[newbie question] addresses of loaded programs/functions

2001-06-01 Thread Collins, Tom
Hello I am writing a profiling tool for a project I am working on, and I need to know how to map addresses of calling functions to the appropriate human-readable name. Is there a data structure in the kernel that I can access to achieve this? Or can I reference a load map (in days gone by, I us

[newbie question] disk reads for a process

2001-05-27 Thread Zou Min
Dear all, I am doing a research on an analytical model that describes how memory size affects disk reads. We have done intensive measurement to validate the model. Now, we are intereseted in another intepretation of this model as relating memory allocation to disk reads for a process. To validat

Newbie question

2001-05-24 Thread Pedro Miguel Semeano
Hello all, I'm doing a project in linux, and I'm changing the driver of sym53c8xx (a SCSI board) to support Target mode. To receive data, we need 2 interrupts. One is for initializing all of the structures needed, and the second to send the data to the SCSI layer. What happens is that bettwe

Re: kernel newbie question

2001-04-28 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Richard, can you add this URL to the FAQ ? --- index.html.orig Sat Apr 28 18:03:32 2001 +++ index.html Sat Apr 28 18:04:41 2001 @@ -5570,8 +5570,9 @@ Contributing Contributions are welcome on -this FAQ. These can be submitted by Email to Richard (see the Contr

Re: kernel newbie question

2001-04-28 Thread John Levon
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 03:16:34PM +0800, Xiong Zhao wrote: > > hello. i read linux kernel internal. are there other books/papers > > like that which dwell with linux kernel in detail,especially on > > process mechanism,for example,how pthread and fork are

Re: kernel newbie question

2001-04-28 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 03:16:34PM +0800, Xiong Zhao wrote: > hello. i read linux kernel internal. are there other books/papers > like that which dwell with linux kernel in detail,especially on > process mechanism,for example,how pthread and fork are implemented, > how clone actually work.are the

Re: kernel newbie question

2001-04-28 Thread alad
code reading'. Amol "Xiong Zhao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/28/2001 01:46:34 PM To: majordomo linux kernel list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: Amol Lad/HSS) Subject: kernel newbie question hello. i read linux kernel internal. are there other books/papers li

kernel newbie question

2001-04-27 Thread Xiong Zhao
hello. i read linux kernel internal. are there other books/papers like that which dwell with linux kernel in detail,especially on process mechanism,for example,how pthread and fork are implemented, how clone actually work.are there other materials on these topics on internet that can be downloade

Re: Newbie question: mmap() and file descriptor limits

2000-09-03 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:42:28PM -0600, Evan Jones wrote: > > I hope this has not been discussed before. I think I have searched the > archive fairly exhaustively. This issue may also no longer exist on the > 2.4 kernel series because I have not tested it on that kernel. > > I have been

Re: Newbie question: mmap() and file descriptor limits

2000-09-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > it ends up running into the system file descriptor limits which makes > > the system unusable for anything but the web server process. FreeBSD > > does it differenly. Files can be mmaped and do not count towards the > > limit. FreeBSD unmaps

Newbie question: mmap() and file descriptor limits

2000-08-31 Thread Evan Jones
Please CC any replies to me at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I hope this has not been discussed before. I think I have searched the archive fairly exhaustively. This issue may also no longer exist on the 2.4 kernel series because I have not tested it on that kernel. I have been experimenting with a web

Re: newbie question: tcp/ip in kernel

2000-08-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Reto Baettig wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > > > Unix and Unix variants such as Linux have kernels that perform functions > > in behalf of tasks (processes) . The kernel, alone, does not have a > > process context so it can't do something for "itself". > > I am sor