From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EKf6L-0006b5-Ck for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:48:13 -0700 Received: from smtp002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.33]) by mail.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.44) id 1EKf6B-00045D-R8 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:48:10 -0700 From: Blaisorblade Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Review needed for ubd fixes References: <200509172245.j8HMjqJD009056@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <200509281414.32622.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <20050928155405.GA12888@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20050928155405.GA12888@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509281847.21078.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:47:20 +0200 To: Jeff Dike Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Bodo Stroesser 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 -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel