[uml-devel] 2.6.13.4-bs4 released - fixes for SKAS0 problems - careful about COW

2005-10-15 Thread Blaisorblade
(this happened, for instance, on GCC 3.2.3, and on RH 9). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.14-rc4; panic: do_syscall_stub : failed to wait for SIGUSR1/SIGTRAP

2005-10-15 Thread Blaisorblade
strange... -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis

Re: [uml-devel] Starting uml with the debugger

2005-10-17 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] build fix for uml/amd64

2005-10-18 Thread Blaisorblade
it should go in before 2.6.14. Jeff, could you ACK that? Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] and probably Acked-by: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] (we already discussed this via IRC, but since I couldn't test the patch at the moment, I asked Jeff to send it in my place

Re: [uml-devel] hostfs link count bug?

2005-10-21 Thread Blaisorblade
it doesn't plain work on 2.6 hosts, and has various bugs. If, btw, you can file a bug upstream to Debian, to add 2.4.28-bs2 UML, it'd be nice. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http

Re: [uml-devel] Strange behaviour of hwrng

2005-10-21 Thread Blaisorblade
with SKAS3 v8.2 patch - UML system: 2.6.14-rc5, in SKAS3 mode. Using rngd from Debian Sarge. TLS is disabled. Let me know if you need more information. Gerd -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso

Re: [uml-devel] Unassociated ubd in sysfs?

2005-10-24 Thread Blaisorblade
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[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86_64: enable xchg optimization for x86_64

2005-10-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:22, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:13, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote: I.e. the implementation was written, is present in the tree, but due to this: #ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK #include linux/rwsem-spinlock.h /* use

[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86_64: fix L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX for Intel EM64T [for 2.6.14?]

2005-10-25 Thread Blaisorblade
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[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Uml - reuse i386 cpu-specific tuning

2005-10-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:22, Andrew Morton wrote: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arch/i386/Kconfig | 304 arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu | 305 Have mercy. I

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 9/10] UML - Big memory fixes

2005-11-01 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 8/10] UML - Maintain own LDT entries

2005-11-02 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-04 Thread Blaisorblade
- customers need mainly madvise() for now. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-04 Thread Blaisorblade
(Note - I've removed a few CC's since we're too many ones, sorry for any inconvenience). On Friday 04 November 2005 16:50, Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 21:26, Blaisorblade wrote: I was hoping that since the file was deleted from disk and is already getting _some_

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-04 Thread Blaisorblade
(Ok, now the thing is UML-only). On Friday 04 November 2005 18:44, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 11:18, Blaisorblade wrote: Oh well, bench it when it happens. (And in any case, it needs a tunable to beat the page cache into submission or there's no free memory to give

[uml-devel] UML: Kernel and module binaries for -bs available - and 2.6.14-bs1 released

2005-11-04 Thread Blaisorblade
at runtime the nss libraries). Waiting for response... -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH] uml: fix hardcoded ZONE_* constants in zone setup

2005-11-04 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 04 November 2005 23:46, Andrew Morton wrote: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove usage of hardcoded constants in paging_init(). An earlier patch from Jeff (below) already changed this code. Andrew

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-04 Thread Blaisorblade
Jeff, some input for you - can you have a look? On Friday 04 November 2005 21:41, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 13:10, Blaisorblade wrote: If you've got a daemon running in the virtual system to hand back memory to the host, then you don't need a tuneable. I think

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-05 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:45, Jeff Dike wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:41:11PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 13:10, Blaisorblade wrote: What I was thinking is that if we get prezeroing infrastructure that can use various prezeroing accelerators (as has

Re: [uml-devel] The web page doesn't say where to get the switch daemon.

2005-11-05 Thread Blaisorblade
as-is, but uml_utilities is even packaged by your distro... btw, they should even have a security patch for uml_net - it can be called to bring down an iface by any user, for slip usage... -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 06 November 2005 00:44, Rob Landley wrote: On Saturday 05 November 2005 05:30, Blaisorblade wrote: I've proposed in fact including (for now) another of Con's patch, which gives some preference to free memory over pagecache (to speed up page allocation)... but I don't quite

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

2005-11-08 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:32, Rob Landley wrote: On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:18, Blaisorblade wrote: In theory the host should get this right, though. What I really want is ionice, and I'm under the impression that one of the schedulers made this possible a few months back. Dunno

Re: [uml-devel] Making UML Single Threader

2005-11-08 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Making UML Single Threader

2005-11-08 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Making UML Single Threader

2005-11-08 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 02:17, Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 08 November 2005 18:48, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 01:35, Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:44, Can Sar wrote: P.S. What on earth is CONFIG_CMDLINE_ON_HOST? It doesn't seem

[uml-devel] Re: 2.6.14-bs1

2005-11-11 Thread Blaisorblade
, there is at least another GCC-triggered bug in SKAS0 sources, so if you're hitting this one then the binaries will fix it. Antoine -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Ok, I build x86-64 -skas0, and it still segfaults.

2005-11-13 Thread Blaisorblade
= 10090, n = 10090, errno = 0, status = 0xb7f -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Ok, I build x86-64 -skas0, and it still segfaults.

2005-11-13 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Making UML Single Threader

2005-11-14 Thread Blaisorblade
: I just haven't got around to it. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Ok, I build x86-64 -skas0, and it still segfaults.

2005-11-14 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 14 November 2005 00:26, Rob Landley wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 11:54, Blaisorblade wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 02:36, Rob Landley wrote: I needed to patch two things to get 2.6.15-rc1 to build on an x86-64 system running PLD linux: diff -ru linux-2.6.15-rc1

[uml-devel] Re: 2.6.14-bs1

2005-11-14 Thread Blaisorblade
/series) *) $ quilt push bs-extraversion-bs1 (or quilt push -a, should be the same). and after unmerging it by hand I still got the same error so I gave up (for now anyway) -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID

[uml-devel] Re: 2.6.14-bs1

2005-11-16 Thread Blaisorblade
mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/4] UML - Properly invoke x86_64 system calls

2005-11-17 Thread Blaisorblade
-x86_64/unistd.h and see that the _syscallX macros contain various register clobber. I.e. they explicitly tell GCC don't use that. We (UML code) were missing that. Simple. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID

Re: [uml-devel] Getting the x86-64 rollup patch to work on my x86 laptop.

2005-11-17 Thread Blaisorblade
thought the build would stop when building a foo.o, but it's stopping earlier than he expected. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.15-rc1-bk3 minor breakage

2005-11-17 Thread Blaisorblade
/um/kernel-offsets.s] Error 1 Antoine -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/um/sys-i386/Makefile

Re: [uml-devel] Re: merge status

2005-11-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 18 November 2005 08:17, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 18 November 2005 01:08, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:36, Rob Landley wrote: Linus said this: Btw, where does this quote come from? I think one reason -mm has worked so damn well (apart from you being

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Ok, I build x86-64 -skas0, and it still segfaults.

2005-11-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 18 November 2005 08:36, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 18 November 2005 01:43, Blaisorblade wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 04:09, Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 14 November 2005 13:40, Blaisorblade wrote: Ok, clearer: could you try removing altogether that -rlink? I'm trying

Re: [uml-devel] Getting the x86-64 rollup patch to work on my x86 laptop.

2005-11-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 18 November 2005 08:33, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 18 November 2005 01:26, Blaisorblade wrote: On Friday 18 November 2005 07:48, Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:12, Jeff Dike wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:51:33PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: find

Re: [uml-devel] Getting the x86-64 rollup patch to work on my x86 laptop.

2005-11-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 18 November 2005 09:59, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 18 November 2005 01:58, Blaisorblade wrote: arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o(.text+0x3b60): In function `load_TLS': : undefined reference to `indirect_set_thread_area' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status KSYM

[uml-devel] Misimported patch in your tree

2005-11-18 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Re: merge status

2005-11-20 Thread Blaisorblade
). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 on x86_64 build broken / 2.6.15-rc2 ok

2005-11-23 Thread Blaisorblade
TT mode (or just static link?) Probably the latter (static link)... However I must try compiling it, but no time now. I haven't tried to add -fPIC (not sure where it would go) Antoine -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] Funkiness in uml Kconfig.

2005-11-23 Thread Blaisorblade
'CONNECTOR' This makes it shut up: Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] In short: Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso forward this to Jeff Dike explicitly, with an inclusion-ready changelog. However, please make sure that the menu appears in a meaningful location (ideally should

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-27 Thread Blaisorblade
cache, no matter what the filesystem. (Especially if you mount with noatime, which is the norm these days.) I've seen it rarely used... only Gentoo suggests that. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-27 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 26 November 2005 11:44, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 25 November 2005 17:33, Blaisorblade wrote: On Friday 25 November 2005 22:04, Nix wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Rob Landley moaned: On Friday 25 November 2005 13:33, Nix wrote: That a normal user can allocate persistent

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-27 Thread Blaisorblade
that. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-27 Thread Blaisorblade
the kernel to become a configuration repository... it's conceptually similar to the in-kernel Win32 registry (though it's smaller, yep). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
completely. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis

Re: [uml-devel] Testing requested - [PATCH] Fixing SKAS0 compilation problem / TT mode bug report

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 28 November 2005 05:23, Jeff Dike wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:59:37PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: The attached patch is a (hacky) proposal, alternative to Jeff's fix-stub-syscall6, to fix the SKAS0 compilation problem. Bleah :-) Yep :-). In fact, Jeff's patch makes

Re: [uml-devel] Blaisorblade's UML binaries - MORE MORE... please give us an x86_64 UML

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
on the rootfs to get things going. Thanks again Phill. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:41, Rob Landley wrote: On Sunday 27 November 2005 13:20, Blaisorblade wrote: *shrug* The same argument could be made about any other argument that mount interprets. (Currently: loop, defaults, noauto, ro, rw, nosuid, suid, dev, nodev, exec, noexec, sync, async

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: move TMP default from /tmp to /dev/shm.

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
, kmail never tried to send a patch as base64, it always chose 7bit, as in your patch. I need to find a real mail client, it seems. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user

Re: [uml-devel] Blaisorblade's UML binaries - MORE MORE... please give us an x86_64 UML

2005-12-01 Thread Blaisorblade
/FJAGqmtZpwVp9IlitW5tAJ4xQApr/jNFZCTk snI+4O1765F7tA== =3AHZ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:52 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 13:22, Phill Wombat wrote: Hi Paolo, x86_64 binary. So far so good! Thanks, I have no 64-bit FS

Re: [uml-devel] NPTL support

2005-12-02 Thread Blaisorblade
for ebx, and maybe GCC could still complain). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Mail

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.15-rc2

2005-12-02 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: fix compile error for tt

2005-12-07 Thread Blaisorblade
/um_uaccess.h where it is effectively used (the offending macros, using FIXADDR_USER_*, are __access_ok_vsyscall. For the rest it's ok. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http

Re: [uml-devel] tls: set_thread_area failed

2005-12-09 Thread Blaisorblade
is better. Thanks Antoine -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] tls: set_thread_area failed

2005-12-10 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 09 December 2005 19:39, Antoine Martin wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:52 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 03:13, Antoine Martin wrote: I'm still trying to get a regular FC4 image to boot with the latest x86 tls support code. Mainline kernel

Re: [uml-devel] tls: set_thread_area failed

2005-12-11 Thread Blaisorblade
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[uml-devel] Re: 2.4.32-bs2

2005-12-11 Thread Blaisorblade
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[uml-devel] Re: 2.4.32-bs2

2005-12-11 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 11 December 2005 20:19, Antoine Martin wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:47 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2005 03:10, Antoine Martin wrote: All, Talking about tty logging and fake ide reminded of the current state of UML on 2.4 kernels: http

[uml-devel] 2.6.14-bs3 released - fixes for SKAS0 modify_ldt() and stub compilation

2005-12-16 Thread Blaisorblade
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[uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking

2005-12-19 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] skas3 (almost) works on amd64?

2005-12-19 Thread Blaisorblade
homeworks on the subject (aka studying the SYSENTER instruction) and then go studying that description. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

[uml-devel] Introducing new bugs with fixups - one safe story

2005-12-19 Thread Blaisorblade
parentheses around + or - inside shift Luckily, however, the clumsy programmer saw the message and learned The Way (tm). And the patch hadn't been merged yet. Another point for GCC. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID

Re: [uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking

2005-12-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 19 December 2005 17:16, Blaisorblade wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 20:03, Antoine Martin wrote: Paolo, pcap builds and runs fine on amd64 but there is a problem when building with SUBARCH=i386: it uses the wrong version of libpcap.a: ld -r -dp -o arch/um/drivers/pcap.o

[uml-devel] Re: hppfs

2005-12-19 Thread Blaisorblade
for unapplying. But quilt is more powerful and easier to use. Not that I care myself. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade hppfs-patches.tar.bz2

Re: [uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking [PATCH]

2005-12-19 Thread Blaisorblade
-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../lib32/libpcap.a chroot without su is pointless (since you can use 'chroot-again' to escape) Indeed. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode

Re: [uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking [PATCH]

2005-12-20 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking [PATCH]

2005-12-20 Thread Blaisorblade
me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e

Re: [uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking [PATCH]

2005-12-20 Thread Blaisorblade
Knorr, maybe - former SuSE UML maintainer). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade #include stdio.h #include errno.h #include stdlib.h int main

Re: [uml-devel] Re: pcap cross-linking [PATCH]

2005-12-23 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Re: Ho ho ho.. Linux 2.6.15-rc7

2005-12-27 Thread Blaisorblade
common on incremental patches. The problem is that sometimes they get merged. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Index: linux-2.6.git/arch

Re: [uml-devel] grsecurity + skas UML patch for 2.6.14.5

2006-01-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 14:55, Lubomir Host wrote: Hi guys, I have one question. It is possible to run grsecurity kernel with skas3 UML (User Mode Linux) patch from http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/skas-2.6.14- v8.2/skas-2.6.14-v8.2.patch.bz2 ? I have tried

Re: [uml-devel] The init_maps bug which cause mem map error

2006-01-11 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:21, Jeff Dike wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:39:59AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 15:14, wang lianwei wrote: (What happened to these bad * guys ;-) ? ) Yeah, this would have been better expressed as a patch. total_len

Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/include/kern_util.h:35: error: 'CONFIG_NR_CPUS' undeclared

2006-01-16 Thread Blaisorblade
be using CONFIG_NR_CPUS. grep -E '^#[[:blank:]]+[[:digit:]]' chan_user.i Disable CONFIG_SMP, it doesn't work well anyway, however thanks for the report. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ

Re: [uml-devel] high-performance system calls using vsyscall

2006-01-16 Thread Blaisorblade
something in kernel before switching to the debugger is ugly, especially because we indeed must inspect the stack to see where the syscall come from). Jeff -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade

[uml-devel] TLS patches compilation fixups

2006-01-16 Thread Blaisorblade
will shortly publish all the updated patches (against vanilla 2.6.15) under: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/devel-guest/uml-2.6.15-tls-1 in the usual combo + splitout + signature form. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 9/11] UML - Implement soft interrupts

2006-01-16 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.15-rc1 Badness in handle_page_fault

2006-01-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 04:37, Jeff Dike wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:33:59AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: what about load_TLS? I only got -22, I fixed it by removing tls-debug That's caused by referring to errno in kernel code. That gets you the value of kernel_errno, which could

Re: [uml-devel] slip_init and slirp_init using 12K of stack

2006-01-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 04:41, Jeff Dike wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:26:12AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: I ran by accident scripts/checkstack.pl and found that slip_init and slirp_init are two big offenders. They are since of such lines: *spri = ((struct slip_data

Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/include/kern_util.h:35: error: 'CONFIG_NR_CPUS' undeclared

2006-01-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 04:45, Jeff Dike wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:22:59AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 18:14, Olaf Hering wrote: It picks up the libc headers instead of the 2.6.15 ones. Yep, that's correct, the bug is that shouldn't be using

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 9/11] UML - Implement soft interrupts

2006-01-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 04:32, Jeff Dike wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:24:31AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: ~25 %? Good! Which is delay vs. host? Delay vs a UML without the patch. A curiosity - did you look at the similar code in Ingo Molnar's VCPU patch? I never found the time

[uml-devel] Re: -bs patchset still useful for users?

2006-01-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:52, Daniel Drake wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: Vanilla can do, however -bs has one little additional feature (mconsole-exec) and contains all bug fixes written after the release (only few important ones go to -stable, they're very restrictive and some -bs

[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 6/9] uml: avoid malloc to sleep in atomic sections

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 01:56, Andrew Morton wrote: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +int __cant_sleep(void) { + return in_atomic() || irqs_disabled() || in_interrupt(); aww, man, this is awful. Code is supposed to know what context it's running in, not go

Re: [uml-devel] SKAS4 design question

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
to a different address space (PTRACE_SWITCH_MM, in arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c), manipulate with mmap/munmap/mprotect any of these address spaces, and destroy it (all in mm/proc_mm.c). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID

[uml-devel] Re: -bs patchset still useful for users?

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:08, Daniel Drake wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: Given I do use Gentoo, and I understand ebuilds, is that problem solvable (i.e. by me becoming maintainer?) Yes, and it would be great to see this happen! Don't know well what this implies (I looked at How

Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/include/kern_util.h:35: error: 'CONFIG_NR_CPUS' undeclared

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
implementation and suiting it for our use, solving the above problem? We do such things for context switch in the traced process, doing it for us should be simpler (but it's in assembler). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/9] uml: avoid sysfs warning on hot-unplug

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:02, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:53:54PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: As for your specific bug report, sorry, I really don't know. I know it's not something easy to find, but nor me nor Jeff master deeply the kobject API. And we're not short of work

[uml-devel] Needed arch_copy_tls? Not done by dup_task_struct?

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
for people to test. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___ Yahoo! Mail

[uml-devel] Re: Using compiler.h from uml userspace code (was: Re: uml build error)

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 22:35, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:47:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: Possible solutions below - akpm doesn't need to read this. Sam, instead, please do read and give an opinion. First off. When I see #include 2foo.h then this tell me that foo

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Needed arch_copy_tls? Not done by dup_task_struct?

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:38, Jeff Dike wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:53:29PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: I looked at my patch's comment and noticed that arch_copy_tls, your introduction, shouldn't indeed be needed, because dup_task_struct should do that (it copies the whole

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] the xterm that is produced for the virtual consoles should have the --name

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] Re: Needed arch_copy_tls? Not done by dup_task_struct?

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:38, Jeff Dike wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:53:29PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: I looked at my patch's comment and noticed that arch_copy_tls, your introduction, shouldn't indeed be needed, because dup_task_struct should do that (it copies the whole

Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/include/kern_util.h:35: error: 'CONFIG_NR_CPUS' undeclared

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 19 January 2006 01:08, Jeff Dike wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:42:56PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: What about this? Inserting an asm volatile clobbering all unsaved registers (what I thought for long time)? The gcc doc is somewhat confusing. I read your description as saying

Re: [uml-devel] SKAS4 design question

2006-01-18 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:52, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: On Monday 16 January 2006 20:34, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: Has any thought been given to making SKAS4 suitably generic that it could be used for more than just UML? Not yet, thoughts welcome. Let's see

[uml-devel] Remove l1-shift from the patchset

2006-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
/current/2.6/2.6.16-rc1/patches/l1-shift -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 8/8] uml: avoid CONFIG_NR_CPUS undeclared bogus error messages

2006-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 19 January 2006 05:21, Jeff Dike wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:55:23AM +0100, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote: -extern struct task_struct *idle_threads[NR_CPUS]; - BTW, this isn't the only problem there. There are three declarations towards the bottom with struct

[uml-devel] Re: [PROBLEM] uml refuses to boot

2006-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
- actually_do_remove failed with err = -2 remove_umid_dir - actually_do_remove failed with err = -2 -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's Doh!. Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID PaoloGiarrusso, ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] SKAS4 design question

2006-01-30 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 23 January 2006 20:59, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 23:23, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:52, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: I.e. extend ptrace to trap lcall gates, right? That's another thing, could

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