On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:45:22PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2008, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > unfulfilling. Patrick McGoohan always maintains there's more to it
> > than that. He refuses, however, to be drawn on the subject. Which,
> > in itself is just as weird. :-)
>
> No, it's not. As Joe Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5 has often
> said, to suggest is to create, to define is to destroy.
>
> Many people who create something they've worked hard on do not want to
> talk about the creative process or to tell people what was intended.
> To do so limits the interpretations and leads people to think that

Especially if its the media asking.

> If someone jumped out of a time portal today and said, "I've been
> hopping around in time and know why La Giaconda is smiling," it would
> limit the interest in the painting.

It certainly would for there shalt be far more important questions to
ask him, under torture if necessary, and some serious analysis of that
dar "time portal".

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:14:00 +1200
Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:

Hello Chris,

> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:51:07PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > The Prisoner - Patrick McGoohan.
> Congratulations.
> 10pts

Cheers, Chris.

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On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:40:30 -0500 Jonathan <echidnaman@gmail.com> wrote:
>Ok, the patches got sent to me but weren't posted to the list because the
>email was rejected. I'm forwarding this now so that the patches can be
made
>available to those on the list.

I'm planning on doing the 4.1 update and rolling the KDE piece in to the
4.1.4 sru we aleady have pending. I'm wating to see the new kdebluetooth
in Jaunty and then I'll update the intrepid one based on that.

Scott K

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While this fix is only related to Xen, the story may be interesting/good to know
generally.

-Stefan

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [stable] [heukelum@fastmail.fm: [tip:x86/asm] x86, binutils, xen: Fix
another wrong size directive]
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:57:37 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: stable kernel team <stable@kernel.org>


hi,

Please apply the commit below to -stable: new binutils broke the kernel build
back to and including v2.6.27.

Thanks!

Ingo

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:04:00 GMT
From: tip-bot for Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, heukelum@fastmail.fm,
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Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive

Commit-ID: 371c394af27ab7d1e58a66bc19d9f1f3ac1f67b4
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/371c394af27ab7d1e58a66bc19d9f1f3ac1f67b4
Author: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
AuthorDate: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:59:38 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:02:29 +0100

x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive

The latest binutils (2.21.0.20110302/Ubuntu) breaks the build
yet another time, under CONFIG_XEN=y due to a .size directive that
refers to a slightly differently named (hence, to the now very
strict and unforgiving assembler, non-existent) symbol.

[ mingo:

This unnecessary build breakage caused by new binutils
version 2.21 gets escallated back several kernel releases spanning
several years of Linux history, affecting over 130,000 upstream
kernel commits (!), on CONFIG_XEN=y 64-bit kernels (i.e. essentially
affecting all major Linux distro kernel configs).

Git annotate tells us that this slight debug symbol code mismatch
bug has been introduced in 2008 in commit 3d75e1b8:

3d75e1b8 (Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2008-07-08 15:06:49 -0700 1231)
ENTRY(xen_do_hypervisor_callback) # do_hypervisor_callback(struct *pt_regs)

The 'bug' is just a slight assymetry in ENTRY()/END()
debug-symbols sequences, with lots of assembly code between the
ENTRY() and the END():

ENTRY(xen_do_hypervisor_callback) # do_hypervisor_callback(struct *pt_regs)
...
END(do_hypervisor_callback)

Human reviewers almost never catch such small mismatches, and binutils
never even warned about it either.

This new binutils version thus breaks the Xen build on all upstream kernels
since v2.6.27, out of the blue.

This makes a straightforward Git bisection of all 64-bit Xen-enabled kernels
impossible on such binutils, for a bisection window of over hundred
thousand historic commits. (!)

This is a major fail on the side of binutils and binutils needs to turn
this show-stopper build failure into a warning ASAP. ]

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1299877178-26063-1-git-send-email-heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index aed1ffb..bbd5c80 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_do_hypervisor_callback) #
do_hypervisor_callback(struct *pt_regs)
decl PER_CPU_VAR(irq_count)
jmp error_exit
CFI_ENDPROC
-END(do_hypervisor_callback)
+END(xen_do_hypervisor_callback)

/*
* Hypervisor uses this for application faults while it executes.

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