[Bug 176902]

2011-01-10 Thread dean gaudet
yeah let's not fix this before it's a decade old. not much longer to wait! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdegraphics in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176902 Title: kpdf locks sound output -- kubuntu-bugs

[Bug 102408]

2011-01-10 Thread dean gaudet
yeah let's not fix this before it's a decade old. not much longer to wait! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102408 Title: Helper apps inherit open file descriptors -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 159258]

2011-01-09 Thread dean gaudet
yeah let's not fix this before it's a decade old. not much longer to wait! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159258 Title: Helper applications launched by Firefox inherit ALL file

Bug#506707: me too

2009-09-12 Thread dean gaudet
this is a fairly serious regression. -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#495820: FTBS: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `txt'. Stop.

2008-08-20 Thread dean gaudet
Package: iproute Version: 20080725-2 i did: sudo apt-get build-dep iproute apt-get source iproute cd iproute-20080725-2 fakeroot ./debian/rules binary and it fails: ... /usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/texps.pro /usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/special.pro

Bug#493635: really ignore /etc/network/options

2008-08-03 Thread dean gaudet
package: netbase version: 4.33 spot the bug in /etc/init.d/networking: process_options() { [ -e /etc/network/options ] || return 0 log_warning_msg /etc/network/options still exists and it will be IGNORED! Read README.Debian of netbase. } there should be a return 0 after the

Re: valgrind and openssl

2008-05-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Richard Salz wrote: on the other hand it may be a known plaintext attack. Using those words in this context makes it sound that you not only don't understand what is being discussed right here and now, but also that you don't understand the term you just used. Are

Re: valgrind and openssl

2008-05-19 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Geoff Thorpe wrote: I forgot to mention something; On Thursday 15 May 2008 12:38:24 John Parker wrote: It is already possible to use openssl and valgrind - just build OpenSSL with -DPURIFY, and it is quite clean. Actually on my system, just -DPURIFY

Re: valgrind and openssl

2008-05-19 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Bodo Moeller wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote: But here the use of this uninitialized data is intentional and the programmer are very well aware of what they did. The use of

RE: valgrind and openssl

2008-05-19 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 19 May 2008, David Schwartz wrote: any special case changes for testing means you're not testing the REAL CODE. You mean you're not testing *all* of the real code. That's fine, you can't debug everythign at once. if you haven't tested your final production binary then you

Bug#481754: no option for specifying syslog facility

2008-05-18 Thread dean gaudet
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.8.2-3 fail2ban 0.6 supported a syslog-facility config option which controlled the facility for syslog messages... 0.8.2-3 does not support this. i had to edit /usr/share/fail2ban/server/server.py in order to change LOG_DAEMON to LOG_AUTH. -dean -- To

Bug#481760: Failed none causes false triggers

2008-05-18 Thread dean gaudet
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.8.2-3 when connecting with ssh keys, no password, sshd logs: May 18 05:08:45 twinlark sshd[5681]: Failed none for dean from 10.1.1.1 port 37262 ssh2 May 18 05:08:45 twinlark sshd[5681]: Found matching RSA key: May 18 05:08:45 twinlark sshd[5681]: Found matching

Bug#479530: confim on error

2008-05-05 Thread dean gaudet
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.82 when apt-listchanges encounters an error (such as the now infamous database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load. error) it continues without confirmation even if confirm=1 is in the etc file. i think apt-listchanges should always ask for

Re: [PATCH -mm crypto] AES: x86_64 asm implementation optimization

2008-05-04 Thread dean gaudet
one of the more important details in evaluating these changes would be the family/model/stepping of the processors being microbenchmarked... could you folks include /proc/cpuinfo with the results? also -- please drop the #define for R16 to %rsp ... it obfuscates more than it helps anything.

Re: system without RAM on node0 boot fail

2008-02-01 Thread dean gaudet
actually yeah i've seen this... in a bizarre failure situation in a system which physically had RAM in the boot node but it was never enumerated for the kernel (other nodes had RAM which was enumerated). so technically there was boot node RAM but the kernel never saw it. -dean On Wed, 30 Jan

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] x86: add sysfs interface for cpuid module

2008-02-01 Thread dean gaudet
why do we need another kernel cpuid reading method when sched_setaffinity exists and cpuid is available in ring3? -dean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c II

2008-02-01 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances. > > Sorry, that was actually SLIT. SRAT is not two dimensional, but also > relatively simple. SLIT you don't really need to implement. yeah but i'd heartily recommend implementing

Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c II

2008-02-01 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances. Sorry, that was actually SLIT. SRAT is not two dimensional, but also relatively simple. SLIT you don't really need to implement. yeah but i'd heartily recommend implementing SLIT

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] x86: add sysfs interface for cpuid module

2008-02-01 Thread dean gaudet
why do we need another kernel cpuid reading method when sched_setaffinity exists and cpuid is available in ring3? -dean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: system without RAM on node0 boot fail

2008-02-01 Thread dean gaudet
actually yeah i've seen this... in a bizarre failure situation in a system which physically had RAM in the boot node but it was never enumerated for the kernel (other nodes had RAM which was enumerated). so technically there was boot node RAM but the kernel never saw it. -dean On Wed, 30 Jan

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] can rdiff-backup be stopped / paused / restarted? - HOWTO?

2008-01-25 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Dave Kempe wrote: Lexje wrote: I'm completely new to rdiff-backup. I'm trying to backup a complete server over the internet. Is it possible to pause, stop / restart rdiff-backup? (To free up / respect bandwith limitations) You could do a Ctrl-Z and then start it

Re: Fast network file copy; "recvfile()" ?

2008-01-21 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > I need to copy large (> 100GB) files between machines on a fast > network. Both machines have reasonably fast disk subsystems, with > read/write performance benchmarked at > 800 MB/sec. Using 10GigE cards > and the usual tweaks to tcp_rmem etc.,

Re: Fast network file copy; recvfile() ?

2008-01-21 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: I need to copy large ( 100GB) files between machines on a fast network. Both machines have reasonably fast disk subsystems, with read/write performance benchmarked at 800 MB/sec. Using 10GigE cards and the usual tweaks to tcp_rmem etc., I am

Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5

2008-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:01:17 -0800 (PST) dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, NeilBrown wrote: > > > > > > > > raid5's 'make_request' function calls generic_make_request

Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5

2008-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
elayed is only called at unplug time, never in > raid5. This seems to bring back the performance numbers. Calling it > in raid5d was sometimes too soon... > > Cc: "Dan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably doesn't

Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5

2008-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
the performance numbers. Calling it in raid5d was sometimes too soon... Cc: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably doesn't matter, but for the record: Tested-by: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] this time i tested with internal and external bitmaps

Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5

2008-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:01:17 -0800 (PST) dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, NeilBrown wrote: raid5's 'make_request' function calls generic_make_request on underlying devices and if we run out of stripe heads

Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5

2008-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
the performance numbers. Calling it in raid5d was sometimes too soon... Cc: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably doesn't matter, but for the record: Tested-by: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] this time i tested with internal and external bitmaps

Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5

2008-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:01:17 -0800 (PST) dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, NeilBrown wrote: raid5's 'make_request' function calls generic_make_request on underlying devices and if we run out of stripe heads

nosmp/maxcpus=0 or 1 -> TSC unstable

2008-01-12 Thread dean gaudet
if i boot an x86 64-bit 2.6.24-rc7 kernel with nosmp, maxcpus=0 or 1 it still disables TSC :) Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized this is an opteron 2xx box which does have two cpus and no clock-divide in halt or cpufreq enabled so TSC should be fine with only one cpu. pretty sure

nosmp/maxcpus=0 or 1 - TSC unstable

2008-01-12 Thread dean gaudet
if i boot an x86 64-bit 2.6.24-rc7 kernel with nosmp, maxcpus=0 or 1 it still disables TSC :) Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized this is an opteron 2xx box which does have two cpus and no clock-divide in halt or cpufreq enabled so TSC should be fine with only one cpu. pretty sure

Re: CPA patchset

2008-01-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, dean gaudet wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Cached requires the cache line to be read first before you can write > > > it. > > > > nons

Re: CPA patchset

2008-01-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Cached requires the cache line to be read first before you can write > > it. > > nonsense, and you should know it. It is perfectly possible to construct > fully written cachelines, without reading the

Re: CPA patchset

2008-01-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cached requires the cache line to be read first before you can write it. nonsense, and you should know it. It is perfectly possible to construct fully written cachelines, without reading the cacheline

Re: CPA patchset

2008-01-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, dean gaudet wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cached requires the cache line to be read first before you can write it. nonsense, and you should know it. It is perfectly possible to construct fully

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2008-01-10 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday January 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 10:58 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: i have evidence pointing to d89d87965dcbe6fe4f96a2a7e8421b3a75f634d1 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2008-01-10 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Neil Brown wrote: Thanks. But I suspect you didn't test it with a bitmap :-) I ran the mdadm test suite and it hit a problem - easy enough to fix. damn -- i lost my bitmap 'cause it was external and i didn't have things set up properly to pick it up after a reboot :) if

Re: Raid 1, can't get the second disk added back in.

2008-01-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Monday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is not raid, or at least not obviously raid related. The problem is that the whole disk, /dev/hdb is unavailable. Maybe check /sys/block/hdb/holders ? lsof

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 1:58 PM, dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 9:48 AM, dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm bummer, i'm doing another test (rsync 3.5M inodes from another box

Re: [patch] improve stripe_cache_size documentation

2007-12-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Thiemo Nagel wrote: stripe_cache_size (currently raid5 only) As far as I have understood, it applies to raid6, too. good point... and raid4. here's an updated patch. -dean Signed-off-by: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux/Documentation/md.txt

Re: [patch] improve stripe_cache_size documentation

2007-12-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, dean gaudet wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Thiemo Nagel wrote: stripe_cache_size (currently raid5 only) As far as I have understood, it applies to raid6, too. good point... and raid4. here's an updated patch. and once again with a typo fix. oops. -dean

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:40:47 PST, dean gaudet said: > > > the main worry i have is some user maliciously hardlinks everything > > under /var/log somewhere else and slowly fills up the file system with > > old rotated logs

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > > Pffuff. That's what volume managers are for! You do have (at least) two > > > independent spindles in your RAID1 array, which give you less need to > > > worry >

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: > > > > > Mark Lord wrote: > > > > > > > But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems, > > > > where bind

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
to (chunk_size * raid_disks * stripe_cache_size) or (chunk_size * raid_disks * stripe_cache_active)? -dean On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, dean gaudet wrote: hmm this seems more serious... i just ran into it with chunksize 64KiB and while just untarring a bunch of linux kernels in parallel... increasing

Re: Linux RAID Partition Offset 63 cylinders / 30% performance hit?

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: The issue I'm thinking about is hardware sector size, which on modern drives may be larger than 512b and therefore entail a read-alter-rewrite (RAR) cycle when writing a 512b block. i'm not sure any shipping SATA disks have larger than 512B sectors

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 9:48 AM, dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm bummer, i'm doing another test (rsync 3.5M inodes from another box) on the same 64k chunk array and had raised the stripe_cache_size to 1024... and got a hang. this time i grabbed

[patch] improve stripe_cache_size documentation

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
Document the amount of memory used by the stripe cache and the fact that it's tied down and unavailable for other purposes (right?). thanks to Dan Williams for the formula. -dean Signed-off-by: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux/Documentation/md.txt

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Curious btw what kind of filesystem size/raid type (5, but defaults I assume, nothing special right? (right-symmetric vs. left-symmetric, etc?)/cache size/chunk size(s) are you using/testing with? mdadm --create --level=5 --chunk=64 -n7 -x1 /dev/md2

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, dean gaudet wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Curious btw what kind of filesystem size/raid type (5, but defaults I assume, nothing special right? (right-symmetric vs. left-symmetric, etc?)/cache size/chunk size(s) are you using/testing

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: Mark Lord wrote: But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems, where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working. I

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: dean gaudet wrote: Pffuff. That's what volume managers are for! You do have (at least) two independent spindles in your RAID1 array, which give you less need to worry about head-stack contention. this system is write intensive

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:40:47 PST, dean gaudet said: the main worry i have is some user maliciously hardlinks everything under /var/log somewhere else and slowly fills up the file system with old rotated logs. Doctor, it hurts when I do

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Dec 28 2007 18:53, dean gaudet wrote: > >p.s. in retrospect i probably could have arranged it more like this: > > > > mount /dev/md1 $tmpmntpoint > > mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/var /var > > mount --bind

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > > But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems, > > where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working. > > I don't see it. You always can make hard link on the underlying filesystem. > If you need

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: Mark Lord wrote: But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems, where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working. I don't see it. You always can make hard link on the underlying filesystem. If you need to make

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 28 2007 18:53, dean gaudet wrote: p.s. in retrospect i probably could have arranged it more like this: mount /dev/md1 $tmpmntpoint mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/var /var mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/home /home umount $tmpmntpoint

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-27 Thread dean gaudet
hmm this seems more serious... i just ran into it with chunksize 64KiB and while just untarring a bunch of linux kernels in parallel... increasing stripe_cache_size did the trick again. -dean On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, dean gaudet wrote: hey neil -- remember that raid5 hang which me and only one

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-27 Thread dean gaudet
... in this case it's with a workload which is untarring 34 copies of the linux kernel at the same time. it's a variant of doug ledford's memtest, and i've attached it. -dean#!/usr/bin/perl # Copyright (c) 2007 dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any

Re: external bitmaps.. and more

2007-12-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: I come across a situation where external MD bitmaps aren't usable on any standard linux distribution unless special (non-trivial) actions are taken. First is a small buglet in mdadm, or two. It's not possible to specify --bitmap= in assemble

Re: [RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-11-26 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: > dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > on AMD x86 pre-family 10h the boundary is 8 bytes, and on fam 10h it's 16 > > bytes. the penalty is a mere 3 cycles if an access crosses the specified > > boundar

Re: [RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-11-26 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on AMD x86 pre-family 10h the boundary is 8 bytes, and on fam 10h it's 16 bytes. the penalty is a mere 3 cycles if an access crosses the specified boundary. Worth noting though, is that atomic

Re: [RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-11-22 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > Its usually faster if you don't misalign on x86 as well. i'm not sure if i agree with "usually"... but i know you (alan) are probably aware of the exact requirements of the hw. for everyone else: on intel x86 processors an access is unaligned only if it

Re: [RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-11-22 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alan Cox wrote: Its usually faster if you don't misalign on x86 as well. i'm not sure if i agree with usually... but i know you (alan) are probably aware of the exact requirements of the hw. for everyone else: on intel x86 processors an access is unaligned only if it

Re: [patch][v2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, dean gaudet wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Metzger, Markus T wrote: > > > +__cpuinit void ptrace_bts_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > > +{ > > + switch (c->x86) { > > + case 0x6: > > + switch (c->x86_model) { >

Re: [patch][v2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Metzger, Markus T wrote: > +__cpuinit void ptrace_bts_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > +{ > + switch (c->x86) { > + case 0x6: > + switch (c->x86_model) { > +#ifdef __i386__ > + case 0xD: > + case 0xE: /* Pentium M */ > +

Re: [PATCHv3 0/4] sys_indirect system call

2007-11-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do see a problem, because some readers will take your example as a > > reference, as it will probably sit in a page that > > google^Wsearch_engines will bring at the top of search results for > >

Re: [PATCHv3 0/4] sys_indirect system call

2007-11-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do see a problem, because some readers will take your example as a reference, as it will probably sit in a page that google^Wsearch_engines will bring at the top of search results for next ten years

Re: [patch][v2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, dean gaudet wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Metzger, Markus T wrote: +__cpuinit void ptrace_bts_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + switch (c-x86) { + case 0x6: + switch (c-x86_model) { +#ifdef __i386__ + case 0xD: + case

Re: [patch][v2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-11-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Metzger, Markus T wrote: +__cpuinit void ptrace_bts_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + switch (c-x86) { + case 0x6: + switch (c-x86_model) { +#ifdef __i386__ + case 0xD: + case 0xE: /* Pentium M */ +

Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] first use of sys_indirect system call

2007-11-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > honestly i think there should be a per-task flag which indicates whether > > fds are by default F_CLOEXEC or not. my reason: third party libraries. > > Only somebody who thinks exclusively about ap

Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] first use of sys_indirect system call

2007-11-16 Thread dean gaudet
you know... i understand the need for FD_CLOEXEC -- in fact i tried petitioning for CLOEXEC options to all the fd creating syscalls something like 7 years ago when i was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to thread apache... but even still i'm not convinced that

Re: perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > I didn't see a clear list. - cross platform extensible API for configuring perf counters - support for multiplexed counters - support for virtualized 64-bit counters - support for PC and call graph sampling at specific intervals - support for reading

Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] first use of sys_indirect system call

2007-11-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: dean gaudet wrote: honestly i think there should be a per-task flag which indicates whether fds are by default F_CLOEXEC or not. my reason: third party libraries. Only somebody who thinks exclusively about applications as opposed to runtimes

Re: perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: I didn't see a clear list. - cross platform extensible API for configuring perf counters - support for multiplexed counters - support for virtualized 64-bit counters - support for PC and call graph sampling at specific intervals - support for reading

Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] first use of sys_indirect system call

2007-11-16 Thread dean gaudet
you know... i understand the need for FD_CLOEXEC -- in fact i tried petitioning for CLOEXEC options to all the fd creating syscalls something like 7 years ago when i was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to thread apache... but even still i'm not convinced that

Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-14 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote: > dean gaudet writes: > > > actually multiplexing is the main feature i am in need of. there are an > > insufficient number of counters (even on k8 with 4 counters) to do > > complete stall accounting or to get a general over

Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-14 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > Later a syscall might be needed with event multiplexing, but that seems > more like a far away non essential feature. actually multiplexing is the main feature i am in need of. there are an insufficient number of counters (even on k8 with 4 counters) to

Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-14 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: Later a syscall might be needed with event multiplexing, but that seems more like a far away non essential feature. actually multiplexing is the main feature i am in need of. there are an insufficient number of counters (even on k8 with 4 counters) to do

Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-14 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote: dean gaudet writes: actually multiplexing is the main feature i am in need of. there are an insufficient number of counters (even on k8 with 4 counters) to do complete stall accounting or to get a general overview of L1d/L1i/L2 cache hit

Re: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT issues

2007-11-04 Thread dean gaudet
fwiw i also brought the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT problems up the end of last year: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28916.html it's possible the final message in that thread is how we should define the behaviour, i haven't tried the TCP_SYNCNT idea though. -dean - To unsubscribe from

Re: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT issues

2007-11-04 Thread dean gaudet
fwiw i also brought the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT problems up the end of last year: http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg28916.html it's possible the final message in that thread is how we should define the behaviour, i haven't tried the TCP_SYNCNT idea though. -dean - To unsubscribe

Re: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT issues

2007-11-04 Thread dean gaudet
fwiw i also brought the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT problems up the end of last year: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28916.html it's possible the final message in that thread is how we should define the behaviour, i haven't tried the TCP_SYNCNT idea though. -dean - To unsubscribe from

Re: Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > >> Yes, as Dave said, vmap (more specifically: vunmap) is very expensive > >> because it generally has to invalidate

Re: Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > Yes, as Dave said, vmap (more specifically: vunmap) is very expensive > because it generally has to invalidate TLBs on all CPUs. why is that? ignoring 32-bit archs we have heaps of address space available... couldn't the kernel just burn address space

Re: Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: Yes, as Dave said, vmap (more specifically: vunmap) is very expensive because it generally has to invalidate TLBs on all CPUs. why is that? ignoring 32-bit archs we have heaps of address space available... couldn't the kernel just burn address space

Re: Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: Yes, as Dave said, vmap (more specifically: vunmap) is very expensive because it generally has to invalidate TLBs on all CPUs. why is that? ignoring 32-bit archs we

Bug#447493: zsh missing in /etc/shells

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
Package: zsh Version: 4.3.4-23 upgrading from 4.3.4-19 to 4.3.4-23 caused zsh to be removed from /etc/shells... i have a nightly cron job which looks for users with invalid shells and it picked up this change last night after i did the aforementioned upgrade yesterday. -dean -- To

Bug#447497: pipe viewer does not wrap long lines

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
Package: alpine Version: 0.+dfsg-1 this is a pine 4.64 - alpine 0. regression. when a message with long lines is piped through an external command the lines are truncated. i see no options for scrolling the display or avoiding the truncation. note that regular message viewing wraps

Bug#446988: Acknowledgement (must compile -fno-strict-aliasing)

2007-10-20 Thread dean gaudet
i rebuilt 0.11.7-1 from source (fetched from snapshot.debian.org) and it seems not to be crashing (crashes were occuring in under a day before and i've had 0.11.7-1 going for 2 days)... so this really is a 0.11.7-1 - 0.11.8-1 regression. i'm going to upgrade my gcc/etc to latest bleeding edge

Bug#446988: Acknowledgement (must compile -fno-strict-aliasing)

2007-10-18 Thread dean gaudet
damn... -fno-strict-aliasing isn't enough to fix the crash i started seeing in 0.11.8. i built my own package, but saw a crash within 24h. -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#446988: must compile -fno-strict-aliasing

2007-10-17 Thread dean gaudet
Package: libtorrent10 Version: 0.11.8-1 between 0.11.7 and 0.11.8-1 i started getting regular crashes starting with: ** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/rtorrent: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0b0952b0 *** this is on amd64. i looked at the known issues page and it requires

Bug#444364: please stop rewriting all the initrds

2007-09-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.09.28.0230 +0100]: it is EXEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS to replace EVERY SINGLE initrd when mdadm is installed/upgraded. Please STOP SCREAMING and look at the existing bugs before you reply new ones

Bug#444364: please stop rewriting all the initrds

2007-09-27 Thread dean gaudet
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.2-2 it is EXEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS to replace EVERY SINGLE initrd when mdadm is installed/upgraded. you pretty much guarantee that any problem will produce an unbootable system -- especially if root is on md. as has just occured to me. in the past in this situation

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > I've also heard that string operations do not follow the normal ordering, > > > but > > > that's just with respect to individual

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > I've also heard that string operations do not follow the normal ordering, but > that's just with respect to individual loads/stores in the one operation, I > hope? And they will still follow ordering rules WRT surrounding loads and > stores? see section

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: I've also heard that string operations do not follow the normal ordering, but that's just with respect to individual loads/stores in the one operation, I hope? And they will still follow ordering rules WRT surrounding loads and stores? see section 7.2.3

Re: Intel Memory Ordering White Paper

2007-09-08 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Petr Vandrovec wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: I've also heard that string operations do not follow the normal ordering, but that's just with respect to individual loads/stores in the one operation, I hope

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-09-06 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, greg wrote: dean gaudet dean at arctic.org writes: if you've got any other workload you'd like me to throw at it, let me know. I've had a few problems with the driver in 2.6.20 (fc6xen x86_64). The machine tended to lock up after a random period of time (from

Re: [patch 5/5] x86: Set PCI config space size to extended for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread dean gaudet
it's so very unfortunate the PCI standard has no feature bit to indicate the presence of ECS. FWIW in my testing on a range of machines spanning 7 or 8 years i could read config space reg 256... and get 0x when the device didn't support ECS, and get valid data when the device did

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