On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:10 AM, David Laight wrote:
It is all rather similar to the proliferation of memory pools - for
things where 'malloc' would be fine.
The old-school kernel malloc was almost never "fine" ... but pools
have another advantage -- use of a direct-mapped segment on
architec
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:05:38AM +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
>
> > People are most welcome to fix this ugliness
> > properly by helping to get rid of link sets in the kernel.
>
> I'm glad you agree that link sets are ugly. On the matter of a getting rid of
> them I did offer to discuss a soluti
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 04:08:16 Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
[...]
> PS: It's really amazing how rump can cope with link sets in the DSO
> world at all. One can condescentingly call it a hack, but link sets
> are not rump's fault.
s/amazing/lucky/
IMO, rump is fragile and not only regularly
On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:08:16AM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
PS: It's really amazing how rump can cope with link sets in the DSO
world at all. One can condescentingly call it a hack, but link sets
are not rump's fault. People are
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:08:16AM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> PS: It's really amazing how rump can cope with link sets in the DSO
> world at all. One can condescentingly call it a hack, but link sets
> are not rump's fault. People are most welcome to fix this ugliness
> properly by helpin
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 14:47:45 +1000, Geoff Wing wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-09-10 13:55 +0300, Antti Kantee output:
> :No, that is *absolutely the wrong thing*, since while it might make
> :the build work, it breaks the resulting binary. I'm a bit baffled that
> :breakage like that was committed
> > The problem is that the linker suddenly changed behaviour and no longer
> > provided the symbols which used to satisfy those unresolved symbols. I have
> > convinced the linker to once again provide those symbols hence fixing the
> > build.
>
> I think you need to do some more testing and (r
[This will be my last email on this subject]
On Monday 14 September 2009 12:29:15 Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Mon Sep 14 2009 at 12:04:18 +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > > rump hasn't relied on linksets since August 2008 (and even then there
> > > was only a few day window of linkset use after introduc
On Mon Sep 14 2009 at 12:04:18 +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > rump hasn't relied on linksets since August 2008 (and even then there was
> > only a few day window of linkset use after introducing dynamic linking
> > to rump). The only thing that matters is the entry point, which,
> > incidentally, i
On Monday 14 September 2009 10:20:52 Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Mon Sep 14 2009 at 08:15:36 +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
[...]
> > > The binutils regression is that between 2.16 and 2.19 __start_sectname
> > > for orphaned sections was changed to use PROVIDE instead of define and
> > > hence those symbo
On Mon Sep 14 2009 at 08:15:36 +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > In the future if you run across a problem which you are unable to
> > understand, debug and fix on your own, please ask for assistance.
> > Commits with handwavy and incorrect information make it more difficult
> > to track down and fix t
On Sunday 13 September 2009 23:57:17 Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Fri Sep 11 2009 at 06:48:50 +, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > Module Name:src
> > Committed By: skrll
> > Date: Fri Sep 11 06:48:50 UTC 2009
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > src/usr.sbin/puffs/rump_smbfs: Makefile
On Fri Sep 11 2009 at 06:48:50 +, Nick Hudson wrote:
> Module Name: src
> Committed By: skrll
> Date: Fri Sep 11 06:48:50 UTC 2009
>
> Modified Files:
> src/usr.sbin/puffs/rump_smbfs: Makefile
>
> Log Message:
> Allow this to build while link sets and rump are broken.
Hi Nick,
On Thursday 2009-09-10 13:55 +0300, Antti Kantee output:
:No, that is *absolutely the wrong thing*, since while it might make
:the build work, it breaks the resulting binary. I'm a bit baffled that
:breakage like that was committed to rump_nfs/Makefile in the first place.
:
:It seems there is a re
On Thu Sep 10 2009 at 14:14:03 +1000, Geoff Wing wrote:
> On Sunday 2009-09-06 20:26 +, Antti Kantee output:
> :Module Name: src
> :Committed By:pooka
> :Date:Sun Sep 6 20:26:47 UTC 2009
> :Added Files:
> : src/usr.sbin/puffs/rump_smbfs: Makefile rump_smbfs.8 rump_s
On Sunday 2009-09-06 20:26 +, Antti Kantee output:
:Module Name: src
:Committed By: pooka
:Date: Sun Sep 6 20:26:47 UTC 2009
:Added Files:
: src/usr.sbin/puffs/rump_smbfs: Makefile rump_smbfs.8 rump_smbfs.c
: smb_rumpops.c
:Log Message:
:Add rump_smbfs.
[...]
:cvs r
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