Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] kernel/crash_core: Add crashkernel=auto for vmcore creation

2021-03-03 Thread john . p . donnelly
On 2/25/21 6:38 PM, Dave Young wrote: On 02/23/21 at 09:41am, Saeed Mirzamohammadi wrote: This adds crashkernel=auto feature to configure reserved memory for vmcore creation. CONFIG_CRASH_AUTO_STR is defined to be set for different kernel distributions and different archs based on their needs.

Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kernel/crash_core: Add crashkernel=auto for vmcore creation

2021-02-22 Thread john . p . donnelly
On 2/17/21 8:02 PM, Baoquan He wrote: On 02/11/21 at 10:08am, Saeed Mirzamohammadi wrote: This adds crashkernel=auto feature to configure reserved memory for vmcore creation. CONFIG_CRASH_AUTO_STR is defined to be set for different kernel distributions and different archs based on their needs.

Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kernel/crash_core: Add crashkernel=auto for vmcore creation

2021-02-17 Thread john . p . donnelly
On 2/11/21 12:08 PM, Saeed Mirzamohammadi wrote: This adds crashkernel=auto feature to configure reserved memory for vmcore creation. CONFIG_CRASH_AUTO_STR is defined to be set for different kernel distributions and different archs based on their needs. Signed-off-by: Saeed Mirzamohammadi Signe

Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/crash_core.c - Add crashkernel=auto for x86 and ARM

2021-01-21 Thread john . p . donnelly
On 11/22/20 9:47 PM, Dave Young wrote: Hi Guilherme, On 11/22/20 at 12:32pm, Guilherme Piccoli wrote: Hi Dave and Kairui, thanks for your responses! OK, if that makes sense to you I'm fine with it. I'd just recommend to test recent kernels in multiple distros with the minimum "range" to see if 6

[PATCH 4.14 v2 ] platform/x86: Corrects warning: missing braces around initializer

2020-10-30 Thread john . p . donnelly
From: John Donnelly The assignment statement of a local variable "struct tp_nvram_state s[2] = {0}; is not valid for all versions of compilers. Fixes: 515ded02bc4b ("platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: initialize tp_nvram_state variable") Signed-off-by: John Donnelly --- drivers/platform/x86/thinkp

[PATCH 4.14 ] platform/x86: Corrects warning: missing braces around initializer

2020-10-30 Thread john . p . donnelly
From: John Donnelly The assignment statement of a local variable "struct tp_nvram_state s[2] = {0}; " is not valid for all versions of compilers (UEK6 on OL7). Fixes: 515ded02bc4b ("platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: initialize tp_nvram_state variable") Signed-off-by: John Donnelly --- drivers/pl

[PATCH 4.14 ] ALSA: Corrects warning: missing braces around initializer

2020-10-30 Thread john . p . donnelly
From: John Donnelly The assignment statement of a local variable "struct hpi_pci pci = { 0 }; " is not valid for all versions of compiler. Fixes: 9c3c9d37ae1e ("ALSA: asihpi: fix iounmap in error handler") Signed-off-by: John Donnelly --- sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2

[PATCH ] scsi: page warning: 'page' may be used uninitialized

2020-09-23 Thread john . p . donnelly
From: John Donnelly corrects: drivers/target/target_core_user.c:688:6: warning: 'page' may be used uninitialized Fixes: 3c58f737231e ("scsi: target: tcmu: Optimize use of flush_dcache_page") To: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: John Donnelly --- drivers/target/targ

[PATCH v4: {linux-4.14.y} ] dm cache: submit writethrough writes in parallel to origin and cache

2020-08-04 Thread john . p . donnelly
From: Mike Snitzer Discontinue issuing writethrough write IO in series to the origin and then cache. Use bio_clone_fast() to create a new origin clone bio that will be mapped to the origin device and then bio_chain() it to the bio that gets remapped to the cache device. The origin clone bio doe