Re: [uml-devel] Strange behaviour of hwrng

2005-10-21 Thread Jeff Dike
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 02:52:00AM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > Proper solution: use a separate _host_ thread, which either sits blocked in a > blocking read or calls poll() on the host /dev/random, and have it do the > work. Yeah, unfortunately. The real right thing to do is give the host ran

Re: [uml-devel] Strange behaviour of hwrng

2005-10-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 21 October 2005 21:06, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Am Freitag, den 21.10.2005, 20:42 +0200 schrieb Blaisorblade: > > On Friday 21 October 2005 20:24, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I recently tested the hwrng driver. In principal, it works, but it > > > sometimes eats up all

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.13.4-bs4 released - fixes for SKAS0 problems - careful about COW

2005-10-21 Thread Phill Wombat
Fixed!! Compiles OK now. Thanks Phill. On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:20 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2005 22:54, Phill Wombat wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Start the process of compiling 2.6.13.4-bs4. > > > > x86_64 host, i386 UML. > > > > Using same config as successful 2.6.12.5-

Re: [uml-devel] Strange behaviour of hwrng

2005-10-21 Thread Gerd Stolpmann
Am Freitag, den 21.10.2005, 20:42 +0200 schrieb Blaisorblade: > On Friday 21 October 2005 20:24, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I recently tested the hwrng driver. In principal, it works, but it > > sometimes eats up all host CPU time. In particular, I can see that the > > UML system do

Re: [uml-devel] Strange behaviour of hwrng

2005-10-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 21 October 2005 20:24, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Hi list, > > I recently tested the hwrng driver. In principal, it works, but it > sometimes eats up all host CPU time. In particular, I can see that the > UML system does a (blocking) read on /dev/hwrng, Could you please elaborate on that? W

[uml-devel] Strange behaviour of hwrng

2005-10-21 Thread Gerd Stolpmann
Hi list, I recently tested the hwrng driver. In principal, it works, but it sometimes eats up all host CPU time. In particular, I can see that the UML system does a (blocking) read on /dev/hwrng, and that the host system loops while reading from /dev/random which almost always returns -EAGAIN. (Fo

Re: [uml-devel] hostfs link count bug?

2005-10-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 21 October 2005 19:22, Szabo Peter wrote: > Hi! > I think I have found a bug in UML. Sure! > Inside my guest Linux, I get [...] > I use this version of UML: > # dpkg -l user-mode-linux > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-co

[uml-devel] hostfs link count bug?

2005-10-21 Thread Szabo Peter
Hi! I think I have found a bug in UML. Inside my guest Linux, I get # ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 18 root root 801 Oct 21 13:04 /etc/passwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev# ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 19 root root 801 Oct 21 13:04 /etc/passwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev# ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 20 r

[uml-devel] myattcommunications.co.uk now links to you

2005-10-21 Thread stuart myatt
Dear User Mode Linux Devel, I have visited your site and I think that the General content could be of interest to our web site visitors. I have already placed a link to your site along with a description at http://www.myattcommunications.co.uk/links.htm";. If you want the description of your s

Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.13.4-bs4 released - fixes for SKAS0 problems - careful about COW

2005-10-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 20 October 2005 22:54, Phill Wombat wrote: > Hi List, > > Start the process of compiling 2.6.13.4-bs4. > > x86_64 host, i386 UML. > > Using same config as successful 2.6.12.5-bb12-skas0. > > Some compile errors encountered: Can't reproduce that on my i386 host, and probably can't reprod