Re: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?

2006-12-13 Thread Piet Delaney
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700 > Piet Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700 > > >

Re: [dm-devel] Re: Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-02-22 Thread Piet Delaney
ored) root partition. I'm using your patch that fixes the raid5 problem just to play it safe. So far it looks like processes are waiting to be woken up by the buffer cache once reads have completed. -piet > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.re

Re: [stable][PATCH < 2.6.19] Fix data corruption with dm-crypt over RAID5

2007-02-22 Thread Piet Delaney
Christophe Saout wrote: > Fix corruption issue with dm-crypt on top of software raid5. Cancelled > readahead bio's that report no error, just have BIO_UPTODATE cleared > were reported as successful reads to the higher layers (and leaving > random content in the buffer cache). Already fixed in

Permanent Kgdb integration into the kernel - lets get with it.

2007-03-08 Thread Piet Delaney
for Andrew and then the integration process stopped. I suggest we work together on getting the kgdb patch back into the mm series and permanently into the kernel like the kexec code and then we can avoid this kernel development obfuscation. -piet > -- Piet Delaney

Re: [dm-devel] [stable][PATCH < 2.6.19] Fix data corruption with dm-crypt over RAID5

2007-01-17 Thread Piet Delaney
EAD) > - && bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE)) { > + if (bio_data_dir(io->bio) == READ && !error) { > kcryptd_queue_io(io); > return 0; > } > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Problem booting a kernel built in an older environemnt in the newer LFS LiveCDs 6.2-3 and 6.2-4 environments.

2007-01-24 Thread Piet Delaney
I'm having two unexpected problems with LFS LiveCDs 6.2-3 and 6.2-4 that don't occure on lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-4.iso. I've got a workaround for the second problem but haven't found a solution yet for the second; see 2. below. 1. The first is that I need to add a symbolic pointer from stage to

Re: Permanent Kgdb integration into the kernel - lets get with it.

2007-04-20 Thread Piet Delaney
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:30 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:24:10 -0800 Piet Delaney wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:49 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:37:56PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > On Thursday 08 M

Re: Permanent Kgdb integration into the kernel - lets get with it. (Dave: How do FreeBSD folks maintain the KGDB stub?)

2007-04-23 Thread Piet Delaney
can be addressed; for example taking a kernel core dump after dropping into kgdb and having the registers show up correctly in Dave Anderson's crash utility. -piet > > -Andi -- Piet DelaneyPhone: (408) 200-5256 Blue Lane Technologies

Re: Permanent Kgdb integration into the kernel - lets get with it.

2007-04-20 Thread Piet Delaney
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:30 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:24:10 -0800 Piet Delaney wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:49 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:37:56PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Thursday 08 March 2007 18:44, Dave Jiang wrote

Re: Permanent Kgdb integration into the kernel - lets get with it. (Dave: How do FreeBSD folks maintain the KGDB stub?)

2007-04-23 Thread Piet Delaney
dump after dropping into kgdb and having the registers show up correctly in Dave Anderson's crash utility. -piet -Andi -- Piet DelaneyPhone: (408) 200-5256 Blue Lane Technologies Fax: (408) 200-5299 10450 Bubb Rd. Cupertino, Ca

Permanent Kgdb integration into the kernel - lets get with it.

2007-03-08 Thread Piet Delaney
series and permanently into the kernel like the kexec code and then we can avoid this kernel development obfuscation. -piet -- Piet DelaneyPhone: (408) 200-5256 Blue Lane Technologies Fax: (408) 200-5299 10450 Bubb Rd. Cupertino, Ca

Re: [dm-devel] Re: Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-02-22 Thread Piet Delaney
like processes are waiting to be woken up by the buffer cache once reads have completed. -piet -- dm-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- Piet DelaneyPhone: (408) 200-5256 Blue Lane Technologies

Re: [stable][PATCH 2.6.19] Fix data corruption with dm-crypt over RAID5

2007-02-22 Thread Piet Delaney
Christophe Saout wrote: Fix corruption issue with dm-crypt on top of software raid5. Cancelled readahead bio's that report no error, just have BIO_UPTODATE cleared were reported as successful reads to the higher layers (and leaving random content in the buffer cache). Already fixed in 2.6.19.

Problem booting a kernel built in an older environemnt in the newer LFS LiveCDs 6.2-3 and 6.2-4 environments.

2007-01-24 Thread Piet Delaney
I'm having two unexpected problems with LFS LiveCDs 6.2-3 and 6.2-4 that don't occure on lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-4.iso. I've got a workaround for the second problem but haven't found a solution yet for the second; see 2. below. 1. The first is that I need to add a symbolic pointer from stage to

Re: [dm-devel] [stable][PATCH 2.6.19] Fix data corruption with dm-crypt over RAID5

2007-01-17 Thread Piet Delaney
(io); return 0; } -- dm-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- Piet DelaneyPhone: (408) 200-5256 Blue Lane Technologies Fax: (408) 200-5299 10450 Bubb Rd

Re: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?

2006-12-13 Thread Piet Delaney
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700 Piet Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus: I'd want

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Wessel wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 >> Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> +while (!atomic_read(_active)); >>> >> >> eek. We're in the process of hunting down and eliminating

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > Jason Wessel wrote: >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 >>> Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> +while (!

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > Jason Wessel wrote: >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 >>> Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> +while (!

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Wessel wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 Jason Wessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +while (!atomic_read(debugger_active)); eek. We're in the process of hunting down and eliminating exactly this

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: Jason Wessel wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 Jason Wessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +while (!atomic_read(debugger_active)); eek. We're in the process of hunting down

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: kgdb build failure on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Pete/Piet Delaney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: Jason Wessel wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:44:12 -0500 Jason Wessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +while (!atomic_read(debugger_active)); eek. We're in the process of hunting down