From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965158AbXATIIw (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:08:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965198AbXATIIw (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:08:52 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:13281 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965158AbXATIIu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:08:50 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=VErAS13xRr1vFYNIy8kzyM6njPMlGuVIcf5RCRrhSQCUMDh6gsHaPJcwfB5QrHxQi2Do9ADTO6RVu1Zqye5yF7Tjd/ZkNYx6WlTNRsFS6Pihg/tkm+2aNsIjs4Md0lXVRhfCDKxTOjndwLGa7wayPyzkPCHjPT8AI09pFJMRuY4= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:08:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701200908.47654.Michal.Kudla@gmail.com> From: =?utf-8?q?Micha=C5=82_Kud=C5=82a?= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, according to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html [1.] One line summary of the problem: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2 Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology – Part 2) [2.] Full description of the problem/report: kernel: 2.6.19 linux: gentoo after #dmesg I find somethings like it Memory: 515992k/524224k available (1909k kernel code, 7684k reserved, 768k data, 172k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfffb7000 - 0xfffff000 ( 288 kB) vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xfffb5000 ( 503 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfff0000 ( 511 MB) .init : 0xc03a0000 - 0xc03cb000 ( 172 kB) .data : 0xc02dd6d6 - 0xc039d8f4 ( 768 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02dd6d6 (1909 kB) ... hdb: max request size: 512KiB hdb: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes supported hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(66) Should be everywere KiB, MiB, GiB, ... according to IEC 60027-2 http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte [3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel): modules, networking, kernel,... everywere [4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version): Linux version 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 (root@athlonik) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #1 Fri Jan 19 22:22:39 CET 2007 [5.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic information resolved (see Documentation/oops-tracing.txt) none [6.] A small shell script or example program which triggers the problem (if possible) dmesg | grep -E '(KB)|(KiB)|(MB)' [7.] Environment linux [7.1.] Software (add the output of the ver_linux script here) [7.2.] Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo): cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1666.742 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow ts bogomips : 3335.02 [7.3.] Module information (from /proc/modules): not important [7.4.] Loaded driver and hardware information (/proc/ioports, /proc/iomem) not important [7.5.] PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root) not important [7.6.] SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi) not important [7.7.] Other information that might be relevant to the problem (please look in /proc and include all information that you think to be relevant): not important [X.] Other notes, patches, fixes, workarounds: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong