[uml-devel] UML patch submission (was: Re: UML)

2010-09-22 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Hi Michael, I'm CC'ing uml-devel as the discussion is very relevant and could be interesting for everybody. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 23:13, Michael Richardson wrote: >>>>>> "Paolo" == Paolo Giarrusso writes: > Any idea where to send patches/git-tree pu

Re: [uml-devel] something broke hppfs

2010-07-07 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
pe Uh, that looks like a missing include (so that for a type, there is just a forward declaration). Probably now something.h does not include any more something_else_that_you_need.h. -- Paolo Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student http://www.informatik.u

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] x86, hweight: Fix UML boot crash

2010-06-14 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
 [<08068e8d>] ubd_intr+0x2d/0xf0 > 08300c14:  [<080a6b32>] handle_IRQ_event+0x32/0xc0 > 08300c34:  [<080a6c1b>] __do_IRQ+0x5b/0xb0 > 08300c50:  [<0805b364>] do_IRQ+0x24/0x40 > 08300c5c:  [<0805b59b>] sigio_handler+0x5b/0x80 > 08300c70:  [<0806eec5>

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] x86, hweight: Fix UML boot crash

2010-06-12 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 16:18, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Paolo Giarrusso > Date: Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:34:38PM +0200 > > Hi, > >> > That looks better to me, although I'm still wondering why UML can't >> > stomach the register-saving tricks... it

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] x86, hweight: Fix UML boot crash

2010-06-12 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
kernel. Say, on x86 32bit regparm doesn't work (in fact, -mregparm is set in arch/x86/Makefile and not in arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu). And since popcnt is supported on 32bit, it might in theory make a difference for that case. But maybe those flags are simply fine, I didn't recheck the possibl

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML: x86_64: fix memcpy export

2010-05-17 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
t; User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel > -- Paolo Giarrusso -- ___ User-mode-linux-devel ma

Re: [uml-devel] uml: pthreads instead of manual clone()?

2010-05-17 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
ally wonder about the TLS setup stuff - we need to allow the guest userspace programs to do basically any [gs]et_thread_area() calls. But it's really untrivial IMHO. -- Paolo Giarrusso -- __

Re: [uml-devel] uml: Error with Linked list debugging on

2010-05-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 16:07, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Paolo Giarrusso wrote: >>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 19:43, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> Lukas Czerner wrote: >> Right, there was more broken. Besides the locking fix, this should do &g

Re: [uml-devel] uml: Error with Linked list debugging on

2010-05-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
-832,7 +834,7 @@ static void unregister_winch(struct tty_struct *tty) >                        break; >                } >        } > -       spin_unlock(&winch_handler_lock); > +       spin_unlock_irq(&winch_handler_lock); >  } > >  static void winch_cleanup(void) > @@ -840,14 +842,14 @

Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final.

2007-10-19 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
patch, just in case anybody else had > this problem: > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc3/arch/um/kernel/smp.c 2007-08-12 23:25:24.0 > -0500 +++ linux-2.6.23-new/arch/um/kernel/smp.c 2007-08-21 > 21:39:00.0 -0500 @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ > > #include "linux/percpu.h" &

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - time build fix

2007-09-26 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
s function is not supposed to change and to need to be kept in sync, it could be copied. I conceptually hate this solution, but it can make some sense. -- "Doh!" (cit.), I've made another mistake! Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - Fix irqstack crash

2007-09-26 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On lunedì 24 settembre 2007, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:57:49PM +0200, Paolo Giarrusso wrote: > > Yes, indeed - or sign extension on 64bit machines would set to 1 the > > whole high-word. > > > > But using long for that mask makes no difference; eith

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - Fix irqstack crash

2007-09-20 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
d be used, given that the used signal range is the same on 32 and 64bit machines, it should be u32 for normal signals or u64 if RT-signals are also allowed. -- "Doh!" (cit.), I've made another mistake! Paolo

Re: [uml-devel] (Workarounded) Hanging using 'iptables -L' in UML vm booted with con0=pts

2007-09-18 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
s really needed I can do them, but it would take > me some time (and maybe now it isn't a good idea because of they won't > provide additional useful information :) No, I just needed a proof that the problem was indeed with the output on a pts. Thank you for you help -- "Doh!&qu

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 01/14] uml: fix compilation options for USER_OBJS

2006-10-11 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:38:36PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' > Giarrusso wrote: > > Again, move inclusion of arch's Makefile after CFLAGS setting - I > remember > > merging the same patch eons ago in 2.6, so I added a comment. > > > > I discovered th

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 4/5] UML - Close file descriptor leaks

2006-10-05 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 07:10:37PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > NACK on the ubd driver part. It adds a bugs and does fix the one > you found in > > the right point. ACK on the other hunk. I'm answering away from the code (limited Internet access) so

[uml-devel] Using -fcombine for UML

2006-08-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Look there, it would be very useful IMHO for UML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/24/212 But I will not have the time for the UML changes, so tune in for them. Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ---

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

2006-08-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:56:36PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > Can anybody explain me how can we use REGPARM if we have to link > with host > > glibc? > Umm, yeah, good point. This regparam behavior is different from > the old > behavior, where re

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

2006-08-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
so it's time to catch remaining bugs by review. > So.. I'll await version 5, sorry. Please persist. I'll try. I just hope we'll not have it next summer (I know it's my problem, I'm not complaining on you). Thanks! Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso Chiacchiera con i tuo

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 2/3] uml: fix proc-vs-interrupt context spinlock deadlock

2006-08-09 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:59:05PM +0200, Paolo Giarrusso wrote: > > I could be wrong, but I trust that thanks to deep and good work > by > > who designed locking in the network layer, this patch is correct. > And > &g

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/3] uml: use -mcmodel=kernel for x86_64

2006-08-08 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > We have never used this flag and recently one user experienced a > complaining > > warning about this (there was a symbo

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 2/3] uml: fix proc-vs-interrupt context spinlock deadlock

2006-08-08 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 05:47:03PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' > Giarrusso wrote: > > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > This spinlock can be taken on interrupt too, so > spin_lock_irq[save] must be used. > > > > However,

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/3] uml: use -mcmodel=kernel for x86_64

2006-08-08 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 05:47:00PM +0200, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' > Giarrusso wrote: > > +_extra_flags_ = -fno-builtin -m64 -mcmodel=kernel > What exactly does this do go to "man gcc" and search mcmodel for the answer to this one. And x86_64 uses it too,

Re: [uml-devel] [uml-user] Promiscuous mode interface bug?

2006-08-04 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:08:51PM -0700, Stephens, Allan wrote: > > Where I think my confusion is arising is in the details of how > the > > filtering > > controlled by the promiscuous setting is actually done. If a > packet > > with > > the "wrong"

Re: [uml-devel] [uml-user] Promiscuous mode interface bug?

2006-08-02 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
"Stephens, Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Hi Paolo: > > OK, let me take one more try at explaining what I've observed. > (And my > apologies for making this whole issue more confusing than necessary > ... > I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to detailing with the > details of > ne

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 4/5] UML - Reenable SysRq support

2006-07-13 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Why not: > > config MAGIC_SYSRQ > bool > prompt "Magic SysRq key" > depends on !UML || MCONSOLE > default y if UML > > -hpa Because it has always been elsewhere in Kconfig (near MCONSOLE) for a meaningful reason (

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Fix UML build on i386 Ubuntu Dapper

2006-06-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On 28.06.2006 [12:13:21 +0200], Blaisorblade wrote: > Just for clarity's sake, the reason the #undef is there, as far as > I can > tell, is otherwise the preprocessor (I'm assuming) goes and makes > the > output specification as 1:x86_64 inst

Re: [uml-devel] Another cause for UML

2006-06-21 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
"Carl Radford (DC0854-IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Any chance I can interest the UML developers I've included some more address (including Jeff, UML 1st author and maintainer). > in fixing UML to > support openMosix (for the purposes of debugging) ? > I applied the openMosix patch to

Re: [uml-devel] [UML] Problems building and running 2.6.17-rc4 on x86-64

2006-06-13 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:57:18AM -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote: > > I just wanted to report that this went away when trying > 2.6.17-rc6 as a > > host. It also works fine as a guest (after I patch it with > > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/w

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] Ok, I build x86-64 -skas0, and it still segfaults.

2005-11-15 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
--- Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:32:10PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > > moan moan > > Can you try the x86-64-clobbers-rcx patch below? > > If you don't have it already, apply the fix-x86-stubs patch first. > > Paolo, could you eyeball this one for me?

Re: [uml-devel] Re: UML fills /tmp irreversibly (2.6.9-bb4 on SuSE 9.2)

2005-01-08 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
s a complete solution. > Can somebody else on the list help me to identify the patch for > this "problem with /tmp filling irreversibly and being unable to > unmount /tmp" bugfix? Thanks! -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-l

Re: [uml-devel] unable to unmount tmpfs problem lives on

2004-12-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
it. Now, I *do* want to wait before posting to LKML... I'll maybe complain louder. I'll post to LKML as a last resort, if they show not enough care of the problem, to urge them to fix it. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.o

[uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] Kernel panic error

2004-12-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
me out what is the problem. Same UML binary is > working fine on my other system. > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Adil Mujeeb Config info about the host/guest, please, to help... -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.use

Re: [uml-devel] Stranded processes on halt with 2.6.9 host (2.4.26 client)

2004-12-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
the kernel) at least on 2.6.9 prereleases. > 23838 host-skas3-2.6.9-rc4-v6.patch > 25510 host-skas3-2.6.9-v7.patch > but they all behave the same way. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade --