Re: Make process title - % complete

2009-10-21 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Max Laier wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2009 16:08:06 Rink Springer wrote: >> Hi Ivan, >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 03:52:30PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> > if nobody objects, I'll commit it :) >> >> I seem to recall that setproctitle() is quite expensive to

Re: FreeBSD DAQ Card Facility [DCF]

2009-10-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Manuel Gebele" writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > > I would have just called it DAQ, which as you know is an established > > abbreviation for "Data Acquisition". [...] > I have no objection to that naming. Maybe I should call it just > ``FreeBSD DAQ Facility'' (FDF). I don't understand why

Re: FreeBSD DAQ Card Facility [DCF]

2009-10-21 Thread Manuel Gebele
on 21/10/2009 12:20 Dag-Erling Smørgrav said the following: > I don't understand why it has to be so complicated. > What's wrong with just "DAQ"? [...] What please is complicated in ``FreeBSD DAQ Facility''? Whats about KLD ``Dynamic Kernel Linker Facility''? BTW, if I send you a private email an

Re: mmap(2) segaults with certain len values and MAP_ANON|MAP_FIXED

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Best
Nate Eldredge schrieb am 2009-10-21: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alexander Best wrote: > >hi there, > This is on a 32-bit platform I take it? yes. > >just a little mmap(2) related question. running the following code > >causes a > >segfault: > >mmap( (void*)0x1000, 0x80047000, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANON|M

Re: mmap(2) segaults with certain len values and MAP_ANON|MAP_FIXED

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alexander Best wrote: this code serves only one purpose: to trigger a segfault. i don't use the code for any other purpose. i was under the impression that mmap() should either succeed or fail (tertium non datur). mmap's manual doesn't say anything about mmap() causing se

Re: mmap(2) segaults with certain len values and MAP_ANON|MAP_FIXED

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Best
Robert Watson schrieb am 2009-10-21: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alexander Best wrote: > >this code serves only one purpose: to trigger a segfault. i don't > >use the code for any other purpose. i was under the impression that > >mmap() should either succeed or fail (tertium non datur). mmap's > >manu

mmap(2) with MAP_ANON honouring offset although it shouldn't

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Best
although the mmap(2) manual states in section MAP_ANON: "The offset argument is ignored." this doesn't seem to be true. running printf("%p\n", mmap((void*)0x1000, 0x1000, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANON, -1, 0x12345678)); and printf("%p\n", mmap((void*)0x1000, 0x1000, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANON, -1, 0)); produc

Re: FreeBSD DAQ Card Facility [DCF]

2009-10-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Manuel Gebele" writes: > BTW, if I send you a private email and you answer to the list, I answered to an email you sent to the list. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

multi-seg bus_dmamem_alloc?

2009-10-21 Thread Jason Harmening
Hi everyone, It seems like there are starting to be some drivers that need to allocate large chunks of DMA-able memory, and since bus_dmamem_alloc() on most architectures is always physically contiguous, it may not work for them. It seems like we could use the new sglist routines to help us here:

Re: mmap(2) with MAP_ANON honouring offset although it shouldn't

2009-10-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Alexander Best < alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > although the mmap(2) manual states in section MAP_ANON: > > "The offset argument is ignored." > > this doesn't seem to be true. running > > printf("%p\n", mmap((void*)0x1000, 0x1000, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANON, -

Re: mmap(2) segaults with certain len values and MAP_ANON|MAP_FIXED

2009-10-21 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 11:30:51 am Alexander Best wrote: > Robert Watson schrieb am 2009-10-21: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alexander Best wrote: > > > >this code serves only one purpose: to trigger a segfault. i don't > > >use the code for any other purpose. i was under the impression that

Re: mmap(2) with MAP_ANON honouring offset although it shouldn't

2009-10-21 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 11:51:04 am Alexander Best wrote: > although the mmap(2) manual states in section MAP_ANON: > > "The offset argument is ignored." > > this doesn't seem to be true. running > > printf("%p\n", mmap((void*)0x1000, 0x1000, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANON, -1, > 0x12345678)); > > an