From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267568AbUG3Br1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:47:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267571AbUG3Br1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:47:27 -0400 Received: from out002pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.141]:41128 "EHLO out002.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267568AbUG3BrX (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:47:23 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crash(s)? Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:47:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" References: <200407242156.40726.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200407291822.47209.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20040729151415.094c8d01.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040729151415.094c8d01.rddunlap@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407292147.21463.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [141.153.90.166] at Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:47:22 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 29 July 2004 18:14, Randy.Dunlap wrote: [...] I've gone clear back to a 2.6.7 kernel because thats the newest one that has a diff when cmp'ing fs/dcache.c files to whats in 2.6.8-rc2. I've had one Oops, virtually the same one, but it didn't kill the machine like it would have if I was running 2.6.8-rc2. >| >and >| >make path/to/.s >| >| But this ones still being difficult. Make does want to generate >| it. At best it claims that dcache.o is uptodate. I don't figure >| one file is worth much without the other, so whats wrong with my >| syntax? [root@coyote fs]# make dcache.c>.s >| [root@coyote fs]# less .s >| Which contains "make: Nothing to be done for `dcache.c'." > >This should be (without < > brackets): > >make fs/dcache.s Aha! Voila!! It doesn't work in the "fs" subdir, but back out to the top of the src tree and it works just fine. Duh... Now, I must confess that what I'm looking at in those two files is the .s is the source assembly that would normally be fed to gas, and the objdump'ed version is the dissed object translated back to gas source. If no mistakes, they should be pretty close to the same I'd think. Am I on the right track? Or full of it? Here's the theory thats gradually formed in whats left of my mind: -------------- 5 things changed in the kernel soft when I changed the mobo. 1. The ide driver, from via686a to the nforce2 version. 2. The video driver, because the old card failed and took the mobo with it. 3. Ethernet driver is now forcedeth instead of rtl-8139too 4. A different alsa driver, from via8233 to intel-8x0 5. The 4Gb switch is turned on in the kernel now as theres a gig of ram on this board. -------------- I can't do anything about the first 2, but I can do without the last 200 megs of ram long enough to test that, and I can switch back to the rtl-8139too card for ethernet, and I can turn off alsasound. In the meantime I turned a bunch of stuff the logs were complaining about off, like sgi_fam (what the heck is that?), some ups daemons for brands I don't have, that sort of thing, and have a tail running on the log. So far, its clean since the restart of xinetd. Another 16 hours will tell most of the tale for this particular instant configuration. One final question if I may: What do I turn off (or on) in the video dept of the kernel so that my screen doesn't go black after vmlinuz is unpacked, and not come back on till "init" is run, at which point the screen comes back on in what looks to be exactly the same mode? Anything that goes on in that time period must be read from /var/log/dmesg later if I want to see it. >-- >~Randy -- Cheers Randy, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.