[__DEPRECATED__] 2.6.14-acid1 "Watch out, here it comes !"

[Tiger683]

acid-sources-2.6.14-r1 "Watch out, here it comes!"

Disclaimer
This patchset is in no way affiliated with the Gentoo Foundation and so it's
use does not imply any more or less official support from the gentoo developers.
Do NOT, EVER, post bugs regarding a kernel patched to acid-sources to
_bugs.gentoo.org_. Post your problems in this thread instead.


What is it?
A custom kernel patchset, based upon O(1) cpu scheduler and
many additional features usually requested by users.

What's in it?

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#
# All important release-specific features
# in a separate kernel menu
#
->ACiD-Kconfig-menu.diff

#
# Tweaks from ck-sources
#
->ck-tweaks.patch 

#
# Tweaks for O(1) scheduler
#
->sched-tuning.diff

#
# Reiser4
#
->reiser4.patch

#
# Cleanups, tweaks and fixes from -mm
#
->cleanups-fixes-mm.patch

#
# New kernel timer infrastructure, based on HRTimers
#
->ktimers-kt2.patch

#
# I/O + fs stuff
#
->write_inode_now-write-inode-if-not-bdi_cap_no_writeback.diff
->as_iosched_tuning.diff
->block-cleanups-add-kconfig-default-iosched-submenu.patch
->swaptoken-tuning.diff

#
# Must - haves
#
->vesafb-tng-1.0-rc1-r1-and-fbsplash-0.9.2-r4-for-2.6.14-rc4.diff
->svgalib_helper-1.9.21.diff
->swsusp-2.2-rc8.patch
->shfs-0.35_for_2.6.14-rc4.diff
->squashfs_2.2-r2.diff
->unionfs-20051014-1448.diff
->usbhid-readd-kconfig.diff

#
# Others
#
->acid-sources-framebuffer-logo.diff
->daconfig-2.3.0.diff
->shutup-unneeded-warnings.diff
->acidize.diff

For more detailed patchlist see series file under section LINKS.

changest since 2.6.14-rc4-acid1:

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* updated to linux-2.6.14 [b]final[/b]
* added agp perormance fix patch
* updated swap-prefetch to v18
* added vm-mapped,watermark and co.
* Added adaptive-readahead (v4)
* updated reiser4 to rc5-mm1 PLUS the fix from namesys
* git-block
* git-libata
* added ktimers-kt2 - new kernel timers implementation, 
    based upon previous work on high resolution timers (HRT)
* bundled the non-vanilla features into a separate Kconfig menu 
----
 plus possibly a few tiny ones i most likely forgot..

IMPORTANT UPDATES AND EDITS:
*** Slightly edited announcement - introduction
*** Fixed typos and added changelog
*** Additional patch: mppe_mppc+iptables_layer7-2.6.14-acid1.patch
** To be continued...

Howto install

GENTOO:
1)create directory <OVERLAY_DIR>/sys-kernel/acid-sources (substitute <OVERLAY_DIR> according to overlay path)
2) PROMPT>cd <OVERLAY_DIR>/sys-kernel/acid-sources
3) PROMPT>wget http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uyavl ... -r1.ebuild
4) PROMPT>ebuild acid-sources-2.6.14-r1.ebuild digest
5) PROMPT>USE="symlink" emerge acid-sources
6) PROMPT>cd /usr/src/linux
7) configure, compile and install your kernel
if in doubt about how to do it, consult the documentation in the kernel source directory

ALL OTHER DISTROS:
1) PROMPT>cd /usr/src
2) PROMPT>wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... 14.tar.bz2
3) PROMPT>wget http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uyavl ... -acid1.bz2
4) PROMPT>tar -xvjf linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 && rm linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2
5) PROMPT>mv linux-2.6.14 linux-2.6.14-acid1 && rm linux && ln -s linux-2.6.14-acid1 linux
6) PROMPT>bunzip2 patch-2.6.14-acid1.bz2 && cd linux
7) PROMPT>patch -p1 -i ../patch-2.6.14-acid1
configure, compile and install your kernel
if in doubt about how to do it, consult the documentation in the kernel source directory

And now, even more important part:

LINKS
DIGEST FILE
EBUILD
PATCH
BROKEN OUT TARBALL
SERIES (DETAILED PATCH LISTING)

Let the compilefest begin !

cheers

T

[mbar]

mmmmkay, gcc 4.0.2 ready...

[satanskin]

What's different between this and the one you put out already? Or is it the same one and if so, where'd all the posts go?

Edit: ok just saw the other board has been "deprecated" so what's the difference between this one and the previous acid release? Also, what, if any, GCC4 related things have been added. And to answer your question on the other board, I am using gcc4 for just about everything now.

[Tiger683]

What's different between this and the one you put out already? Or is it the same one and if so, where'd all the posts go?

umm, huh?

ok then:
changest since 2.6.14-rc4-acid1:

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* updated to linux-2.6.14 [b]final[/b]
* added agp perormance fix patch
* updated swap-prefetch to v18
* added vm-mapped,watermark and co.
* Added adaptive-readahead (v4)
* updated reiser4 to rc5-mm1 PLUS the fix from namesys
* git-block
* git-libata
* added ktimers-kt2 - new kernel timers implementation, 
    based upon previous work on high resolution timers (HRT)
* bundled the non-vanilla features into a separate Kconfig menu 
----
 plus a few tiny ones i forgot..

cheers

T

EDIT: my gcc4-related project has nothing to do with kernel patchsets......

[yngwin]

You should update your howto section - it still mentions rc4.

[Tiger683]

OOPS, thx!!!

[mayday147]

Excuse me for my ignorance, but i didn't read the previous acid post and I have a question: "Is acid-sources the predecessor of nitro-sources? There won't be nitro anymore?"

[Tiger683]

If seppe won't come up with a new release sometime soo, i will probably make it...

Don't forget seppe is the maintainer of nitro, i only help him out best i can...

cheers

T

[satanskin]

Ahhh thank you for the clarification. Perhaps that's why i was still confused since it still mentioned the rc4 in the howto. Downloading now.

So when do you we get to hear about your gcc4 project?

[mayday147]

Is this possible to include the mppe-mppc patch? maybe as an USE flag?

[babykart]

on a PIV (chipset i865PE), this "patchset" doesn't detect my second raptor...
i have the same problem with 2.6.14-rc4-acid1 but not with 2.6.14-rc5-archck1 and 2.6.14-archck1...

[Tiger683]

Is this possible to include the mppe-mppc patch? maybe as an USE flag?

Sure
EDIT:
Until next release, here you go:
mppe_mppc+iptables_layer7-2.6.14-acid1.patch

on a PIV (chipset i865PE), this "patchset" doesn't detect my second raptor...
i have the same problem with 2.6.14-rc4-acid1 but not with 2.6.14-rc5-archck1 and 2.6.14-archck1...

Hmm, strange enough... Does archck include the libata.git patch? thats the only thing i can think of....
Try reversing it , it's the one in 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 broken-out directory on kernel.org.

So when do you we get to hear about your gcc4 project?

Not sure if you ever will, but if i will make it public, then here

[Shado23]

Nice work, but sadly I get a kernel panic with this one whereas rc4-acid1 works just fine with exactly the same .config... very strange.
You don't happen to know by any chance what could be the cause?
Anyways, thanks in advance for your time.

[Tiger683]

A kernel panic can have many causes...
Please, include debug output with bugreports,
system specs and possibly .config -> but do not paste it here plz (pastebin ?).

T

[Shado23]

Here's my config :
http://home.versanet.de/~shado23/.config

The kernel panic occurs directly at the beginning, and I don't know how to capture the error message.
If you tell me how I'll capture it.

My specs are as follows:

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Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-rc4-acid1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-rc4-acid1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-funit-at-a-time -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -pipe -fno-ident"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/kde/devel/env /usr/kde/devel/share/config /usr/kde/devel/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-funit-at-a-time -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -pipe -fno-ident -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig confcache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/kdesvn"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt curl dbus dga djbfft dlloader dmx dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode fam flac font-server foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lzo mad matroska mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt readline rtc sdl spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vidix vorbis xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

Thanks again for your effort.

[Rainmaker]

have you got support for the relavent file system compiled in? (not as module?)

Can you at least post part of the error?

Is it something like

VFS: cannot mount root

?

@Tiger: thanks for the patchset. Suffering a bit of a performance hit compared to nitro, but it's a bit more stable... Ah well..

[Tiger683]

Shado23: Only thing i could think of right away is your HZ value.
Please try setting it to 1000. If it helps then you might have discovered a bug with ktimers2.

Also: do you have any sophisticated hardware? (i didn't look into the drivers that much....it's soooo long )
cheers,

T

[Shado23]

I'll try that and report back.
Concerning the hardware - nothing out of the ordinary: geforce 3,sblive,usb gamepads and logitech mouse/keyboard,3com ethernet card, dvdr drive.

[Shado23]

Unfortunately that didn't work.
The error is something about a NULL pointer dereference at adress 00000064. duh.
Anyways I'm going to try a vanilla kernel tomorrow an see how that goes.

[iphitus]

<snip>

on a PIV (chipset i865PE), this "patchset" doesn't detect my second raptor...
i have the same problem with 2.6.14-rc4-acid1 but not with 2.6.14-rc5-archck1 and 2.6.14-archck1...

Hmm, strange enough... Does archck include the libata.git patch? thats the only thing i can think of....
Try reversing it , it's the one in 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 broken-out directory on kernel.org.

So when do you we get to hear about your gcc4 project?

Not sure if you ever will, but if i will make it public, then here

I don't include the libata.git patch.

[Shado23]

Ok, it works with the vanilla kernel with the same .config, so I'll try reversing patches one by one later to find the culprit.

[mayday147]

I have 2 big problems with both acid releases and the last nitro , as well. Everything works fine on 2.6.13.2-nitro1.

1. My desktop hangs, but I don't know where to look for some debug messages. I tried to change the ktimers frequency(from 1000Hz to 100Hz), also to change the sched , but no luck.
This is my .config, if it helps

2. My net.ppp0 init script doesn't get up the tunnel, although it starts at boot time as it suppose to be. I have to restart it for everything to work.
This is my rc-status

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Runlevel: default
 acpid                                                                                                       [ started ]
 coldplug                                                                                                    [ started ]
 hotplug                                                                                                     [ started ]
 ivman                                                                                                       [ started ]
 lm_sensors                                                                                                  [ started ]
 local                                                                                                       [ started ]
 mpd                                                                                                         [ started ]
 net.eth0                                                                                                    [ started ]
 net.ppp0                                                                                                    [ started ]
 netmount                                                                                                    [ started ]
 smartd                                                                                                      [ started ]
 splash                                                                                                      [ started ]
 sshd2                                                                                                       [ started ]
 syslog-ng                                                                                                   [ started ]
 vixie-cron                                                                                                  [ started ]
 xdm                                                                                                         [ started ]
 xinetd                                                                                                      [ started ]

[ejs76]

1. My desktop hangs, but I don't know where to look for some debug messages. I tried to change the ktimers frequency(from 1000Hz to 100Hz), also to change the sched , but no luck.
This is my .config, if it helps

Have you tried updating your reiser4 partition already?

I had the same problem (desktop hanging after a fewminutes) after nitro-2.6.13.2 (incl. acid-2.6.14-rc4 and 2.6.14 ofcourse). I just updated my reiser4 partition to 1.0.5 and the problem went away.

BTW: Tanks Tiger, great job.

[mayday147]

1. My desktop hangs, but I don't know where to look for some debug messages. I tried to change the ktimers frequency(from 1000Hz to 100Hz), also to change the sched , but no luck.
This is my .config, if it helps

Have you tried updating your reiser4 partition already?

I had the same problem (desktop hanging after a fewminutes) after nitro-2.6.13.2 (incl. acid-2.6.14-rc4 and 2.6.14 ofcourse). I just updated my reiser4 partition to 1.0.5 and the problem went away.

BTW: Tanks Tiger, great job.

Actually no , I didn't. I 'll try that and come back. Thanks for the tip.

[aenertia]

Hi there just to let you know that it's working fine on my rig. amd64/msi master2-far with r4 drives + nviida drivers

Dmesg available here : http://aenertia.net/acid1_dmesg