Re: [PATCH] Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means nowadays

2020-12-08 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hello, On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 09:58:32AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 12/8/20 9:54 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:32:43 +0100 > > Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer > > > > Hea

[PATCH] Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means nowadays

2020-12-02 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 2 +- Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 23 +++ tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint | 2 +- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) di

Re: [PATCH] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

2020-11-25 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hey Borislav, On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 11:53:44AM +0100, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 06:50:48PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Please fix the text in Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst also. > > Done. I haven't heard from you

Re: [PATCH] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

2020-11-19 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ly SMP incapable processor but now it also covers CPUs whose MSRs have been incorrectly poked at from userspace, drivers being used on non supported architectures, broken firmware, mismatched CPUs, ... Update documentation and script to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer --- Docu

[PATCH] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

2020-11-18 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:50:27PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:09:29AM +0100, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > > Speaking of doc, looking at the patches you submitted, I didn't see any > > update to the documentation. Would you like me t

Re: [PATCH -v2.1] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

2020-11-18 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
y update to the documentation. Would you like me to create a patch for that? -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer me@mathieu.digital The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. -- William Shakespeare --

Re: [PATCH -v2.1] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

2020-11-18 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
o dust off the driver > > that Len submitted however many years ago and push that into the > > kernel now. > > But ha ok based on Borislav's response it looks like someone's already > done that. Indeed, all is good. Just have to wait for it

Re: [PATCH -v2.1] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

2020-11-18 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
t of spec" - this is what the taint flag is called: > TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC - then this is exactly the case you've created: a > CPU executing outside of specifications. Don't get me wrong, it makes total sense to do that, it's just the original reason of !SMP-capable i

Re: [PATCH -v2.1] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

2020-11-17 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
verage computer can now be classified as something using "an officially SMP incapable processor"... So while both documentation and tools should be updated as to be clearer and to not taint the kernel respectively, there's something that remains to be done t

Re: [Ilw] iwlwifi/iwldvm soft lockup with 3.8.0-rc5 (was: almost unusable on 3.8.0-rc5)

2013-01-30 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel > wrote: >> Please try this one: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=c3e5d7181afb66657393066bccce0956fab09ab3 >&g

Re: [Ilw] iwlwifi/iwldvm soft lockup with 3.8.0-rc5 (was: almost unusable on 3.8.0-rc5)

2013-01-29 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hello Emmanuel, On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote: > Please try this one: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=c3e5d7181afb66657393066bccce0956fab09ab3 > > as you can see, it is in mainline already. Ha, that was fast! I'll check tonig

iwlwifi/iwldvm soft lockup with 3.8.0-rc5 (was: almost unusable on 3.8.0-rc5)

2013-01-28 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
flush all tx fifo queues" are easy to reproduce: I get that by copying file around / downloading and browsing the web. Let me know if I can help in any way (like decoding addresses). Cheers, -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer math...@csetco.com The sun

Re: GPF in read_extent_buffer while scrubbing on 3.7.0-rc8-00014-g27d7c2a

2012-12-14 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hi, Anyone has any idea about what I should try next regarding this bug? On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:21:25PM +0100, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > after enabling page alloc and slub debug, I was able to capture an error > followed by the "usual" GPF. More below. >

Re: GPF in read_extent_buffer while scrubbing on 3.7.0-rc8-00014-g27d7c2a

2012-12-10 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hi again, after enabling page alloc and slub debug, I was able to capture an error followed by the "usual" GPF. More below. On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:34:58PM +0100, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > Using the last couple of kernels (3.6 or 3.7), scrubbing my btrfs fs (wh

[Nouveau] Regression on a NV30 card: garbled output

2012-11-23 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
xB64D: Parsing digital output script table [2.990085] nouveau [ DRM] 0xB73A: Parsing digital output script table Is there anything I could do to help? Verbose output? Cheers, -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer math...@csetco.com The sun itself sees not

Re: Nouveau regression between 3.6 and 3.7-rc3: driver stuck at "running init tables"

2012-10-30 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
hang in > the VBIOS init table parser. Just tested that and it works (TM). So yeah, that fixed it. Thanks. Reported-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer Tested-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer math...@csetco.com The sun itself

Re: Nouveau regression between 3.6 and 3.7-rc3: driver stuck at "running init tables"

2012-10-29 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
sn't seem to output more stuff: http://mathieu.csetco.com/nouveau.jpeg -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer math...@csetco.com The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. -- William Shakespeare -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-10-04 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ng. Correct, x86 it is but as I said it's this stupid auditd thing that breaks the whole process. I'm gonna file a bug against it. Thanks for the help though. -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sun itself sees not till heaven cl

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-10-04 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
top it, all is well... Sorry for the noise. -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. -- William Shakespeare -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-10-04 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:50:00PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 10/04/2007 01:05 PM, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > > In the kernel source tree, if I run a stupid find | xargs ls, I now get > > this: > > xargs: ls: Argument list too long > > > > Can you

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-10-04 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ted. > Also, do you happen to have execve syscall audit stuff enabled? Nope. -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. -- William Shakespeare -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-10-04 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
is smaller than the old > argument size limit of 128kB, you're running with a stack limit of less > than half a meg, which sounds pretty dang small). > > So I'd like to verify that the stack limit really is the issue, and not > something else. Anyth

[BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

2007-10-04 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
e most of > them are pretty trivial, I really couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and > take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing. > [...] -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sun itself sees not till heaven clea

Re: Kernel 2.6.20.4 Unaligned address

2007-04-11 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
--with-cpu=v8 --enable-checking=release sparc-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer The sun itself sees not till heaven clears. -- William Shakespeare -- - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: cifs kernel module and MS DFS shares [2.6.12-1.1411_FC4]

2005-08-08 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ountpoint). So using your example, to see the real content of Consultants, I would have to do this: cd /mnt/dfs/Consultants/Consultants/Consultants or this cd /mnt/dfs/what/ev/Consultants I haven't looked at the source yet so I'm not sure what's going on there... -- Mathieu Chouquet-S

Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2

2005-08-03 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
while the same kernel, same config works fine compiled with 3.2.3... So eventhough 4.0 is supposed to be supported, it doesn't work too well in my case. -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Oops while unmounting a reiserfs partition

2001-06-04 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
11: 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 lea0x0(%edi,1),%edi 3 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything el

Re: Carefull: The Mawanella message has a virus with it. (

2001-05-22 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("BAUDRILLARD ETIENNE") writes: > Carefull: The Mawanella message has a virus with it. (Mawanella.vbs) Because I presume that most of us use Unix, we do not really care... Thanks anyway! -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Le

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
a non ext2 partition? > > > > Well if it's not ext2, fat, ffs, reiserfs or minix, too bad... On what kind > > of partition does your /boot site? > > For the machines I work with > > JFFS > JFFS2 > XFS > Reiserfs > ext2 -- Mathieu CHOUQ

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
tty cool. The only thing is what do you do if > /boot sites ontop of a non ext2 partition? Well if it's not ext2, fat, ffs, reiserfs or minix, too bad... On what kind of partition does your /boot site? -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning Frenc

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
a thousand times better. Did you ever try grub?? This a gnu project, a boot-loader, with an embedded shell... You can read ext2fs and select, your kernel, your root disk, your params, etc... -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning Frenc

Re: ioctl arg passing

2001-04-23 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
le to have the same kind of stuff they have on Windows (like the mp3 encoding computed by the SB Live)?? -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Re: ethernet phy link state info

2001-04-06 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
gt; > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > --

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ike in bogus. The Bogomips don't represent anything but a way to have a good delay mechanism... So you can't compare them between CPUs! -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and e

Re: modules as drivers and the order of loading

2001-01-31 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
approach here. Well you got it right and wrong at the same time: if you want to use modules which are used during the boot process, you have to use an initrd image (which will be loaded before the kernel and stores all your modules). -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: problems with sblive as well as 3com 3c905

2001-01-31 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
he line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL

network problem (not ECN)

2001-01-26 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ttl 64, id 0) 13:51:26.097802 eth0 < zeus.kernel.org.ftp > myname.mydomain.com.47029: R 4266783684:4266783684(0) win 0 (ttl 242, id 19596) 9252 packets received by filter -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-24 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
the network, the kernel has to copy your data to its memory space. It is an overhead and with these patches, the kernel doesn't has to do it. So it is faster. Moreover, few ethernet cards are able to compute the ip checksum so linux doesn't need anymore to do that. -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRI

oops with ac97 sound card

2001-01-24 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2 Before first symbol 12: 83 ec 00 sub$0x0,%esp 45 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything el

Re: Modules not being found with 2.4.0 on a 486 based box

2001-01-23 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
t, other > than my solution). > > Thank you all for your time, and for producing a kernel that is worth > all this work . -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
on of functions and struct members in VC++ is > awfully nice...hit the first few unique letters and it will complete the rest of > the function for you, then hit tab and keep going. Is there anything with that > functionality under Linux? Esc-/ under emacs... -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER

Re: Floppy disk strange behavior

2001-01-09 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ailure. Data that used to > be in the file we were trying to truncate is still there. -EPERM is > arguably wrong here - it's not like the problem was in the lack of > permissions. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Floppy disk strange behavior

2001-01-09 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
.c between 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 but at this time, I didn't find anything... -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan

Re: kernel network problem ?

2001-01-05 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ry for my poor english. > > PS: funny "bug" isn't it ? (hotmail !) > PS2: thanks for all, very good job done, > 2.4 is very fast and seems stable. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > t

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-28 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
in excess > of 3GB/s sustained read I/O (database full table scan) on a 16-quad (32 PCI > bus) system. That works out at around 100MB/s per bus. Sadly, I am sure that your "well-designed" system must be costly as hell... :( -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail

Sound problem with AC97 module

2000-12-19 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ble) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fb00 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else foll

unexpected IO-APIC

2000-12-19 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
ory at faffec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fb00 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheva