[uml-devel] [UML] Compile error when building with seperate source and object directories

2005-04-26 Thread Ryan Anderson
I've been seeing a build error when trying to build User Mode Linux on an x86-32 host (Athlon, fwiw). The kernel I'm building is a 1-day old pull from git. This error is not new, though. I thought it was merely an artifact of a patch stuck in a queue at first so I didn't mention it right away.

Re: [uml-devel] The source to that firmware-uml thing is now up...

2005-04-26 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 23 April 2005 08:57 am, Blaisorblade wrote: > > By the way, I've toyed with the idea of running this sucker in an > > otherwise empty chroot environment (/proc/self/fd is likely to exist and > > have fairly uninteresting contents. As a chroot environment, it just has > > symlinks that

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/7] uml: fix syscall table by including $(SUBARCH)'s one, for i386

2005-04-26 Thread Andrew Morton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > linux-2.6.12-paolo/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S | 292 > > linux-2.6.12-paolo/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S | 291 > +++ gack. Any time anyone touches the syscall tables I have to delicately rework 8,000 perfctr patches

Re: [uml-devel] UML-patches to prepare UML/s390

2005-04-26 Thread Bodo Stroesser
Blaisorblade wrote: Other issues follow, which refer to copied code going out-of-date wrt. my local tree (which I have snapshotted some time ago, after I started writing this mail). This is the problem with copying code - and you're starting experiencing it! * important changes for TLS support,

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 0/7] uml: some invasive changes for -mm

2005-04-26 Thread Bodo Stroesser
Blaisorblade wrote: This is the first of a series of 7 invasive patches for the -mm tree, which are to be reviewed (not only by UML folks), and possibly merged for the 2.6.13 cycle. The first one splits the i386 syscall table out of entry.S, without any real change for them (the file is include

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/1] uml: fix handling of no fpx_regs [critical, for 2.6.12]

2005-04-26 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Alexander On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:57 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > mån 2005-04-25 klockan 21:12 +0200 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > From: Andree Leidenfrost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' > > Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Fix the error path, which is triggered when the p

[uml-devel] [patch 1/1] uml: fix oops related to exception table [for 2.6.12, urgent]

2005-04-26 Thread blaisorblade
From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In short: avoid that the kernel oopses during the extable sorting, as it can do now, because the extable is in the readonly section of the binary. >From Jeff: The exception table turned RO in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

[uml-devel] [patch 1/1] uml ubd: handle readonly status

2005-04-26 Thread blaisorblade
CC: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use the set_disk_ro() API when the backing file is read-only, to mark the disk read-only, during the ->open(). The current hack does not work when doing a mount -o remount. Also, mark explicitly the code paths which should no more be triggerable (I've removed t

[uml-devel] Re: [patch 7/7] uml ubd: handle readonly status

2005-04-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 25 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2005 12:16, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 24 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > @@ -1099,6 +1104,7 @@ static int prepare_request(struct reques > > > if((rq_data_dir(req) == WRITE) && !dev->openflags.w){ > > > printk("Wr