Re: Lemote Yeeloong observations

In article <[email protected]>,
John D. Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 11 May 2012 16:59:52 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
>(Christos Zoulas) wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>, Christos Zoulas
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>The issue is that the ioctls are not being translated.
>>>
>> 
>> Does this patch fix the problem for you?
>
>[snip]
>
>I saw the equivalent come through source-changes@.  Updating and building
>again, this problem appears to be solved.
>
>A similar problem appears to be affecting 'amd'.  It spews out a series
>of "Invalid argument" complaints for each automount point when starting
>up.  I'll try to get details soon-ish (travelling soon).
>
>There remains the problem of 'sshd' attempting to operate on a file
>descriptor after it has already been closed.

Yes, it seems that some 32 bit translations are maybe wrong. Perhaps
I should try to run a 32 bit userland with a 64 bit kernel on amd64
and see how that goes :-)

But providing kdump snippets of the failed syscalls can show us where
the problems lie.

christos