Re: 2.4.22 with CONFIG_M686: networking broken

From: Peter Daum
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 13:41:02 EST


Hi Adrian,

Your patch did the trick!
(Since this looks like a pretty general issue, I guess, that
means that there were some more problems besides the
networking-stuff that I stumbled across?)

Thanks a bunch,
Peter

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:08:08PM +0200, Peter Daum wrote:

> > It seems, like kernel version 2.4.22 introduced some weird bug,
> > that causes all kinds of network malfunctions, when the kernel is
> > compiled with "CONFIG_M686".
> >...
> could you check whether the patch below fixes your problems?
...
> --- linux-2.4.23-pre3-full/arch/i386/config.in.old 2003-09-07 17:10:31.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.4.23-pre3-full/arch/i386/config.in 2003-09-07 17:11:47.000000000 +0200
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
> if [ "$CONFIG_M386" = "y" ]; then
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG n
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_XADD n
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 4
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK y
> define_bool CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM n
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE y
> @@ -67,21 +67,21 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_M486" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 4
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK n
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_M586" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK n
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_M586TSC" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK n
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_M586MMX" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK n
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_M686" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC y
> bool 'PGE extensions (not for Cyrix/Transmeta)' CONFIG_X86_PGE
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_PGE y
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MK6" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM y
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_MK7 y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MK7" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 6
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW y
> @@ -143,13 +143,13 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MELAN" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 4
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MCYRIXIII" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW y
> @@ -157,26 +157,26 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MVIAC3_2" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MCRUSOE" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MWINCHIP2" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM y
> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D" = "y" ]; then
> - define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
> + define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 7
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC y
> define_bool CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM y
>

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