[PATCH v2 1/2] Fix kexec on powerpc32

Hello everybody, Changes from previous version: - removed bogus hyphen from the patch; - move ifdefs to crt.S instead of Makefile Please find here patch for user land kexec-tools application. Following patch makes kexec-tools work for both kexec and kdump. I tested

[PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc new toolchains fix (crt.S)

Hello everybody, Changes from previous version: - removed bogus hyphen from the patch; - move ifdefs to crt.S instead of Makefile Please find here patch for user land kexec-tools application. Following patch makes kexec-tools work for both kexec and kdump. I tested

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix kexec on powerpc32

On Tue, 11 May 2010 at 21:47, Maxim Uvarov wrote: > This patch is required in case if you are using new toolchains. After kexec-tools compiled, I actually tried it: # kexec -l /boot/2.6/zImage --command-line="root=/dev/hda6 ro" # echo $? 0 # kexec -e Starting new kernel Bye! but then the sys

Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (tmp421) Add nfactor support.

Hi Jeff, On Tue, 11 May 2010 15:34:29 -0400, Jeff Angielski wrote: > On 05/11/2010 03:03 PM, Andre Prendel wrote: > > I'de prefer implementing the sysfs access methods in a consistent way (see > > other functions). That means adding the nfactor register to the tmp421_data > > structure and using

[git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

Hi Linus ! Please pull this perf event fix from Paulus. Without it, using perf event can potentially oops the machine at any time. Thanks ! Cheers, Ben. The following changes since commit cea0d767c29669bf89f86e4aee46ef462d2ebae8: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of

Re: [PATCH] Fix UART clocks on 440SPe

On Wednesday 12 May 2010 04:22:50 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > The code to fixup the serial ports on 440SPe uses the incorrect > addresses for these. This fixes it. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Stefan Roese Cheers, Stefan __

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/12] KVM, x86, ppc, asm-generic: moving dirty bitmaps to user space

[To ppc people] Hi, Benjamin, Paul, Alex, Please see the patches 6,7/12. I first say sorry for that I've not tested these yet. In that sense, these may not be in the quality for precise reviews. But I will be happy if you would give me any comments. Alex, could you help me? Though I have a pl

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/12 not tested yet] PPC: introduce __set_bit() like function for bitmaps in user space

+static inline int set_bit_user_non_atomic(int nr, void __user *addr) +{ + u8 __user *p; + u8 val; + + p = (u8 __user *)((unsigned long)addr + nr / BITS_PER_BYTE); Does C do the + or the / first? Either way, I'd like to see brackets here :) OK, I'll change like that! I li

Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

On May 12, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi Linus ! > > Please pull this perf event fix from Paulus. Without it, using perf event > can potentially oops the machine at any time. > > Thanks ! > > Cheers, > Ben. > > The following changes since commit cea0d767c29669bf89f86e4a

Re: [PATCH] Fix UART clocks on 440SPe

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:22:50PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >The code to fixup the serial ports on 440SPe uses the incorrect >addresses for these. This fixes it. > >Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt >--- > >I'm surprised nobody noticed, serial is pretty busted for me without >that

Re: [git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 05:24 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > Did where you going to also send linus: > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/51496/ Forgot about that one... I'll add it to the pile tomorrow. Cheers, Ben. ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxpp

Re: Please pull 'next' branch of 4xx (again)

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:54:53PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >Hi Ben, > >Two more quick patches from me for -next. Stefrano's is the Katmai usage of >the reset type change that just went in. The 460SX PCI-e patch has been >sitting >for a while and seems to have been skipped over. I've updated my

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix kexec on powerpc32

2010/5/12 Christian Kujau > On Tue, 11 May 2010 at 21:47, Maxim Uvarov wrote: > > This patch is required in case if you are using new toolchains. > > After kexec-tools compiled, I actually tried it: > > # kexec -l /boot/2.6/zImage --command-line="root=/dev/hda6 ro" > # echo $? > 0 > # kexec -e >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix kexec on powerpc32

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:31:26AM +0400, Maxim Uvarov wrote: > 2010/5/12 Christian Kujau > > > Maxim Uvarov wrote on 2010-05-11 10:47 : > > > This patch is required in case if you are using new toolchains. > > > > I'm on Debian/stable (binutils 2.18, gcc 4.3.2), so I applied your patches > > to

[PATCH] Update smt_enabled=X handling for cores with more than two threads

This patch updates the handling of the smt-enabled=X boot option to handle settings on systems with more than two threads per core. This change involves moving all of the handling of the boot option to the check_smt_enabled() routine and the calling of this routine in setup_system() until after t

Re: Config Items appearing twice in same Kconfig file?

Just noticed it might have been worth adding the output so everyone out there doesn't ned to grep through his tree for reference: % grep ^config **/Kconfig* | sort | uniq -dc 2 arch/alpha/Kconfig.debug:config ALPHA_LEGACY_START_ADDRESS 2 arch/alpha/Kconf

Config Items appearing twice in same Kconfig file?

Hi all! First of all sorry for the huge CC, I couldn't come up with a way to create a smaller list while reaching all the relevant people. We, the vamos project[1] at the Friedrich Alexander University are analything the linux configuration model trying to detect errors. During a run with o

[PATCH] powerpc: fix register_power_pmu() section mismatch warning

Add missing __cpuinit annotations to fix a bunch of warnings like the one shown below when building a kernel for the PowerPC architecture with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y. WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x11c72): Section mismatch in reference from the function register_power_pm

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix register_power_pmu() section mismatch warning

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Albert Herranz wrote: > Add missing __cpuinit annotations to fix a bunch of warnings like the one > shown below when building a kernel for the PowerPC architecture with > CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y. > > WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0

Re: Config Items appearing twice in same Kconfig file?

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 16:40 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote: > Just noticed it might have been worth adding the output so everyone > out there doesn't ned to grep through his tree for reference: > > % grep ^config **/Kconfig* | sort | uniq -dc That didn't actually wor

Re: [PATCH] [POWEPC] crashdump: do not fail on null pointer dereferencing

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:02 +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote: > Hi, > > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c > > index 6f4613d..341d8af 100644 > > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c > > @@ -375,6 +375,9 @@ void default_machine_crash_

[git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

Hi Linus ! I've added to my merge branch Kumar's swiotlb fix. Here's the updated pull request. Thanks ! Cheers, Ben. The following changes since commit cea0d767c29669bf89f86e4aee46ef462d2ebae8: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../jdelvare/st

"event-scan failed" logflood

I upgraded the kernel on my Pegasos from 2.6.32 to 2.6.33 and now it sends the message "event-scan failed" to the kernel log about 60 times per second as long as it's running. The message comes from arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c but I don't know what's going on in there so I can't say much more abou

Re: "event-scan failed" logflood

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:13 -0500, pac...@kosh.dhis.org wrote: > I upgraded the kernel on my Pegasos from 2.6.32 to 2.6.33 and now it sends > the message "event-scan failed" to the kernel log about 60 times per second > as long as it's running. > > The message comes from arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.