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does l4 linux now support smp?
by Yang Xu 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello everyone, does anybody know that whether l4 linux now already support smp or not please? As far as I know, linux 2.6.x already supports smp. So I am wondering the the l4-linux 2.6 supports smp or not. if yes, it is the linux kernel distributes the threads across the cores or the ukernel does this? Any comment is welcome :-) best regards, Yang

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Linux 2.6.24 L4FB and VGA_CONSOLE
by Marc CHALAND 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hi, I made a svn up into l4linux-2.6, made an oldconfig and encountered some problems with lxevent and... cron (???). Problem with lxevent, was into rmgr_init_ping_call: _dice_msg_buffer was NULL. So I decided to purge all build directories (fiasco, build dir, install dir and l4linux). I edited a new configuration for l4linux but I encountered a problem : I cannot disable VGA_CONSOLE if I don't use EMBEDDED. So I decided to set it. But, now, I've got some stability problems : I get the following message : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KERNEL: set_tls: non-existing thread 003401e1 KERNEL: set_ldt: non-existing task 0. Trap: 13: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: Pid: 1070, comm: consolechars Not tainted (2.6.24-l4 #14) EIP: ff7c:[<00405055>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 EIP is at l4x_switch_to+0xd0/0xd3 EAX: 1003cc60 EBX: 00000018 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 ESI: 003401e1 EDI: 1003ca80 EBP: 1081013c ESP: 108139a0 DS: 0000 ES: 4280 FS: 0023 GS: 0043 SS: 0023 Process consolechars (pid: 1070, ti=10812000 task=1003ca80 task.ti=108d0000) Stack: 108139a8 00000000 1003ca80 10810000 00000400 0054da88 005f0fbc 10810000 00000400 1003ca80 10812000 108139e8 ffff950d 00000400 0000000b 0054dd5b 108139e8 ffff950d 005f67b0 005f67b0 ffff950d 0041923c 10810000 005f5f00 Call Trace: [<0054da88>] schedule+0x171/0x1bb [<0054dd5b>] schedule_timeout+0x7b/0x99 [<0041923c>] process_timeout+0x0/0x9 [<0045672f>] do_select+0x397/0x3ee [<00456d5f>] __pollwait+0x0/0xaf [<0040eeff>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x14 [<0049f877>] __make_request+0x472/0x4a8 [<0040e891>] update_curr+0x52/0xc8 [<0040eb9b>] dequeue_entity+0xb/0x2a [<0040fbbf>] dequeue_task_fair+0x1b/0x2f [<0040f644>] finish_task_switch+0x1f/0x50 [<0054dab4>] schedule+0x19d/0x1bb [<0054dcca>] io_schedule+0xb/0x12 [<00467424>] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x40 [<0054debd>] __wait_on_bit+0x53/0x5c [<004673e9>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x40 [<004673e9>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x40 [<0054df28>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x62/0x6a [<00421d9c>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x34 [<004820b3>] __ext3_get_inode_loc+0x29e/0x2f6 [<00448a95>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x66/0x9e [<0045a1da>] __d_lookup+0x97/0xd5 [<0045a1da>] __d_lookup+0x97/0xd5 [<00451dd2>] do_lookup+0x59/0x16b [<00453837>] __link_path_walk+0x930/0xa72 [<0045a6a3>] dput+0x2a/0xe5 [<00453837>] __link_path_walk+0x930/0xa72 [<0045d5ea>] mntput_no_expire+0x1c/0x5c [<0045697e>] core_sys_select+0x1f8/0x2ae [<00454514>] __user_walk_fd+0x43/0x4c [<00449151>] kmem_cache_free+0x40/0x93 [<00452d6f>] getname+0x68/0xa2 [<0044e26d>] cp_new_stat64+0xff/0x111 [<00456eb3>] sys_select+0xa5/0x173 [<0040401b>] l4x_user_dispatcher+0x8e2/0x184c [<0040c030>] _upage_start+0x30/0x890 [<00456e0e>] sys_select+0x0/0x173 [<0044fd40>] do_execve+0x172/0x17b [<0044fd40>] do_execve+0x172/0x17b [<005c4372>] kernel_init+0x0/0x254 [<004079a3>] l4_kernelinternal_execve+0xc2/0xc9 [<00400915>] in_kernel_int80_helper+0x9/0x17 [<005c4372>] kernel_init+0x0/0x254 [<004094a3>] kernel_execve+0x17/0x1a [<00400198>] run_init_process+0x20/0x24 [<00400242>] init_post+0xa6/0xd0 [<005c45bc>] kernel_init+0x24a/0x254 [<0040f644>] finish_task_switch+0x1f/0x50 [<005c4372>] kernel_init+0x0/0x254 [<005c4372>] kernel_init+0x0/0x254 [<004072cb>] kernel_thread_start+0x28/0x2d [<00406ed2>] sys_enosys+0x0/0x6 ======================= Code: 00 00 89 04 d5 04 e0 5a 00 89 0c d5 00 e0 5a 00 8b b7 00 02 00 00 8d 87 e0 01 00 00 bb 18 00 00 00 31 c9 89 ca 0f 00 d0 5b 5e 5f <c3> 90 90 57 56 83 ec 04 8b 74 24 10 8b 7c 24 14 f6 46 0d 20 74 EIP: [<00405055>] l4x_switch_to+0xd0/0xd3 SS:ESP 0023:108139a0 ---[ end trace 10d172b22dcd8354 ]--- Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I thought I forgot to set an option into kernel. But this happens sometimes on egrep, which, etc.. Any idea on the problem ? Regards Marc

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Problem with dice when fpage are used with derivation
by Marc CHALAND 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hi, I don't have time to do more checking on L4Linux. Today, I use dice r238 of public repository of TUDOS. All my tasks are pure L4env ones. I try to process an idl which is quite long. Here is a sample : library myapp { [uuid(2)] interface connection { int syn([out] unsigned long *page_in_base); int ack([in] fpage page_in, [in] unsigned long page_out_base, [out] fpage *page_out); int rst(void); }; }; I create one interface which derives from myapp::connection : library myapp_server { interface server : myapp::configuration, myapp::connection, myapp::key { }; }; Dice generates files. One of them is very strange. On server side, file corresponding to myapp_server contains following code : inline long myapp_server_reply_and_wait (CORBA_Object _dice_corba_obj, l4_msgtag_t *_dice_tag, myapp_server_msg_buffer_t *_dice_msg_buffer, CORBA_Server_Environment *_dice_corba_env) { long _dice_opcode = 0; l4_msgtag_t tagdummy __attribute__ ((unused)) = l4_msgtag(0,0,0,0); l4_msgdope_t _dice_result = { msgdope: 0 }; if ((_dice_msg_buffer->_word._dice_send_dope.md.dwords <= 2) && (_dice_msg_buffer->_word._dice_send_dope.md.strings == 0)) [ZAP] /* clear exception if set*/ if (DICE_EXPECT_FALSE(DICE_HAS_EXCEPTION(_dice_corba_env))) CORBA_server_exception_set(_dice_corba_env, CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION, CORBA_DICE_EXCEPTION_NONE, 0); /* test for IPC errors */ if (DICE_EXPECT_FALSE(L4_IPC_IS_ERROR(_dice_result))) { _dice_opcode = 0; _dice_msg_buffer->_word._word[0] = 0; if (DICE_IS_NO_EXCEPTION(_dice_corba_env)) CORBA_server_exception_set(_dice_corba_env, CORBA_SYSTEM_EXCEPTION, CORBA_DICE_INTERNAL_IPC_ERROR, 0); return _dice_opcode; } if (l4_ipc_fpage_received(_dice_result)) _dice_opcode = _dice_msg_buffer->_word._word[2]; else _dice_opcode = _dice_msg_buffer->_word._word[0]; return _dice_opcode; } By adding some logging, I realized that when fpage is received, opcode is not into _word[2] but _word[4]. Regards Marc

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how can a l4 task load l4linux?
by Alexander Arlt 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

hi all, i try to write a l4 task which can dynamically load / boot a l4linux. at the moment i using fiasco ux which parses a loader configuration file to boot l4linux. the question is, how can i do this at runtime, without such a configuration file. it seems so, that this can be done by using some internal l4 loader stuff. i looked at the l4 loader reference manual, but its a bit hard to reason how this can be realized. maybe a small example would be really nice :) can anyone help me? thanks, alex

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February 75% OFF
by l4-hackers＠os.inf.tu-dresden.de 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

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