Re: [uml-devel] Fwd: Re: Why uml-add-tls-support-debug-check-never-works is needed (was: Re: Fwd: Proposed additions to the ptrace(2) manpage, take 2)

2006-03-26 Thread Jeff Dike
And, BTW, you should probably send the TLS stuff in this week if you want it to go into 2.6.17 easily. Jeff --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends application

Re: [uml-devel] Fwd: Re: Why uml-add-tls-support-debug-check-never-works is needed (was: Re: Fwd: Proposed additions to the ptrace(2) manpage, take 2)

2006-03-26 Thread Jeff Dike
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:03:57PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > Code which two people aren't able to understand until two years later _wants_ > at least some comments and if possible restructuring. I'd say this is more of an oversight than obscure code that the author doesn't even understand. >

Re: [uml-devel] Resend: how to debug module on UML kernel 2.6.15.6 + SKAS mode?

2006-03-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:01, Mikado wrote: > Thank D. Bahi and Blaisorblade for your replies. > Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Friday 24 March 2006 04:25, Mikado wrote: > > What happens? Maybe gdb is stepping there but the calls are inlined and > > it's not apparent that it's looking at source co

[uml-devel] Fwd: Re: Why uml-add-tls-support-debug-check-never-works is needed (was: Re: Fwd: Proposed additions to the ptrace(2) manpage, take 2)

2006-03-26 Thread Blaisorblade
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Why uml-add-tls-support-debug-check-never-works is needed (was: Re: Fwd: Proposed additions to the ptrace(2) manpage, take 2) Date: Sunday 26 March 2006 19:43 From: Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMA

[uml-devel] Integer overflows in new AIO ubd driver

2006-03-26 Thread Gerd Stolpmann
Hi, I recently tried to benchmark the new AIO-based ubd driver (including O_DIRECT), and ran into serious problems with filesystems > 4GB. I think I found the problem; two overflows in ubd_kern.c (see patch). My test system was 2.6.16 plus all patches from user-mode-linux.sf.net minus no_cow_odir