Re: kgdb unuseable with cores on current (for some people)

2010-05-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010, Alan Cox wrote: I suspect the following is needed: Index: vm/vm_page.c === --- vm/vm_page.c(revision 207823) +++ vm/vm_page.c(working copy) @@ -108,

RE: Crash dump problem - sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock during crash dump write

2010-05-14 Thread Terry Kennedy
> Oops, youre right that other CPUs are running. > > The stop_cpus() call is only made if kdb is entered. doadump() is called > out of boot() which comes later. At Isilon weve been running with a patch > that does stop_cpus() pretty close to the front of panic(9). This is interesting, and ch

Re: kgdb unuseable with cores on current (for some people)

2010-05-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: Hm, but the "Cannot access memory" is preceeded by "Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:\n"; I don't remember whether that was there before. I'll compile another kernel from stock HEAD to check if that's actually due to the patch (or just p

Re: kgdb unuseable with cores on current (for some people)

2010-05-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Alan Cox wrote: On 5/14/2010 1:44 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote: Try reverting r202897 on fresh HEAD. I very much doubt that r202933 can be responsible. Indeed, 202933 was cleared of blame in the latest bisection. I'm currently

Re: kgdb unuseable with cores on current (for some people)

2010-05-14 Thread Alan Cox
On 5/14/2010 1:44 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:55:35AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: Hi all, As was revealed in a recent thread here [1], several people have been unable to use kgdb on coredumps for the past few months (but p

Re: [PATCH:] psm(4) IntelliMouse Explorer KVM hack breaks my mouse

2010-05-14 Thread Juergen Lock
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:12:21PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:17:54 +0200 > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:42:34PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 May 2010 20:41:41 +0200 > > > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > > > > So now I made a patc

Re: Crash dump problem - sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock during crash dump write

2010-05-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
Matthew Fleming wrote: As an aside, this is a quad-core in one package CPU (an X3363). On both this box and a similar one with an X5470, console messages continue to print out after "the system has been halted - press any key to reboot" - in particular, the shutdown makes a bunch of the "beh

RE: Crash dump problem - sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock during crash dump write

2010-05-14 Thread Matthew Fleming
> As an aside, this is a quad-core in one package CPU (an X3363). On both > this box and a similar one with an X5470, console messages continue to > print out after "the system has been halted - press any key to reboot" - > in particular, the shutdown makes a bunch of the "behind the scenes" man-

cpuset at boot time or separating processes by CPU

2010-05-14 Thread Sylvio Cesar Teixeira
Hi list, I'm with a need to run the cpuset for certain processes, for example: run VirtualBox on CPU 1; run firefox on CPU 0; and the other processes are balanced between the CPU 0 and 1. I can do this separation, but only with the root, but I need to do as a regular user. is it possible? Rega

Re: [PATCH:] psm(4) IntelliMouse Explorer KVM hack breaks my mouse

2010-05-14 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:17:54 +0200 Juergen Lock wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:42:34PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > On Tue, 11 May 2010 20:41:41 +0200 > > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > > So now I made a patch that allows disabling that KVM hack via device > > > hints, appended below. (