Re: nvidia 2.5.40+ patch?

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 20:54:21 EST


On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 08:42:26PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote:

> I applied these patches (I did not disable preempt, and how do you
> enable stack frame pointer support?)

You need preempt to get this debugging.

> and there are 2 oopses in bootup:

Oopses or warnings? There are plenty of locking violations, you see
these during init right now, but there they do little harm. Once the
system in up --- then they are a problem.

> Trace; c01387ca <slabinfo_write+32a/6c0>
> Trace; c0213e05 <blk_cleanup_queue+105/180>
> Trace; c0213e97 <blk_init_queue+17/2c0>
> Trace; c0225fd9 <save_match+c9/130>
> Trace; c022d9d0 <do_ide_request+0/30>
> Trace; c022620e <init_irq+1ce/560>
> Trace; c022dd80 <ide_intr+0/180>
> Trace; c0226678 <hwif_init+d8/260>
> Trace; c0225ec4 <probe_hwif_init+24/70>
> Trace; c0235530 <ide_setup_pci_device+50/80>
> Trace; c02251f6 <generic_mii_ioctl+1286/1c70>
> Trace; c010507a <stext+7a/1e0>
> Trace; c0105040 <stext+40/1e0>
> Trace; c0105625 <show_regs+165/170>

IDE warning, know problem ... fix is pending

> Trace; c0252cb2 <usb_hub_port_disable+482/8c0>
> Trace; c0115ac2 <schedule+192/300>
> Trace; c011c8b4 <reparent_to_init+e4/180>
> Trace; c0253035 <usb_hub_port_disable+805/8c0>
> Trace; c0115c66 <preempt_schedule+36/50>
> Trace; c0115c80 <default_wake_function+0/a0>
> Trace; c0253000 <usb_hub_port_disable+7d0/8c0>
> Trace; c0105625 <show_regs+165/170>

USB people know about this and many others, fixes sure to come soon I
guess.

> However I cannot get the nvidia driver to compile with Chris' patch:
> (0)<mcelrath@navi:/usr/src/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.cw> sudo insmod ./NVdriver
> ./NVdriver: unresolved symbol create_workqueue
> ./NVdriver: unresolved symbol destroy_workqueue
> ./NVdriver: unresolved symbol flush_workqueue
> ./NVdriver: unresolved symbol queue_work
> ./NVdriver:

What kernel? My patch requires stuff only in
bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5 at present, the next release will have
the workqueue stuff too.

  --cw
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