Re: Loopback filesystem still hangs on 2.4.0-test13-pre7

2001-01-05 Thread Joel Koerwer
>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], |> Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> Subject: Re: Loopback filesystem still hangs on 2.4.0-test13-pre7 |> |> Good day, all, |> |> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: |> |> > On Wed, Jan 03 2001, William Stearns wrote

Re: Loopback filesystem still hangs on 2.4.0-test13-pre7

2001-01-05 Thread William Stearns
Good day, all, On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03 2001, William Stearns wrote: > > This is just meant as an informational message, not a complaint. > > Ted, could you note that this still exists on 2.4.0-test13-pre7 in the > > todo page? Many tha

Re: Loopback filesystem still hangs on 2.4.0-test13-pre7

2001-01-03 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jan 03 2001, William Stearns wrote: > Good day, all, > This is just meant as an informational message, not a complaint. > Ted, could you note that this still exists on 2.4.0-test13-pre7 in the > todo page? Many thanks. > > [1.] One line summary of the problem

Loopback filesystem still hangs on 2.4.0-test13-pre7

2001-01-03 Thread William Stearns
Good day, all, This is just meant as an informational message, not a complaint. Ted, could you note that this still exists on 2.4.0-test13-pre7 in the todo page? Many thanks. [1.] One line summary of the problem: Loopback filesystem writes still hang on 2.4.0-test13-pre7. [2

VIA system timer (problem still in test13-pre7 and prerelease)

2001-01-03 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
effects." The problem is still present in test13-pre7 and in prerelease; X blanks like crazy sometimes here, and applying the patch solves the problem nicely here. This is a VIA Apollo Pro 133 system (VIA 693/596B) Not sure why it didn't go into the main tree, and since there's prerelease

2.4.0 test13-pre7 still causes CDROM ioctl errors

2001-01-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
[Saw your reply on the web archive: I'm not subscribed to linux-kernel. Cc-ing the list for archive -- I've faked an In-Reply-To for correct threading]. A "cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info" says (I have 2 CD-ROMs, but the one with ioctl() errors is the SCSI one) CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c

Oops on boot with 2.4.0-test13-pre7

2000-12-31 Thread Rich Baum
When I boot a version of test13-pre7 that was compiled with the 20001225 snapshot of gcc I get the following oops: ksymoops 2.3.5 on i586 2.4.0-test11. Options used -V (specified) -K (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre7/ (specified) -m /boot

Re: TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem [OFF TOPIC]

2000-12-31 Thread Justin
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote: > I'm intrigued... how did you resolve the 'mem_map_inc_count' and > 'mem_map_dec_count', > 'put_module_symbol' and 'get_module_symbol' references? > > It's only of academic interest for me now as I've ditched the nvidia - > not worth the hassle. > > Amusingl

[PATCH] maintain a dirty RSS count for 2.4.0-test13-pre7

2000-12-31 Thread Eric W. Biederman
e system has been an Achilles heal of our swap code. Comments? Eric diff -uNrX linux-ignore-files linux-2.4.0-test13-pre7/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c linux-2.4.0-test13-pre7.rss-dirty-count/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c --- linux-2.4.0-test13-pre7/arch/ia64/ia32/binfmt_elf32.c Tue Dec 5 23:3

Re: TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem

2000-12-31 Thread Tony Hoyle
Tony Spinillo wrote: > > The nvidia kernel module (from www.nvidia.com) has compiled and loaded > correctly with all test13-pre series up to pre6. I just tried to > compile and load under pre7. I'm intrigued... how did you resolve the 'mem_map_inc_count' and 'mem_map_dec_count', 'put_module_symb

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-31 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Chris Evans wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > > > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench > > > 48 on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB,

Re: 2.4.0 test13-pre7 still causes CDROM ioctl errors

2000-12-31 Thread Jens Axboe
and xmcd reports: > > CD audio: ioctl error on /dev/scd0: cmd=CDROMVOLCTRL errno=95 > > This was working fine with 2.4.0 test12-pre5, which was the previous > kernel I was using. > ----- > > Well, I installed 2.4.0 test13-pre7 and I still have t

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-31 Thread Chris Evans
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 > > on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). > > This is almost certainly purely

2.4.0 test13-pre7 still causes CDROM ioctl errors

2000-12-31 Thread Raphael Manfredi
no=95 This was working fine with 2.4.0 test12-pre5, which was the previous kernel I was using. - Well, I installed 2.4.0 test13-pre7 and I still have the same error. My CDROM driver is SCSI, connected to a Tekram DC390. I use the am53c974 driver. Something must have chang

Re: scheduling problem test13-pre7

2000-12-31 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 10:42:26AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > While running iozone, I notice severe stalls of vmstat output > > despite vmstat running SCHED_RR and mlockall(). > >Lets eliminate the obvious: > >- Are you runni

Re: scheduling problem test13-pre7

2000-12-31 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 10:42:26AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Hi, > > While running iozone, I notice severe stalls of vmstat output > despite vmstat running SCHED_RR and mlockall(). Lets eliminate the obvious: - Are you running with IDE disk ? - Does hdparm /dev/hda(whatever)

Re: test13-pre4-ac2/test13-pre7 ax25 undefined reference

2000-12-31 Thread Sid Boyce
Thanks for the prompt response. Regards Sid. Alan Cox wrote: > > > The problem showed up on the stroke of test13-pre4-ac2 and stuff from > > Alan has been merged in. I went from pre4-ac2 to pre5 (AOK) and now > > attempting pre7... > > Its definitely coming from the AX.25 rela

scheduling problem test13-pre7

2000-12-31 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi, While running iozone, I notice severe stalls of vmstat output despite vmstat running SCHED_RR and mlockall(). With IKD, I ran a million line ktrace of such a stall, and find no occurance of vmstat's pid. (trace covers a ~full second of kernel time) The only user process which was scheduled

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread J Sloan
Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 > > on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). > > This is almost certainly purely due to changing (som

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 > on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). This is almost certainly purely due to changing (some would say "fixing") the bdflush synchron

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread Steven Cole
It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). 2.2.183.53307 MB/sec (NB=4.41633 MB/sec 35.3307 MBit/sec) 2.2.19-pre3 3.81213 MB/sec (NB=4.76516 MB/sec 38.1213 MBit/sec) 2.4.0

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread Ray Strode
>The LDT fixes in particular fix some potentially random strange behaviour. >And the alpha memmove() thing was a showstopper bug on alphas. And the network lockup bug... --Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: test13-pre4-ac2/test13-pre7 ax25 undefined reference

2000-12-30 Thread Alan Cox
> The problem showed up on the stroke of test13-pre4-ac2 and stuff from > Alan has been merged in. I went from pre4-ac2 to pre5 (AOK) and now > attempting pre7... Its definitely coming from the AX.25 related changes. Please send me your .config and I'll go squash this one > drivers/net

test13-pre4-ac2/test13-pre7 ax25 undefined reference

2000-12-30 Thread Sid Boyce
The problem showed up on the stroke of test13-pre4-ac2 and stuff from Alan has been merged in. I went from pre4-ac2 to pre5 (AOK) and now attempting pre7... ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel /head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.

Re: [PATCH] VM fixes + RSS limits 2.4.0-test13-pre5 / test13-pre7

2000-12-30 Thread Dieter Nützel
r. If my system hits the 'ZERO swap wall' the currently running process (render) abort immediately and restart. With test13-pre7 it runs several times longer (render generates some more frames) but then load goes up to 10 and render would be killed. SunWave1>cat /proc/version Linux ver

oops with 2.4.0-test13-pre7 in acpi_ns_get_next_object

2000-12-30 Thread Manfred
As I wrote in the subject line I get an oops with 2.4.0-test13-pre7. Board: Gigabyte BXD with newest BIOS, Dual processor Previous kernels ( <=-test12) just printed ACPI: support found ACPI: PBLK 0 @ 0x:0 ACPI: PBLK 1 @ 0x:0 -0196: *** Error: Sleep State package elements

Re: TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem

2000-12-30 Thread davej
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 07:54:21PM +, Tony Spinillo wrote: > The nvidia kernel module (from www.nvidia.com) has compiled and loaded > correctly with all test13-pre series up to pre6. I just tried to > compile and load under pre7. > I got the following: > nv.c:860:unknown field `unmap

TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem

2000-12-30 Thread Tony Spinillo
The nvidia kernel module (from www.nvidia.com) has compiled and loaded correctly with all test13-pre series up to pre6. I just tried to compile and load under pre7. I got the following: nv.c:860:unknown field `unmap' specified in initializer nv.c:860:warning: initialization from incompatible point

Re: Problems with ov511/USB on test13-pre7

2000-12-30 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:24:40PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Problems with Creative Webcam III. This worked fine > in test13-pre4, haven't tried pre5 & 6. [snip] > USB controller is: > > 00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10) (prog-if > 00 [UHCI]) > Su

Problems with ov511/USB on test13-pre7

2000-12-30 Thread davej
Hi, Problems with Creative Webcam III. This worked fine in test13-pre4, haven't tried pre5 & 6. On boot: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: couldn't get all of config descriptors usb.c: unable to get device 2 configuration (error=-110) hub.c: USB new devic

test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
The LDT fixes in particular fix some potentially random strange behaviour. And the alpha memmove() thing was a showstopper bug on alphas. Linus - pre7: - x86 LDT handling fixes: revert some cleanups (the LDT really doesn't act like a TLB context) - Richard Hend