Re[2]: [PATCH 11/11][v2] ppc440spe-adma: ADMA driver for PPC440SP(e) systems

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello David, Thanks a lot for review. The general note to be made here is that the changes to the DTS file made by this patch are necessary for a ppc440spe ADMA driver, which is a not-completed arch/powerpc port from the arch/ppc branch, and which uses DT (well, incorrectly) just to get in

Re[2]: [RFC PATCH 00/11][v3] md: support for asynchronous execution of RAID6 operations

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Dan, On Wednesday, January 14, 2009 you wrote: [..] > Do you have a git tree where you can post this series? That would > make it easier for me to track/review. Yes. Please see the "raidstuff" branch in the linux-2.6-denx repository: http://git.denx.de/?p=linux-2.6-denx.git;a=short

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-16 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Hi! Ira Snyder wrote on 15.01.2009 22:40:56: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:22:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > > I have another question for you Arnd. > > > > > > What did you use as the host and guest drivers when you ran virtio over > > >

Re: [PATCH] cpm2: Round the baud-rate clock divider to the nearest integer.

2009-01-16 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Thursday 15 January 2009 19:57:44 Kumar Gala wrote: > On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Scott Wood wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> On Thursday 15 January 2009 15:42:14 Kumar Gala wrote: > >>> On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >>>

Re[2]: [PATCH 02/11][v3] async_tx: add support for asynchronous GF multiplication

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Dan, Thanks for review. Some comments below. On Thursday, January 15, 2009 you wrote: [..] >> +/** >> + * do_async_pq - asynchronously calculate P and/or Q >> + */ >> +static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor * >> +do_async_pq(struct dma_chan *chan, struct page **blocks, unsigned char >>

Re[2]: [PATCH 03/11][v3] async_tx: add support for asynchronous RAID6 recovery operations

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
On Thursday, January 15, 2009 Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: >> + /* (2) Calculate Q+Qxy */ >> + lptrs[0] = ptrs[failb]; >> + lptrs[1] = ptrs[disks-1]; >> + lptrs[2] = NULL; >> + tx = async_pq(lptrs, NULL, 0, 1, bytes, AS

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
>> try to fix "ft_cpu_setup()" in your u-boot source for mpc8272ads >> and use "PowerPC,8...@0" as cpu_path instead of "c...@0". >> >> Best regards, >> Anatolij > I am currently going until this step: ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 0040 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.29-rc1-01197-g5a7b

Re[2]: [PATCH 11/11][v2] ppc440spe-adma: ADMA driver for PPC440SP(e) systems

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Anton, Thanks for review. Please note the general note I made in "Re[2]: [PATCH 11/11][v2] ppc440spe-adma: ADMA driver for PPC440SP(e) systems". All your comments make sense, so we'll try to address these in the next version of the driver. Some comments below. On Thursday, January 1

Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

2009-01-16 Thread Chandru
On Thursday 15 January 2009 13:35:27 Chandru wrote: > Hello Dave, From the debug console output, if there is anything you can add > here, pls let me know. As we can see from the console output here, physbase isn't page aligned when the panic occurs. So we could as well send (start_pfn << PAGE_S

Re[2]: [PATCH 07/11] md: rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 in asynchronous way

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
On Friday, January 16, 2009 you wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dan Williams > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: >> What's the reasoning behind changing the logic here, i.e. removing >> must_compute and such? I'd feel more comfortable seeing copy and >> p

Re[2]: [PATCH 07/11] md: rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 in asynchronous way

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Cheng, On Friday, January 16, 2009 you wrote: > Ack, could you please make the changelog more descriptive? > and or add some of your benchmark results? Of course. We did benchmarking using the Xdd tool like follows: # xdd -op write -kbytes $kbytes -reqsize $reqsize -dio-passes 2 –verbos

Re: [PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-16 Thread Milton Miller
On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. Another day, another comment. The motivation for reply was the second comment below. diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 84b8613..18f33ef 100644 --

Re[2]: [PATCH][v4] powerpc 44x: support for 256KB PAGE_SIZE

2009-01-16 Thread Yuri Tikhonov
Hello Milton, On Friday, January 16, 2009 you wrote: > On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: >> This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. > Another day, another comment. The motivation for reply was the second > comment below. >> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Wood
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > Could it be a problem in my bootargs command line ? > I mean, maybe the console=ttyS0,11500 wrong ? > Because my "Run" LED is on... > > I tried ttyS0, ttyCPM0, tty0. It should be ttyCPM0, or just leave it out and make sure th

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2009/1/16 Scott Wood : > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> Could it be a problem in my bootargs command line ? >> I mean, maybe the console=ttyS0,11500 wrong ? >> Because my "Run" LED is on... >> >> I tried ttyS0, ttyCPM0, tty0. > > It should be ttyCPM0, or ju

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2009/1/16 Scott Wood : > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> Could it be a problem in my bootargs command line ? >> I mean, maybe the console=ttyS0,11500 wrong ? >> Because my "Run" LED is on... >> >> I tried ttyS0, ttyCPM0, tty0. > > It should be ttyCPM0, or ju

Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

2009-01-16 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:46 +0530, Chandru wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 13:35:27 Chandru wrote: > > Hello Dave, From the debug console output, if there is anything you can add > > here, pls let me know. > > As we can see from the console output here, physbase isn't page aligned when > th

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2009/1/16 Jean-Michel Hautbois : > 2009/1/16 Scott Wood : >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >>> Could it be a problem in my bootargs command line ? >>> I mean, maybe the console=ttyS0,11500 wrong ? >>> Because my "Run" LED is on... >>> >>> I tried ttyS0, ttyCP

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Wood
Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: OK, I just tried a make of my kernel (already compiled yesterday), and it generated a cuImage.mpc8272ads kernel image (which it didn't do yesterday). I don't know why this image was generated, but I tried to reboot using this one. Use uImage if you are providing a de

Re: Device Tree setup for 8272-based board

2009-01-16 Thread Scott Wood
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:40:03PM +1100, Daniel Ng wrote: > I've tried various values for 'console' but I'm quite certain 'ttyCPM0' is the > one to use as this is what I was using when it was working with Linux 2.6.14 > and an old (pre-Device Tree) version of u-boot. Yes, that is correct. You ca

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-16 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2009/1/16 Scott Wood : > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> OK, I just tried a make of my kernel (already compiled yesterday), and >> it generated a cuImage.mpc8272ads kernel image (which it didn't do >> yesterday). >> I don't know why this image was generated, but I tried to reboot using >> this on

Re: Re[2]: [PATCH 02/11][v3] async_tx: add support for asynchronous GF multiplication

2009-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: >> I don't think this will work as we will be mixing Q into the new P and >> P into the new Q. In order to support (src_cnt > device->max_pq) we >> need to explicitly tell the driver that the operation is being >> continued (DMA_PREP_CONTINUE)

Re: Re[2]: [PATCH 03/11][v3] async_tx: add support for asynchronous RAID6 recovery operations

2009-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: > The reason why I preferred to use async_pq() instead of async_xor() > here is to maximize the chance that the whole D+D recovery operation > will be handled in one ADMA device, i.e. without channels switch and > the latency introduced becaus

Re: Re[2]: [PATCH 07/11] md: rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 in asynchronous way

2009-01-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: >> Ok, I now see why this change was made. Please make this changelog >> more descriptive than "Rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 function to >> work asynchronously." > > Sure, how about the following: > > " > > md: rewrite handle_stripe_dirty

Re: [PATCH] infiniband/ehca: use consistent type

2009-01-16 Thread Roland Dreier
I'm going to apply this for 2.6.29, since the change to the u64 type went upstream, so ehca spews a bunch of warnings now. I'll also add the following patch to fix all the printk format warnings: IB/ehca: Fix printk format warnings from u64 type change Commit fe21 ("powerpc: Change u64/s64 t

Re: [PATCH] infiniband/ehca: use consistent type

2009-01-16 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Roland, On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:36:27 -0800 Roland Dreier wrote: > > I'm going to apply this for 2.6.29, since the change to the u64 type > went upstream, so ehca spews a bunch of warnings now. Thanks. > I'll also add the following patch to fix all the printk format warnings: > > IB/ehca: Fi

Re: [PATCH] infiniband/ehca: use consistent type

2009-01-16 Thread Roland Dreier
> Sorry to appear picky, but how is that different from the patch "powerpc: > cleanup from powerpc l64 to ll64 change: drivers/infiniband" that I sent > to you on Jan 7? Well, I didn't lose my version and forget all about it ;) Seriously, I must have lost that patch, sorry about that. I'll di

Re: [PATCH] infiniband/ehca: use consistent type

2009-01-16 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Roland, On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:51:30 -0800 Roland Dreier wrote: > > > Sorry to appear picky, but how is that different from the patch "powerpc: > > cleanup from powerpc l64 to ll64 change: drivers/infiniband" that I sent > > to you on Jan 7? > > Well, I didn't lose my version and forget al

RE: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Add support for Arches CPU0 SGMII0 to CPU1SGMII0

2009-01-16 Thread Victor Gallardo
Hi Josh, I see you are delegated for this patch submission any ideas when it will be accepted. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/6814/ Thanks, -Victor Gallardo -Original Message- From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+vgallardo=amcc@ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+vgallardo=amcc@

RE: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Add support for Arches CPU0 SGMII0 to CPU1SGMII0

2009-01-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 16:14 -0800, Victor Gallardo wrote: > Hi Josh, > > I see you are delegated for this patch submission any ideas when it will be > accepted. > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/6814/ Looks like it fell through the cracks. Can you resend it to both our list and net...@vger