Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

2012-11-28 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Mel Gorman wrote on 28.11.2012 11:13: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:19:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 05:02:36PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > >> And the one who comes out gets to explain to me which patch(es)

Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

2012-11-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Mel Gorman wrote on 29.11.2012 00:54: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 02:52:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:13:59 + >> Mel Gorman wrote: >> >> > Based on the reports I've seen I expect the following to work for 3.7 >> > Keep >> > 96710098 mm: revert "mm: vmscan: scale n

Re: kswapd0: excessive CPU usage

2012-10-31 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 30.10.2012 20:18, Mel Gorman wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:52:03AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 15.10.2012 13:09, Mel Gorman wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:54:13AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 10/12/2012 03:57 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed

Re: kswapd0: excessive CPU usage

2012-10-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! On 15.10.2012 13:09, Mel Gorman wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:54:13AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 10/12/2012 03:57 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction only in direct reclaim Jiri Slaby reported the following: > [...] diff --git a/m

Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

2012-11-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Johannes Weiner wrote on 29.11.2012 18:05: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Mel Gorman wrote on 29.11.2012 00:54: >> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 02:52:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:13:59

Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

2012-12-03 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Johannes Weiner wrote on 01.12.2012 01:45: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 01:39:03PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> /me wonders how to elegantly get out of his man-in-the-middle position > You control the mighty koji :-) Something even a journalist can ;-) > But seriousl

Re: kswapd craziness in 3.7

2012-12-06 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Just a quick update Johannes Weiner wrote on 03.12.2012 20:42: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> BTW, I built that kernel without the patch you mentioned in >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/90911/focus=91153 >> (

Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"

2012-11-20 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 20.11.2012 16:38, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:14:47PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: With "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures"

Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"

2012-11-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 20.11.2012 18:43: > On 20.11.2012 16:38, Josh Boyer wrote: > > The short story from my current point of view is: Quick update, in case anybody is interested: > * my main machine at home where I initially saw the issue that started > this thread seem

Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
the later BIOS-versions again as Intel doesn't provide a Windows-AHCI driver for the basic ICH8. HTH and clarifies some of your problems. Cu knurd -- Thorsten Leemhuis c't- Magazin für Computertechnik webhttp://www.heise.de/ct/ Heise Zeitschriften Verlag

no announce mails for "older" stable-releases on linux-kernel-announce (Was: Re: Linux 2.6.20.16)

2007-08-15 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 16.08.2007 07:43, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I've just released Linux 2.6.20.16. This version catches up with 2.6.21.7. > I hope to issue newer releases soon with next batches of pending patches. > > I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between > 2.6.20.15 and 2.6.20.16. >

Re: no announce mails for "older" stable-releases on linux-kernel-announce (Was: Re: Linux 2.6.20.16)

2007-08-15 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 16.08.2007 08:29, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 16.08.2007 07:43, Willy Tarreau wrote: >>> I've just released Linux 2.6.20.16. This version catches up with 2.6.21.7. >>> I hope to issue newer re

Re: [patch 2.6.22-rc6] ATA: add a PCI ID for Intel Santa Rosa PATA controller

2007-07-06 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 06.07.2007 21:45, Chr wrote: > On Friday, 6. July 2007, Gaston, Jason D wrote: > On the other hand, we can leave it, because of a >>> "off-by-one error" in ata_piix.c, > do_pata_set_dmamode, line ~770: > [...] >> I quickly tried this patch on an ICH7-R system with an ATA133 Maxtor

Re: [patch 2.6.22-rc6] ATA: add a PCI ID for Intel Santa Rosa PATA controller

2007-07-04 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 02.07.2007 16:36, Chr wrote: > On Monday, 2. July 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> but Alan Cox wrote: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide%40vger.kernel.org/msg07417.html >>>> Its ich_pata_133 - all the newer chips are. >> Intel afaik never suppo

Linux 4.8: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-09-25

2016-09-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Here is my fifth regression report for Linux 4.8. It lists 15 regressions I'm aware of. 5 of them are new (for many of those there are patches available to fix the regression); 3 mentioned in last weeks report got fixed; 1 is going to be removed. As always: Are you aware of any other regressi

Insights from doing regression tracking for Linux 4.7

2016-08-01 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
In case anyone wonders if I regret doing regression tracking for Linux 4.7: No, that is not the case. It isn't really fun, but well, I didn't expect it to be ;-) But FWIW, find below a few thoughts about the whole regression tracking thing I thought might be good to write down and share while they

Linux 4.7: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-08-07

2016-08-07 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Here is my seventh regression report for Linux 4.7. It lists 9 regressions I'm currently aware of. 4 of them are new; 2 are stalled until the reporter provides more feedback. The report also mentions 3 regressions that were fixed since the last report. There is also 1 I plan to remove because

Linux 4.14: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2017-10-15

2017-10-15 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Find below my third regression report for Linux 4.14. It lists 9 regressions I'm currently aware of. Two regressions got fixed since last weeks report. As always: Are you aware of any other regressions? Then please let me know by mail (a simple bounce or forward in my direction is enough!). Fo

Re: regression in 4.14-rc2 caused by apparmor: add base infastructure for socket mediation

2017-10-26 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 24.10.2017 13:31, John Johansen wrote: > On 10/23/2017 11:39 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Lo, your friendly regression tracker here! >> On 03.10.2017 09:17, John Johansen wrote: >>> On 10/02/2017 11:48 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>>> On 10/03/2017 07:15

Linux 4.14: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2017-10-29

2017-10-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Find below my fourth regression report for Linux 4.14. It lists 6 regressions I'm currently aware of; for most of them fixes are in the work. 4 regressions got fixed since last weeks report; 1 turned out to not be a regression. As always: Are you aware of any other regressions? Then please let

Linux 4.16: Reported regressions as of , 2018-03-12 (Was: Linux 4.16-rc5)

2018-03-12 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 12.03.2018 01:42, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This continue to be pretty normal - this rc is slightly larger than > rc4 was, but that looks like one of the normal fluctuations Hi! Find below my fourth regression report for Linux 4.16. It lists 9 regressions I'm currently aware of. 1 was fixed since

Linux 4.16: Reported regressions as of Monday, 2018-03-05 (Was: Linux 4.16-rc4)

2018-03-05 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 05.03.2018 00:15, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmm. A reasonably calm week - the biggest change is to the 'kvm-stat' > tool, not any actual kernel files. Hi! Find below my third regression report for Linux 4.16. It lists 7 regressions I'm currently aware of. 3 were fixed since last weeks report. To

Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] genirq/affinity: irq vector spread among online CPUs as far as possible

2018-03-26 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Lo! Your friendly Linux regression tracker here ;-) On 08.03.2018 14:18, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 18:53 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: >> This patchset tries to spread among online CPUs as far as possible, so >> that we can avoid to allocate too less irq vectors with online CPUs >>

[PATCH 1/1] docs: Revamp tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2018-12-17 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
gs in bugs, oops or panics messages. Only thing missing then was a table that quickly describes the various bits and the taint flags before going into more detail, so I added that as well. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 105 -- 1

[PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2018-12-17 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
this small the simple table format seems way easier to parse when reading the plain text file. Any feedback much appreciated. Ciao, Thorsten Thorsten Leemhuis (1): docs: Revamp tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 105 +++

Create a dedicated mailing list for regressions

2018-12-10 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi Dave (assuming you are still behind postmas...@vger.kernel.org these days)! What do you need from me to create the mailing list linux-regressi...@vger.kernel.org, to create a dedicated place for CCing regression reports and discussing regression tracking as whole? Creating such a list was one o

Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2018-12-20 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
os will actually ship it in their packages that contain tools from that directory. Ciao, Thorsten #! /bin/sh # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 # # Randy Dunlap , 2018 # Thorsten Leemhuis , 2018 usage() { cat < Call without parameters to decode /proc/sys/kernel/tainted. Call with a posit

Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2018-12-20 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 20.12.18 um 17:38 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > On 12/20/18 7:28 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:23:38 +0100 >> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >>> While at it: Jonathan, you mentioned putting the script in scripts/, but >>> according to th

Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2018-12-21 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 20.12.18 um 21:10 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > On 12/20/18 10:21 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Am 20.12.18 um 17:38 schrieb Randy Dunlap: >>> On 12/20/18 7:28 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:23:38 +0100 >>>> Thorsten Leemhui

Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2018-12-21 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Am 17.12.18 um 19:24 schrieb Jonathan Corbet: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:20:42 +0100 > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> +might be relevant later when investigating problems. Don't worry >> +yourself too much about this, most of the time it's not a problem to run &

Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2019-01-07 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 03.01.19 um 19:12 schrieb Jonathan Corbet: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:26:31 +0100 > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> Here's an idea if you feel like improving this: rather than putting an >>> inscrutable program inline, add a taint_status script to scripts/ that >&

Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible

2019-01-03 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Leemhuis: > Hi! Am 17.12.18 um 19:24 schrieb Jonathan Corbet: >> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:20:42 +0100 >> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >>> +might be relevant later when investigating problems. Don't worry >>> +yourself too much about this, most of the time it

Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-sta...@kernel.org -> /dev/null

2024-04-17 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi kernel.org helpdesk! Could you please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-sta...@kernel.org which redirects all mail to /dev/null, just like sta...@kernel.org does? That's an idea GregKH brought up a few days ago here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024041123-earthling-primarily-4656@gregkh/

Re: Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-sta...@kernel.org -> /dev/null

2024-04-17 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 17.04.24 14:52, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:48:18AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> Could you please create the email alias >> do-not-apply-to-sta...@kernel.org which redirects all mail to /dev/null, >> just like sta...@kernel.org

Re: Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-sta...@kernel.org -> /dev/null

2024-04-18 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 17.04.24 15:38, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:21:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 17.04.24 14:52, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:48:18AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>> Could you please create the email

Re: Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-sta...@kernel.org -> /dev/null

2024-04-22 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
[CCing Sasha] On 18.04.24 15:20, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 09:04:53AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 17.04.24 15:38, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:21:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>> On 17.04.24 14:52, Konstantin Ryabits

Re: Please create the email alias do-not-apply-to-sta...@kernel.org -> /dev/null

2024-04-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 23.04.24 00:15, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> sta...@kernel.org is there to route to /dev/null on purpose so that >> developers/maintainers who only want their patches to get picked up when >> they hit Linus's tree, will have happen and not notify anyone else. >> This is especially good whe

Re: [PATCH 05/14] tracefs: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback

2024-06-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 11.06.24 10:42, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 6/11/24 8:23 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:40:54PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>> On 6/10/24 10:36 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:46:42 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: >>> index 7c29f4afc23d..

Re: [PATCH 0/2] fsdax,xfs: fix warning messages #forregzbot

2022-11-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
[Note: this mail is primarily send for documentation purposes and/or for regzbot, my Linux kernel regression tracking bot. That's why I removed most or all folks from the list of recipients, but left any that looked like a mailing lists. These mails usually contain '#forregzbot' in the subject, to

Re: [PATCH 0/2] fsdax,xfs: fix warning messages #forregzbot

2022-12-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 30.11.22 11:30, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > [Note: this mail is primarily send for documentation purposes and/or for > regzbot, my Linux kernel regression tracking bot. That's why I removed > most or all folks from the list of recipients, but left any that looked > like a mai

Re: Slow boot and shutdown/reboot problems with 6.5.0+

2023-09-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 11.09.23 16:00, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On 07/09/2023 20:56, Marcus Seyfarth wrote: >> As to bisecting: Unfortunately I cannot afford the time right now to bisect >> this further as the system is used in production and already did invest a >> lot of time without success into it. Hopefully someo

[PATCH] docs: reporting-issues.rst: shortcut for stable regressions

2021-02-14 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Provide a much shorter and easier process for users that deal with regressions in stable and longterm kernels, as those should be reported quickly. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst | 91 --- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 51

Re: [PATCH] docs: reporting-issues.rst: explain how to decode stack traces

2021-02-14 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 11.02.21 um 18:07 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > Just a couple of small nits (or one that is repeated): :-D > On 2/9/21 9:48 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> - * If the failure includes a stack dump, like an Oops does, consider >> decoding >> - it to find the off

Re: [PATCH] docs: reporting-issues.rst: explain how to decode stack traces

2021-02-14 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi! Many thx for looking into this, much appreciated! Am 14.02.21 um 17:00 schrieb Qais Yousef: > On 02/10/21 06:48, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> - * If the failure includes a stack dump, like an Oops does, consider >> decoding >> - it to find the offending line

[PATCH] docs: reporting-issues.rst: explain how to decode stack traces

2021-02-15 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
later. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef --- v1->v2 * Fix typo pointed out by Randy * include review feedback from Qais and bis Reviewed-by: v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210210054823.242262-1-li...@leemhuis.info/ --- .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list

2021-04-07 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 07.04.21 16:56, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 12:51:43PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 07.04.21 11:56, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 11:21:55AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>> Add the newly created regression mailing

easy alsa patches for the stable kernel? (was: Re: hda_intel : Patch + Regression in 2.6.18 -> 2.6.22)

2007-09-07 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 07.09.2007 12:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:22:27 +0200, > Romano Giannetti wrote: >> Takashi: good news! >> >> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c >> index 3557865..496d119 100644 >> --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c >> +++ b/sound/pci

Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?

2007-09-07 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 07.09.2007 14:58, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:04:01 +0200, > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 07.09.2007 12:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> At Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:22:27 +0200, >>> Romano Giannetti wrote: >>>> Takashi: good news! >>>

Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?

2007-09-07 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 08.09.2007 01:38, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:42:36 +0200, > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > [...] >> Sorry, but why? >> It's just this line afaics... >> + SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1179, 0xff50, "TOSHIBA A305", ALC268_TOSHIBA), >> ...whic

Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?

2007-09-09 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 08.09.2007 19:49, Stefan Richter wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 08.09.2007 01:38, Takashi Iwai wrote: > [backports to -stable] >>> Linux will suck really if one breaks so-called stable thing easily >>> without actually testing. For stable stuff, "

Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

2007-09-12 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 12.09.2007 20:03, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 10:31 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:09:26 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > [...] >>> Fedora BTW abandoned kernel-source* and they have now a website with a >>> description >>> how to produce a configured

Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

2007-09-13 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi Sam! On 12.09.2007 22:03, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> I think the Fedora approach has many benefits -- I always wondered why >> it never went upstream like a "make install_develstuff" that install all >> the needed bits to >> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/ > Last time I saw the patch is was to ug

Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

2007-09-13 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 13.09.2007 19:22, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:09:18PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 12.09.2007 22:03, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>>> I think the Fedora approach has many benefits -- I always wondered why >>>> it never went upstream like

Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.15 116/124] genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all possible CPUs

2018-03-27 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Lo! Just stumbled on this by chance while preparing a updated regression report: On 19.03.2018 16:49, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig > > [ Upstream commit 84676c1f21e8ff54befe985f4f14dc1edc10046b ] TWIMC: That commit (also reported by autosel for 4.14) triggered a regression in 4.

Linux 4.16: Reported regressions as of Tuesday, 2018-03-27 (Was: Linux 4.16-rc7)

2018-03-27 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.2018 01:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: > […] Anyway. Go out and test. And let's hope next week is nice and calm and > I can release the final 4.16 next Sunday without any extra rc's. > >Linus Hi! Find below my sixth regression report for Linux 4.16. It lists 7 regressions I'm

[PATCH] docs: reporting-issues.rst: explain how to decode stack traces

2021-02-09 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
later. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- Reminder: This is not my area of expertise. Hopefully I didn't write anything stupid or omitted something people find important. If I did, please let me know, ideally suggesting what to write; bonus points for people sending text I can simply include i

[PATCH] nvme-pci: add quirk to make Kingston A2000 SSD avoid deepest sleep state

2021-01-28 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
4 : mp:0.0040W non-operational enlat:15000 exlat:15000 rrt:4 rrl:4 rwt:4 rwl:4 idle_power:- active_power:- Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+ Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- Once this is out I will post a link to it in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195039, maybe someone th

Re: [PATCH v1 (RFC)] docs: discourage users from using bugzilla.kernel.org

2021-01-11 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 11.01.21 um 19:14 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > On 1/10/21 4:10 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> * About 66 of those ~200 components will assign bugs to email addresses >> that look valid, but 125 of them end with @kernel-bugs.osdl.org or >> @kernel-bugs.kernel.org. Those

Re: [PATCH v1 (RFC)] docs: discourage users from using bugzilla.kernel.org

2021-01-12 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 12.01.21 um 00:42 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > On 1/11/21 10:55 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Am 11.01.21 um 19:14 schrieb Randy Dunlap: >>> On 1/10/21 4:10 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>> Andrew Morton takes MM bugs and Cc:s them to linux-mm mailing list >&

Re: [PATCH v1 (RFC)] docs: discourage users from using bugzilla.kernel.org

2021-01-12 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Thx for your reply and sorry for forgetting to CC you; that was the plan, but I forgot when I called git send-email :-/ Am 11.01.21 um 20:48 wrote Konstantin Ryabitsev: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 01:10:33PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> The front page doesn't make this aspect o

[PATCH v1 (RFC)] docs: discourage users from using bugzilla.kernel.org

2021-01-10 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
ith isn't particular concerning. * sound/alsa-configuration.rst and sound/hd-audio/notes.rst -- they mention it as a place to file bugs. Looks like at least some are looked at, thus leave this as it is for now. * A few translations still mention the bug tracker; they hopefully notic

Re: [PATCH] genirq: Export irq_check_status_bit

2020-12-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 30.12.20 um 16:45 schrieb Arnd Bergmann: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > Changing some inline functions to use the new irq_check_status_bit > function out of line breaks calling them from loadable modules: > > ERROR: modpost: "irq_check_status_bit" [drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.ko] > undefined! Just

Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] docs: reporting-issues: streamline process and solve a FIXME

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi Jonathan! On 19.03.21 20:27, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > This series bundle a few patches that piled up for > Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst. The main changes are these: Sorry to bring the following up, as I saw you mentioning in another mail on linux-doc you have a lot o

Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] docs: reporting-issues: streamline process and solve a FIXME

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 25.03.21 19:43, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis writes: > >> That's why I'd like to speed things up a little. But for that it would >> be good to have something from you: a kind of "I like the direction >> where this patch set is heading a

[PATCH v3 5/5] docs: reporting-issues.rst: improved process esp. for stable regressions

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
; into two. That has the additinal benefit that users will search for them quickly when going through the step by step guide and thus will save them trouble if the find reports. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis CC: Randy Dunlap --- v3 * s/head over/scroll down/, as suggested by Jon * reduce the

[PATCH v3 2/5] docs: reporting-issues.rst: tone down 'test vanilla mainline' a little

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
eport bugs, even if they can't test vanilla mainline kernel. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis CC: Randy Dunlap --- With this I try to get rid of the last remaining parts that have a 'this needs discussion' box that's in the text. I hope I've found a middle ground that ever

[PATCH v3 3/5] docs: reporting-issues.rst: reorder some steps

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Reorder some steps where the order in which the readers perform them is not crucial. This is a preparation for a later change that would make the text much more complex otherwise. Content just moved, not changed at all in the process. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- .../admin-guide

[PATCH v3 0/5] docs: reporting-issues: streamline process and solve a FIXME

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
rnel.org/linux-doc/cover.1615116592.git.li...@leemhuis.info/ * initial version, starting straight with v2 to avoid confusion, as one of the patches was submitted earlier already Thorsten Leemhuis (5): docs: reporting-issues.rst: fix small typos and style issues docs: reporting-issues.rst: tone do

[PATCH v3 1/5] docs: reporting-issues.rst: fix small typos and style issues

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Fix a typo and change "head over" to "scroll down", as suggested by Jon when reviewing another patch that used the phrase the same way. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deleti

[PATCH v3 4/5] docs: reporting-issues.rst: duplicate sections for reviewing purposes

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
This duplicates two section to make the diff in the next patch a bit easier to gasp for humans. Straight copy, no content changes. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst | 184 ++ 1 file changed, 184 insertions(+) diff --git a

Re: [PATCH v1, RFC] docs: reporting-issues.rst: tone down 'test vanilla mainline' a little

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 16.03.21 18:56, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 15.03.21 21:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> Thorsten Leemhuis writes: > >> Anything that could be done to >> make it more concise going forward would be more than welcome. > Yeah, will think about it, especially WRT to

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: reporting-issues.rst: shortcut for reporting stable regressions

2021-03-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 15.03.21 21:11, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis writes: > >> Provide a much shorter and easier process for users that deal with >> regressions in stable and longterm kernels, as those should be reported >> quickly. >> >> Signed-off-by: Th

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

2021-03-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 22.03.21 22:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 08:25:15PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> I agree to the last point and yeah, maybe regressions are the more >> important problem we should work on – at least from the perspective of >> kernel develo

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

2021-03-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 23.03.21 19:11, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 09:57:57AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 22.03.21 22:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 08:25:15PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>> I agree to the last point

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

2021-03-23 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 23.03.21 16:01, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 04:58, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> If we can >>> actually get users to *read* it, I think it's going to save kernel >>> developers a huge amount of time and frustration. >> And user

[PATCH v1 0/4] Improve reporting-issues.rst and make it official

2021-03-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
This patchset makes reporting-issues.rst fully official and thus removes reporting-bugs.rst. It also adds an entry for the text in MAINTAINERS as discussed earlier. Then there is the new text for the TLDR already posted as a draft and a patch which assorted fixes and small enhancements. Thorsten

[PATCH v1 1/4] docs: make reporting-issues.rst official and delete reporting-bugs.rst

2021-03-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
or another have been around for a long time. I'm sure over the years you got read a lot and helped quite a few people. But it's time to retire now. Rest in peace. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis CC: Harry Wei CC: Alex Shi CC: Federico Vaga CC: Greg KH --- Removing Documentation/a

[PATCH v1 3/4] docs: reporting-issues.rst: reshuffle and improve TLDR

2021-03-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
matches the step by step guide better. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- v1 - Incorporated feedback received from posting a draft to LKML. Also slightly change the beginning of the third paragraph to improve the flow. --- .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst | 75 +-- 1

[PATCH v1 4/4] docs: reporting-issues: reduce quoting and assorted fixes

2021-03-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
;CC stable maintainers" bits - fix a few typos and mistakes in the text, with a few very small improvements along the way Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst | 79 +++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH v1 2/4] MAINTAINERS: add entry for Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst

2021-03-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Thorsten will keep an eye on the new document about reporting issues (aka bugs). Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- MAINTAINERS | 6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index e66ff3daf23c..b5d38fedff6c 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS

Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] docs: reporting-issues.rst: reshuffle and improve TLDR

2021-03-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Argh, sent this just one hour ago and I already found the first problem: On 30.03.21 16:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Make the TLDR a bit shorter while improving it at the same time by going > straight to the aspects readers are more interested it. The change makes > the process especi

RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

2021-03-22 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Lo! I want to provide users with an easier way to search our multitude of mailing lists for reports about issues (aka bugs), as reporting the same kernel problem multiple times has known downsides for everyone involved. That's why I propose to create this new mailing list: linux-iss...@lists.lin

Re: RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

2021-03-22 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 22.03.21 19:34, Eric Wong wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: >> On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 13:16 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 04:18:14PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>> Note, there is a second reason why ksummit-discuss is CCed: ano

Re: RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

2021-03-22 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 22.03.21 19:32, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:18 AM Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> I even requested a >> "linux-regressi...@vger.kernel.org" a while later, but didn't hear >> anything back; and, sadly, about the same time

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] RFC: create mailing list "linux-issues" focussed on issues/bugs and regressions

2021-03-22 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 22.03.21 17:55, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:38 PM Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Lo! I want to provide users with an easier way to search our multitude >> of mailing lists for reports about issues (aka bugs), as reporting the >> same kernel problem mul

Re: [PATCH v1, RFC] docs: reporting-issues.rst: tone down 'test vanilla mainline' a little

2021-03-16 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 15.03.21 21:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis writes: >> Tell users that reporting bugs with vendor kernels which are only >> slightly patched can be okay in some situations, but point out there's a >> risk in doing so. >> >> Adjust some re

Re: [1/5] reporting-issues: header and TLDR

2021-03-30 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 30.03.21 07:59, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:44:21PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> Thorsten Leemhuis writes: >> >>> FWIW, on another channel someone mentioned the process in the TLDR is >>> quite complicated when it comes to regressions in s

FYI & RFC: obsoleting reporting-bugs and making reporting-issues official

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Lo! Since a few months mainline in Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text. For now, the new document still contains a warning at the top that basically says "this is WIP". But I'd like to remove that warning and delete r

[1/5] reporting-issues: header and TLDR

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 07:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Lo! Since a few months mainline in > Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written > to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text. For now, the new document > still contains a warning at the top that basicall

[2/5] reporting-issues: step-by-step-guide: main and two sub-processes for stable/longterm

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 07:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Lo! Since a few months mainline in > Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written > to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text. For now, the new document > still contains a warning at the top that basically says

[3/5] reporting-issues: reference section, main guide

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 07:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Lo! Since a few months mainline in > Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written > to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text. For now, the new document > still contains a warning at the top that basicall

[4/5] reporting-issues: reference section, stable and longterm sub-processes

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 07:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Lo! Since a few months mainline in > Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written > to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text. For now, the new document > still contains a warning at the top that basically says

[5/5] reporting-issues: addendum

2021-03-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 07:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Lo! Since a few months mainline in > Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written > to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text. For now, the new document > still contains a warning at the top that basicall

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [1/5] reporting-issues: header and TLDR

2021-03-26 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 07:23, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 3/25/21 11:15 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 26.03.21 07:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> mention if backporting is planed or considered too complex. If backporting >> was > planned ha, of course, thx for pointing it out! Ciao, Thorsten

Re: [Ksummit-discuss] FYI & RFC: obsoleting reporting-bugs and making reporting-issues official

2021-03-26 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 09:59, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 07:13:09AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> Lo! Since a few months mainline in >> Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written >> to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text

Re: [1/5] reporting-issues: header and TLDR

2021-03-28 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 26.03.21 07:15, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 26.03.21 07:13, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> Lo! Since a few months mainline in >> Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst contains a text written >> to obsolete the good old reporting-bugs text. For now, the new

[PATCH v1] docs: reporting-issues.rst: CC subsystem and maintainers on regressions

2021-04-15 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
made a difference. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/dff6badf-58f5-98c8-871c-94d901ac6...@leemhuis.info/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cajz5v0hx2stqvttacihyh-uruh+hi92z9z2zbcngqpt0e2j...@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis --- .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst

Re: "Reporting issues" document feedback

2021-04-15 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 14.04.21 15:42, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 3:22 PM w4v3 wrote: >>> Links to your bug report and the thread on the mailing list would have >>> helped here to understand better what's going on, but whatever, they are >>> not that important. >> Here you go: https://bugzilla

Re: "Reporting issues" document feedback

2021-04-14 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
[CCing Rafael] Beforehand: many thx for your feedback and for reporting the bug you faced, much appreciated. On 13.04.21 23:18, w4v3 wrote: > I would like to make some suggestions regarding the "Reporting > issues" document > (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/reporting-issue

Re: [PATCH v2 17/19] docs: replace transation references for reporting-bugs.rst

2021-04-07 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 07.04.21 10:20, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Changeset d2ce285378b0 ("docs: make reporting-issues.rst official and delete > reporting-bugs.rst") > dropped reporting-bugs.rst, in favor of reporting-issues.rst, but > translations still need to be updated, in order to point to the > new file. >

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