Re: [RFC 1/3] rcu: Expedite the rcu quiescent state reporting if help needed

2019-07-02 Thread Joel Fernandes
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 08:47:30PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 12:04:13AM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > > The t->rcu_read_unlock_special union's need_qs bit can be set by the > > scheduler tick (in rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq) to indicate that help is > > neede

Re: [RFC 1/3] rcu: Expedite the rcu quiescent state reporting if help needed

2019-07-01 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 12:04:13AM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > The t->rcu_read_unlock_special union's need_qs bit can be set by the > scheduler tick (in rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq) to indicate that help is > needed from the rcu_read_unlock path. When this help arrives however, we > can

Re: [RFC 1/3] rcu: Expedite the rcu quiescent state reporting if help needed

2019-07-01 Thread Joel Fernandes
On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 12:04:13AM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > The t->rcu_read_unlock_special union's need_qs bit can be set by the > scheduler tick (in rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq) to indicate that help is > needed from the rcu_read_unlock path. When this help arrives however, we > can

[RFC 1/3] rcu: Expedite the rcu quiescent state reporting if help needed

2019-06-30 Thread Joel Fernandes (Google)
The t->rcu_read_unlock_special union's need_qs bit can be set by the scheduler tick (in rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq) to indicate that help is needed from the rcu_read_unlock path. When this help arrives however, we can do better to speed up the quiescent state reporting which if rcu_read_unlock_spec

Urgent Help Needed

2018-08-06 Thread Mrs. Evalyn Allyson
Hello Beloved, my name is Mrs. Evelyn Allyson. I was diagnosed with cancer about 2 years ago, and I am receiving treatment for it, but now the doctors are saying I have a short time to live. I had no children of my own with my late husband. I have decided to donate US$ 10.5M (Ten Million Five Hund

[HELP-NEEDED, PATCHv2 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-15 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
Hi, Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but before set_pmd_at(). The bug doesn't lead to user-visible misbehaviour in current kernel, but fixing this would be critical for future work on THP: both hug

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-15 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Thursday 15 June 2017 02:18 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: O I am not suggesting we don't do the invalidate (the need for that is documented in __split_huge_pmd_locked(). I am suggesting we need a new interface, something like Andrea suggested. old_pmd = pmdp_establish(pmd_mknotpresent());

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-15 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 06:35:21AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 June 2017 10:25 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > > Hi Aneesh, > > > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 08:55:26PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 June 2017 07:21 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > > Vlas

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Thursday 15 June 2017 06:35 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: W.r.t pmdp_invalidate() usage, I was wondering whether we can do that early in __split_huge_pmd_locked(). BTW by moving pmdp_invalidate early, we can then get rid of pmdp_huge_split_prepare(vma, haddr, pmd); -aneesh

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Wednesday 14 June 2017 10:30 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: On 06/14/2017 06:55 PM, Will Deacon wrote: May be we should relook at pmd PTE udpate interface. We really need an interface that can update pmd entries such that we don't clear it in between. IMHO, we can avoid the pmdp_invalidate() c

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Wednesday 14 June 2017 10:25 PM, Will Deacon wrote: Hi Aneesh, On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 08:55:26PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: On Wednesday 14 June 2017 07:21 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose dirty and access bits if CPU

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Vlastimil Babka
On 06/14/2017 06:55 PM, Will Deacon wrote: >> >> May be we should relook at pmd PTE udpate interface. We really need an >> interface that can update pmd entries such that we don't clear it in >> between. IMHO, we can avoid the pmdp_invalidate() completely, if we can >> switch from a pmd PTE entry t

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Will Deacon
Hi Aneesh, On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 08:55:26PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > On Wednesday 14 June 2017 07:21 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > >Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose > >dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but > >before set_

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Wednesday 14 June 2017 07:21 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: Hi, Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but before set_pmd_at(). The bug doesn't lead to user-visible misbehaviour in current kernel,

Re: [HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Hi Kirill, On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:51:40 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" wrote: > Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose > dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but > before set_pmd_at(). > > The bug doesn't lead to user-visible misbehaviour in

[HELP-NEEDED, PATCH 0/3] Do not loose dirty bit on THP pages

2017-06-14 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
Hi, Vlastimil noted that pmdp_invalidate() is not atomic and we can loose dirty and access bits if CPU sets them after pmdp dereference, but before set_pmd_at(). The bug doesn't lead to user-visible misbehaviour in current kernel, but fixing this would be critical for future work on THP: both hug

[RFC-help needed 0/3] ARM: dts: thermal: Fix Odroid XU3-Lite overheat

2016-02-16 Thread Krzysztof Kozlowski
Hi, I mentioned overheating problem of Odroid XU3-Lite after enabling cpufreq-dt (when busy in a quite warm room). [0] The patchset tries to fix this by adding CPU cooling device. Unfortunately apparently I screwed something because on next-20160216 it does not help. The fan works at full but CP

Re: tw5864 driver development, help needed

2015-07-18 Thread Andrey Utkin
An update: see there: http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-July/175796.html -- Bluecherry developer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-

Re: tw5864 driver development, help needed

2015-07-14 Thread Andrey Utkin
An update with a request for help. Asking for help with h264 headers generation. Both copying headers from similar videos and porting headers generation code from reference driver don't work for me (ref driver is weird and very complicated, so porting involved importing of lots of code, but still

Re: tw5864 driver development, help needed

2015-07-08 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Andrey Utkin wrote: > Up... we are moving much slower than we expected, desperately needing help. > > Running reference driver with Ubuntu 9 (with kernel 2.6.28.10) with > 16-port card shows that the > reference driver fails to work with it correctly. Also that driv

Re: tw5864 driver development, help needed

2015-07-03 Thread Andrey Utkin
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Andrey Utkin wrote: > Hi! I am working on making a Linux driver for TW5864-based video&audio > capture and encoding PCI boards. The driver is to be submitted for > inclusion to Linux upstream. > The following two links are links to boards available for buying: > htt

tw5864 driver development, help needed

2015-06-02 Thread Andrey Utkin
Hi! I am working on making a Linux driver for TW5864-based video&audio capture and encoding PCI boards. The driver is to be submitted for inclusion to Linux upstream. The following two links are links to boards available for buying: http://www.provideo.com.tw/web/DVR%20Card_TW-310.htm http://www.pr

[REGRESSION] media: cx23885 broken by commit 453afdd9ce33293f640e84dc17e5f366701516e8 (was: Help needed: complex case bisection (TBS6981))

2015-01-10 Thread Raimonds Cicans
TL;DR: media: cx23885 broken by commit 453afdd9ce33293f640e84dc17e5f366701516e8 "[media] cx23885: convert to vb2" Broken mean: until this commit driver was rock solid, after I started to receive IOMMU related warnings and sometimes card stopped working Full report: On 09.01.2015 10:34, Raimon

Help needed: complex case bisection (TBS6981)

2015-01-09 Thread Raimonds Cicans
Hello. I would like to receive comments, suggestions and criticism on my plan to bisect following problem. History of problem: 1) I own computer based on AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 240e Processor on Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboard 2) I own TBS6981 card (Dual DVB-S/S2 PCIe receiver, in kernel driver)

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-23 Thread Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle
Hi, In the context of solving the below original issue, I came across below error while I was running "sudo make install". Wondering what the below error means? W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw for module r8169 -Madhu On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Mark Knec

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle wrote: > I have attached the boot directory contents, /boot/grub/grub.cfg and > /etc/default/grub contents. Also attached the mount points on the > system. > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-22 Thread Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle
I have attached the boot directory contents, /boot/grub/grub.cfg and /etc/default/grub contents. Also attached the mount points on the system. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle > wrote: >> The grub file is /boot/grub/g

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle wrote: > The grub file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The newly built kernel is > reflected in grub.cfg. But, the grub doesn't display this new kernel > at the boot time. I tried few tips from the web. It is no help. That > is why I sought help fr

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-22 Thread Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle
The grub file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The newly built kernel is reflected in grub.cfg. But, the grub doesn't display this new kernel at the boot time. I tried few tips from the web. It is no help. That is why I sought help from this forum. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle wrote: > The grub file is /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The newly built kernel is > reflected in grub.cfg. But, the grub doesn't display this new kernel > at the boot time. I tried few tips from the web. It is no help. That > is why I sought help fr

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle wrote: > Thanks to Randy and Ryan for the responses. The pointers are really > helpful. Currently I am facing an issue with Ubuntu's grub not > displaying the newly built kernel. > > Existing kernel on the ubuntu system is 3.2.0-23-generic.

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-22 Thread Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle
Thanks to Randy and Ryan for the responses. The pointers are really helpful. Currently I am facing an issue with Ubuntu's grub not displaying the newly built kernel. Existing kernel on the ubuntu system is 3.2.0-23-generic. While the new one is 3.11.10. The Grub has/displays fedora and ubuntu each

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-18 Thread Ryan Cunningham
You can just go to http://www.kernel.org to get the Linux kernel source code. If you want to use a certain Linux distribution, search "Linux distributions" using your favorite Web search engine. Sent from my iPad > On Jan 18, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> On 01/18/2014 09:34 AM,

Re: Help Needed

2014-01-18 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 01/18/2014 09:34 AM, Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle wrote: > Hi, > > I am an expert of HP-UX (kernel and drivers), while being novice at > linux. I am currently looking ways for quick ramp up so that I could > contribute to linux community. > > Kindly provide pointers starting from where I could get

Help Needed

2014-01-18 Thread Madhusudhan Rao Sripalle
Hi, I am an expert of HP-UX (kernel and drivers), while being novice at linux. I am currently looking ways for quick ramp up so that I could contribute to linux community. Kindly provide pointers starting from where I could get the kernel sources. Appreciate help in advance. -Madhu -- To unsubs

help needed : kernel 2.4 sata_nv smp 4G

2008-02-24 Thread Vitaly Kroivets
Dear All, I need help with following problem. We use kernel 2.4.32 , Motherboard is Tyan k8SE which uses Nvidia Nforce 2200 (CK8-04) chips, we have 2 Dualcore opterons and 4G ram , and SATA disk WD1600YS-01S . Sometimes (once a 3-4 weeks) the computer stops responding with following message: ata1

Re: Help Needed Reading / Poling the ATA Status Register

2008-01-30 Thread Robert Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently writing some code to send some ATA commands directly to the drive using ioctl and SG_IO which seems to work fine. However I also need to read the ATA status register values in real time which I am unsure how to do. I have seen in the libata developers guid

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x43524): Section mismatch: reference to > > > .init.text: (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'msleep') > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4c6f6): Section mismatch: reference to > > > .init.text: (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and 'wakeme_after_rcu') > > > WARNING:

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:52:55AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > kbuild emit section mismatch warnings when it detects that someone does a > > call from a non-init section to a init section. > > The rationale here is that the init section

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > kbuild emit section mismatch warnings when it detects that someone does a > call from a non-init section to a init section. > The rationale here is that the init section are discarded at runtime and > if this call happens after the init secti

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-11 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:19:18AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:25:42 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > > > This is the current list of warnings > > > > Sam, > > > > Several of these are due to driver variable

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:25:42PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > This is the current list of warnings > > Sam, > > Several of these are due to driver variable names not matching > the whitelisted names in modpost. I have patches for

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:25:42 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > This is the current list of warnings > > Sam, > > Several of these are due to driver variable names not matching > the whitelisted names in modpost. I have patches for the one

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > This is the current list of warnings Sam, Several of these are due to driver variable names not matching the whitelisted names in modpost. I have patches for the ones that I have identified so far. And I have patches for a few of the oth

Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-06 Thread Sam Ravnborg
kbuild emit section mismatch warnings when it detects that someone does a call from a non-init section to a init section. The rationale here is that the init section are discarded at runtime and if this call happens after the init section has gone we have an oops. This check is planned to be turne

Re: [mm] Better help needed for UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

2007-10-03 Thread Kay Sievers
On 9/28/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Current help for CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is: >Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for >every uevent. > With default value of /sbin/hotplug. > > Help! I don't have /sbin/hotplug (Debian unstable, using udev). > What do I do

[mm] Better help needed for UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
Current help for CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is: Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for every uevent. With default value of /sbin/hotplug. Help! I don't have /sbin/hotplug (Debian unstable, using udev). What do I do now? Will my hardware be unsupported because I don't have /sbi

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jan Engelhardt wrote: I am not sure (would have to check again), but I believe both opensuse and fedora (the latter of which uses LVM for all partitions by default) have that working, while still using GRUB. Keyword: partitions. I.e., they partition the hard drive (so that the first 31 sector

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 16 2007 11:38, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: > >> > Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose, >> > as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as >> > yet-another-point-of-fa

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose, as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as yet-another-point-of-failure). As LVM is on the large partition anyway I'll just add the sec

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote: >Hi Andi, > >Andi Kleen wrote: >> Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning >>> all by itself? >> >> DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need >

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hi Andi, Andi Kleen wrote: > Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning >> all by itself? > > DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need > to use EFI partitions (e.g. using parted) or LVM. Since

Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Andi Kleen
Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Where is the inherent limit? The partitioning software, or partitioning > all by itself? DOS style partitioning don't support more than 2TB. You either need to use EFI partitions (e.g. using parted) or LVM. Since parted's user interface is not goo

Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

2007-06-15 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hi everyone, I added a drive to a linux software RAID-5 last night. Now that worked fine... until I changed the partition table. Disk /dev/md_d5: 2499.9 GB, 240978560 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 610349360 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Device Boot Start

PCI changed from 2.6.10-rc1 to 2.6.10-rc2. help needed.

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Chua
I'm trying to get the Brooktrout TR1034 fax card to run with Linux-2.6.21, but it just won't run, so I downgraded to 2.6.9 and it seems to load just fine. Then I tried 2.6.10-rc1, and with a few changes, it seems to work. But, when I tried 2.6.10-rc2, it failed. Here's what I patched to make it r

Re: help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions?

2005-03-23 Thread Nick Piggin
Arun Srinivas wrote: few more trivial Q's (bear with me I'm a newbie to kernel world): 1) As I said I have a process that spawns 2 threads(thread A and B).I am trying to measure the exact time @ which they are being scheduled.For this I am using the rdtsc() (when threads A and B come) in enque

Re: help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions?

2005-03-23 Thread Arun Srinivas
r means do I have to enforce a priority in one of these ranges to make my threads as soft/hard realtime task. thanks in advance for your patience. From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Arun Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: help needed pls. sched

Re: help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions?

2005-03-22 Thread Nick Piggin
Arun Srinivas wrote: If the SMT (apart from SMP) support is enabled in the .config file, does the kernel recogonize the 2 logical processor as 2 logical or 2 physical processors? You shouldn't be able to select SMT if SMP is not enabled. If SMT and SMP is selected, then the scheduler will recog

Re: help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions?

2005-03-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> It is pretty tricky. Basically processes on different CPUs are > scheduled completely independently of one another. The only time > when they may get moved from one CPU to another is with > load_balance, load_balance_newidle, active_load_balance, > try_to_wake_up, sched_exec, wake_up_new_task. A

Re: help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions?

2005-03-22 Thread Arun Srinivas
Pls. help.Thanks in Advance. From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Arun Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions? Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:16:20 +1100 Arun Srinivas wrote: Pls.

Re: help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions?

2005-03-22 Thread Nick Piggin
Arun Srinivas wrote: Pls. help me. I went through the sched.c for kernel 2.6 and saw that it supports hyperthreading.I would be glad if someone could answer this question(if am not wrong a HT processor has 2 architectural states and one execution unit...i.e., two pipeline streams) 1)when the

help needed pls. scheduler(kernel 2.6) + hyperthreaded related questions?

2005-03-22 Thread Arun Srinivas
Pls. help me. I went through the sched.c for kernel 2.6 and saw that it supports hyperthreading.I would be glad if someone could answer this question(if am not wrong a HT processor has 2 architectural states and one execution unit...i.e., two pipeline streams) 1)when there are 2 processes a

Re: [linux-pm] Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> > Sorry for being late responding to this, but I'd say this is a > >> prime > example for typedef's considered evil (see Greg's OLS talk > >> ;). > >> > > >> > It would be a lot cleaner if it was made a struct and then > >> passing a > struct pointer as the argument instead of passing th

Re: [linux-pm] Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-03 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Sorry for being late responding to this, but I'd say this is a >> prime > example for typedef's considered evil (see Greg's OLS talk >> ;). >> > >> > It would be a lot cleaner if it was made a struct and then >> passing a > struct poi

Re: [linux-pm] Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Pavel> Hi! Two Long time ago, BenH said that making patches is easy, > > Pavel> so I hope to get his help now... And will probably need more. > > > > Pavel> Suspend routines change, slowly. > > > > Pavel> - int (*suspend)(struct device * dev, u32 state); + int > > Pavel> (*suspend)(stru

Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Pavel> Hi! Two Long time ago, BenH said that making patches is easy, > Pavel> so I hope to get his help now... And will probably need more. > > Pavel> Suspend routines change, slowly. > > Pavel> - int (*suspend)(struct device * dev, u32 state); + int > Pavel> (*suspend)(struct device * de

Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-02 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> Hi! Two Long time ago, BenH said that making patches is easy, Pavel> so I hope to get his help now... And will probably need more. Pavel> Suspend routines change, slowly. Pavel> - int (*suspend)(struct device * dev, u32 state); +

Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >Now, if you want to help, just convert some drivers... To quickly > >break compilation in case of bad types, following patch can be used > >(against 2.6.11-rc2-mm1), it actually switches pm_message_t to > >typedef. > > > >I'm looking forward to the patches, (please help), > > I just had a

Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-02-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Pavel, Pavel Machek wrote: Now, if you want to help, just convert some drivers... To quickly break compilation in case of bad types, following patch can be used (against 2.6.11-rc2-mm1), it actually switches pm_message_t to typedef. I'm looking forward to the patches, (please help), I just had a

Re: driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-01-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:47 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Two Long time ago, BenH said that making patches is easy, so I hope to > get his help now... And will probably need more. I will. I'm still a bit dealing with backlog of stuffs after my long vacations, but I will asap. Ben. - To

driver model u32 -> pm_message_t conversion: help needed

2005-01-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Two Long time ago, BenH said that making patches is easy, so I hope to get his help now... And will probably need more. Suspend routines change, slowly. - int (*suspend)(struct device * dev, u32 state); + int (*suspend)(struct device * dev, pm_message_t s

Fwd: Help needed: GCOV - not getting HOW TO!!!

2005-01-20 Thread Imanpreet Arora
D]> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:55:36 +0530 Subject: Help needed: GCOV - not getting HOW TO!!! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I got your id from google.. I have just started working on kernel code coverage project... I have patched my kernel and i have configured the gcov kernel module support.

Help needed: GCOV - not getting HOW TO!!!

2005-01-18 Thread prashanth M D
Hello, I got your id from google.. I have just started working on kernel code coverage project... I have patched my kernel and i have configured the gcov kernel module support. I compilied my module and i run insmod and i got my module executed. But i am not getting the .da file in /proc/gcov/k

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-18 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:58:17PM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > > Yep, in fbmem.c the name entry is "sisfb" as opposed to just "sis". > > Agh!!! That needs to be fixed. > I've already fixed it in ruby.. Regards, -- Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-18 Thread James Simmons
> > Is there another way to tell the fb driver what mode to use?? > > > Yep, in fbmem.c the name entry is "sisfb" as opposed to just "sis". Agh!!! That needs to be fixed. > Also, the > driver requires that the mode is passed video a "mode:" argument as is > outlined in the sisfb_setup(). Tak

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-18 Thread René Rebe
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:28:00 -0700 Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Yep, in fbmem.c the name entry is "sisfb" as opposed to just "sis". Also, the > driver requires that the mode is passed video a "mode:" argument as is > outlined in the sisfb_setup(). Take a look at drivers/video/si

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-18 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:32:03PM +0200, René Rebe wrote: > > Try booting at 640x480 with a color depth of 32. Then > > try booting at a different resolution (1024x768) at the default color > > depth. I want to see if its a error with the resolution setting or if it > > is a error with setting up

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-18 Thread René Rebe
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 07:03:55 -0700 (PDT) James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Yes. It oops in fbcon_cfb8_putc. I haven't figured out yet what exactly > caused it. I don't have this card to play with :-( Did you run the other > test I suggested. Never arrived here :-(. (Pleas cc me,

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-17 Thread James Simmons
> > > > I currently try to debug why the sisfb driver crashes my machine. (SIS 630 > > > > based laptop - linux-2.4.5-ac13). > > > > > > You can do one of two things. Post both System.map and the complete oops > > > or you can run ksymoops on the oops. I can find the problem then. Thanks. > > >

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-16 Thread René Rebe
Hi all! On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:25:02 +0200 René Rebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply! > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:54:21 -0700 (PDT) > James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I currently try to debug why the sisfb driver crashes my machine. (SIS 630 > > > ba

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-13 Thread René Rebe
Thanks for the quick reply! On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:54:21 -0700 (PDT) James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I currently try to debug why the sisfb driver crashes my machine. (SIS 630 > > based laptop - linux-2.4.5-ac13). > > You can do one of two things. Post both System.map and the co

Re: sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-13 Thread James Simmons
> I currently try to debug why the sisfb driver crashes my machine. (SIS 630 > based laptop - linux-2.4.5-ac13). You can do one of two things. Post both System.map and the complete oops or you can run ksymoops on the oops. I can find the problem then. Thanks. > On my serial-console I get: > [..

sis630 - help needed debugging in the kernel

2001-06-13 Thread René Rebe
Hi all! I currently try to debug why the sisfb driver crashes my machine. (SIS 630 based laptop - linux-2.4.5-ac13). On my serial-console I get: [...] sisfb: framebuffer at 0xe000, mapped to 0xcb80, size 16384k sisfb: MMIO at 0xefce, mapped to 0xcc801000, size 128k sisfb: encountered

URGENT help needed

2001-04-21 Thread Pooja Gupta
Hello there!! I am begineer in kernels. I would like to know more about Cache Kernel. Can anyone tell me some good links for Cache Kernel? I have seen the stanford paper. Can you suggest something other than that? Pooja _ Chat with your frie

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2000-11-16 Thread Rajiv Majumdar
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