Re: Regression 4.17-rc1: SSD doesn’t properly resume causing system hang (NULL pointer dereference)

2018-04-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bart, On 04/25/18 14:26, Bart Van Assche wrote: On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 07:37 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: 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

Probe HD-audio devices in parallel (was: azx_probe() called twice)

2018-04-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 04/25/18 14:34, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:29:31 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 04/25/18 13:58, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:48:27 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: With the attached debug patch, `azx_probe()` seems to have been called twice on the

Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`

2018-04-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Theodore, Am 25.04.2018 um 09:41 schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o: Does this help on your system? Thank you, after figuring out how to apply the paste, yes it helped on my Lenovo X60. commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce Author: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed Apr 25 01:12:32 2018 -040

Re: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed with sever AMD Ryzen processor (2200G, 2400G, Ryzen 7 1700)

2019-01-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tom, On 01/24/19 00:33, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: > On 1/23/19 6:56 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 01/22/19 21:24, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: >>> On 1/22/19 10:53 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >>>> [Adding Tom to CC] >> >>>> On 01/14/19 11:09, Paul Me

Re: Reading `/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak` takes 3 s and content not shown

2019-03-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Christophe, On 26.03.19 13:55, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 26/03/2019 à 13:49, Paul Menzel a écrit : On 19.02.19 10:44, Paul Menzel wrote: On a the IBM S822LC (8335-GTA) with Ubuntu 18.10, and Linux 5.0-rc5+ accessing `/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak` takes a long time. According to

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Suravee, Thank you for your reply. Am 22.02.21 um 18:59 schrieb Suravee Suthikulpanit: This fix has been accepted in the upstream recently. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu.git/commit/?h=x86/amd Indeed. Linux pulled also pulled this [1]. Could you please g

Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: nuvoton: Fix flash layout

2021-02-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Anton, Thank you for your patch. Am 18.02.21 um 13:25 schrieb gmo...@google.com: From: "Anton D. Kachalov" This change satisfy OpenBMC requirements for flash layout. Can you please list these requirements in the commit message? Maybe, also add OpenBMC to the commit message summary.

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-26 Thread Paul Menzel
[cc: +suravee, +jörg] Dear Alex, dear Shuah, dear Suravee, dear Jörg, Am 03.06.20 um 08:54 schrieb Alexander Monakov: On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Shuah Khan wrote: I changed the logic to read config to get max banks and counters before checking if counters are writable and tried writing to all. The

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2020-05-31 Thread Paul Menzel
caf310d16cc5e2f851c048cd597f5437013368 Thank you very much for fixing this issue, which is almost two years old for me. Tested-by: Paul Menzel MSI MSI MS-7A37/B350M MORTAR with AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20180727102710.ga6...@8bytes.org/ Kind regards, Paul [1

[PATCH] init/Kconfig: Fix CPU number in LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT description

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
first time. My guess is, that the description was written with the configuration values used in the SUSE in mind. Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 23b2899f7f ("printk: allow increasing the ring buffer depending on the number of CPUs") Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel

Re: Start messages in message buffer missing (dmesg)

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 11.08.20 um 00:13 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 21.07.20 um 17:20 schrieb Paul Menzel: On two identical Dell PowerEdge T440 with Linux 5.4.39 and systemd 242 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers [8086:2020] (rev 07) running `dmesg

[PATCH v2 1/2] init/Kconfig: Fix CPU number in LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT description

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Add Reviewed-by tag init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index d6a0b31b13dc..9dc607e3806f 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT

[PATCH v2 2/2] init/Kconfig: Increase default log buffer size from 128 KB to 512 KB

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
a lot of lines. Therefore, increase the default from 128 KB to 512 KB. Anyone, with limited memory, can still lower it. Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- v2: New patch in series. Is sending it to linux-kernel enough? If not, who to send it also to? init/Kconfig

pci 0000:00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid

2020-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
[Bringing the issue up on the list in case the Linux Bugzilla is not monitored/used.] Dear Linux folks, On Intel Tiger Lake Dell laptop, Linux logs the error below [1]. [0.507307] pci :00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid [0.508835] pci :00:07.2: DPC: RP PIO log

Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Trying to reduce the boot time of standard distributions, I would like to get rid of the initrd. The initrd is for mounting the root file system and on most end user systems with standard distributions that means loading the bus driver for the drive and the file system drive

Re: Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Enrico, Am 08.12.20 um 10:38 schrieb Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult: On 08.12.20 10:24, Paul Menzel wrote: Similar to passing firmware and microcode update files to Linux or building these into the Linux kernel image, would it be possible to append the required modules to the Linux

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence

2021-01-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, dear Greg, Am 05.01.21 um 18:25 schrieb Greg KH: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 03.11.20 um 19:39 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:35:09 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: According to *Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1* [3], it

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] PCI: add Intel i210 quirk

2020-12-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Michael, Thank you for the patch. Maybe the summary could be more specific: > PCI: Fix Intel i210 by avoiding overlapping of BARs Am 30.12.20 um 18:28 schrieb Michael Walle: The Intel i210 doesn't work if the Expansion ROM BAR overlaps with another BAR. Networking won't work at all and

120 s delay during boot with smaller initrd

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using an initrd created by tiny-initramfs [1], the boot stalls for two minutes *after* the initrd has run and systemd has already started. An F2FS root partition is used. ``` [0.00] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xa0b, date = 2010-09-28 [0.

Marvell: hw perfevents: unable to count PMU IRQs

2021-03-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Marvell Prestera switch, Linux 5.10.4 prints the error (with an additional info level message) below. [0.00] Linux version 5.10.4 (robimarko@onlbuilder9) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.28) #1 S

[PATCH] kexec: Add kexec reboot string

2021-03-04 Thread Paul Menzel
From: Joe LeVeque The purpose is to notify the kernel module for fast reboot. Upstream a patch from the SONiC network operating system [1]. [1]: https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/46 Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH RESEND][next] ice: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang

2021-03-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Gustavo, Thank you for working on that. Am 05.03.21 um 09:52 schrieb Gustavo A. R. Silva: In preparation to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, fix a warning by explicitly adding a break statement instead of just letting the code fall through to the next case. It would be nice to h

Re: Marvell: hw perfevents: unable to count PMU IRQs

2021-03-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Robin, Thank you for the quick reply. Am 26.03.21 um 13:29 schrieb Robin Murphy: On 2021-03-25 21:39, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Marvell Prestera switch, Linux 5.10.4 prints the error (with an additional info level message) below. [    0.00] Linux version 5.10.4 (robimarko

Re: [regression 5.4.97 → 5.10.24]: raid6 avx2x4 speed drops from 18429 MB/s to 6155 MB/s

2021-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, Am 02.04.21 um 16:05 schrieb Borislav Petkov: On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:33:51AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On an two socket AMD EPYC 7601, we noticed a decrease in raid6 avx2x4 speed shown at the beginning of the boot. 5.4.955.10.24

Re: OT: Processor recommendation for RAID6

2021-04-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Roger, Thank you for your response. Am 02.04.21 um 16:45 schrieb Roger Heflin: On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 4:13 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Are these values a good benchmark for comparing processors? After two years, yes they are. I created 16 10 GB files in `/dev/shm`, set them up as loop

[regression 5.4.97 → 5.10.24]: raid6 avx2x4 speed drops from 18429 MB/s to 6155 MB/s

2021-04-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On an two socket AMD EPYC 7601, we noticed a decrease in raid6 avx2x4 speed shown at the beginning of the boot. 5.4.955.10.24 -- raid6: avx2x4 gen() 18429 MB/s 6155 MB/s raid6: avx2x4 xor()6

Re: OT: Processor recommendation for RAID6

2021-04-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 08.04.19 um 18:34 schrieb Paul Menzel: On 04/08/19 12:33, Paul Menzel wrote: Can you share your experiences, which processors you choose for your RAID6 systems? I am particularly interested in Intel alternatives? Are AMD EPYC processors good alternatives for file

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: scan: Turn off unused power resources during initialization

2021-03-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rafael, Am 17.03.21 um 17:49 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: From: Rafael J. Wysocki It is reported that on certain platforms unused ACPI power resources that have not been explicitly turned off prevent the platform from reaching the lowest power state in suspend-to-idle which leads to excess

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix extended features logging

2021-04-10 Thread Paul Menzel
e same solution is used in EFI and uvesafb drivers. Thank you for fixing this. Fixes: 9a295ff0ffc9 ("iommu/amd: Print extended features in one line to fix divergent log levels") Signed-off-by: Alexander Monakov Cc: Paul Menzel Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit Cc: io...@lists

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Alexander, Am 01.06.20 um 04:48 schrieb Paul Menzel: […] Am 31.05.20 um 09:22 schrieb Alexander Monakov: Adding Shuah Khan to Cc: I've noticed you've seen this issue on Ryzen 2400GE; can you have a look at the patch? Would be nice to know if it fixes the problem for you too.

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Suravee, Am 17.09.20 um 19:55 schrieb Alexander Monakov: On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote: Instead of blindly moving the code around to a spot that would just work, I am trying to understand what might be required here. In this case, the init_device_table_dma()should not

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Assign DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND and DPM_FLAG_MAY_SKIP_RESUME to speed up s2ram

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Chen, Thank you for the patch. Am 24.11.20 um 16:32 schrieb Chen Yu: The NIC is put in runtime suspend status when there is no wire connected. As a result, it is safe to keep this NIC in runtime suspended during s2ram because the system does not rely on the NIC plug event nor WOL to wake

What to do with `BERT: Error records from previous boot`?

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Intel Tiger Lake Dell XPS 13 9310 Linux 5.9.9 from Debian sid/unstable logged the messages below. Please find the whole log in the Linux bug tracker [1]. ``` kernel: BERT: Error records from previous boot: kernel: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal kernel: [Hard

Re: [SPECIFICATION RFC] The firmware and bootloader log specification

2020-12-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Wim, dear Daniel, First, thank you for including all parties in the discussion. Am 04.12.20 um 13:52 schrieb Wim Vervoorn: I agree with you. Using an existing standard is better than inventing a new one in this case. I think using the coreboot logging is a good idea as there is indeed a l

Re: [RFC PATCH] iwlwifi: yoyo: don't print failure if debug firmware is missing

2020-11-26 Thread Paul Menzel
[Sorry, I did not know where and how to import the thread, and only got the first message from Patchwork.] Dear Linux folks, Am 25.06.20 um 18:52 schrieb Wolfram Sang: Missing this firmware is not fatal, my wifi card still works. Even more, I couldn't find any documentation what it is or whe

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add kexec reboot string

2021-03-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Joe, Thank you for replying. Am 11.03.21 um 19:14 schrieb Joe LeVeque: Is this all your looking for? If not, please let me know. Signed-off-by: Joe LeVeque It’d be great if you answered Baoquan He’s question, how it’s actually used in SONiC. (I just sent the patch upstream to redu

Email from the future (was: [PATCH v2 RESEND 2/2] ARM: dts: Add board-specific compatible string to npcm750-evb devicetree)

2021-03-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tomer, Please note, your email date was around 11 minutes in the future. As it looks like you are using Google Mail, I am quite surprised by this. Kind regards, Paul

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] net: ixgbe: Fix memleak in ixgbe_configure_clsu32

2021-01-03 Thread Paul Menzel
l_fdir_entry(adapter, input, input->sw_idx); spin_unlock(&adapter->fdir_perfect_lock); if ((uhtid != 0x800) && (adapter->jump_tables[uhtid])) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel I wonder, in the non-error case, how `input` and `jump`

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence

2021-01-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, dear Greg, Am 03.11.20 um 19:39 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:35:09 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: According to *Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1* [3], it’s my understanding, that it is *not* required. The items (a), (b), and (c) are connected by a

r8169: Unconditionally disabling ASPM

2016-05-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Running the Firmware Test Suite (fwts) [1] on an ASRock E350M1, it suggests that ASPM should be enabled. The module r8169 disables ASPM since the commit below. commit ba04c7c93bbcb48ce880cf75b6e9dffcd79d4c7b Author: Stanislaw Gruszka Date:   Tue Feb 22 02:00:11 2011 +   

Re: Crash kernel with 256 MB reserved memory runs into OOM condition

2019-09-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dave, Thank you for your replies. On 2019-08-13 04:54, Dave Young wrote: > On 08/13/19 at 10:46am, Dave Young wrote: >> On 08/13/19 at 10:43am, Dave Young wrote: >>> On 08/12/19 at 11:50am, Michal Hocko wrote: >>>> On Mon 12-08-19 11:42:33, Paul Menzel wro

Could not read FW version, FW version command failed -5

2019-09-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tomas, Testing Fedora 30 with Linux 5.2.11 on an old Dell OptiPlex 980, Linux log the message below. [ 15.964298] mei mei::55213584-9a29-4916-badf-0fb7ed682aeb:01: Could not read FW version [ 15.964301] mei mei::55213584-9a29-4916-badf-0fb7ed682aeb:01: FW version command faile

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Menzel
[CC: +affected coreboot folks, +coreboot mailing list] Dear Thomas, More affected people discussed this issue on the coreboot mailing list [1]. On 2019-01-14 18:37, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: > On 1/14/19 11:09 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 01/14/19 18:00, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: >&

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: PM: Revert "ACPI / PM: Blacklist Low Power S0 Idle _DSM for Dell XPS13 9360"

2019-10-07 Thread Paul Menzel
en putting system into s0ix. As the NVME sleep behavior has been adjusted in d916b1be this is expected to be now resolved. 1. Please add, that it was the Hynix(?) SSD. 2. Please add the commit message summary of d916b1be. nvme-pci: use host managed power state for suspend Cc: 'Paul M

Reading `/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak` takes 3 s and content not shown

2019-02-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On a the IBM S822LC (8335-GTA) with Ubuntu 18.10, and Linux 5.0-rc5+ accessing `/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak` takes a long time. According to strace it takes three seconds. ``` $ sudo strace -tt -T cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak 10:35:49.861641 execve("/bin/cat", ["cat", "/sys/ke

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

2019-01-22 Thread Paul Menzel
[Adding Tom to CC] Dear Thomas, dear Tom, On 01/14/19 11:09, Paul Menzel wrote: > On 01/11/19 21:43, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, Paul Menzel wrote: >>> On 01/07/19 16:24, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>>> Linux 4.19.13 from Debian Sid/un

Re: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed with sever AMD Ryzen processor (2200G, 2400G, Ryzen 7 1700)

2019-01-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tom, On 01/22/19 21:24, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: > On 1/22/19 10:53 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> [Adding Tom to CC] >> On 01/14/19 11:09, Paul Menzel wrote: >> >>> On 01/11/19 21:43, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, Paul Men

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix TSC issues on (some) AMD Ryzen based systems

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jan, Thank you for adding me to the CC list. Am 29.01.19 um 11:23 schrieb Jan H. Schönherr: My newly acquired AMD Ryzen Threadripper based system seems to have some TSC quirks, which go away once the system is up. Given the discussion in https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/28/1356 I don't seem

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix TSC issues on (some) AMD Ryzen based systems

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jan, Am 29.01.19 um 20:33 schrieb Paul Menzel: Thank you for adding me to the CC list. Am 29.01.19 um 11:23 schrieb Jan H. Schönherr: My newly acquired AMD Ryzen Threadripper based system seems to have some TSC quirks, which go away once the system is up. Given the discussion in

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

2019-01-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 01/11/19 21:43, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 01/07/19 16:24, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> Linux 4.19.13 from Debian Sid/unstable logs the message below on the board >>>> MSI >>>> MS-7A37/B350

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-01-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, Thank you for checking this, and coming back with the results so quickly. On 01/14/19 18:00, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: > On 1/10/19 12:34 PM, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: >> On 1/10/19 10:49 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >>> Dear Boris, dear Thomas, >>> >>> &g

Re: [PATCH] Input: synaptics - add PNP IDs for Dell XPS models to forcepad

2019-01-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Benjamin, Thank you for chiming in. On 01/15/19 09:57, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:40 PM Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 04:04:36PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote: >>> On 1/11/19 7:40 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:54:30

Bluetooth: hci0: last event is not cmd complete (0x0f) with LG TV

2019-02-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, When trying to pair a Dell Latitude E7250 running Debian Sid/unstable with Linux 4.20 and GNOME 3.30 with an LG TV, after starting the pairing process the TV is listed. in Bluetooth dialog of GNOME setting. The TV displays the instructions below. Complete the next three s

Re: Bluetooth: hci0: last event is not cmd complete (0x0f) with LG TV

2019-02-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 01.02.19 22:34, Paul Menzel wrote: [attaching Linux messages, lspci and lsusb output] On 01.02.19 22:20, Paul Menzel wrote: When trying to pair a Dell Latitude E7250 running Debian Sid/unstable with Linux 4.20 and GNOME 3.30 with an LG TV, after starting the pairing

Re: ipmi_si: 90 s delay in system start with 4.14.94, but not 4.18.6

2019-01-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Corey, On 01/22/19 21:58, Corey Minyard wrote: > On 1/22/19 10:17 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Using Linux 4.14.94 on a HP EliteDesk 705 G4 MT desktop system, there >> is a 100 s delay during boot. >> >> ``` >> [    0.00] Linux version 4.14.94.mx6

[PATCH] ipmi:pci: Blacklist a Realtek "IPMI" device

2019-01-23 Thread Paul Menzel
ot delay on the HP EliteDesk 705 G4 MT with Linux 4.14.94. ] Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 12 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index c04aa11f0e21..6d18f8090cea 10064

[PATCH v2] ipmi:pci: Blacklist a Realtek "IPMI" device

2019-01-23 Thread Paul Menzel
ot delay on the HP EliteDesk 705 G4 MT with Linux 4.14.94. ] Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Use tabs. Sorry for messing that up. drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 12 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_

r8169: Link only up after 16 s (A link change request failed with some changes committed already. Interface enp3s0 may have been left with an inconsistent configuration, please check.)

2019-05-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I optimized the Linux kernel configuration on my ASRock E350M1, and it now boots really fast. Unfortunately, that seems to cause the network driver to hit some corner case, so that the link is supposedly down, although it should be up. The cable is plugged in the whole time. `

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Make speed detection on hotplugging cable more reliable

2019-07-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kai-Heng, Thank you for the patch. On 7/15/19 10:43 AM, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > After hotplugging an 1Gbps ethernet cable with 1Gbps link partner, the > MII_BMSR may reports 10Mbps, renders the network rather slow. s/may reports/may report/ s/renders/rendering/ > The issue has much lower f

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Make speed detection on hotplugging cable more reliable

2019-07-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kai Heng, (with or without hyphen?) On 7/15/19 11:00 AM, Kai Heng Feng wrote: > at 4:52 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 7/15/19 10:43 AM, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: >>> After hotplugging an 1Gbps ethernet cable with 1Gbps link partner, the >>> MII_BMSR may reports

Expanded resource Reserved due to conflict with PCI Bus 0000:00

2019-07-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On a MSI B350M MORTAR with AMD Ryzen 3 2200G (Raven) with Linux 5.2+, Linux logs the message below. Expanded resource Reserved due to conflict with PCI Bus :00 I can’t remember seeing this before. Do you know, if there were code changes causing this new message? I won’

warning: ‘memset’ offset [197, 448] from the object at ‘boot_params’ is out of the bounds of referenced subobject ‘ext_ramdisk_image’ with type, ‘unsigned int’ at offset 192 [-Warray-bounds]

2019-08-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, No idea, if you are interested in these reports. Building Linux 5.3-rc4, GCC 9.2.0 shows the warning below. ``` In file included from arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:35: In function ‘sanitize_boot_params’, inlined from ‘copy_bootdata’ at arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:391:2: ./arch/x86/

Re: [Linux 5.2.7] powertop --auto-tune: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000

2019-08-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 10.08.19 19:31, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Paul Menzel wrote: I have no idea, who to report this to, so I please refer me to the correct list. I have no idea yet either :) With Linux 5.2.7 from Debian Sid/unstable and PowerTOP 2.10, executing sudo

Re: [Linux 5.2.x] /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/power/cpu_idle/id: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000

2019-08-10 Thread Paul Menzel
[+ INTEL IDLE DRIVER] Dear Linux folks, On 10.08.19 20:28, Paul Menzel wrote: On 10.08.19 19:31, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Paul Menzel wrote: I have no idea, who to report this to, so I please refer me to the correct list. I have no idea yet either :) With Linux

Re: Plugged in headphones ignored

2019-07-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 6/27/19 1:02 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > On a Dell OptiPlex 5040 with Linux 5.2-rc6 plugging in a > head phone into the front case connector, it is detected > just fine and Xfce shows a notification. > > Then logging out, turning off the monitor connected ove

Device to write to all (serial) consoles

2019-08-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On a lot of devices, like servers, you have more than one serial console, and you do not always know, how they are numbered. Therefore, we start a console on ttyS0 and ttyS1. In user space, we also would like to write to both consoles to not worry about the numbering. Writing t

Re: Kernel 4.14 + has 100 times higher IO latency than Kernel 4.4 with raid1

2019-08-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jinpu, On 02.08.19 16:48, Jinpu Wang wrote: We found a problem regarding much higher IO latency when running kernel 4.4.131 compare to 4.14.133, tried with latest upstream 5.3-rc2, same result. Reproducer: 1 create md raid1 with 2 ram disks: sudo mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 -e1.2 --bitmap=

Re: Device to write to all (serial) consoles

2019-08-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, On 02.08.19 18:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 03:23:08PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On a lot of devices, like servers, you have more than one serial console, and you do not always know, how they are numbered. Therefore, we start a console on ttyS0 and ttyS1

Unrelated question and threading (was: Bisected: Kernel 4.14 + has 3 times higher write IO latency than Kernel 4.4 with raid1)

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rick, It looks like your message is unrelated to the thread at hand. Therefore, please start a new thread by *not* using the reply feature, but create a new message in your mail program (MUA). Please read some mailing list etiquettes on the Web like [1]. Kind regards, Paul [1]: htt

[Regression] pcie_wait_for_link_delay (1132.853 ms @ 5039.414431)

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mika, dear Rafael, Commit c2bf1fc2 (PCI: Add missing link delays required by the PCIe spec) [1] increases the resume time from ACPI S3 on a desktop system Dell OptiPlex 5040 by one second. It looks like this is expected from the commit message, but breaks existing systems with boot time req

Re: [Regression] pcie_wait_for_link_delay (1132.853 ms @ 5039.414431)

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mika, Thank you for your quick reply. On 06.08.19 11:36, Mika Westerberg wrote: > +Nicholas and Matthias > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Commit c2bf1fc2 (PCI: Add missing link delays required by the PCIe spec) [1] >> increases

[PATCH] powerpc/kvm: Mark expected switch fall-through

2019-07-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:53:10 +0200 Fix the error below triggered by `-Wimplicit-fallthrough`, by tagging it as an expected fall-through. arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu.c: In function ‘kvmppc_mmu_book3s_32_xlate_pte’: arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu.c:241:21: error: this statement may f

Re: [Regression] pcie_wait_for_link_delay (1132.853 ms @ 5039.414431)

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mika, On 06.08.19 13:31, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:57:26AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 06.08.19 11:36, Mika Westerberg wrote: >>> +Nicholas and Matthias >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrot

MDI errors during resume from ACPI S3 (suspend to ram)

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Trying to decrease the resume time of Linux 5.3-rc3 on the Dell OptiPlex 5040 with the device below $ lspci -nn -s 00:1f.6 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V [8086:15b8] (rev 31) pm-graph’s script `sleepgraph.py` shows

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] MDI errors during resume from ACPI S3 (suspend to ram)

2019-08-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Sasha, On 07.08.19 09:23, Neftin, Sasha wrote: > On 8/6/2019 18:53, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Paul Menzel >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 10:36 AM >>> To: Jeff Kirsher >>> Cc: intel-wired

Re: Driver has suspect GRO implementation, TCP performance may be compromised.

2019-07-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Eric, Sorry for the late reply. On 5/29/19 6:00 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 7:49 AM Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 05/28/19 19:18, Eric Dumazet wrote: >>> On 5/28/19 8:42 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> >>>> Occasionally, Linux outputs the m

Plugged in headphones ignored

2019-06-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On a Dell OptiPlex 5040 with Linux 5.2-rc6 plugging in a head phone into the front case connector, it is detected just fine and Xfce shows a notification. Then logging out, turning off the monitor connected over DisplayPort at the end of the day, and turning the monitor back on

Regression caused by commit c54f24e3 (nfsd: fix performance-limiting session calculation)

2019-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bruce, Could it be that commit c54f24e3 (nfsd: fix performance-limiting session calculation) causes a regression on big memory machines (1 TB)? From c54f24e338ed2a35218f117a4a1afb5f9e2b4e64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:47:00 -0500 Subject:

Re: Regression caused by commit c54f24e3 (nfsd: fix performance-limiting session calculation)

2019-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bruce, On 7/2/19 11:59 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > Could it be that commit c54f24e3 (nfsd: fix performance-limiting > session calculation) causes a regression on big memory machines (1 > TB)? > >> From c54f24e338ed2a35218f117a4a1afb5f9e2b4e64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

[PATCH] nfsd: Fix overflow causing non-working mounts on 1 TB machines

2019-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- 1. No, idea if `min_t()` arguments also need updating. 2. Instead of `unsigned long`, should `size_t` be used? fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index 618e66078

Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Fix overflow causing non-working mounts on 1 TB machines

2019-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bruce, On 7/3/19 5:56 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Good catch! And thanks for the detailed explanation. Applying for 5.2 > and stable. Thanks. Please note, that in the last part are some guesses, and I am not well versed in the terminology. So please feel free to reword the commit message

5.0-rc1 fails to build with vga/vgaarb.c:286:14: error: ‘PCI_VGA_STATE_CHANGE_DECODES’ undeclared

2019-01-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Building Linux 5.0-rc1 fails with the errors below. Please find the configuration file attached. ``` $ make -j120 […] drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c: In function ‘__vga_tryget’: drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c:286:14: error: ‘PCI_VGA_STATE_CHANGE_DECODES’ undeclared (first use in this func

Re: [PATCH] drm: Require PCI for selecting VGA_ARB.

2019-01-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Maarten, Thank you very much for the quick response. On 01/08/19 16:37, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > Op 08-01-2019 om 16:07 schreef Paul Menzel: >> Building Linux 5.0-rc1 fails with the errors below. Please find the >> configuration file attached. >> >> ``` >&g

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jiri, dear Thomas, dear Borislav, On 01/09/19 13:06, Paul Menzel wrote: > On 01/04/19 17:42, Jiri Kosina wrote: >> >> [ added some CCs ] > > Thank you for your reply and taking care of that. I am sorry for the > late reply. It took a while to test this. >

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 01/09/19 14:16, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Paul Menzel wrote: >> I get the same with microcode updates applied. >> >> $ dmesg | grep 'microcode: CPU0: patch_level' >> [3.809210] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 01/09/19 15:29, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: > On 1/9/19 7:35 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 01/09/19 14:16, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Paul Menzel wrote: >>>> I get the same with microcode updates applied. >>&

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On 01/09/19 17:15, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: > On 1/9/19 8:34 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 01/09/19 15:29, Lendacky, Thomas wrote: >>> On 1/9/19 7:35 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> >>>> On 01/09/19 14:16, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> >&

Re: snd_hda_codec_hdmi: `hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec`

2019-02-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 02/13/19 16:12, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:58:44 +0100, > Paul Menzel wrote: >> >>> Why the i915 driver gets initialized *so late*? >> >> Maybe, because it’s built as a module? >> >> ``` >> $ grep I915

Re: snd_hda_codec_hdmi: `hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec`

2019-02-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 02/14/19 17:06, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:00:29 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: >> On 02/13/19 16:56, Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:42:19 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: >> >>>> On 02/13/19 16:12, Takashi Iwai wrote

Re: snd_hda_codec_hdmi: `hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec`

2019-02-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 02/18/19 16:38, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:17:30 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: >> >>>> Then, I built the HDA subsystem as a module, but that also did not help. >>>> The DRM subsystem is started after the HD-audio subsystem. >>

Warning at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c:5625 ath10k_bss_info_changed

2019-03-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Resuming from ACPI S3 on the Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable, Linux 4.19.20 showed the warning below. It’s not reproducible. ``` [0.00] Linux version 4.19.0-3-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 8.2.0 (Debian 8.2.0-20)) #1 SMP Debian 4.19.20-1

`SATA_AHCI` not selected by default with `make olddefconfig`

2019-01-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, There were some PCI Kconfig changes, which seem to cause problems with components depending on PCI. With the attached minimal config, running `make olddefconfig` on Linux 4.20 and older caused `SATA_AHCI` to be selected. But, with Linux 5.0-rc1 it is not selected. Kind regards

Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

2019-01-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Boris, dear Thomas, On 01/10/19 17:00, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:57:40PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Thank you very much. Indeed, the machine does not crash. I used Linus’ >> master branch for testing, and applied your patch on top. Please find

Symbols not found for some files

2018-10-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, For profiling the boot on my Debian Sid/unstable system (32-bit user space), the following service unit is used. ``` $ systemctl cat perf # /etc/systemd/system/perf.service [Unit] Description=Perf 10 s DefaultDependencies=no [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/perf record -

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

2018-06-07 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 Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- tools/build/Buil

How to move serial8250_init out of the critical path to decrease boot time?

2018-04-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Menzel Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 08:57:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tty/serial/8250: Request driver probe from an async task Currently, according to `initcall_debug` running `serial8250_init` takes around 33 ms on a Lenovo X60 and TUXEDO Book BU1406. As this is in

Re: How to disable Linux kernel self-extraction (KERNEL_GZIP, KERNEL_BZIP2, …)?

2018-04-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Pavel, Am 22.04.2018 um 12:20 schrieb Pavel Machek: On Fri 2018-04-20 16:36:00, Paul Menzel wrote: I try to decrease boot time, and my system has an SSD and enough space, so loading 18 instead of 12 MB doesn’t make a difference, but the self-extraction is noticeable. So, I like to

[PATCH] ALSA: hda: Request driver probe from an async task

2018-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
From: Paul Menzel Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:28:43 +0100 On an ASRock E350M1, with Linux 4.17-rc1 according to `initcall_debug` calling `azx_driver_init` takes sometimes more than a few milliseconds, and up to 200 ms. ``` [2.892598] calling azx_driver_init+0x0/0xfe4 [snd_hda_intel] @ 218

Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Request driver probe from an async task

2018-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 04/23/18 14:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:05:52 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: From: Paul Menzel Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:28:43 +0100 On an ASRock E350M1, with Linux 4.17-rc1 according to `initcall_debug` calling `azx_driver_init` takes sometimes more than a

Re: How to disable Linux kernel self-extraction (KERNEL_GZIP, KERNEL_BZIP2, …)?

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Adam, Thank you very much to join the discussion. On 04/24/18 04:08, Adam Borowski wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 07:02:30PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: I try to decrease boot time, and my system has an SSD and enough space, so loading 18 instead of 12 MB doesn’t make a difference, but th

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