Re: 2.4.7pre8aa1

[Jeff Dike]

[e-mail] said:
> I should have said "compiles" fine (not "works" fine :). 

2.4.6 "works" fine :-)

I just finished fixing 2.4.7.  My fixes are similar to yours (I moved 
stext rather than moving .data.init).

> __initdata is broken in uml and the kernel deadlocks because the wait
> list is empty in complete() despite wait_for_completion actually
> registered correctly into it. This because wait_for_completion runs in
> a different address space than complete() and the virtual memory is
> not shared across the two address spaces (it is not rempped in a
> MAP_SHARED so it generates a cow). The registration is basically only
> private to the entity that is registrating and it will never get
> visible to the waker task that will do nothing. This is a severe bug
> not just for the completion code in 2.4.7.

Nice debugging, btw.  I spent an hour this morning chasing that problem.

My 2.4.7 patch is available from the usual places:

       http://ftp.nl.linux.org/pub/uml/uml-patch-2.4.7-1.bz2
       http://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/uml/uml-patch-2.4.7-1.bz2
       http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/user-mode-linux/uml-patch-2.4.7-1.bz2

				Jeff