Okay I've got a bug reported before and now again about > 4GB + radeon blows up the DRM... on Intel hw... What the drm currently does for the PCI GART table is it allocates a chunk of memory (8MB) with vmalloc_32(), then when it decides to use it it goes through every page of it calls pci_map_single() (with PCI_DMA_TODEVICE, which is probably wrong...) with every page from the vmalloc mapping and puts the bus addresses of the pages into the PCI GART table on the GPU. So when swiotlb happens, ...

Three cleanups there: - change "instable" -> "unstable" - it's better to use get_cpu_var for getting this cpu's variables - change cycles_2_ns to do the full computation rather than just the tsc->ns scaling. It's a simpler interface, and it makes the function more generally useful. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> --- arch/i386/kernel/sched-clock.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) ===...

Looks like an old RHEL3 kernel - first off try the latest updated kernel which is 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -

"Valentin Zaharov" wrote on 04/01/2007 03:02:07 AM: > Hi again, > > After applying changes manually to 2.6.20.4 according to the link that > Steven sent I still get those errors (attached below) but no crash so > far. > I am wondering if its ok or having errors still will cause freezes. It is ok and I see no indication of lookup. You have two errors logged: a) a missing entry in the kernel translation table for your default codepage to UCS-16 (Unicode). "char2uni retur...

Hi I have a dual core Opteron machine that exhibits poor UDP performance (RT consumes more than 2X cpu) with the 2.6.21-rc5-rt5 as compared to 2.6.21-rc5. Top shows the IRQ handler consuming a lot of CPU. The mother board is a Supermicro H8DME-2 with one dual core Opteron installed. The networking is provided by the on board nVidia MCP55Pro chip. The RT test is done using netperf 2.4.3 with the server on an IBM LS20 blade running RHEL4U2 and the Supermicro running netperf under RHEL5 with 2...

Yes, I have a opreport from about 15 seconds in the middle of the test correct. no errors, the throughput in the RT was less, I assume it was CPU bound. Thanks Dave. CPU: AMD64 processors, speed 2211.36 MHz (estimated) Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Cycles outside of halt state) with a unit mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 100000 samples % image name app name symbol name 16375 13.2965 vmlinux vmlinux __sched_t...

I'm working on a project with teams spread across the world and we all work on the same repository patching the kernel and then integrating into a common main branch. Even though we label the source code, we would like to make sure that we are all building the same kernel by running md5sum on the resulting binary. Right now, this is not possible because the kernel includes a timestamp and a build number on the binary. What are this timestamps used for? Can we just remove them? Is there any other th...

This is so much more than I could have asked for! I will try this patch on my version of the kernel. Thanks a lot, Ed -- Encontrá a "Tu psicópata favorito" http://tuxmaniac.blogspot.com The future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valéry -

If you just want to make sure that interfaces match, CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL should be doing the right thing. Jan -- -

ok, sounds reasonable. _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192 -

Well, the point of an upper limit might be to keep loop devices from chewing up too much memory on a system. IE: To fail allocating more loopdevs before you run OOM and start killing random userspace processes. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -

we were actually looking at this last week. I'll take it for a spin and if it's good I'll push it through upstream. Thanks! -

some boot time analysis using this facility: with an allyesconfig bzImage kernel, here are all initcalls that took more than 10 msecs to execute (51 initcalls out of 1981). The list was generated via: dmesg | grep ' ran for ' | sort -r -n -t' ' -k +5 some entries (like old ISA drivers which have to auto-detect the hard way) are not a surprise. Some others, like eeprom_init() or acpi_pci_root_init(), are. the 51 entries took 121.8 seconds to execute: echo `dmesg | grep ' ran fo...

Andrew Morton noted in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/30/247 """We do occasionally hit task_struct.comm[] truncation, when people use "too-long-a-name%d" for their kernel thread names.""" This patch warns when such a truncation happens. Already posted on http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/3/93 Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> kthread.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc...

NACK. This has the potential to significantly break backwards- compatibility for users of those cards who are not using udev to maintain consistent device naming (because they only have a single card, for example). I would recommend against applying it for that reason. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -

This part of kconfig is taken care of by Roman Zippel. Kept the full mail for his reference. Sam -

Show the fill status of a pipe (in bytes) when stat'ing one. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> fs/stat.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/un.h | 2 ++ include/net/af_unix.h | 3 +++ net/unix/af_unix.c | 10 ++++++++++ 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/fs/stat.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/fs/stat.c +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/f...

From: Dave Jones Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/255 Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Dave Jones <Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> request.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/fs/smbfs/request.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/fs/smbfs/request.c +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/fs/smbfs/request.c @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ int smb_add_request(struct smb_request * smb...

It seems to have been resent once, 7 days after you: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/15/231 At that time, I had experienced strange copy failures ("No such file or directory") while the directory being copied was not modified. With the patch, I at least got EINTR instead of ENOENT, which I think made cp think once more to retry. Jan -- -

Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem is not mounted. This helps to track spell'o's and missing drivers. From: David Alan Gilbert, http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/26/92 Updated to work with newer kernels. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> block/genhd.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/genhd.h | 1 init/do_mounts.c | 7 +++++- 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.21...

Allow the printk level to be set using a "conlevel=" parameter. (Or is there already a different bootoption that does the same thing?) Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> printk.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/kernel/printk.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/kernel/printk.c +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/kernel/printk.c @@ -747,6 +747,15 @@ void resume_console(void) } #endif ...

Make HZ fully configurable through menuconfig. Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/18/111 Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/8/307) Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Kconfig.hz | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/kernel/Kconfig.hz =================================================================...

People always come up with new complexities I never thought kconfig would be able to do. Nice stuff. I'll take up on your idea and incorporate it right away. But I would have to ask: Why do we need 100/250/300/1000 if there is anyway an input field for the user to enter - s/he should read the help text for Known Good values, should not s/he? Jan -- -

conversely, if someone truly wants to set a kernel config option to some outrageous value, they should have that freedom. it's called "playing." rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -

Add a CONFIG_I_KNOW_WHAT_THE_HELL_I_AM_DOING variable with a really strong warning attached to it (and a shorter CONFIG_EXPERT variable for use in Kconfig files where it's a PITA to type out the full name) Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> --- Since my mailer tends to mangle patches I've attached this one