On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:29 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get this with 32 bit Firefox 3b2 and java 1.6.0_03 on 64 bit:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 8102366213f8
> IP: [] twothirdsMD4Transform+0xc4/0x3b0
You should mention what kernel you're using. This bug is on
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 18:08 +0900, Joonwoo Park wrote:
> This patch intorduces cmdline netconsole configs to register to
> configfs
> with dynamic netconsole. Satyam Sharma who designed shiny dynamic
> reconfiguration for netconsole, mentioned about this issue already.
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007
> err, Matt?
random: revert braindamage that snuck into checkpatch cleanup
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 50a6e531a9f2 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Mon Feb 04 20:23:02 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c Mon Feb 04 20:28:08 2008 -
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:53:23PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> Distributed storage documentation.
>
> Algorithms used in the system, userspace interfaces
> (sysfs dirs and files), design and implementation details
> are described here.
Can you give us a summary of how this differs from us
Simon, can you test this patch? I think it's the most straightforward
2.6.24 fix.
diff -r c60016ba6237 net/core/netpoll.c
--- a/net/core/netpoll.cTue Nov 13 09:09:36 2007 -0800
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.cFri Nov 23 13:10:28 2007 -0600
@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ static void refill_skbs(void)
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:54:11PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:41:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > Here's another thought: move all this logic into the networking core,
> > unify it with current softirq zapper, the
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:32:22PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:11:20PM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:59:06PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:51:01PM +0300, Evg
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:15:24PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:59:43PM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > So I'd be surprised if that was a problem. But I can imagine having
> > problems for skbs without destructors which r
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:59:06PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:51:01PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:48:51PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Stop, we are trying to free skb without d
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:57:57PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:07:56AM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:55:19PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:21:57AM -0800,
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:55:19PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:21:57AM -0800, Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > > [2059664.615816] __iptables__: init4 IN=ppp0 OUT=ppp0 WARNING: at
> > > kernel/softirq.c:139 local_bh_enable()
> > > [2059664.620535] [<8
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:43:15PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I'm supporting a number of consumer devices (e.g. small NAS devices)
> in Debian. They typically don't export the serial console and don't
> have any other output devices. We perform the installation via SSH
> on such devices and
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:26:11PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Tina Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:46:30 -0700
>
> > The precise race is
> > 1) net_rx_action get the dev from poll_list
> > 2) at the same time, netpoll poll_napi() get a hold of the poll lock
[annoyed as ever about never being cc:ed on this stuff]
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:21:31PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The netpoll receive code is:
> 1. Not used by any in-tree features, it is used by kgdb-over-ether.
And various crashdump over network tools.
> 2. A nice hook for people do
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:59:38AM -0700, Tina Yang wrote:
> We recently run into a few problems with netconsole
> in at least 2.6.9, 2.6.18 and 2.6.23. It either panicked
> at netdevice.h:890 or hung the system, and sometimes depending
> on which NIC we are using, the following console message,
>
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:27:55PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> I finally decided to try netconsole in attempt to get some more information
> why my system does not resume (but that is different story). But I cannot
> make it work - it does load but I see no traffic flowing ever. This is
> n
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:00:08AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:02:19PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:59:21AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:05:00PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> > &
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:59:21AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:05:00PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> > Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:14:36PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> > >> Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > >>> On 28-07-2007 20:42, Gabriel C wrote:
> > >
igh priority
> messages only) on the sender.
>
> Cc: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks.
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:27:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:37 +0100
> Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > This patch adds a dm-netlink skeleton support to the Makefile, and the dm
> > directory.
> >
>
t; Cc: Keiichi Kii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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As long as we're on the subject, I've been meaning to add a note
telling people to set their console log level to something useful, as
having that set too low is the most common problem people e
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:49:36PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [3/9] netconsole: Simplify boot/module option setup logic
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s loaded. This is because netpoll_setup() grabs
> a reference for us on that dev. So let's remove the pointless check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Keiichi Kii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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ingstyle and prettification stuff.
I don't much like what you've done in (3) because I personally think
tabs should never appear anywhere but at the beginning of a line.
Which is why we consistently ask for people not to mix codingstyle
bits with substantive changes.
But what the h
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:38:09PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [6/9] netconsole: Update documentation for multiple target support
>
> ... and add a few useful general purpose tips as well while we're at it.
The tips are fine and should go in their ow
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:37:59PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [4/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_netdev_notifier
>
> To update fields of underlying netpoll structure at runtime on
> corresponding NETDEV_CHANGEADDR or NETDEV_CHANGENAME notificatio
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [5/9] netconsole: Introduce dev_status member
>
> Introduce a new member in netconsole_target that tracks the status (up or
> down) of the underlying interface network device that the spec
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:37:49PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [2/9] netconsole: Code simplification
>
> (1) Extract netpoll_parse_options() out of option_setup(), and into
> init_netconsole() itself. So "configured" variable is redundant and
> can be
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:40:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:36:36 -0700
>
> > My initial thought is that if there is a legitimate need for this
> > new capability then it should be made available to other parts of
> > the kerne
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:25:55PM +0900, Keiichi KII wrote:
> From: Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This patch contains the following cleanups.
> - add __init for initialization functions(option_setup() and
>init_netconsole()).
>
> Acked-by: Matt Mackall &
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:29:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:10:39 -0500
>
> > Are you agreeing that "it seems wasteful to add per-packet overhead"?
> > This patch is not doing that.
>
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:55:51PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:42:32 +0200
>
> > Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > >>>Index: linux-2.6.22-rc-mm/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> > >>>=
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:56:23PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> >>CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely
> >>bypassed in
> >>the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:44:00PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP causes the TX queue controls to be completely bypassed in
> the netpoll's "trapped" mode which easily causes overflows in the drivers with
> short TX queues (most notably, in 8139too with its 4-deep queue).
> Mak
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:51:13 +0900
> Keiichi KII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I started to do some cleanups and fixups here, but abandoned it when it
> > > was
> > > all getting a bit large.
> > >
> > > Here are some fixes ag
[cc:ed to netdev]
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:45:37PM -0700, Mike Mattie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> netconsole is hanging my box during IDE init.
>
> I am running 2.6.20.7, config is attached from /proc
>
> Without using netconsole the kernel boots fine. I am writing this message
> from it.
>
> When
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:08:19PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >I don't know that you need an xchg there. If you're still on the same
> >CPU, it should all be nice and causal even across an interrupt handler.
> >So it could be:
> >
>
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:31:58AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> >> If that is the case. In the normal kernel what would
> >> the "the oops, we got an interrupt code do?"
> >> I assume it would leave interrupts
urn 1;
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static int option_setup(char *opt)
>
> __setup("netconsole=", option_setup);
>
> -static int init_netconsole(void)
> +static int __init init_netconsole(void)
> {
> int err;
This is fine.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:42:43PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> > When I unplug the cable the system just stops responding to anything,
> > at all. No message is printed to the console when the cable is plugged
> > back in.
>
> rtl8139_interrupt (spin_lock
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:40:59PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes the following not or no longer used exports:
> - drivers/char/random.c: secure_tcp_sequence_number
This part looks reasonable.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:03:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:39:47PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > If so, can you disable the option and strace it to see what program is
> > > trying
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> If so, can you disable the option and strace it to see what program is
> trying to access what? That will put the
> HAL/NetworkManager/libsysfs/distro script finger pointing to rest pretty
> quickly :)
Ok, I've got straces of both good an
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:48:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Wait, have confirmed that if you enable this config option,
> NetworkManager starts back up again and works properly?
Yep, probably should have mentioned that.
> If so, can you disable the option and strace it to see what program is
> t
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:07:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:40:52AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, how about the following patch. Is it acceptable to everyone?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:46:09PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > That's not the point. The point is that Debian/unstable as of _this
> > morning_ doesn't work. For reference, I'm running both the latest
> > releases of both hal (0.5.8.1-6.1) and network-manager (0.6.4-6). And
> > there are people
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Ok, how about the following patch. Is it acceptable to everyone?
>
> - If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
> - it should be safe to say N here.
> + If you are using an OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu,
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:02:48PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:42:29AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > > Recent ke
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly
> > related problems:
> >
> > a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the ex
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> [adding linux-wireless to CC]
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly
> > related problems:
>
> I don't
Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly
related problems:
a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200
b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports:
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation n
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:03:23PM +0900, Keiichi KII wrote:
> - remove "drop" initialization in the netpoll structure.
Why?
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 04:24:52PM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
> Please pull the following patches from
>
> git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/netdev-2.6 upstream-fixes-jgarzik
> (based on 22e1170310ec6afa41e0dc7ac9dfac735d82dcab)
>
> To receive the following fixes for e1000:
>
> [
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:49:21PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>
>
> David Miller wrote:
> >..
> >First, you are getting window scaling by default with the older
> >kernel too. It's just a smaller window scale, using a shift
> >value of say 1 or 2.
> >
> >What these broken middle boxes do is ignore
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:57:58PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:15:50PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> >>Here's a patch. I haven't tested it beyond compiling it, and I don't
> >>k
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:40:29AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> Hey there-
> the netpoll system currently has a rx to tx path via:
> netpoll_rx
> __netpoll_rx
> arp_reply
>netpoll_send_skb
> dev->hard_start_tx
>
> This rx->tx loop places network drivers at risk of
> inadverte
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:15:50PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >That's odd. Netpoll holds a reference to the device, of course, but so
> >does a normal "up" interface. So that shouldn't be the problem.
> >Another possibility
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:50:25AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 09 June 2006 07:23, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:13:48 -0700
> >
> > > netconsole should retry. There is no timeout programmed here since that
> > > might
> > > lose
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I've been trying to get suspend/resume working well on my new laptop.
> In general, netconsole has been pretty useful for extracting oopses and
> other messages, but it is of more limited help in debugging the actual
> suspe
27;re now observing.
I'll let the e1000 guys comment on the particulars of the driver change.
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:42:59PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> ==> Regarding Re: [PATCH 1/2] e1000: fix netpoll with NAPI; Auke Kok <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> adds:
>
> auke-jan.h.kok> Jeff Moyer wrote:
> >> ==> Regarding Re: [PATCH 1/2] e1000: fix netpoll with NAPI; Auke Kok
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:58:22PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral).
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Adrian appears to be correct that this doesn&#x
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:31:08AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:29:12 -0600 Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:27:51PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > >
> > > hardware: e1000 NIC in ThinkPad T42
> > > kernel: 2
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:27:51PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>
> hardware: e1000 NIC in ThinkPad T42
> kernel: 2.6.16-rc5-mm3
>
> I always get $subject message. I changed the delay in
> net/core/netpoll.c from 4 seconds to 9 seconds, but it
> doesn't matter, the e1000 always finds Link is Up i
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:23:09PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:02:50 -0800
>
> > There needs to be two rules:
> >
> > iff global memory critical flag is set
> > - allocate from the
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:30:23PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:39:37 -0800
>
> > I think we need a global receive pool and per-socket send pools.
>
> Mind telling everyone how you plan to make use o
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:55:45AM -0800, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:22 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > I would appreciate any feedback or comments on this approach.
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something but wouldn't you need an own critical
> > pool (or at least reservation)
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:53:08PM +0100, Michael Frank wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> I sent 3 patches to you and cc to netdev@vger.kernel.org but
> the patches did not show up on netdev.
>
> Have you received them?
No, but I got two copies of this email.
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 06:22:52AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > This patch isn't bad, but looking closer we could move the contents of
> > p8023.c as well as the contents of at least p8022.c and pe2.c into
> > af_ipx.c.
> >
> > Is the contents of any of these three files expected to be use
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:41:30PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:39:22 -0800 (PST)
>
> > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:23:58 -0800
> &
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:15:38PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> When using packet split, netpoll times out when doing a netdump.
What is "packet split" in this context? You ought to cc: the netdump
people as well, as it's not part of the mainline kernel.
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:17:01PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Francois Romieu wrote:
> >Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> >[...]
> >
> >>It really sounds like netconsole needs to have a different device hook
> >>instead of start_xmit. It also probably doesn't want to have allocate
> >>an s
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:19:42AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:19:33 -0700
> Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:02:42PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> > > I don't quite understand, you _a
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:16:03PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > If we move to softirq-only processing, it will not be a serial cable
> > replacement. It won't capture the tricky oopses you normally need a
> > serial cable for and it won'
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:02:42PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> I don't quite understand, you _already_ have deferred processing in
> netpoll (btw, how good this will work with kgdboe?).
Yes, it exists as a last ditch fallback for cases where we can detect
deadlock. And it works not at all fo
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:42:39PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> You'll need to find a way to do netpoll without disabling hw IRQs
> during these driver methods. Then netpoll would be universally
> usable, as it would even work with drivers which are software tunnels
> and which feed packets bac
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:37:36PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:22:25PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Which would I rather have:
> >
> > "netconsole never catches my oopses, it's useless."
> >
> > "netconsol
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:19:34PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:08:10 -0700
>
> > Think upon the kgdb-over-ethernet case, please. The kernel hits a
> > breakpoint, the kgdb stub stops everyt
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:32:38PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:19:21PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > or a') make this a per-driver feature (e.g. NETIF_F_NETPOLL_CHALENGED)
> > >
> > > In this case, even if driver
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:37:45PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:03:38 -0700
>
> > Option c) is obviously a big project but maybe we can get from here to
> > there. One possible step in that di
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:37:40PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:03:38PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:01:24PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > So you cannot call into these drivers with HW interrupts disabled or
> &
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:01:24PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> So you cannot call into these drivers with HW interrupts disabled or
> even worse from HW interrupt context. These drivers use locking
> strategies which are perfectly legal and work until you add netpoll.
And again, I agree.
Wha
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:42:07PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Mentioning the latency of the serial console, in support of
> netpoll's interrupt disabling, is quite a straw man.
No, it's exactly to the point: latency is a secondary concern when
we're printing an oops or other diagnostic. Other
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:36:27PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Eugene Surovegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:04:17 -0700
>
> > David, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is a major problem
> > with current netconsole/netpoll approach.
>
> You're preaching to the
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:47:14PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Eugene Surovegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:40:01 -0700
>
> > According to Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
> > dev->hard_start_xmit must be called with interrupts *enabled*.
> >
> > Unfortunately
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:57:20AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 02:46 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Can you guys stop peeing your pants over this, put aside
> > your differences, and work on a mutually acceptable fix
> > for these bugs?
> >
> > Much appreciated, thanks
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> btw., the current NR_SKBS 32 in netpoll.c seems quite low, especially
> e1000 can have a whole lot more skbs queued at once. Might be more
> robust to increase it to 128 or 256?
Not sure that the card's queueing really makes a dif
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 08:23:55PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 14:28 -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> > Netpoll generally must assume it won't get a second chance, as it's
> > being called by things like oops() and panic() and used by t
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:51:22AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > But why are we in a hurry to dump the backlog on the floor? Why are we
> > worrying about the performance of netpoll without the cable plugged in
> > at all? We shouldn't be optimizing the data loss case.
>
> Because a system shouldn'
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:51:18PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > If that was the policy it would be a quite dumb one and make netpoll
> > > totally unsuitable for production use. I hope it is not.
> >
> > Suggest you rip __GFP_NOFAIL out of JBD before complaining about this.
>
> So you're sugges
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:56:50PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I still don't like this fix. Yes, you're right, it should eventually
> > give up. But here it gives up way too easily - 5 could easily
> > translate to 5 microseconds. This is analogous to giving up on serial
> > transmit if CTS is dow
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:26:10PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:01:57PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > The netpoll philosophy is to assume that its traffic is an absolute
> > priority - it is better to potentially hang trying to deliver a panic
> > me
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:57:00PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:01 -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:36:31AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > Looking at the netpoll routines, I noticed that the find_skb could
> > >
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> John B?ckstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've been trying to hunt down a hard lockup issue with some hardware
> > of mine, but I've possibly hit a kernel bug instead. When using
> > netconsole on my e1000, if I unplug the cable
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:36:31AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Looking at the netpoll routines, I noticed that the find_skb could
> lockup if the memory is low. This is because the allocations are
> called with GFP_ATOMIC (since this is in interrupt context) and if
> it fails, it will continue t
Some initial comments:
- you should include a description of each patch in the message
- you should use more descriptive subjects, eg
[PATCH 1/8] atheros: Kconfig bits
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:13:06PM -0500, Paul Vinson wrote:
> >> > Are you sure eth1 is an e1000? From e1000_main.c:
> >> >
> >> > #ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
> >> > netdev->poll_controller = e1000_netpoll;
> >> > #endif
> >> >
> >> > That's been there for 17 months.
> >>
> >> Yep, i
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:19:00PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:36:37 -0700
>
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > # Node ID 6cdd6f36d53678a016cf
[sch added to cc: as I think he's the effective pktgen maintainer]
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:03:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:58:24 -0700
>
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:32:02PM -0700, David S
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