HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 3Q/2010

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Dear all, I would like to remind you that the next round of status reports covering the third quarter of 2010 is due on October 15th, 2010. This initiative is very welcome in our community. Therefore, I would like to ask you to submit your status reports soon, so that we can compile the report o

Re: How to disallow logout

2010-09-29 Thread Jim Bryant
Atom Smasher wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Ivan Voras wrote: 1) power outage of the server 2) power outage on the client 3) network problems (ssh or TCP connection drop) 4) administrative command (e.g. root executes "killall $shell") ? I don't think there is a way to protect from all of those,

Re: Adding a V=R mapping for amd64?

2010-09-29 Thread Matthew Fleming
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:40:57PM -0700, Matthew Fleming wrote: >> I'm hacking around with making a "fast reboot" that puts a copy of the >> MBR from disk into address 0x7c00 and, after disabling various >> translation bits and stopping ot

Re: Adding a V=R mapping for amd64?

2010-09-29 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:40:57PM -0700, Matthew Fleming wrote: > I'm hacking around with making a "fast reboot" that puts a copy of the > MBR from disk into address 0x7c00 and, after disabling various > translation bits and stopping other CPUs, branches to it, to skip the > hardware self test tha

Adding a V=R mapping for amd64?

2010-09-29 Thread Matthew Fleming
I'm hacking around with making a "fast reboot" that puts a copy of the MBR from disk into address 0x7c00 and, after disabling various translation bits and stopping other CPUs, branches to it, to skip the hardware self test that normally happens on boot. I haven't gotten to the point of attempting

Unnecessary reads on write load

2010-09-29 Thread David Cross
Tracking down a performance issue where the system apparently needlessly reads on a 100% write load... consider the following C test case: (more after the code) #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { unsigned char dir1[4], dir2[4], filename[15], pathname

Re: question regarding link_elf.c

2010-09-29 Thread PL
Dnia 29-09-2010 o godz. 16:58 Andriy Gapon napisał(a): > on 29/09/2010 17:44 PL said the following: > > Dnia 29-09-2010 o godz. 16:23 Andriy Gapon napisał(a): > >> on 29/09/2010 17:13 PL said the following: > >>> It seems like it is not a problem in my own code, since readelf -S on a > >>> elf file

Re: question regarding link_elf.c

2010-09-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/09/2010 17:44 PL said the following: > Dnia 29-09-2010 o godz. 16:23 Andriy Gapon napisał(a): >> on 29/09/2010 17:13 PL said the following: >>> It seems like it is not a problem in my own code, since readelf -S on a >>> elf file >>> gives me the same results as my debug messages. I've created

Re: question regarding link_elf.c

2010-09-29 Thread PL
Dnia 29-09-2010 o godz. 16:23 Andriy Gapon napisał(a): > on 29/09/2010 17:13 PL said the following: > > It seems like it is not a problem in my own code, since readelf -S on a > > elf file > > gives me the same results as my debug messages. I've created an empty > > module, to > > simplify debuggin

Re: question regarding link_elf.c

2010-09-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/09/2010 17:13 PL said the following: > It seems like it is not a problem in my own code, since readelf -S on a > elf file > gives me the same results as my debug messages. I've created an empty > module, to > simplify debugging. Both my code, and readelf says, that '.text' section > addres

Re: question regarding link_elf.c

2010-09-29 Thread PL
Dnia 29-09-2010 o godz. 10:58 Andriy Gapon napisał(a): > on 29/09/2010 11:18 PL said the following: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm not quiet sure if it is proper place to ask the question I have. If > > not, please > > direct me to the correct place I should post questions like: > > > > Im working on so

Re: PATCH: fix bogus error message "bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly"

2010-09-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:02:08 pm Neel Natu wrote: > Hi John, > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:36 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Monday, September 27, 2010 5:13:03 pm Neel Natu wrote: > >> Hi John, > >> > >> Thanks for reviewing this. > >> > >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:04 AM, John Baldwin

8.1-R - Marvell 88SX6081 SATA controller via mvs = lots of errors

2010-09-29 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I just switched my 8.1-R/amd64 (dual Opteron) system from ATA over to the new mvs driver, and started seeing a whole bunch of errors (which appear to have hosed one of my zfs volumes during a scrub) - anyone know what the following errors actually mean? The machine has 2 * 88SX6081's in

Re: question regarding link_elf.c

2010-09-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/09/2010 11:18 PL said the following: > Hi everyone, > I'm not quiet sure if it is proper place to ask the question I have. If > not, please > direct me to the correct place I should post questions like: > > Im working on some modifications around link_elf.c. According to elf(5) > man pages

question regarding link_elf.c

2010-09-29 Thread PL
Hi everyone, I'm not quiet sure if it is proper place to ask the question I have. If not, please direct me to the correct place I should post questions like: Im working on some modifications around link_elf.c. According to elf(5) man pages, Elf_Shdr structure contains field called 'sh_addr', con