Re: Relayfs Question: Use of relay_reset(). Potential race?

2005-04-18 Thread Kingsley Cheung
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:56:57AM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > Kingsley Cheung writes: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:02:54PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I'm using relayfs to relay data from a kernel module to user spac

Relayfs Question: Use of relay_reset(). Potential race?

2005-04-17 Thread Kingsley Cheung
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:02:54PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I'm using relayfs to relay data from a kernel module to user space on > a SuSE 2.6.5 kernel. I'm not absolutely sure what version of relayfs > has been back ported to it. Hi Tom, Could you please have a look at the fol

Re: read() on relayfs channel returns premature 0

2005-03-28 Thread Kingsley Cheung
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:11:39PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: > Kingsley Cheung writes: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:29:12AM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > > Now I understand that this is not the latest r

Re: read() on relayfs channel returns premature 0

2005-03-23 Thread Kingsley Cheung
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:29:12AM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Now I understand that this is not the latest release of relayfs (there > > are the redux patches, which I have yet to try). Nonetheless I'd like > > to know whether this behaviour is deliberate.

Re: [PATCH] relayfs crash

2005-02-06 Thread Kingsley Cheung
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:42:27PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: > Kingsley Cheung writes: > > > > To solve the problem I applied a patch similar to the one you posted > > back in July and it fixed the problem. Could we consider putting this > > patch into relayfs? It

[PATCH] relayfs crash

2005-02-06 Thread Kingsley Cheung
Hi Tom, I've been stress testing a module that uses relayfs on a custom built 2.6 kernel with relayfs patches in it. This test simply loaded and unloaded the module while a script loaded the system with forks of 'ls' in the background. It was conducted on a dual 3.00GHz Xeon box (I couldn't repr