From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Review needed for ubd fixes
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:47:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509281847.21078.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050928155405.GA12888@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 17:54, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:14:32PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Very, very nice.
> > Let's hope for the better, but next time the debug should be done
> > *before* merging, ok? Even because, for instance, if (say) the patch was
> > ready for 2.6.14 and merged into 2.6.15, I could have released a test
> > tree against 2.6.14 (maybe I could do this now).
> I thought I did. AIO had been in my tree forever with no apparent
> problems.
We're not currently getting a lot of testing on that. Apart the really current
issue of the page not uptodate, users mostly ran that because of x86_64
support, which is now reliable in mainline.
In fact, the SKAS0 compiler-dependant bug (the asm code was popping a fixed
number of words, which was wrong with different compiler) only came out on
the tree I released against 2.6.12...
> I recently started running 24 hour/day stress tests on UML, and
> that turned up some problems. People turning on spinlock debugging turned
> up the sleeping while atomic problem. And me staring at the code as a
> result of that turned up the possible deadlock.
> > And ask Jens Axboe if it can give a look to them (this time it's less
> > necessary, since there are less dirty tricks).
> Yeah. This still needs some work. I need to deal with the bitmap array
> properly.
> Jeff
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-28 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-17 22:45 [uml-devel] Review needed for ubd fixes Jeff Dike
2005-09-20 12:01 ` Blaisorblade
2005-09-20 19:06 ` Jeff Dike
2005-09-21 15:49 ` Blaisorblade
2005-09-21 18:04 ` Jeff Dike
2005-09-21 19:06 ` Blaisorblade
2005-09-21 20:45 ` Jeff Dike
2005-09-22 20:51 ` Blaisorblade
2005-09-27 18:12 ` Jeff Dike
2005-09-28 12:14 ` Blaisorblade
2005-09-28 15:54 ` Jeff Dike
2005-09-28 16:47 ` Blaisorblade [this message]
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