Re: [uml-devel] Building/runing UML in SMP mode

2009-06-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:22:46PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Jeff Dike wrote: > > > > The problem with SMP on skas0 > > Does that mean that it works more easily on skas3? Yup. That completely avoids ptrace issues. I think things should just about work at that

Re: [uml-devel] Building/runing UML in SMP mode

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Menage
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Jeff Dike wrote: > > The problem with SMP on skas0 Does that mean that it works more easily on skas3? > I actually had this somewhat working, but the code was a horror show, > with much nastiness about ignoring the signals that are needed in > order to prevent a d

Re: [uml-devel] Building/runing UML in SMP mode

2009-06-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:02:56PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote: > For a while now (since tt mode was dropped and skas mode became the > only option?) it looks as though UML has been UP-only on x86-64. And > even though the configs appear to allow building SMP on x86-32, there > are things like the pa

[uml-devel] Building/runing UML in SMP mode

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Menage
For a while now (since tt mode was dropped and skas mode became the only option?) it looks as though UML has been UP-only on x86-64. And even though the configs appear to allow building SMP on x86-32, there are things like the panic() call in kernel/smp.c:idle_thread() which imply that it won't wo