RE: Linux-2.4.0-test10

RE: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[CRADOCK, Christopher]

I have a similar hardware list and I don't observe any of these problems on
2.4.0-test10x. Is it possibly a hardware conflict somewhere?

What I do see occasionally is if X was ever heavy on the memory usage (say
I've run GIMP for a couple of hours) then the text console's font set gets
trashed until the next reboot. Console driver failing to reset something?

Chris Cradock

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	M.H.VanLeeuwen [SMTP:vanl@megsinet.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 01, 2000 6:03 AM
> To:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc:	torvalds@transmeta.com
> Subject:	Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10
> 
> FYI,
> 
> My list of 2.4.0-testX problems
> 
> Further details, .config, etc...available if needed
> 
> Martin
> 
> 2.4.0-test10 and earlier problem list:
>  
> Problem |       UP              UP-APIC         SMP
> --------|------------------------------------------------
> 1       |       OK              OK              HARDLOCK
> 2       |       OK              FAILS           OK
> 3       |       HARDLOCK        HARDLOCK        HARDLOCK
> 4       |       BROKEN          BROKEN          BROKEN
> 
> Problem description:
>  
> 1.  kernel compiled w/o FB support.  When attempting to switch
>     back to X from VC1-6 system locks hard for SMP.  Nada thing
>     fixes this except hard reset... no Alt-SysRq-B, nothing
>     DRI not enabled.  Video card has r128 chipset.
>  
> 2.  System is a NFS root machine, after a period of heavy ntwk
>     activity, eg. "make clean" in /usr/src/linux ETH0 no longer
>     works or sometimes just ntwk activity during system boot is
>     enough to cause the ETH activity to cease.
>     The only recourse is to Alt-SysRq-B the system.
>     NIC = NE2K ISA
>  
> 3. Enabling PIIX4, kernel locks hard when printing the partition
>    tables for hdc.   hdc has no partitions.
>    I think this problem is on Ted's problem list???
>  
> 4. ISAPNP assigns an invalid/unusable IRQ to NE2K NIC card.
>    Previously reported to Linux & Ingo, they asked for an MPTABLE
>    dump, haven't heard back since providing said data.
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Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[M.H.VanLeeuwen]

"CRADOCK, Christopher" wrote:
> 
> I have a similar hardware list and I don't observe any of these problems on
> 2.4.0-test10x. Is it possibly a hardware conflict somewhere?
> 
> What I do see occasionally is if X was ever heavy on the memory usage (say
> I've run GIMP for a couple of hours) then the text console's font set gets
> trashed until the next reboot. Console driver failing to reset something?
> 
> Chris Cradock
> 

Hi Chris

Never had the trashed fonts before.

How about a better comparison of systems?
All I mentioned were r128, ne2k, PIIX4 and SMP,  barely enough to claim similar
hardware thus these aren't real problems cause you don't see them.
I can send you gory details if your interested.

My reason for claiming these are problems, maybe not show stoppers, are:

This system is rock solid on 2.2.X.

problem 1, shouldn't fail on 2.4 if it works just fine on 2.2.  Probably a locking
issue but I'm not sure.  Any idea where to put some BKL's to see if the problem
will go away?

problem 2, happens randomly, so is it a hardware problem or a software issue?  being
that the system works fine SMP and UP then my guess is a software interaction when
UP-APIC is enabled, a race condition??

problem 3, new feature in 2.4, one would expect, hey, I've got this hdwr in my system,
let me enable this option...  wait a minute the system doesn't boot...

problem 4, ISAPNP in the kernel is new for 2.4, i was pointing out that it can be
improved to make it better able to select IRQ's that work so that the user can just
upgrade to 2.4 without having to tweak the BIOS and/or the code.  I sent a patch to
Linus but he rejected it, yes I realize it was a weak attempt but it fixed my ISAPNP
problems, and no one has proposed a better solution.  Shouldn't the
first release of 2.4.0 show that it's new capabilities are ready for prime time?


Thanks,
Martin


> 1.  kernel compiled w/o FB support.  When attempting to switch
>     back to X from VC1-6 system locks hard for SMP.  Nada thing
>     fixes this except hard reset... no Alt-SysRq-B, nothing
>     DRI not enabled.  Video card has r128 chipset.
>  
> 2.  System is a NFS root machine, after a period of heavy ntwk
>     activity, eg. "make clean" in /usr/src/linux ETH0 no longer
>     works or sometimes just ntwk activity during system boot is
>     enough to cause the ETH activity to cease.
>     The only recourse is to Alt-SysRq-B the system.
>     NIC = NE2K ISA
>  
> 3. Enabling PIIX4, kernel locks hard when printing the partition
>    tables for hdc.   hdc has no partitions.
>    I think this problem is on Ted's problem list???
>  
> 4. ISAPNP assigns an invalid/unusable IRQ to NE2K NIC card.
>    Previously reported to Linus & Ingo, they asked for an MPTABLE
>    dump, haven't heard back since providing said data.
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Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:44:25PM -0600, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote:
> "CRADOCK, Christopher" wrote:
> > I have a similar hardware list and I don't observe any of these problems on
> > 2.4.0-test10x. Is it possibly a hardware conflict somewhere?
> > 
> > What I do see occasionally is if X was ever heavy on the memory usage (say
> > I've run GIMP for a couple of hours) then the text console's font set gets
> > trashed until the next reboot. Console driver failing to reset something?

> Never had the trashed fonts before.

Well, here never did until today :)   With test9, I had left the box idle
downloading stuff over ppp for like 6h under X.  While wget was running,
switched to a vc and with each dot wget printed, the font map got screwed
up more and more.

Not a particular useful report, but I thought I'd mention it in case it
rings a bell somewhere .. UP instead of your SMP, VIA instead of PIIX.
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Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:57:06PM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> Well, here never did until today :)   With test9, I had left the box idle

Just happened with test10, same circumstances .. font map got corrupted, and
noise on the screen.  Switching back and forth from X to a vc fixed it, tho. 

Sort of amusing that it (apparently) only happens with ppp + wget ..

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Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[kernel]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:38:56PM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:57:06PM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> > Well, here never did until today :)   With test9, I had left the box idle
> 
> Just happened with test10, same circumstances .. font map got corrupted, and
> noise on the screen.  Switching back and forth from X to a vc fixed it, tho. 
> 
> Sort of amusing that it (apparently) only happens with ppp + wget ..

You have a voodoo3 or voodoo5 with X4, and the DRI X4 module loaded.

Or am I wrong?

Zephaniah E. Hull.
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Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[Ben Ford]

I have this problem also.  I am running vesafb and X4.01 w/ a voodoo3500.
Switching to a vc sometimes gives you black text (hiliting w/ mouse fixes it) and
alternating green and red pixels across the top of the screen.

-b


kernel@whitestar.soark.net wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:38:56PM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:57:06PM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> > > Well, here never did until today :)   With test9, I had left the box idle
> >
> > Just happened with test10, same circumstances .. font map got corrupted, and
> > noise on the screen.  Switching back and forth from X to a vc fixed it, tho.
> >
> > Sort of amusing that it (apparently) only happens with ppp + wget ..
>
> You have a voodoo3 or voodoo5 with X4, and the DRI X4 module loaded.
>
> Or am I wrong?
>
> Zephaniah E. Hull.
> >
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Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:25:10AM -0500, kernel@whitestar.soark.net wrote:
> > Just happened with test10, same circumstances .. font map got corrupted, and
> > noise on the screen.  Switching back and forth from X to a vc fixed it, tho. 
> > 
> > Sort of amusing that it (apparently) only happens with ppp + wget ..
> 
> You have a voodoo3 or voodoo5 with X4, and the DRI X4 module loaded.
> 
> Or am I wrong?

v3.. bingo :)

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Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
<snip>
> > You have a voodoo3 or voodoo5 with X4, and the DRI X4 module loaded.
> > 
> > Or am I wrong?
> 
> v3.. bingo :)

Comment out the 'Load "dri"' line from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I'm
working on debugging the problems.

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RE: Linux-2.4.0-test10

[James Simmons]

> I have a similar hardware list and I don't observe any of these problems on
> 2.4.0-test10x. Is it possibly a hardware conflict somewhere?
> 
> What I do see occasionally is if X was ever heavy on the memory usage (say
> I've run GIMP for a couple of hours) then the text console's font set gets
> trashed until the next reboot. Console driver failing to reset something?

No! The X server resets the VGA mode including resetting the fonts. See
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/vgahw to see how XF4.0 switchs between X
and vgacon. It see under heavy pressure X fails to reset the video
hardware on it own :-( 

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Cache problems on test12-pre?

[M.H.VanLeeuwen]

Hi,

I've notices weird compile time failures etc on test12-pre7, especially
running more than 2 simultaneous processes...

but most noticeable is the time it takes to run ldconfig, after the
first time test11 takes less than 1 second, test12-pre7 takes ~40
seconds.

both were run immediately after reboot on a completely idle system
this system is almost exclusively NFS mounted file systems.

Is this a known problem?

Martin

here is test11                  vs               test12-pre7

shadow:~# time ldconfig                      shadow:~# time ldconfig        
 
real    0m35.881s                            real    0m43.979s
user    0m0.120s                             user    0m0.090s
sys     0m0.890s                             sys     0m0.980s
shadow:~# time ldconfig                      shadow:~# time ldconfig
 
real    0m0.870s      <<<<-------->>>>       real    0m38.702s
user    0m0.040s                             user    0m0.120s
sys     0m0.230s                             sys     0m0.980s
shadow:~# time ldconfig                      shadow:~# time ldconfig
 
real    0m0.345s      <<<<-------->>>>       real    0m40.181s
user    0m0.040s                             user    0m0.130s
sys     0m0.070s                             sys     0m0.900s
shadow:~# time ldconfig                      shadow:~# time ldconfig
 
real    0m0.098s      <<<<--------->>>>      real    0m39.108s
user    0m0.050s                             user    0m0.110s
sys     0m0.050s                             sys     0m1.180s
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another buffer.c:827 BUG, RAID1 reconstruction.

[M.H.VanLeeuwen]

Hi,

I got this BUG report after test12-pre7 soft locked on my NFS server,
all nfsd's in D state and I had to reboot and system was rebuilding the
ide RAID1 arrays.

NFS client test12-pre7 was rebooted as well, root logged in, and ran ldconfig

NFS server BUG'd out

Hand copied OOPS hope too much isn't wrong.

Martin

heli:~$ ksymoops -K -L -O -m /boot/System.map-2.4.0-test12 < buffer.bug
ksymoops 2.3.5 on i586 2.2.17-RAID.  Options used
     -V (default)
     -K (specified)
     -L (specified)
     -O (specified)
     -m /boot/System.map-2.4.0-test12 (specified)

Kernel BUG at buffer.c 827
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c012ca53>]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010082
eax: 0000001c ebx: c10837d0 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
esi: c1be2e40 edi: 00000002 epb: c1be2e88 esp: c0275ea8
ds:  0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Stack: c02151a5 c021545a 0000033b 0001e2ba 00000046 c13c7be0 cabe2e40 c011c226c
       c1b32e40 00000001 c13c7be0 c13c7bf8 00000001 00000001 c01c2392 c13c7be0
       00000001 c13c7b88 c11d3780 00000002 c0174c39 c13c7bf8 00000001 c11d3780
Call Trace: [<c0215195>] [<c021545a>] [<c01c226e>] [<c01c2399>] [<c0174c39>] [<c019db3b>] [<c01a60b4>]
            [<c019f367>] [<c01a6050>] [<c010a04f>] [<c010a1ae>] [<c01071f0>] [<ffffe000>] [<c0108f20>] [<c0107180>]
            [<ffffe000>] [<c0107213>] [<c0107277>] [<c0105000>] [<c0100191>]
code: 0f 06 83 c4 0c 8d 73 28 8d 43 2c 39 43 2c 74 15 b9 01 00 00

>>EIP; c012ca53 <end_buffer_io_async+c7/f4>   <=====
Trace; c0215195 <tvecs+318d/19d24>
Trace; c021545a <tvecs+3452/19d24>
Trace; c01c226e <raid1_end_bh_io+7e/110>
Trace; c01c2399 <raid1_end_request+99/a0>
Trace; c0174c39 <end_that_request_first+65/c4>
Trace; c019db3b <ide_end_request+27/74>
Trace; c01a60b4 <ide_dma_intr+64/9c>
Trace; c019f367 <ide_intr+fb/150>
Trace; c01a6050 <ide_dma_intr+0/9c>
Trace; c010a04f <handle_IRQ_event+2f/58>
Trace; c010a1ae <do_IRQ+6e/b0>
Trace; c01071f0 <default_idle+0/28>
Trace; ffffe000 <END_OF_CODE+3fd2af28/????>
Trace; c0108f20 <ret_from_intr+0/20>
Trace; c0107180 <init+a4/104>
Trace; ffffe000 <END_OF_CODE+3fd2af28/????>
Trace; c0107213 <default_idle+23/28>
Trace; c0107277 <cpu_idle+3f/54>
Trace; c0105000 <empty_bad_page+0/1000>
Trace; c0100191 <L6+0/2>
Code;  c012ca53 <end_buffer_io_async+c7/f4>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code;  c012ca53 <end_buffer_io_async+c7/f4>   <=====
   0:   0f 06                     clts      <=====
Code;  c012ca55 <end_buffer_io_async+c9/f4>
   2:   83 c4 0c                  add    $0xc,%esp
Code;  c012ca58 <end_buffer_io_async+cc/f4>
   5:   8d 73 28                  lea    0x28(%ebx),%esi
Code;  c012ca5b <end_buffer_io_async+cf/f4>
   8:   8d 43 2c                  lea    0x2c(%ebx),%eax
Code;  c012ca5e <end_buffer_io_async+d2/f4>
   b:   39 43 2c                  cmp    %eax,0x2c(%ebx)
Code;  c012ca61 <end_buffer_io_async+d5/f4>
   e:   74 15                     je     25 <_EIP+0x25> c012ca78 <end_buffer_io_async+ec/f4>
Code;  c012ca63 <end_buffer_io_async+d7/f4>
  10:   b9 01 00 00 00            mov    $0x1,%ecx
 
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
heli:~$
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