[uml-devel] Fixing the 2.4 bugs - patches against 2.4.24-1um

[BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>]

I've started working also on UML/2.4.

Today I've split the changes between 2.4.24-1um and 2.4.24-2um into several 
patches; the HUMFS ones are carefully split out, but I've separated even the 
others. Now I need testers. Lots of people cannot use UML patches later than 
2.4.24-1um, since they contain a lot of Hostfs bugs and some stability 
issues. Now, if you use just some patches, you'll avoid the bugs in the 
other.

You should apply surely the first 3 patches, IMHO; the other ones should not 
hurt; inside txt/ there is a description of them.

mini-changes.patch
  Various little changes which don't hurt.

use_setjmp_wrapper.patch
  Adds setjmp_wrapper and use it, to fix klogd bug.

use-gettimeofday.patch
  Replace rdtsc with gettimeofday.

remapper-fix.patch
  Fixes probably to the ubd-mmap code

SIG-fileHandle-changes.patch
  Cope with signals from various places.

exec-shield.patch
  Patch for exec-shield users (IMHO unsafe)

expand-os-for-HUMFS.patch
  Expands os_ layer, seems to be for HUMFS only.

HUMFS.patch
  Adds HUMFS support, but create problems for Hostfs


The actual patches can be found inside the patches/ subdir in the tarball, and 
the "series" file contains the order.
THEY ARE AGAINST 2.4.24-1uml. If you want to apply it onto 2.4.26, don't 
forget to include the following patch (just for 2.4.26): 
http://vs165141.v.sectoor.de/uml-2.4.26-cmpxchg.patch

But you should move the content of 2.4.24-2-inc-split/ folder into the root of 
the linux tree (i.e. under Uml-linux) and then run "pushpatch 30" after 
installing patch-scripts.

Here there is the tarball:
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/2.4.24-2-inc-split.tar.bz2

Here you can download patch-scripts; to install them you must just expand the 
tarball into /usr/local/bin (or any folder you like; remember to update the 
path if needed).

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/patch-scripts-0.18/

Bye
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729



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