[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When a task is put to sleep, it is dequeued from the runqueue while it is still running. The problem is that the runqueue lock can be dropped and retaken in schedule() before the task actually schedules off, and wait_ta

[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When a task is put to sleep, it is dequeued from the runqueue while it is still running. The problem is that the runqueue lock can be dropped and retaken in schedule() before the task actually schedules off, and wait_task_inactive did not

[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a task is put to sleep, it is dequeued from the runqueue > while it is still running. The problem is that the runqueue > lock can be dropped and retaken in schedule() before the task > actually schedules off, and wait_task_inactive did not account >

[uml-devel] linux-2.6.11-rc3-bk2-jdike-uml-compile-fixes; UDF FS won't compile.

2005-02-05 Thread William Stearns
Good evening, all, Just for reference, if I have the UDF filesystem turned on, I get this error at the end of the compile: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 /usr/lib/libc.a(mktime.o)(.rodata+0x0): multiple definition of `__mon_yday' fs/built-in.o(.rodata+0x36a0):fs/buffer.c:331: first defined here collec

[uml-devel] [PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Something like the following (untested) extension of Bodo's work could be the minimal fix for 2.6.11. As I've said though, I'd consider it a hack and prefer to do something about the locking. That could be done after 2.6.11 though. Depends how you feel. I think this is the right

Re: [uml-devel] [patch] Make User Mode Linux compile in 2.6.11-rc3

2005-02-05 Thread Frank Sorenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Landley wrote: | As of yesterday afternoon, the UML build still breaks in sys_call_table.c, | here's the patch I submitted earlier (which got me past the break when I | tried it). Last week, this produced what seemed like a working UML. | | Now the

[uml-devel] [patch] Make User Mode Linux compile in 2.6.11-rc3

2005-02-05 Thread Rob Landley
As of yesterday afternoon, the UML build still breaks in sys_call_table.c, here's the patch I submitted earlier (which got me past the break when I tried it). Last week, this produced what seemed like a working UML. Now there's a second break in mm/memory.c: the move to four level page tables c

Re: [uml-devel] UML port to PPC

2005-02-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 04 February 2005 11:48 am, Ashwin Kumar Tanugula wrote: > Hi! > I have read that uml port to ppc is done. Can somebody tell me if the port > is to a 32-bit architecture or a 64-bit architecture. Where can i find > more details about the uml port to ppc? > Thanks, > Ashwin. http://usermod

Re: Sky, comma, falling. (Was Re: [uml-devel] Xen going to be in Kernel 2.6 soon?)

2005-02-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 05 February 2005 09:46 am, Sven Köhler wrote: > > read Linus's "I'm a bastard" speech? > > No, i don't know that speech. You obviously didn't google for "linus bastard speech", either. It's the first hit. >> You know, ever since the release of the BSD source code in 1992 totally >>

Re: Sky, comma, falling. (Was Re: [uml-devel] Xen going to be in Kernel 2.6 soon?)

2005-02-05 Thread Sven Köhler
I feel like this is a slap in Jeff's face, since i thought that UML will be developed as the first choice in virtualizations techniques. Yup, just like the inclusion of reiserfs in the kernel is a slap in the face to ext3. Obviously they did it just to be insulting, didn't you read Linus's "I'