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To: 9front@9front.org
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:56:39 +0100
From: kvik@a-b.xyz
Subject: Re: [9front] transient dns errors cause smtp failure
Reply-To: 9front@9front.org
I think I found a reason for DNS failing on known good domains.
/sys/src/cmd/ndb/dns.h:156,157
/* tune; was 60*1000; keep it short */
Maxreqtm= 8*1000, /* max. ms to process a request */
So, 8 seconds is how much the resolver will bother with a request it
has been handed, before dropping it on the floor with little
explanation.
It seems quite possible that this is too short a timeout on a machine
during a spam queue run, which predictably stresses the compute and
network resources.
In turn, negative response caching might explain why a particular
unlucky domain would basically stop receiveing any mail for a while.
I'm dying to know if bumping this limit would clear up the queue of
such DNS errors.
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[narrator: it did.]
* Add the %ll length modifier,
* Convert nil to "<nil>" under %s (not in APE),
* Cast void* to uintptr under %p,
* Use "0x" hex prefix under %p,
* Fix manual page mentions of %P to %p,
* Fix empty result for fp conversions,
* Fix zero padding of left-aligned fp conversions,
* Remove deprecated #pragma ref uses.
Most of these were introduced in APE prior to 9front.
I've omitted the %z conversion specifier since Plan 9 code
rarely uses the usize type. This may need to be added later
for the benefit of native ports of alien code.
I'm not sure if this LFSR is the same one used by the hardware or is
arbitrary, but it matches the noise sequence used by all other snes
emulators I looked at.
s1 and s2 should store the last and next to last output, but were set
in the wrong order, causing them both to be the last output. This
breaks filters 2 and 3, which both utilize s2.
despite the kernel never doing any efi runtime service calls,
overriding the runtime service regions makes some machines
lock up. so consider them reserved.
the boot service regions should also, in theory, be usable
by the os, but linux says otherwise...
fseeko returns 0 on success, not the new stream position.
This allows flacenc to update the streaminfo block when it is finished
(for example to set the number of samples and checksum).
There may be two iso endpoints with the same ID if it is asynchronous
or adaptive (one for data, one for feedback), and rw iso endpoints are
unusable (error out with "iso i/o is half-duplex").
There may be two iso endpoints with the same ID if it is asynchronous
or adaptive (one for data, one for feedback), and rw iso endpoints are
unusable (error out with "iso i/o is half-duplex").
The value of `k` in dtoa() is an estimate of
floor(log10(d)), where `d` is the number being
converted. The code was asserting that 'k' was
less than 100, but the full range of a double
goes to 10^308 or so.
This means that the majority of the range of
a double would trigger that assert.
validateattachment has no business with the mime boundary; it is not
part of the attachment itself.
Also, it causes the boundary to be dropped in the message output from
upas/vf, effectively dropping the following attachment (though the
content is still present after the last boundary of the wrapped first
attachment part).
Consider the following sequence of events:
1. upas/vf is run on a message containing two attachments.
2. The first attachment does not have a known extension, so is saved
to a temporary file *including* the following mime boundary.
3. This file is opened as p->tmpbuf, which is used for subsequent
reads until switching back to stdin.
4. The attachment fails validateattachment, so upas/vf wraps it in a
multipart with a warning message.
5. problemchild() calls passbody(p, 0), which copies from p->tmpbuf
until it hits the outer boundary line, which it excludes, seeks
back one line, then returns the outer multipart.
6. problemchild() then writes its own boundary, and then copies one
line from *stdin* to stdout, expecting the outer boundary.
However, this boundary was already read from stdin in 2, so it ends
up reading the first line of the subsequent part instead.
To fix this, pass 0 to passbody() in save() to exclude it from the
attachment file and make it available in stdin when expected.
Reading nested subparts of messages into the root
message array allows deeply nested multipart trees
of messages to show correctly in the message view.
H-blank DMA should only transfer 16 bytes per h-blank, rather than
waiting for the first h-blank and then transferring the whole size.
HDMAC should read 0xff when the transfer is finished, and 0 in the
high bit when the transfer is ongoing. Also, if 0 is written in the
high bit, the current transfer should be aborted.
Introduce two flags, DMAREADY and DMAHBLANK rather than special
constants 1 and -1. If dma is non-zero, there is an ongoing DMA. If
DMAREADY is set, the next chunk is ready to transfer.
Reference: https://gbdev.io/pandocs/#ff55-hdma5-cgb-mode-only-new-dma-length-mode-start
Tested with pokemon crystal.
What was happening is that when the game was loading N background tiles
into vram (each 16 bytes, so one per h-blank), it did something like
this:
- start an hdma transfer for N+1 tiles
- after the Nth tile is transferred, it would read HDMA5, clear the
high bit, then write it back to abort the transfer.
games/gb would instead transfer all N+1 tiles at once, overwriting one
extra tile with whatever was 1 past the end of the source array, and
then would interpret the cancel request as the start of a new transfer
of 16 bytes, which would copy an additional tile past the end. The end
result is that every transfer would end up copying N+2 tiles instead
of just N, overwriting certain tiles with whatever was after the end
of the source data.
According to [0], input clock 0 should divide by 1024=2¹⁰, not 2¹².
This caused audio to run at quarter-speed in one game I tried.
[0] https://gbdev.io/pandocs/#ff07-tac-timer-control-r-w
Tested with zelda: oracle of seasons, and dr. mario
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upas/vf was converted to use tmdate, but the formatter was never
installed. This caused it to send attachments to validateattachment
with header `From virusfilter %τ%`, which always failed since upas/fs
would just skip over the message.
On the pi400, the xhci reset firmware mailbox request
assumes that the pci windows match the ones specified
in the device tree. The inbound window (pcidmawin)
also varies now depending on the amount of memory
installed.
It is all pretty ridiculous, as the firmware could as
well just read the pci controllers hardware register
to determine the window configuration and the os could
keep a nice simple 1:1 mapping (with pci dma addresses
== physical addresses).
The old parser code was rubbish and only worked for trivial
expressions. The new code properly handles complex expressions,
including short circuit evaluation.
As such, the BUGS section has been removed from the test(1) man page.
The description of an unimplemented feature has also been removed.
Despite pervious efforts, mk clean still doesn't remove libcommon.a*
files from cmd/upas/common/. To fix this, let's tell cmd/mklib to do
the job instead.
Runq spawns a number of processes, and wait()s for them
in 2 different places. Because of the way that the exit
handling is done, the wait can get the wrong message.
It turns out that only one place in the code needs to
wait for the child, and in all other cases, it's just
muddling the problem.
This change adds the RFNOWAIT call to all the processes
we don't need to wait for, so that the places that do
need wait will always get the correct child.
Screenlock should use libdraw(2) to init the display
and create the window, instead of looking at the screen
file directly. Also, to prevent new windows from popping
up over screenlock, bring it to the top periodically.
on arm32, we can do one of 4 shifts
by a constant:
reg<<(0..31)
reg>>(1..32)
((u32int)reg)>>(1..32)
reg ROT (0..31)
There's no way to encode a 0 bit right
shift, so when encoding reg>>0, flip
it to the equivalent nop reg<<0, which
can be encoded.
This prevents an incorrect warning for a comparison such as `0 < x`,
where x is an unsigned type. Previously, this would get normalized as
`x >= 0` rather than `x > 0` when checking the comparison.
With ntlm auth, we were trying to set 0 bytes of
the auth struct to its size. The args were clearly
swapped. Fix it.
While we're here, remove some dead code.
When running a mail queue, it's useful to run it with limited
parallelism. This helps mailing lists process messages in a
reasonable time.
At the same time, we can remove the load balancing from runq,
since the kinds of systems that this matters on no longer
exist, and running multiple queues at once can be better
done through xargs.
Querying battery (or temperature) using ACPI takes quite some
resources, which makes the battery discharge faster. It doesn't make
much sense to have it queried as often either. So, when using ACPI:
1) set battery query period to 10s minimum
2) set temperature query period to 5s minimum
When _startbuf is invoked, it would crash on the second invocation
if creating a mux segment failed. This is because the first attempt
would assign the return value -1 to the global mux variable, and
the second attempt would notice that the global mux was not nil,
and would attempt to use it.
This change only assigns to the global variable if the allocation
of the segment was a success.
While we're here, we should also check the return of the rfork call.
When invoking with dd with an invalid size suffix, we
silently accept the suffix. This can lead to confusion,
because lines like:
dd -bs 1K
dd -bs 1m
will silently copy in 1-byte increments. This has caught
people by surprise. While we're at it, megabytes are
convenient, so let's have them too.
Passwd used to produce a very confusing error
about DES not being enabled whenever the password
was mistyped. This happened because we attempted
to guess what authentication method to use, and
preseneted the error from the wrong one on failure.
This puts the legacy mode behind a flag, so that
we don't even try the old method unless it's
explicitly requested.
This adds the new function pointer PCArch.clockinit(),
which is a timer dependent initialization routine.
It also takes over the job of guesscpuhz(). This way, the
architecture ident code can switch between different
timers (i8253, HPET and XEN timer).
Revert the change, as it causes system lockups on bootup
on some systems with USB OHCI controllers, suspected to be
caused by BIOS/SMM accessing the device as BIOS handover
has not been executed yet.
We might bring that back when the problem has is better
understood.
when loading large binaries such as netsurf, with many
symbols, our hash table fills up with collisions and
loading the symbol table gets very slow. Bumping it up
drops the time to lstk() in acid on netsurf from 4 minutes
to 8 seconds.
Call exits(0) instead of returning from main. Also call sysfatal if
writing of image data fails. Previously, qr(1) would exit with
default non-nil status "main" unconditionally as a result of returning
from main.
/$objtype/include/ape/math.h contained an almost
identical copy of math.h for each architecture.
The only difference between them architectures
was that some had an incorrect version of isinf
defined.
This change picks one of the versions of math.h
with a correct definition, moves it to /sys/include,
and removes the redundant versions.
Tilting allows using left/right rotated or invetrted display orientation.
This can be changed at runtime such as: echo tilt right > /dev/vgactl
This removes the old panning and vga overlays as they are only implemented
with some ancient vga controllers.
The idea is to avoid the magic files that contain
per process information in devcons when possible.
It will make it easier to deprecate them in the future.
Previously, mmurelease() was always called with
palloc spinlock held.
This is unneccesary for some mmurelease()
implementations as they wont release pages
to the palloc pool.
This change removes pagechainhead() and
pagechaindone() and replaces them with just
freepages() call, which aquires the palloc
lock internally as needed.
freepages() avoids holding the palloc lock
while walking the linked list of pages,
avoding some lock contention.
On 12/18/20, Jacob Moody wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently ran in to some issues with pointing an unbound server towards a
> 9front dns server as its upstream.
> The parsing seemed to fail when ndb/dns received a DNSKEY RR from it's own
> upstream source on behalf of unbound.
> This patch catches and stores the DNSKEY from the upstream server to prevent
> this.
we might as well handle the per process cycle
counter in the portable part instead of duplicating the code
in every arch and have inconsistent implementations.
we now have a portable kenter() and kexit() function,
that is ment to be used in trap/syscall from user,
which updates the counters.
some kernels missed initializing Mach.cyclefreq.
Provide a central function to change the user id
of the calling process.
This is mostly used by programs to become the none
user, followed by a call to newns().
vt sets several environment variables ($TERM, $COLS, $LINES)
after exiting. This change rforks the environment so that this
detritus doesn't get left behind.
