Re: ule+smp: small optimization for turnstile priority lending

2012-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
() at 0x805049ca = lock_mtx+0x1a _sleep() at 0x80524589 = _sleep+0x4f9 taskqueue_thread_loop() at 0x805664c8 = taskqueue_thread_loop+0xa8 fork_exit() at 0x804e5d6a = fork_exit+0x1aa fork_trampoline() at 0x806ea2ce = fork_trampoline+0xe -- Andriy Gapon

Re: ule+smp: small optimization for turnstile priority lending

2012-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 20/09/2012 14:04 Andriy Gapon said the following: on 19/09/2012 10:33 Attilio Rao said the following: It is hard for me to tell if this is subject to same issues because I do not entirely understand where the locking was happening in your patch. Can you try testing this with your already

Re: ule+smp: small optimization for turnstile priority lending

2012-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 20/09/2012 14:04 Andriy Gapon said the following: on 19/09/2012 10:33 Attilio Rao said the following: It is hard for me to tell if this is subject to same issues because I do not entirely understand where the locking was happening in your patch. Can you try testing this with your already

Re: ule+smp: small optimization for turnstile priority lending

2012-09-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/09/2012 02:01 Attilio Rao said the following: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 18/09/2012 19:50 Attilio Rao said the following: On 9/18/12, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Here is a snippet that demonstrates the issue on a supposedly fully

Re: do we always have acpi_cpu for a cpu?

2012-09-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
[ping] on 11/09/2012 09:32 Andriy Gapon said the following: I think that we always expect to have a one-to-one correspondence between acpi_cpu devices and actual (APIC) CPUs. acpi_pcpu_get_id() seems to even assert that, if I am reading the code correctly. The following patch adds

cpu_spinwait in cngetc

2012-09-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
= cncheckc()) == -1) - ; + cpu_spinwait(); if (c == '\r') c = '\n'; /* console input is always ICRNL */ return (c); [*] :-) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

ule+smp: small optimization for turnstile priority lending

2012-09-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
(void); -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ule+smp: small optimization for turnstile priority lending

2012-09-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/09/2012 19:50 Attilio Rao said the following: On 9/18/12, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Here is a snippet that demonstrates the issue on a supposedly fully loaded 2-processor system: 136794 0 3670427870244462 KTRGRAPH group:thread, id:Xorg tid 102818, state:running

serial console detection during boot

2012-09-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
=vidconsole,comconsole in loader.conf on hardware where serial ports are disabled in BIOS. Previously loader would just hang trying to apply the console setting. commit 60b4e960550229fb93efe98f5f5a386814c84652 Author: Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua Date: Sun Sep 16 11:01:00 2012 +0300 boot/console

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
this crash in Xen... Just curious - does VMWare provide a remote debugger support (gdb stub)? -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
to do that with qemu: http://andriygapon.wikispaces.com/QemuSetup VMWare with gdb stub enabled should not be any different. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

do we always have acpi_cpu for a cpu?

2012-09-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
= cpu_softc[PCPU_GET(cpuid)]; -if (sc == NULL) { - acpi_cpu_c1(); - return; -} - /* Find the lowest state that has small enough latency. */ cx_next_idx = 0; if (cpu_disable_deep_sleep) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: How to diagnose system freezes?

2012-08-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
the latest driver version must be, obviously, working for most people because (I think) they mostly have newer than mine nvidia cards. So maybe I should also just get the newer nvidia card and shut up, not sure. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers

geom - cam disk

2012-07-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
stressing only ada disks at the moment. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: geom - cam disk

2012-07-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
bio transformations in the original thread as much as possible, defer work to the GEOM thread as the last resort. monolithic locking in CAM right now prevents this from actually happening, though that's a topic that needs to be revisited. On Jul 25, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote

Re: geom - cam disk

2012-07-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
a totally different topic). But then, of course, for the less capable hardware the disksort could still be a significant factor. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: kqueue periodic timer confusion

2012-07-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
what over-quoting is :-) The reason I'm asking is because darwin's bsd subsystem uses the callout framework for its kqueue implementation and the periodic timer is of course broken. Davide -- Paul Albrecht Including signatures into quotes is a sign of a bad mail user agent. -- Andriy

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-07-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
in the correct direction. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-07-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 16/07/2012 13:57 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: On 16.07.2012 14:23, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 26/06/2012 15:50 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: 3. ZFS code now uses new API and probing on the systems with many disks should be greatly increased: zfs/zfs.c i386

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-07-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 16/07/2012 14:14 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: On 16.07.2012 15:05, Andriy Gapon wrote: 2. I am not sure if I like the approach of moving partition tasting code into common ZFS code (zfs.c). On one hand, it now makes sense because the new partition iteration code is machine

Re: dtraceall.ko with old nfsclient

2012-07-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
way of building modules, but traditionally we keep it working. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: dtraceall.ko with old nfsclient

2012-07-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 12/07/2012 22:36 Fabian Keil said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 12/07/2012 21:17 Fabian Keil said the following: Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Fabian Keil wrote: I'm using the following modification of Sean's patch: This way

Re: dtraceall.ko with old nfsclient

2012-07-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 12/07/2012 22:44 Fabian Keil said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 12/07/2012 22:36 Fabian Keil said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 12/07/2012 21:17 Fabian Keil said the following: Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2012

Re: dtraceall.ko with old nfsclient

2012-07-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
and/or safest feature set. But this has to be done very carefully to ensure that module-kernel*s* compatibility actually occurs. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: dtraceall.ko with old nfsclient

2012-07-09 Thread Andriy Gapon
); Just to add some noise to the signal - my personal opinion is that nfs support doesn't have to be in dtraceall. Maybe in something all-er :-) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-06-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 27/06/2012 07:50 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: Also we still haven't any tool to install zfsboot. Yeah, I think it would be nice if ZFS provided some interface (ioctl?) to properly write stuff to its special areas. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
no in my book. I understand your point. On the other hand, I find the proposed change to have measurable benefit and insignificant cost. This is yes in my book. Please also note that I am not asking you to do any work. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-12 Thread Andriy Gapon
process that could be parallelized or eliminated. Anyone have any suggestions? Do you have a breakdown of the boot time between pre-loader, loader, kernel and rc stages? Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity. Ditto. :-) -- Andriy Gapon

Re: decoding of multi-byte nops in dtrace

2012-06-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
or if nobody just bothered. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

decoding of multi-byte nops in dtrace

2012-06-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
. Thank you! -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/06/2012 17:45 Marcin Wisnicki said the following: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:57:41 +0300, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: On (07/06/2012 11:56), Andriy Gapon wrote: A user doesn't have to select the option unless he needs to. A simple user can just reboot without selecting the option to get back his X

Re: decoding of multi-byte nops in dtrace

2012-06-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/06/2012 16:27 Fabian Keil said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: It seems that the $subj is missing :-) In my environment that causes many functions to not have fbt return probe, because function body decoding fails before 'ret' is found. Here is my attempt

Re: decoding of multi-byte nops in dtrace

2012-06-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/06/2012 19:38 Andriy Gapon said the following: From a quick look at them they all seem to really never return. Either they are noreturn type such panic, or functions that always call the functions of the first type, or functions with endless loops in them such as top level functions

Re: decoding of multi-byte nops in dtrace

2012-06-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/06/2012 20:56 Fabian Keil said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 10/06/2012 16:27 Fabian Keil said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: It seems that the $subj is missing :-) In my environment that causes many functions to not have fbt return probe

Re: decoding of multi-byte nops in dtrace

2012-06-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/06/2012 21:42 Fabian Keil said the following: How did you set your -O1? In CFLAGS. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: decoding of multi-byte nops in dtrace

2012-06-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/06/2012 23:40 Ryan Stone said the following: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: Interesting observations, thank you. Do you use -O2 or higher optimization for kernel/modules build? I use only -O1. Here are some stats from my system: $ dtrace -ln fbt

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-08 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/06/2012 04:16 Jason Hellenthal said the following: runlevel support might be a better solution so it does not differ that much from what other systems do and would be easy for people to grasp. Patches are welcome, as always. -- Andriy Gapon

boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
and/or application startup logic. But to ensure that the option is always honored I've also added ultimate protection to syscons that prohibits KDSETMODE/KD_GRAPHICS ioctl. What do you think? -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/06/2012 11:47 Konstantin Belousov said the following: On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:45:26AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: It's long been a wish of mine to have an ability to decide at boot time that a system should boot in console-only mode. That is, that no graphics/X applications like

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
rc.pf_enable=no Then introduce x_enable knob (=yes by default) to disable login managers. User will be able to override this setting with # service xdm forcestart I think that this is an excellent idea. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
. Why provide a way to do something using one command at one prompt (or even toggling a menu option using a single keystroke) when you can already do the same using multiple commands at multiple places (and also trying to not forget to undo your changes later)... -- Andriy Gapon

Re: ULE/sched issues on stable/9 - why isn't preemption occuring?

2012-05-31 Thread Andriy Gapon
KTR and KTR_SCHED in GENERIC. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ULE/sched issues on stable/9 - why isn't preemption occuring?

2012-05-31 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 31/05/2012 15:48 Ryan Stone said the following: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: In this vein it might make sense to enable KTR and KTR_SCHED in GENERIC. KTR_SCHED comes with a performance hit. Yep, I realize that. But I hope that it is not too huge

Re: Radeon, DRM and crash on 9.0

2012-05-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: new panic in cpu_reset() with WITNESS

2012-05-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 25/01/2012 23:52 Andriy Gapon said the following: on 24/01/2012 14:32 Gleb Smirnoff said the following: Yes, now: Rebooting... lock order reversal: 1st 0x80937140 smp rendezvous (smp rendezvous) @ /usr/src/head/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:542 2nd 0xfe0001f5d838 uart_hwmtx

Re: bootargs.h

2012-05-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 10/05/2012 18:17 John Baldwin said the following: On 5/10/12 5:41 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 09/05/2012 14:28 John Baldwin said the following: On 5/9/12 5:32 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: Here is a subversion diff to make use of the new bootargs.h header in pc98 cdboot and loader, and i386

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
After all the preparatory changes are committed, this is a final[*] notice/warning that I am going to start committing the following patchset really soon now[**[: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.9.diff [*] unless circumstances change [**] maybe next hour, even -- Andriy Gapon

Re: bootargs.h

2012-05-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/05/2012 14:28 John Baldwin said the following: On 5/9/12 5:32 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: Here is a subversion diff to make use of the new bootargs.h header in pc98 cdboot and loader, and i386 cdboot and pxeldr: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/bootargs.diff Could you please review

bootargs.h [Was: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool]

2012-05-09 Thread Andriy Gapon
that it should be done? -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-08 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/05/2012 20:43 John Baldwin said the following: On Monday, May 07, 2012 10:47:05 am Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following: [snip] What do you think about the -LOCORE- change that Bruce inspired? In general I think this looks good. I have only one

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-08 Thread Andriy Gapon
this stuff soon. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 05/05/2012 13:49 Bruce Evans said the following: On Sat, 5 May 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following: On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote: on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: Here's the latest version

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following: On Saturday, May 05, 2012 5:53:07 am Andriy Gapon wrote: [snip] The new patchset: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.7.diff Looks great, thanks! A few replies below: Here's a followup patch for the suggestions: http

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/05/2012 17:47 Andriy Gapon said the following: on 07/05/2012 16:53 John Baldwin said the following: Ok. Maybe add one comment to the bootargs.h head to explain that the 'bootargs' struct starts at ARGOFF and can grow up, while struct bootinfo is copied such that it's end

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following: On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote: on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: Here's the latest version of the patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.4.diff I've found a couple of problems

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 05/05/2012 12:31 Andriy Gapon said the following: on 04/05/2012 18:25 John Baldwin said the following: On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote: on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: Here's the latest version of the patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-03 Thread Andriy Gapon
review and/or test this patch? I will greatly appreciate any discussion, suggestions, help. I again invite everyone else to take part in the review and testing. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-03 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: Here's the latest version of the patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.4.diff I've found a couple of problems in the previous version, so here's another one: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.5.diff

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
different. In other words, I'm basically ready to commit the following patch. As for zfs_dev_init() this just wraps it in #if defined(__amd64__) || defined(__i386__) in zfs.c for now. http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/boot_zfs_sparc64.diff OK, let's do it this way. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/04/2012 00:21 Marius Strobl said the following: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 06:37:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: [snip] I am particularly interested in reviews of my attempt to make ZFS boot support arch-independent. The arches, of course, would have to add some code to make use

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
(DIOCGMEDIASIZE) to the disk devsw. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
) does but oriented towards programmatic use rather than end-user. Maybe all that partition table parsing should be done only once (e.g. in the init method) and the result should be saved. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: criteria for patch inclusion in patch release?

2012-04-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
... Only security issues and severe bugs affecting majority of the users get into patch releases. Normal bug fixes (should) get into the next release. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/04/2012 23:43 John Baldwin said the following: On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:22:19 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: We already have a flag for ZFS (KARGS_FLAGS_ZFS, 0x4). So the new flag could be named something ZFS-specific (as silly as KARGS_FLAGS_ZFS2) or something more general

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following: I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff I've put a new version of the patch here: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.2.diff Most

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
different from how FreeBSD kernel gets booted. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

weak symbols vs archive libraries

2012-04-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
symbols in it and thus will override the weak definitions with the strong ones. This is something that was unexpected to me. Some references: http://webpages.charter.net/ppluzhnikov/linker.html http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2388 -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd

Re: weak symbols vs archive libraries

2012-04-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
for defined weak symbols too. Thank you for the quote! -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
:-) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/04/2012 17:40 Ian Lepore said the following: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 17:36 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 18/04/2012 17:22 Ian Lepore said the following: YES! A size field (preferably as the first field in the struct) along with a flag to indicate that it's a new-style boot info struct

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 16/04/2012 16:56 John Baldwin said the following: On Saturday, April 14, 2012 1:35:35 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following: I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg

[review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
of management of boot environments. I am particularly interested in reviews of my attempt to make ZFS boot support arch-independent. The arches, of course, would have to add some code to make use of that support. Currently I only enabled it for x86. Thank you very much! -- Andriy Gapon

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following: I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff These patches add support for booting from an arbitrary filesystem of any detected ZFS pool

Re: [gsoc2012] Port NetBSD's UDF implementation

2012-04-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
another project. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

opensslv.h SHLIB_VERSION_NUMBER

2012-04-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.freebsd/20645 TLDR: some software may depend on libssl.so.${SHLIB_VERSION_NUMBER } being correct. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: SuperMicro IPMI keyboard - fails for 'mountroot' prompt under FreeBSD 9-R...

2012-02-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/02/2012 11:47 Karl Pielorz said the following: http://www.tdx.com/x8dtl-if.txt So the cause is that ukbd driver tries to attach after the mountroot stage. The symptom is obvious, a fix is not. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: improving VM - questions

2012-02-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
, but the comment says to not define MAX_PAGEOUT_CLUSTER to a value greater than 32, but you did that. So all bets could be off unless you examined the code and know exactly what should happen in this case. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only

2012-02-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
moused to a higher priority would help as well... -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: improving VM - questions

2012-02-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
? -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

outdated/dangerous code in databases/mysql50-server

2012-02-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
init_embedded_server, so the problem is relevant for embedded mysql case. It is relevant for mysql server too, of course. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

callouts precision

2012-02-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
? In other words, how hard it would be to replace ticks with e.g. bintime as an internal representation of time in callout(9) [leaving interfaces alone for the start]? Is it easier to retrofit that code or to replace it with something new? Thank you. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: callouts precision

2012-02-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/02/2012 21:42 Alexander Motin said the following: On 18.02.2012 21:05, Andriy Gapon wrote: Just want to double-check myself. It seems that currently, thanks to event timers, we mostly should be able to schedule a hardware timer to fire at almost arbitrary moment with very fine precision

Re: Generating NMI due to WDT expiry

2012-02-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
. This is not necessarily a FreeBSD question, but would like to hear any thoughts/pointers. See this: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/5-chipset-3400-chipset-datasheet.pdf Search for NMI2SMI_EN. Maybe it's what you want. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only

2012-02-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
those threads so that they share a cache. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only

2012-02-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/02/2012 15:35 Andriy Gapon said the following: It seems that on modern CPUs the caches are either inclusive or some smart as if inclusive caches. As a result, if two cores have a shared cache at any level, then it should be relatively cheap to move a thread from one core to the other

Re: Tools to calculate time(or cpucycles) in mutex inside kernel ?

2012-01-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/01/2012 15:21 Andrey Smagin said the following: Hi ALL. Have FreeBSD internal time counters for calculate subj ? How determine wich mutexes wait lot of time ? LOCK_PROFILING(9) looks like what you want. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
dozens of active FreeBSD developers. Maybe less for any given particular point in time (as opposed to a period of time). And dealing with PRs is not always exciting. Need I continue? P.S. Using GNATS for the PR database doesn't help either, in some technical ways. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
something that would be a complete re-write, but something that you would super-want. IMO, it's the whole purpose of our present stable branches policy to let users try/test/use new/advanced features sooner, all while having a choice. -- Andriy Gapon

FreeBSD is becoming ... by, and for, FreeBSD developers

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
viable. Perhaps iXsystems is already it. P.S. I've just learned a new word, from the Debian people - Do-o-cracy as in the doer decides. Seeing some references to a mythical FreeBSD leadership in this thread I couldn't resist a temptation to mention this word. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
this could be the same person who then cuts a release from the branch. IMO. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/01/2012 12:54 Igor Mozolevsky said the following: On 18 January 2012 09:25, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 18/01/2012 02:16 Igor Mozolevsky said the following: Seriously, WTF is the point of having a PR system that allows patches to be submitted??! When I submit a patch I fix

Re: FreeBSD is becoming ... by, and for, FreeBSD developers

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
it yourself Brib^H^H^H^HDonate cool hardware to community members Brib^H^H^H^HPay cool cash to community members Employ community members Employ people to become community members Ohh, and: Shut up and code +500. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/01/2012 13:54 Igor Mozolevsky said the following: On 18 January 2012 11:08, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: on 18/01/2012 12:54 Igor Mozolevsky said the following: [snip] There are about 5000 open PRs for FreeBSD base system, maybe more. There are only a few dozens of active

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
it from their own repo. I am totally against this. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD is becoming ... by, and for, FreeBSD developers

2012-01-18 Thread Andriy Gapon
spoiled. They don't want just the code anymore. They want QA, they want stability, they want schedules... :-) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
of FreeBSD community/project/thing to change its ways, but perhaps a little bit more realistic. You can bond with similarly minded organizations to share costs/work/etc. It's a community-driven project after all. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
or the bugs are reproducible in any of the supported branches. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
and get them to do this for you. Otherwise you're just re-iterating the same stuff I'm sure all the developers know but are just out of manpower/time/money/resources to do anything about. Adrian (who _did_ step up and take over a subsystem, so I'm speaking from recent experience.) -- Andriy

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/01/2012 01:36 Ian Lepore said the following: On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 01:17 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/01/2012 23:46 Ian Lepore said the following: Now, before we're even really completely up and running on 8.2 at work, 9.0 hits the street, and developers have moved on to working

Re: RB_NOSYNC - no device_shutdown ?

2012-01-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 20/12/2011 16:11 John Baldwin said the following: On Saturday, December 17, 2011 6:07:51 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: [snip] and wonder why RB_NOSYNC is overloaded to mean that no MOD_SHUTDOWN/device_shutdown cleanup should be done? Presumably most device_shutdown handlers were used for syncing

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