Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010423 23:27] wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > requires vm_page_queues_mtx: > > manipulation of vm_page_queues > > [snip] > > > pmaps spotted: > > pmap_copy_page > > pmap_page_protect > > There is potential for nasty lock ordering

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010423 21:51] wrote: > You can find the work I've done so far to make a giant vm mutex > here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/vm.diff I've refreshed the diff, it now makes it to: vfs_default.c 545 <- recurses on vm_mtx here, oops. :) vop_stdcreate

PATCH: move struct netexport to struct mount

2001-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/export.patch 20010424export.patch This patch moves the netexport structure from the fs-specific mountstructure to struct mount. This makes the "struct netexport *" paramter to the vfs_export and vfs_checkexport

Re: duplicate locks and lock order reversal

2001-04-24 Thread J Wunsch
John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> my current kernel cvsupped around Apr 14th tells me about >> duplicate locks and lock order reversal. Is this reason to worry? > This is a FAQ. Please keep up with -current if you are tracking it. That's simply impossible. We would need another 24 ho

vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > You can find the work I've done so far to make a giant vm mutex > here: The Mach code we originally inherited was supposed to already by multiprocessor safe. Did we manage to eliminate that capability? -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garrett Wollman write s: >< said: > >> You can find the work I've done so far to make a giant vm mutex >> here: > >The Mach code we originally inherited was supposed to already by >multiprocessor safe. Did we manage to eliminate that capability? I'm sure you are f

[RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-24 Thread Bruce A. Mah
(Apologies to -doc people who have probably heard this ad nauseum.) Over the past few months, I've been working on a project that I've taken to calling RELNOTESng, which is the overhaul of RELNOTES.TXT and related files that we package along with a FreeBSD distribution. I've been soliciting feedb

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010424 08:36] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garrett Wollman write > s: > >< said: > > > >> You can find the work I've done so far to make a giant vm mutex > >> here: > > > >The Mach code we originally inherited was supposed to already by > >multi

Re: PATCH: move struct netexport to struct mount

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010424 03:08] wrote: > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/export.patch > > 20010424export.patch > > This patch moves the netexport structure from the fs-specific > mountstructure to struct mount. > &g

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce A. Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010424 09:04] wrote: > (Apologies to -doc people who have probably heard this ad nauseum.) > > Over the past few months, I've been working on a project that I've > taken to calling RELNOTESng, which is the overhaul of RELNOTES.TXT and > related files that we pa

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> The Mach code we originally inherited was supposed to already by > multiprocessor safe. Did we manage to eliminate that capability? Yes and no. The vm_map layer still has the necessary locking calls, but the vm_object and pmap layers don't. The pmap is still similar enough that the original

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-24 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I'm not mistaken, the size of the environment is already >> taken into account by the xargs utility (subtracted from >> ARG_MAX). So this isn't an issue at all. > > Unless xargs runs a command with lots of arguments and that command > increase

RE: Install kernel gets divide overflow

2001-04-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Apr-01 Gregory Bond wrote: > [please CC replies; I'm not on the -current list] > > I'm trying to boot a -CURRENT kernel to confirm it really does fix a problem > with my hardware (see kern/26046). > > I've tried a couple of snapshots from current.freeebsd.org between 1st the > 15th > Apr

Re: upgrading from 3.0 to 4.3

2001-04-24 Thread Leif Neland
> > I think the only path that we "officially" support is 3.x -> 3.4-stable -> > 4.0-R -> 4.x-stable. Is this official path described somewhere? i.e. cvsup to RELENG_3 make world make kernel reboot cvsup to ... eg- I've got a 3.2-release I'd like to update. Perhaps I just should do a binary?

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:25:34AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Sounds like some excellent work that was long over due. Go for it. :) Agreed. I've always found there are doc hackers willing to help with markup problems on request, so I don't think that's a serious issue. Kris PGP signat

PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-24 Thread Terry Lambert
It seems to me that these things are not boot-time tunable, and should be (really, they should be runtime tunable, but there are some nasty pageable region allocations for networking that appear to require contiguous regions for no good reason which I can discern). That means that the best we can

Re: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010424 11:59] wrote: > It seems to me that these things are not boot-time tunable, and > should be (really, they should be runtime tunable, but there > are some nasty pageable region allocations for networking that > appear to require contiguous regions for no

RE: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Apr-01 Terry Lambert wrote: > It seems to me that these things are not boot-time tunable, and > should be (really, they should be runtime tunable, but there > are some nasty pageable region allocations for networking that > appear to require contiguous regions for no good reason which I > c

nroff -man broken?

2001-04-24 Thread Riccardo Torrini
# man man Formatting page, please wait...mdoc error: end-macro (.em) respecification is not allowed. (#20) Should this have been `.Em ...'? User Abort. Done. This happens over last week. World of this night (after cvsup with also make kernel and mergemaster, for 4 times). I have also trye

Re: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-24 Thread Terry Lambert
] This looks good except that ncallout is still based on MAXFILES, ] without this being fixed I think people might get bitten by ] raising the tuneable too high then being unable to allocate ] enough callouts. Can you take a look at this and make sure there's ] nothing else using MAXFILES like th

RE: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-24 Thread Terry Lambert
] Why assign them the value of 0? Why not just stick them in the BSS? ] The SI_SUB_TUNABLE checks will initialize them to a value anyways.. Mostly, to leave them where I found them, for paranoia reasons. Terry Lambert

PICOBSD stale?

2001-04-24 Thread Leif Neland
The ready-made PICOBSD-diskimages all seems to be based on FreeBSD 3.x I also doesn't seem to be able to make picobsd from current sources, althugh I didn't try that hard. Is picobsd stale? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Boot messages

2001-04-24 Thread Riccardo Torrini
I'm trying to understand why this happens at boot and if is my fault (maybe), strange hardware or undocumented feature :) isa0: unexpected small tag 14 unknown: can't assign resources pca1: at port 0x61 on isa0 WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudio") WARNING: Driver mista

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-24 Thread Dima Dorfman
Riccardo Torrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pca1: at port 0x61 on isa0 > WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudio") > WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudioctl") As it says, this is a driver mistake. It's a bug. I don't know if it's new or not since I don't have an

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-24 Thread Dima Dorfman
Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 1:19 PM -0700 4/21/01, Dima Dorfman wrote: > >Does that mean everyone is blind and missed my arrogant > >cross-post of the amazingly short patch to do this, or > >are we just interested in discussing it and not testing > >the implementation? ;-) >

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-24 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 24-Apr-01 (23:19:59/GMT) Dima Dorfman wrote: >> WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudio") >> WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("pcaudioctl") > As it says, this is a driver mistake. It's a bug. Ok. It happens from first days of devfs. I'm looking into gnats but there i

Re: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-24 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > It seems to me that these things are not boot-time tunable, and > should be (really, they should be runtime tunable, but there $ sysctl -a | grep maxf kern.maxfiles: 360 kern.maxfilesperproc: 360 `maxfiles' and `maxfilesperproc' have been runtime tuna

[feedback on fix] kern/22208: vr0: MII without any phy! problem when coming back from Windows

2001-04-24 Thread anarcat
Hi. [I don't know if this belongs to current, but please be nice and fwd this to the proper entity if needs be. Please also keep me as Cc: ] I stumbled on this quite old pr today, looking for a fix for my problem (see subject). I can confirm that the fix works here. Just tested it on -stable (4

Native ACL support for Samba (fwd)

2001-04-24 Thread Robert Watson
Figured people running 5.0-CURRENT might be interested in this news -- I know this is a feature we've been asked about frequently, and Chris has done a great job in making it happen :-). There are still a few tweaks being worked out in the ACL code, and we need to write some regression tests, bu

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > This is not a bug. This is an FAQ. So much that it's actually > documented in (*gasp!*) the FAQ: Unfortunately, the A in the FAQ is wrong. The ``can't assign resources'' messages indicate that the devices are legacy ISA devices for which a non-PnP-aware driver is compiled into the k

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
[Followups to -questions, please.] < said: > unknown: can't assign resources Keyboard controller. > unknown: can't assign resources PS/2 mouse port. > unknown: can't assign resources Serial port whose settings conflict with one of your configured serial ports. > unknown: can't assign

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I'm sure you are fully aware of the implications of the strategically > placed "supposed" in your own sentence. I have never heard anybody > get Mach code multithreaded yet. Mach has successfully run in multiprocessor multithreadded systems since 1991. > --

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Joseph Mallett
Those who dial will know its meaning: 6545666,555,666,654555654 On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > I'm sure you are fully aware of the implications of the strategically > > placed "supposed" in your own sentence. I have never heard anybody > > g

Re: nroff -man broken?

2001-04-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Riccardo Torrini wrote: > # man man > Formatting page, please wait...mdoc error: end-macro (.em) >respecification is not allowed. (#20) >Should this have been `.Em ...'? > User Abort. > Done. > > > This happens over last week. World of this nigh