Re: new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
forhead* Probably a SYSINIT? Cool, thanks for the feedback! np, this is promising work! -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations

Re: new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
and continue. you may not call malloc(9) with M_WAITOK while holding a mutex. --- entry = jumbo_kmap_inuse.slh_first; I'm sure that should use a list macro. --- That's all I see off the bat. :) Looks cool though. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software

Re: fast playback with Intel 82801BA (ICH2)

2002-05-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Orion Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020501 18:10] wrote: /-- Alfred Perlstein wrote: | -current compiled today mp3s play too fast, any ideas on how to | diagnose this? | | pcm0: Intel 82801BA (ICH2) port 0xef00-0xef3f,0xe800-0xe8ff irq 9 at device | 31.5 on pci0 | pcm0: measured ac97 link

Re: fast playback with Intel 82801BA (ICH2)

2002-05-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020503 12:09] wrote: | -current compiled today mp3s play too fast, any ideas on how to | diagnose this? | | pcm0: Intel 82801BA (ICH2) port 0xef00-0xef3f,0xe800-0xe8ff irq 9 at device | 31.5 on pci0 | pcm0: measured ac97 link rate at 44061 Hz

fast playback with Intel 82801BA (ICH2)

2002-05-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
-current compiled today mp3s play too fast, any ideas on how to diagnose this? pcm0: Intel 82801BA (ICH2) port 0xef00-0xef3f,0xe800-0xe8ff irq 9 at device 31.5 on pci0 pcm0: measured ac97 link rate at 44061 Hz -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software

Re: d-link dwl520 wireless pci

2002-04-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
irq 12 I think you mucked up your kernel install. Are you positive? Try sticking a printf in the driver's probe routine to make sure it's being called at boot time. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why

Re: Locking down a socket, milestone 1

2002-04-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020425 01:19] wrote: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tanimura/patches/socket_milestone1.diff.gz This looks really good so far! Needs some more comments explaining socq_lock. Watch long line wraps. Why is there a sigio lock in this delta? -- -Alfred

Re: Locking down a socket, milestone 1

2002-04-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
pretty fine grained except the unix domain sockets where a global lock is held to protect against lock order reversals when having to lock both sockets. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software

Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ?

2002-04-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020420 16:01] wrote: As a quick follow-up to this, doing more searching on the web, I came across a few suggested 'sysctl' settings, which I've added to what I had before, for a total of: kern.maxfiles=65534 jail.sysvipc_allowed=1

Re: savecore

2002-04-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Chad David [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020418 23:32] wrote: Any comments / objections to these patches to savecore and friends? After I get more than two or three md5 named files in var/crash I start to go cross eyed. I found the md5 names to be particularly disgusting as well. If this reverts

Re: asr can not map memory?

2002-03-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
this? Some sort of escape mechanism? I need sleep. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http

asr can not map memory?

2002-03-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
(map ok at: %d\n, __LINE__); return (1); } /* asr_pci_map_mem */ -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations

Re: asr can not map memory?

2002-03-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020330 20:47] wrote: I just got the Adaptec 4 port IDE raid card 2400A. It doesn't probe right: asr0: could not map memory I added some debug printouts to the asr driver and pci code. asr0: Adaptec Caching SCSI RAID mem 0xf600-0xf7ff irq 5

Re: asr can not map memory?

2002-03-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
? I'm a bit confused as to wheather our code is behaving oddly or if it's just the device violating some spec... You should have bought a 3ware controller. 8) 3ware should talk to Frys. :) Thanks for responding so promptly. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: asr can not map memory?

2002-03-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020330 21:51] wrote: * Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020330 21:34] wrote: Your BIOS is assigning a memory range to the card that we don't believe the bridge passes through. Our check is bogus because (as you see) the range is actually legitimate

Re: asr can not map memory?

2002-03-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
it's going to get one of Fry's famous stickers. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http

Re: Lock order reversals in sys_pipe.c

2002-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
references are from a -current kernel from last night. Are you %100 on that? How did you get this to happen? I can see where I hold the pipe lock, then try to get a proc lock, but not the other way around... Any ideas? -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: Lock order reversals in sys_pipe.c

2002-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020326 14:43] wrote: * Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020324 14:26] wrote: The bento cluster is now running with WITNESS enabled to try and track down some odd UMA lock corruption panics. Instead, it found the following lock order reversal

world broke, patch

2002-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
/pam_opieaccess.c 14 Mar 2002 23:27:58 - 1.7 +++ pam_opieaccess/pam_opieaccess.c 22 Mar 2002 17:29:20 - @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #define _BSD_SOURCE +#include sys/types.h #include opie.h #include pwd.h #include unistd.h -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead

Re: Found: module loading breakage

2002-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alexander Kabaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020322 21:31] wrote: I used the workaround below to get the system booting again, but it does nothing to solve the real problem. We should probably either update each and every vnode known to the system with the new v_op pointer when needed, or simply

Re: Found: module loading breakage

2002-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020322 23:13] wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: Unless I am missing something, vnodes hang off their mount points. So, effectively, there is a system-wide list. The lock on a global traverasl will be pretty ugly... Module loading doesn't occur often.

fla LINT breakage.

2002-03-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Fixes format warnings. Since there was so much... bitching about my last commit to something contrib/* I'm posting the fix here. Index: fla.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/contrib/dev/fla/fla.c,v retrieving revision 1.29 diff -u

Re: fla LINT breakage.

2002-03-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020319 12:40] wrote: You're welcome to commit it :-) Thank you. Poul-Henning In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes: Fixes format warnings. Since there was so much... bitching about my last commit to something contrib/* I'm

Re: ipfstat fix?

2002-03-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
kmem.c facpri.c common.c +SRCS= fils.c parse.c opt.c kmem.c facpri.c common.c printstate.c CFLAGS+=-DUSE_INET6 -DIPL_NAME=\/dev/ipl\ -DSTATETOP CFLAGS+=-I${.CURDIR}/../../sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet CFLAGS+=-I${.CURDIR}/../../sys/contrib/ipfilter -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: -current lock warning...

2002-03-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020318 10:24] wrote: On 17-Mar-2002 Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Munehiro Matsuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020317 06:36] wrote: PS. I got another message that happend when I ^C'ed a buildworld earlier

Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

2002-03-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020318 08:23] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you're right, I'm pretty sure the fix is basically moving the p-p_fd = NULL to after the closef will fix things [...] There will still be a race... Are you sure? :) Btw

Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

2002-03-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020318 15:03] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020318 08:23] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you're right, I'm pretty sure the fix is basically moving the p

Re: -current lock warning...

2002-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Munehiro Matsuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020317 06:36] wrote: PS. I got another message that happend when I ^C'ed a buildworld earlier, with same kernel. May be it should go to Alfred Perlstein? lock order reversal 1st 0xc198eec0 pipe mutex @ ../../../kern/sys_pipe.c:779 2nd 0xc0367fe0

Re: -current lock warning...

2002-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020317 09:08] wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Munehiro Matsuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020317 06:36] wrote: PS. I got another message that happend when I ^C'ed a buildworld earlier, with same kernel. May be it should go

Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

2002-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020317 19:27] wrote: ...the process has no open files at all, because... (kgdb) p p-p_pid $4 = 10099 (kgdb) p p-p_comm $5 = wc\000oot, '\000' repeats 13 times (kgdb) p p-p_stat $6 = 3 (kgdb) p/x p-p_flag $7 = 0x6000 ...it's exiting, and

Re: panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

2002-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020317 22:55] wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please let me know if this works for you. [...] + PROC_LOCK(td); *cough* *cough* :) It was untested. :) I'm sure you can fix it, I've got to get some sleep, let me know

Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE)

2002-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020313 22:43] wrote: But if somebody wants to try to code this optimization, I'll be more than happy to review the result. I just don't expect it to do much in real-life as opposed to silly benchmark situations. Have you thought about issuing a

Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE)

2002-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020314 01:53] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes: Have you thought about issuing a madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) after the brk/mmap call in malloc, at least doing it when it's called via realloc, this might get rid of the superfolous

Re: bpf broken

2002-03-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael D. Harnois [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020313 20:07] wrote: ../../../net/bpf.c: In function `bpf_wakeup': ../../../net/bpf.c:518: structure has no member named `si_pid' cvsup again, you caught a bad window. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: malloc() and the stock Perl in -CURRENT (and -STABLE)

2002-03-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Indra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020313 19:47] wrote: Dear all... This morning I found a very interesting mail. All of you can see it from: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1669241+0+current/freebsd-questions FreeBSD 5.0 has (being a developer release) has special diagnostics

Re: Adding realloc()

2002-03-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020311 22:00] wrote: Hi, I've had the need for a realloc() in the kernel several times before and am having it once again. Finally figured it's time to do something about it. Does anyone have problems with the attached patch? This patch adds realloc()

Re: Adding realloc()

2002-03-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020312 14:45] wrote: Alfred Perlstein writes: I've had the need for a realloc() in the kernel several times before and am having it once again. Finally figured it's time to do something about it. Where is the update to malloc(9)? What about

Re: readpassphrase breaks world

2002-03-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020308 19:18] wrote: The recent commit to readpassphrase appears to cause cc -O -pipe -DDES -Wall -Wformat -Werror -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -Wnon-const-format -Wno-format-extra-args -Werror -static -o ed buf.o cbc.o glbl.o io.o main.o re.o sub.o undo.o

Re: Going to CURRENT from STABLE

2002-02-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
you should expect this sort of thing from the devel branch. Also, please wrap lines at 80 characters. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: controversial fix or some errors breaking LINT

2002-02-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020227 14:51] wrote: : :ok so I leave it to other people to fix LINT :I'm not going near it any more It's the responsibility of whoever added -Werror to the default compile to unbreak the tree, either by fixing the problem or by backing

Re: controversial fix or some errors breaking LINT

2002-02-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020227 15:44] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020227 14:51] wrote: : :ok so I leave it to other people to fix LINT :I'm not going near it any more It's the responsibility of whoever added -Werror

Re: Broken (?) unistd.h

2002-02-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020226 19:12] wrote: The following: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/include/unistd.h.diff?r1=1.46r2=1.47 Broke compilation of bind 8 on -current built 2/24: mkdir threaded 2 /dev/null || test -d threaded -a -w threaded (cc

Re: [Patch: clarity] Re: PNP0303 can't assign resources

2002-02-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020224 13:12] wrote: Try the following patch; the failure message will be somewhat less cryptic, since it will tell you the proximal reason for failure out of the 5 possibles for the message you are seeing. 8-). Cool explanation, the attached patch was

Re: libusb build broken due to structure member renaming

2002-02-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020224 14:33] wrote: hello, I've got a -current-related question to ask. akbeech forwarded me his build log when trying to build the linux user-land libusb from the port which I maintain (it is below). At first I said impossible because I'd tested things

Re: -current hangs with SMP enabled

2002-02-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kenneth D. Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020224 16:56] wrote: I've got a SMP machine with a Supermicro P3TDE6 motherboard. (Serverworks HE-SL chipset, dual 1.26GHz Pentium III's.) It boots just fine with a GENERIC -current kernel (sources cvsupped yesterday at ~1500 MST), but hangs (at the

How to fix malloc.

2002-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, we really don't have to worry about it when freeing small structures although that puts evilness into malloc(9) consumers. Can you please consider that instead of continueing down this path of per-subsystem caches? thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.)

2002-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020223 14:43] wrote: This is approximately what I am thinking. Note that this gives us the flexibility to create a larger infrastructure around the bucket cache, such as implement per-cpu caches and so on and so forth. What I have here is

Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.)

2002-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
within the next half hour or so, I just wanted to make myself clear on the issue. No worries. :) Yes, and hopefully JeffR's allocator will fix our problems, that is if it ever makes it out of p4. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CA updated

2002-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020222 21:56] wrote: I've finally updated the ACPI CA codebase with Intel's 20020214 drop (yes, I tagged it 0217, my bad). Woo! Go Mike! -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Proposed patch for /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020221 15:14] wrote: So, in this thread a few days ago i reported that the list of arguments passed to mkdep can become quite large and exceed kern.argmax, especially if your sources are not in the default place and you are compiling a file with lots of

Re: Proposed patch for /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020221 15:47] wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:41:46PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020221 15:14] wrote: So, in this thread a few days ago i reported that the list of arguments passed to mkdep can become quite large

Re: Proposed patch for /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
) doesn't have that functionality I will beat it into it with a lead pipe... Luckly I can across the option. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mark Santcroos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020220 03:52] wrote: It was indeed a linux_compat specific resource cleanup issue. I managed to create a simple linux program that had the same problem. From there on it was easy... The problem was created by Alfred's locking commit of Jan 13. (No

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020220 11:13] wrote: Mark Santcroos wrote: I managed to create a simple linux program that had the same problem. From there on it was easy... The problem was created by Alfred's locking commit of Jan 13. (No hard feelings, it helped me to

Re: FreeBSD Project management (was: Patch sets to date and timing tests with Giant out of userret.)

2002-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020220 18:26] wrote: I'm not picking on jhb here. This is the project's fault, not any individual's. We need some kind of project management to coordinate this effort, or the results will be seriously suboptimal. I would certainly not like to see dillon go

Re: /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
+ mkdep -a (-a for append). -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
of days of waiting for them to appear and give decent feedback usually just committing the code will bring out a horde of involentary testers which actually gets the code stabilized. This is current, we're allowed some breakage. Cross your I's and dot your T's first though. :-) -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
David. Yeah, whatever, don't we all feel better now? :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http

Re: ucred holding patch, BDE version

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020211 15:00] wrote: In the current world, when the thread enters userland, it does: lock giant crfree() (which includes mutexes) unlock giant This isn't needed afaik. if there are ASTs it does this once again for each AST waiting as well. And on

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Nat Lanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020207 10:30] wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 12:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: These comments are not useless, most committers have day jobs that unfortunetly preclude them from having time to work on every little feature request. Furthermore asking for patches

Re: Binutils fixed in -current?

2002-02-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Andrea Campi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020208 03:51] wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:35:39PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020206 12:33] wrote: Does anyone know if the problem with kde and other programs not working with the new binutils

Re: Binutils fixed in -current?

2002-02-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020208 07:12] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: If you do a pkg_deletew of mozilla and then nuke /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla then reinstall it the problem should go away. pgk_deelete is broken?!? I think what happens is people like me sometimes just install

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
David. Yeah, whatever, don't we all feel better now? :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Nat Lanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020207 10:30] wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 12:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: These comments are not useless, most committers have day jobs that unfortunetly preclude them from having time to work on every little feature request. Furthermore asking for patches

Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED

2002-02-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
of days of waiting for them to appear and give decent feedback usually just committing the code will bring out a horde of involentary testers which actually gets the code stabilized. This is current, we're allowed some breakage. Cross your I's and dot your T's first though. :-) -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: Binutils fixed in -current?

2002-02-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
have a super recent world, I'm compiling one now and will let you know if it at least fixes that for me. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax

Re: Panics in ffs_clusteracct with todays -current

2002-02-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020204 05:26] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, John Polstra wrote: The kernel from today's current (CVSupped 3 Feb 2002 around 17:40 PST) can't stay up for more than a few minutes without getting a page-not-present panic at line 1815 of ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c

Re: fstat dumps core

2002-02-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
at it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: panic in vfs_syscalls

2002-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
structure @ ../../../kern/vfs_syscalls.c:3573 first acquired @ ../../../kern/vfs_syscalls.c:998 panic: recurse I've just committed a fix, please let me know if it works for you. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology

Re: lock reversal in fdalloc()

2002-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020131 10:48] wrote: * Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020131 09:42] wrote: I'm not sure that releasing the lock here is safe, but other parts of fdalloc() do this. I don't think this is safe at a glance, I think it's only safe right before

Re: lock reversal in fdalloc()

2002-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
be able to take a swipe at it in a couple of weeks hopefully. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http

Re: lock reversal in fdalloc()

2002-01-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020131 09:42] wrote: Jan 31 18:27:29 gamplex kernel: lock order reversal Jan 31 18:27:29 gamplex kernel: 1st 0xc26ea034 filedesc structure @ ./@/kern/kern_descrip.c:925 Jan 31 18:27:29 gamplex kernel: 2nd 0xc031eca0 Giant @ ./@/kern/kern_descrip.c:959 %%%

Re: panic in vfs_syscalls

2002-01-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
() at syscall_with_err_pushed+0x1b --- syscall (61, FreeBSD ELF, chroot), eip = 0x80a4677, esp = 0xbfbff75c, ebp = 0xbfbff9b8 --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why

Re: Panic in ufs_dirbad()

2002-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Maxim Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020124 13:44] wrote: Any ideas? This is a reasonably recent 5-CURRENT (last makeworld/makekernel 7 days ago). This may be fallout from my initial fdlocking work, please try an update or get a debug traceback and we'll see. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Step7, Conclusion

2002-01-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020121 12:20] wrote: Andrey A. Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to all, especially to Dag-Erling. Thanks to *you* for pointing out and explaining the issues, submitting patches, and reviewing and testing mine. I'm sorry we got off on such

Re: Kernel panic... (was Re: Netatalk broken in current? Lock order reversal?)

2002-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to it). Oh, has anyone else seen these panics as well? Just wondering... It would help if someone cc'd me on these. :P -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax

Re: Kernel panic... (was Re: Netatalk broken in current? Lock order reversal?)

2002-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020116 13:30] wrote: * Emiel Kollof [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020116 13:29] wrote: * Emiel Kollof ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: exclusive (sleep mutex) Giant (0xc0462c00) locked @ /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:1102 panic: system call pwrite returning

Re: Panic mutex filedesc structure not owned at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_mutex.c:223

2002-01-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020114 08:57] wrote: Once more, with feeling (sorry, gang... :-(). CVSupped this morning (just before 4 AM, US/Pacific (8 hrs. west of GMT) from cvsup14. Booting yielded: Seigo Tanimura has a patch for this, just remove the extranious FILEDESC_UNLOCK

Re: new panic under -current

2002-01-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Reifenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020114 11:47] wrote: Hi, a new panic while surfing under X: Can you cvsup and try to reproduce this? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP: module build process changed

2002-01-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020110 17:36] wrote: Questions and comments welcome. Looks really cool, nice job. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: zombie linux processes remain

2002-01-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020108 15:06] wrote: Hello! I'm sure, this is a bug in the program itself (graphics/mtv v. 1.2.5), but can't we do something about it? Notice the parent process id: UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 105

Re: Swap not used *at**all*

2001-12-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
swapping is really a bad thing to have happen on a loaded machine as it can result in a cascade failure. If you look in the archives for Matt Dillon's postings on cascade failure it will explain things a lot better. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: Is this a bug in the fork() code?

2001-12-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
could have some good weed here... That's not possible, since the parent is waiting the kernel will not reparent unless the parent exits, which it doesn't because it's waiting for the child. You owe the Oracle a large bong rip. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: Is this a bug in the fork() code?

2001-12-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
); then the parent process will hang and never return. Perhaps fork1() should return EINVAL if both flags are set. Good idea. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating system. Nice proposal, where's the diff? Yours sincerly, Jackie

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian F. Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 17:11] wrote: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1

Re: wi driver: firmware %i.%i problem?

2001-12-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I lost a flamewar to get %i added to kernel printf, it has been fixed. About your card, you may have luck checking your vendor's site for a firmware upgrade. Upgrading my cards (Addtron) really worked wonders. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software

Re: HEADS UP: truss(1) out of commission

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
me also state in the author's defense (Sean i think) that it's much easier to rewrite something that has already been written than to be the initial implementor and even though it looks like it's in for a rewrite one must congratulate him on a job that has lasted us so long. -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
for cancellation (and other things) before returning to the threads interrupted context. No way to work around this? Shouldn't the thread exit library know which stack exactly to clean up even in the context of a signal handler? -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 11:45] wrote: * Dan Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 06:26] wrote: There are already cancellation tests when resuming threads whose contexts are not saved as a result of a signal interrupt (ctxtype != CTX_UC). You shouldn't test

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 12:32] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Dan Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 06:26] wrote: There are already cancellation tests when resuming threads whose contexts are not saved as a result of a signal interrupt (ctxtype != CTX_UC

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
-cancelflags PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS) != 0)) + cfl = curthread-cancelflags; + cfl = (PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS|PTHREAD_AT_CANCEL_POINT); + if (cfl != 0) pthread_testcancel(); /* -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL

Re: write.c patch

2001-12-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011203 16:50] wrote: This patch was done on -CURRENT. It is both pasted and attached to this message. Which write.c is this to be applied to? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2001-12-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to increase that in your kernel config. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3

Re: Fatal trap 12 on kernel from sometime Nov. 30.

2001-12-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Edwin Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011201 21:25] wrote: Andrew, Thanks. Now my problem is that I can't cvsup. Any ideas on how to update my sources? Maybe someone could email me a patch and I could take it over with a floppy. Right now I have no access to the network with the machine

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-11-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Louis-Philippe Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011130 15:57] wrote: If at first you don't succeed... I've encountered a problem using pthread_cancel, pthread_join and pthread_setcanceltype, I'm hoping someone can shed some light. Provide me with minimal sample code and a makefile and i should

Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack.

2001-11-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, an extensable stack would be an interesting project but I doubt it would be as stable nor as fast as what we already have. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom

Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack.

2001-11-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
mechnaism, do *not* use mbufs for it. *cough* kthread_setspecific() *cough* kthread_getspecific() *cough* or just fix the code to pass this around as an extra paramter. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking

Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack.

2001-11-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
queue arguments. Ah, but you can't queue static variable either. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http

Re: buildworld breakage during make depend at usr.bin/kdump

2001-11-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
painful, let's try to make do with it, if we disconnect the new awk I feel that we will keep repeating this cycle, basically each activation will see new problems requiring another disconnect. Let's just get it fixed. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

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