[uml-devel] 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Running a kernel which is not 2.6.15-rc2 (but a couple of merges back, looking for a place where it works), I get: Initializing software serial port version 1 Failed to open 'root_fs', errno = 2 RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: L

Re: [uml-devel] testing of 2.6.14/2.6.15-rc amd64 guests

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:41:26AM +, Antoine Martin wrote: > * The same kernel compiled here using hardened GCC: > gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 (Gentoo Hardened 3.4.4-r1, HTB-3.4.4-1.00, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, > pie-8.7.8) > gives the same error reported earlier for x86 guests: > the guest exits after spinning fo

Re: [uml-devel] testing of 2.6.15-rc1+patches and 2.6.15-rc3 x86 guests on amd64 host

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:35:14PM +, Antoine Martin wrote: > [42951313.91] Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel mode signal 7 Did your /tmp fill up? > * Now, with 2.6.15-rc3 it does not boot: > * or in skas0 mode: > Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /tmp...OK > Checking for the skas3 patch in the

[uml-devel] testing of 2.6.14/2.6.15-rc amd64 guests

2005-11-29 Thread Antoine Martin
This was a lot quicker than testing x86 guests... (and solved some x86 questions I had too) * 2.6.14-bs2 from Blaisorblade's site: - in skas0 mode: Does not show anything after: "VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly." And 2 processes eat up all the CPU (until I savagely kill them). - in TT

Re: [uml-devel] NPTL support

2005-11-29 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 15:00, Antoine Martin wrote: > Any fix for the GCC errors on arch/um/include/sysdep/stub.h would be > much appreciated (I have to compile on these hosts to be able to use the > pcap network driver): > CC arch/um/kernel/skas/clone.o > arch/um/kernel/skas/clone.c: I

[uml-devel] testing of 2.6.15-rc1+patches and 2.6.15-rc3 x86 guests on amd64 host

2005-11-29 Thread Antoine Martin
All of this testing was done on an amd64 host. * With a 2.6.15-rc1 (+ 17-11-2005 patches from UML site) in skas0 mode: Runs quite well, but when running some long compilation (php, gcc or xorg for example) it ends up crashing (this not new to this version - I believe this bug has been present for

Re: [uml-devel] NPTL support

2005-11-29 Thread Antoine Martin
> > Is NPTL supported and working? Are there separate patches to be > applied > > against 2.6.10 kernel? > > My current patchset, against 2.5.15-rc1, is running current Debian and > FC4 > filesystems without any apparent problems. > > Jeff I thought that last time

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-29 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 10:08, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2005 02:07, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 12:31, Nix wrote: > > > > Did you catch Linus's long rant about how MAP_PRIVATE is deeply stupid > > and that Linux will never really implement it? > > What's

Re: [uml-devel] Testing requested - [PATCH] Fixing SKAS0 compilation problem / TT mode bug report

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:28:56PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > So, again: can we finally rewrite clone.c in assembly? Or, otherwise, to use > a > unique assembly macro joining mmap, the return and trap_myself? I would favor the second, although I would just join the mmap and storing of the err

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: move TMP default from /tmp to /dev/shm.

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 28 November 2005 22:47, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2005 13:27, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Jeff Dike wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:52:15AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > Inline is linux-kernel policy, but here the darn thing is as an attachment

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:41, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 13:20, Blaisorblade wrote: > *shrug* The same argument could be made about any other argument that > mount interprets. (Currently: loop, defaults, noauto, ro, rw, nosuid, > suid, dev, nodev, exec, noexec, sync, asy

Re: [uml-devel] Blaisorblade's UML binaries - MORE MORE... please give us an x86_64 UML

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 13:22, Phill Wombat wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > x86_64 binary. > > So far so good! Thanks, I have no 64-bit FS to test it. Btw, there's also some other site with binaries: http://uml.harlowhill.com/index.php/PrecompiledKernels http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/ > I have managed t

Re: [uml-devel] Testing requested - [PATCH] Fixing SKAS0 compilation problem / TT mode bug report

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 28 November 2005 05:23, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:59:37PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > The attached patch is a (hacky) proposal, alternative to Jeff's > > fix-stub-syscall6, to fix the SKAS0 compilation problem. > Bleah :-) Yep :-). > > In fact, Jeff's patch makes

Re: [uml-devel] Fun little detail about /dev/shm.

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:52, Nix wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily: > > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially > > tmpfs. > True enough; configurable on Gentoo - you can now specify a full mount line in /etc/fstab, and before you had an

Re: [uml-devel] When /tmp is not tmpfs.

2005-11-29 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 28 November 2005 02:07, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 27 November 2005 12:31, Nix wrote: > Did you catch Linus's long rant about how MAP_PRIVATE is deeply stupid and > that Linux will never really implement it? What's that? > And you can fsync and do stuff like journaling within a fil

Re: [uml-devel] Blaisorblade's UML binaries - MORE MORE... please give us an x86_64 UML

2005-11-29 Thread Phill Wombat
Hi Paolo, x86_64 binary. So far so good! I have managed to create an FC4/x86_64 rootfs from the very impressive (and amazingly simple) shell script on umlwiki where the entire distro is installed via yum. Had some trouble with gpg keys though. The rootfs starts up and hangs at the usual places

Re: [uml-devel] Fun little detail about /dev/shm.

2005-11-29 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:52, Nix wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily: > > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially > > tmpfs. > > True enough; but some people mount /dev with a size of 0. That stopped working in 2.6.14. Now size=0 specifies

Re: [uml-devel] Fun little detail about /dev/shm.

2005-11-29 Thread Nix
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Rob Landley prattled cheerily: > If you're using udev, then /dev is tmpfs. So /dev/shm is trivially tmpfs. True enough; but some people mount /dev with a size of 0. (Admittedly if they don't want to break POSIX shm they'd better damn well mount *another* tmpfs on /dev/shm wit