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

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

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

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
I don't mean to walk on folks but I did make a patch that brings the ac27 version from aic7xxx-6.1.5 to aic7xxx-6.1.8. I've compiled it and inserted it and removed it without any of the hanging problems I encountered before. But the tests stopped there, no guarantees from me, I wish I could ;-)

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 embedded in 2.4.2-ac27? This > particular issue was fixed ju

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 list: send the line "unsubsc

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
I am using the Orinoco gold card in a Thinkpad A21p. I have been using the wvlan_cs module for this card. I attempted to use the new orinoco_cs driver, I updated /etc/pcmcia/config to have the "device wvlan_cs" use the new orinoco_cs module rather than the old wvlan_cs. The card is recognized a

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: 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

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

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

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/video/m

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 cases, the magic SysRq sequence

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 outside. Co

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

2001-03-22 Thread Kevin Buhr
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. Alan: In "2.4.2-ac20", the check in "apic.c" in the "APIC_init_

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

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
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 frequently build Mozilla from scratch on my (aging) dual

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

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 > aicasm_symbol.c -o aic

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 for your iostat output, which ver

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
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, God wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Scott M. Hoffman wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > > I -- S T R O N G L Y -- suggest that nobody use this kernel with > > > a BusLogic SCSI controller until this problem is fixed. > > > > > > Dick Johnson >

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac12

2001-03-06 Thread God
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Scott M. Hoffman wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > I -- S T R O N G L Y -- suggest that nobody use this kernel with > > a BusLogic SCSI controller until this problem is fixed. > > > > Dick Johnson > > It may not be related, but out of five boot

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

Re: Linux 2.4.2 DMA Interrupt poblem?

2001-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
> Feb 24 14:00:52 bertha kernel: hdi: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Feb 24 14:00:52 bertha kernel: hdi: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=42484802, sector=42484720 Uncorrectable generally implies a hardware failure such as a bad block on the di

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-26 Thread Danny ter Haar
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the moment get it from > ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.4-ac or get it from: www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/alan/v2.4.2 where also incremental patches are available eg: 94691 Feb 26 07:41 patch-2.4.2-ac3-ac4.bz2 Danny - To unsu

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-25 Thread Alan Cox
> Does this have any fixings for the RSS and CPU mis-allocations? I put > 2.4.2 ac3 on my notebook last night and Enlightenment is taking 9805% of > the cpu and about 4 terabytes is resident. > That is the only process doing that. Not yet. Im waiting for the VM folks to fix it. - To unsubscrib

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-25 Thread David
Alan Cox wrote: > Not currently on > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > until its happy again. > > For the moment get it from > > ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.4-ac > > 2.4.2-ac4 Does this have any fixings for the RSS and CPU mis-

Re: Linux-2.4.2 && Minix SP

2001-02-23 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > are those MINIX_SUBPARITIONS in 2.4.2 actually > supposed to copile? > in fs/partitions/msdos.c it refers to some MINIX > defines which do not > seems to be included in that path. Did not work for me either. Michel __

Re: Linux-2.4.2 & IPv6

2001-02-22 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:48:19PM +0100, Lukasz Trabinski demoed 2.4.2: Complementing the 2.4.2 demo, here is same from 2.2.* also at 6BONE: $ ping6 3ffe:8010:19::2:2 PING 3ffe:8010:19::2:2(3ffe:8010:19::2:2) from 3ffe:2610:2:fe00:290:27ff:fe85:1530 : 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 3ffe:8010:19::

Re: Linux-2.4.2 & IPv6

2001-02-22 Thread Lukasz Trabinski
In article <007101c09ce4$39dc7680$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Linux-2.4.2 does not have IPv6 support ??? [root@lt /root]# ping6 3ffe:8010:19::2:2 PING 3ffe:8010:19::2:2(3ffe:8010:19::2:2) from ::1 : 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 3ffe:8010:19::2:2: icmp_seq=0 hops=64 time=84 usec 64 bytes from 3

Re: Linux-2.4.2 & IPv6

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Linux-2.4.2 does not have IPv6 support ??? Linux 2.2 and 2.4 have IPv6 - 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.tu

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
"Adam Sampson wrote:" > I get this while compiling 2.4.2: > > msdos.c:403: `MINIX_PARTITION' undeclared (first use in this function) > msdos.c:403: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > msdos.c:403: for each function it appears in.) > msdos.c:406: `MINIX_NR_SUBPARTITIONS' undeclared

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Adam Sampson
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, the patch looks huge (it's a meg and a half compressed, 6+ megs > uncompressed), but most of the patch by far is S/390 updates and the new > Cris architecture. I get this while compiling 2.4.2: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstric

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Hmm, given that there are several patches in your tree that never seem > to make it to Linus' tree, would it make sense to flag patches that > should go into 2.4 as "Not for Alan; Linus _please_ pick it up" (and to > keep on pushing until Linus does) ? Im trying to push stuff to Linus in a reas

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Werner Almesberger
Alan Cox wrote: > I think the key word is actually probably 'predictability'. The Linus tree > is conservative. (IMHO too conservative and probably in his not conservative > enough 8)) Hmm, given that there are several patches in your tree that never seem to make it to Linus' tree, would it make

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
Building with gcc-2.96: In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md.h:50, from init/main.c:24: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md_k.h: In function `pers_to_level': /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md_k.h:41: warning: control reaches end of non -void function --

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> If you want stability, run the real Linus 2.4. If you want all the I think the key word is actually probably 'predictability'. The Linus tree is conservative. (IMHO too conservative and probably in his not conservative enough 8)) > really minor bug fixes and more of the experimental code, run

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed > ie should this be considered superior to -ac19 ? I'll be merging most of the 2.4.2 changes if there are any I dont have with Linus for the next -ac which will be a 2.4.2-ac1 and thus somewhat shorter - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Billy Harvey
I get the following error in a make bzImage: nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aUw] \)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect ld: cannot op

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[John Heil] > Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed ie should > this be considered superior to -ac19 ? Neither "supercedes" the other -- they are different trees. The -ac series has some patches that Linus may never get because they are experimental, or still buggy. If yo

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread John Heil
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:19:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Linux-2.4.2 > > > Ok, the patch looks huge (it's a meg and a half compressed, 6+ megs > uncompressed), but

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:13:30PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [snip] > If you want stability, run the real Linus 2.4. If you want all the > really minor bug fixes and more of the experimental code, run -ac. If > you want production quality, run your kernel on a test server before > deploying.

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > I solved the problem by changing all calls to ld in > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile from "ld ... -oformat > ..." to "ld ... --oformat ..." Right. This is a change on binutils 2.10.1.0.7 and up (now at 2.10.91.0.2). A few people sent a patch to the list (Andreas Ja

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:19:20 -0500, Billy Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect >ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory Change -oformat to --oformat. Binutils incompatibility. - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Billy Harvey wrote: > I get the following error in a make bzImage: > > nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( >[aUw]\)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' > ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsec

Re: Linux-2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, John Heil wrote: > > Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed > ie should this be considered superior to -ac19 ? There is no 1:1 comparison to _any_ of the -ac patches, I'm afraid. The two series are fairly disparate, as they have different intentions. A