[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] make arch/um/kernel/skas/include/skas.h include asm/types.h

2004-12-16 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 13 December 2004 14:00, Bodo Stroesser wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bodo Stroesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] make arch/um/kernel/skas/include/skas.h include asm/types.h This is necessary to have a typedef for __u64

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Put the check for NULL before the use of a potentially-null value

2005-01-10 Thread Blaisorblade
cannot apply it locally, but I see that it should apply on top of Gerd Knorr's terminal cleanup patch, which introduces the bug. I hope I'll not forget it... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-11 Thread Blaisorblade
kill from another window. Yes, that's because it turns the console to raw mode (don't ask me why). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:55, Michael Richardson wrote: Blaisorblade == Blaisorblade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob Chapter 5 of current variants of LFS uses the host system to Rob create a toolchain you can chroot into and build the final Rob system with. Then in chapter

Re: [uml-devel] uml_switch query

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
as many UMLs as you like. 2. Is it possible to attach the uml switch with multiple tap devices?? Not necessary I think... the Uml_switch can use the tap device to forward the traffic to the host network. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode

Re: [uml-devel] df -h and hostfs

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
as init for instance) An those entries as what likes in /proc/mounts, since I don't have a maintained /etc/mtab file in that filesystem. /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts Ok, understood, but the duplicate entry still seems a bit strange... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux

Re: [uml-devel] process creep on host FC2, UML 2.4.27

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
on these same machines running FC1. If anyone has any input about a cause or fix to this issue, I would be greatly appreciative! This is a FAQ about 2.6.9. There are some patches out there (search for fix-kill by C. Aker for the 2.4 backport of the fix). Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux

[uml-devel] Fwd: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging?

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
decreases. One of my pet ideas, is a userspace loopback mounter, which would use UML to actually mount an image, and export the resulting filesystem through FUSE to the host. Brilliant isn't it? Miklos `--- Messaggio inoltrato (fine) -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 8/8] uml: depend on !USERMODE in drivers/block/Kconfig and drop arch/um/Kconfig_block

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
and replace USERMODE - UML. It's ok, I'll do it on top of these patches I sent. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Fix stack corruption

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
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Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Fix stack corruption

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
, and 2.6.10-mm2 plus the incrementals from yesterday. Also, I believe Frank Sorenson is also able to reproduce this crash. Thanks, -Chris Thanks to you! -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.10-um, /proc/stat is missing information

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
big things only before -rc1 and -rc2, since after those releases things must calm down. This recommendation must be updated with changes in the release cycle followed by Linus, obviously. Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org

Re: [uml-devel] About jiffies patch

2005-01-14 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 13 January 2005 06:12, Blaisorblade wrote: Well, effectively your reasoning holds, apart for one point: the code should not hang because of that large INITIAL_JIFFIES. What we care about are only the value of jiffies relative to INITIAL_JIFFIES, indeed. In fact, that code works

Re: [uml-devel] Progress with -bb4.

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
the issue you are experiencing won't be debugged... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool

Re: [uml-devel] The PowerPC port is somehow back!

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:14, Blaisorblade wrote: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.011705/250175195 They also speak about giving back to the UML development community... let's start waiting. Yes, Jeff confirmed he received it. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
. Inside the couple of patches, there is exactly this problematic change. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 21 January 2005 19:18, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 07:35 am, Blaisorblade wrote: Ooh, ooh! Hang in TT mode is what I'm seeing with my makefile hang. (sh -x dosn't help if the makefile doesn't call out to stuff with it.) If the previous patch doesn't

Re: [uml-devel] memory

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
it for anything critical. Clearly, 32-bit UMLs run well on x86_64 boxes, but don't have the 64-bit advantages... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email

Re: [uml-devel] memory

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
doing that anyway as part of protecting process's memory from each other...) Exctaly, and UML can do something very similar with the help of mmap(). Which is too slow, though... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] memory

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
the 4G/4G patch from Ingo Molnar, integrated into Fedora kernels, to allow processes to use 4G of virtual address space. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:35, Marcus Better wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: I.e. the compilation problem is not in the kernel module, right? Yes, the compilation error is in compiling the fglrx module. Ok, unexpected. In this case, the problem is that you have /usr/include/asm symlinked

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:55, Marcus Better wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: *strange* that a kernel module uses the _syscall macro to do a syscall with int 0x80 while already being in kernelspace... It's interesting that the module contains the following code

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:16, Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:16 am, Blaisorblade wrote: I'm using stdin/stdout as the console. (And even though you put it into raw mode, I still can't ctrl-c out of the processs I'm running, either.) Hmm, ^C works

Fwd: Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER Date: Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:45 From: Gerd Knorr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Blaisorblade [EMAIL PROTECTED] binutils-2.14/ld/testsuite/ld-sparc/tlssunbin64.dd binutils-2.14/ld/testsuite/ld-sparc

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 18:30, Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 06:40 am, Blaisorblade wrote: Host is swapping, client configured without even support for swap. (If I can get the darn client vmlinux down to 1 megabyte, I'd be thrilled. Didn't somebody once make

[uml-devel] Error in current vsyscall patch

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
, vaddr); Please correct... and always try to proof-read each patch you write... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20:30, Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:34 pm, Blaisorblade wrote: Once I get /dev on ramfs managed by udev? Not really, no. I need the permissions to be right, but just about everything else should belong to root. (Yeah, there are a couple

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:54, Michael Halcrow wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:09, Michael Halcrow wrote: Ok, please list the new syscalls - I see at least add_key() and request_key() too - are these three the only ones

[uml-devel] Making sure 2.6.11-rc2-bk* works

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
. especially answering to the various important discussions, which I do even to discover bugs not recognized by who saw them) is making impossible for me to do actual work... my development speed is slowing down too much. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user

[uml-devel] 2.6.9-bs6 released

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
situations, together with your .config and host / guest datas, command line, output and so on. Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 23:46, Michael Halcrow wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:37:57PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:54, Michael Halcrow wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: Well, it should be fixed in the -mm tree

Re: [uml-devel] Re: skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-26 Thread Blaisorblade
means ugly hack which can make sense with non-GPL modules, i.e. does not make sense anyway. I'm not flaming ATI / NVIDIA, let's leave this duty to people with more spare time. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

[uml-devel] [patch 1/1] uml: Kconfig_arch little cleanup (to merge before 2.6.11)

2005-01-26 Thread blaisorblade
arch/um/Kconfig_arch is actually a symlink, so * Remove it from the tree. * Make sure it is removed during make mrproper. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/Makefile |8 ++-- linux-2.6.11/arch/um/Kconfig_arch | 16

[uml-devel] Re: UML running on a SMP host: bug in SKAS3 patch

2005-01-27 Thread Blaisorblade
). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports

[uml-devel] [POLL] Putting UML/2.4 into fixes-only mode

2005-01-27 Thread Blaisorblade
... no new features, no code cleanups (especially NOT the Makefiles cleanups)... - concentrate on stability... and on backing out the hostfs rewrite. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
this issue - they could maybe publish it and you'd see the comments) or on slashdot.org (which is actually a discussion forum) - I have read discussions about such issues, but I'm not myself an expert. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] [POLL] Putting UML/2.4 into fixes-only mode

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
about them and helping to narrow down possible bugs. So, for instance, it would be useless to backport the /proc/sysemu feature (which was a bit tricky to get right on 2.6 already, especially because uncovered some bugs in the SYSEMU host patch). Blaisorblade wrote: Jeff, I've seen the beginning

[uml-devel] Explaination of system call function flow in TT mode

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 15:33, Alex LIU wrote: Hi,Blaisorblade: I have studied the TT mode of UML source code 2.6.7 for some time.But I still can't work out the system call function flow in TT mode.I have read some documents and comments on that but all of them are very rough

Fwd: RE: [uml-devel] UML remote GUI problems

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Blaisorblade [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have sshd running on the Linux machine and then i tried to run port forwarding through putty on port 5900. I then ran the command export DISPLAY=host-ip. I then used tightVNC to connect to the ip address that i had assigned while setting up

[uml-devel] [patch 0/8] uml: important patches to merge before 2.6.11

2005-02-04 Thread Blaisorblade
/Kconfig_arch). I'm resending it, too, as plain-text attachment. Please apply. Thanks and regards -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade arch/um/Kconfig_arch is actually a symlink, so * Remove it from the tree. * Make sure

[uml-devel] [patch 6/8] uml: fix broken #ifdef clause causing crashes [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-04 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] The previous ifdef to check whether to use the host's vsyscall page was buggy. This bug can cause crashes. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um

[uml-devel] [patch 1/8] uml: fix compilation for missing headers [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-04 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Readd some needed headers inclusion deleted in http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you think it cannot make sense to include both sys/ptrace.h and linux/ptrace.h (as userspace process, i.e. host includes), go

[uml-devel] [patch 3/8] uml: Fix SKAS sig-handler reentrancy [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-04 Thread blaisorblade
From: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: uml-devel user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net This adds code which enables SIGSEGV reception to the SKAS sig_handler_common, which matches the tt code. I still need to figure out why the SA_NODEFER

[uml-devel] [patch 4/8] uml: disallow stack access below $esp like i386 / x86_64 [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-04 Thread blaisorblade
is not allowed, and a SIGSEGV is given to the user. This patch makes UML behave like i386/x86_64. Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/kernel/trap_kern.c|2 ++ linux-2.6.11-paolo

[uml-devel] [patch 2/8] uml: kconfig fixes [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-04 Thread blaisorblade
Change some config text (hide CONFIG_MODVERSION which is broken on UML and fix a dummy prompt). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/Kconfig |6 ++ linux-2.6.11-paolo/init/Kconfig|2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions

[uml-devel] [patch 7/8] uml: fix STATIC_LINK compilation [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-04 Thread blaisorblade
From: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] This fixes a bug which assumes that __binary_start starts on a page boundary, which isn't true when UML is configured to load into the normal executable area. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6] 4/7 replace uml_strdup by kstrdup

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
for pointing this out. I still haven't got feedback regarding the acceptance of these patches. If there is a chance they're accepted, maybe the best thing to do is to post the series again with this correction and the sound patch corrections. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n

[uml-devel] Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-02-08 Thread Blaisorblade
/exec_kern.i gives nothing (tested with your config, too). Try adding a #undef execve1 before the problematic line, and reporting (here I don't get the failure). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] [Bug 49277] Compile of usermode-sources-2.6.x fails

2005-02-10 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 11 February 2005 03:42, Rob Landley wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:33 pm, Blaisorblade wrote: Gee, Red Hat, the distro that brought us gcc 2.96, is now having ld throw assertion failures trying to build UML. It's nice to see tradition maintained... No, this one is Gentoo

Re: [uml-devel] SMP sworking in tt mode

2005-02-11 Thread Blaisorblade
wanted to do what you see on purpose. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.10 command line longer than 512 characters

2005-03-02 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:51, Kyrre M Begnum wrote: Thank you, i got a reply on that a while ago pointing me to a patch of that kind. I am gratefull for the follow-up though. If i may ask, is the patch on its way into 2.6.11? Blaisorblade mentioned it being on his list somewhere. No, I

Re: [uml-devel] UML freezes at hdd-intensive processes

2005-03-05 Thread Blaisorblade
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC .config And search CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC in the archives at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The problem was discussed for 2.6 only, the solution also applies to 2.4 (almost surely). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] Triage on the pending patches

2005-03-05 Thread Blaisorblade
with the quiet option) just won't shut up about its init stuff. Hence me looking into cleaning that up... Add early_printk which is a printf but shuts down when the quiet option is used. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] stdin lockup using con0=fd:0,fd:1 (guest 2.4.26-3um)

2005-03-05 Thread Blaisorblade
. this is redhat 9 + SKAS - NPTL 2.4.20-31 host kernel linux 2.4.26-3um guest kernel. thank you. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored

Re: [uml-devel] RE: uml_switch security fixing

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 07 March 2005 05:42, Steve Schmidtke wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: Hey, has anyone found the time to put together any patch to workaround the security bug in uml_net? Attached are two patches. The first one, uml_net-slip.diff, is the minimal patch to apply to uml_net. The second one

Re: [uml-devel] Re: uml_switch security fixing

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
users to do the equivalent of ifconfig down for chosen interfaces, by simply running uml_net. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - Make deb-pkg build target build a Debian-style user-mode-linux package

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
and corresponding other - files version $version. + files version $packagename EOF # Fix some ownership and permissions -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF

[uml-devel] [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

2005-03-09 Thread blaisorblade
'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c~uml-switch-spinlock-init arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c --- linux-2.6.11/arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c~uml-switch

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Fw: [patch] uml: terminal cleanup

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
Checking for /proc/mm...found Checking for the skas3 patch in the host...found Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp...OK -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email

Re: [uml-devel] how to freeze user mode linux

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
. In the archives there was also an announce for a separate project for UML only to implement suspending in a UML-specific way (it was meaningful, but I don't remember about it, even because they wanted to run their own mainling list). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n

Re: [uml-devel] RE: uml_switch security fixing

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 19:53, Steve Schmidtke wrote: Blaisorblade wrote: But an unpatched UML won't work with a newer uml_net binary (for SLIP usage only and only for closing the interface, I mean), right? Correct. I think uml_net would need to manage a database of who opened what

[uml-devel] Re: Switching uml_utilities to public CVS and no-maintainer model

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
it and allowed part of it to be used in uml_netjig, right? In this case, I think it can be accepted (I saw some remarks in the discussion but I think they were addressed enough, in the end). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] lasted skas patch for 2.6

2005-03-09 Thread Blaisorblade
, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version

2005-03-11 Thread Blaisorblade
hoops and worry about compiler versions, when afaik we could just do something like extern (...) __attribute__((alias())); instead. Exact details left to the reader who knows more about all the magic gcc/linker things.. Linus -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

2005-03-11 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 10 March 2005 09:12, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:52 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: Are you sure this is really the best option in this instance? Sometimes, static data initialisation is more efficient than code-based manual initialisation, especially when

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/2] uml: export getgid for hostfs

2005-03-11 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 11 March 2005 20:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Export this symbol which is now needed for a typo fix (getuid() - getgid()). Sorry for resending, I sent it wrong twice. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] uml-export-getgid-for-hostfs

2005-03-11 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 11 March 2005 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, resending this. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version

2005-03-11 Thread Blaisorblade
*); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gcov_init); +#else extern void __bb_init_func(void *); EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bb_init_func); +#endif /* * Overrides for Emacs so that we follow Linus's tabbing style. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org

[uml-devel] [patch 1/2] uml: export getgid for hostfs

2005-03-14 Thread blaisorblade
Export this symbol which is now needed for a typo fix (getuid() - getgid()). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c~uml-export-getgid

[uml-devel] [patch 2/2] uml: cope with uml_net security fix

2005-03-14 Thread blaisorblade
by fd does not work with older utilities, so we do both things (which does not hurt). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/drivers/slip_user.c |6 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/um/drivers

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Partial fix! - Was: Re: [BUG report] UML linux-2.6 latest BK doesn't compile

2005-03-14 Thread Blaisorblade
that this wasn't needed with gcc 3.3.4 (and I guess older ones). Finally, I got an unresolved symbol on __bb_fork_func, and I wasn't able to solve this (is it maybe a bug in libc or whatever? I don't know). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode

Re: [uml-devel] http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/ down?

2005-03-17 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 17 March 2005 16:53, itamar wrote: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/ down ? Yes, just verified... the mirror below is still up, and seems up to date... http://uml.linode.com/blaisorblade/ Note I don't run the mirror (it's auto-synced periodically) and I don't manage

[uml-devel] Fwd: Re: 2.6.9/2.6.10 host local DoS due to ptrace.

2005-03-17 Thread Blaisorblade
-- Subject: Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.9-bb3 on 2.6.9 host problem - triggering a host bug? Date: Friday 03 December 2004 13:56 From: Bodo Stroesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Roland Mc Grath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED], BlaisorBlade [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Dike [EMAIL

Re: [uml-devel] [patch] Remove unnecessary config symbol from makefile.

2005-03-17 Thread Blaisorblade
___ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] ptrace_test.c program on PPC

2005-03-20 Thread Blaisorblade
://www.usermodelinux.org/ news). However nothing for users at the moment. Thanks, Ashwin. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] uml help __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf0/0)

2005-03-20 Thread Blaisorblade
to the stable 2.4.24-1um hostfs code (i.e. pre-humfs), as I already do in the 2.4-bs tree. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product

Re: [uml-devel] http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/ down?

2005-03-20 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 18 March 2005 02:27, Jeff Dike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yes, just verified... the mirror below is still up, and seems up to date... http://uml.linode.com/blaisorblade/ Note I don't run the mirror (it's auto-synced periodically) and I don't manage the main host (only

[uml-devel] Testing GCOV handling in -bk

2005-03-20 Thread Blaisorblade
are bigger because it also requires to change link flags (and this interferes with some executables we build). I also get a link failure on __bb_fork_something..., which I haven't been able to solve until now. Regards -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user

[uml-devel] [patch 05/12] uml: extend cmd line limits

2005-03-22 Thread blaisorblade
From: Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Increase UML command line size. And fix a crash from passing an overly-long command line to UML. XXX: check that init can handle 128 params and 128 env. var

[uml-devel] [patch 07/12] Uml: little build fixes

2005-03-22 Thread blaisorblade
. This creates no problem so can be merged very likely. Note: only tested on i386, give a run on x86-64. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/Makefile-x86_64|4 linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386

[uml-devel] [patch 08/12] uml: factor out common code in user-obj handling

2005-03-22 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vadim Abrossimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] *) Handle USER_OBJS through the general Kbuild infrastructure; the trick we use is to change c_flags only for USER_OBJS. This ain't at all worse than the previous kludgy solution, enables us to use

[uml-devel] [patch 1/1] uml: fix cond. expr. as lvalues warning

2005-03-22 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gcc 3.4.3 (and probably any 3.4) emits some deprecation warnings currently about usages of CHOOSE_MODE, since the below syntax has been deprecated: (a ? foo: bar) = foobar; which often results from expansion of: CHOOSE_MODE(foo, bar

[uml-devel] [patch 11/12] uml: real fix for __gcov_init symbols

2005-03-22 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Anton Altaparmakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Correctly export __gcov_init for cases where it's needed, by adding a weak definition for the case when GCC does not define this symbol and letting it being overriden by the real definition when GCC

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Testing GCOV handling in -bk

2005-03-22 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 21 March 2005 11:49, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:42 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: Anton, would you test the current -bk tree for the CONFIG_GCOV problem and the patch I and Jeff put together? http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/work/current/2.6/2.6.11-bk8

Re: [uml-devel] ptrace_test.c program on PPC

2005-03-22 Thread Blaisorblade
the result from the UML execution of the syscall to the result register. Thanks, Ashwin. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade #include stdio.h #include signal.h #include sys/wait.h #include sys/ptrace.h #include asm

Re: [uml-devel] Hostfs permission checks are all wonky.

2005-03-23 Thread Blaisorblade
of problems right now. We are going to keep the old hostfs available for a lot... So you'd better go debugging the current code, IMHO (and even simply testing the patch); we will subsequently port those changes to the new code. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http

[uml-devel] [UML/2.6] -bk7 tree does not run when compiled as SKAS-only

2005-03-23 Thread Blaisorblade
there are not many patches which went in for this release. Jeff, any ideas? -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: 2005 Windows

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Supporting building on x86-64 host as 32-bit UML

2005-03-23 Thread Blaisorblade
utilities that print out some headers (with offsets inside host proc. specific structs). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: 2005

Re: [uml-devel] [patch 02/12] uml: cpu_relax fix

2005-03-23 Thread Blaisorblade
, that another Guest might run. On a host running many UMLs, this might improve performance. So, I would like to have the small patch below (it's not tested, just an idea). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] Hostfs permission checks are all wonky.

2005-03-23 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 09:13, Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:19 pm, Blaisorblade wrote: Ok, I'm now seeing that UML uses access() (inside access_file()) to check permissions. See hostfs_permission - access_file - access. hostfs_permission (not access_file) should

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] SKAS-V8, UML/2.4.27-bs2-pre7 released, start of work on SKAS/x86-64

2005-03-23 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 24 March 2005 03:35, Blaisorblade wrote: Ok, I've put on the site the announcements of SKAS-v8 (which is identical to -rc5, I just need to update the tarballs), of the test tree (very test) for UML/2.4. It does not compile with GCC 3.4, but from what I see no 2.4.27 tree

Re: BUG with proposed fix Re: [uml-devel] Can't compile under vanilla 2.6.11

2005-03-24 Thread Blaisorblade
by my reading of the log (nor for one for my previous e-mail) Ok, I'm taking that patch and merging it in my tree and in 2.6.12. I hope it can go also in 2.6.11.6 (or .7, whatever). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

[uml-devel] [patch 4/8] uml: fixes a build failure with CONFIG_MODE_SKAS disabled [for 2.6.12]

2005-03-30 Thread blaisorblade
This fixes a build failure (and also some warnings) when CONFIG_MODE_SKAS is disabled. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/ptrace.h | 16 +++--- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/include/sysdep-x86_64/ptrace.h

[uml-devel] [patch 3/8] uml: quick fix syscall table [urgent]

2005-03-30 Thread blaisorblade
cleanups in the syscall table (if you don't like them, feel free to remove them). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/syscalls.h | 16 ++-- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/include/sysdep-x86_64/syscalls.h |5

[uml-devel] Critical instability in 2.4.27-1um

2005-03-31 Thread Blaisorblade
is a couple of fixes extracted from the released 2.4.27-1um patch which are missing in the official splitout. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 03/12] uml: export getgid for hostfs

2005-03-31 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 13:45, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:02:28AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: In this moment I need to clean up the missing symbol. If anyone wants to remove the code using this, then he might post a patch explictly removing it, and getting

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.9-bs7 panic on check_sysemu

2005-04-05 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:23, Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 09:32 am, Blaisorblade wrote: Is this a case where I should be upgrading my host kernels (will do that in time anyway)? You simply need to update the SKAS patch version. -V2 is very old, and many bugs

Re: [uml-devel] question about UML sigcontext in tt mode

2005-04-05 Thread Blaisorblade
. Please. Thanks for you effort anyway. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds

Re: [uml-devel] Re: UML-patches to prepare UML/s390

2005-04-06 Thread Blaisorblade
of mk_constants, mk_thread and such), so we catch it from the definition given by ourselves and expose to the whole of UML. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF

Re: [uml-devel] Re: UML-patches to prepare UML/s390

2005-04-06 Thread Blaisorblade
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