Re: [ovs-dev] openvswitch crash on i386

2019-03-05 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1736390 [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1736390/comments/55 > Reverting that commit from 5.0 makes the problem go away. I'm not able to > reproduce the crash on x86_64. > > ...Juerg > ___ > dev mailing list > d...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd

Re: Fix lapic time counter read for periodic mode

2012-11-12 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
hat the proposed patch in my first mail is incomplete, as the mod_64 does not work correctly for negative values. A fixed version is below. regards Christian Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c index 43e9fad..ec7242c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/la

Re: Fix lapic time counter read for periodic mode

2012-11-12 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
want to establish matches that of the PIT timer (in a not completely obvious way, though). Having said that the proposed patch in my first mail is incomplete, as the mod_64 does not work correctly for negative values. A fixed version is below. regards Christian Signed-off-by: Christian

Fix lapic time counter read for periodic mode

2012-11-11 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
use the negative difference unmodified. regards Christian Fix lapic time counter read for periodic mode. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c index 43e9fad..eff902d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c

Fix lapic time counter read for periodic mode

2012-11-11 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
use the negative difference unmodified. regards Christian Fix lapic time counter read for periodic mode. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt l...@c--e.de diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c index 43e9fad..eff902d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm

Re: New x86-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-09-03 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > > >Note the the xm console command terminates on its own, i.e. the guest > >machine seems to halt and not hang somewhere. > > > >I could verify that the real

Re: New x86-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-09-03 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Christian Ehrhardt wrote: Note the the xm console command terminates on its own, i.e. the guest machine seems to halt and not hang somewhere. I could verify that the real mode code up to the assembly code in pmjump.S

Re: New x86-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-08-31 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:04:09PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Are there any messages on the xen console ("xm dmesg")? Or logs ("xm > log")? What version of Xen are you using? What does your domain config > file look like? Domain Config: | kernel = "hvmloader" | builder='hvm' | memory

Re: New x86-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-08-31 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:04:09PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Are there any messages on the xen console (xm dmesg)? Or logs (xm log)? What version of Xen are you using? What does your domain config file look like? Domain Config: | kernel = hvmloader | builder='hvm' | memory = 256 |

New x886-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-08-30 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, I am trying to boot a current 2.6 kernel as a guest under XEN in HVM mode. With linux-2.6.22.(5) as the guest this works fine but current git kernels fail very early in the boot process. The XEN host is a debian kernel with XEN enabled (2.6.18-4-xen-686). The XEN guest is a vanilla kernel

New x886-Setup code breaks HVM-XEN boot

2007-08-30 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, I am trying to boot a current 2.6 kernel as a guest under XEN in HVM mode. With linux-2.6.22.(5) as the guest this works fine but current git kernels fail very early in the boot process. The XEN host is a debian kernel with XEN enabled (2.6.18-4-xen-686). The XEN guest is a vanilla kernel

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] pagemap: use PAGE_MASK/PAGE_ALIGN()

2007-08-08 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
In linux.kernel, you wrote: > > Use existing macros (PAGE_MASK/PAGE_ALIGN()) instead of > open-coding them. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > lxc-dave/fs/proc/task_mmu.c |4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff -puN

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] pagemap: use PAGE_MASK/PAGE_ALIGN()

2007-08-08 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
In linux.kernel, you wrote: Use existing macros (PAGE_MASK/PAGE_ALIGN()) instead of open-coding them. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- lxc-dave/fs/proc/task_mmu.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN

Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:54:30AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > the next step after this patch is to have an option to get rid of all > the function pointer chasing (which is expensive) for the case where you > know you only want one security module (which you then can turn on or > off)...

Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:35:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:37:01 -0400 (EDT) > James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security > > module is not required by in-tree users and potentially

Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:35:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:37:01 -0400 (EDT) James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the

Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-07-19 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:54:30AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: the next step after this patch is to have an option to get rid of all the function pointer chasing (which is expensive) for the case where you know you only want one security module (which you then can turn on or off)... that

Undefined behaviour with get_cpu_vendor

2005-08-17 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, Your Patch at (URL wrapped) http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git; \ a=commit;h=99c6e60afff8a7bc6121aeb847dab27c556cf0c9 introduced an additional Parameter (int early) to get_cpu_vendor. However, the same function is called in

Undefined behaviour with get_cpu_vendor

2005-08-17 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, Your Patch at (URL wrapped) http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git; \ a=commit;h=99c6e60afff8a7bc6121aeb847dab27c556cf0c9 introduced an additional Parameter (int early) to get_cpu_vendor. However, the same function is called in

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-26 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:05:14PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I am running in to a problem, seemingly a deadlock situation, where > > almost all the processes end up in the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. > > All the process eventually stop responding, including login

Re: all processes waiting in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state

2001-06-26 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:05:14PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am running in to a problem, seemingly a deadlock situation, where almost all the processes end up in the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. All the process eventually stop responding, including login shell, no

Re: Long standing bug in alternate stack handling

2001-04-25 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: Hi, [ Sorry for the follow up on my own post ] > If a signal handler is registered with the SA_ONSTACK flag the > kernel will try to execute the signal handler on the alternate > stack even if no such stack is r

Re: Long standing bug in alternate stack handling

2001-04-25 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: Hi, [ Sorry for the follow up on my own post ] If a signal handler is registered with the SA_ONSTACK flag the kernel will try to execute the signal handler on the alternate stack even if no such stack is registered. Here's

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:10:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no > locking issues - we've synchronized on a much higher level than a > spinlock or semaphore. This is only true for requests other than PTRACE_ATTACH and

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
be a fix for the actual problem. regards Christian Ehrhardt -- THAT'S ALL FOLKS! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
problem. regards Christian Ehrhardt -- THAT'S ALL FOLKS! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:10:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no locking issues - we've synchronized on a much higher level than a spinlock or semaphore. This is only true for requests other than PTRACE_ATTACH and

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-23 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:05:03AM -0500, Victor Zandy wrote: > > We have found that one of our programs can cause system-wide > corruption of the x86 FPU under 2.2.16 and 2.2.17. That is, after we > run this program, the FPU gives bad results to all subsequent > processes. A few comments, not

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-23 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:05:03AM -0500, Victor Zandy wrote: We have found that one of our programs can cause system-wide corruption of the x86 FPU under 2.2.16 and 2.2.17. That is, after we run this program, the FPU gives bad results to all subsequent processes. A few comments, not sure

Long standing bug in alternate stack handling

2001-02-21 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, I just found this out the hard way: If a signal handler is registered with the SA_ONSTACK flag the kernel will try to execute the signal handler on the alternate stack even if no such stack is registered. This is an explicit violation of Unix98 and probably Posix. Architectures affected

Long standing bug in alternate stack handling

2001-02-21 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, I just found this out the hard way: If a signal handler is registered with the SA_ONSTACK flag the kernel will try to execute the signal handler on the alternate stack even if no such stack is registered. This is an explicit violation of Unix98 and probably Posix. Architectures affected

Re: Where are you going with 2.4.x?

2001-02-12 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:13:29PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > Considering this is an enterprise-server, you should have a serial-console > to it; this will allow you to log all error-messages. Alternatively > (not as nice, though), is to connect a printer to the parallel-port and > use the

Re: Where are you going with 2.4.x?

2001-02-12 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:13:29PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: Considering this is an enterprise-server, you should have a serial-console to it; this will allow you to log all error-messages. Alternatively (not as nice, though), is to connect a printer to the parallel-port and use the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.0-test8] mm/filemap.c

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:05:20PM +0200, Juan J. Quintela wrote: [ Removed linus from cc, he probably knows this ] > > "bill" == Bill Wendling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linus, please don't apply. > bill> - The `head = >pages;' statement is useless inside the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.0-test8] mm/filemap.c

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:05:20PM +0200, Juan J. Quintela wrote: [ Removed linus from cc, he probably knows this ] "bill" == Bill Wendling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linus, please don't apply. bill - The `head = mapping-pages;' statement is useless inside the