Re: [patch] serial console vs NMI watchdog

Keith Owens wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:43:16 -0800, > george anzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Consider this. Why not use the NMI to sync the cpus. Kdb would have a > >function that is called each NMI. > > kdb uses NMI IPI to get the other cpu's attention. One cpu is in > control

Re: 2.4.2-ac18 fix for Alpha machines

Matti Aarnio wrote: > > The linkage of vmlinux fails with lacking code for bust_spinlocks(), > thus I cloned the i386 one as is -- which apparently is not really > processor specific... > > --- arch/alpha/mm/fault.c~ Sun Mar 11 11:49:23 2001 > +++ arch/alpha/mm/fault.c Sun Mar 11 14:

Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

[kaos] > In 2.4.2-ac18 there are 130 CONFIG options that are always derived > from other options, the user has no control over them. I've thought about these before ... but never got around to doing anything about them. I agree they should have a separate namespace. However, I would vote the f

Re: incorrect CPU usage readings in 2.2.19prex?

Hi! > Is there something generally wrong with how linux determines total cpu > usage (via procmeter3 and top) when dealing with applications that are > threaded? I routinely get 0% cpu usage when playing mpegs and mp3s and > some avi's even (Divx when using no software enhancement) ... Somehow

Re: [patch] serial console vs NMI watchdog

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:27:14 -0800, george anzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> kdb uses NMI IPI to get the other cpu's attention. One cpu is in >> control and may or may not be accepting NMI, it depends on the event >> that entered kdb. The other cpus end up in kdb code,

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In 2.4.2-ac18 there are 130 CONFIG options that are always derived > > from other options, the user has no control over them. > > I've thought about these before ... but never got around to doing > anything about them. I agree they should have a separate

PATCH: CS4281: missing pci_enable_dervice

Hi, My Laptop has a CS4281 soundchip. It requires the following patch to start working (enable pci device). Ciao, Marcus --- linux/drivers/sound/cs4281/cs4281m.c.marcus Mon Mar 12 09:55:35 2001 +++ linux/drivers/sound/cs4281/cs4281m.cMon Mar 12 09:55:57 2001 @@ -4289,6 +4289,9 @@

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:53:07 -0500, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But if we're going to push Linus and the kernel crew to switch to >CML2, then why invite the political tsuris of trying to get a large >patch into 2.4 now? Maybe I'm missing something here, but this doesn't >seem n

memcpy

hi all, can memcpy ,memset functions be used in drivermodules code of linux ? if so header file string.h is enough to be included? .. thank u - S.Srinivas Senior Software Engineer Wipro Technologies Madhapur - Hyd Pho

Bug in 2.2.19pre16 : bad interaction between sound and APM

Hello all, A friend of mine has a toshiba 320CDT laptop, with a redhat 6.1 installed. In order to be able to use the USB port, I have compiled on it a 2.2.19pre16 kernel. It all works very well except that I cannot get sound working after the laptop has been in suspend mode. After a resume from

Re: Hashing and directories

Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find > . -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names Try printf "%s\0" 12* | xargs -0 rm -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert

problems with snmpd

Hello, I am having a big problem: when my kernel is beggining my system, it just stops when it is testing the snmpd protocol. Then I have to make a manual reset and I cant enter into my SO. What do I have to do to solve this problem??? Thanks, Tania Ramos - To unsubscribe from th

kernel crash with 2.4.2

Hy, I post a kernel crash in this adress last week. (see [EMAIL PROTECTED] it's me!) Now that i had the crash another times, i used the program ksymoops to trace the problem. I use a 2.4.2 Linux kernel on a i586 (Pentium 133Mhz) Here is the /var/log/syslog trace: Mar 10 04:40:02 palerme ker

Should mount --bind not follow symlinks?

Hi, My automounted dirs have up till now been symlinks, where e.g. /opt/perl defaults to automounting /export/opt/perl/LATEST which is a symlink. This all worked OK until the 2.4(.2) automounter helpfully tries to mount --bind /export/opt/perl/LATEST /opt/perl And this errors with "mou

Re: Hashing and directories

Le 12 Mar 2001 21:05:58 +1100, Herbert Xu a écrit : > Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find > > . -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names > > Try > > printf "%s\0" 12* | xargs -0 rm Or fin

Re: make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

On 03.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a compile of 2.4.2 I get the following (using make bzImage) > init/main.o: In function `check_fpu': > init/main.o(.text.init+0x63): undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment' > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 If you are using pgcc, try getting a real less

Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:03:22PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > In 2.4.2-ac18 there are 130 CONFIG options that are always derived from > other options, the user has no control over them. It is useful for the > kernel build process to know which variables are derived and which > variables the user

Re: BUG? race between kswapd and ptrace (access_process_vm )

Hi, On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:12:52PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > Fixing the bug is more difficult than I thought: > > Initially I assumed it would be a two-liner (lock, unlock) but kmap() > can sleep. > > Can I reuse a kmap_atomic() type or should I add a new type? I've just tried wi

Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > In 2.4.2-ac18 there are 130 CONFIG options that are always derived from > other options, the user has no control over them. It is useful for the > kernel build process to know which variables are derived and which > variables the user can control. If it'

Problem with mtrr and Cyrix 6x86MX: no mtrr for...

Hi! I switched to Linux 2.4 recently and ran into the following problem: When starting XFree 4.0.2, I get error messages like 'no mtrr for 0xe000,0x40' (or sth similar, I am not currently at the machine with the Cyrix). Digging deeper, I found the following, non XFree-related problem:

Re: Interesting fs corruption story

On 07 Mar 2001 12:22:22 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > On 06 Mar 2001 17:01:02 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > Yes, it does. I have the drive running in UDMA mode 2, and get ~16MB/s from > 'hdparm -t -T'. I have the "use DMA automaticall

Missing use of TcpPassiveOpens counter?

While trying to track down a possible select()/accept() problem in 2.0.38 I noticed that theTcpPassiveOpens counter is never increased (not in 2.0, 2.2 nor 2.4) When checking more of the Tcp: fields in /proc/net/snmp it looks like some more fields are not set correctly (tcpRto*, tcpMaxConn ) Jus

Re: linux localization

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > My work will concern with the internationalization of Linux > > So, could anybody tell me what kinds of features should be in the > > consideration when linux be localized from english to Japanese or chinese, > > say using 2 bytes character set. > > Most

select()/accept() problem in 2.0.38

In short: My listener socket _sometimes_ gets confused when a client connect and closes very fast when the server has outstanding data. The read fd_set with the listener socket is not set by the select() call for new connections, but if I do accept() on it anyway I will get the new socket! I k

Re: 21041 transmit timed out

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Since I switched from the de4x5 driver to the tulip driver several months ago > (before that, tulip didn't work on PPC), I never saw 21041 transmit timed out > messages again, until today: > > | Dec 20 12:13:29 callisto kernel: Linux Tulip driver v

Re: Should mount --bind not follow symlinks?

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Anthony Heading wrote: > Hi, > My automounted dirs have up till now been symlinks, where > e.g. /opt/perl defaults to automounting /export/opt/perl/LATEST > which is a symlink. > >This all worked OK until the 2.4(.2) automounter helpfully tries > to mount --bind /e

Lockup after IDE setup

I have the following problem that has completely stumped me. I have tried searching the Mailing list archives, but have found nothing. I am not subscribed to the list, so I would ask that I be CCed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on the responses to this message. I have a Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n Pentium P

Re: filesystem for initrd

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:28:53PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > cramfs is nice but still read-only at the moment... You might be able > to get away with stacking ramfs on top of that. What is easier because this ... > If not, it shouldn't be hard to modify cramfs so that it allows > fs modifica

Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

Hi Manfred, I'm running your patches [1] with sucess for a while now. Did you get any feedback about problems regarding these patches? They seem to work for me, but there seems to be a memleak in 2.4.x (x: 0-2), which I'm chasing down. The problem is, it only shows up after about 3-4 days of u

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

> The derived config variables should be in a separate name space, > whether config is CML1 or CML2. This patch does it for CML1. Why ? The only tool that needs to seperate them is the config check script and that has enough information to deduce them - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

> Not only do I think that CONFIG_xxx_DERIVED needlessly extends the name > of derived vars, but your patch does not belong in a stable series. > Derived CONFIG_xxx vars are likely to be referenced in source. Changing > those vars in the middle of a stable series pointlessly breaks external > so

Re: memcpy

Rama Krishna Mandava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] >can memcpy ,memset functions be used in drivermodules code of > linux ? if so header file string.h is enough to be included? Take a look at /include/linux/string.h. You just need to: #include -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from

Re: Subtle NFS/VFS/GLIBC interaction bug

> " " == Leon Bottou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note the strange numbers in the d_off fields. These are in > fact cookies used internally by nfs. Under nfs2, these are 32 > bit unsigned number, sign extended to 64 bits. > The last cookie has not been properly sign ex

ISSUE : ppp failure with kernel 2.4.2 - used to work with 2.4.0

1 - ppp failure with kernel 2.4.2 - used to work with 2.4.0 2 - Kernel 2.4.2 has been compiled exactly with the same options (config) as the 2.4.0. Now when I try to reach my ISP, everything runs well until pppd launch the serial connection (see the message file attached) 3 - Keywords : kernel p

Re: [NFS] New files on read only NFS mount

> " " == Chris Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Details please, the minimum info required being 'which kernel >> is your client running'? >> > Oh yeah, whoops, sorry The server is a 586 and the client is > 686. They're both using nfs-utils 0.2.1, under linux 2.4.0

Re: New net features for added performance

> "Werner" == Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Werner> Jeff Garzik wrote: >> 3) Slabbier packet allocation. Werner> Hmm, this may actually be worse during bursts: if you burst Werner> exceeds the preallocated size, you have to perform more Werner> expensive/slower operations (e

Re: ISSUE : ppp failure with kernel 2.4.2 - used to work with 2.4.0

Pascal Bonfils wrote: > Mar 12 14:22:14 a0 pppd[808]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 You should upgrade to ppp-2.4 E.g. linuxcare.com.au/pub/ppp Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: [PATCH]: allow notsc option for buggy cpus

> "Alan" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think this behaviour can be controlled with tpctl for the >> Thinkpads and possibly with the Toshiba utils on Toshibas... Alan> If tpctl can do it and we know how it does it then that may be Alan> sufficient since the kernel init code can

Re: Should mount --bind not follow symlinks?

Alexander Viro wrote: > Don't mix symlinks with mounts/bindings. Too much PITA and yes, it had > been deliberately prohibited. You _really_ don't want to handle the > broken symlinks and all the realted fun [...] No. But I hoped _you_ might :-) > - race-ridden at extreme and useless. > In automo

Re: NFS times out with 2.4.2 as client

> " " == sidewinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a typical entry from tcpdump, from the server's point of > view. > 192.168.1.1 is the client, 192.168.1.10 is the server. > tcpdump: listening on eth0 11:32:24.958338 > localhost.localdomain.631 > 192.168.1.25

curious bug

2.4.3-pre3 richh12557 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 D04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho richh12558 0.0 0.0 00 pts/10 Z04:32 0:00 [egg ] richh12560 0.0 0.7 5096 1704 pts/10 S04:32 0:00 ./egg idaho # ps -eo args,wchan|grep egg ./egg idaho down [egg ] do_exi

Sony VAIO PCI (NOT USB) MemoryStick Recognition

Hi folks, I'm trying to use MemoryStick slot on SonyVAIO PCG-Z600NE, and currently no luck. Product Name "Z600NE" is a bit funny, probably this is used for Europe domain. I believe some "505" series should have same spedification. Linux/OS does not recognize MemoryStick as HD at all. What I

curious messages

2.4.2-ac4 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c1 l1 ss2/2 p1 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/25 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/22 c1 l3 ss2/2 p3 Undo loss 208.179.59.2/143 c2 l0 ss2/3 p0 simple debug messages, or is someone (andy/dave) interested

Re: [PATCH] /drivers/char/cyclades.c: panic() call removal

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Andrey Panin wrote: > > this patch removes panic() calls and adds MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to > cyclades driver. Patch looks good. Thanks for the patch, Andrey! However: Linus, please do not apply this yet. I'll do tests with a new Cyclades driver version we're about to releas

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > They seem to work for me, but there seems to be a memleak in > 2.4.x (x: 0-2), which I'm chasing down. I just happen to have a 2.4.2 IKD patch sitting here, and therein sits Ingo's memory leak detector... poor thing is bored to tears 8) -Mike -

Ide Hot-swaping?

Is it possible to hot-swap ide drives and re-detect them? Does 'normal' Pc-hardware allow it? thanks, Balazs Pozsar. - 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-i

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac18

Hmm, I seem to have missed the changelog posting for ac17. However, I noticed that the overclocked CPU detection code was dropped between ac16 and ac17. Since the changelog did not mention it - was the feature dropped intentionally, and if so, why? Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: curious messages

On 2001-03-12, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2.4.2-ac4 > Undo partial loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c1 l1 ss2/2 p1 > Undo loss 208.179.59.2/5432 c2 l0 ss2/2 p0 [snip] > simple debug messages, or is someone (andy/dave) interested in them? They can be safely ignored--or silenced. See: http:/

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

Ingo Oeser wrote: > > Hi Manfred, > > I'm running your patches [1] with sucess for a while now. > > Did you get any feedback about problems regarding these patches? > No feedback yet. > They seem to work for me, but there seems to be a memleak in > 2.4.x (x: 0-2), which I'm chasing down. > You

raw device and linux scheduling performance weirdness

Hi, I ran some really trivial raw disk performance tests on 2.4.0 using the raw disk support in it. I seem to be getting some really strange performance results. My program opens up a raw device, then does a sequence of sequential/random reads/writes on the raw device using pread/pwrite. I put ti

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac18

> noticed that the overclocked CPU detection code was dropped between ac16 > and ac17. Since the changelog did not mention it - was the feature > dropped intentionally, and if so, why? It doesnt work usefully. The bit we really needed (clock multiplier reading) does work so its a case of one won

Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

11,3 is "Multiple read errors". You can find all of the ASC and ASCQ listed in any SCSI spec document. You can find the SCSI-2 specs at . -- Khalid Camm Maguire wrote: > > Thank you again for your help. While I do seem to get more errors > with the

system call for process information?

Hello I asked this question on kernel-newbies - no reply, hope to be luckier here:-) I need to collect some info on processes. One way is to read /proc tree. But isn't there a system call (ioctl) for this? And what are those task[], task_struct, etc. about? Thanks Guennadi ___ Dr. Guennadi V.

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:20:12PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > I just happen to have a 2.4.2 IKD patch sitting here, and therein > sits Ingo's memory leak detector... poor thing is bored to tears 8) Could to point me to mingos[1] memleak-detector? I need to know, whats going on here. I have h

Re: Ide Hot-swaping?

Pozsar Balazs wrote: > Is it possible to hot-swap ide drives and re-detect them? > Does 'normal' Pc-hardware allow it? read a recent man page for hdparm and you will see kernel allows remove/add ide interface. scripts with correct parameter usage are in contrib directory of hdparm source. IDE m

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac18

Alan Cox wrote: > > [overclocked CPU detection code] > It doesnt work usefully. The bit we really needed (clock multiplier reading) > does work so its a case of one won lost one But this won't catch FSB overclocking at all (which nowadays seems the most common way of oc-ing, since it does not inv

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac18

> But this won't catch FSB overclocking at all (which nowadays seems the > most common way of oc-ing, since it does not involve any modifications > to the CPU other than maybe a better cooler). Or am I missing something? The overclocking experiment was a side line > And what exactly does the mul

[NFS] Oops in 2.4.2 - please give advice

Hi, I have this Oops with the following config: - Stock 2.4.2 (no patch) - I have LVM volumes (0.9.1b5) - I have Raid0 + Raid5 volumes (v0.90) - Filesystems are ext2 - The machine is a PII 733 with SCSI and IDE disks. - The chipset is a VIA but DMA is disabled (for IDE disks). Thanks for any help

Re: 21041 transmit timed out

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I made a list of driver versions that showed the problem so far: > > | Tulip driver version 0.9.14 (February 20, 2001) Wow! 0.9.14 in my 2.4.3-pre2 kernel just seem to have recovered from the problem: | NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out |

Re: Ide Hot-swaping?

Yes, but I have not made public that code until more clean ups. On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > > Is it possible to hot-swap ide drives and re-detect them? > Does 'normal' Pc-hardware allow it? > > thanks, > Balazs Pozsar. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:20:12PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > I just happen to have a 2.4.2 IKD patch sitting here, and therein > > sits Ingo's memory leak detector... poor thing is bored to tears 8) > > Could to point me to mingos[1] memleak-detecto

Re: fbdev cursor management

>Guys, > >I've been taking a look at the cursor flashing code, >from the point of view of how it's affected by the >recent enabling of interrupts across the console code. I see the problems. I just pursposed a new cursor api soe we can have a clean fbdev to fbcon abstraction. Also we really need

Linux 2.2.16/Tulip Smartbits testing.

Hi, we've been running some throughput tests (Smartbits test box) using Donald Becker's tulip.c:v0.92 on Linux 2.2.16, on a Pentium 3 800Mhz and a 4 port Dlink DFE-570TX see log below. Basically Smartbits allows one to set the packet size, speed, protocol, etc. For example if you start at 64 byt

Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE?

Adrian Cox wrote: > Unfortunately the kernel is already full of counting semaphores. > Priority inheritance won't save you, as the task which is going to call > up() need not be the same one that called down(). > > Jamie Lokier's suggestion of raising priority when in the kernel doesn't > help

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

Hello! > * davem's patch breaks apps that assume that write(,PIPE_BUF) after > poll(POLLOUT) never blocks, even for blocking pipes. Pardon, but PIPE_BUF <= PAGE_SIZE yet, so that fears have no reasons. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: How can I get promise FastTrak 66 work in kernel?

FastTrak will not work, but Ultra will. On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Thomas Lau wrote: > anyone have idea? > I am helping my friend to ask this question, Thanks > I mean kernel 2.4.1 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: system call for process information?

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hello > > I asked this question on kernel-newbies - no reply, hope to be luckier > here:-) > > I need to collect some info on processes. One way is to read /proc > tree. But isn't there a system call (ioctl) for this? And what are those Occ

Re: How can I get promise FastTrak 66 work in kernel?

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Thomas Lau wrote: > he is using RAID card ! He is using a fraud! > his 2.2.x promise hacked modules work fine, but I didn't install that old > modules, it's not support SCSI emulator surprize gomer, shazam andi, gool-ly opie. When is the world going to learn that unti

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello! > > > * davem's patch breaks apps that assume that write(,PIPE_BUF) after > > poll(POLLOUT) never blocks, even for blocking pipes. > > Pardon, but PIPE_BUF <= PAGE_SIZE yet, so that fears have no reasons. > The difference is the = > < davem's patch > +

[patch] Does this correct a bug in ibmcam.c?

I had problems with copy_from_user. Please CC me as I am not on this list. __ --- ibmcam.c.orig Fri Feb 9 14:30:23 2001 +++ ibmcam.cMon Mar 12 02:58:57 2001 @@ -2527,16 +2527,17 @@ } case VIDIOCSCHAN: { -

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:44:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > You want a write barrier. Write buffering (at least for short intervals) in > > > the drive is very sensible. The kernel needs

Re: [patch] Does this correct a bug in ibmcam.c?

> + int chan; > > - if (copy_from_user(&v, arg, sizeof(v))) > - return -EFAULT; > - if ((v < 0) || (v >= 3)) /* 3 grades of lighting conditions */ > - return -EINVAL; > -

Re: quicksort for linked list

David Wragg wrote: > For modern machines, I'm not sure that quicksort on a linked list is > typically much cheaper than mergesort on a linked list. ... > For lists that don't fit into cache, the advantages of mergesort > should become even greater if the literature on tape and disk sorts > applies

Re: Linux kernel - and regular sync'ing?

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:50:46PM -0800, Brian Dushaw wrote: > - the problem is fixed by adding the "noatime" option when mounting the > root filesystem (I use /etc/fstab to do this) > - there appears to be no harm in not updating the inode access times with > this option. As an aside, y

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac12 (vt82c686 info)

Daniela, Great to hear from you again my dear! ;-) On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:25:43AM +0100, Daniela Engert wrote: > > > >They're about the same - only Alan didn't like the PCI speed measurement > > >code that's new in the 4.x series, so I added all

Re: static scheduling - SCHED_IDLE?

Jamie Lokier wrote: > Adrian Cox wrote: >> Jamie Lokier's suggestion of raising priority when in the kernel doesn't >> help. You need to raise the priority of the task which is currently in >> userspace and will call up() next time it enters the kernel. You don't >> know which task that is.

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

Hello! > It returns immediately on all unix platforms I tested I see. It is essential moment. PAGE_SIZE was really bad threshold value. Sigh and alas. Alexey PS BTW "all unix" is unlikely to include freebsd. 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Linux 2.4.2ac19

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-ac19 o Typo fixes (David

2.4 and PPPoE problem

Hello, I'm using PPPoE with an i586 machine running 2.4.2. The machine connects fine and allows network traffic to pass through the link. However, certain websites seem to choke. (notable ones are www.chapters.ca and www.hp.com) Using Lynx or Netscape I get the same results, a few bytes of tra

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > PS BTW "all unix" is unlikely to include freebsd. 8) > freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, tru64, openvms - all unix versions I found free telnet guest accounts for. Running for cover, Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

Hello! > freebsd Very funny, the idea is borrowed from there. As you could understand your patch kills it. PAGE_SIZE is one of the most frequently used transfer unit. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac19

On 03.12 Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > Silly idea: could you put the full path of the bz2 patch instead of only the dir ? So people will only have to cut'n'paste for wget... -- J.A. Magallon

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac19

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:19:17PM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On 03.12 Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > Silly idea: could you put the full path of the bz2 patch instead of only > the dir ? > > So people will only have to cut'n'paste for wge

Re: 2.4 and PPPoE problem

Martin Hicks wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using PPPoE with an i586 machine running 2.4.2. are you using the kernel pppoe or the user-space one (rp-pppoe, etc)? did it work on other kernels? > > > The machine connects fine and allows network traffic to pass > through the link. > > However, certain we

[jamagallon@able.es: Re: Linux 2.4.2ac19]

On 03.12 J . A . Magallon wrote: On 03.12 Alan Cox wrote: > But then I have to remember to change it each time > I am not used to smileys, but obviously there was one missing in my mail... -- J.A. Magallon $> cd pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > freebsd > > Very funny, the idea is borrowed from there. > > As you could understand your patch kills it. PAGE_SIZE is one of the most > frequently used transfer unit. > freebsd-4.0 doesn't use direct transfers for PAGE_SIZE'd pipe write()s: it uses MINDIRECT=8192

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

Hello! > freebsd-4.0 doesn't use direct transfers for PAGE_SIZE'd pipe write()s: > it uses MINDIRECT=8192. I see. > (and PIPE_BUF is 512, so 4096 was possible for > them) 8) I see. Thank you for patience. 8) Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: linux localization

XingFei writes: > My work will concern with the internationalization of Linux > So, could anybody tell me what kinds of features should be in the > consideration when linux be localized from english to Japanese or chinese, > say using 2 bytes character set. Is this for Linux console i18n? TurboL

[PATCH] Fix MTRR support for AMD Athlon

mtrr.c1.38 Sun Mar 11 13:42:30 2001 +++ mtrr.c Mon Mar 12 21:02:15 2001 @@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ v1.38 20010309 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add support for Cyrix III. + + v1.39 +20010312 Troels Walsted Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + Fixed

Re: Re: make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Thanks for the tips. Yes, I'm using pgcc... Guess I'll switch back to gcc. Thanks again tw Le jour Sun Mar 11, 2001 at 08:54:08PM -0600, Tim Whitehead a ecrit... > On a compile of 2.4.2 I get the following (using make bzImage) > > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2/linux/

Linux 2.4.1 fails to detect any IDE drives upon boot.

Hello, A new system upon which I installed RH 7.0. I tried to install Linux-2.4.1 since that't what all my software is written for... Linux 2.2.16-22 (Came with RedHat 7.0) shows this upon successful startup: VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe ir

Re: 2.4 and PPPoE problem

Yes...my MTU on ppp0 was to high. Thanks. mh On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:06:15PM +0200, mulix wrote: > hi, > > you might want to check your mtu and mru values on both the external > interface (i assume you are using an ADSL modem, from your usage of > PPPoE, so that will be eth0) and the inte

Kernel 2.4.3-pre3 not recognizing some SCSI CD drives

I was running 2.2.18 and everything was working fine. I upgraded to 2.4.3-pre3 and for some unknown reason the kernel will not recognize one particular CD drive on my SCSI chain. I doubt it's hardware related because switching to the old kernel resolves the problem. Furthermore, the other SCSI dev

Re: system call for process information?

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > I need to collect some info on processes. One way is to read /proc > > tree. But isn't there a system call (ioctl) for this? And what are those > > Occam's Razor. Why invent new syscall when re

Re: [tulip] Linux 2.2.16/Tulip Smartbits testing.

John, It's the driver. We have been doing smartbits testing for more than a year and found the same results as you appear to be getting. The driver just dies and never recovers. It attempts to do interrupt mitigation(coalescing) but that appears to be useless. The solution is to write a new dr

Re: IDE on 2.4.2

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:50:23AM +0100, Martin Diehl wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Steven Walter wrote: > > I have this exact same chip on my board (a PCChips M599-LMR or something > > like that) which works flawlessly on 2.4.2, even with UDMA66. > > Do you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 and au

Re: [tulip] Linux 2.2.16/Tulip Smartbits testing.

Chip Are you going to make your driver available for others to use? Godfrey Chip Rodden wrote: > John, > > It's the driver. We have been doing smartbits testing for more > than a year and found the same results as you appear to be getting. > The driver just dies and never recovers. It attemp

[PATCH] documentation mm.h, mmzone.h and swap.h

Hi Linus, Alan, The patch below adds documentation to mm.h, mmzone.h and swap.h. I know it's not complete, but I'm stopping with the documentation for now, I'll continue at a later date ;) Please apply this for the next (pre)kernel. thanks, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; H

Re: [PATCH] Fix MTRR support for AMD Athlon

n Mar 12 20:40:28 2001 +++ linux-dj/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.cMon Mar 12 21:06:28 2001 @@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ v1.38 20010309 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add support for Cyrix III. + + v1.39 +20010312 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + Ugh, I br

Re: curious messages

David Ford writes: > Undo loss 208.179.59.2/143 c2 l0 ss2/3 p0 > simple debug messages, or is someone (andy/dave) interested in them? Debug messages, ignore... Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

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