RE: gianfar driver crash on P1020

2012-10-14 Thread Avi Tsarfati
Hi, The patch you sent me will prevent TX timeouts that will trigger gianfar stop(gfar_stop is causing the soft lockup) & start by network watchdog and will solve my first problem. But, I have this problem again while running some traffic (ping -s 1500 to and from my device) and configuring MTU

Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events

2012-10-14 Thread Anshuman Khandual
On 10/12/2012 06:58 AM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > > From 89cb6a25b9f714e55a379467a832ee015014ed11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:59:01 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] perf: Add a few generic stalled-cycles events > > The existing generic event 'stall

[PATCH] powerpc: added DSCR support to ptrace

2012-10-14 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
The DSCR (aka Data Stream Control Register) is supported on some server PowerPC chips and allow some control over the prefetch of data streams. The kernel already supports DSCR value per thread but there is also a need in a ability to change it from an external process for the specific pid. The p