RE: Kernel OOPS with aacraid driver

2005-04-22 Thread Yum Rayan
> > BTW, this says that this is the second oops: "[#2]". > > What was the first one? > Apr 21 10:53:27 www adaptec-smbe: aiomgrd startup succeeded > Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL > pointer dereference > at virtual address 0034 Seems to me like someone is issuing I

[PATCH]megaraid_sas: Reduce stack usage in megasas_probe_one()

2005-04-20 Thread Yum Rayan
This patch reduces stack usage in megasas_probe_one() from to 2200 to 156. A patched version of gcc 3.4.3 with -fno-unit-at-a-time disabled was used on i386 platform. Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3.a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c 2005-04-14

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/sg.c: several against 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-28 Thread Yum Rayan
In the diff >+ if (old_hdr) >+ kfree(old_hdr); >+ return retval; The check for NULL is not needed. Thanks, Rayan On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:48:10 +1000, Douglas Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attachment combines the most recent patch from &

Re: [PATCH] Reduce stack usage in sg.c

2005-03-25 Thread Yum Rayan
umn editor. The second "+" is not a statement but the second argument of the __wait_event_interruptible macro. So this is verified good. Reworked patch follows. Regards, Rayan Summary: Reduce stack usage in sg_read() and sg_ioctl() Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff

[PATCH] Reduce stack usage in sg.c

2005-03-22 Thread Yum Rayan
Attempt to reduce stack usage in sg.c. Used checkstack.pl script to measure stack usage and noted follows: Before patch: sg_ioctl - 412 sg_read - 200 After patch: sg_ioctl - 92 sg_read - 96 Thanks, Rayan Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nur linux-2.6.11.5.orig/driver