Re: kmsgdump not SMP-safe ?

From: Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 04:28:48 EST


Willy Tarreau <willy@novworld.Novecom.Fr> writes:

> Ok, I've tested your simple program and it hanged my notebook :-(
>
> kmsgdump really has problems. I know most of them come from the
> rewriting of page0, but I could change some very little things
> which now let it work on at least 10 PC I've tested it on (6 K6,
> 2 PPros, 1 Pentium and 1 486). On the 6 k6, there are 4 Aladdin
> chipsets, others unknown).
>
> Please try the attached patch and tell me if it's better.
> If this is the case, then I'll release the 0.4.2 to correct
> this, waiting for the 0.5.0 to be ready.

It seems to work fine.

I managed to get the manual mode work from the console. It crashes
under X though (starts beeping forever...)

However, the automatic works under X, so I'm a happy camper...

Phil.

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