Re: redhat linux 2.4.20-28 & gm 1.5-21

Todd,

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:31, Todd Merritt wrote:
> I'm upgrading the kernel on my various linux boxes and have come to a
> bit of a problem with our beowulf cluster.  gm will not build, it gripes
> about not enough arguments to remap_page_range in
> drivers/linux/gm/gm_arch.c, and indeed, there are only 4 arguments
> passed there, and in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h, the prototype
> for remap_page_range specifies 5 arguments.  I know the recent kernel
> patch was to correct a potential bounds problem in do_remap, could this
> have possible broken the gm driver ?

There is a patch for gm-1.5.2.1 that provides support for RedHat
Advanced Server, and this patch will solve the problem you are seeing.

ftp://[email protected]/pub/GM/patches/lin26.patch

There have been several important bug fixes since gm-1.5.2.1 to the
latest gm-1 (gm-1.6.4):
 http://www.myri.com/scs/CHANGES
and we highly recommend that you upgrade to gm-1.6.4.
  http://www.myri.com/scs/linux.html

Feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you have further questions.

Susan
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Susan Blackford
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Myricom Inc.
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