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-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/2013/hacklu.mdwn4
-rw-r--r--faq/eieio.mdwn22
-rw-r--r--grub.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--hurd/dde/guide.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn31
-rw-r--r--hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn4
-rw-r--r--microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn4
-rw-r--r--microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn137
-rw-r--r--news/2009-10-31.mdwn6
-rw-r--r--news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013.mdwn4
-rw-r--r--open_issues/gcc.mdwn12
11 files changed, 212 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/2013/hacklu.mdwn b/community/gsoc/2013/hacklu.mdwn
index 3a49e4c9..4da3dde9 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/2013/hacklu.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/2013/hacklu.mdwn
@@ -1062,8 +1062,8 @@ In context of [[open_issues/libpthread/t/fix_have_kernel_resources]]:
package for glibc
<youpi> hacklu: which deb-src lines do you have?
<hacklu> and piece of my source_list : deb
- http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased main deb-src
- http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased main
+ http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main deb-src
+ http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main
<youpi> you also need a deb-src line with the main archive
<youpi> deb-src http://cdn.debian.net/debian unstable main
<tschwinge> hacklu: Oh, hmm. And you did run »apt-get update« before?
diff --git a/faq/eieio.mdwn b/faq/eieio.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ddbdb11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/faq/eieio.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag faq/running]]
+
+[[!meta title="EIEIO: 'Computer bought the farm'... Err, what?!"]]
+
+This is the error message for `EIEIO` (pronounce E-I-E-I-O). This error code is
+used for a variety of "hopeless" error conditions. Most probably you will
+encounter it when a translator crashes while you were trying to use a file
+that it serves.
+
+You can thus think of it as an equivalent of the "blue screen of the death" or
+"Oops"... except that it's just an error! It doesn't take your whole system
+away with it, only the particular operations that was going on.
diff --git a/grub.mdwn b/grub.mdwn
index 0f7e968a..d57f6231 100644
--- a/grub.mdwn
+++ b/grub.mdwn
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ supports the multiboot standard, necessary to boot the Hurd.
<anonymuouss> antrik: I wrote the syslinux mailing list this morning, with
details about some simple ways to download "ext2fs.static gnumach.gz
initrd.gz and ld.so.1" from
- http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/ and package them
+ http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/current/ and package them
to boot with the syslinux "mboot.c32" from iso9660. And showed them the
proper kernel and module configuration lines from the netinstall's
"grub.cfg". So I am hoping to get a reponse soon from Peter Alvin or G
diff --git a/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn b/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn
index 132b36ae..dd36f1f5 100644
--- a/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2016 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -43,9 +44,9 @@ Prepare apt offline configuration so we can get necessary packages:
$ cd /mnt/etc/apt
- $ echo "deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased main" >> sources.list # if you don't have sources.list set up yet on the Hurd system
+ $ echo "deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main" >> sources.list # if you don't have sources.list set up yet on the Hurd system
- $ echo "deb-src http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased main" >> sources.list
+ $ echo "deb-src http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main" >> sources.list
$ echo "deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main" >> sources.list
diff --git a/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn
index 14140fdb..71e027d2 100644
--- a/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/debugging/glibc.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 Free Software
Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -35,6 +35,35 @@ There is a list of [[known failures|open_issues/glibc]].
---
+When building the debian glibc, to save yourself a double-compilation, comment
+in debian/sysdeps/hurd-i386.mk the lines about xen. Then to avoid the whole
+testsuite, use:
+
+ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck dpkg-buildpackage
+
+To save even more build, stop the build after configure has run, and then you
+can restart the build of only libc.so and libc.a with:
+
+ cd build-tree/hurd-i386-libc
+ make lib
+
+or of only libc.so with:
+
+ make objdir=$PWD/build-tree/hurd-i386-libc $PWD/build-tree/hurd-i386-libc/libc.so
+
+or of the whole tree with:
+
+ cd build-tree/hurd-i386-libc
+ make
+
+or of just one subdir with for instance:
+
+ make subdir=libpthread -C libpthread ..=../ objdir=$PWD/build-tree/hurd-i386-libc
+
+(note that most subdirs need libc.so built)
+
+---
+
If you've been doing simple changes to glibc functions that end up in
`libc.so`, you may test them like this (like for a `strerror_l` implementation
in this case):
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn
index 1dd8a4db..d1a3ba33 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/patch_submission.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011, 2016 Free Software Foundation,
Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ the specified tags for the current user, and *X-Debbugs-CC* so that the
In the bug description, mention that the package fails to build on hurd-i386
and (if possible) quote the failure. If possible, point to the failing build
-log from <http://buildd.debian-ports.org/build.php> or elsewhere.
+log from <http://buildd.debian.org/> or elsewhere.
Then, explain the failure (Debian maintainers usually do not know much about
Hurd-specific failures), and attach the patch.
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn
index f4ef192a..d800cfc3 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 Free Software
Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ so that no duplicate efforts end up.
* [[Open Issues|tag/open_issue_gnumach]]
+ * [[Mach_5]]
+
* Update the core architecture and drivers
* Check what NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux do with their host specific code
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a4236ea5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2014, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_gnumach]]
+
+# The Mach5 proposal
+
+The Mach IPC mechanism is known to have deficiencies. Some of these
+could be addressed with a new message ABI. A transition to 64-bit
+architectures requires a new ABI definition anyway, so while we are at
+it, we could straighten out some of these problems.
+
+This page is a place to keep track of such changes.
+
+## Protected payloads
+
+Protected payloads are a way of optimizing the receiver object lookup
+in servers. A server may associate a payload with a receive right,
+and any incoming message is tagged with it. The payload is an
+pointer-wide unsigned integer, so the address of the associated server
+side state can be used as payload. This removes the need for a hash
+table lookup.
+
+### Required change to the message format
+
+Add a new field for the payload to the message header.
+
+### Implementation within the bounds of the Mach4 message format
+
+The payload can be provided in the same location as the local port
+using an union. The kernel indicates this using a distinct message
+type. MIG-generated code will detect this, and do the receiver lookup
+using a specialized translation function.
+
+### Status
+
+This change has been implemented in GNU Mach and MIG 1.5.
+
+## Type descriptor rework
+
+A Mach4 message body contains pairs of type descriptors and values.
+Each type descriptor describes the kind and amount of data that
+immediately follows in the message stream. As the kernel has to
+rewrite rights and pointers to out-of-band memory, it has to parse the
+message. As type information and values are interleaved, it has to
+iterate over the whole message.
+
+Furthermore, there are two kinds of type descriptors, mach_msg_type_t
+and mach_msg_type_long_t. The reason for this is that the amount of
+data that can be described using mach_msg_type_t is just 131072 byte.
+This is because msgt_size is an 8-bit value describing the size of one
+element in bits, and msgt_number is an 12-bit value describing the
+number of items.
+
+### Required change to the message format
+
+Group the type descriptors together at the beginning of the message to
+provide an index into the data. Provide the element size in multiple
+of the native word size avoiding the need for long type descriptors.
+
+### Implementation within the bounds of the Mach4 message format
+
+The Mach4 type descriptor contains one unused bit. This bit can be
+used to indicate that this message uses a Mach5 style index. MIG can
+be modified to handle both cases for a smooth transition to the new
+ABI.
+
+### Status
+
+Not started.
+
+## Flexible syscall interface
+
+Currently, the GNU Mach kernel uses trap gates to enter the kernel (on
+i386). We always suspected this mechanism to be slow, but afaik noone
+quantified that.
+
+Tl;dr: sysenter is twice as fast as a trap gate (on my system).
+
+I have a prototype that allows one to enter the kernel using sysenter.
+Here are the numbers:
+
+ start sysenter: mach_print using [trap gate] [sysenter].
+ Running 268435456(1U<<28) times mach_print("")...
+ using trap gate: 45s960000us 171.214342ns 5840632.202 (1/s)
+ using sysenter: 20s600000us 76.740980ns 13030847.379 (1/s)
+ Running 268435456(1U<<28) times mach_msg (NULL, ...)...
+ using glibc stub: 46s050000us 171.549618ns 5829217.286 (1/s)
+ using trap gate: 44s820000us 166.967511ns 5989189.112 (1/s)
+ using sysenter: 20s050000us 74.692070ns 13388302.045 (1/s)
+ exiting.
+
+So using sysenter is roughly 95ns faster. To put this into
+perspective, sending a simple (ie. no ports/external data in body)
+message takes ~950ns on my system. That suggests that merely using
+sysenter improves our IPC performance by ~10%.
+
+### Implementation
+
+One trouble with sysenter/sysexit (or the amd equivalent) isn't
+available on all processors. Linux solves this using the VDSO
+mechanism.
+
+I'd like to implement something similar:
+
+1. There is a platform dependent way to map a special page.
+2. That page contains a function that executes a syscall.
+
+This way we do not hardcode the system call method into the ABI. The
+kernel selects one appropriate for the processor, and we are free to
+change this interface anytime we want.
+
+### Required ABI changes
+
+None. We merely provide another way to call the kernel on existing
+platforms.
+
+On i386, the 'platform dependent way' to get the syscall wrapper is to
+use the current syscall mechanism to map a special device (the
+"syscall" device, or "/dev/syscall" on the Hurd) similar to how the
+mapped time interface works.
+
+### Status
+
+A prototype exists.
+
+### Discussions
+
+* <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2015-05/msg00000.html>
+
diff --git a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn b/news/2009-10-31.mdwn
index db3537d0..5d625470 100644
--- a/news/2009-10-31.mdwn
+++ b/news/2009-10-31.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
[[!cut id="full_news" text="""
> This month Philip Charles created a new [installation
-> CD](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/), the [L
-> series](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/current/README-L1-disc-set),
+> CD](http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/current/), the [L
+> series](http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/L1/README-L1-disc-set),
> for the Hurd, which brings us a big step towards installing the Hurd from the
> Hurd (without the need of a Linux-based installer). If you enjoy testing
> stuff, please give it a try.
diff --git a/news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013.mdwn b/news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013.mdwn
index eda1ef53..70c8a469 100644
--- a/news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013.mdwn
+++ b/news/2013-05-debian_gnu_hurd_2013.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the Debian
official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.
The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
-[Debian Ports](http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/)
+[Debian Ports](http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/current/)
in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, DVD. Besides the friendly
Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try
Debian GNU/Hurd.
diff --git a/open_issues/gcc.mdwn b/open_issues/gcc.mdwn
index 0e0cac1f..f5164e33 100644
--- a/open_issues/gcc.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/gcc.mdwn
@@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ This runs for [[6 h 30 min|performance#measure]] on kepler.SCHWINGE and [[14 h
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main hurd-i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.19-16~3 0
- 500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
+ 500 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
hurd-libs0.3:
Installiert: 1:0.6.git20151012-1
Installationskandidat: 1:0.6.git20151012-1
@@ -2477,7 +2477,7 @@ This runs for [[6 h 30 min|performance#measure]] on kepler.SCHWINGE and [[14 h
*** 2.19-22 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.19-16~3 0
- 500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
+ 500 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
hurd:
Installiert: 1:0.6.git20150704-2
Installationskandidat: 1:0.7.git20160214-2
@@ -2536,7 +2536,7 @@ This runs for [[6 h 30 min|performance#measure]] on kepler.SCHWINGE and [[14 h
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main hurd-i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.19-16~3 500
- 500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
+ 500 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
hurd:
Installiert: 1:0.6.git20150704-2
Installationskandidat: 1:0.7.git20160214-2
@@ -2595,7 +2595,7 @@ This runs for [[6 h 30 min|performance#measure]] on kepler.SCHWINGE and [[14 h
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main hurd-i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.19-16~3 500
- 500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
+ 500 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
hurd:
Installed: 1:0.6.git20150704-2
Candidate: 1:0.7.git20160214-2
@@ -2653,7 +2653,7 @@ This runs for [[6 h 30 min|performance#measure]] on kepler.SCHWINGE and [[14 h
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main hurd-i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.19-16~3 500
- 500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
+ 500 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
hurd:
Installiert: 1:0.7.git20160214-2
Installationskandidat: 1:0.7.git20160214-2
@@ -2714,7 +2714,7 @@ This runs for [[6 h 30 min|performance#measure]] on kepler.SCHWINGE and [[14 h
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main hurd-i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.19-16~3 500
- 500 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
+ 500 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased/main hurd-i386 Packages
hurd:
Installed: 1:0.6.git20150704-2
Candidate: 1:0.7.git20160214-2
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