Re: 1.0.9b-pre3 SMP test (was 1.0.9b-pre2 uploaded)

From: ao@morpork.shnet.org (A. Ott)
Subject: Re: 1.0.9b-pre3 SMP test (was 1.0.9b-pre2 uploaded)
Date: 17 Mar 2000 15:08:00 +0100

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  To subject Re: 1.0.9b-pre3 SMP test (was 1.0.9b-pre2 uploaded)
  pollard@cats-chateau.net (Jesse Pollard)  wrote:
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> I switched to the pre3 version:
>
> I do see the "ready" message in both SMP and uniprocessor tests shown below.
> The SMP errors still occur too. The following (quickie) trace is what I
> saw:
>
> wait_on_irq, CPU 1:
> irq: 0 [0 0]
> bh:  1 [1 0]
> <[c010bc21]>		__global_cli
> <[c01f588b]>		vgacon_set_cursor_size
> <[c01bf9be]>		update_region
> <[c01c3542]>		con_flush_chars
> <[c01c690c]>		opost_block
>
> I did try the exact same configuration with a uniprocessor kernel. This
> system did what I expected: (taken from the messages file...):
>
> ....
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: Partition check:
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel:  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 >
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel:  sdc: sdc1
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel:  sdd: sdd1
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus]
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init(): Initializing RSBAC v1.0.9b-pre3
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init(): compiled modules: MAC FC SIM PM
> MS F F AUTH REG ACL
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init(): Registering RSBAC proc dir
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init_pm(): Initializing RSBAC: PM
> subsystem Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init_auth(): Initializing
> RSBAC: AUTH subsys tem
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init_acl(): Initializing RSBAC: ACL
> subsyste m
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_reg_init(): Initializing RSBAC: REG
> module r egistration
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init(): Starting rsbacd thread
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init(): Setting RSBAC auto timer
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_init(): Ready.
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: scsi0: Tagged Queuing now active for Target 0
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: Adding Swap: 265064k swap-space (priority -1)
> Mar 16 21:09:31 tabby kernel: rsbac_adf_request(): request CHANGE_OWNER,
> caller_ pid 76, caller_prog_name rpc.portmap, caller_uid 0, target-type
> PROCESS, tid 76,  attr owner, value 1, result NOT_GRANTED by AUTH
> Mar 16 21:16:25 tabby syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
>
> The last entry is when I rebooted the system. From another mail message
> I saw the answer to the "...request CHANGE_OWNER...NOT_GRANTED by AUTH"
> message where it hung. (I have to give init, ... and other daemons the
> privleges needed). I did get the expected warning about the read/write root
> in the uniprocessor test.

Some daemons won't work, but the system must come up and be usable without  
AUTH caps. Apart from that, your log looks like it should after RSBAC  
configuration (with all files saved at least once).

> It's looking more and more like a missing lock in the vga console driver...
>
> It looks like my little keyboard test above isn't showing the problem
> quite yet.
>
> I'm going to think about trying a serial console (a temporary link to my
> firewalls unused serial lines...).
>
> That may separate the problem from the vga virtual terminals and the
> console device.

Good. I hope we will get this fixed - I'd like to get 1.0.9b shipped  
soon... ;)

Amon.

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