On 06.03.2007 [16:55:14 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:44:01PM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 06.03.2007 [16:33:22 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:10:16PM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > On 06.03.2007 [11:54:04 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:58:00AM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > > > On 05.03.2007 [15:35:05 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:44:31PM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 04.03.2007 [10:23:00 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:38:52PM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 03.03.2007 [17:44:48 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0800, Nishanth > > > > > > > > > > > Aravamudan wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > But... I've just thought some more. And I think we can work > > > > > > > around > > > > > > > this problem with similar linker tricks to the ones I was using > > > > > > > when I > > > > > > > had the syscall()-statically-linked-from-libc almost working. > > > > > > > But now > > > > > > > that we'll be compiling the arch specific code in question with > > > > > > > -fPIC > > > > > > > ourselves, the problems that arose there should be gone. > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, are you going to spin up some patches then? > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, started working on it yesterday, will keep going today. > > > > > > > > Great, thanks. > > > > > > Ok, here's a first draft. This gets unmapped_abort() working > > > correctly on ppc32, ppc64 and i386. x86_64 is untested (don't have a > > > machine handy). sparc64 and ia64 will not build with this version, > > > because there isn't a stub for them yet. > > > > I should be able to test x86_64 in the morning here. > > Note that to actually test the unmapped_abort() code, you'll need to > insert some code into the elflink path so that it thinks the remapping > has failed.
Yep, I gathered as much. I might head into the office after class, so I may not be able to test until later today. But it will be done before EOD. Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
