versions 1.05 which comes with linux 2.4.2, an older version > that came with linux-2.4.0test12 and 1.07 which came with 2.4.2-ac20. > > I contacted Donald Becker and he told me to post it he

Re: announce: PPSkit patch for Linux 2.4.2 (pre6)

2001-04-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: > > > appropriately.) One could, at least theoretically, make them usable > > in kernel space only (in user space there is no hope, since you can't > > know which CPU's TSC you're reading), but these machines seem to be so > > rare that hardly anyone technical enough to fix it ca

Re: announce: PPSkit patch for Linux 2.4.2 (pre6)

2001-04-11 Thread Alan Cox
> appropriately.) One could, at least theoretically, make them usable > in kernel space only (in user space there is no hope, since you can't > know which CPU's TSC you're reading), but these machines seem to be so > rare that hardly anyone technical enough to fix it cares. Im working on making

Re: announce: PPSkit patch for Linux 2.4.2 (pre6)

2001-04-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <3AD2CE98.28151.46E93A@localhost> By author:"Ulrich Windl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi, Cycle Counters, > > Linux currently tries to synchronize TSCs for consistent time in SMP > systems. One would not believe what combinations of hardware are tri

Re: announce: PPSkit patch for Linux 2.4.2 (pre6)

2001-04-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi, Cycle Counters, Linux currently tries to synchronize TSCs for consistent time in SMP systems. One would not believe what combinations of hardware are tried, especially for precision timing. Here's a short answer to my asking- back about a complaint (the kernel is reporting negative time wa

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac27

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> This is consistent throughout all 2.4.x at least. From your comment I've > learnt SuS v2 requires -ENODEV for the len=0 case. While this would it needs -ENODEV for all cases where you mmap a file which does not support mmap operations. A 0 length mmap could return the address, EINVAL and maybe

bug in natsemi driver 1.07 for linux 2.4.2

2001-03-29 Thread Sebastian Klemke
sions 1.05 which comes with linux 2.4.2, an older version that came with linux-2.4.0test12 and 1.07 which came with 2.4.2-ac20. I contacted Donald Becker and he told me to post it here. Read U! packet - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac27

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Diehl
(Linus cc'ed - related thread: 243-pre[78]: mmap changes (breaks) /proc) On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac27 > o Revert mmap change that broke assumptions (and (Martin Diehl) > it seems SuS) the reason to suggest keeping the test was not due to len=0 behaviour of mmap

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac27

2001-03-28 Thread Martin Diehl
(Linus cc'ed - related thread: 243-pre[78]: mmap changes (breaks) /proc) On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac27 > o Revert mmap change that broke assumptions (and (Martin Diehl) > it seems SuS) the reason to suggest keeping the test was not due to len=0 behaviour of mmap

Linux 2.4.2-ac28

2001-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.2-ac28 o Fix another modules race(me) o

Re: Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
> particular issue was fixed just after 6.1.5 was released. > > The last patch you sent to me + small other fixups for aicdb.h. I dont have > time to chase after peoples drivers. If you want a newer aic7xxx in -ac just > mail me a diff to update to it CHANGELOG-6.1.5-6.1.8.gz li

Re: Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>> What version of the aic7xxx driver is embedded in 2.4.2-ac27? This >> particular issue was fixed just after 6.1.5 was released. > >The last patch you sent to me + small other fixups for aicdb.h. I dont have >time to chase after peoples drivers. If you want a newer aic7xxx in -ac just >mail me

Re: Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
> What version of the aic7xxx driver is embedded in 2.4.2-ac27? This > particular issue was fixed just after 6.1.5 was released. The last patch you sent to me + small other fixups for aicdb.h. I dont have time to chase after peoples drivers. If you want a newer aic7xxx in -ac just mail me a diff

Re: Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>aic7xxx_osm.h:#define AIC7XXX_DRIVER_VERSION "6.1.5" Pick up the latest from here: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/ -- Justin - 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-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
aic7xxx_osm.h:#define AIC7XXX_DRIVER_VERSION "6.1.5" "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm using Linux-2.4.2-ac27 SMP compiled with gcc version 2.95.2 2220 > >(Debian GNU/Linux). > > What version of the aic7xxx driver is emb

Re: Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Hello, > >I'm using Linux-2.4.2-ac27 SMP compiled with gcc version 2.95.2 2220 >(Debian GNU/Linux). What version of the aic7xxx driver is embedded in 2.4.2-ac27? This particular issue was fixed just after 6.1.5 was released. -- Justin - To unsubscribe from this li

Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Hello, I'm using Linux-2.4.2-ac27 SMP compiled with gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux). After an "insmod aic7xxx" "cat /proc/bus/pci/devices" works just fine. After an "rmmod aic7xxx" "cat /proc/bus/pci/devices" fails to produce any out

Linux 2.4.2-ac27

2001-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.2-ac27 o Rely on BIOS to setup apic bits on OSB4 (me) o

Linux 2.4.2-ac26

2001-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.2-ac26 o Fix es1370 build bug(me) o

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 24 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote: > > > > A huge win for 2.96 and absolutely no benefit whatsoever for 3.0, even > > though it obviously had a 10-fold effect on maps counts. On the > > positive side, there was no performance *hit* either. > > I don

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac24

2001-03-25 Thread Chris Liebman
recognized and the orinoco_cs module is loaded but the module fails to initialize the card. I am using pcmcia-cs-3.1.24 and linux-2.4.2-ac24. Here are the entries from /var/log/messages. Any ideas? (like just forget it ;-) Mar 24 18:42:28 xyzzy cardmgr[928]: initializing socket 0 Mar 24 18:4

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-25 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > But the bad case was a garbage collector in GCC. The mmap tricks seem like > some you may be inclined to actually use in something like garbage collectors. > Are we sure that the developers of all other garbage collectors out there > foresaw this problem and didn't do mm

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 24 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote: > > A huge win for 2.96 and absolutely no benefit whatsoever for 3.0, even > though it obviously had a 10-fold effect on maps counts. On the > positive side, there was no performance *hit* either. I don't think the system time in 3.0 has anything to do the the

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-24 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:54:39PM -0600, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Jakob Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It's important that you use at least -O3 to get inlining too. > [ . . . ] > > 25 MB doesn't count ;) > > Aggh! I feel like I'm in a comedy sketch. You tell me "do that". > I do

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-24 Thread Kevin Buhr
Jakob Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's important that you use at least -O3 to get inlining too. [ . . . ] > 25 MB doesn't count ;) Aggh! I feel like I'm in a comedy sketch. You tell me "do that". I do that. You tell me, "you should try this instead", so I do this. Then, you

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-24 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Zack Weinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Let me inject some information about what gcc's doing in each version. Thanks... very useful information. > 2.95.3 allocates its memory via a bunch of 'obstacks' which, > underneath, get memory from malloc, and therefore brk(2). I'm very > surpr

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-24 Thread Kevin Buhr
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ under kernel 2.4.2 ] > > > >CVS gcc 3.0: Debian gcc 2.95.3: RedHat gcc 2.96: > > > >real16m8.423s real8m2.417s real12m24.939s > >user15m23.710suser7m22.200suser10m1

Re: 2.4.2-ac20 patch for process time double-counting (was: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.)

2001-03-24 Thread Kevin Buhr
Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Times are fine. Local APIC timer interrupts are used. Okay, thanks. That's good. > Testing's easy, thanks for the fix. This is where I'd submit the patch, but Alan evidently works 80 hours a day. ;) The new patch is already in ac24. Alan, FYI

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac24

2001-03-24 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alan Cox wrote: > > 2.4.2-ac24 > 2.4.2-ac23 > o Back out problem via bridge change (me) That fixed the bttv problems I had. I've noticed that there are four VIA vt8363 PCI fixups by now. Are these experimental to see if some people's problems go away or have VIA confirmed that

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-24 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:02:30PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >The results speak for themselves: > > > >CVS gcc 3.0: Debian gcc 2.95.3: RedHat gcc 2.96: > > > >real16m8.42

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The results speak for themselves: > >CVS gcc 3.0: Debian gcc 2.95.3: RedHat gcc 2.96: > >real16m8.423s real8m2.417s real12m24.939s >user15m23.710suser

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
Kevin Buhr wrote: > Jakob Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Try compiling something like Qt/KDE/gtk-- which are really heavy on > > templates (with all the benefits and drawbacks of that). > > Okay, I just compiled gtk-- 1.0.3 (with CFLAGS = "-O2 -g") under three > versions of GCC (D

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac24

2001-03-23 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac24 Is DRI still hosed? - 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 2.4.2-ac24

2001-03-23 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > Intermediate diffs are available from > > http://www.bzimage.org > > (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) > > 2.4.2-ac24 > o Fi

Linux 2.4.2-ac24

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.2-ac24 o Fix build bug with tsc in ac23 (me) o

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac23

2001-03-23 Thread Horst von Brand
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 2.4.2-ac23 > ... > o Fix i386 #ifdef bug with notsc disable (Anton Blanchard) > ... > > > This change has broken the compile for me (my .config is attached): > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bunk/linux/linux/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes

2.4.2-ac20 patch for process time double-counting (was: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.)

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Buhr
ot sure, and I'd really like to know one way or the other). In fact, if you could send me your kernel messages up to the PCI probe, that would be ideal. Thanks muchly! Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * * diff -ru linux-2.4.2-ac20-vanilla/arch/i386/ker

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-23 Thread James Lewis Nance
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:35:49PM +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > My code here is quite template heavy, and I suspect that's what's triggering > it. In fact, I can't compile our development code with optimization, because > GCC runs out of memory (it only allocates some 300-500 MB, but each pa

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: > > >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after > > >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody > > >was able to explain why, so it was turned off. > > > > I know why it was turned off by default. The annoying this is that now >

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac23

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Cox
Duh yes.. it would for some people --- arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~ Thu Mar 22 23:18:21 2001 +++ arch/i386/kernel/setup.cFri Mar 23 13:26:08 2001 @@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@ */ /* TSC disabled? */ -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_TSC +#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC if ( tsc_disable )

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-23 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
> > > >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after > >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody > >was able to explain why, so it was turned off. > > I know why it was turned off by default. The annoying this is that now > the *only* way to activate the watchdog is via a boot

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac23

2001-03-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
2.4.2-ac23 ... o Fix i386 #ifdef bug with notsc disable (Anton Blanchard) ... This change has broken the compile for me (my .config is attached): gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bunk/linux/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpre

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac23

2001-03-23 Thread john slee
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:06:30PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > o Fix i386 #ifdef bug with notsc disable (Anton Blanchard) gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel/2.4.2-ac23/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mar

Linux 2.4.2-ac23

2001-03-23 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.2-ac23 o Fix a nasty shared memory locking bug (Steph

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac21 > o atyfb mode updates for powermac (Olaf Hering) 60 Hz modes should be marked 60 Hz. Add separator comment. --- linux-2.4.2-ac21/drivers/video/macmodes.c.orig Fri Mar 23 08:17:54 2001 +++ linux-2.4.2-ac21/drivers

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On 22 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 2.4.2.ac20.virgin 2.4.3-pre6 > > real11m0.708s 11m58.617s > > user15m8.720s 7m29.970s > > sys 1m31.410s 0m41.590s > > > > It looks like ac20 is doing some double accounting. [snip] > Mike,

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:50:49 +, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> >> Am I the only person who is annoyed that nmi watchdog is now off by >> default and the only way to activate it is by a boot parameter? You >> cannot even patch the kernel to build a version

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Keith Owens wrote: > > Am I the only person who is annoyed that nmi watchdog is now off by > default and the only way to activate it is by a boot parameter? You > cannot even patch the kernel to build a version that has nmi watchdog > on because the startup code runs out of the __setup routine,

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:02:54 +0100, Frank de Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Linux 2.4.2-ac21 does not like my box, or the other way around: > >loading the agpgart module (MGA G400 AGP) -> system hangs >loading the SCSI module (53c875) -> system hangs > >In both c

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: OK. > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Does not build for PPro/P-II. i586 is OK. > > You need to avoid enabling 64G support. The PAE stuff (as Linus said > with > 2.4.3pre6) is currently broken. Once Linus and co fix it I'll merge the > fixed >

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Does not build for PPro/P-II. i586 is OK. === Cut === ld -m elf_i386 -T /tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.2ac21/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 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Does not build for PPro/P-II. i586 is OK. You need to avoid enabling 64G support. The PAE stuff (as Linus said with 2.4.3pre6) is currently broken. Once Linus and co fix it I'll merge the fixed one Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Frank de Lange
Oops... Linux 2.4.2-ac21 does not like my box, or the other way around: loading the agpgart module (MGA G400 AGP) -> system hangs loading the SCSI module (53c875) -> system hangs In both cases, the magic SysRq sequence does not work, but it is still possible to ping the box from the o

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-22 Thread Kevin Buhr
upts, and then we're also emulating them on normal timer ticks. That doubles the rate at which "smp_local_timer_interrupt" is called, doubling the process user and system time accounting. Mike, would you like to try out the following (untested) patch against vanilla ac20 to see if

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Credit where credit's due... On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac21 > o Update NEC DDB5476 eval board support (Geert Uytterhoeven) Actually this port was done by Jun Sun (based on the DDB5074 port). > o Update NEC DDB5074 eval board support (Geert Uytterh

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-22 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:23:15PM -0600, Kevin Buhr wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Buhr) writes: ... > I pulled the "gcc-3_0-branch" of GCC from CVS and compiled Mozilla > under a 2.4.2 kernel. The numbers I saw were: > > real57m26.850s > user96m57.490s > sys 3m16.780

Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.2-ac21 o Merge with Linus 2.4.3pre6 o Close last known rei

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On 21 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Yes. I'm so used to UP numbers I didn't think. I saw user larger than > > real on my UP box yesterday during some testing, and then seeing this > > post... oops. > > Okay, so you see "user > real" on a UP box

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-21 Thread Kevin Buhr
Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes. I'm so used to UP numbers I didn't think. I saw user larger than > real on my UP box yesterday during some testing, and then seeing this > post... oops. Okay, so you see "user > real" on a UP box running an SMP kernel. First, I'm not really

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:41:55AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On 20 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote: > > > real60m4.574s > > > user101m18.260s <-- impossible no? > > > sys 3m23.520s > > > > Why do numbers like this show up? I n

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:41:55AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On 20 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote: > > real60m4.574s > > user101m18.260s <-- impossible no? > > sys 3m23.520s > > Why do numbers like this show up? I noticed some of this after having > enabled SMP on my UP

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
> > I frequently build Mozilla from scratch on my (aging) dual Celeron > > machine. [...] > > real60m4.574s > > user101m18.260s <-- impossible no? > > sys 3m23.520s > > Why do numbers like this show up? I noticed some of this after having > enabled SMP on my UP box. >

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > I frequently build Mozilla from scratch on my (aging) dual Celeron > > > machine. [...] > > > real60m4.574s > > > user101m18.260s <-- impossible no? > > > sys 3m23.520s > > > > Why do numbers like this show up? I notice

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread Mike Galbraith
On 20 Mar 2001, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Cool. Somebody actually found a real case. > > > > I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it > > ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major. > > I frequent

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread Dieter Nützel
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Cool. Somebody actually found a real case. > > I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it > ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major. I do daily builds of the VTK CVS tree (The Visualization T

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread David S. Miller
Kevin Buhr writes: > If I recall correctly, RedHat's 2.96 was a modified development > snapshot of GCC 3.0, not an official GCC release. If this is just a > quirk in 2.96 that can be fixed before the official release of 3.0 by > a trivial patch to libiberty, maybe your original hunch was rig

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Buhr
zilla from scratch on my (aging) dual Celeron machine. That's about 65 megs of actual C++ source, and it takes about an hour of real time to compile. I see times for the whole build like this: real60m4.574s user101m18.260s sys 3m23.520s with gcc 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GN

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:43:33AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Serge Orlov wrote: > > > > I upgraded one of our computer happily running 2.2.13 kernel > > to 2.4.2. Everything was OK, but compilation time of our C++ > > project greatly increased (1.4 times slower). I

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Serge Orlov wrote: > > I upgraded one of our computer happily running 2.2.13 kernel > to 2.4.2. Everything was OK, but compilation time of our C++ > project greatly increased (1.4 times slower). I investigated the > issue and found that g++ spends 7 times more time in kernel

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:28:57PM +0300, Serge Orlov wrote: > Hi, > I upgraded one of our computer happily running 2.2.13 kernel > to 2.4.2. Everything was OK, but compilation time of our C++ > project greatly increased (1.4 times slower). I investigated the > issue and found that g++ spends 7 t

Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-20 Thread Serge Orlov
Hi, I upgraded one of our computer happily running 2.2.13 kernel to 2.4.2. Everything was OK, but compilation time of our C++ project greatly increased (1.4 times slower). I investigated the issue and found that g++ spends 7 times more time in kernel. The reason for this is big vm map: cat /proc

Re: modules_install does not install acpi with linux-2.4.2

2001-03-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Juergen Rose,K17,0331-9772437,030-2425483" wrote: > if I try 'make modules_install' with linux-2.4.2 I get: > ... > mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/acpi/ > cp common.o dispatcher.o events.o hardware.o interpreter.o namespace.o > parser.o resources.o

modules_install does not install acpi with linux-2.4.2

2001-03-20 Thread Juergen Rose,K17,0331-9772437,030-2425483
Hello, if I try 'make modules_install' with linux-2.4.2 I get: ... make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src_laptop450/linux-2.4.2/drivers' make -C acpi modules_install make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src_laptop450/linux-2.4.2/drivers/acpi' mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.2/ker

Re: linux-2.4.2-ac1[67] aicam compil error

2001-03-10 Thread FAVRE Gregoire
Thus spake FAVRE Gregoire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Sorry if that has already been posted, I read the m-l via newsgroups. > When I try to compile, I got: > `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-ac17/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm' > kgcc -I/usr/include -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c >

linux-2.4.2-ac1[67] aicam compil error

2001-03-09 Thread FAVRE Gregoire
Hello, Sorry if that has already been posted, I read the m-l via newsgroups. When I try to compile, I got: make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-ac17/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx' make -C aicasm make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-ac17/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm' k

PROBLEM: crash with linux 2.4.2

2001-03-07 Thread pierre . doritch
Hello, I ran 2.4.2 under heavy load since 2 days. I try to decrypt my /etc/passwd files with the program John the Ripper on a Pentium133. This process is very long ;-) I don't understand the error. Hope it will be useful. Pierre you can see the load average and the uptime after crash: 10:09am

PROBLEM: crash with linux 2.4.2

2001-03-07 Thread pierre . doritch
Hello, I ran 2.4.2 under heavy load since 2 days. I try to decrypt my /etc/passwd files with the program John the Ripper on a Pentium133. This process is very long ;-) I don't understand the error. Hope it will be useful. Pierre you can see the load average and the uptime after crash: 10:09am

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread God
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have not had problems with 2.4.2, just tried 2.4.2-ac12. About the IDE > > stage it just reboots. > > Does ac11 also reboot like that. -ac is currently testing versions of the new > VIA IDE driver so knowing if the latest update did that would be very

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread God
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Scott M. Hoffman wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, God wrote: > > > # iostat > > Linux 2.4.2 (scotch)03/06/2001 > > I have not had problems with 2.4.2, just tried 2.4.2-ac12. About the IDE > stage it just reboots. Same chipset/mb? > As

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Just trying 2.4.3-pre2 now. It appears to be working fine. I used the > > same config from my ac11-12 attempts. My systems problem with ac11-12 must > > not be something common between them. Hope this helps. > > It helps a lot. I now know not to submit

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
> Just trying 2.4.3-pre2 now. It appears to be working fine. I used the > same config from my ac11-12 attempts. My systems problem with ac11-12 must > not be something common between them. Hope this helps. It helps a lot. I now know not to submit the VIA ide driver to Linus until further inves

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Scott M. Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It may not be related, but out of five boot attempts, only one got past > >the IDE driver stage(ie, below from 2.4.2 : > > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12, ac11 no good either

2001-03-06 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have not had problems with 2.4.2, just tried 2.4.2-ac12. About the IDE > > stage it just reboots. > > Does ac11 also reboot like that. -ac is currently testing versions of the new > VIA IDE driver so knowing if the latest update did that would be very >

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Wayne Whitney
In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: > -ac is currently testing versions of the new VIA IDE driver What is the relationship between the version 3.21 in -ac12 and the version 4.3 that was distributed on this list a week or two ago? Cheers, Wayne - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
> I won't be able to try ac11 until late tonight as that is my home PC that > has the VIA chips. I'll let you know > Also, these patches should be applied to 2.4.2, right? I'm using a 2.4.1 > tree patched to 2.4.2, then applied ac12. Yep you applied it right by the sounds of it. - To unsubscri

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have not had problems with 2.4.2, just tried 2.4.2-ac12. About the IDE > > stage it just reboots. > > Does ac11 also reboot like that. -ac is currently testing versions of the new > VIA IDE driver so knowing if the latest update did that would be very

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
> I have not had problems with 2.4.2, just tried 2.4.2-ac12. About the IDE > stage it just reboots. Does ac11 also reboot like that. -ac is currently testing versions of the new VIA IDE driver so knowing if the latest update did that would be very useful - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX6.4A, ATA DISK drive > hdb: ST33210A, ATA DISK drive > hdc: WDC AC2340F, ATA DISK drive > hdd: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > > Other then the fact that as I look down at the

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread God
DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Other then the fact that as I look down at the drive activity light on the case, it's lit ... things from a IO standpoint seem to be ok .. (and I hope it stays that way) ... btw, for the curious: # iostat Linux 2.4.2 (scotch)03/06/2001 tty:

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott M. Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may not be related, but out of five boot attempts, only one got past >the IDE driver stage(ie, below from 2.4.2 : > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 > VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 > VP_IDE: not 100% nat

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-05 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Attempts to run linux-2.4.3-pre2 on chaos.analogic.com results > in **MASSIVE** file-system destruction. I have (had) all SCSI > disks, using the BusLogic controller. > > There is something **MAJOR** going on BAD, BAD, BAD, even disks > that were n

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac5 IDE Software Raid(ata/100) Problem..Kernel Oops?

2001-03-02 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday March 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Problem description > 2. Machine details > a) Hardware > b) Software > 3. System log during the incident > > 1. Problem Description: > snip > Mar 2 13:44:38 bertha kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at virtual

Linux 2.4.2-ac5 IDE Software Raid(ata/100) Problem..Kernel Oops?

2001-03-02 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
1. Problem description 2. Machine details a) Hardware b) Software 3. System log during the incident 1. Problem Description: I have a software raid 5 with 1 spare. (9 total drives dedicated for raid) with a seperate Boot drive for the system. Before this new problem, I had many

Linux 2.4.2 Kernel bug in page_alloc:75

2001-03-02 Thread Scott G. Miller
Linux 2.4.2 SMP Kernel died while I was logged in remotely. When I got back to the box, the Kernel had spit out a kernel bug. Here's what I copied down (didn't get the registers or stack trace, will do if it happens again): bug in page_alloc:75 invalid operand: CPU: 1 EIP: 0010

Re: [PATCH] reiserfs patch for linux-2.4.2

2001-03-01 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:16:02PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> Christoph Hellwig writes: >> >>> Urgg. limits.h is a userlevel header... >>> >>> The attached patch will make similar atempts fail (but not this one as >>> there is also a limits.h in gcc's include di

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