Re: [uml-devel] stack and scheduler patches

2005-09-06 Thread Jeff Dike
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:51:32PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > Also, what is the difference between your "stack trace" patch, which adds a > member to thread_struct, for each process, so I'd like a minimum of > justification, and one of the sysrq options which does exactly this? What this does,

Re: [uml-devel] stack and scheduler patches

2005-09-06 Thread Allan Graves
Void casting: my compiler gave me a warning, and I don't like that. pid=-1, leftover from error checking that i didn't need, my fault. pid=0, find_task_by_pid(0) will return a valid pointer, but it doesn't seem to really be a good task. This seems to be related to the kernel idle task. If you

Re: [uml-devel] SYSEMU getting merged - but I'm in doubt

2005-09-06 Thread Jeff Dike
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 05:02:18PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > Now, the point is: should I ask Linus to drop it for now, clean the > interface, and resend the cleaned up one, with different ptrace call codes? I would be tempted to leave it in and fix it before 2.6.14. We need different ptrace c

[uml-devel] sched and stack patch changelogs.

2005-09-06 Thread Allan Graves
BB: Sorry I hadn't included a changelog, Jeff and I had talked about this a lot, I forgot that other people would be reading them. :) Author: Allan Graves<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scheduler Cleanup Patch: This patch moves code that is in both switch_to_tt and switch_to_skas to the to