init/main.c do-while bug still there ?

2000-09-18 Thread J.A. Magallon
First of all, sorry for posting to the list without being subscribed. I have seen in kernel 2.4.0-test8 and test9-pre2 sources that a bug that was making kernel 2.2.18 not bootable is still present. Someone said it was a back-ported bug, so I supposed that the patcd had been "for-ported" (what a

VM kernel patch ?

2000-10-25 Thread J.A. Magallon
I have heard about the Andrea's patch to improve VM in kernels 2.2. Is this http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/ 2.2.18pre9/VM* ? Has anybody tried it on post pre9 kernels ? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: Status of new kernel.org servers

2005-04-10 Thread J.A. Magallon
they just go boring now with sufficient > > hardware resources? :-) > > No; the issue there is that with multiple servers we have to change the > way they're generated and distributed. Nathan Laredo is working on > that, but it's so obviousl

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
call do_nmi - jmp restore_all + jmp restore_nocheck nmi_stack_fixup: FIX_STACK(12,nmi_stack_correct, 1) -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Lim

What does 'WrongLevel' mean in RAID0 ?

2005-04-12 Thread J.A. Magallon
652 active sync /dev/hdd1 -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Limited Edition 2005) for i586 Linux 2.6.11-jam14 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrake

Re: What does 'WrongLevel' mean in RAID0 ?

2005-04-12 Thread J.A. Magallon
ably trying to monitor a raid0 (which isn't meaningful) > and mdadm is telling you (in its own idiosyncratic way) that it isn't > going to monitor it. > Thank you very much !! One less mistery in my life ;) -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!ab

Re: Thread_Id

2005-07-14 Thread J.A. Magallon
via clone(CLONE_THREAD) syscall'. - man pages about phthreads library also talk about 'threads', but that should be read as 'posix threads created via pthread_create'. And none guarantees that both 'threads' are the same. If you just want to use gettid(), don

[PATCH] Assorted fixes

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
atchset, collected from the list, Just post them fwiw (they don't hurt but I'm no more sure if they are needed) Patches come in replys to this mail... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it

[PATCH] fix kmalloc in IDE

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2005-06-23 11:38:02.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.git

[PATCH] fix LDT tss

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux.orig/include/asm-i386/processor.h +++ linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h @@ -476,7 +476,6

[PATCH] SCSI SATA is a tristate

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1/drivers/scsi/Kconfig.old 2005-07-02 21:57:40.0 +0200 +++ linu

[PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;) --- linux-2.6.12-jam1/scripts/mod/su

[PATCH] SMB fix

2005-07-15 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ > > --- linux-2.6.12/fs/smbfs/request.c~2005-07-07 14:41:11.0 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.12/fs/smbfs/

Re: nVidia stuff again

2005-04-22 Thread J.A. Magallon
6156 Apr 11 01:12 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.7174* 12 Mb of code is too much for a wrapper that just loads the hardware and calls a rom ;) What is there ? Runtime loadable microcode ? Specially optimized code for sending data to 2 pipes on a GeForce2 and 8 on a 6800 ? Who knows. But sure the

Re: [PATCH] signed char fixes for scripts

2005-07-27 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 07.27, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:14:43PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > On 07.16, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > > > On 07.15, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-01 Thread J.A. Magallon
ev is 068 version. Any idea about what can be the reason ? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.13 (gcc 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-02 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 09.02, Andrew Morton wrote: > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 1/09/2005 10:58 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/ > > > > &g

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-02 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 09.02, Andrew Morton wrote: > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 09.02, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On

Re: 2.6.11-mm4

2005-03-16 Thread J.A. Magallon
/gconf.c:973: warning: 'renderer_toggled' defined but not used make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/gconf.o] Error 1 make: *** [gconfig] Error 2 An if you just open gconf.glade with glade-2 and just _save_ it without doing nothing, it changes a lot of things. by -- J.A. Magallon

Re: 2.6.11-mm4

2005-03-16 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.16, Andrew Morton wrote: > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 03.16, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm4/ > > > > >

[PATCH] make gconfig build again

2005-03-16 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.16, Andrew Morton wrote: > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 03.16, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm4/ > > > > >

Re: Distinguish real vs. virtual CPUs?

2005-03-21 Thread J.A. Magallon
ial for HT (it uses my 4 cpus as 'real' ones), I usually get a 125-130% gain. So the theoretical performance loos true. Your application behaviour has to be really nasty to run slower with 2 threads on an HT-P4 that with one thread. Hope this helps. -- J.A. Magallon \ Soft

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 : Fix hang on unload

2005-02-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
rmmod just hangs forever... I looked also at other 1394 drivers and all have the calls in 'bad' order. Sure this ordering has to be reversed or it is correct and is triggering other hidden bug ? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es

Re: [PATCH] Makefiles are not built using a Fortran compiler

2005-02-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
> > > > #MAKEFLAGS += -rR > aic7xxx fails if you select to build firmware and use -R. -R suppress the variable definitions, so a rule for lex and yacc is missing and aicasm fails to build. A rule for lex and yacc could be added somewhere in kbuild... -- J.A. Magallon \

udev::cdsymlinks does not consider a 'cdrw' as a 'cdrom'

2005-02-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
nada:~> cdsymlinks hdh nada:~> cdsymlinks hdh -d Devices: hdh DVDRAM : 1 hdh DVDRW : 1 hdh DVD: 1 hdh CDRW : 1 hdh CDR: 1 hdh CDWMRW : CDMRW : CDROM : (all) hdh And now that I realize it, why the different debug output ??? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \

Re: udev::cdsymlinks does not consider a 'cdrw' as a 'cdrom'

2005-02-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.02.12, J.A. Magallon wrote: > Hi... > > I have a little problem with udev. I have udev-051, but have tried > cdsymlinks.c from 053 and is the same. > > It does not give 'cdrom' or 'dvd' for DVD writers. > In one box, hdb is a DVD, and hdc is a

Re: udev::cdsymlinks does not consider a 'cdrw' as a 'cdrom'

2005-02-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.02.12, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 2005.02.12, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > Hi... > > > > I have a little problem with udev. I have udev-051, but have tried > > cdsymlinks.c from 053 and is the same. > > > > It does not give 'cdrom' or

[PATCH] fixes for cdsymlinks.c

2005-02-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
list_assign_split (&cap_CDWMRW, text); } if (!feof (info)) Hope this is correct and will be included in udev-054 ;) TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.10-jam9 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-3mdk)) #1 pgprJwul2AbUT.pgp Description: PGP signature

udev and cdsymlinks

2005-02-14 Thread J.A. Magallon
%d", link, count); + while (list_search (&devls, buf)) + snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "%s%d", link, ++count); + /* If ISDEV, output it. */ + if (isdev) + printf ("%s ", buf); /* If the link isn't in our

Strange problem with sensors: 0 RPMs ?

2005-02-03 Thread J.A. Magallon
er gave me an speed, always 0. :( What a mess... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.10-jam7 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux

Re: Strange problem with sensors: 0 RPMs ?

2005-02-03 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.02.04, J.A. Magallon wrote: > Hi all... > > I have a dual Xeon box. I got tired of the noise of the Intel boxed > fans and bought a couple of Swiftech 'hedegehogs' and two ThemalTake > fans. > Board is an Asus PCDL and sensors chip is a w83627hf (heavily m

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-23 Thread J.A. Magallon
device naming scheme ... TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.10-jam10 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-3mdk)) #2 - To u

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1

2005-02-24 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 02.24, 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: > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/lin

Re: 2.6.11-rc5: Promise SATA150 TX4 failure

2005-03-01 Thread J.A. Magallon
ideas about what changed wrt sata ? -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.10-jam12 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-3mdk)) #1

Something is broken with SATA RAID ?

2005-03-02 Thread J.A. Magallon
n -mm ? More details, like sata card model and setup on demand... TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.10-jam10 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrakel

2.6.11-rc3-mm2: broken NFS ?

2005-03-03 Thread J.A. Magallon
t /proc/fs/nfs/exports # Version 1.1 # Path Client(Flags) # IPs Nothing ? What is wrong with this setup ? Kernel is 2.6.11-rc3-mm2, nfs-utils-1.0.7. TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it'

nothing in /proc/fs/nfs/exports ?

2005-03-04 Thread J.A. Magallon
root_squash,no_subtree_check) = /var/lib/nfs/xtab = /proc/fs/nfs/exports # Version 1.1 # Path Client(Flags) # IPs Nothing in xtab ? Nothing in /proc ? Why ? werewolf:~# df /store FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 ext3 115377640 39848024

Re: Something is broken with SATA RAID ?

2005-03-04 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.03, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:39:41AM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > Hi... > > > > I posted this in other mail, but now I can confirm this. > > > > I have a box with a SATA RAID-5, and with 2.6.11-rc3-mm2+libata-dev1 > >

Re: nothing in /proc/fs/nfs/exports ?

2005-03-04 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.04, Trond Myklebust wrote: > fr den 04.03.2005 Klokka 11:58 (+) skreiv J.A. Magallon: > > > = /proc/fs/nfs/exports > > # Version 1.1 > > # Path Client(Flags) # IPs > > > > Nothing in xtab ? Nothing in /proc ? Why ? > > > > &qu

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-05 Thread J.A. Magallon
; if (entry) entry->proc_fops = &exports_operations; } ... But nfs-utils 1.0.7 say that you can mount nfsd at /proc/fs/nfsd. What 'exports' would kernel use ? Just duplicate info or a bug ? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!ab

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.09, Robert Love wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 23:36 +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > Can cpu affinity really be changed for a running process ? > > Yes. > > > Does it need something like io or yielding to take effect ? > > No. > ... > >

Re: 2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread J.A. Magallon
ewolf:~# runon -c -p 8277 pid 8277's current affinity list: 0 The program uses posix threads, 2 in this case. The two threads change from cpu sometimes (not too often), but do not go into the same processor immediately as when I start the program directly with runon/taskset.

Re: AGP bogosities

2005-03-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
evice at :00:00.0 into 4x mode Mar 11 23:00:29 werewolf kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at :01:00.0 into 4x mode The nvidia driver (brand new 1.0-7167, now works with stock -mm) tells me it is in x8 mode, but i suspect it lies Will try your patch right no

Re: AGP bogosities

2005-03-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.11, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:11:08PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > On 03.11, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Linus, > > > > > ... > > > > > > Oh, and by the way, I have 3D working relatively well on m

Re: AGP bogosities

2005-03-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.12, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 22:46 +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 03.11, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:11:08PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > > > > > On 03.

Re: AGP bogosities

2005-03-11 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.12, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 23:17 +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 03.12, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 22:46 +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > > On 03.11, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Ma

Re: Poor SATA / RAID performance (2.6.11 and promise SATAII150 TX4)

2005-03-31 Thread J.A. Magallon
RAID5 array (/dev/md0) seems very low - I expect > quite an increase over a single device due to striping > - the number of interrupts per second (1023) seems very high > It is not marvelous in my case, but slightly better than yours... -- J.A. Magallon \ Softw

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread J.A. Magallon
artitions immediately > available. Also cleans up the mount_block_root() function. > > Based on an earlier patch from William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This does not patch against -mm1. -mm1 looks like a mix

Re: [patch 3/3] spinlock fix #3: type-checking spinlock primitives, x86

2005-01-20 Thread J.A. Magallon
it(spinlock_t *lock) Will have any real effect if you add things like: +static inline void spin_lock_init(spinlock_t *lock) __attribute__((__pure__)); ?? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when i

Re: patch to enable Nvidia v5336 on v2.6.11 kernel (was Re: inter_module_get and __symbol_get)

2005-01-25 Thread J.A. Magallon
y nvidia (ah, and don't load any agp related module...). Ah, just a ton of workarounds -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.10-ja

Re: patch to enable Nvidia v5336 on v2.6.11 kernel (was Re: inter_module_get and __symbol_get)

2005-01-25 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.01.25, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:56:25PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > You can use the latest drivers (6629) with this patches: > > > > http://www.minion.de/files/1.0-6629/ > > > > They work fine up to -rc2. > &g

Re: patch to enable Nvidia v5336 on v2.6.11 kernel (was Re: inter_module_get and __symbol_get)

2005-01-25 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 2005.01.25, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:56:25PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > > You can use the latest drivers (6629) with this patches: > > > > http://www.minion.de/files/1.0-6629/ > > > > They work fine up to -rc2. > &g

Opteron box and 4Gb memory

2007-10-25 Thread J.A. Magallon
: base=0xb000 (2816MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0xb800 (2944MB), size= 16MB: write-back, count=1 Why ? Is it a bios setup problem ? A kernel problem ? grep HIGHMEN in configs for both kernels does not give anything, so I still understand less this thing... -- J.A