Re: [PATCH v2] sp5100_tco: Add SB8x0 chipset support

2012-11-28 Thread Paul Menzel
-Truncate the commit log, because previous commit log is too long. There are no too long commit messages. ;-) > --- > drivers/watchdog/sp5100_tco.c | 321 > +++++++--- > drivers/watchdog/sp5100_tco.h | 46 -- > 2 files changed, 306 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) […] Tested-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH 1/2] sp5100_tco: Fix wrong indirect I/O access for getting value of reserved bits

2013-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
/show_bug.cgi?id=43176 > > Signed-off-by: Takahisa Tanaka > > Added to linux-watchdog-next. Is it allowed to rewrite history of linux-watchdog-next? If yes, could you please add `CC: sta...@vger.kernel.org` to both of Takahisa’s patches and also add my Tested-by: Paul Menzel

Re: [PATCH] sp5100_tco: Remove code that may cause a boot failure

2013-02-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takahisa, Am Samstag, den 23.02.2013, 20:31 +0900 schrieb Takahisa Tanaka: > The critical problem which can't boot OS until the power is completely > cut off found on PC with SB700 chipset. all SB700 boards or just a specific one? > This patch fix the problem, but, this patch prevents the

Re: [PATCH linux-next] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tim, thanks for the patch. Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 13:31 -0700 schrieb Tim Gardner: Noting the `gcc` version and build environment is never wrong. ;-) > drivers/md/dm-raid.c: In function 'raid_ctr': > drivers/md/dm-raid.c:453:53: warning: 'rebuilds_per_group' may be used > uninitia

Re: [PATCH linux-next] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tim, Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 23:16 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel: > Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 13:31 -0700 schrieb Tim Gardner: > > Noting the `gcc` version and build environment is never wrong. ;-) > > > drivers/md/dm-raid.c: In function 'raid_ctr': >

Re: [PATCH] drm/exynos: fix double call of drm_prime_(init/destroy)_file_private

2012-09-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Inki Dae, Am Donnerstag, den 06.09.2012, 11:35 +0900 schrieb InKi Dae: > 2012/9/6 Mandeep Singh Baines : > > The double invocations are incorrect but seem to be safe so I don't > > think this will fix any bugs. > > > > Before: > > > > [7.639366] drm_prime_init_file ee3675d0 > > [7.6

Re: [PATCH] lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions

2012-11-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jim, Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2012, 13:47 -0800 schrieb Jim Kukunas: > Optimize RAID6 recovery functions to take advantage of > the 256-bit YMM integer instructions introduced in AVX2. in my experiencing optimizations always have to be back up by benchmarks. Could you add those to the commi

Re: [PATCH] lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions

2012-11-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Freitag, den 09.11.2012, 12:39 +0100 schrieb H. Peter Anvin: > Sorry, we cannot share those at this time since the hardwarenis not yet > released. Too bad. Then I suggest an additional run time switch to enable and disable that code path. So people later can easily test themselves. Thanks,

drm fixes for 3.11: Tag more patches for stable? (was: [git pull] drm fixes)

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dave, Am Freitag, den 09.08.2013, 05:53 +0100 schrieb Dave Airlie: […] > The following changes since commit c095ba7224d8edc71dcef0d655911399a8bd4a3f: > > Linux 3.11-rc4 (2013-08-04 13:46:46 -0700) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/

[PATCH v2] sp5100_tco: Set the AcpiMmioSel bitmask value to 1 instead of 2

2013-03-03 Thread Paul Menzel
zero. However, the sp5100_tco driver should use the correct bitmask value. [1] http://support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/45482.pdf Signed-off-by: Takahisa Tanaka CC: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Hopefully improved the commit message. drivers/watchdog/sp5100_tco.h

Re: [PATCH v2] sp5100_tco: Remove code that may cause a boot failure

2013-03-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takahisa, thank you for your patch. Am Sonntag, den 03.03.2013, 14:52 +0900 schrieb Takahisa Tanaka: > The critical problem which can't boot OS until the power is completely > cut off found on PC with SB700 chipset. As commented in my first reply – at least I think – please add the mainbo

Re: [PATCH] md: dm-verity: Fix to avoid a deadlock in dm-bufio

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Menzel
ch: 8.28s > > Signed-off-by: Paul Taysom > --- > drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 29 +++++++-- > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Acked-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul [1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=39148 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau: remove erroneous semicolon

2013-04-07 Thread Paul Menzel
a); > + flip->chan->data) > return true; > usleep_range(1, 2); > return false; Acked-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] drm: refactor call to request_module

2013-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
or are there any problems with stack sizes on some systems? (This patch would be good alone for decreasing the number of code lines. ;-)) > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder_slave.c |6 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) Ack

Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: ingore eDP bpc settings

2012-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
} > - continue; > - } > - > /* Not one of the known troublemakers, check the EDID */ > list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, > head) { Acked-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] sp5100_tco: Add SB8x0 chipset support

2012-08-12 Thread Paul Menzel
d setup the watchdog timer > > This patch has worked fine on my test environment(ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3 and > DL165G7). therefore I believe that it's no problem to re-program the MMIO > address for watchdog timer to chipset during disabled watchdog. However, > I'm not

Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Include swiotlb.h if SWIOTLB configured.

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Menzel
tic int radeon_ttm_debugfs_init(struct radeon_device *rdev); With the clarification above Acked-by: Paul Menzel can be added to your patch. Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Include swiotlb.h if SWIOTLB configured.

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Huacai, Am Montag, den 13.08.2012, 15:16 +0800 schrieb Huacai Chen: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > > thanks for your patch. > > > > Firstly, is Chen your first or last name? If it is your first name, your > > From address should be switch

Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Include swiotlb.h if SWIOTLB configured.

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 13.08.2012, 16:04 +0800 schrieb Huacai Chen: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Am Montag, den 13.08.2012, 15:16 +0800 schrieb Huacai Chen: > >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: […] > >> > Am Montag, den 1

Re: Regression: drm/radeon: brightness control hard system lockup

2013-01-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Eldad, thanks a lot for the patch. Am Sonntag, den 13.01.2013, 22:00 +0100 schrieb Eldad Zack: […] > From 5817128d2761f60051b069d2bb31209c909b6a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eldad Zack > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:14:08 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] drm/radeon: fix evergreen brightness

Re: Regression: drm/radeon: brightness control hard system lockup

2013-01-14 Thread Paul Menzel
story to spot a certain fix. > > Reported-by: Eldad Zack > Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher With the above, Acked-by: Paul Menzel > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c |6 ++ > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/ni.c|6 ++ > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c

Re: [PATCH 4/7] drivers/gpu/drm: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable

2012-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
; return 0; > - fb = entry->base.crtc.fb; > + fb = crtc->fb; > > return vmw_kms_write_svga(dev_priv, w, h, fb->pitches[0], > fb->bits_per_pixel, fb->depth); Acked-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH v2] drm/vc4: Fix sleeps during the IRQ handler for DSI transactions.

2017-10-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Eric, Some nit picks where stuff contradicts the coding style. Am Freitag, den 13.10.2017, 17:12 -0700 schrieb Eric Anholt: > VC4's DSI1 has a bug where the AXI connection is broken for 32-bit > writes from the CPU, so we use the DMA engine to DMA 32-bit values > into registers instead. Th

How to enable output to serial console at run-time?

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, If I want to output the Linux kernel messages to the serial console, but the `console=ttyS…` line is missing on the Linux command line, is there a way to activate that during run-time by, for example, using the sysfs interface? Kind regards, Paul

Is 115200 still the maximum baudrate?

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, The Linux serial console documentation [1] says that 115200 is the maximum supported baudrate. > The maximum baudrate is 115200. Is that still accurate? If yes, where should I look to support higher values? Kind regards, Paul [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.13

Re: How to enable output to serial console at run-time?

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, Am 02.11.2017 um 17:53 schrieb Greg KH: On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 04:39:36PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: If I want to output the Linux kernel messages to the serial console, but the `console=ttyS…` line is missing on the Linux command line, is there a way to activate that during run

How to debug outliers in `wb_wait_for_completion()` in `ksys_sync()`?

2018-08-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using `sleepgraph.py` [1][2] to profile the suspend to RAM (STR) times, shows that `ksys_enter` takes a noticeable amount of time. 13 ms on a TUXEDO Book BU1406 with the NVMe device *SAMSUNG MZVKW512HMJP-0*, which is quite good, and over a 60 ms on ASRock E350M1 with a

Re: How to debug outliers in `wb_wait_for_completion()` in `ksys_sync()`?

2018-08-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 08/28/18 07:27, Paul Menzel wrote: > Using `sleepgraph.py` [1][2] to profile the suspend to RAM (STR) > times, shows that `ksys_enter` takes a noticeable amount of time. > > 13 ms on a TUXEDO Book BU1406 with the NVMe device *SAMSUNG > MZVKW512HMJP-0*,

Re: NULL pointer dereference in msi_set_mask_bit

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, Am 18.07.2018 um 21:00 schrieb Thomas Gleixner: On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Paul Menzel wrote: On 07/18/18 17:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Bah. Could you please enable GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS and after a successful boot up provide me the content of all files in /sys/kernel/debug/irq/ and

Re: NULL pointer dereference in msi_set_mask_bit

2018-07-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 07/18/18 22:05, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am 18.07.2018 um 21:00 schrieb Thomas Gleixner: > >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Paul Menzel wrote: >>> On 07/18/18 17:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> Bah. Could you please enable GENERIC_IRQ_DEBUGFS and after a s

Re: NULL pointer dereference in msi_set_mask_bit

2018-07-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 07/19/18 15:48, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Paul Menzel wrote: > >> I had to copy the files, and then was able to create an archive with >> non-zero files. Please find the tar archive attached. > > Thanks for providing the data. All lo

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/events/core.c:668:25

2018-07-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Enabling the undefined behavior sanitizer and building GNU/Linux 4.18-rc5+ (with some unrelated commits) with GCC 8.1.0 from Debian Sid/unstable, the warning below is shown. [1.945853] [

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c:582:24: member access within null pointer of type 'struct perf_event'

2018-07-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Enabling the undefined behavior sanitizer and building GNU/Linux 4.18-rc5+ (with some unrelated commits) with GCC 8.1.0 from Debian Sid/unstable, the warning below is shown. [2.111913] [

UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in lib/radix-tree.c:123:14: member access within null pointer of type 'const struct radix_tree_node'

2018-07-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Enabling the undefined behavior sanitizer and building GNU/Linux 4.18-rc5+ (with some unrelated commits) with GCC 8.1.0 from Debian Sid/unstable, the warning below is shown. [0.958688] [

Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c:582:24: member access within null pointer of type 'struct perf_event'

2018-07-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, Am 20.07.2018 um 10:39 schrieb Thomas Gleixner: On Fri, 20 Jul 2018, Paul Menzel wrote: Enabling the undefined behavior sanitizer and building GNU/Linux 4.18-rc5+ (with some unrelated commits) with GCC 8.1.0 from Debian Sid/unstable, the warning below is shown. [2.111913

Re: MSI B350M MORTAR: `AMD-Vi: Unable to write to IOMMU perf counter.` and `pci 0000:00:00.2: can't derive routing for PCI INT A`

2018-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jörg, On 07/20/18 14:31, Jörg Rödel wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 06:02:07PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >> $ dmesg >> […] >> [0.145696] calling pci_iommu_init+0x0/0x3f @ 1 >> [0.145719] AMD-Vi: Unable to write to IOMMU perf counter. > > This i

[PATCH] ata: Guard ata_scsi_dump_cdb() by ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG

2018-07-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 09:11:34 +0200 Defining `ATA_DEBUG` nothing can be really seen, as the log is spammed with CDB messages. Therefore, guard the print by `ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG`. Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions

[PATCH] ata: Only output sg element mapped number in verbose debug

2018-07-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 09:18:21 +0200 Defining `ATA_DEBUG` there are a lof of messages like below in the log. [ 16.345472] ata_sg_setup: 1 sg elements mapped As that is too verbose, only output these messages in verbose debug. Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 2

[PATCH] init/main: Log init process file name

2018-07-13 Thread Paul Menzel
handed over control to the init process. Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- Ingo, hopefully it’s fine, putting you in Cc. I do not know, who the right person is. init/main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 3b4ada11ed52..3821bb55c787 100644

Re: Report long suspend times of NVMe devices (mostly firmware/device issues)

2018-01-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Keith, Thank you for your reply. Am 22.01.2018 um 22:30 schrieb Keith Busch: On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:02:12PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Benchmarking the ACPI S3 suspend and resume times with `sleepgraph.py -config config/suspend-callgraph.cfg` [1], shows that the NVMe disk SAMSUNG

Re: i8042 AUX port [serio1] suspend takes a second on Dell XPS 13 9360 and TUXEDO Book 1406

2018-01-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dmitry, On 01/30/18 19:07, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 09:52:45AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 06:36:34PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I do not know, when it started, but with Linux 4.14-rc8 and 4.15, benchmarking suspend and resume time with

Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/wireless/nl80211.c:718:4: -1665903437 * 100 cannot be represented in type 'int'

2018-01-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, On 01/04/18 16:08, Johannes Berg wrote: Hi, Can you reproduce this? [ 54.426491] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in net/wireless/nl80211.c:718:4 [ 54.426492] signed integer overflow: [ 54.426493] -1665903437 * 100 cannot be represented in type 'int' Obviously. However, it

Re: Suspend/resume with FTRACE enabled doesn’t work anymore

2018-01-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 01/17/18 15:20, Paul Menzel wrote: Testing Linux 4.15-rc8 on a Lenovo T60 (32 bit) and Dell XPS 13 9360 (64 bit) suspend to and resume from ACPI S3 doesn’t work anymore. `./sleepgraph.py -config config/suspend-callgraph.cfg` [1] is used to enable the FTRACE framework

Re: Suspend/resume with FTRACE enabled doesn’t work anymore

2018-01-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Steven, On 01/17/18 17:25, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:19:43 -0500 Steven Rostedt wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:10:31 -0500 Steven Rostedt wrote: It's been fixed, and the the patch is in Linus's tree already: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torva

Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:849:33

2018-01-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 12/13/17 14:13, Paul Menzel wrote: I enabled the undefined behavior sanitizer, and built Linus’ master branch under Ubuntu 17.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3) 7.2.0. ``` $ grep UBSAN /boot/config-4.15.0-rc3+ CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y

Re: Regression from efi: call get_event_log before ExitBootServices

2018-03-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jarkko, On 03/12/18 11:17, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: On Sat, 2018-03-10 at 10:45 +, Thiebaud Weksteen wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:54 PM Jeremy Cline wrote: and it's hanging at "memset(log_tbl, 0, sizeof(*log_tbl) + log_size);" Thanks. Well, it looks like the memory that is suppos

string_selftest_init needs 636 ms to run

2018-03-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Geert, Sorry for writing you directory, but I saw you created the module *string_selftest* in commit d6b28e09 (lib: add module support to string tests). I believe, I only did `make olddefconfig`, and the option is selected. ``` $ grep STRING_SELFTEST .config CONFIG_STRING_SELFTEST=y ``

efisubsys_init takes more than a few milliseconds

2018-03-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ard, According to `initcall_debug`, `efisubsys_init` takes more than a few milliseconds to execute on a Dell XPS 13 9370 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz). ``` […] [0.144474] calling efisubsys_init+0x0/0x2cf @ 1 [0.144474] Registered efivars operations [0.173690]

Re: efisubsys_init takes more than a few milliseconds

2018-03-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ard, Thank you for the quick reply. On 03/24/2018 11:35 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On 24 March 2018 at 22:10, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Ard, According to `initcall_debug`, `efisubsys_init` takes more than a few milliseconds to execute on a Dell XPS 13 9370 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U

Re: efisubsys_init takes more than a few milliseconds

2018-03-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ard, On 03/25/2018 09:41 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: On 03/24/2018 11:35 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On 24 March 2018 at 22:10, Paul Menzel wrote: According to `initcall_debug`, `efisubsys_init` takes more than a few milliseconds to execute on a Dell XPS 13 9370 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7

Commit *driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver* causes regression

2018-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Commit 1455cf8 (driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver) [1], introduced in Linux 4.14-rc1, causes a regression in user space. After disconnecting USB devices, they are still shown as plugged in [2][3]. I seem to be having a similar issue, but with an iP

Re: Commit *driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver* causes regression

2018-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, On 04/06/18 15:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 02:20:40PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Commit 1455cf8 (driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver) [1], introduced in Linux 4.14-rc1, causes a regression in user space. After disconnecting USB

uvcvideo: Unknown video format,00000032-0002-0010-8000-00aa00389b71

2018-03-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Dell XPS 13 9370, Linux 4.16-rc6 outputs the messages below. ``` [2.338094] calling uvc_init+0x0/0x1000 [uvcvideo] @ 295 [2.338569] calling iTCO_wdt_init_module+0x0/0x1000 [iTCO_wdt] @ 280 [2.338570] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.11 [2.3

Re: uvcvideo: Unknown video format,00000032-0002-0010-8000-00aa00389b71

2018-03-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Laurent, On 03/20/18 14:30, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:20:14 EET Paul Menzel wrote: On the Dell XPS 13 9370, Linux 4.16-rc6 outputs the messages below. ``` […] [2.340736] input: Integrated_Webcam_HD: Integrate as /devices/pci:00/:00:14.0/usb1

Re: uvcvideo: Unknown video format,00000032-0002-0010-8000-00aa00389b71

2018-03-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Laurent, On 03/21/2018 10:25 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 18:46:24 EET Paul Menzel wrote: On 03/20/18 14:30, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:20:14 EET Paul Menzel wrote: On the Dell XPS 13 9370, Linux 4.16-rc6 outputs the messages below

Re: int3403_driver_init needs over 330 ms to finish

2018-03-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rui, On 03/14/2018 08:32 AM, Zhang Rui wrote: On 二, 2018-03-13 at 20:39 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Booting the Dell XPS 13 9370 with Linux 4.16-rc4+ and `initcall_debug`, shows it is shown that int3403_driver_init needs over 330 ms to run.  [2.524839] initcall

Recommended driver for current AMD processors

2018-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, What driver is recommended for current AMD Ryzen based processors like *AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 Quad-Core Processor* or *AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor*? Only from the acpi-cpufreq Kconfig description, I assume, that that driver should be used. > config X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ >

Re: tools/build/Build.include: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make

2018-07-10 Thread Paul Menzel
; >> $(dot-target).cmd; \ This completes commit 9564a8cf (Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make). Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197847 Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:

[PATCH v3] tools/build/Build.include: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make

2018-07-10 Thread Paul Menzel
; >> $(dot-target).cmd; \ This completes commit 9564a8cf (Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make). Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197847 Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul

arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S:1106: Error: missing operand

2018-05-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Building the configuration created with `make tinyconfig` on the Power 8 system IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 18.04 fails with the error below. ``` $ git describe --dirty v4.17-rc6-296-gbc2dbc5420e8 $ git log --oneline -1 bc2dbc5420e8 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Me

Re: arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S:1106: Error: missing operand

2018-05-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Christophe, Am 26.05.2018 um 18:02 schrieb christophe leroy: Le 26/05/2018 à 06:35, Paul Menzel a écrit : Building the configuration created with `make tinyconfig` on the Power 8 system IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 18.04 fails with the error below. ``` $ git describe --dirty v4.17-rc6-296

QEMU ATA hard disk not detected

2018-05-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, In QEMU 2.11 a disk is only detected by the AHCI driver and not by libata. On QEMU’s Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), that causes an attached drive not to be detected as that machine doesn’t support AHCI. Here is the output with the machine Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009),

Re: [solved] QEMU ATA hard disk not detected

2018-05-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 05/13/18 10:34, Paul Menzel wrote: In QEMU 2.11 a disk is only detected by the AHCI driver and not by libata. On QEMU’s Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), that causes an attached drive not to be detected as that machine doesn’t support AHCI. Here is the output with the

Re: [solved] *powersave* governor shown despite disabled in configuration

2018-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dominik, Thank you for your quick response. Am 11.12.18 um 07:51 schrieb Dominik Brodowski: On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 04:30:05PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: With Linux 4.14.76, the scaling governor *powersave* is shown as being available despite being disabled in the configuration

intel_pstate: Lowest frequency not reached with Intel i7-6700

2018-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using *powersave* as P-state selection algorithm, on an idle system with an Intel i7-6700 (Sandy Bridge), the frequency only goes down to 900 MHz instead of the minimum frequency of 800 MHz. $ uname -a Linux keineahnung.molgen.mpg.de 4.20.0-rc5.mx64.234 #1 SMP Mon Dec 3 16:58

Re: intel_pstate: Lowest frequency not reached with Intel i7-6700

2018-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Doug, Thank you for your reply. On 12/13/18 00:06, Doug Smythies wrote: > On 2018.12.12 13:40 Paul Menzel wrote: > >> Using *powersave* as P-state selection algorithm, on an idle system > > Define "idle system". > If your computer is running a GUI, or is ev

Re: intel_pstate: Lowest frequency not reached with Intel i7-6700

2018-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rafael, On 12/13/18 11:39, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:54 AM Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 12/13/18 00:06, Doug Smythies wrote: >>> On 2018.12.12 13:40 Paul Menzel wrote: >>> >>>> Using *powersave* as P-state selection algorithm,

*powersave* governor shown despite disabled in configuration

2018-12-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, With Linux 4.14.76, the scaling governor *powersave* is shown as being available despite being disabled in the configuration. ``` $ uname -a Linux xxx.molgen.mpg.de 4.14.76.mx64.228 #1 SMP Tue Oct 16 19:20:58 CEST 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ zcat /proc/config.gz |grep CONFIG_CPU_F

Re: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed with AMD B350M/Ryzen 3 2200G

2019-01-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 01/07/19 16:24, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Paul Menzel wrote: > >> Linux 4.19.13 from Debian Sid/unstable logs the message below on the board >> MSI >> MS-7A37/B350M MORTAR with the processor AMD Ryzen 3 2200G. >> >> As a

tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed with AMD B350M/Ryzen 3 2200G

2018-12-31 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Linux 4.19.13 from Debian Sid/unstable logs the message below on the board MSI MS-7A37/B350M MORTAR with the processor AMD Ryzen 3 2200G. As a result, the early time stamps do not seem to be working. [0.00] Linux version 4.19.0-1-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.o

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-01-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 01/03/19 22:45, Paul Menzel wrote: > On the server board Asus KGPE-D16 with AMD Opteron 6278 processor updating > the microcode update in the firmware from 0x0600062e to 0x0600063e seems to > cause a general protection fault with Linux 4.14.87 and 4.20-rc7. >

Re: What happens before or in `schedule_preempt_disabled()`?

2018-10-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, As always thank you for the quick reply. On 10/17/18 18:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Paul Menzel wrote: >> >> Please find the debug patches attached. The `random: %i` messages are from >> `crng_fast_load()`. >> >> My questi

Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Do not warn about PCI BIOS W+X mappings

2018-10-11 Thread Paul Menzel
not in the context of the WX checking output. Reported-by: Paul Menzel Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Bjorn Helgaas --- arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 35 +++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Thank you for

Re: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address (ptrval)/0xc00a0000

2018-10-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, Am 03.10.2018 um 23:22 schrieb Borislav Petkov: On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 04:55:19PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Sorry for the delay and thanks for the data. A quick diff did not reveal anything obvious. I'll have a closer look and we probably need more (other) information to nai

Re: Symbols not found for some files

2018-10-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Arnaldo, Am 03.10.2018 um 22:57 schrieb Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: Em Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 10:42:39PM +0200, Paul Menzel escreveu: For profiling the boot on my Debian Sid/unstable system (32-bit user space), the following service unit is used. You forgot to mention what is the version

Re: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address (ptrval)/0xc00a0000

2018-10-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, On 10/04/18 10:14, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:03:21AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: >> I also triggered this when working in the PTI-x32 code. It always >> happens on a 32-bit PAE kernel for me. >> >> Tracking it down I ended up in (iirc) arch/x86/mm/pageattr.

Re: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address (ptrval)/0xc00a0000

2018-10-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, On 10/04/18 10:49, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:40:49AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Do you have a commit, I could test. > > Not yet I meant just the test you did. > but I have a question for you: why are you running 32-bit and > ha

Re: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address (ptrval)/0xc00a0000

2018-10-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, On 10/04/18 12:54, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:59:18AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >> I meant just the test you did. > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003212255.gb28...@zn.tnic I see. But there you write, the machine does boot. While her

Re: x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address (ptrval)/0xc00a0000

2018-10-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 10/05/18 11:27, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Joerg Roedel wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 11:22:55PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 04:55:19PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Sorry for the delay and thanks for the data. A quick di

unwind_init() takes 100 ms

2018-10-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Josh, dear Linux folks, Trying to decrease the boot time of the 64-bit Linux kernel (Linux 4.19-rc7 (0238df64)) on a Asus F2A85-M PRO with an AMD processor, I noticed `unwind_init()` called from `setup_arch()` `arch/x86/kernel/setup.c` takes over 100 ms to initialize according to Linux

NULL pointer dereference in msi_set_mask_bit

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On a MSI B350M MORTAR with AMD Ryzen 3 2200g (Raven) with Linux 4.18-rc5+ and Debian Sid/unstable the system freezes with the messages below. ``` $ git log --oneline -1 30b06abfb92b (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Merge tag 'pinctrl-v4.18-3' of git://git.kernel.o

general protection fault with prefetch_freepointer

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux, Loading the amdgpu module on Ryzen 3 2{2,4}00G (Raven) systems sometimes causes a general protection fault [1]. At least on my system I am unable to reliably reproduce the issue. ``` [ 35.265941] kfd kfd: kgd2kfd_probe failed [ 35.537445] general protection fault: [#1] SMP N

Re: NULL pointer dereference in msi_set_mask_bit

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, dear Bjorn, Thank you for your quick responses. On 07/18/18 17:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> [+cc Marc, Thomas] > > Uurgh. That's definitely what I need right now ... :) > >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:28:

Re: NULL pointer dereference in msi_set_mask_bit

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Menzel
[I removed the folks from the unrelated patches.] Dear Thomas, On 07/18/18 17:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 07/18/18 17:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>>> 93.885: [ 23.020572] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL point

Re: NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!! on Dell XPS 13 9360

2024-08-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Anna-Maria, Thank you very much for the support. I was finally able to collect the data you asked for. Am 09.04.24 um 09:57 schrieb Anna-Maria Behnsen: Paul Menzel writes: […] Am 08.04.24 um 12:10 schrieb Anna-Maria Behnsen: Paul Menzel writes: On Dell XPS 13 9360/0596KF, BIOS

Re: NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!! on Dell XPS 13 9360

2024-08-21 Thread Paul Menzel
[Added URLs for files.] Am 21.08.24 um 10:20 schrieb Paul Menzel: Dear Anna-Maria, Thank you very much for the support. I was finally able to collect the data you asked for. Am 09.04.24 um 09:57 schrieb Anna-Maria Behnsen: Paul Menzel writes: […] Am 08.04.24 um 12:10 schrieb Anna

acpi PNP0A03:00: fail to add MMCONFIG information, can't access extended PCI configuration space under this bridge.

2021-02-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, All the way up to QEMU emulator version 5.2.0 (Debian 1:5.2+dfsg-5) and Linux 5.10.13, Linux logs the warning below: acpi PNP0A03:00: fail to add MMCONFIG information, can't access extended PCI configuration space under this bridge. One way to reproduce it: qemu-

smpboot: CPU numbers printed as warning

2021-02-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using Linux 5.10.13 (and before), looking at the Linux kernel warnings, the CPU numbers show up. For example with 12 cpus/threads: ``` $ sudo dmesg --level=warn [0.216103] #2 [0.220105] #3 [0.224103] #4 [0.228104] #5 [0.232110] #6 [0.236101]

Re: smpboot: CPU numbers printed as warning

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Petr, Thank you for the quick reply. Am 16.02.21 um 10:49 schrieb Petr Mladek: On Mon 2021-02-15 20:22:34, Paul Menzel wrote: Using Linux 5.10.13 (and before), looking at the Linux kernel warnings, the CPU numbers show up. For example with 12 cpus/threads: ``` $ sudo dmesg --level

Re: smpboot: CPU numbers printed as warning

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, dear Petr, Am 16.02.21 um 11:14 schrieb Borislav Petkov: On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:49:04AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: Also you should add '\n' into the previous string to make the behavior clear. It will always be printed on a new line when pr_info() is used. This was made to

Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time (was: [systemd-devel] bootloader time on a non-EFI bootloader)

2015-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
[CC’ing coreboot, GRUB, SeaBIOS, Syslinux project and Linux kernel] Am Montag, den 16.03.2015, 11:38 +0100 schrieb Kay Sievers: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog wrote: > > I would like to pass the time it was spent in bootloader to systemd. > > Is there a kernel command l

Decrease boot time with AHCI drives?

2018-04-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I am trying to decrease the boot time of the Linux kernel so the LUKS passphrase dialog (in the initrd) is shown as quickly as possible. The devices I test with is a Lenovo X60 and ASRock E350M1 both running with coreboot and the GRUB payload. The goal is to do this without

Re: `do_IRQ: 1.55 No irq handler for vector` on ASRock E350M1

2018-03-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Yazen, Eric, Tom, On 02/26/18 17:42, Tom Lendacky wrote: On 2/26/2018 10:37 AM, Morton, Eric wrote: Yazen dug out PLAT-21393 as sounding like this issue. I haven't had a chance to digest it. Yes, internally to AMD, that was the bug that tracked the issue I was referring to. If you c

Reduce init time of `lp_init()` and `ppdev_init()`

2018-03-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I am trying to reduce the start-up time of the Linux kernel on an old Lenovo X60. Looking through the time stamps of Linux 4.16-rc7+, the modules `lp` and `ppdev` both take more than ten milliseconds to initialize according to `initcall_debug`. ``` [8.337692] calling

Status of aspeed-bmc-opp-firestone (IBM S822LC)

2018-05-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Joel, dear Linux folks, We have an IBM S822LC system (Firestone(?)). Building of OpenBMC currently fails, as the not everything was ported from dev-4.10 to dev-4.13 [1], and therefore a file cannot be found. Looking at upstream Linux, there are BMCs for Power 8 systems, like Palmetto,

`ucsi_acpi: probe of USBC000:00 failed with error -12` on Dell XPS 13 9370

2018-05-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Linux 4.17-rc5 shows the error below on the Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable. ``` […] [0.440240] usb: port power management may be unreliable [0.441358] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [0.441367] usbcore: registered new interface dri

Re: `ucsi_acpi: probe of USBC000:00 failed with error -12` on Dell XPS 13 9370

2018-05-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, As always, thank you for the prompt response. On 05/15/18 18:00, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:34:03PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Linux 4.17-rc5 shows the error below on the Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable. ``` […] [0.440240] usb: port power management

Re: `ucsi_acpi: probe of USBC000:00 failed with error -12` on Dell XPS 13 9370

2018-05-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Heikki, On 05/16/18 13:58, Heikki Krogerus wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:02:26AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 06:47:37PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 05/15/18 18:00, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:34:03PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Linux 4.17-rc5

Re: Regression 4.17-rc1: SSD doesn properly resume causing system hang (NULL pointer dereference)

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bart, On 04/24/18 19:31, Bart Van Assche wrote: On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 19:10 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Please find the configuration file attached. The log only has `initcall_debug no_console_suspend` added. What I was looking for in the .config is the following: CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT

Re: Regression 4.17-rc1: SSD doesn properly resume causing system hang (NULL pointer dereference)

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bart, Am 24.04.2018 um 23:17 schrieb Bart Van Assche: On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 23:04 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: I applied your change, and rebuilt the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, it looks like, it didn’t make a difference. In that case I don't know what is causing the failure. Can yo

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