2.6.21-ragnarok1: "Dripping Venom"

[yngwin]

I'm sharing this patchset here, though major kudos go to vipernicus, predatorfreak, Waninkoko, as well as the devs from Gentoo Linux and Arch Linux, who are all sources and maintainers of various patches that I have included here. I've also added a few extra things from -mm, as well as the -git2 update from Linus.

The major reason I made this patchset is that I wanted the stable Reiser4 patch from 2.6.20-viper4, combined with SD and some other updates, in a fresh 2.6.21(.1) kernel. Please test and let let me know how things work.

Included patches are:

[kernelOfTruth]

you obviously don't have an exec-shield patch included, I'm going to test the plain patchset & see if the problems were caused by exec-shield (which is included in several patch-sets)

*fingers crossed*

update:

ok, I do not know if those problems were caused by exec-shield, but I'm running your kernel right now on a reiser4 partition with cryptcompress + lzo1 & it seems to be rocksolid, no corruptions during kernel-compile & nvidia-drivers emerge until now so far ...
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[darklegion]

[kernelOfTruth]

ok, thanks for clearing that,

so it must be some other variable, at least it's working now, so perhaps something's wrong with the default 'plugin', cryptcompress seems to work fine, let's see if it still works after some days of heavy compiling & everyday work
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Hardcore Gentoo Linux user since 2004

[yngwin]

[Pse]

kernelOfTruth, what R4 patch are you using? Are you using reiser4progs-1.0.6 from portage too? I'd like to give cryptcompress a ride.

[_sys/sid]

Here works without problem

[kernelOfTruth]

[_pF_]

Do we yet know that the Reiser4 developers' code - or the kernel patches - really cause this zero-bytes problem?

Until the viper7 kernel I had no problems with the chilling occurrence of zero-byte files such as the gcc executable: one minute it's a real file; the next gcc is a bunch of zeroes. It's such an extraordinary bug.

After upgrading to the unstable udev the problems vanished; though I am not confident that this is the cure.

Until the Reiser4 developers enlighten us, I remain cautious.

[kernelOfTruth]

[eiffel]

on my amd64 system...
Pikachu linux # make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.s
GEN include/asm-x86_64/asm-offsets.h
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
HOSTCC scripts/pnmtologo
HOSTCC scripts/bin2c
CC init/main.o
CHK include/linux/compile.h
dnsdomainname: Unknown host
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
CC init/do_mounts.o
CC init/do_mounts_rd.o
LD init/mounts.o
CC init/noinitramfs.o
CC init/calibrate.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD usr/built-in.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/process.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.o
AS arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/time.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/ioport.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/ldt.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/sys_x86_64.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/x8664_ksyms.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/i387.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/syscall.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/alternative.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/bootflag.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpuid.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/i8237.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/msr.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/pcspeaker.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/quirks.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/topology.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/bootflag.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/quirks.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/i8237.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-dma.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/alternative.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/hpet.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/tsc.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/therm_throt.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_intel.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/state.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/../../i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/built-in.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/../../../i386/kernel/acpi/boot.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/../../../i386/kernel/acpi/processor.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/../../../i386/kernel/acpi/cstate.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/boot.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/sleep.o
AS arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/wakeup.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/processor.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/built-in.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/../../../i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/../../../i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/powernow-k8.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/built-in.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/msr.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/cpuid.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/mpparse.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_cluster.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend.o
AS arch/x86_64/kernel/suspend_asm.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/pmtimer.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/k8.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/module.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.o
arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c: In function 'intel_bugs':
arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c:76: warning: unused variable 'device'
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/topology.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/intel_cacheinfo.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/pcspeaker.o
LD arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o
AS arch/x86_64/kernel/head.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.o
CC arch/x86_64/kernel/init_task.o
LDS arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds
CC arch/x86_64/mm/init.o
CC arch/x86_64/mm/fault.o
CC arch/x86_64/mm/ioremap.o
CC arch/x86_64/mm/extable.o
CC arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.o
CC arch/x86_64/mm/mmap.o
CC arch/x86_64/mm/../../i386/mm/hugetlbpage.o
LD arch/x86_64/mm/hugetlbpage.o
LD arch/x86_64/mm/built-in.o
LD arch/x86_64/crypto/built-in.o
AS arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_signal.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/tls32.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/fpu32.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.o
AS arch/x86_64/ia32/vsyscall-sysenter.o
SYSCALL arch/x86_64/ia32/vsyscall-sysenter.so
AS arch/x86_64/ia32/vsyscall-syscall.o
SYSCALL arch/x86_64/ia32/vsyscall-syscall.so
AS arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32_syscall.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/mmap32.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/ipc32.o
CC arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_aout.o
LD arch/x86_64/ia32/built-in.o
CC kernel/sched.o
CC kernel/fork.o
CC kernel/exec_domain.o
CC kernel/panic.o
CC kernel/printk.o
CC kernel/profile.o
CC kernel/exit.o
CC kernel/itimer.o
CC kernel/time.o
CC kernel/softirq.o
CC kernel/resource.o
CC kernel/sysctl.o
CC kernel/capability.o
CC kernel/ptrace.o
CC kernel/timer.o
CC kernel/user.o
CC kernel/signal.o
CC kernel/sys.o
CC kernel/kmod.o
CC kernel/workqueue.o
CC kernel/pid.o
CC kernel/extable.o
CC kernel/params.o
CC kernel/posix-timers.o
CC kernel/kthread.o
CC kernel/wait.o
CC kernel/kfifo.o
CC kernel/sys_ni.o
CC kernel/posix-cpu-timers.o
CC kernel/mutex.o
CC kernel/hrtimer.o
CC kernel/rwsem.o
CC kernel/latency.o
CC kernel/nsproxy.o
CC kernel/rcupdate.o
CC kernel/srcu.o
CC kernel/irq/handle.o
CC kernel/irq/manage.o
CC kernel/irq/spurious.o
CC kernel/irq/resend.o
CC kernel/irq/chip.o
CC kernel/irq/devres.o
CC kernel/irq/autoprobe.o
CC kernel/irq/proc.o
LD kernel/irq/built-in.o
CC kernel/power/main.o
CC kernel/power/process.o
CC kernel/power/console.o
CC kernel/power/pm.o
kernel/power/pm.c:205: warning: 'pm_register' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/pm.c:64)
kernel/power/pm.c:205: warning: 'pm_register' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/pm.c:64)
kernel/power/pm.c:206: warning: 'pm_send_all' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/pm.c:180)
kernel/power/pm.c:206: warning: 'pm_send_all' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/pm.c:180)
CC kernel/power/snapshot.o
CC kernel/power/suspend_builtin.o
CC kernel/power/modules.o
CC kernel/power/sysfs.o
CC kernel/power/suspend.o
CC kernel/power/io.o
CC kernel/power/pagedir.o
CC kernel/power/prepare_image.o
CC kernel/power/extent.o
CC kernel/power/pageflags.o
CC kernel/power/ui.o
kernel/power/ui.c: In function 'suspend_early_boot_message':
kernel/power/ui.c:80: warning: unused variable 'orig_loglevel'
kernel/power/ui.c:79: warning: unused variable 'continue_req'
kernel/power/ui.c:79: warning: unused variable 'orig_state'
CC kernel/power/power_off.o
CC kernel/power/atomic_copy.o
CC kernel/power/storage.o
CC kernel/power/netlink.o
kernel/power/netlink.c: In function 'netlink_prepare':
kernel/power/netlink.c:281: warning: passing argument 4 of 'netlink_kernel_create' from incompatible pointer type
kernel/power/netlink.c:281: error: too few arguments to function 'netlink_kernel_create'
make[2]: *** [kernel/power/netlink.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kernel/power] Error 2
make: *** [kernel] Error 2
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AMD Turion 64 ML-28, 768MB RAM, 40GB HDD, ATI x200, WiFi Atheros IEEE802.11a/b/g - Gentoo 2006.1 amd64
screenshot update 11.1.2007

[Pse]

[vipernicus]

[Pse]

[predatorfreak]

[Pse]

[predatorfreak]

[yngwin]

I can't seem to compile vmware-modules with this kernel:

[vipernicus]

[yngwin]

[kernelOfTruth]

[yngwin]

I've been experimenting a bit, and I'm thinking it's the git patch which causes trouble. I'll try something else still, then maybe make a non-git release.

Update: with a 2.6.21.1 based kernel (instead of -git2 or -git3) I can compile vmware-modules, but as soon as I start up vmware-player it hardlocks my system. So that's not very helpful...

Update2: apparently the problem was a faulty vmware-image, and so I can present you -ragnarok2
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