[uml-devel] Pushing things to CVS

2004-12-03 Thread Blaisorblade
an you push the site to CVS? Thanks -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hund

Re: [uml-devel] Status

2004-12-03 Thread Blaisorblade
did it immediately. People are nice... we just need to advertise that site. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide R

[uml-devel] What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-03 Thread Blaisorblade
hill.com/) as distribution center... how much of you didn't ever know it exists? Well, it being so unknown is the biggest bug we experience now. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ---

Re: [uml-devel] Merging some of your patches

2004-12-03 Thread Blaisorblade
but if Jeff was getting problems with signals (!), it does not make sense > With the exception that we'll have three skas versions to support > once skas4 is done: skas3old, skas3new + skas4. > I'd prefeare to get skas4 out of the door quickly, and also see that > one m

[uml-devel] Re: uml fixes to kbuild

2004-12-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 04 November 2004 21:33, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:39:13AM +0200, BlaisorBlade wrote: > > On Saturday 11 September 2004 20:27, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > General kbuild issues: > > 1) LDFLAGS_name.o should be applied even when

Re: [uml-devel] RE: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 05 December 2004 21:00, Steve Schmidtke wrote: > Blaisorblade wrote: > >It is apparent that something is wrong with uml_switch (though I don't > > know the code and I'm not going to express technical opinion, only > > "management" one). > Y

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
ach from > a uml_switch at will through the monitor socket. A hook to filter packets > entering uml_switch and a new function to inject packets (with/without > updating MAC tables) might be all that's necessary. All your traffic &g

Re: [uml-devel] Patchset to implement PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
line SINGLESTEP fixes in 2.6.9 (or which could be discussed). Sorry for being so late (I'd say "Call me a lamer" :-) ) in discussing this, but I hadn't the time to study patches and realize this. > Bodo -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729

Re: [uml-devel] Re: 2.6.9-bb4 released

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 04 December 2004 23:57, Sven Köhler wrote: > > http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.9-bb4/ > runs stable now for about 24 hours, longer than any version before ;-) Any -bb version you mean, I hope. Including security fixes (which I had left to

Re: [uml-devel] Re: 2.6.9-bb4 released

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 06 December 2004 21:13, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Saturday 04 December 2004 23:57, Sven Köhler wrote: > But since the first reports I got were just about trivial issues which were > easily fixed (I got *real* bug-reports much later), I just thought it was > ok (and I wa

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] uml: fail xterm_open when we have no $DISPLAY

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
t point onwards. > > That applies for some of the other channels too, so part of the code should > probably be abstracted a little and generalized. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAI

[uml-devel] Any complaints about parallel make in 2.6.10-rc?

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
mplaint is correct. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products f

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] Any complaints about parallel make in 2.6.10-rc?

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
Trivial fix attached. A less trivial fix, i.e. uml-depend-out-main-block-Kconfig.patch, cleaning things up definitely (i.e. going to drop arch/um/Kconfig_block , which is a selected duplicate of what's in drivers/block/Kconfig), is attached too. > -Chris -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blais

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] Any complaints about parallel make in 2.6.10-rc?

2004-12-06 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 07:25, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Tuesday 07 December 2004 06:47, Christopher S. Aker wrote: > > > Since somebody (maybe Christopher Aker) said that parallel make was > > > broken in 2.6.10-rc, I'm asking to report it in detail, if the

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.9 slow

2004-12-07 Thread Blaisorblade
- if it becomes slow after running some UMLs, then SKAS is probably at fault. Not otherwise. - also, I guess that you'll have the performance hit even without SKAS patch applied. Make sure not to change the kernel configuration! -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered u

Re: [uml-devel] Re: What to do with uml_switch?

2004-12-16 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 12 December 2004 01:11, Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>> "Blaisorblade" == Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Blaisorblade> My only advice is to start packaging at least the > Blaisorblade> initial work... Michae

SKAS4 future and present (was: Re: [uml-devel] Merging some of your patches)

2004-12-10 Thread Blaisorblade
tention. Maybe they looked like a random idea for ptrace() without much uses (I marketed those patches as generally useful, rather than being about UML); also I didn't CC Roland McGrath, the ptrace maintainer. > > case 2: we can confine changes into a very few specific functions. It

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] make arch/um/kernel/skas/include/skas.h include asm/types.h

2004-12-16 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 13 December 2004 14:00, Bodo Stroesser wrote: > Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Friday 10 December 2004 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>make arch/um/kernel/skas/include/skas.h include asm/types.h &

Re: [uml-devel] 2.4 series include path confusion

2004-12-29 Thread Blaisorblade
, but i thought > i'd bring it up and see if you think i'm way off my rocker or if i have a > point. > thank you all for keeping at it. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --

Re: [uml-devel] [patch 01/13] delete unused file

2004-12-29 Thread Blaisorblade
- > 1 files changed, 27 deletions(-) This one could be correct (I think yes, but I haven't checked), but the other ones aren't. In fact, they are referenced by way of symlinks (i.e. archparam-i386.h is symlinked as archparam.h, for instance from your patch #3). Bye -- Pa

Re: [uml-devel] synchronous hostfs

2004-12-29 Thread Blaisorblade
occuring? > or even to just flush it? (other than umount) Hmmm, I don't know this... probably giving "sync" inside UML should work. I remember that Jeff said that he made hostfs asynchronous in those releases on purpose (for performance, IIRC), and this is not bad. -- Paolo G

Re: [uml-devel] synchronous hostfs

2005-01-08 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 30 December 2004 05:16, Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>> "Blaisorblade" == Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm running 2.4.26-um3. I happen to be running hostfs with NFS > >> underneath. I get core d

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.10 command line longer than 512 characters

2005-01-08 Thread Blaisorblade
n the middle)... I've added it to my TODO-list, so I hope not to forget it... but it is getting too long :-(. It's not obvious because I want to check properly that there is no bad side effect of that... Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registere

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-10 Thread Blaisorblade
, because UML deletes the file by itself... (See my other mail for more details). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the po

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-10 Thread Blaisorblade
is getting better, > > but still isn't the most stable and reliable kernel. Right now, the > > most stable I've found is using 2.6.9 from kernel.org, with the -bb4 > > patches from > > http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.9-bb4/ > &

Re: [uml-devel] uml_console_write

2005-01-10 Thread Blaisorblade
all_tt > syscall_handler_tt > unblock_signals > sig_handler_common > set_user_mode > sig_handler > __restore -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ---

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Put the check for NULL before the use of a potentially-null value

2005-01-10 Thread Blaisorblade
ry, a little question: against what tree does it apply? I cannot apply it locally, but I see that it should apply on top of Gerd Knorr's terminal cleanup patch, which introduces the bug. I hope I'll not forget it... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered u

[uml-devel] Bug in for-each-cpu-akpm from incrementals

2005-01-10 Thread Blaisorblade
You think that for_each_cpu() only iterates over online CPU, while you should use for_each_online_cpu() for this purpose. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/work/current/2.6/2.6.10-mm2/patches/for-each-cpu-akpm Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-11 Thread Blaisorblade
ile descriptors, hence they controlling tty sends the kill > Well, usually, once the system is properly initialized, ^C does > nothing. If you get a kernel panic/hang, I usually have to use kill from > another window. Yes, that's because it t

Re: [uml-devel] df -h and hostfs

2005-01-11 Thread Blaisorblade
same thing) as: err = do_statfs(HOSTFS_I(sb->s_root->d_inode)->host_filename, So, could you double-check? I'll also try to reproduce it, if possible. Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 ht

Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:55, Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>> "Blaisorblade" == Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob> Chapter 5 of current variants of LFS uses the host system to > Rob> create a toolchain you can chroo

Re: [uml-devel] df -h and hostfs

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
ecoverytools and dumping out files they > found). The UML-kernel itself is 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 with the patch-set from > the web-pages dated back 1-2 weeks ago. > Stian -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

[uml-devel] Fwd: Re: [uml-user] Exporting kernel symbols.

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [uml-user] Exporting kernel symbols. Date: Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:39 From: Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [quoted lines by Blaisorblade on 2005/01/12 at 18:25 +0100] >However,

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Fix stack corruption

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
I'm not so sure, because IIRC that problem give a verbose error message (I think even a stack trace). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is s

Re: [uml-devel] uml_switch query

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
member, one uml_switch can manage one socket, and on that socket you can attach as many UMLs as you like. > 2. Is it possible to attach the uml switch with multiple tap devices?? Not necessary I think... the Uml_switch can use the tap device to forward the traffic to the host network. -- Paolo

Re: [uml-devel] df -h and hostfs

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
maintained /etc/mtab file in that filesystem. /etc/mtab is symlinked to > /proc/mounts Ok, understood, but the duplicate entry still seems a bit strange... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ---

Re: [uml-devel] process creep on host FC2, UML 2.4.27

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
Aker for the 2.4 backport of the fix). Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limit

[uml-devel] Fwd: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging?

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
noltrato (fine) -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt

[uml-devel] About "jiffies" patch

2005-01-12 Thread Blaisorblade
(unsigned long)(long)(-300*HZ) or (unsigned long)(-300L*HZ) so that the number is first sign-extended and then casted to unsigned. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

[uml-devel] Anyone running nested UMLs? It seem to work well enough...

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkG

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 8/8] uml: depend on !USERMODE in drivers/block/Kconfig and drop arch/um/Kconfig_block

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
l "search and replace" USERMODE -> UML. It's ok, I'll do it on top of these patches I sent. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 8/8] uml: depend on !USERMODE in drivers/block/Kconfig and drop arch/um/Kconfig_block

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
ps my work. Thanks a lot for it. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition Source

[uml-devel] Breakage of compilation in .11-rc1 - "code-tidying" is broken

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
080/linux-2.5/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I.e, the "Code Tidying" patch still on the incrementals. In fact, including both linux/ptrace.h and sys/ptrace.h is not redundant - it must also be done in the proper order, so I'm writing a patch with the appropriate content. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka

Re: [uml-devel] Re: Breakage of compilation in .11-rc1 - "code-tidying" is broken

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
managing ones already exist. So, I've done a patch for both things and I'm posting it - preserve the comment I added about those headers in your polished version which you'll merge. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 02/11] uml: fix compilation for missing headers

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
;m posting it here to avoid forgetting it: /* * user-visible error numbers are in the range -1 - -128: see * */ But in include/asm-generic/errno.h, there is a problem: #define EKEYREVOKED 128 /* Key has been revoked */ #define EKEYREJECTED129 /* Key was rejected by service

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.10-um, /proc/stat is missing information

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
, rather than release management - however I hope to learn to manage my time better. Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 8/8] uml: depend on !USERMODE in drivers/block/Kconfig and drop arch/um/Kconfig_block

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 13 January 2005 21:22, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2005 23:06, Jeff Dike wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Ok, what you'd like is an additional patch however, because > > > CONFIG_USERMODE has existed for ages, so for

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Fix stack corruption

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
oding the UML, it crashes within a second. I wasn't able to riproduce it... I ran two instances of the above loop + a ping flood from the host, but it didn't crash UML, even after letting it that way for some minutes. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 h

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Fix stack corruption

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
with two different host kernels, an > older 2.6.4, and the newest 2.6.10+skas-v7. Guest kernels that crash that > I've tried include 2.6.9-bb4, 2.6.10, and 2.6.10-mm2 plus the incrementals > from yesterday. Also, I believe Frank Sorenson is also able to reproduce > this

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.10-um, /proc/stat is missing information

2005-01-13 Thread Blaisorblade
en if this one was a special case, having to merge tens of invasive patches for security purposes is not nice) to merge big things only before -rc1 and -rc2, since after those releases things must calm down. This recommendation must be updated with changes in the release cycle followed by Linus, o

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 04/11] uml: refuse to run without skas if no tt mode in

2005-01-14 Thread Blaisorblade
G options, which is always 0 except if SKAS mode is disabled) is ignored, because of the subsequent: mode_tt = force_tt ? 1 : !can_do_skas(); So we can probably get rid of DEFAULT_TT. I'll do this in the future. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729

Re: [uml-devel] About "jiffies" patch

2005-01-14 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 13 January 2005 06:12, Blaisorblade wrote: > Well, effectively your reasoning holds, apart for one point: the code > should not hang because of that large INITIAL_JIFFIES. What we care about > are only the value of jiffies relative to INITIAL_JIFFIES, indeed. > > In

Re: [uml-devel] UML build process uses perl? (With sed alternative.)

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
more -e options for the same programs, to have it clearer... however I had problems to do it in the Makefile, so I Please double-check that the patch works with your busybox sed implementation, and compare the original and the new obtained config.c carefully, since the sed code you supplied wasn'

Re: [uml-devel] question about udp fragmentation under UML

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
e. > Seems to me that IP is refusing to fragment the udp datagrams, and drops > them. I've debugged this with ethereal and the result was that the checksum, in the case of fragmented packets, was wrong - so the receiving side dropped the packets... Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisor

Re: [uml-devel] Progress with -bb4.

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
is case (they cause early breakage in the boot). > Query: is a 2.6.10-bb likely in future, or should I just try -bk or -mm or > some such? Watch the site, there will be upgrades on this... raw 2.6.10 isn't good for UML... however the first 2.6.10-bb probably won't be better / stable

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] problems with hostfs and large directories - start of diagnosys

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
ne (including me) was happy. What do you mean by "a nudge"? *pos++? > Not the proper solution > but good enough for me for the time being. Well, at least this sheds *some* light... not still clear what's happening, but something more to work on... And if you can tel

[uml-devel] The PowerPC port is somehow back!

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.011705/250175195 They also speak about giving back to the UML development community... let's start waiting. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisor

Re: [uml-devel] The PowerPC port is somehow back!

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:14, Blaisorblade wrote: > http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.011705/250175195 > > They also speak about giving back to the UML development community... let's > start waiting. Yes, Jeff confirmed he received it. -- Paolo Giarrusso,

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-19 Thread Blaisorblade
finite number of received SIGSEGVs. Inside the couple of patches, there is exactly this problematic change. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email is sp

Re: [uml-devel] UML - stalling during large file transfers

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
surely ok, I don't remember if stock 2.6.9 already has the fix). The fix has not yet been backported to 2.4 (although it's easy). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade

Re: [uml-devel] UML - Is it using swap space?

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
7;s not your case. (The host kernel being 2.6.9 is unrelated to the swapping inside the guest). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 20 January 2005 04:52, Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:07 pm, Blaisorblade wrote: > > What was discovered until now is this: > > > > The relation is obviously hidden somehow... however I sent on the > > uml-devel list a couple of pa

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.11-rc1 ...

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
> in sysemu. > Gerd I've already solved those conflict earlier on -rc1 (not tested) but I didn't polish it out yet... if you are in a hurry, I can finish it and post the result today on the ML. If not, I'll publish it later. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linu

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
ns with them. What's > strange is that the crash happens within TT mode, not within SKAS mode. And > rather than a crash, it's a hang, due to an infinite number of received > SIGSEGVs. Inside the couple of patches, there is exactly this problematic > change. -- Paolo Giarruss

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 21 January 2005 19:18, Rob Landley wrote: > On Friday 21 January 2005 07:35 am, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > Ooh, ooh! Hang in TT mode is what I'm seeing with my makefile hang. > > > (sh -x dosn't help if the makefile doesn't call out to stuff with it

Re: [uml-devel] memory

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
ccessfully?) some x86_64 umls... However, consider it still as a developer-only tool for now. 2.6.11 could effectively be a good x86_64 tree, but do not yet use it for anything critical. Clearly, 32-bit UMLs run well on x86_64 boxes, but don't have the 6

Re: [uml-devel] memory

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
cal memory), but the kernel is basically doing something very > > like the old DOS expanded memory behind the scenes, swapping around page > > tables so each process sees a different set of physical memory. pages > > (The overhead isn't quite so bad since it's doing that an

Re: [uml-devel] memory

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
al mappings, i.e. 128M of vmalloc()ed memory). You'd probably prefer to use the 4G/4G patch from Ingo Molnar, integrated into Fedora kernels, to allow processes to use 4G of virtual address space. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux reg

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:34, Rob Landley wrote: > On Friday 21 January 2005 02:58 pm, Blaisorblade wrote: > > That is -mm1, I've already looked at both... the patches listed below are > > minor fixes / improvements... > > > > The name of the 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-24 Thread Blaisorblade
list. > Thanks for your work! Thanks to you for using UML! > Marcus B. > > [1] http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:35, Marcus Better wrote: > Blaisorblade wrote: > > I.e. the compilation problem is not in the kernel module, right? > > Yes, the compilation error is in compiling the fglrx module. Ok, unexpected. > > In this case, the problem is that you

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
slow > might open such race windows wide enougth that one actually hits them. Yes, my only doubt was that he seemed to mean that the guest was swapping, and *this* different situation would have the opposite effect, probably. > The uml-terminal-cleanup patch doesn't touch how

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:55, Marcus Better wrote: > Blaisorblade wrote: > > *strange* that a kernel module uses the "_syscall" macro to do a syscall > > with "int 0x80" while already being in kernelspace... > > It's interesti

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:16, Rob Landley wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:16 am, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > > > I'm using stdin/stdout as the console. (And even though you put it > > > > > into raw mode, I still can't ctrl-c out of

Fwd: Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER Date: Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:45 From: Gerd Knorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > binutils-2.14/ld/testsuite/ld-sparc/tlssunbin64.dd > > binutils-2.

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 18:30, Rob Landley wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 06:40 am, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > Host is swapping, client configured without even support for swap. (If > > > I can get the darn client vmlinux down to 1 megabyte, I'd be thrilled. >

[uml-devel] Error in current vsyscall patch

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
, vaddr); Please correct... and always try to proof-read each patch you write... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW

Re: [uml-devel] SIGSEGV and SA_NODEFER

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20:30, Rob Landley wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:34 pm, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > Once I get /dev on ramfs managed by udev? Not really, no. I need the > > > permissions to be right, but just about everything else should belong > > &

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:54, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:09, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > Ok, please list the new syscalls - I see at least add_key() and > > request_key() too

[uml-devel] Making sure 2.6.11-rc2-bk* works

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
and to do some kind of Quality Assurance (i.e. especially answering to the various important discussions, which I do even to discover bugs not recognized by who saw them) is making impossible for me to do actual work... my development speed is slowing down too much. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blai

[uml-devel] 2.6.9-bs6 released

2005-01-25 Thread Blaisorblade
and report the result in both situations, together with your .config and host / guest datas, command line, output and so on. Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] keyring syscalls

2005-01-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 23:46, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:37:57PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:54, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:39:26PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > > Well, it s

Re: [uml-devel] Re: skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-26 Thread Blaisorblade
A driver was they also had a userspace part to link with X11. (1) legitimate means "ugly hack which can make sense with non-GPL modules, i.e. does not make sense anyway". I'm not flaming ATI / NVIDIA, let's leave this duty to people with more spare time. -- Paolo Giar

[uml-devel] [patch 1/1] uml: Kconfig_arch little cleanup (to merge before 2.6.11)

2005-01-26 Thread blaisorblade
arch/um/Kconfig_arch is actually a symlink, so * Remove it from the tree. * Make sure it is removed during make mrproper. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/Makefile |8 ++-- linux-2.6.11/arch/um/Kconf

[uml-devel] Re: UML running on a SMP host: bug in SKAS3 patch

2005-01-27 Thread Blaisorblade
EP (I was maybe misguided by the "using it to check the host kernel correctness" hack we need to use). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --- This SF.Net

[uml-devel] [POLL] Putting UML/2.4 into "fixes-only" mode

2005-01-27 Thread Blaisorblade
be merged... no new features, no code cleanups (especially NOT the Makefiles cleanups)... - concentrate on stability... and on backing out the hostfs rewrite. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.or

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
other work). See my other mail. Not that it is a bug of the SKAS patch or of the ATI module alone. For the GPL issue, you should probably ask to LKML (or post a letter to LWN.net about this issue - they could maybe publish it and you'd see the comments) or on slashdot.org (which is actua

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] [POLL] Putting UML/2.4 into "fixes-only" mode

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
wise would use the 2.6 tree. So, actually, we cannot debug invasive patches on 2.4: you need lots of users testing and reporting about them and helping to narrow down possible bugs. So, for instance, it would be useless to backport the /proc/sysemu feature (which was a bit tricky to get right on

Re: [uml-devel] skas3 patch breaks ATI video drivers

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
o fix the problem. You should also have modified the reference inside arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c. I'm doing compilation-testing of the attached patch, which seems to be good (it is not the kind of patch easy to get wrong, however). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered

[uml-devel] SKAS3: prerelease of V8 (against 2.6.9) uploaded

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
Ok, I've uploaded the first prerelease of SKAS3 V8... It's uploaded on the web-site, you can start playing for it if you want: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/skas-2.6.9-v8-rc1/ if you want, impressions are welcome I've not yet tested it thor

Re: [uml-devel] UML remote GUI problems

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
forward connection to another X system (on which you have to authorize TCP connections from the UML system). Then it should work, more or less. > I am running Red Hat Linux 9 2.4.20-8 > User mode Linux Patch 2.4.27-1 > Remote Terminal Putty On windows? well, there are also Xservers on Windows (

[uml-devel] Explaination of system call function flow in TT mode

2005-01-28 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 15:33, Alex LIU wrote: > Hi,Blaisorblade: > I have studied the TT mode of UML source code 2.6.7 for some time.But I > still can't work out the system call function flow in TT mode.I have read > some documents and comments on that but all of th

Re: [uml-devel] RE: Explaination of system call function flow in TT mode

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 16:29, Alex LIU wrote: > Hi,Blaisorblade. You wrote: > >do_syscall is called, and then this is done: > > > >sig = SIGUSR2; > >tracing = 0; > >... after, this saves t

Re: [uml-devel] SKAS3: prerelease of V8 (against 2.6.9) uploaded

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 17:27, you wrote: > With the problems we had with 2.6.9 as a host, I was wondering why > Blaisorblade chose it when he released skas-v8-rc1. I wondered too :-), however the reason was just that I wanted to get it out for early review... I've then been busy

Re: uml-patch-2.4.27-1 not fixed Re: [uml-devel] 2.4.27 guest bug reconfirmed Re bug report [ 745826 ] run cat /dev/urandom

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
ernel BUG at sched.c:564!". > >>_Conclusion_ > >> > >>If such a simple pair of commands as this causes such devastating > >>consequences, it seems the 2.4.27 kernel sched.c line 564 needs to be > >>taken a look at - unless, that is, Jeff Dike's rece

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] privilege escalation?

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
user inside UML can create file as the user running UML, in hostfs, even if that is root - that is not considered to be a problem. I had tried to creat() a file with the S_ISUID (i.e. to make it suid) hoping that UML would have created a setuid file (as root since I ran UML as root), but the tes

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [POLL] Putting UML/2.4 into "fixes-only" mode

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
/urandom bug, before realizing that the problem is in some code related to the urandom driver... the reported panic is just a "scheduling in interrupt" one. It means also that the problem is due probably to something in UML that is used by the driver. Suggestions: - timin

Fwd: RE: [uml-devel] UML remote GUI problems

2005-02-03 Thread Blaisorblade
From: Greg Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have sshd running on the Linux machine and then i tried to run port forwarding through putty on port 5900. I then ran the command export DISPLAY=host-ip. I then used tightVNC to connect to the ip address that i had

[uml-devel] [patch 0/8] uml: important patches to merge before 2.6.11

2005-02-04 Thread Blaisorblade
to the tree, i.e. arch/um/Kconfig_arch). I'm resending it, too, as plain-text attachment. Please apply. Thanks and regards -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade arch/um/Kconfig_arch is actually a symlink, so * Remove it

[uml-devel] [patch 5/8] uml: fix jiffies initialization [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-04 Thread blaisorblade
From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Initialize jiffies_64 to INITIAL_JIFFIES. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c |2

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