Bug#600992: further logs

2010-10-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 09:34 +0200, Tecnici wrote: Il 22/10/2010 16:02, Ian Campbell ha scritto: On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:40 +0200, Tecnici wrote: Thanks again Ian, should you need more logs and/or tests please let us know I understand that this problem may be related to the lost

Bug#600992: further logs

2010-10-22 Thread Ian Campbell
-utils* have not changed? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Angelcorpse - Reap The Whirlwind * lilo hereby declares OPN a virtual pain in the ass :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#600992: further logs

2010-10-22 Thread Ian Campbell
smartpoll logic Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Novembre - Zenith abuse me. I'm so lame I sent a bug report to debian-devel-changes -- Seen on #Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#600992: further logs

2010-10-22 Thread Ian Campbell
till the additional patches will be merged with the debian kernel regards Il 22/10/2010 14:49, Ian Campbell ha scritto: This stack trace is familiar, the netfront smartpoll feature is buggy and so was disabled (this part is in the Debian kernel) but initial attempts to allow

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-20 Thread Ian Campbell
(dropping pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org) On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 09:10 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 19:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Correct. We try hard to avoid ABI breakage after a freeze and in stable updates and we have so far succeeded with the 'standard

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 11:22 +, maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:54:30AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: (dropping pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org) On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 09:10 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 19:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote

Bug#600554: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: pls include CONFIG_AUFS_EXPORT=y

2010-10-18 Thread Ian Campbell
reassign 600554 linux-2.6 thanks On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 08:18 +0200, Christoph Kaminski wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 Severity: wishlist Please include AUFS nfs export support (CONFIG_AUFS_EXPORT). Reassigning to linux-2.6. If this is to be enabled (I have no basis for an

Bug#600601: Feature request -- USB passthrough for Xen PV

2010-10-18 Thread Ian Campbell
for the Debian kernels. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell QOTD: It's a cold bowl of chili, when love don't work out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 works incorrectly with blktap in Xen

2010-10-17 Thread Ian Campbell
this is resolved by the fixes I added to Debian SVN on Friday which will be in the 2.6.32-26 upload. Ian. -- Ian Campbell A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#600064: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: machine reboots during dom0 bootup if Intel TXT enabled

2010-10-14 Thread Ian Campbell
-kernel-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64/postinst/missing-firmware-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Sonic Youth - Hits Of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg) It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them

Bug#600064: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: machine reboots during dom0 bootup if Intel TXT enabled

2010-10-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 18:21 +0200, Linus van Geuns wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 12:35 +0200, Linus van Geuns wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-23 Severity: important If Intel TXT is enabled in BIOS

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 08:38 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 19:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I don't think it does. In my experience the closed source Nvidia drivers don't work with pvops Xen anyway. I believe Nouveau does

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-11 Thread Ian Campbell
Nouveau does but I had already switched to ATI when that went mainstream. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Sabbat - Hosanna In Excelsis Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-) -- Larry Wall in 199710211959.maa18...@wall.org

Bug#599089: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: Kernel Panics when using NFS from DomU to Dom0

2010-10-06 Thread Ian Campbell
someone on debian-kernel will chime in. Ian. Would this happen to make it into Squeeze soon? ETA? Save me the trouble of a recompile :) Cheers, Jay On 10-10-05 06:39 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 10/05/2010 11:22 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 09:54 -0700

Bug#599161: xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Clock moved forward 50 minutes, caused Xen HVM domU restart

2010-10-06 Thread Ian Campbell
(such as the wallclock time) from it. Sorry this isn't more helpful, but as I say you will probably get better answers on one of the Xen mailing lists. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Trouble - Wickedness Of Man ok, I will not marry Jo-Con-El's cow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#599089: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: Kernel Panics when using NFS from DomU to Dom0

2010-10-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 10:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: In addition to the kernel logging of the error I get this from the hypervisor: (XEN) mm.c:2062:d0 Error pfn 16d99: rd=83011fefa000, od=, caf=180, taf= (XEN) mm.c:658:d0 Could not get page

Bug#599089: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: Kernel Panics when using NFS from DomU to Dom0

2010-10-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 09:54 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 10/05/2010 02:52 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 10:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: In addition to the kernel logging of the error I get this from the hypervisor: (XEN) mm.c:2062:d0 Error pfn 16d99: rd

Bug#597828: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: [xen] debug options + sysrq-t = sending NMI to all CPUs: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2010-09-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:02 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 09/24/2010 01:28 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: I think the Intel MCE people have made NMI work in pvops, but I didn't look closely. But from a pvops perspective, I think the tricky part is sending an NMI rather than receiving

Bug#597828: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: [xen] debug options + sysrq-t = sending NMI to all CPUs: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2010-09-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 11:53 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 09/24/2010 01:07 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: NMI injection on 2.6.18 was one of the first Xen things I worked on (for injecting h/w NMI button faults) so something worked once upon a time. I can see CALLBACKTYPE_nmi

Bug#597865: Xen domU randomly loose network

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Campbell
reproduced on two servers. Cordialement, Guillaume Seigneuret Network and System Security Architect Web : http://www.omegacube.fr Address : Hôtel Technologique - BP 100 Technopôle de Château Gombert 13382 Marseille Cedex 13 -- Ian Campbell BOFH excuse #22: monitor

Bug#597865: Xen domU randomly loose network

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Campbell
random loss of network connectivity) and is therefore now disabled in debian-kernel's SVN. There was a few threads regarding smartpoll's reliability on xen-devel in the last month or so if you want to research further. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one

Bug#597041: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: module radeon and active xen hypervisor problems

2010-09-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:07 +0200, Christoph Kaminski wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-21 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable If I boot this kernel with xen hypervisor (4.0.1 from sid) I see black screen on first monitor and garbage on second after the load of

Disable smartpoll netfront option in Xen flavour? (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: new netfront and occasional receive path lockup)

2010-09-15 Thread Ian Campbell
) Ian. On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:44 +0100, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:54:27AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 09/14/2010 01:25 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 20:36 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 09/13/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote

Bug#596419: Acknowledgement (xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: causes a system hangup by the shutdown of the system, aacraid (sw raid) involved in hangup)

2010-09-13 Thread Ian Campbell
04 0f 0b eb fe 75 08 45 31 e4 e9 9c 00 00 00 49 8b 7f 58 48 89 eb RIP [] aac_build_sgraw+0x51/0x10a [aacraid] RSP 88003cd998e0 --- [ end trace ] --- Now also this stack trace stays on the screen and nothing happens also after very long time (1 hour) -- Ian Campbell

Bug#595711: more specific information

2010-09-10 Thread Ian Campbell
tree, it looks like it depends on a base kernel patchset from elsewhere or something. If the above test kernel doesn't fix the issue do you think you could create a tarball of the fully patched gentoo source and put it somewhere I can get it? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell My EARS are GONE

Bug#595711: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686: Wrong free memory values for xen kernel with xenballoon use

2010-09-06 Thread Ian Campbell
classic-Xen kernel you'd need to adjust the path to drivers/xen/balloon/balloon.c and perhaps tweak some context a bit but the concept should still apply. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Never laugh at live dragons. -- Bilbo Baggins [J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit] signature.asc Description

Bug#595711: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686: Wrong free memory values for xen kernel with xenballoon use

2010-09-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 22:36 +0400, George Shuklin wrote: В Пнд, 06/09/2010 в 07:59 +0100, Ian Campbell пишет: On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 04:03 +0400, George Shuklin wrote: I belive, this somehow related to difference in drivers/xen/balloon.c, gentoo/SUSE version have some lines like

Re: mlock/guard page/xen-tools lenny

2010-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
actually require Xen to demonstrate the issue so any Lenny system should do). Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Desecration - Human Gore Barach's Rule: An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician. #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include string.h #include sys/mman.h

Re: mlock/guard page/xen-tools lenny

2010-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:00 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:57 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:22:23AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: hey Ian, I haven't seen any reports of xen problems w/ the latest lenny DSA that added the guard page code. I

Re: mlock/guard page/xen-tools lenny

2010-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:28 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:00 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 22:57 -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:22:23AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: hey Ian, I haven't seen any reports of xen problems w

Re: mlock/guard page/xen-tools lenny

2010-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:04 -0600, dann frazier wrote: I've actually already included a backport for this in 2.6.26-25 [...] So looks like we're ok? So you have, yes then I think we're OK. Ian. -- Ian Campbell BOFH excuse #222: I'm not sure. Try calling the Internet's head office

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 21:22 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:10AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] BTW, should I port my lintian fixes over from trunk? Yes please. Done. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell How much of their influence on you is a result of your

Obsolete support for old-style xen and kernel-package types in debian/ dir

2010-08-30 Thread Ian Campbell
argument \`$1' 2 -exit 1 -;; -esac - -#DEBHELPER# - -exit 0 - - -- Ian Campbell When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. -- Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594697: Xen 4/Linux 2.6.32-5-xen (Squeeze testing): Bridged PV Guests Crash Upon Autostart

2010-08-28 Thread Ian Campbell
do! I believe the fix for this is in the 2.6.32-21 kernel currently present in Sid. Ian. -- Ian Campbell knghtbrd: and the meek shall inherit k-mart signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 03:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:20 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:54 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:11 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel). Ouch, I didn't think to try that combo! I don't suppose

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:07 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:54 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:11 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200

Re: [Stable-review] [RFC] mlock/stack guard interaction fixup

2010-08-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 15:26 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:55 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] In the meantime I notice you've committed the patches. Can we get them queued up for stable backports at some point? I appreciate you might want them to bake for a bit

Re: [Stable-review] [RFC] mlock/stack guard interaction fixup

2010-08-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 15:58 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I think I would err on the side of reverting for now. The relevant changesets are: e4599a4a45259b9cfb0942d36f6f35f3dca1d893 mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page

Re: [PATCHv2] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 05:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 19:14 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 22:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I happened to notice on packages.qa.debian.org that the kernel

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-21 Thread Ian Campbell
to get this functionality. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Pilfering Treasury property is paticularly dangerous: big thieves are ruthless in punishing little thieves. -- Diogenes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 17:51 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: The diff of source_amd64_xen before and after adding the pvhvm patches is then tiny (see below) and results from merging v2.6.32.19 myself instead of just rebasing the pvops patch to e.g. e73f4955a821f850f5b88c32d12a81714523a95f. I don't

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-20 Thread Ian Campbell
creates issues. It's not too much -- their behaviour is reasonable but just needs extra care under Xen. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Iron Maiden - Dream Of Mirrors Safety Third. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:13 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:32:58PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: However not this part. Only small commits are fixes and I consider the rest as hacks. Which commits in particular

Re: [PATCHv2] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 22:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I happened to notice on packages.qa.debian.org that the kernel packages have 250 lintian warnings, of which the vast majority come from just a few easy to fix issues. Patch

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:21 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:02:57PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:22:38PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I exported these rebased changesets, added them to the sid series and adjusted the pvops.patch

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:01 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:33:46AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Agreed. And in the absence of any specific alternatives I plan to commit the pvhvm drivers shortly. NACK. Not with manual modifications of pvops. It will be replaced

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:14 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:21:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:02:57PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:22:38PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I exported these rebased changesets, added

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:15 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Is this git tree available somewhere? git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git Thanks, but which branch? xen/stable-2.6.32.x? What is the left hand side

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 14:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:15 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Is this git tree available somewhere? git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git Thanks

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:46 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 14:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:15 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Is this git tree available somewhere? git

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 16:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: $ git reset --hard 69a73fa4836d0d701dbff7d0de3294b96583a4cf $ git merge 16938b03e75e70e214d053c527bc937ee8ca838a # xen/xen/next $ git revert -m 1 bcf16b6b4f34fb40a7aaf637947c7d3bce0be671 $ git diff v2.6.32.17..HEAD Then trivially

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-18 Thread Ian Campbell
. It would be a terrible shame if Squeeze did not have support for the modern graphics subsystem when running Xen. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Black Sabbath - Lonely Is The Word Sure he's sharp as a razor ... he's a two-dimensional pinhead! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

[PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Campbell
/changelog +++ b/linux-2.6/debian/changelog @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ linux-2.6 (2.6.32-21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low - mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segment (CVE-2010-2240) * Add drm and other relevant changes from stable 2.6.34.4 + [ Ian Campbell ] + + * Add ${misc:Depends} to all

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:18 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:41:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: dbg-package-missing-depends Add dependency on the corresponding linux-image package to each -dbg package. It's possible this is not appropriate for a kernel

Re: [PATCH] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:04 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I happened to notice on packages.qa.debian.org that the kernel packages have 250 lintian warnings, of which the vast majority come from just a few easy to fix issues

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:02 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:22:38PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I exported these rebased changesets, added them to the sid series and adjusted the pvops.patch (the featureset=xen patch) to remove the bits which are now already included

Re: [PATCHv2] Nuke a few easily Lintian warnings

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 07:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I happened to notice on packages.qa.debian.org that the kernel packages have 250 lintian warnings, of which the vast majority come from just a few easy to fix issues. Patch rebased on trunk with comments addressed. Changes since last time

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-12 Thread Ian Campbell
get back you've only gone and frozen squeeze ;-) Is that a blocker to adding new drivers like this or should I continue looking into it? FWIW Linus has now pulled it into his tree. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Campbell
hand as far as I can tell even xen-unstable.hg does not support XSAVE for PV guests so any potential guest performance loss is only theoretical in the future. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Nihilism should commence with oneself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#592463: xen-linux-system-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64: domU kernel freeze on xfs location

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Campbell
Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Ian Campbell Bennett's Laws

Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Campbell
of cpuid is probably the best fix. Agreed and I think on that basis we should take the proposed patch into the Debian kernel. Ian. -- Ian Campbell ... eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of his original joy his falling in love with Ada. -- Nabokov

Bug#592463: xen-linux-system-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64: domU kernel freeze on xfs location

2010-08-11 Thread Ian Campbell
in the name are the ABI version not the package version. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#591362: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686: domU hang and are unresponsive (was #534880)

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Campbell
(clock_was_set_work); /* * Account stolen ticks. * HACK: Passing NULL to account_steal_time() Ben. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Pearl Jam - MFC Confidence is simply that quiet, assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face. -- Dr. L

Bug#592487: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: dump

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Campbell
. -- Ian Campbell Dismissed. That's a Star Fleet expression for, Get out. -- Capt. Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager, The Cloud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-08-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 18:22 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:35:54PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:44:32AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Anything I can help with? Testing the new packages from [1

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:37 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:44:01PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: The full series of patches can be found at http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?p=people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git in the branch 2.6.32-pvhvm We have this code already

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 03:43 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:44 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: The pvhvm drivers for Xen allow a fully virtualised guest (aka HVM) to use the Xen PV disk and network interfaces the same as a Xen guest running paravirtualised, in addition

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:18 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: I did not request a copy of this mail, please respect that. Sure, sorry about that. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:43:50AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:37 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: We have this code already, so

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 12:05 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:44:32AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:18 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: This is no excuse, the installer uses the real PV kernel. Not when running in an HVM guest it doesn't, which

Re: Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 12:06 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 03:44:01PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: The full series of patches can be found at http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?p=people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git in the branch 2.6.32-pvhvm I still veto the xenfs

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set for linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Campbell
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Xen pvhvm driver support for squeeze?

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Campbell
|1 + include/xen/interface/hvm/hvm_op.h| 46 +++ include/xen/interface/hvm/params.h| 95 +++ include/xen/platform_pci.h| 49 include/xen/xen-ops.h |3 + 39 files changed, 1189 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) -- Ian Campbell

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set for linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Campbell
the deprecated config options (which were disabled in early 2009) I think it's safe to say these versions are sufficient. I can definitly alter it to say: Hey, this is only for RHEL/CentOS users. Or if your boot hangs during the initrd stage, try Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell I'm in direct contact

Bug#588509: This bug is being discussed on LKML

2010-07-16 Thread Ian Campbell
is probably worth a go. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Here we are in America ... when do we collect unemployment? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: xen kernel features

2010-07-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 00:25 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:53:17PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:58 +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote: - PCI passthru to PV guests does not work, because CONFIG_XEN_PCI_PASSTHROUGH is disabled in kernel config. I

Re: xen kernel features

2010-06-30 Thread Ian Campbell
it on the xen-devel mailing list, or better yet, sending patches to that list ;-). Ian. -- Ian Campbell Hit the monkey to win $20(*)! * knghtbrd gets out his mallet. * knghtbrd plants it firmly on DannyS' head. * knghtbrd will take his $20 now. =D signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#583071: initramfs-tools: initrd.img fails to boot with xen

2010-05-25 Thread Ian Campbell
-2.6.32-5-xen-686 } This is a known issue due to the grub2 maintainers arbitrarily changing the semantics of the modules lines compared with grub1. Please see the section of http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems titled Booting Xen with GRUB2 fails? for a workaround. Ian. -- Ian

Bug#576877: linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-amd64: doesn't boot with 4 GiB; resets immediatelly, no log messages

2010-04-08 Thread Ian Campbell
-10 vs. -11 tests? It's likely that this issue will be easiest to address on xen-devel rather than in the Debian BTS. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Vintersorg - Ödemarkens Son Why are you doing this to me? Because knowledge is torture, and there must be awareness before

Bug#501359: initramfs-tools: MODULES=dep does not like Xen virtual block devices

2010-04-06 Thread Ian Campbell
disk configuration I typically use and I don't have an easy way to construct a partitions only configuration at the moment. IIRC Ferenc (the original reporter) was using the partition based scheme so perhaps he can confirm if it works for him now. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Thrashing is just virtual

Re: upgrade to new xen domU on old xen dom0?

2010-03-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 22:09 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:11:15PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: OK, that works, thanks. We have got to get this documented somewhere now that the deprecated option is broken. There is no mention of it at http://wiki.debian.org/Xen

Re: upgrade to new xen domU on old xen dom0?

2010-03-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 08:41 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 22:09 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:11:15PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: OK, that works, thanks. We have got to get this documented somewhere now that the deprecated option is broken

Re: upgrade to new xen domU on old xen dom0?

2010-03-27 Thread Ian Campbell
(e.g. add the modules to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules). Ian. -- Ian Campbell Not responsible for merchandise left over 30 days. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: upgrade to new xen domU on old xen dom0?

2010-03-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 15:53 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:02:01PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:56 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [0.610445] blkfront: xvda1: barriers enabled xen-blkfront is a module in the pvops based 2.6.32-x-xen-amd64

Re: upgrade to new xen domU on old xen dom0?

2010-03-27 Thread Ian Campbell
, that's fine/expected. Ian. -- Ian Campbell A clever prophet makes sure of the event first. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: upgrade to new xen domU on old xen dom0?

2010-03-27 Thread Ian Campbell
. There is no mention of it at http://wiki.debian.org/Xen and simple googling is far from conclusive. Would you mind updating the wiki with your findings? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell It would be illogical to kill without reason. -- Spock, Journey to Babel, stardate 3842.4 signature.asc

Re: Collecting additional bootloader/hypervisor information from reportbug hooks?

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 00:24 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 19:35 +, Ian Campbell wrote: #575183 suggests that it would be useful to know which hypervisor was installed when reportbug is used to report a bug against the kernel. Any objection to adding xen

Bug#575183: fails to boot on SGI C2108-F6 server under Xen 3.4 hypervisor

2010-03-24 Thread Ian Campbell
hypervisor than is in stable at the moment, at a minimum you need 3.4.3, RC's are available in testing. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Pascal Users: To show respect for the 313th anniversary (tomorrow) of the death of Blaise Pascal, your programs will be run at half speed. signature.asc

Bug#575183: fails to boot on SGI C2108-F6 server under Xen 3.4 hypervisor

2010-03-24 Thread Ian Campbell
a reboot loop though so perhaps that wouldn't help much. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Coffins - Deadly Sinners The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

Re: Bug#516374 Help with Xen kernel

2010-03-24 Thread Ian Campbell
then I think filing bugs would be useful. It would be useful to hear on the list even if you don't have any issues -- it's always useful to know when something works! Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell You have Egyptian flu: you're going to be a mummy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel

Collecting additional bootloader/hypervisor information from reportbug hooks?

2010-03-24 Thread Ian Campbell
in the right place (whatever that might be). Ian. -- Ian Campbell In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -- Thomas Jefferson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#516374 Help with Xen kernel

2010-03-23 Thread Ian Campbell
no specific need for 64 bit I'd recommend using 32 bit guests. Ian. -- Ian Campbell You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Xen dom0 2.6.32 stable branch

2010-03-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: Hello! On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:07:42 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:29 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:42:32PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: http://hermes.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/~blank

Re: upload announce 2.6.32-10

2010-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
until 22 UT on this machine :-( Ian. -- Ian Campbell Maj. Bloodnok: Seagoon, you're a coward! Seagoon:Only in the holiday season. Maj. Bloodnok: Ah, another Noel Coward! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: upload announce 2.6.32-10

2010-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 08:45 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 02:53 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: remaining issues, please add: * xen compilation?! Can you give a pointer to the files which are failing? I tried some likely candidates (arch/x86 and drivers/xen) on i386

Re: upload announce 2.6.32-10

2010-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 11:50 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 08:51 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 08:45 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 02:53 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: remaining issues, please add: * xen compilation

Re: Scheduling 2.6.26-22 (ABI++)

2010-03-07 Thread Ian Campbell
structure. We can use a separate static variable instead, leaving the structure unchanged. If the new field is at the end of the struct does it work to hide the field from the ksyms stuff using ifndef __GENKSYMS__? Old callers won't care about a new field at the end of the struct. Ian. -- Ian

Re: sid abi changes

2010-03-07 Thread Ian Campbell
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