Re: Linux 3.8-rc1: compiling problem in perf-event-p6.o

2013-03-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:08 AM, werner wrote: > That should be corrected, even if it's a problem of the CC version / > libries, or not, compilation can't depend on this, code can't be so > non-standard that it depends on the compiler version. The __devinit is removed in current git already. If

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1: compiling problem in perf-event-p6.o

2013-03-01 Thread werner
That should be corrected, even if it's a problem of the CC version / libries, or not, compilation can't depend on this, code can't be so non-standard that it depends on the compiler version. wl = The problem continues with 3.8-rc This is grave, no vm

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1: compiling problem in perf-event-p6.o

2013-01-19 Thread werner
This didn't happen on 3.6 (3.7 I had no time to check out), although I continue to use the same c compiler and libraries. So it should be caused by any change of the subroutine perf_event_p6 made in the last time. Also, everything else of the kernel compiled, just not that subroutine. An

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-16 Thread Woody Suwalski
Alan Stern wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Woody Suwalski wrote: Another important change is that the EHCI driver is now split into two modules. That can slow down loading and affect the timing. Alan Stern My testcase is a live initramfs + squash root. The boot logic is as stable as can be - un

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1: compiling problem in perf-event-p6.o

2013-01-16 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 01/15/13 06:50, werner wrote: > We are now on -rc3 and someone should correct this, finally > > This is a regression, it was not before, on 3.6 > > This messes up any compilation of the whole kernel, it results in don't be > produced vmlinuz > > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.o depends

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-16 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Woody Suwalski wrote: > > Another important change is that the EHCI driver is now split into two > > modules. That can slow down loading and affect the timing. > > > > Alan Stern > > > My testcase is a live initramfs + squash root. > The boot logic is as stable as can be - un

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1

2013-01-16 Thread David Nyström
On 12/22/2012 03:57 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:00:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: The longest night of the year is upon us (*), and what better thing to do than get yourself some nice mulled wine, sit back, relax, and play Hi Linus, Was there anything wrong with Fr

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-16 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Tuesday 15 January 2013 23:26:20 Woody Suwalski wrote: > The modules are insmoded in a fixed order: > usb-common, usbcore, xhci-hcd, ehci-hcd, uhci-hcd, ohci-hcd, usbhid, > usb_storage,... > > If all USB is built as modules - I get read errors from USB drives when > accessing squash image, b

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-15 Thread Woody Suwalski
Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Andreas Mohr wrote: There's of course the EHCI vs. UHCI(/OHCI) duality (EHCI host controller responsible for high speed transfers, the other for 1.1 full speed, both serving the same port connectors). So if the coordination between the two is a problem, yo

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-12 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Andreas Mohr wrote: > There's of course the EHCI vs. UHCI(/OHCI) duality > (EHCI host controller responsible for high speed transfers, > the other for 1.1 full speed, both serving the same port connectors). > So if the coordination between the two is a problem, > you might end

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-12 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Saturday 12 January 2013 14:16:02 Andreas Mohr wrote: > > Greg, Linus, > > It sounds insane, but after banging on the issue I have found out that > > USB problem is caused (also in vanilla kernel) with a config change: > > USB-all built as modules - bad USB > > USB core built in, UHCI/EHCI modu

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-12 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, > Greg, Linus, > It sounds insane, but after banging on the issue I have found out that > USB problem is caused (also in vanilla kernel) with a config change: > USB-all built as modules - bad USB > USB core built in, UHCI/EHCI modules - semi functional - but 1Mb/s > transfer > USB core and U

Linux 3.8-rc1: compiling problem in perf-event-p6.o

2013-01-05 Thread werner
The problem continues with 3.8-rc This is grave, no vmlinuz is produced. wl CC arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.o CC arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.o CC arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.o arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c:22: error: p6_hw_cache_event_ids causes a se

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-02 Thread Woody Suwalski
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:35:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Woody, Any chance you can bisect this? It's not going to be hugely pleasant (with 11k+ commits in between 3.7 and 3.8-rc1 you'll have to compile and test at least 14 kernels), but it would help enormously

Re: INVALID Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2013-01-01 Thread Woody Suwalski
Woody Suwalski wrote: Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:35:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Woody, Any chance you can bisect this? It's not going to be hugely pleasant (with 11k+ commits in between 3.7 and 3.8-rc1 you'll have to compile and test at least 14 kernels), but i

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 (mei driver BROKEN)

2012-12-27 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:04:23AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: > Hi Linus, > > I am not sure if Greg is on holidays as his char-misc GIT tree didn't > get updated the last days. Yes, I'm supposed to be on vacation until the 7th. > The MEI driver causes here a serious regression requiring a hard co

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 (mei driver BROKEN)

2012-12-27 Thread Sedat Dilek
Hi Linus, I am not sure if Greg is on holidays as his char-misc GIT tree didn't get updated the last days. The MEI driver causes here a serious regression requiring a hard cold start of the machine I am working on. A fix "mei: fix mismatch in mutex unlock-lock in mei_amthif_read()" was already se

Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-24 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:29:04 -0800 Linus Torvalds escreveu: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > wrote: > > > > Agreed: ENOENT was a bad choice, and it should be reverted. > > Well, *any* other error value is likely a bad choice. Well, UVC should return the same error co

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2012-12-23 Thread Woody Suwalski
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:35:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Woody, Any chance you can bisect this? It's not going to be hugely pleasant (with 11k+ commits in between 3.7 and 3.8-rc1 you'll have to compile and test at least 14 kernels), but it would help enormously

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2012-12-23 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:35:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Woody, > Any chance you can bisect this? It's not going to be hugely pleasant > (with 11k+ commits in between 3.7 and 3.8-rc1 you'll have to compile > and test at least 14 kernels), but it would help enormously. Of > course, maybe s

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1 - another regression on USB :-(

2012-12-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
Woody, Any chance you can bisect this? It's not going to be hugely pleasant (with 11k+ commits in between 3.7 and 3.8-rc1 you'll have to compile and test at least 14 kernels), but it would help enormously. Of course, maybe some USB person can guess what would cause the device to go offline.. Adde

Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Agreed: ENOENT was a bad choice, and it should be reverted. Well, *any* other error value is likely a bad choice. > What I'm trying to understand is why pulseaudio is complaining. > Is it because it only accepts EINVAL error code

linux-next stats (Was: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-23 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:00:58 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The longest night of the year is upon us (*), and what better thing to > do than get yourself some nice mulled wine, sit back, relax, and play > with the most recent rc kernel? > > This has been a big merge window: we've got more commi

Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-23 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Linus, On Sunday 23 December 2012 09:36:15 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Are you saying that pulseaudio is entering on some weird loop if the > > returned value is not -EINVAL? That seems a bug at pulseaudio. > > Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK

Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-23 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Linus, Em Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:36:15 -0800 Linus Torvalds escreveu: > To make matters worse, commit f0ed2ce840b3 is clearly total and utter > CRAP even if it didn't break applications. ENOENT is not a valid error > return from an ioctl. Never has been, never will be. ENOENT means "No > such file

Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Are you saying that pulseaudio is entering on some weird loop if the > returned value is not -EINVAL? That seems a bug at pulseaudio. Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP! It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer

Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-23 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:39:32 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" escreveu: > Hi Laurent, > > Commit f0ed2ce ([media] uvcvideo: Set error_idx properly for extended > controls API failures) of yours unfortunately causes user space to misbehave > on one of my test systems. Namely, there's no sound under KDE

[Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

2012-12-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi Laurent, Commit f0ed2ce ([media] uvcvideo: Set error_idx properly for extended controls API failures) of yours unfortunately causes user space to misbehave on one of my test systems. Namely, there's no sound under KDE 4.9.4 (Tumbleweed version using pulseaudio) and there's a knotify4 process o

Re: Linux 3.8-rc1

2012-12-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:00:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The longest night of the year is upon us (*), and what better thing to > do than get yourself some nice mulled wine, sit back, relax, and play > with the most recent rc kernel? > > This has been a big merge window: we've got more co

Linux 3.8-rc1

2012-12-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
The longest night of the year is upon us (*), and what better thing to do than get yourself some nice mulled wine, sit back, relax, and play with the most recent rc kernel? This has been a big merge window: we've got more commits than any other kernel in the v3.x kernel series (although v3.2-rc1 w