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

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 04/24/18 14:15, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:59:58 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 04/23/18 14:33, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:30:36 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 04/23/18 14:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:05:52 +0200, Paul

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

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Theodore, On 04/24/18 17:49, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 09:56:21AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Since Linux 4.17-rcX, Linux spams a lot of `random: get_random_u32 called from` messages. I bel

Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

2018-05-06 Thread Paul Menzel
70820b-85a0-172b-7230-3a44524e6...@molgen.mpg.de Reported-by: Paul Menzel Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c index 18a42f8f5dc5..e70eba5ea906 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c +++ b/drivers/pc

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

2018-04-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, 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 disable it. From `init/Kconfig`: The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable

How to disable tracing at runtime from the Linux kernel command line?

2018-04-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I am trying to reduce the boot time of a standard Linux distribution kernel. Currently, distributions – at least Debian und Ubuntu – enable function tracing. ``` CONFIG_FTRACE=y CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING=y ``` This is gre

Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

2018-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Command Completed status after writing to the Slot Control register. Link: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-e7-v2-spec-update.html Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8770820b-85a0-172b-7230-3a44524e6...@molgen.mpg.de

Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

2018-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bjorn, Am 08.05.2018 um 14:34 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 08:59:34AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 07.05.2018 um 23:33 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:33:27AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: commit b0d6f2230e12c85ae3b65a854a53c67c7c1f6406 Author: Bjorn

Re: Regression on Dell XPS13

2017-01-18 Thread Paul Menzel
he OS. That is fine, but then it shouldn’t be the default, until most of these bugs are identified and fixed. Also, the commit message should make that more clear, and in my opinion the tested devices be listed. -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmen...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Tu

Re: [char-misc for 4.10-rc4 V2] mei: bus: enable OS version only for SPT and newer

2017-01-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, On 2017-01-13 14:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:26:06PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: On 01/11/17 15:12, Winkler, Tomas wrote: > > > On 01/11/17 10:24, Winkler, Tomas wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 a

Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

2017-01-31 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, dear Mario, On 01/27/17 18:16, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:b...@alien8.de] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 11:11 AM To: Paul Menzel Cc: Ashok Raj ; Linux Kernel Mailing List ; Thorsten Leemhuis ; Len Brown ; Tony

Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

2017-01-09 Thread Paul Menzel
On 01/06/17 17:54, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 07:58:31AM -0800, Raj, Ashok wrote: Looks like we don't need a return value from therm_throt_process(), we can fix that as void as well. Right you are, here's v2: --- From a8151fa6f18c2605eb7972061234f05e79b372c4 Mon Sep 17 00:

Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

2017-01-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Boris, On 01/09/17 12:05, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: […] Also, is that just for MacBookPro11,3? The MCE for the Dell XPS13 looks different from what I see, doesn’t it? Yes, yours is different. I'm still waiting for y

Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

2017-01-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ashosk, dear Borislav, On 01/05/17 02:12, Raj, Ashok wrote: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 142 This is Kabylake Mobile Hardware event. This is not a software error. MCE 1 CPU 0 BANK 7 MISC 7880018086 ADDR fef1ce40 TIME 1483543069 Wed Jan 4 16:17:49 2017 MCG status: MCi status: Erro

Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

2017-01-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ashok, On 01/09/17 20:23, Raj, Ashok wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: On 01/05/17 02:12, Raj, Ashok wrote: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 142 This is Kabylake Mobile Hardware event. This is not a software error. MCE 1 CPU 0 BANK 7 MISC

Re: Ordering problems with 3ware controller

2016-11-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 11/16/16 22:24, Donald Buczek wrote: On 10.11.2016 14:59, Martin K. Petersen wrote: "Paul" == Paul Menzel writes: Linux does not provide device discovery ordering guarantees. You need to fix your scripts to use UUIDs, filesystem labels, or DM devices to

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] bnx2: Wait for in-flight DMA to complete at probe stage

2016-11-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Baoquan, On 11/13/16 06:01, Baoquan He wrote: This is v2 post. In commit 3e1be7a ("bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"), firmware requesting code was moved from open stage to probe stage. The reason is in kdump kernel hardware iommu need device be reset in driver probe stage,

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] bnx2: Wait for in-flight DMA to complete at probe stage

2016-11-14 Thread Paul Menzel
On 11/14/16 18:28, David Miller wrote: From: Paul Menzel Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:25:47 +0100 On 11/13/16 06:01, Baoquan He wrote: This is v2 post. In commit 3e1be7a ("bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"), firmware requesting code was moved from open stage to probe

Re: bnx2: broken firware loading

2016-11-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jay, On 11/10/16 19:19, Jay Rouman wrote: Did this get pushed upstream? I see a new patch for 4.8.7 but the BNX2 regression doesn't seem to be fixed. Or am I missing something? I don’t think Baoquan’s patch is ready yet. I guess he will put you in the receivers list, once he sends it

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"

2016-11-11 Thread Paul Menzel
inclusion into the stable Linux kernel. Acked-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul

Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`

2016-11-27 Thread Paul Menzel
that. > > > > I would be interested to see some reclaim tracepoints enabled. Could you > > try that out? At least mm_shrink_slab_{start,end} and > > mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive. This should tell us more about how the > > reclaim behaved. > > We'll try that tomorrow! Unfortunately, looking today at `trace`, the corresponding messages have already been thrown out the buffer. We continue trying. Kind regards, Paul Menzel

Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`

2016-11-28 Thread Paul Menzel
630 @ 2.30GHz. So that shouldn’t have been a problem. Kind regards, Paul Menzel

Re: Question regarding power button of Dell XPS13

2017-01-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thorsten, On 12/27/16 08:48, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Lo! On 23.12.2016 13:36, Paul Menzel wrote: I heard that you both have a Dell XPS13. I got the “revision” 9360, and installed Debian Stretch/testing on it with Linux 4.8.15 and Linux 4.9-rc8. When pressing the power button the GNOME

Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

2017-01-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, The logs contain the following messages. From Linux 4.10-rc2+ (0f64df301240 Merge branch 'parisc-4.10-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux): Jan 04 16:17:51 xps13 kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 6: ee4

Question regarding power button of Dell XPS13

2016-12-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linus, dear Len, I heard that you both have a Dell XPS13. I got the “revision” 9360, and installed Debian Stretch/testing on it with Linux 4.8.15 and Linux 4.9-rc8. When pressing the power button the GNOME dialog, asking what to do (restart, power off, …) doesn’t appear. Neither `xev`

Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`

2016-11-30 Thread Paul Menzel
On 11/30/16 12:54, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 03:53:20AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: >>> [CCing Paul] >>> >>> On Wed 30-11-16 11:28:34, Donald Buczek wrote: >>> [...] shrink_active_list gets and releases

Re: [PATCH] acpi: fix incompatibility with mcount-based function graph tracing

2017-03-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Josh, On 2017-03-16 14:56, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: Paul Menzel reported a warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 774 at /build/linux-ROBWaj/linux-4.9.13/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c:233 ftrace_return_to_handler+0x1aa/0x1e0 Bad frame pointer: expected f6919d98, received f6919db0 from

Re: [PATCH] acpi: fix incompatibility with mcount-based function graph tracing

2017-03-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Josh, On 2017-03-21 21:44, Paul Menzel wrote: On 2017-03-16 14:56, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: Paul Menzel reported a warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 774 at /build/linux-ROBWaj/linux-4.9.13/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c:233 ftrace_return_to_handler+0x1aa/0x1e0 Bad frame pointer

checkpatch: Question regarding asmlinkage and storage class

2017-03-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear checkpatch developers, The coreboot project started using checkpatch.pl, and now some effort is going into fixing issues pointed out by `checkpatch.pl`. The file `src/arch/x86/acpi_s3.c` in coreboot contains the code below. ```    205 void (*acpi_do_wakeup)(uintptr_t vector, u32 backup_so

Re: [coreboot] checkpatch: Question regarding asmlinkage and storage class

2017-03-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Joe, Am Sonntag, den 19.03.2017, 01:31 -0700 schrieb Joe Perches: > On Sat, 2017-03-18 at 13:15 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Dear checkpatch developers, > > > > > > The coreboot project started using checkpatch.pl, and now some effort > > is going

Re: [PATCH] ftrace/x86: fix x86-32 triple fault with graph tracing and suspend-to-ram

2017-03-27 Thread Paul Menzel
ould break.) - Track down load_ucode_ap()'s entire callee tree and mark all the functions 'notrace'. (Probably not realistic.) - Pause graph tracing in ftrace_suspend_notifier_call() or bringup_cpu() or __cpu_up(), and ensure that the pause facility can be queried from re

Kernel panic on Lenovo X60 with tracing enabled

2017-03-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Steven, dear Ingo, Hopefully, I am contacting the right people for my issue. Suspending a system with Linux 4.9.13 with tracing enabled, it fails with the screen still enabled, and the LED blinking. Attaching a serial console to the dock, shows the messages below. > […] [ 59.063238]

Re: Kernel panic on Lenovo X60 with tracing enabled

2017-03-09 Thread Paul Menzel
On 2017-03-09 17:29, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 10:16:02 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:36:30AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:12:28 +0100 > Paul Menzel wrote: > > Hopefully, I am contacting the right people

Re: Kernel panic on Lenovo X60 with tracing enabled

2017-03-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Josh, On 03/10/17 00:04, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:43:47PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: On 2017-03-09 17:29, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 10:16:02 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:36:30AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar

[Regression] Changes to i2c-piix4.c initialisation prevent loading of sp5100_tco watchdog driver on AMD SB800 chipset

2017-03-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Unfortunately, commit 2fee61d22e (i2c: piix4: Add support for multiplexed main adapter in SB800) [1] caused a regression. Tim reported that to the Linux Kernel Bugtracker as bug #170741 last September [2], but it looks like the affected subsystems don’t use it. So I just copy h

Dell Latitude E6510: `dell_wmi: Dell descriptor buffer has invalid buffer length (128)`

2017-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Matthews, dear Pali, Installing Debian 9 (Stretch/testing) with Linux 4.9.6 on the Dell Latitude E6510, the warnings below are shown. ``` $ more /proc/version Linux version 4.9.0-1-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170124 (Debian 6.3.0-5) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.6-

Trying to understand OOM killer

2017-02-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, since some time, at Linux 4.8, 4.9, and 4.10-rc6, the OOM kicks in on a 8 GB machine. ``` Feb 12 08:21:50 asrocke350m1 kernel: updatedb.mlocat invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x16040d0(GFP_TEMPORARY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOTRACK), nodemask= Feb 12 08:21:50 asrocke350m1 kernel: updated

OT: Crowdfunding to port OpenBMC to Asus KGPE-D16

2017-02-26 Thread Paul Menzel
[Please CC me, as I am not subscribed.] Dear OpenBMC people, If you haven’t heard yet, there is a crowdfunding campaign going on to fund a port of OpenBMC to the Asus KGPE-D16 [1]. The free firmware coreboot [2] runs on that board, and no BLOBs have to be used with it. Having OpenBMC run on tha

Re: Dell XPS13 does not suspend with Linux 4.10-rc3

2017-01-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 01/10/17 23:24, Jan Niehusmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:43:31PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: And I bisected the issue to commit 7279b238ba, "mei: send OS type to the FW" Indeed, just disabling the FIXUP implemented by that commit fixes suspend for me, with 4.10.

Re: Dell XPS13 does not suspend with Linux 4.10-rc3

2017-01-11 Thread Paul Menzel
On 01/11/17 10:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:53:38AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: On 01/10/17 23:24, Jan Niehusmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:43:31PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: And I bisected the issue to commit 7279b238ba, "mei: send OS type to t

Re: [char-misc for 4.10-rc4 V2] mei: bus: enable OS version only for SPT and newer

2017-01-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tomas, On 01/11/17 10:24, Winkler, Tomas wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: On older platforms the command should be just ignored by the firmware but some older platforms misbehave so it's safer to send the command only if required. Thanks! This fixes

Re: [char-misc for 4.10-rc4 V2] mei: bus: enable OS version only for SPT and newer

2017-01-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tomas, On 01/11/17 15:12, Winkler, Tomas wrote: On 01/11/17 10:24, Winkler, Tomas wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote: On older platforms the command should be just ignored by the firmware but some older platforms misbehave so it's safer to send the com

Re: Dell XPS13 does not suspend with Linux 4.10-rc3

2017-01-11 Thread Paul Menzel
On 01/11/17 10:49, Winkler, Tomas wrote: Subject: Re: Dell XPS13 does not suspend with Linux 4.10-rc3 On 01/11/17 10:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:53:38AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: On 01/10/17 23:24, Jan Niehusmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:43:31PM +0100

[REGRESSION] firmware: dmi_scan: add SBMIOS entry and DMI tables

2016-03-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ivan, dear Jeann, There is an unwanted regression due to commit d7f96f97 (firmware: dmi_scan: add SBMIOS entry and DMI tables). Since Linux kernel 4.2 the utility `cbmem`, used to access information stored in memory, from the coreboot project [1] does not work anymore on a lot of systems as

Re: close() on some Intel CNP-LP PCI devices takes up to 2.7 s

2020-06-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mika, Am 09.06.20 um 17:44 schrieb Mika Westerberg: On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:39:21PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Intel Cannon Point-LP laptop Dell Precision 3540 with a dedicated AMD graphics card (both graphics devices can be used) with Debian Sid/unstable with Linux 5.6.14

[PATCH v2] .gitignore: Do not track `defconfig` from `make savedefconfig`

2020-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Running `make savedefconfig` creates by default `defconfig`, which is, currently, on git’s radar, for example, `git status` lists this file as untracked. So, add the file to `.gitignore`, so it’s ignored by git. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- .gitignore | 3

[PATCH 2/2] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hex

2020-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c index 126e74758a34..35a66b374e3a 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu

[PATCH 1/2] moduleparams: Add hex type parameter

2020-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 0xbfff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: amd-...@lists.freedesktop.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 7 ++- kernel/params.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include

[PATCH v2 2/2] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hexint

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Use new name hexint drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c index 126e74758a34..5c4263335cba 100644 --- a/drivers

[PATCH v2 1/2] moduleparams: Add hexint type parameter

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
: $ more /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 0xbfff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: amd-...@lists.freedesktop.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Address review comments: Rename hex to hexint, and pad sizes include/linux/moduleparam.h | 7 ++- kernel/params.c

Re: [PATCH 1/2] moduleparams: Add hex type parameter

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linus, dear Christian, Am 02.07.20 um 21:42 schrieb Linus Torvalds: On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 7:42 AM Christian König wrote: I'm just not sure how well this is received upstream because it only covers u32 On the other hand that is probably also the most used. Not necessarily true. I'd a

[PATCH v3 2/3] moduleparams: Add hexint type parameter

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
: $ more /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 0xbfff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: amd-...@lists.freedesktop.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 7 ++- kernel/params.c | 17 + 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9

[PATCH v3 1/3] kernel/params.c: Align last argument with a tab

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
The second and third arguments are aligned with tabs, so do the same for the fourth. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- kernel/params.c | 16 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index

[PATCH v3 3/3] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hexint

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c index 126e74758a34..5c4263335cba 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu

Dell XPS 13 9360: PM: Device 0000:39:00.0 failed to resume async: error -19

2020-06-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Dell XPS 13 9360 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Linux 5.4.0-39-generic, testing suspend/resume with `sudo ./sleepgraph.py -config config/suspend.cfg -multi 50 15` the failure below happened *once*. [ 535.034086] xhci_hcd :39:00.0: calling pci_pm_resume+0x0/0xa0 @ 25

[PATCH] .gitignore: Do not track `defconfig` from `make savedefconfig`

2020-06-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- .gitignore | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 87b9dd8a163b..5c1a5349852b 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ x509.genkey /allno.config /allrandom.config /allyes.config +/defconfig

Re: [PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO

2020-07-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Sami, Am 13.07.20 um 01:34 schrieb Sami Tolvanen: On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 9:32 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Thank you very much for sending these changes. Do you have a branch, where your current work can be pulled from? Your branch on GitHub [1] seems 15 months old. The clang-lto branch is

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000: do not panic on malformed rx_desc

2020-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tong, Thank you for your patch. Am 08.09.20 um 18:22 schrieb Tong Zhang: length may be corrupted in rx_desc How can that be? and lead to panic, so check the sanity before passing it to skb_put [ 167.667701] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:b1e32cc1 len:60224 put:60224 head:

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000: do not panic on malformed rx_desc

2020-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tong, Am 01.10.20 um 09:03 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 08.09.20 um 18:22 schrieb Tong Zhang: length may be corrupted in rx_desc How can that be? and lead to panic, so check the sanity before passing it to skb_put [  167.667701] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:b1e32cc1 len:60224

Re: Issue with iwd + Linux 5.8.3 + WPA Enterprise

2020-08-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Caleb, Thank you for the report. Linux has a no regression policy, so the correct forum to report this to is the Linux kernel folks. I am adding the crypto and stable folks to the receiver list. Am 26.08.20 um 07:51 schrieb caljor...@hotmail.com: I wanted to note an issue that I hav

Warnings about filesystem timestamp support until 2038

2020-08-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Deepa, Commit v5.3-rc6-4-gf8b92ba67c5d3 (mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry) [1] results in a lot of warnings on our systems. xfs filesystem being mounted at /amd/salvadorthegunzerker/0 supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fff) Unfortunately, I am missing th

i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Asus F2A85-M PRO Linux 5.9-rc8 (and previous versions) does not recognize a plugged in PS/2 mouse using the Plug & Play method. The PS/2 keyboard is detected fine, and using `i8042.nopnp`, the PS/2 mouse also works. [1.035915] calling i8042_init+0x0/0x42d @ 1

Re: i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dmitry, dear Rafael, dear Len, Am 08.10.20 um 00:16 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Asus F2A85-M PRO Linux 5.9-rc8 (and previous versions) does not recognize a plugged in PS/2 mouse using the Plug & Play method. The

Re: i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rafael, Am 12.10.20 um 12:39 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:08 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Dmitry, dear Rafael, dear Len, Am 08.10.20 um 00:16 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Asus F2A85-M PRO Linux

Re: i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rafael, dear Dmitry, Am 12.10.20 um 13:00 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:50 PM Paul Menzel wrote: Am 12.10.20 um 12:39 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:08 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Am 08.10.20 um 00:16 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: On Wed, Oct 07

AMD Ryzen: pci 0000:00:00.2: can't derive routing for PCI INT A

2020-05-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On most (if not all) AMD Ryzen systems, including the Dell OptiPlex 5055, [1][2], Linux prints the warning below: $ dmesg --level=warn [0.871377] pci :00:00.2: can't derive routing for PCI INT A [0.871732] pci :00:00.2: PCI INT A: not connected

Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis_spi: Don't send anything during flow control

2020-05-29 Thread Paul Menzel
spi_xfer.rx_buf = NULL; memcpy(phy->iobuf, out, transfer_len); out += transfer_len; Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel Kind regards, Paul

watchdog: iTCO_wdt: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16).

2020-05-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Linux 5.4.39 reports the watchdog messages below on a Dell PowerEdge T630 with 12x E5-2603 v4 @ 1.70GHz. DMI: Dell Inc. PowerEdge T630/0NT78X, BIOS 2.5.4 08/17/2017 ``` handsomejack:~$ more /proc/version Linux version 5.4.39.mx64.334 (r...@lol.molgen.mpg.de) (gcc versio

Regression with *bootconfig: Fix to remove bootconfig data from initrd while boot*

2020-05-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Masami, Commit de462e5f10 (bootconfig: Fix to remove bootconfig data from initrd while boot) causes a cosmetic regression on my x86 system with Debian Sid/unstable. Despite having no `bootconfig` parameter on the Linux CLI, the warning below is shown. 'bootconfig' found on comman

Re: [PATCH] x86/tsc: Use hard-coded crystal clock for Skylake mobile

2020-05-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, Thank you for the quick reply. Am 11.05.20 um 09:17 schrieb Thomas Gleixner: Paul Menzel writes: please send patches to LKML and not offlist. Sorry about that. From `MAINTAINERS` I thought x...@kernel.org is wanted. Other subsystems list LKML explicitly there. From

Acer TravelMate 5735Z: atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x93 on isa0060/serio0)

2020-06-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using Debian Sid/unstable with Linux 5.6.14 on an (old) Acer TravelMate 5735Z, pressing the WIFI enable/disable function key works, and GNOME even shows the OSD notification. But Linux still logs this key as unknown. [ 1595.795162] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (tr

Linux 5.9: smartpqi: controller is offline: status code 0x6100c

2020-10-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, With Linux 5.9 and $ lspci -nn -s 89: 89:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Adaptec Smart Storage PQI 12G SAS/PCIe 3 [9005:028f] (rev 01) $ more /sys/devices/pci:88/:88:00.0/:89:00.0/host15/scsi_host/host15/driver_version 1.2.8-026

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

2020-10-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Petr, Am 11.08.20 um 12:53 schrieb Petr Mladek: On Tue 2020-08-11 11:29:24, Paul Menzel wrote: Commit f17a32e97e (let LOG_BUF_SHIFT default to 17) from 2008 was the last time, the the default log buffer size bump was increased. Machines have evolved, and on current hardware, enough

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

2020-10-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Petr, Am 11.08.20 um 11:29 schrieb Paul Menzel: Currently, LOG_BUF_SHIFT defaults to 17, which is 2 ^ 17 bytes = 128 KB, and LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT defaults to 12, which is 2 ^ 12 bytes = 4 KB. Half of 128 KB is 64 KB, so more than 16 CPUs are required for the value to be used, as then

Re: Dell XPS 13 9360: PM: Device 0000:39:00.0 failed to resume async: error -19

2020-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, Am 30.06.20 um 10:42 schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:30:59PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Dell XPS 13 9360 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Linux 5.4.0-39-generic, That is an old kernel (and a distro one), can you please try 5.7.6 from kernel.org? Trying Linux 5.8

drm: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 17ec6000

2020-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Building Linux v5.8-rc4-25-gbfe91da29bfad with Clang/LLD 1:11~++20200701093119+ffee8040534-1~exp1 from Debian experimental for 32-bit (`ARCH=i386`), starting Weston (Wayland) or X.Org Server results in non-working screen, and Linux shows the trace below [1]. [ 502.044997

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

2020-07-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dmitry, dear Mario, Am 21.02.18 um 10:22 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 15.02.2018 um 16:22 schrieb mario.limoncie...@dell.com: -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmenzel+linux-in...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 2:26 AM On 02/14/18 18:11, mario.limoncie

Intel PMC driver on Broadwell system to gather C-State statistics

2020-10-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, The Intel Broadwell-U laptop Dell Latitude E7250 (BIOS A19 01/23/2018), according to PowerTOP, only reaches package C-State C7 and not C8, C9, C10, while the four CPUs itself do reach C-State C10 and CE. I was asked to look at: 1. `/sys/kernel/debug/pmc_core/package_cstat

Re: [PATCH 1/3] md: improve variable names in md_flush_request()

2020-11-10 Thread Paul Menzel
*/ With the new variable name, the comment could even be removed. ;-) struct work_struct flush_work; struct work_struct event_work; /* used by dm to report failure event */ mempool_t *serial_info_pool; Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel Kind regards, Paul

[PATCH] ixgbe: Support external GBE SerDes PHY BCM54616s

2020-11-12 Thread Paul Menzel
: Guohan Lu Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c | 3 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c index

jitterentropy: `jent_mod_init()` takes 17 ms

2020-11-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, By mistake I built `XFRM_ESP` into the Linux kernel, resulting in CONFIG_CRYPTO_SEQIV=y CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV=y and also the Jitterentropy RNG to be built in. CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY=y So, on the Asus F2A85-M PRO starting Linux 4.10-rc3 with `initcall_debug`, the

Re: jitterentropy: `jent_mod_init()` takes 17 ms

2020-11-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stephan, Thank you for the quick reply. Am 10.11.20 um 10:25 schrieb Stephan Mueller: Am Montag, 9. November 2020, 20:31:02 CET schrieb Paul Menzel: By mistake I built `XFRM_ESP` into the Linux kernel, resulting in CONFIG_CRYPTO_SEQIV=y CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV=y and also

[PATCH 1/2] ethernet: igb: Support PHY BCM5461S

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
]. [1]: https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux/commit/f32316c63ce3a64de125b7429115c6d45e942bd1 [2]: https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux/commit/5ace6bcdb37cb8065dcd1d4404b3dcb6424f6331 Cc: Jeffrey Townsend Cc: John W Linville Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel

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

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c index 4e0b4ba09a00..4151e55a6d2a 100644 --- a/drivers/net

[PATCH 0/2] Upstream ONL patch for PHY BCM5461S

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Looking a little bit at Open Network Linux, they carry some Linux patches, but have not upstreamed them yet. This upstreams support for the PHY BCM5461S. It’d be great, if you could help review it. Kind regards, Paul Jeffrey Townsend (2): ethernet: igb: Support PHY BCM546

Re: [PATCH 1/2] ethernet: igb: Support PHY BCM5461S

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 03.11.20 um 00:13 schrieb Paul Menzel: From: Jeffrey Townsend The BCM5461S PHY is used in switches. The patch is taken from Open Network Linux, and it was added there as patch packages/base/any/kernels/3.16+deb8/patches/driver-support-intel-igb-bcm5461X-phy.patch

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

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, Am 03.11.20 um 01:19 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 00:13:07 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: From: Jeffrey Townsend The ops field might no be defined, so add a check. This change should be first, otherwise AFAIU if someone builds the kernel in between the commits (e.g

[PATCH] kexec: Add kexec reboot string

2020-11-03 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

[PATCH] netfilter: nf_nat: Support fullcone NAT

2020-11-06 Thread Paul Menzel
://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/100] Signed-off-by: Kiran Kella [forward port to Linux v4.19, https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/147] Signed-off-by: Akhilesh Samineni Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- Dear Linux folks, This is taken from switch network operating system

Re: Linux 5.9: smartpqi: controller is offline: status code 0x6100c

2020-11-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Don, Am 17.10.20 um 00:31 schrieb don.br...@microchip.com: The 6100C lockup is the result of the controller running out of commands to process new incoming requests from the driver. We are actively looking into this issue. Unfortunately, there has not been any further reply by the Micro

Delays in PCI/ACPI initialization

2020-07-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Trying to decrease the boot time on a Acer TravelMate 5735Z with Debian Sid/unstable and Linux 5.7.6, there are two delays of 100 ms. I created a separate issue for each of the delays. 1. [Bug 208703] PnP ACPI init has 100 ms delay until quirk message 2. [Bug 208705] New:

[Regression] hangs caused by commit 3202fa62fb (slub: relocate freelist pointer to middle of object)

2020-07-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kees, dear Andrew, No idea, if you are aware of it yet, but three people verified that commit 3202fa62fb (slub: relocate freelist pointer to middle of object) causes a regression on AMD hardware [1]. It’d be great, if you took a look, and advised if this commit (and follow-ups) should

Re: [PATCH] amdgpu_dm: fix nonblocking atomic commit use-after-free

2020-07-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 25.07.20 um 07:20 schrieb Mazin Rezk: On Saturday, July 25, 2020 12:59 AM, Duncan wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 03:03:52 + Mazin Rezk wrote: Am 24.07.20 um 19:33 schrieb Kees Cook: There was a fix to disable the async path for this driver that worked around the bug t

iwlwifi: TX on unused queue 5

2020-07-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Since at least Linux 5.2.9 a warning is thrown by *iwlwifi*. [ 21.211815] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 22.685490] rfkill: input handler disabled [ 26.529753] iwlwifi :02:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio. [ 26.529754] iwlwifi

Re: [PATCH v2] .gitignore: Do not track `defconfig` from `make savedefconfig`

2020-07-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Masahiro, Am 05.07.20 um 09:14 schrieb Masahiro Yamada: On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 8:12 PM Paul Menzel wrote: Running `make savedefconfig` creates by default `defconfig`, which is, currently, on git’s radar, for example, `git status` lists this file as untracked. So, add the file to

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hexint

2020-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linus, dear Christian, Am 03.07.20 um 17:29 schrieb Christian König: Am 03.07.20 um 16:29 schrieb Paul Menzel: The newly added hexint helper is more convenient for bitmasks. Before: $ more /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 4294950911 After: $ more /sys/module

`psi_avgs_work` shows up in PowerTOP

2020-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, On the Dell Latitude E7250 with Debian Sid/unstable and Linux 5.6.7, running `powertop`, `psi_avgs_work` shows up there with 40 mW to 60 mW. The battery reports a discharge rate of 7.16 W The power consumed was 147 J The estimated remaining time is 1 hours, 31 minutes Summary

CPU pressure despite low load average

2020-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, I am wondering, how PSI shows some CPU pressure (on average), while the load average, on a four thread system, shows a value well below four. $ grep -R . /proc/pressure/ /proc/pressure/io:some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=941766173 /proc/pressure/io:full avg10=0.00

Re: [PATCH] amdgpu_dm: fix nonblocking atomic commit use-after-free

2020-07-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kees, Am 24.07.20 um 00:32 schrieb Kees Cook: On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:10:15PM +, Mazin Rezk wrote: When amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail is running in the workqueue, drm_atomic_state_put will get called while amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail is running, causing a race condition where state

Re: [PATCH] amdgpu_dm: fix nonblocking atomic commit use-after-free

2020-07-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kees, Am 24.07.20 um 19:33 schrieb Kees Cook: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:45:18AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 24.07.20 um 00:32 schrieb Kees Cook: On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:10:15PM +, Mazin Rezk wrote: As Linux 5.8-rc7 is going to be released this Sunday, I wonder, if commit

Re: [PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO

2020-07-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Sami, Am 24.06.20 um 22:31 schrieb Sami Tolvanen: This patch series adds support for building x86_64 and arm64 kernels with Clang's Link Time Optimization (LTO). In addition to performance, the primary motivation for LTO is to allow Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) to be used in the k

<    1   2   3   4   >