[uml-devel] Re: Uml showstopper bugs for 2.6.14

2005-09-27 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:46:50PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > Jeff, have you any further notes to add? Agree. I have one more to add - that UML/x86_64 doesn't run with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER disabled. Jeff ---

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)

2005-09-27 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > You also "fixed" my assertion that snapshot-origin "base device" (parameter > n.1) must be a DM device. Should I readd it too? That parameter does not need to be a DM device if you are able to use the start of an existing block devi

Re: [uml-devel] Review needed for ubd fixes

2005-09-27 Thread Jeff Dike
Attached is my current set of I/O patches. It's significantly different, and simpler, than my previous set. Now, there is no sleeping while running the queue, so the spinlock is never dropped, and all of the extra synchronization is gone. do_ubd_handler runs the queue until it's empty, or the ho

Re: [uml-devel] a question about sigsetjmp() in copy_from/to_user()

2005-09-27 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:06:53AM -0400, Young Koh wrote: > my question is, if so, shouldn't the error be caught when UML kernel > translates the user space address to the kernel space address? i mean, > UML kernel must know the valid memory regions and if the address is > out of the valid regions

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.13.2 + gcc 4.01 link error

2005-09-27 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 26 September 2005 21:40, Etay Meiri wrote: > On 9/25/05, Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dnsdomainname: Unknown host > > > > This error is not related to Uml at all and shouldn't give problems in > > itself, > > but why dnsdomainname doesn't work on your machine? You should

[uml-devel] Uml showstopper bugs for 2.6.14

2005-09-27 Thread Blaisorblade
Here's a short list of showstoppers for 2.6.14 release, from the UML point of view. I and/or Jeff know about them, and Jeff might add some other ones. Also UML users are welcome (please in this case, especially if you aren't sure if you're experiencing a bug or a setup problem, don't CC directl

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Writing on DM snapshots, and having no "mainstream" device (was: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/7] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation)

2005-09-27 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 23 September 2005 23:19, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > you can create snapshots *WITHOUT* having a snapshot-origin device > Checking the code, yes you're correct. > When that LVM2 code was developed you'd get an oops but it's

[uml-devel] a question about sigsetjmp() in copy_from/to_user()

2005-09-27 Thread Young Koh
Hi, i have a question about copy_from/to_user() implementation in skas mode. as my understanding, when copy_from/to_user() is invoked, before the address translation happens, UML kernel calls sigsetjmp() to come back when there is a segmentation fault. and if there is, it seems that the system c

[uml-devel] problem with wxGTK-2.6.2 and TLS in suse uml

2005-09-27 Thread Muhammad Sajjad
Hi, I am not able to run an application which is useing wxGTK-2.6.2 libaray. when tls is enable (/lib/tls exist) then segmentation fault occured. If tls is disable (/lib/tls.disable) then following error occure while calling wxDialog method in the application. Cannot create anonymous event. Syst