[uml-devel] [PATCH RFP-V4 00/13] remap_file_pages protection support - 4th attempt

2006-08-26 Thread Blaisorblade
Again, about 4 month since last time (for lack of time) I'm sending for final review and for inclusion into -mm protection support for remap_file_pages (in short "RFP prot support"), i.e. setting per-pte protections (beyond file offset) through this syscall. Since last release, I've changed the

[uml-devel] Wiki situation (was: Re: [uml-user] 2.6.17.10)

2006-08-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 26 August 2006 15:53, Dalibor Dukic wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 15:19 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Saturday 26 August 2006 14:11, Mathew Brown wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:07:59 +0200, "Blaisorblade" > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > On Saturday 26 August 2006

Re: [uml-devel] [uml-user] 2.6.17.10

2006-08-26 Thread Dalibor Dukic
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 15:19 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Saturday 26 August 2006 14:11, Mathew Brown wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:07:59 +0200, "Blaisorblade" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Saturday 26 August 2006 12:41, Mathew Brown wrote: > > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:47:38 +0

Re: [uml-devel] [uml-user] 2.6.17.10

2006-08-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 26 August 2006 14:11, Mathew Brown wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:07:59 +0200, "Blaisorblade" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Saturday 26 August 2006 12:41, Mathew Brown wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:47:38 +0200, "Dalibor Dukic" > > > > > > I mentioned this in my previous th

Re: [uml-devel] Strange behaviour in eth assignments

2006-08-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 26 August 2006 14:35, Peter Hovorka wrote: > Hi there, > > my sincere apologies to all of you for bothering about the Ubuntu eth > problem. Thanks for your apologies but thanks anyway for your competent cooperation. > After talking to the ubuntu team we found out that the ubuntu > in

Re: [uml-devel] Strange behaviour in eth assignments

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Hovorka
Hi there, my sincere apologies to all of you for bothering about the Ubuntu eth problem. After talking to the ubuntu team we found out that the ubuntu installer makes some entries in /etc/iftab to help udev whilst booting the system. There were the two entries from the host system with eth0 an

Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/sys-i386/setjmp.S: useless #ifdef _REGPARM's?

2006-08-26 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 21 August 2006 23:56, Adrian Bunk wrote: > arch/um/sys-i386/setjmp.S contains two #ifdef _REGPARM's. > > Even if regparm was used in i386 uml (which isn't currently done (why?)), > I don't see _REGPARM being defined anywhere. > > Is this a bug waiting for happening when regparm will be us

[uml-devel] UniProcessor UML running on SMP host: things to care about in the code

2006-08-26 Thread Blaisorblade
I was thinking to some possible (theoretical?) troubles which could happen with UML running on a SMP host - they're due to the code assuming it is running on an UP machine. 1) Over the host we use pipes as synchronization mechanism. Who on the heart assures the "memory barrier" guarantees a loc