Fwd: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

2001-04-03 Thread Ed Tomlinson
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:22:10 -0400 From: Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: l On Tuesday 03 April 2001 11:03, Benjamin Redelings I wrote: > Hi,

[PATCH][RFC] appling pressure to icache and dcache - simplified

2001-04-07 Thread Ed Tomlinson
> +inodes_stat.nr_inodes) + shrink_icache_memory(DEF_PRIORITY, GFP_KSWAPD); + /* Once a second, recalculate some VM stats. */ if (time_after(jiffies, recalc + HZ)) { recalc = jiffies; - Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[PATCH] Re: memory usage - dentry_cacheg

2001-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
rink_icache_memory(DEF_PRIORITY, GFP_KSWAPD); + /* Once a second, recalculate some VM stats. */ if (time_after(jiffies, recalc + HZ)) { recalc = jiffies; - Ed Tomlinson Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Andre

Re: [PATCH] Re: memory usage - dentry_cacheg

2001-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:12, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > I have been playing around with patches that fix this problem. What > > > seems to happen is that the VM code is pret

Re: [PATCH] Re: memory usage - dentry_cacheg

2001-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 12 April 2001 22:03, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Thursday 12 April 2001 11:12, Alexander Viro wrote: > > What prompted my patch was observing situations where the icache (and > > dcache too) got so big that they we

[BUG] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'

2001-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
translated traces are of any use just ask. Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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 ht

[BUG] ide-tape is readonly here

2001-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
slower for backups btw) the restore works. What is needed to debug this? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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-inf

more via wierdness

2001-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
and hdparm (used only for info) report changes boot to boot. Why is this happening? I am using ac5 but have observed this for a while. Note that everything seem to work fine in both cases (PIO or DMA)... What else would help debuging this? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 00:00.0 Host

Re: [PATCH] Re: memory usage - dentry_cacheg

2001-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 13 April 2001 00:45, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2001 22:03, Alexander Viro wrote: > > If you are talking about "unused" from the slab POV - _ouch_. Looks like > > extremely bad fragmentation ;-/ It's surprising, and if that's thte ca

Re: [BUG] 8139too 'too much work at interrupt'

2001-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Forgot to mention that reverting to the driver too the version in ac3 cures the problem I am seeing. Ed On Friday 13 April 2001 00:50, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Upgraded to ac5 tonight. It stalled shortly after start a > program to suck news. Looking at a serial console I see > hundre

[BUG] tmpfs and loop

2001-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ET_FD: Invalid argument ) = 37 _exit(32) = ? oscar% Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 768000 2556765444 1% /tmp Bug? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/

[BUG] lvm beta7 and ac11 problems

2001-04-21 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, building a kernel with 2.4.3-ac11 and lvm beta7 + vfs_locking_patch-2.4.2 yields: oscar# depmod -ae 2.4.3-ac11 depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac11/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o depmod: get_hardblocksize ideas? Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
not been needed here since the above fix. Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-20 Thread Ed Tomlinson
that lots of efforts went into finding this hash. This includes testing various hashes on real directory structures to see which one worked best. R5 won. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-21 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed Tomlinson  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The default in reiserfs is now the R5 hash, but you are right that lots of > > efforts went into finding this hash.  This includes testing various > > hashes on real d

[BUG] 2.4.x system Freezes

2001-03-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
it to do a bt command one time it freezes. What else can be done to debug this? Could this be related to the memory problems reported reciently? TIA Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current kernel is 2.4.2-ac7 + kdb 1.8 K6-III 400 via mp3 128M mga400max AGP (x1) with xfree 4.02 driver SB

Re: [BUG] 2.4.x system Freezes

2001-03-03 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 02 March 2001 19:20, you wrote: > > Should an X crash really freeze my box like a block of ice? Would be > > nice if linux could just detect an X crash an recover... Is this too > > much to ask from PC harware? > > X pokes hardware, so X is kind of a device driver in part. One slip and

Re: [reiserfs-list] reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-04 Thread Ed Tomlinson
5.854.6s 198.5s 23% 18:12.5m reiser 6.455.1s 188.7s 24% 16.19.3m Using the notail reiserfs mount option improves the reiserfs numbers 10-20% with both kernels. All benchmarks run on a K6-III 400 with 128M just after boot with no X running. Comments? Ed Tomlinson - To

Re: [reiserfs-list] reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-prerelease (dbench runs)

2001-01-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
5.655.6191.0 22% 18:36.4 reiserfs can do well, but notice how the system cpu seconds varies... I am not seeing such wild differences in ext2 runs, impling that they are due to something in reiserfs? Ed Tomlinson On Thursday 04 January 2001 20:41, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, &g

Re: [reiserfs-list] Don't mix reiserfs and RAID5 in linux-2.4.1-pre8, severe corruption

2001-01-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, This is not just a reiserfs/raid problem. Corruption has been reported on the kernel mailing list with software raid 5 and ext2... Ed On Friday 19 January 2001 16:27, Edward wrote: > Reiserfs in linux-2.4.1-pre8 does not properly with the RAID5 code that > is in that kernel. It is easy

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21: DRM update

2000-11-24 Thread Ed Tomlinson
its 2.4 time. (BTW 2.4.0test11-ac3 BUG()ed out at sched.c:513 when playing the the matrox fb stuff). Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ant reproduce long hangs. Im not seeing as good I/O throughput as before >but right now Im quite happy with the tradeoff. If someone can make it better >then Im happier still If the idea works, lead to simpler code, a more reponsive system maybe with better benchmarks then its a winner. Only way w

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4

2000-09-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
needs to be split out, into sets of small independent patches. This lets Alan audit and control any bad patches easily. The nfsv3 changes should not effect anything unless they are selected in the kernel build. Comments? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list

[lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18

2000-12-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
t in the aa series are bigmem and lvm. I would love to see lvm officially in 2.2... Luck, Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: File I/O benchmarks for various kernel

2000-12-30 Thread Ed Tomlinson
are udma33. The sytem is a K6-III 400 with 128m running: 2.4.0test13pre6 + reil #2 + drm fix + reiserfs 3.6.23 Think ext2 is doing pretty good. I have seen comments that imply dbench does not show reiserfs at its best - they favor the bonnie suite. Luck Ed Tomlinson Daniel Phillips

Re: modutils 2.3.23 fails with tdfx.o with test13-pre6

2000-12-30 Thread Ed Tomlinson
#endif /* __alpha__ */ #include +#include #include #include #include Not sure if this is more than a temporay fix though. Ed Tomlinson Frank Jacobberger wrote: > I can't get the latest modutils to work with loading > tdfx.o... Even went to the directory where tdfx.o resides

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-31 Thread Ed Tomlinson
nch benchmarks? And please do not forget marcello's swap clustering patch. I get a 13% improvement on dbench with reiserfs when patched with it. From conversations on kernelnewbies, Riel likes this one too. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-22 Thread Ed Tomlinson
By this arguement the OOM kill code is fine... If malloc is broken fix it. Maybe we need to stage things so that ENOMEM gets returned to requests before we are totally out of memory. If the apps ignore the errors then the kills happen. Thoughts? Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[Panic] Linux-2.4.2ac22

2001-03-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Got this with ac22... ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.2-ac22.  Options used      -V (default)      -k /var/log/ksymoops/20010323122909.ksyms (specified)      -l /var/log/ksymoops/20010323122909.modules (specified)      -o /lib/modules/2.4.2-ac22/ (default)      -m /boot/System.map-2.4.2-ac22 (def

Fwd: Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ain memory and swap. Think your malloc patch along with UID weighting (1-99 protected, 100-999 endangered, 1000+ open season - with poaching expected if there is no choise) will make help oom processing. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

[PATCH] vmtime and vm balancing

2001-03-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
if (vmtime > INT_MAX - num_physpages) { + vmtime = 0; + bgscan_required = 0; + slab_scan_required = 0; + } } run_task_queue(&tq_disk); --- E

[PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

2001-04-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
omments on style, and suggestions on how to improve this code are very welcome. TIA Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -u -r --exclude-from=ex.txt linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c linux/mm/page_alloc.c --- linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Apr 1 18:52:22 2001 +++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c

Re: [PATCH][RFC] appling preasure to icache and dcache

2001-04-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, The patch in the last message was scrambled. The last two lines belong to the previous fragment. Here is the correct beast. Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -u -r --exclude-from=ex.txt linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c linux/mm/page_alloc.c --- linux.ac28/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Apr 1

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
t going back to a long, intermitantly running task, often does not result in a large delay due to swapins... In short think you should take a serious look at Marcelo's latest work. I have included the merged patch. Marcelo has briefly vetted it but more eyes would be a very good idea...

VM breakdown, 2.4.0 family

2001-01-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
as we need now. I have fives days of uptime with it here (on test9 and test10). Feedback Welcome, Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Gather this is with no swap space allocated... And the question is why does the oom handler not get triggered? Ed Tomlinson David Ford wrote: > (Chris, changing JOURNAL_MAX_BATCH from 900 to 100 didn't affect > anything). > > Ok, having approached this slightly more i

[BUG] linux 2.4.1 to 2.4.1-ac3 hangs

2001-02-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
md Recovery:30ns 30ns 30ns 30ns Data Active: 90ns 90ns 90ns 90ns Data Recovery: 30ns 30ns 30ns 30ns Cycle Time: 60ns 60ns 120ns 120ns Transfer Rate: 33.0MB/s 33.0MB/s 16.5MB/s 16.5MB/s Ed Tomlinson <[E

Re: [BUG] linux 2.4.1 to 2.4.1-ac3 hangs

2001-02-07 Thread Ed Tomlinson
even on the hotest summer day... Next time this happens I will try to telnet or ssh into box to see if anything is active, I will also setup a UPS on the box and see it that can shut it down. Its interesting that the software watchdog does not get triggered. TIA, Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ium based on a nForce 3 250Gb Chipset (x86_64). I`ve been on vacation - the last kernel tried was 11-mm3 which booted fine but refuses to use all the usb ports supplied by the system (two work, three do not all using low speed). Any ideas what might be happening? Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscri

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
eboots once every couple of days 12-rc2-mm3 locked up within 30 mins using X using kmail/bogofilter My serial console does not seem to want to work. Has anything changed with this support? TIA, Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > &g

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial > > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? > > &

Re: 2.4.5 + ReiserFS + SMP + umount = oops

2001-05-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, This was reported on the reiserfs list yesterday. Seems that the cleanup applied late in 2.4.5-pre affected the locking of the umount process. This was posted to fix the problem. Ed Tomlinson --- "Vladimir V. Saveliev" wrote: > > Hi > &g

LVM status in ac7?

2001-06-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, What is the status of LVM in ac7? Is it safe to use the ac7 LVM code on a system currently using beta7? Is the beta7 patched needed with ac7? What is not in the ac7 patches? Is it apt to cause problems? TIA, Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: Comment on patch to remove nr_async_pages limit

2001-06-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
both worlds. Is it possible to allocate the BH early and then defer the IO? The idea being to make IO possible without having to allocate. This would let us remove the async page limit but would ensure we could still free. Thoughts? Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

missing symbol do_softirq in net moduels for pre-2

2001-06-09 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Built -pre2 and noticed most of the modules in net/* are getting a missing symbol for do_softirq. Have I messed up, or is there a real error? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

what is using memory?

2001-06-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ch, lvm beta7 and some reieserfs patches applied, after about 12 hours of uptime. TIA, Ed Tomlinson - 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 P

Re: what is using memory?

2001-06-11 Thread Ed Tomlinson
tring to make is not that this memory is lost or not need, but that is it _not_ accounted. ie. There is not way to tell what is using it, hense we cannot see leaks or places that could be optimized. I have attempted to count all memory I could. The 123M is what is left in the kernel overhead bucke

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-11 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:01, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Jim Crilly wrote: > > > But in most of the changesets on the bkbits site you can go back over 2 > > years and not see anything from namesys people. Nearly all of the fixes > > commited in the past 2-3 years are from SuSe. With Chris Mason's name

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS cannot open a root device

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
your desired filesystem in kernel configuration as Y > rather than M .. I hope this will work One further tip. Make your root FS's type the only one that is not a module. Once you have it booting then, if you want, flip other FSes to in kernel. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 - breaks DRI

2005-07-21 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I just tried 13-rc2-mm1 and dri is working again. Its reported to also work with 13-rc3. What in mm1 is apt to be breaking dri? Thanks Ed Tomlinson -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Xorg and RADEON (dri disabled) Date: Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:25 From: Ed

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 - breaks DRI

2005-07-21 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 21 July 2005 11:56, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -- Forwarded Message -- > >> > >> Subject: Re: Xorg and RADEON (dri disabled) > >> Date: Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:25

enabled udev - empty flash drive fills log with garbage

2005-07-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
? There is an entry in fstab for this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/sd autorw,user,noauto 0 0 should it be disabled or changed? TIA Ed Tomlinson Jul 5 07:46:16 grover kernel: [ 267.496336] usb 1-4.2: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 Jul 5 07:46:17 grover

Re: GIT tree broken? (rsync depreciated)

2005-07-08 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I resync(ed) cg and rebuild this morning and it worked fine. On another tack. Updating the kernel gave a message that rsync is depreciated and will soon be turned off. How should we be updating git/cg trees now? Thanks Ed Tomlinson On Friday 08 July 2005 06:00, Stelian Pop wrote: >

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-08 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ct they have written cleaner code... Why are we fighting about adding this sort of function to the kernel? Yes it may not be the absolute best way to do things. How many times has tcpip be rewritten for linux? The answer is more than once. Lets put R4 in, see how it works, generalize the ideas

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 10 July 2005 01:10, Horst von Brand wrote: > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Lang wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > >> No Flame from me. One thing to remember is that Hans and friends > > >> _

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
>> >> >> >> I also use 2.6.13-rc3-mm1.  Will try with a previous version an report to >> >> lkml if >> >> it works. >> >> >> > >> > I just tried 13-rc2-mm1 and dri is working again. Its reported to also work >> > with 13-rc3. >> > >Hmm no idea what could have broken it, I'm at OLS and don't have

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-28 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 17:58, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I also use 2.6.13-rc3-mm1.  Will try with a previous version an report > >> >> to lkml if > >> >> it works. > >> >> > >> > > >> >

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2/mm1 breaks DRI

2005-07-29 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ed to drop into -mm that > might fix it but I'm snowed under with real work at the moment (taking > a week off for OLS didn't help :-) Pass me the patch. If I can get it to apply I will gladly try it. Real work is always 'fun'... Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [drivers/acpi/sleep] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/acpi] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/13-6-1$ Probably a missing include? Note that this is a non smp x86_64 build. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
non-static declaration include/net/ip.h:376: error: previous declaration of 'ipv4_table' was here make[3]: *** [net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [net/ipv4/ipvs] Error 2 make[1]: *** [net/ipv4] Error 2 make: *** [net] Error 2 Ideas? TIA Ed Tomlinson On Friday 19 August 2005 12:

Re: Fw: Oops with 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 and USB mouse

2005-08-28 Thread Ed Tomlinson
for me. I my case removing a usb device or hub triggers an immediate reboot with mm2. This is fixed removing the above patch. All is ok with mm1 too. I tried the above process but the second patch does not apply. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Ed Tomlinson
4K stacks? How does it hurt to make 4K the default and allow 8K? What _might_ make sense is to make 8K a reason to taint the kernel. Ed Tomlinson - 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: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
id vid ttp I asked about this lkml before and was told it was probably a cpu/hardware issue... Its interesting that Matthew is also running gentoo. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On January 10, 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthew is not alone with this problem. I have it too. Its not new > > here. Its been happening as long as I have had gentoo amd64 > > installed. It can be hard to

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
sa) that triggers the isuue. TIA & test/debug patches welcome, Ed Tomlinson -- 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: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ngo, This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a very good thing - IMHO its something that should go into stable asap. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On January 15, 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A > > backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a very good thing - IMHO its > > something that sho

2.6.24 Panic

2008-01-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
5e 40 f6 47 30 [ 76.859658] ---[ end trace bbed4a3078ba58f5 ]--- [ 76.878661] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! If this is timer related, the kernel uses 'tsc' as a the clocksource 'acpi_pm' is also available. What else will help track this down

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
I like BK, I > > would give it up. > > The way some people are reading the license the price is even higher, > they think it is a forever tainted license as it stands today. I've had > specific requests to clarify this part of the license. > > So how would you suggest th

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 14 February 2005 21:40, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:13:14PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > The way some people are reading the license the price is even higher, > > > they think it is a forever tainted license as it stands today. I've had

Re: Message incompatible avec le système de messagerie

2005-02-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
SVP stop. Cette message et SPAM! Pour local cet pas mal, pur l'internet cet SPAM. m'excuse mon francais terrible Ed Tomlinson On Monday 29 November 2004 11:23, Service de messagerie wrote: > Le message émis par linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org est incompatible avec le > système d

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Ed Tomlinson
d left right and center. This changed after BK. We _are_ getting large benefits from BK. They may be hard to see at our side of the keyboard - but I believe Linus when he says BK is the best tool for him. That this probably will not be the case for ever. Think it still is for now though

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 18 February 2005 02:26, Sean wrote: > On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:00 pm, Theodore Ts'o said: > > > If you think that, you truly do not understand the value of BK, and > > why Linus chose it. > > Hey Ted, > > No, I just disagree that it was an absolute requirement or worth its cost > t

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

2005-01-31 Thread Ed Tomlinson
patches on top of mm2. I compiled using gcc 3.4, with a .config based on 11-rc2 using oldconfig. Ed Tomlinson Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda3 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400) Linux version 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.4 20041218 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-7))

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc4/2.6.11-rc4-mm1/ > > > > > > - Various fixes and updates all over the place. Things seem to have slowed > > down a bit.

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
6:54 grover kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled Feb 23 17:46:54 grover kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A It does not seem to be finding the keyboard at all... Ideas? Ed Tomlinson diff -u ../11-3-2/.config .config --- ../11-3-2/.config

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:40, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 18:12, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:38, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > > > On 02.23, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Ed Tomlinson
l for instance) and asks for comments after a day or two. With this sort of method we would _know_ just how much testing is done. We eventually could start to relate the amount of testing to just how stable the kernel will be. Comments Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

cs46xx and 2.4.6-pre6

2001-06-29 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Suspect the #define CS46XX_APCI_SUPPORT 1 found in cs46xxpm-24.h is bogus. With it defined I can conflicts between it an cs46xx.c with cs46xx_suspend_tlb and cs46xx_resume_tbl Removed the #define and the module built. Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Saturday 05 March 2005 00:08, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these? > > I based them off of Linus's original list. > > Must already be in Linus tree (i.e. 2.6.X+1)? How about must be logicily fixed in the Linus tree - Linus

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
`flush_dcache_mft_record_page' fs/ntfs/attrib.c:1436: warning: implicit declaration of function `mark_mft_record_dirty' fs/ntfs/attrib.c:1443: warning: implicit declaration of function `mark_page_accessed' fs/ntfs/attrib.c:1521: warning: implicit declaration of function `ntfs_cluster

2.4.4-pre8 undefined symbols

2001-04-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
(rwsem_down_write_failed); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS(rwsem_wake); #if RWSEM_DEBUG EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsemtrace); #endif - Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Atrocious icache/dcache in 2.4.2

2001-04-27 Thread Ed Tomlinson
y deadlock avoidance.. +*/ + if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) + return; + + if (spin_trylock(&inode_lock)) { + prune_unused_icache(0); + kmem_cache_shrink(inode_cachep); + } } /* ----- Comments? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubsc

[BUG] pdc20267 and dma timeouts

2001-05-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I am running 2.4.4 with the lvm -0.91 beta7 patches applied on a debian sid base. When I checked my box this morning the follow greeted me on the serial console. The reiserfs errors are caused by the DMA timeout. Note this is a ultra100 controller not supporting raid. hde: timeout waitin

Linux 2.4.4-ac5; hpt370 & new dma setup

2001-05-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
but the > kernel hung anyway after 5 minutes of waiting. > > I must have an unlucky set of hardware (via chipset VP6 board, Live!, > ibm drives). Funny I have had the same problem with 2.4.4 only with a pdc20267 (reported to lkml with topic '[BUG] pdc20267 and dma timeouts'

oops with 2.4.5-pre1

2001-05-07 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi After 4 days of uptime I got the following oops. Nothing special was happening at the time. Ideas? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ksymoops 2.4.1 on i586 2.4.5-pre1. Options used -V (default) -k 20010507195318.ksyms (specified) -l 20010507195318.modules (spe

Re: ATAPI Tape Driver Failure in Kernel 2.4.4, More

2001-05-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
; to do is be able to write to the tape, but not read from it. Even in 2.2.x, putting >the > IDE patches in, breaks it. Apparently the HP's aren't completely ATAPI compatible I can write my HP 20GB drive with ide-tape. For restores I use ide-scsi. Its a bit of a hack but d

IDE DMA timeouts and reiserfs stability

2001-05-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
would call reiserfsck -a again to do the work (if required) and ask if its ok to do the fix-fixable or rebuild-tree Think reiserfsck is getting good enough for this, and it would probably avoid many of the problem currently popping up on the list. Thoughts? Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
amd64 here. Thanks Ed Tomlinson On Thursday 30 November 2006 08:03, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 23:10, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:42:20 -0500 Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 05:02, Andrew Morton wr

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500 > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I booted without the video and vga settings with earlyprintk=vga and got > > output. The > > kenerl was complaining about

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:09, Akinobu Mita wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:19:00PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500 > > > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ce and target luns (drives). When one updates the cloneset the target is made identical to the source. Its a great way to do backups. Its an important feature to be able to write to the target drives. I would love to see this working at a filesystem level. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe fro

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
it needs to update its usable and if you access an element that should be updated you will see the correctly updated version - even though backgound resyncing is still in progress. This type of logic is great for backups. Thanks Ed Tomlinson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-29 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 05:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > Will appear eventually at > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/ This kernel does not boot here. It does not get far enough to post anything to my serial console. The last booted ker

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-30 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 23:10, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:42:20 -0500 Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 05:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Will appear eventually at > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pu

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5 v2] Convert all tasklets to workqueues V2

2007-06-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
] [] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [ 54.223484] [] kthread+0x0/0x110 [ 54.226075] [] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Has this patch uncovered a problem in bluetooth or is it a problem with the patch? TIA, Ed Tomlinson On Friday 22 June 2007 14:20, Steven Rostedt wrote: > -- > > This is version 2 of the t

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
new in v19 - something in v19 is not meshing well with my mix of applications... Kernel is gentoo 2.6.22-r1 + cfs v19 How can I help to debug this? Ed Tomlinson On Friday 06 July 2007 13:33, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i'm pleased to announce release -v19 of the CFS scheduler patchset. > &

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v19

2007-07-16 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 16 July 2007 05:17, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I run a java application at nice 15. Its been a background > > application here for as long as SD and CFS have been around. If I > > have a compile running

Re: Renice X for cpu schedulers

2007-04-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
ct at all (and doesn't on other people's > > machines). > > I suggest trying the latest version which fixes some bugs. > > SD just doesn't do nearly as good as the stock scheduler, or CFS, here. > > I'm quite likely one of the few single-CPU/non-H

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