Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-26 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's harder to write correct programs that use edge-triggered events. Huh? The race between when an event is reported, and when you take action on it effectively means all events are edge triggered. So making the interface clearly edge triggered seems t

3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
I'm using 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a PIII (compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3) and having problems with usb. I'm able to load the usb-driver (usb-uhci) and then the driver for my usb-webcam (cpia_usb). The webcam works fine for something like 20 minutes. After that I start to get this kind of messages to the

Re: RAID superblock

2000-10-26 Thread Helge Hafting
Anil kumar wrote: > > Hi, > After I create a RAID setup on the drives,The > superblock will be generated at the end of the drives. > If I move these drives to other linux system, will > this > system recognise the RAID setup without reconfiguring > the Linux ? > Yes - if that other linux syste

Re: FIXED! Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Mares
Hi Jeff! > First, some definitions: > downstream - away from the host processor > primary - number of the PCI bus closer to the host processor > secondary - number of the PCI bus on the downstream side of the PCI > bridge > subordinate - number of the highest-numbered bus on the downstream side >

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-10-26 Thread Gideon Glass
Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > Also, consider the following scenario for the proposed get_event(): > >1. packet arrives, queues an event. >2. user retrieves event. >3. second packet arrives, queues event again. >4. user reads() all data. > > Now, next time around the loop, we get a n

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > If you send SIGSTOP to syslogd on a Red Hat 6.2 system (glibc 2.1.3, > kernel 2.2.x), within a few minutes you will find your entire machine > grinds to a halt. For example, nobody can log in. > > This happens because once the /dev/log buffer fills,

Re: FIXED! Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-26 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:59:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > It may work, but the bridge secondary/subordinate numbers look wrong. > No, these numbers look correct for me. Read comment in drivers/pci/pci.c: if (!is_cardbus) { /* Now we can scan all subordinate buses... *

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> You obviously don't understand the communication channel being used. > "/dev/log" is a UNIX DOMAIN SOCKET -- AF_UNIX. Datagrams are unreliable > for _IP_ (AF_INET). Traffic on an AF_UNIX socket is always reliable. > > Ok, smarty, go change the syslogd source to open /dev/log as SOCK_STREAM >

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Andrew Morton
"Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > > I'm using 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a PIII (compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3) and > ... gcc-2.7.2.3 miscompiles kernel/module.c and it has been decided that this will not be worked around. The new baseline gcc release for x86 is gcc-2.91.66 (otherwise known as egcs-1.1.2). - To

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If anything has to be changed it's (as suggested) the configuration > > or even the implementation of syslogd. Make it robust. > > OK, but my current syslogd only listens to /dev/log as a SOCK_DGRAM. > If I wanted reliable syslogging, it would

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > Jesse Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Don't configure syslogd to do reverse lookups. > > Our syslogd has no option to disable the reverse lookups. Requires a recompile. > > You can NEVER guarantee that the reverse lookup will succeed, and

QLOGIC Fibre Channel init

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Naumann
Hi, I was having some little trouble with the QLOGIC Fibre Channel SCSI cards. The issue is, that I have a box with an internal SCSI controller/disk and a QLOGIC card which is connected to an external RAID. The probelm is, that the internal disk is my root disk but is the second in the chain (s

Large trace of sched.c 505 BUG(), decoded

2000-10-26 Thread Tom Leete
Hi, This bug was triggered by trying ctrl-alt-del for reboot in test10-pre5. It appears to show schedule() getting stuck in a loop with the stack growing unbounded. Unfortunately, the module list and symbols are not exposed. I don't know what had been unloaded before the bug triggered. The initi

Re: QLOGIC Fibre Channel init

2000-10-26 Thread Byeong-ryeol Kim
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Klaus Naumann wrote: > I was having some little trouble with the QLOGIC Fibre Channel SCSI > cards. > The issue is, that I have a box with an internal SCSI controller/disk > and a QLOGIC card which is connected to an external RAID. The probelm > is, that the internal disk is

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> No, I didn't say they "should" be dropped but merely that dropping them > would fix your problem. Personally, I'd look closely at your setup to > determine exactly why this has become a problem. named is being blocked > on writing to /dev/log. This should only happen if there is sufficient >

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Perhaps syslogd is not giving higher priority to local messages; if it > did, maybe it could recover from the deadlock. But this would not be > a reliable solution; the only reliable solution is for syslogd to be > independent of any processes which need to talk to it. In that case, don't do

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > > > > I'm using 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a PIII (compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3) and > > ... > > gcc-2.7.2.3 miscompiles kernel/module.c and it has been decided that > this will not be worked around. The new baseline gcc release fo

Re: QLOGIC Fibre Channel init

2000-10-26 Thread Klaus Naumann
Byeong-ryeol Kim wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Klaus Naumann wrote: > > > I was having some little trouble with the QLOGIC Fibre Channel SCSI > > cards. > > The issue is, that I have a box with an internal SCSI controller/disk > > and a QLOGIC card which is connected to an external RAID. The p

Re: RAID superblock

2000-10-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Anil kumar wrote: > Hi, > After I create a RAID setup on the drives,The > superblock will be generated at the end of the drives. > If I move these drives to other linux system, will > this > system recognise the RAID setup without reconfiguring > the Linux ? If the CHS / L

Re: FIXED! Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCIresourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >Yes, it will break on any machine with multiple primary PCI busses, because >the registers assigning bus number ranges to primary busses are chipset >specific. > >In 2.5, I'd like to rewrite the resource + bus number assignment code to be >able to re-layout the busses and resources even on i386

Re: QLOGIC Fibre Channel init

2000-10-26 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:22:54 +0200, Klaus Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The problem with that is that on boot up (for lilo) the internal disk >is disk number one. But when I'm in the system and want to install lilo >it's disk number two - that's what lilo is complaining about on boot up. >(

2.4test9-pre5 shared memory?

2000-10-26 Thread Stephen Clark
I recently installed 2.4test9pre5 and noticed that when I cat /proc/meminfo the value for shared memory is 0. Am I the only one that is seeing this. Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ a

RE: QLOGIC Fibre Channel init

2000-10-26 Thread Matt_Domsch
You can use an initial ramdisk (initrd), and specify the load order of your drivers (driver for internal disk first, qlogic driver second). That removes the dependency on the static link order in hosts.c. Thanks, Matt -Original Message- From: Klaus Naumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sen

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Andrew Morton
"Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > > Ok. I recompiled the kernel and modules with 2.95.2 and it still seems not > to work. This is from syslog: > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > __alloc_pages: 4-order a

BUG: block_read_full_page with NULL page->mapping

2000-10-26 Thread Yuri Pudgorodsky
Hi, I got the following OOPS while doing some heavy compilations (make -j4) on dual SMP P-III, 2.4.0-test10-pre5 and reiserfs 3.6.18 for 2.4.0-test9. It looks like page without page->mapping has been passed to block_read_full_page(). Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtua

Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Richard B. Johnson writes: > > On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > > o Once installed, a kernel module is every bit as "efficient" > > as some driver linked into the kernel at build-time. Of course > > I doubt this is true on

Re: 2.4test9-pre5 shared memory?

2000-10-26 Thread Steven Cole
Stephen Clark wrote: > >I recently installed 2.4test9pre5 and noticed that when I cat >/proc/meminfo the value for shared memory is 0. Am I the only one that >is seeing this. I'm seeing this also for 2.4.0-test10-pre5. Here is /proc/meminfo followed by the same for a 2.2 machine running the same

Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! I've found a bug in my VIA SuperSouth (vt82c686a) chip (ISA bridge revision 0x12, silicon rev CD) on my FIC VA-503A rev 1.2: When there is heavy disk activity (several tars running concurrently on UDMA66 drive, or tar'ing from one UDMA66 drive to another over two channels), the system time,

kernel BUG at slab.c:804!

2000-10-26 Thread Christian Reiser
Hi, i hope i am right here, and this problem wasn't mailed a thousand times before - but it is not older than 3 days (2.4.0-test10-pre5 is'nt older...) I am playing around with usb and usb-storage, and then i wanted to reload the usb-ohci-module, during the insmod i got this error: Oct 26 15:11:

Re: 2.4test9-pre5 shared memory?

2000-10-26 Thread Craig Schlenter
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:25:34AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote: > Stephen Clark wrote: > > > >I recently installed 2.4test9pre5 and noticed that when I cat > >/proc/meminfo the value for shared memory is 0. Am I the only one that > >is seeing this. > > I'm seeing this also for 2.4.0-test10-pre5. He

[PATCH] Common place for list-style -> old-style makefile adaption

2000-10-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Linus, in the current kernel versions we have a lot of new list-style makefiles (find -name Makefile | xargs grep -l obj- | wc -l gives 48 in -pre5) and the number increases all the time. This patch adds a new makefile ($(TOPDIR])/Makefile.inc) that can be included by the list-style makefiles,

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I've found a bug in my VIA SuperSouth (vt82c686a) chip (ISA bridge > revision 0x12, silicon rev CD) on my FIC VA-503A rev 1.2: > > When there is heavy disk activity (several tars running concurrently on > UDMA66 drive, or tar'ing from one UDM

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:52:02 +1100, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[ You could put a show_stack(0) in here, but I believe ksymoops > doesn't understand show_stack() output ]. It does, and extracts the "Call Trace:" data. The stack is not printed by ksymoops because it does not have

Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

2000-10-26 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:17:49 -0400 (EDT), "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> I doubt this is true on most modern processors. On the Pentium >> and above, large pages are used for the kernel. The PowerPC port > ^^^

Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mircea Damian
Hello, I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: root@cyrix:/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/mm# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CyrixInstead cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : 6x86MX 2.5x Core/Bus Clock stepping: 7 cpu MHz : 166.

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:804!

2000-10-26 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:39:59 +0200 (CEST), Christian Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kernel BUG at slab.c:804! >Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8b 1b 81 fb bc 23 26 c0 >... hope it could help ... Almost completely useless until you follow the procedures in linux/REPORTING-BUGS.

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 03:58:21PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > I've found a bug in my VIA SuperSouth (vt82c686a) chip (ISA bridge > > revision 0x12, silicon rev CD) on my FIC VA-503A rev 1.2: > > > > When there is heavy disk activity (several tars running concurrently on > > UDMA66 dr

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 03:58:21PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > I've found a bug in my VIA SuperSouth (vt82c686a) chip (ISA bridge > > > revision 0x12, silicon rev CD) on my FIC VA-503A rev 1.2: > > > > > > When there is heavy disk acti

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:13:51PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > I've found a bug in my VIA SuperSouth (vt82c686a) chip (ISA bridge > > > > revision 0x12, silicon rev CD) on my FIC VA-503A rev 1.2: > > > > > > > > When there is heavy disk activity (several tars running concurrently

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mircea Damian wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > > And here is the broken routine: > > 03f4 : > 3f4: 8b 44 24 04 movl 0x4(%esp,1),%eax > 3f8: b9 01 00 00 00 movl $0x1,%ecx > 3fd: 8a 10

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Crutcher Dunnavant
++ 26/10/00 16:11 +0200 - Vojtech Pavlik: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:13:51PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > > > I've found a bug in my VIA SuperSouth (vt82c686a) chip (ISA bridge > > > > > revision 0x12, silicon rev CD) on my FIC VA-503A rev 1.2: > > > > > > > > > > When there is h

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
Mircea Damian wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Forever shall I be.
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:57:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > > > > gcc-2.7.2.3 miscompiles kernel/module.c and it has been decided that > > this will not be worked around. The new baseline gcc release for x86 > >

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > Stand-alone, it can't do anything useful. However, if it generates > a page-fault due to the read or write, the page-fault handler could > do "something". Currently, the fault it fatal, probably because > the passed pointer is invalid. The write-protect test code is

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > And here is the broken routine: > > > > 03f4 : [...] > This is not good code. It does the following: > > o Gets a parameter off the stack and puts into eax (a pointer). > o Put the value 1 into ecx. > o Take a byte from the pointed-to location and pu

Re: 2.4test9-pre5 shared memory?

2000-10-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Then shouldn't it be removed? Craig Schlenter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:25:34AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote: > > Stephen Clark wrote: > > > > > >I recently installed 2.4test9pre5 and noticed that when I cat > > >/proc/meminfo the value for shared memory is 0. Am I the only one that > > >i

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > Stand-alone, it can't do anything useful. However, if it generates > > a page-fault due to the read or write, the page-fault handler could > > do "something". Currently, the fault it fatal, probably because > > the passed p

Re: 2.4test9-pre5 shared memory?

2000-10-26 Thread Craig Schlenter
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:40:33AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: [/proc/meminfo shared is 0] > Then shouldn't it be removed? Probably not. There may be tools that rely on it existing that may break if it goes away altogether. Maybe 'free' does for example. --C - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: Problem with msgsnd

2000-10-26 Thread David Mansfield
Marc Schneider wrote: > > msgsnd seems to be corrupting memory around the msgbuf pointer. > > for example I have the following code: > > pMsgBuf = malloc(iPacketLen + 4 + 8); > bzero(pMsgBuf, iPacketLen + 4 + 8); > pMsgBuf += 4; /* Build a guard band */ > > printf("PMQ:pMsgBuf: %p\n",pMsgBuf);

Re: 2.4test9-pre5 shared memory?

2000-10-26 Thread Stephen Clark
That makes sense. Steve Craig Schlenter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:40:33AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > [/proc/meminfo shared is 0] > > Then shouldn't it be removed? > > Probably not. There may be tools that rely on it existing that may break > if it goes away altogether. > > Maybe 'f

Re: Problem with msgsnd

2000-10-26 Thread Marc Schneider
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Marc Schneider wrote: > > > > msgsnd seems to be corrupting memory around the msgbuf pointer. > > > > for example I have the following code: > > > > pMsgBuf = malloc(iPacketLen + 4 + 8); > > bzero(pMsgBuf, iPacketLen + 4 + 8); > > pMsgBuf += 4; /* Build a guard band *

kernel build and symbol version problem with RedHat Linux 7

2000-10-26 Thread hiren_mehta
Hi All, I built the kernel on RedHat Linux 7 after configuring the build (make menuconfig) for SMP kernel. After installing the kernel (copy bzImage to /boot directory and run lilo) I rebooted the system to run the new kernel. Then I looked at the /proc/ksyms file to see if the symbol names are p

Re: test10-pre4: deadlock in VM?

2000-10-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Roger Larsson wrote: > I noted that even try_to_free_buffers locks lru_list_lock. lru_list_lock != pagemap_lru_lock cheers, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.s

VM-global-2.2.18pre17-7

2000-10-26 Thread octave klaba
> >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre17/VM-global-2.2.18pre17-7.bz2 > > eth0: card reports no resources > > VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached > > Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list corrupted. > > Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list corrupted. > > Kernel panic: VFS: LRU bloc

Supporting extended attributes and named streams on Posix OSes

2000-10-26 Thread Michael Rothwell
I realize all of this is 2.5 material. We had been talking about this earlier, until Viro and Cox told us to quit until 2.5. Alexander Viro wrote: > > It goes off-list. But, in light of Andreas Gruenbacher's proposal (http://lwn.net/2000/1026/a/extended-attributes.php3) and Stephen Tweedie'

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Oct 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > > Not true. The named on our loghost is authoritative for the reverse > > mappings for all of the machines which can log there. > > Put the names of your machines in /etc/hosts on your logmachine. Thi

Re: test10-pre4: deadlock in VM?

2000-10-26 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Roger Larsson wrote: > > > I noted that even try_to_free_buffers locks lru_list_lock. > > lru_list_lock != pagemap_lru_lock > btw, while we are at it, I am not able to reproduce this with test10-pre5 but am still running tests wi

Oops while running test10-pre5

2000-10-26 Thread Robert Lynch
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test10. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/ (specified) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) Error (regular_file): read_system_map stat /usr/src/linux/System.map failed

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:04:16PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: > On 26 Oct 2000, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > This is an athlon 750 machine, with scsi and ide a disk... > > I've tryed to see where the problem was comming from for age > > ( the problem is what you describe and it happen after s

Re: [PATCH] make my life easier ...

2000-10-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > OK, I include below a more or less translation for 2.4. I have not even > compiled this, and have not got the hardware to test it anyway. I disagree violently with doing this in the low-level drivers. If it cannot be done in user space (which

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:42:31PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > > ... > > > > > > Have you any idea what is the relation between time and this chip ? > > > > > > Also, I'm experiencing the problem for sever

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug

2000-10-26 Thread Shane Shrybman
Hi, I have the same problem. On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: [...snip...] > Could you send me your 'lspci -vvxxx' to confirm it's the very same > chip? 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0686 (rev 21) Subsystem: Unknown device 1106: Contr

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:42:31PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > Have you any idea what is the relation between time and this chip ?

Re: missing mxcsr initialization

2000-10-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:46:19PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > I've made a few correctness changes to this code. Items that needed to be > > corrected for include the facts that the XMM feature bit is an Intel specific > > bit that other vendor

Re: syslog() blocks on glibc 2.1.3 with kernel 2.2.x

2000-10-26 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: >> Per chance are you running the name service caching daemon (nscd)? I'd >> also guess you aren't disabling fsync() for your sysylog files (it's part >> of the syslog.conf format) -- this is a conciderable drain on syslogd. > >Agree. It is there for a

Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

2000-10-26 Thread Jesse Pollard
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:17:49 -0400 (EDT), > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >This shows that out of 34,678 bytes we needed, we wasted 6282, ~1.5 > >pages. Since there are 5 modules, we waste about 1/3 page per module. > > > >So I don'

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On 26 Oct 2000, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Snipped...] ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This does the following: o Selects timer 0. o Latches t

Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:804!

2000-10-26 Thread Juan J. Quintela
> "christian" == Christian Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: christian> Hi, christian> i hope i am right here, and this problem wasn't mailed a thousand times christian> before - but it is not older than 3 days (2.4.0-test10-pre5 is'nt christian> older...) christian> I am playing around with

Re: RAID superblock

2000-10-26 Thread Wakko Warner
> > Hi, > > After I create a RAID setup on the drives,The > > superblock will be generated at the end of the drives. > > If I move these drives to other linux system, will > > this > > system recognise the RAID setup without reconfiguring > > the Linux ? > > If the CHS / LBA settings are the sa

Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-26 Thread Dan Kegel
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > > Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's harder to write correct programs that use edge-triggered events. > > Huh? The race between when an event is reported, and when you take action > on it effectively means all events are edge triggered. Nope. With any o

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mircea Damian
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > Mircea Damian wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) Ok. I can do that, but there is nowhere written that I should do that. If I remember right gc

Re: VM-global-2.2.18pre17-7

2000-10-26 Thread Markus Pfeiffer
octave klaba wrote: > > > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre17/VM-global-2.2.18pre17-7.bz2 > > > eth0: card reports no resources > > > VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached > > > Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list corrupted. > > > Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list corrupted

Re: VM-global-2.2.18pre17-7

2000-10-26 Thread octave klaba
> > Oct 26 16:38:01 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > let me guess: intel eepro100 or similar?? yeap 00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1043 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster

test10-5: af_irda.o compile error

2000-10-26 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, I didn't see this posted yet, so I have attached it below. If it has, sorry in advance. I have gcc 2.8.1 , and the kernel version is : test10-5 Regards, Frank During make modules ... af_irda.o : In function 'cleanup_module' : af_irda.o(.text+0x3e90): multiple definition of 'cleanup

eepro100: card reports no resources [was VM-global...]

2000-10-26 Thread Ville Herva
Markus Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oct 26 11:24:13 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > > Oct 26 11:24:15 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > > Oct 26 12:22:21 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > > Oct 26 16:16:59 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no

Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Dan Kegel wrote: > > With level-triggered interfaces like poll(), your chances > of writing a correctly functioning program are higher because you > can throw events away (on purpose or accidentally) with no consequences; > the next time around the loop, poll() will happil

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-10-26 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:16:28AM -0700, Gideon Glass wrote: > Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > Also, consider the following scenario for the proposed get_event(): > > > >1. packet arrives, queues an event. > >2. user retrieves event. > >3. second packet arrives, queues event again. >

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:04:21PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things > to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This > does the following: > > o Selects timer 0. > o Latches the timer. > o Selects

Re: [PATCH] make my life easier ...

2000-10-26 Thread Andre Hedrick
LT, I can do it from user-space completely, but not today. The tools are missing. Also I have/will get my traces on my code in a day or so. Cheers, Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
Mircea Damian wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > > Mircea Damian wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > > > Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) > > Ok. I can do that, but there is nowhere written that

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:57:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocation failed. > > __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed

Re: 3-order allocation failed

2000-10-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:57:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 2-order allocation failed. > > > __alloc_pages: 5-order allocati

linux 2.2.18pre17 + VM-global -7 = `Negative d_count' oops

2000-10-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrea Arcangeli writes ("Re: linux 2.2.18-pre17: "Kernel panic: LRU list corrupted""): > I also included the fix in a new VM-global patch against vanilla 2.2.18pre17 > (the VM-global patch is available as a single patch inside 2.2.18pre17aa1/ > directory too but I have to maintain a separate vers

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:04:21PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things > > to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This > > does the following: [Snipped...] >

Re: Oops while running test10-pre5

2000-10-26 Thread kernel
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Robert Lynch wrote: > Oct 19 13:00:23 ives kernel: EIP:0010:[try_to_swap_out+252/796] Those Oopsen look like they're from test10-pre4 (fixed in pre5). Also, please include the lines beginning with "kernel BUG at...". -ben - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:42:29PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things > > > to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This > > > does the following: > [Snipped...] > > > > Well, at least on 2.4.0-test9, the

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-10-26 Thread Terry Lambert
This is a long posting, with a humble beginning, but it has a point. I'm being complete so that no one is left in the dark, or in any doubt as to what that point is. That means rehashing some history. This posting is not really about select or Linux: it's about interfaces. Like cached state, i

Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

2000-10-26 Thread Jesse Pollard
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:00:03AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:17:49 -0400 (EDT), > > > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > >This shows that out of 34,678 bytes

LVM snapshotting broken?

2000-10-26 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Heinz, it looks like the LVM snapshotting in 2.4 doesn't allow you to create snapshots from anything else than the _first_ LV in the VG... I have run both the following command lines (after lvremoving snap1, of course) and both of them give as a result that the LV /dev/test_vg/swap ends up be

Re: Oops while running test10-pre5

2000-10-26 Thread Robert Lynch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Robert Lynch wrote: > > > Oct 19 13:00:23 ives kernel: EIP:0010:[try_to_swap_out+252/796] > > Those Oopsen look like they're from test10-pre4 (fixed in pre5). Also, > please include the lines beginning with "kernel BUG at...". > >

[PATCH] 2.2.x Fixes for stackable filesystems

2000-10-26 Thread William Taber
Linus, Alan, I am proposing this patch for inclusion in the 2.2.x tree. (Whether it goes into 2.2.18 or 2.2.19 is your call.) We have run this successfully with 2.2.14 through 2.2.17. Our kernel patches help stacking file systems work properly in two areas: * dentry reference count fixes when

Re: VM-global-2.2.18pre17-7

2000-10-26 Thread Timothy Ball
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:21:29PM +0200, octave klaba wrote: > > > > > Oct 26 16:38:01 ns29 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources. > > let me guess: intel eepro100 or similar?? > yeap > > 00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) > Subsystem: As

Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-26 Thread Jim Gettys
Note that there is another aspect to the efficiency / performance of the select/poll style of interfaces not immediately obvious, but which occurs as a result of how some (streaming/batching) protocols work. An X server does not call select all that often (probably one of the two items most f

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:42:29PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things > > > > to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This > > > > does the following: > > [

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:11:54PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > > ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things > > > > > to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This > > > > > does the following: > > > [Snipped...] > > > > > > > > Well, at

Re: LVM snapshotting broken?

2000-10-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > it looks like the LVM snapshotting in 2.4 doesn't allow you > to create snapshots from anything else than the _first_ LV > in the VG... OK, I reproduced it in 2.2 as well ... ;( > I have run both the following command lines (after lvremoving > snap1, o

Re: PATCH: killing read_ahead[]

2000-10-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > Linus, what do you think about that? I can do the remaining filesystems > and give it initial testing today. Ok, looks reasonable, if not really pretty. I'd probably prefer last_page = size >> PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; last_page_size = siz

Re: AMD CPU misdetection?

2000-10-26 Thread Alan Cox
> cpu family : 5 > model : 8 > model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor > ^^ > > Shouldn't it be K6-2? We report what AMD report - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please re

Re: Possible critical VIA vt82c686a chip bug (private question)

2000-10-26 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:11:54PM +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > > > > > ../drivers/block/ide.c, line 162, on version 2.2.17 does bad things > > > > > > to the timer. It writes 0 to the control-word for timer 0. This > > > > > > does the fo

kernel.org back up (film at 11)

2000-10-26 Thread H. Peter Anvin
kernel.org is back up. -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

  1   2   >