Re: Badness at drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:210 during shutdown

2009-06-21 Thread Sachin Sant
Sachin Sant wrote: I came across the following badness message during shutdown on a Power6 box. This was with 2.6.30-git12(3fe0344faf7fdcb158bd5c1a9aec960a8d70c8e8) [ cut here ] Badness at drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:210 The badness message is still present with git18. --

Re: Badness on the Warp

2009-06-21 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Sean, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Sean MacLennan wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:25:04 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> Right, our interrupt controllers need those fixes, they are low >> on my priority list since it's a reasonably harmless warning and I'm >> still chasing some a

Re: [PATCH] Have git ignore generated files from dtc compile

2009-06-21 Thread Sean MacLennan
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:52:11 +1000 David Gibson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:28:00PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Have git ignore generated files from dtc compile > > Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl > > Acked-by: David Gibson Acked-by: Sean MacLennan ___

Re: [PATCH] Have git ignore generated files from dtc compile

2009-06-21 Thread David Gibson
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:28:00PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > Have git ignore generated files from dtc compile > > Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl Acked-by: David Gibson > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore b/arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore > index d57aa5c..dab1b41 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/boot

[PATCH] Have git ignore generated files from dtc compile

2009-06-21 Thread Jon Smirl
Have git ignore generated files from dtc compile Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl --- arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore | 10 ++ scripts/dtc/.gitignore |5 + 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scripts/dtc/.gitignore diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/.g

[PATCH] Have git ignore generated files from dtc compile

2009-06-21 Thread Jon Smirl
--- arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore | 10 ++ scripts/dtc/.gitignore |5 + 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scripts/dtc/.gitignore diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore b/arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore index d57aa5c..dab1b41 100644 --- a

Re: Badness on the Warp

2009-06-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 18:36 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:25:04 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Right, our interrupt controllers need those fixes, they are low > > on my priority list since it's a reasonably harmless warning and I'm > > still chasing some actua

Re: Make bridge bug in linux 2.6.25b using Powerpc 405ep

2009-06-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 11:45 +0800, zhong wang wrote: > hello all: >I encountered a very strange question, I am using the AMCC > Powerpc 405ep its Emac0 received a single phy intel 971, Emac1 > received RTL8305SB, they shared Mdio, Mdc. 2.6.25.10 I use >

Re: Badness on the Warp

2009-06-21 Thread Sean MacLennan
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:25:04 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Right, our interrupt controllers need those fixes, they are low > on my priority list since it's a reasonably harmless warning and I'm > still chasing some actual breakage (though maybe not directly related > to your patches). >

Re: ALSA fixes for non-coherent ppc32 again

2009-06-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:18 +0200, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > Hi, > > Takashi Iwai posted patches to make ALSA work on non-coherent PPC32 > systems (almost exactly) a year ago. See here: > http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH-0-3--ALSA-fixes-for-non-coherent-ppc32-to17980027.html#a17980027 > > As far as I

Re: Badness on the Warp

2009-06-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:20 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > The WARN_ON() is there to let us know that someone is doing a bootmem > allocation but the slab allocator is already up. So the proper fix > here is to use kmalloc() directly in the call-site that triggers this > WARN_ON. I'm cc'ing Ben as he

ALSA fixes for non-coherent ppc32 again

2009-06-21 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Hi, Takashi Iwai posted patches to make ALSA work on non-coherent PPC32 systems (almost exactly) a year ago. See here: http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH-0-3--ALSA-fixes-for-non-coherent-ppc32-to17980027.html#a17980027 As far as I can see these patches never went upstream. Where there any objections or

Re: [PATCH 1/3] AMCC Crypto4xx Device Driver v7

2009-06-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Shasi Pulijala wrote: > Hi, >I am re-sending this patch as a patch series of 3, I am assuming the > earlier one did not go through the mailing lists > because it was over the size limit. Actually the original patch came through the list and to me :) However I'm not against splitting it

Re: Badness on the Warp

2009-06-21 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 21 June 2009, Sean MacLennan wrote: >> I found the source of the badness. The backtrace is correct: >> >> uic_init_one > > So that's in arch/powerpc/sysdev/uic.c. > >> ___alloc_bootmem >> ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic >> alloc_arch_preferred_

Re: Badness on the Warp

2009-06-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Frans Pop wrote: > > The fact that your bisect ended at a merge essentially means that it is > invalid. As a merge does not introduce any actual change (unless it > includes changes to resolve conflicts), it normally cannot be the cause > of a regression. > Sort of. You can have a "bum merge