From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:12:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:12:49 -0400 Received: from switch.datavakten.no ([195.159.40.3]:10510 "HELO switch.datavakten.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:12:38 -0400 From: =?us-ascii?Q?Oyvind_Jagtnes?= To: Subject: RE: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:58:30 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It works fine on my dual ppro 200 (not sure what mobo). Here is lcpci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02) 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U 00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] It has 2 atlas iv disks attached + 3 ide disks. Boots from ide and running scsi disks in lvm. Oyvind Jagtnes -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Andy Carlson Sent: 7. mai 2001 15:04 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine I have a dual ppro 200MHZ W6LI motherboard. I put 2.4.4-ac5 on last night, and the machine hung at Freeing unused Kernel memory. I selectively backed off what I thought were relevant patches. I got to aic7xxx, and ac5 without it worked. I attached /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ naclos@swbell.net ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org On Mon, 7 May 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote: > Hi, > > The appended patch does it's own accounting of shmem pages and adjust > the page cache size to take these into account. So now again you will > see shmem pages as used in top/vmstat etc. This confused a lot of > people. > > There is a uncertainty in the calculations since the vm may drop pages > behind shmem and the number of shmem pages is estimated too high. This > especially happens on truncate because first the page cache is reduced > and later the shmem readjusts it's count. > > To prevent negative cache sizes the adjustment is only done if > shmem_nrpages > page_cache_size. > > The latter part of the patch (all the init.c files) also exports the > shmem page number to the shared memory field in meminfo. This means a > change in semantics of this field but apparently a lot of people > interpret this field exactly this way and it was not used any more > > The patches are on top of my encapsulation patch. > > Greetings > Christoph >