Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-12 Thread alex
ough there are problems accessing the floppy after the initial boot without USB drivers, of course) I will look into building a 2.4.0 floppy-bootable kernel on my Z505 and see if I can reproduce the problems you're having. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-14 Thread alex
zImage you would have had the same results. My advice is to try using SYSLINUX (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/) to load the kernel instead of writing it straight to the floppy, as this is known to work on the Z505 and is more flexible anyway. -alex - To unsubscribe from this li

[patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-11 Thread alex
disk is primary, and a flashdisk is secondary, the detection code (wrongly) disables the primary disk that it had already previously detected. I would like to see this make it into the official source as it's a very small change that fixes some obviously wrong behavior.. -alex --- drivers/i

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread alex
eady_performed_ detection of hda in this way. Basically, as is, the kernel finds hda (traditional IDE device), configures it normally, then finds hdb (flash), and clobbers all the correct info it already detected for hda. This seems just plain wrong. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread alex
ter and no slave, and don't handle slave accesses well (right?). It should be noted that my patch does _not_ break these cases at all. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread alex
#x27;s probably exposed via ACPI or something similar. Any ACPI folks got thoughts on this as a possibility (and how one might find out)? I have to admit I haven't played with it much. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-25 Thread alex
uch less likely to conflict with normal filesystem namespaces. This also has the advantage of being extendable (using strings other than "...") for other applications or future additions. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Undoing chroot?

2001-01-26 Thread alex
robably want to do is fork(), then do a chroot() in the child and do whatever you want to do there, when you're done with the CD, exit the child, and have the parent eject it. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread alex
ue is. 3) Apparently already being aware that a problem exists, if perhaps mistaken about solutions available. I have to say that in my experience, this is a helluva lot more on the ball than what you'd get from most places, and indicates to me that there may be hope yet for getting this fi

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-29 Thread alex
If in doubt, go for the larger number. After all, with an 8.1GB drive, how much are you going to miss a puny 0.25GB (256MB) chunk of it? -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread alex
s than or equal to RAM is now effectively pointless? -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread alex
f most of your programs > fit in memory and you're hardly using swap, nothing changes. I think I'm confused.. are you saying that it's useful to have swap which you can't use? (What I'm hearing is "if you try to use it it won't work, but if you don't use it

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-31 Thread alex
nd not something I'd rely on for anything too important. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-01 Thread alex
it either way. The one thing I would like to point out is that "disk" is the standard industry convention, and thus if anything I think it should have more weight behind it solely because of that (it's good to be consistent with what everybody else in the industry is doing, even if it is something as minor as spelling of terms.) -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread alex
ltiple places different developers have put in different checks for the thing they're trying to do. Perhaps a "Kernel Hacking" configuration option (or just something in a documented .h file) for "Allow compiling with buggy GCC 2.96" which would turn off all such check

[PATCH] eepro100 and IFF_RUNNING under 2.4

2001-07-20 Thread alex
m sending it to the list) -alex --- drivers/net/eepro100.c.orig Mon Jul 2 14:03:04 2001 +++ drivers/net/eepro100.c Fri Jul 20 13:28:20 2001 @@ -976,6 +976,11 @@ if ((sp->phy[0] & 0x8000) == 0) sp->advertising = mdio_read(ioaddr, sp->phy[0] & 0x1f, 4)

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2018-01-13 Thread Alex
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CPU Stuck error with 2.6.43.8

2012-07-19 Thread Alex
kvm: 31848: cpu2 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0010048 [59186.954027] kvm: 31848: cpu3 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0010048 Thanks, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel

Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: renesas:fix possible null pointer dereference struct pinmux_range *

2021-02-09 Thread Alex
On 2/9/21 10:12 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for your patch! > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:08 PM wrote: >> From: Zhang Kun >> >> The parameters of sh_pfc_enum_in_range() pinmux_range *r should be checked >> first fo

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Re: TSC Problems (warp between CPUs)

2013-12-31 Thread Alex
what clock source the OS is using even in windows. I even tried firing an email at the AmiBios guys. I think I have exhausted every avenue of help as far as the hardware goes. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Alex On 2013-12-29 11:21, Alex wrote: On 2013-12-29 01:35, One Thousand Gnomes wrote

TSC Problems (warp between CPUs)

2013-12-27 Thread Alex
latest bios. Some info on the problem (various outputs of shell commands): - alex@desktop:~$ uname -a Linux desktop 3.12.5-custom #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 21 17:28:12 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux alex@desktop:~$ dmesg | grep -i

Re: TSC Problems (warp between CPUs)

2013-12-28 Thread Alex
sc_barrier(); start = get_cycles(); rdtsc_barrier(); Now i see this during boot: alex@desktop:~$ dmesg | grep -i tsc tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT tsc: Detected 3400.348 MHz processor TSC deadline timer enabled TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#3]: Measured 56 cycles TSC warp

Re: TSC Problems (warp between CPUs)

2013-12-28 Thread Alex
sting strategy but is outside my knowledge scope as a regular end user (I do have a reasonable understanding of C and can patch+ recompile) but I lack the architecture knowledge to implement a patch to do this. Any suggestions? -- Kind Regards, Alex. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[PATCH] perf: save RAM when filtering events

2019-09-22 Thread Alex
-off-by: Alex Diaz --- tools/perf/util/string.c | 25 - tools/perf/util/string2.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/string.c b/tools/perf/util/string.c index 52603876c548..4c3913a9e7e7 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util

How to determine why kernel is dropping packets

2018-06-08 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm having a problem trying to figure out why the kernel is dropping packets on any machine connected to my cable modem and I don't know why. I've tried posting to fedora and network lists, but haven't had any luck, and hoped someone could help me here. I have a fedora28 system with 4.16.12-3

Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: cpsw-phy-sel: Clear RGMII_IDMODE on "rgmii" links

2016-12-06 Thread Alex
xes: " tag on the line right before your signoff. Thank you very much for the feedback. I will update accordingly. Alex Thanks.

Re: [PATCH v2] net/phy/vitesse: Configure RGMII skew on VSC8601, if needed

2016-11-16 Thread Alex
i-txid", "rgmii-rxid" or "rgmii" interfaces. */ Hi Alexandru You should be able to make "rgmii" work as expected. If that is the phy mode, disable the skew. And that's exactly the implemented behavior. See vsc8601_config_init() below. Alex

Re: [PATCH v2] net/phy/vitesse: Configure RGMII skew on VSC8601, if needed

2016-11-16 Thread Alex
On 11/16/2016 08:54 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:44:30AM -0800, Alex wrote: On 11/16/2016 05:50 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 01:02:33AM -0800, Alexandru Gagniuc wrote: With RGMII, we need a 1.5 to 2ns skew between clock and data lines. The VSC8601

Re: [PATCH] net/phy/vitesse: Configure RGMII skew on VSC8601, if needed

2016-11-14 Thread Alex
RX directions. Alex

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2020-07-19 Thread Alex
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[PATCH] staging: ccree: ssi_aead.c: Fix blank lines coding style issue

2017-05-09 Thread Alex
Checkpatch emits CHECK: Please don't use multiple blank lines. Remove multiple blank lines. Signed-off-by: Alexander Mazyrin --- drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_aead.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_aead.c b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_aead.c index 03829

Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARC: DTS: Add device-tree for Anarion-based development board

2017-07-31 Thread Alex
plan to later remove the fpga dts once the actual silicon works. [snip] +#include "skeleton.dtsi" Perhaps put a one liner that this is based on SNPS ARC700 cpu ! Staged for [PATCH v2]. Alex + +/ { +compatible = "adaptrum,anarion"; +#address-ce

Re: [PATCH 3/5] net: stmmac: Add Adaptrum Anarion GMAC glue layer

2017-07-31 Thread Alex
be sure to CC netdev@ on [PATCH v2]. Alex

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: enabled and supported on powernv platform

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 11:56 +, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: linux-kernel-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel- > > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Alex Williamson > > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:50 PM &

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: enabled and supported on powernv platform

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 13:02 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 22/11/12 22:56, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote: > > > > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: linux-kernel-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel- > >> ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Be

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: enabled and supported on powernv platform

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:18 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 13:02 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > On 22/11/12 22:56, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote: > > > > > > > > >> -Original Message- > > >> From: linux-kernel-ow

Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio powerpc: implemented IOMMU driver for VFIO

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > + * published by the Free Software Foundation. > + * > + * Derived from original vfio_iommu_type1.c: > + * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. > + * Author: Alex Williamson > + */

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] enable runnable load avg in load balance

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Shi
On 11/27/2012 03:03 AM, Benjamin Segall wrote: > So, I've been trying out using the runnable averages for load balance in > a few ways, but haven't actually gotten any improvement on the > benchmarks I've run. I'll post my patches once I have the numbers down, > but it's generally been about half a

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] enable runnable load avg in load balance

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Shi
On 11/27/2012 03:03 AM, Benjamin Segall wrote: > So, I've been trying out using the runnable averages for load balance in > a few ways, but haven't actually gotten any improvement on the > benchmarks I've run. I'll post my patches once I have the numbers down, > but it's generally been about half a

Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] bdi_register: Add __printf verification, fix arg mismatch

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Elder
On 11/22/2012 01:49 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > __printf is useful to verify format and arguments. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Looks good. I can take this into the ceph tree. Thanks. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder > --- > fs/ceph/super.c |2 +- > include/l

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: enabled and supported on powernv platform

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 14:28 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 27/11/12 05:04, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 08:18 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > >> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 13:02 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >>> On 22/11/12 2

Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio powerpc: enabled on powernv platform

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
u_put_tces(struct iommu_table *tbl, unsigned long entry, uint64_t > tce, > + enum dma_data_direction direction, unsigned long pages) > +{ > + int i, ret = 0, pages_to_put = 0; > + struct page *page; > + struct iommu_pool *pool = get_pool(tbl, entry); >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio powerpc: implemented IOMMU driver for VFIO

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 15:06 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 27/11/12 05:20, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:03 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> VFIO implements platform independent stuff such as > >> a PCI driver, BAR access (via read

Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio powerpc: implemented IOMMU driver for VFIO

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 15:58 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 27/11/12 15:29, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 15:06 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> On 27/11/12 05:20, Alex Williamson wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:03 +11

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] enable runnable load avg in load balance

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Shi
On 11/27/2012 11:08 AM, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > On 11/27/2012 12:33 AM, Benjamin Segall wrote: >> So, I've been trying out using the runnable averages for load balance in >> a few ways, but haven't actually gotten any improvement on the >> benchmarks I've run. I'll post my patche

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] enable runnable load avg in load balance

2012-11-27 Thread Alex Shi
On 11/27/2012 02:45 PM, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > Hi, > On 11/27/2012 11:44 AM, Alex Shi wrote: >> On 11/27/2012 11:08 AM, Preeti U Murthy wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> On 11/27/2012 12:33 AM, Benjamin Segall wrote: >>>> So, I've been tr

Re: How about a gpio_get(device *, char *) function?

2012-11-27 Thread Alex Courbot
flexible. Two approaches come to mind: either a linked-list of gpio_chips ordered by base GPIO, or a radix- tree. The small number of gpio chips in a system seem to make the first approach reasonable enough - GPIO lookup time would become linear instead of constant, but it should not be noticeab

Re: numa/core regressions fixed - more testers wanted

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Shi
> >> >> Could you please check tip:master with -v17: >> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git master >> Tested this version on our SNB EP 2 sockets box, 8 cores * HT with specjbb2005 on jrockit. With single JVM setting it has 40% performance increase compare to 3.7-rc6. i

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: implemented IOMMU driver for VFIO

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Williamson
modify > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > + * published by the Free Software Foundation. > + * > + * Derived from original vfio_iommu_type1.c: > + * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. > + * Author: Alex Williamson > + */

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: enabled on powernv platform

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Williamson
} > + > + /* Put tces to the table */ > + for (i = 0; (i < pages) && !ret; ++i, tce += IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE) > + ret = put_tce(tbl, entry + i, tce, direction); > + > + /* If failed, release locked pages, otherwise return the number of > pages */

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: enabled on powernv platform

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Williamson
} > + } > + > + /* Put tces to the table */ > + for (i = 0; (i < pages) && !ret; ++i, tce += IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE) { > + ret = put_tce(tbl, entry + i, tce, direction); > + /* > + * As IOMMU page size is always

[PATCH] kvm: Fix user memslot overlap check

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Williamson
s the added benefit of terminating early when we hit the first empty slot, and skip comparison to private slots. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 12 +--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b

[PATCH v2] kvm: Fix user memslot overlap check

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Williamson
s the added benefit of terminating early when we hit the first empty slot, and skip comparison to private slots. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org --- v2: Remove unused variable i virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 13 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource' files

2013-03-17 Thread Alex Williamson
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 08:33 -0600, Myron Stowe wrote: > On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 07:38 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 22:36 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:11:22PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2013-03-16

Re: [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource' files

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Williamson
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:00 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Alex Williamson > wrote: > > I'm assuming that the device only breaks because udevadm is dumping the > > full I/O port register space of the device and that if an actual driver >

Re: [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource' files

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 10:50 -0400, Don Dutile wrote: > On 03/17/2013 06:28 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 08:33 -0600, Myron Stowe wrote: > >> On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 07:38 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 22:36 -0700, Gre

Re: [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource' files

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:41 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:24:40AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:00 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Alex Williamson > > > wrote: > > > > I

Re: [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource' files

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:20 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Alex Williamson writes: > > > At least for KVM the kernel fix is the addition of the vfio driver which > > gives us a non-sysfs way to do this. If this problem was found a few > > years later and we were ready to mak

Re: [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource' files

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 19:25 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Alex Williamson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:20 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > >> Alex Williamson writes: > >> > >> > At least for KVM the kernel fix is the addition of the vfio driver >

Re: [PATCH] iommu: making IOMMU sysfs nodes API public

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 14:53 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 20/02/13 15:33, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 15:20 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> On 20/02/13 14:47, Alex Williamson wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 13:31 +11

[GIT PULL] vfio fix for 3.9-rc4

2013-03-19 Thread Alex Williamson
Hi Linus, Please pull for the next rc. Thanks! The following changes since commit f6161aa153581da4a3867a2d1a7caf4be19b6ec9: Linux 3.9-rc2 (2013-03-10 16:54:19 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git tags/vfio-v3.9-rc4 for you to fetch chang

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Security: Add CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL

2013-03-19 Thread Alex Williamson
nd > return a transaction address, of course. > > I think we have the interface for that in vfio, but I haven't followed > that work. Yes, vfio does this and is meant to provide a secure-boot-friendly PCI passthrough interface. Thanks, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Security: Add CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL

2013-03-19 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 20:22 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/19/2013 08:18 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > >> > >> The "pinning" process needs to involve a call to the kernel to process > >> the page for DMA (pinning the page and opening it in the iommu) a

Re: [PATCH] pciehp: Add pciehp_surprise module option

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Williamson
uot; > Please no. Can we quirk just the device with the problem? My issue with turning on surprise hotplug across the system is that secondary bus resets will trigger a device hot unplug, hot re-plug. I have a system with an integrated broadcom NIC behind a root port that claims to support s

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: implement IOMMU driver for VFIO

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Williamson
he detach_group, otherwise just some trivial comments below. What's the status of the tce code that this depends on? Thanks, Alex > Documentation/vfio.txt | 63 ++ > drivers/vfio/Kconfig|6 + > drivers/vfio/Makefile |1 + >

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: implement IOMMU driver for VFIO

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:57 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 21/03/13 07:45, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 18:08 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> VFIO implements platform independent stuff such as > >> a PCI driver, BAR access (via read

Re: [PATCH] vfio powerpc: implement IOMMU driver for VFIO

2013-03-20 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:55 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:45:24PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 18:08 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > VFIO implements platform independent stuff such as > > > a PCI driver, BAR

Re: [patch v5 14/15] sched: power aware load balance

2013-03-21 Thread Alex Shi
platform? In theory, a totally idle cpu has a zero rq->util at least after 3xxms, and in fact, I find the code works fine on my machines. -- Thanks Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org Mor

Re: [patch v5 14/15] sched: power aware load balance

2013-03-21 Thread Alex Shi
theory the rq->avg.runnable_avg_sum should be zero if there is no task a bit long, otherwise there are some bugs in kernel. Could you check the value under /proc/sched_debug? -- Thanks Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [PATCH] iommu: add a function to find an iommu group by id

2013-03-21 Thread Alex Williamson
group_find); Don't you need to do some reference counting here? Otherwise there's no guarantee the returned pointer is still valid by the time it's used. The interface should probably be iommu_group_get_by_id(). Thanks, Alex > + > /** > * iommu_group_get_iommudata - retri

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-02-03 Thread Alex Shi
On 01/24/2013 11:06 AM, Alex Shi wrote: > Since the runnable info needs 345ms to accumulate, balancing > doesn't do well for many tasks burst waking. After talking with Mike > Galbraith, we are agree to just use runnable avg in power friendly > scheduling and keep curren

Re: DMAR faults from unrelated device when vfio is used

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
s to put unused devices in D3, which leads me to suspect you are giving it to the guest. Let's see what happens without that. Thanks, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 50/62] vfio: convert to idr_alloc()

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 17:20 -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > Convert to the much saner new idr interface. > > Only compile tested. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo > Cc: Alex Williamson > Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org > --- > This patch depends on an earlier idr changes and I think

Re: Radeon RV100 init fails with specific card+mobo - IRQ problem

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Deucher
ts that would need to be worked around (fences, display >> hotplug, pageflipping) if not interrupt is available. > > I did dome more testing with different cards an got a surprise. The > machine works fine with other AGP cards - one MX440 with nouvea, another > RV100 QY and a R200. The

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] QEMU-AER: Qemu changes to support AER for VFIO-PCI devices

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
eof(*irq_set) + sizeof(*pfd); > + > +irq_set = g_malloc0(argsz); > +irq_set->argsz = argsz; > +irq_set->flags = VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_EVENTFD | > + VFIO_IRQ_SET_ACTION_TRIGGER; > +irq_set->index = VFIO_PCI_ERR_IRQ_INDEX; > +irq_se

Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] VFIO-AER: Vfio-pci driver changes for supporting AER

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
+ if (fd == -1) { > + if (vdev->err_trigger) > + eventfd_ctx_put(vdev->err_trigger); > + vdev->err_trigger = NULL; > + return 0; > + } else if (fd >= 0) { > + vdev->err_trigger

Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] VFIO: Wrapper for getting reference to vfio_device from device

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
he same. > } > - > - vfio_device_put(device); > vfio_group_put(group); > iommu_group_put(iommu_group); > - return true; > + return device; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_device_get_from_dev); > + Let's add a comment here that the caller must hol

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] AER-KVM: Error containment of VFIO devices assigned to KVM guests

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
each patch. As Gleb points out, please try to use git send-mail (or even stg mail) so that threading is maintained for these. A side effect will be that you can't send kernel & qemu patches in the same series, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Thanks, Alex > v2: > - R

Re: [PATCH] intel_irq_remapping: Clean up x2apic optout security warning mess

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
,11 @@ error: > /* >* handle error condition gracefully here! >*/ > + > + if (x2apic_present) > + WARN(1, KERN_WARNING > + "Failed to enable irq remapping. You are vulnerable to > irq-injection attacks.\n");

Re: [PATCH] intel_irq_remapping: Clean up x2apic optout security warning mess

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 11:19 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Alex Williamson > wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 14:57 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> Current kernels print this on my Dell server: > >> > >>[

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-02-04 Thread Alex Shi
lback or two would have to go into the ACPI battery driver > I suspect. > > So I'd like this feature to be a tangible improvement for laptop > users (as long as the laptop hardware is passing us battery/AC > events reliably). Maybe it is better to let system admin change it from us

[PATCH] rwsem: steal writing sem for better performance

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Shi
, I just allow writing steal happen when the first waiter is also writer. Then the performance fully recovered. Reported-by: l...@linux.intel.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Alex Shi --- lib/rwsem.c | 75 + 1 file changed, 46

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] QEMU-AER: Qemu changes to support AER for VFIO-PCI devices

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Williamson
gt; To: Pandarathil, Vijaymohan R > > Cc: Blue Swirl; Alex Williamson; Bjorn Helgaas; Ortiz, Lance E; > > k...@vger.kernel.org; qemu-de...@nongnu.org; linux-...@vger.kernel.org; > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] QEMU-AER: Qemu changes to support AE

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] QEMU-AER: Qemu changes to support AER for VFIO-PCI devices

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 15:42 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:37:35AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 12:05 +, Pandarathil, Vijaymohan R wrote: > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: lin

Re: DMAR faults from unrelated device when vfio is used

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 14:31 +0100, David Gstir wrote: > Am Montag, den 04.02.2013, 08:49 -0700 schrieb Alex Williamson: > > > Can you clarify what you mean by assign? Are you actually assigning the > > root ports to the qemu guest (1c.0 & 1c.6)? vfio will require they be

Re: DMAR faults from unrelated device when vfio is used

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 08:37 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 14:31 +0100, David Gstir wrote: > > Am Montag, den 04.02.2013, 08:49 -0700 schrieb Alex Williamson: > > > > > Can you clarify what you mean by assign? Are you actually assigning the >

Re: [PATCH] rwsem: steal writing sem for better performance

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Shi
On 02/05/2013 10:58 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Alex Shi wrote: > >> Commit 5a50508 change to rwsem from mutex, that cause aim7 fork_test >> dropped 50%. Yuanhan liu does a good analysis, find it caused by >> strict sequential writing. Ingo suggest stealing sem wr

Re: [PATCH 5/9] gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in gpiochip_find_base

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Courbot
search method is vital for userspace ABIs, and must be preserved. Done. I will take the blame if something goes wrong. :) Thanks, Alex. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo inf

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-02-05 Thread Alex Shi
BTW, Since numa balance scheduling is also a kind of cpu locality policy, it is natural compatible with power aware scheduling. The v2/v3 of this patch had developed on tip/master, testing show above 2 scheduling policy work together well. -- Thanks Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: DMAR faults from unrelated device when vfio is used

2013-02-06 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 19:09 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Hi, > > Am Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:36:53 -0700 > schrieb Alex Williamson : > > > Ugh, the infamous and useless error 10. It could be anything. > > > I've got a system with onboard usb3, let me see w

Re: DMAR faults from unrelated device when vfio is used

2013-02-06 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 21:25 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Hi, > > Am Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:47:20 -0700 > schrieb Alex Williamson : > > Does the card work with pci-assign or are both broken? > > It works with pci-assign. :-\ When you tested this, did you detach the g

Re: DMAR faults from unrelated device when vfio is used

2013-02-07 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 23:23 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Hi, > > Am Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:45:37 -0700 > schrieb Alex Williamson : > > > On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 21:25 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Am Wed, 06 Feb 2

Re: [grant:gpio/next 10/16] gpiolib.c:undefined reference to `gpiod_unexport'

2013-02-10 Thread Alex Courbot
Hi Grant, On 02/10/2013 01:34 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > Alex, this is broken when the sysfs interface isn't enabled. Can you > send a fixup patch? > > g. > > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, kbuild test robot > wrote: >> tree: git://git.secretlab.ca/git

Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Fix locking on gpio debugfs files

2013-02-10 Thread Alex Courbot
chips could still be removed while being displayed by gpiolib_seq_show(). Thanks, Alex. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio powerpc: enabled on powernv platform

2013-02-11 Thread Alex Williamson
> - if (phb->p5ioc2.iommu_table.it_map == NULL) > + if (phb->p5ioc2.iommu_table.it_map == NULL) { > iommu_init_table(&phb->p5ioc2.iommu_table, phb->hose->node); > + iommu_register_group(&phb->p5ioc2.iommu_table, > +

Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio powerpc: implemented IOMMU driver for VFIO

2013-02-11 Thread Alex Williamson
ogram is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > + * published by the Free Software Foundation. > + * > + * Derived from original vfio_iommu_type1.c: > + * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved

Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfio powerpc: enabled on powernv platform

2013-02-11 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 10:19 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 12/02/13 09:16, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 22:54 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> @@ -707,11 +709,39 @@ struct iommu_table *iommu_init_table(struct > >> iommu_table *tbl,

Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfio powerpc: implemented IOMMU driver for VFIO

2013-02-11 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 10:45 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 12/02/13 09:17, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 22:54 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> VFIO implements platform independent stuff such as > >> a PCI driver, BAR access (via read

Re: [PATCH] iommu: making IOMMU sysfs nodes API public

2013-02-11 Thread Alex Williamson
etup prior to use through vfio, so sysfs is more convenient than through vfio ioctls. But then is dma-window-size just a vfio requirement leaking over into iommu groups? Can we allow iommu driver based attributes without giving up control of the namespace? Thanks, Alex > Signed-off-by: Alexey

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