RE: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

2006-11-16 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> I don't know of a good version yet. I so far don't know if there ever > was one. This could even be a bug in the PCI hardware, or the way the > BIOS on this system on a board configured the PCI controller. Maybe I > should go back and try a 2.4 kernel. > > > Hope some of that helps :) > > We

RE: [patch 1/1] Hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors (i386)

2005-09-01 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> -Original Message- > From: Ashok Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:27 PM > To: Protasevich, Natalie > Cc: Ashok Raj; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > linux-k

RE: [patch 1/1] Hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors (i386)

2005-09-01 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Hi Natalie, > > sorry for the late catchup... > > Just to make sure we use the cpu maps properly here is the > current definition iam not sure if you are breaking any of > these assumptions, cause if you do you will break existing > implementations... so pardon for the verbosity. > > cpu_p

RE: [Hotplug_sig] [patch 1/1] Hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors (i386)

2005-09-01 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Protasevich, Natalie wrote: > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > > > > + if (cpu_online(cpu)) { > > > > +#else > > > > if (cpu_online(cpu) || !cpu_present(cpu)) { > > > > +#endif > >

RE: [Hotplug_sig] [patch 1/1] Hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors (i386)

2005-09-01 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > > + if (cpu_online(cpu)) { > > +#else > > if (cpu_online(cpu) || !cpu_present(cpu)) { > > +#endif > > ret = -EINVAL; > > goto out; > > } > > Why this change? I think the cpu_present check is needed for > ppc64 since it has non-pr

RE: [patch 1/1] Hot plug CPU to support physical add of newprocessors (i386)

2005-09-01 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Hi, > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 20:13 +0800, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Current IA32 CPU hotplug code doesn't allow bringing up processors > > that were not present in the boot configuration. > > To make existing hot plug facility more practical for physical hot > > plug, possible processors s

RE: Re: [patch 1/1] Hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors (i386)

2005-09-01 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> We should probably also not to try to boot disabled cpus in > smp_boot_cpus()... > > --Mika > Good point, probably by not setting phys_cpu_present_map for those in MP_processor_info()... Thanks, --Natalie > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

RE: [patch 1/1] Hot plug CPU to support physical add of new processors (i386)

2005-09-01 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Hallo Natalie, > > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14:13, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Current IA32 CPU hotplug code doesn't allow bringing up processors > > that were not present in the boot configuration. To make > existing hot > > plug facility more practical for physical hot plug, possible

RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-14 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:22 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:05:50AM -0700, James Cleverdon wrote: > > > diff -pruN 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c > > > n12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c --- > > > 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c 2005-07-15 > 14:18:57.00

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2005-08-14 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:22 am, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:05:50AM -0700, James Cleverdon wrote: > > > diff -pruN 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c > > > n12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c --- > > > 2.6.12.3/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c 2005-07-15 > 14:18:57.00

RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-11 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Protasevich, Natalie wrote: > > > our systems we are just about to use up all 224 interrupts, but not > > quiet. > > I have to mention that as far as I know Zwane is about to > release his > > vector sharing mechanism, he had it im

RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-11 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> After sleeping on it, maybe the original code can be patched > without having to hack assign_irq_vector(), etc. How about: > > --- io_apic.c 2005-08-11 10:14:33.564748923 -0700 > +++ io_apic.c.new 2005-08-11 10:15:55.412331115 -0700 > @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ int gsi_irq_sharing(int gsi) >

RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-11 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> > The only problem is here: > > > > + if (i < NR_IRQS) { > > + gsi_2_irq[gsi] = i; > > + printk(KERN_INFO "GSI %d sharing vector 0x%02X and IRQ > > %d\n", > > + gsi, vector, i); > > + return i; > > + } > > + > > + i = next_irq++; > > >

RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-10 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> > int gsi_irq_sharing(int gsi) > > { > > int i, irq, vector; > > > > BUG_ON(gsi >= NR_IRQ_VECTORS); > > > > if (platform_legacy_irq(gsi)) { > > gsi_2_irq[gsi] = gsi; > > return gsi; > > } > > > > if (gsi_2_irq[gsi] != 0xFF) >

RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-10 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Due to some device driver issues, I built this iteration of > the patch vs. 2.6.12.3. > > (Sorry about the attachment, but KMail is still word wrapping inserted > files.) > > Background: > > Here's a patch that builds on Natalie Protasevich's IRQ > compression patch and tries to work for MPS

RE: VIA KT400 + Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = IRQ trouble

2005-07-25 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> > Le Lundi 25 Juillet 2005 22:44, Alan Stern a écrit : > > > > > > Now that's strange.  When you plug the high-speed device into the > > > integrated ports, which IRQ counter changes?  Since > nothing is using > > > IRQ 21, it should be disabled and its counter should remain > > > constant.

RE: Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-12 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> > Now that we know which is the offending device, it should > be easy to > > find out why the IRQ assignments go wrong. That certainly > needs to be > > fixed, even though Michel's problem appears to be solved. > > Well, it's solved by currently giving me the choice between > no USB 2.0 an

RE: Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-12 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> > On the other hand, _something_ was generating an interrupt request > > that got mapped to IRQ 21 by the hardware.  And these > requests do seem > > to be associated with USB activity.  Maybe the EHCI > controller is responsible? > > One of your postings showed both uhci_hcd:usb2 and ehci_hc

RE: [NOT solved] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> >Michel, > >When you get chance, maybe you could boot the OS that used to work for you (you mentioned 2.4) and provide the boot trace and /proc/interrupts for comparison. > # cat /proc/interrupts - 2.4: >CPU0 > 0: 32095IO-APIC-edge timer > 1:968IO-APIC-edge

RE: [NOT solved] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Le Lundi 11 Juillet 2005 22:58, Michel Bouissou a écrit : > > > > Oh no :-( > > Well, I give up for tonight :-( > > This time I rebooted with the mouse disabled in BIOS, with > the usb-handoff option, with the scanner unplugged... And it > went wrong simply by itself. > "irq 21: nobody cared

RE: [SOLVED ??] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Le Lundi 11 Juillet 2005 20:36, Alan Stern a écrit : > > It's also possible that the UHCI controllers are generating the > > unwanted interrupt requests.  You should make sure that Legacy USB > > Support is turned off in your BIOS settings. > > My motherboard both holds USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 con

RE: Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-10 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Michel Bouissou > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 2:11 AM > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble > > Hi

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2005-07-10 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Hi there, > > I use a Gigabyte GA7-VAXP motherboard that has been fine for > more than 2 years with 2.4 series kernels, and that gives > trouble with 2.6.12 (and previous) kernels. > > The problem seems to sit between the UP IO-APIC and USB > uhci_hcd driver. > > The GA7-VAXP MB is equipped

RE: PROBLEM: "drive appears confused" and "irq 18: nobody cared!"

2005-07-06 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Hm, I did not get any answer to my last report last week. > Didn't you get it? > > There are still the same errors in kernel 2.6.13rc2 as in > 2.6.13rc1. So I've attached an up to date syslog and the last > error report below. > Hi Alexander, To me, it looks like both IDE channels get wrong

RE: IRQ routing problem

2005-07-04 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> I've been having interrupt problems. 2.6.12 worked fine, but > soon after it got broken and was still broken just now that I > checked git version. > > Interrupts get somehow misrouted. > > Here is a part from the syslog showing the problem: > > Jul 3 13:17:09 kohtala kernel: USB Universal

RE: [PATCH 1/6]sep initializing rework

2005-04-12 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
triggers sysfs node for this processor. Thanks, --Natalie -Original Message- From: Zwane Mwaikambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:08 AM To: Li Shaohua Cc: lkml; ACPI-DEV; Len Brown; Pavel Machek; Andrew Morton; Protasevich, Natalie; Ryan Harper Subject: Re: [PATCH

RE: [Hotplug_sig] RE: [PATCH 1/6]sep initializing rework

2005-04-12 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> I forgot to mention that while working on the patch, > I found a problem with ACPI driver while counting number of records > in acpi_table_parse_madt_family() (drivers/acpi/tables.c). > It always returns 0 for the number of records, so this should be > fixed for my patch to work properly, si

RE: [Hotplug_sig] RE: [PATCH 1/6]sep initializing rework

2005-04-12 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
.6.11.6-mm/init/main.c linux-2.6.11.6-HC/init/main.c --- linux-2.6.11.6-mm/init/main.c 2005-04-06 23:08:21.0 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.11.6-HC/init/main.c 2005-04-12 08:46:54.0 -0400 @@ -684,7 +684,9 @@ static int init(void * unused) * we're essentially up and running