On Tuesday 19 April 2005 18:36, Daniel Tombeil wrote: > Hi Blaisorblade, > > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 23:11 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Thursday 14 April 2005 20:36, Daniel Tombeil wrote: > > > Hello, > > [...] > > > discussed patch which fixed it. I'd like to know any info on this road > > (it's possible that these two bugs are just similar, but entirely > > different, but I'd like some reports). > > > > Also I'm currently in short of time, so I cannot investigate this well... > > sorry, I don't seem to unterstand. I searched the devel list archive > (I'm not subscribed to devel) and found the thread on the change > from /proc/stat. I can confirm that my problem seems to be related. But > I wasn't able to extract the info which patch should solve the problem.
The patch I suggested to Chris was named, in the patch, "update-process-times", however the name in my tree was uml-timer-context. I've attached it. Chris Aker reported that in 2.6.10 it fixed the problem, but I didn't verify (even because I simply knew that patch *had* to be applied to fix some problems, so I just asked it to check that it fixed also that problem). Also, this patch *has* been applied in 2.6.11; however, I'd still like a confirmation that it fixed the problem in 2.6.10. That said, I'm currently running and verifying this on 2.6.11 and what I see with top is that a) ksoftirqd is always runnable, but b) it always gets 0% cpu usage which is *very* strange. While on 2.6.9 it works perfectly ok. > I tried all of your -bb and -bs from 2.6.10 to 2.6.11.7 with the same > result on load 1.0. Beside of that the kernels seem to be very stable. > I'm running 5 Guest UMLs with Mailserver (exim,spamassasin,clamav deb- > sarge), WWW (lamp, deb-sarge), Aptcache (squid, deb-sarge), 2 UMLs for > friends (LAMP, Mail, deb-sarge) on an 2.6.8skas-v6 Host (deb-sarge). I > now went back to a 2.4.27-bs1 which seems to be rock-solid because some > of the friends didn't like the 1.0 load in their stats or something :) -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In call to update_process_times() set parameter user correctly. (was from for SKAS). Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- vanilla-linux-2.6.9-paolo/arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c~uml-timer-context arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c --- vanilla-linux-2.6.9/arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c~uml-timer-context 2004-12-01 18:04:36.967383992 +0100 +++ vanilla-linux-2.6.9-paolo/arch/um/kernel/time_kern.c 2004-12-01 18:04:36.971383384 +0100 @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ void timer_handler(int sig, union uml_pt { #ifdef CONFIG_SMP local_irq_disable(); - update_process_times(user_context(UPT_SP(regs))); + update_process_times(CHOOSE_MODE(user_context(UPT_SP(regs)), (regs)->skas.is_user)); local_irq_enable(); #endif if(current_thread->cpu == 0) _