Re: [Devil-linux-develop] variable HZ patch for 2.4 kernels & more

[Jaroslav K. <pe...@pe...>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Heiko Zuerker wrote:

> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > 	I'm missing the variable HZ patch in current devil 2.4 kernel.
> > The attached set of patches adds these two options:
> > 
> > CONFIG_HZ - HZ value for 2.4 kernels
> > CONFIG_PSCHED_CLOCK_SOURCE - clock source for packet schedulers
> > 
> > The later option will allow to configure more better accuracy for the
> > packet schedulers (like HTB etc.) for 686 based machines (and maybe for
> > other machines using PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY option, but it might get some CPU
> > power, because gettimeofday() function is slow). This option is valid for
> > 2.6 kernels, too.
> > 
> > Step-by-step applying of this change:
> > 
> > 1) get vhz+jiffies64 patch from rml
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/variable-HZ/v2.4/vhz-j64-2.4.23.patch
> > 
> > 2) add this patch to kernel-patches-2.4.tar.bz2:
> > 
> > root:/build/src# tar tjf kernel-patches-2.4.tar.bz2
> > kernel-patches-2.4/
> > kernel-patches-2.4/cflags_extra.diff
> > kernel-patches-2.4/imq-2.4.22-through-to-2.4.25-pre6.diff
> > kernel-patches-2.4/linux-2.4.25-i2c-2.8.4.patch
> > kernel-patches-2.4/netfilter-imq-patch-2.4.21.diff
> > kernel-patches-2.4/vhz-j64-2.4.23.patch
> > 
> > 3) copy grsecurity-kernel-vhz?.patch attachments to /build/src directory
> > 4) apply the devil-vhz.patch in /build directory with -p0
> 
> Where did you get the patches for grsecurity ?

I've fixed the compilation problems. They are pretty straightforward for 
someone who works with kernel sources daily (I'm leader of the ALSA 
project).

> I'm concerned about the availability of updated patches once newer grsec 
> updates are available.

I can maintain it. You can remove unmaintained code at any time.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <pe...@pe...>