Bug#783259: Debian kernel API for 3.16.7

2015-04-24 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
to track. This should perhaps be referred to as a publicly exposed API then. Still, it would greatly help us to have this version number available as a numeric value. Thanks, Mathieu Ben. -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

Bug#691427: Reliably reproduce Lenovo 180GB SSD issues

2013-03-25 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/x230-SATA-errors-with-180GB-Intel-520-SSD-under-heavy-write-load/m-p/1068147/highlight/false#M48401 - http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T430s-Intel-SSD-520-180GB-issue/m-p/1070549#M76964 -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com

Re: [PATCH] module: Enable dynamic debugging regardless of taint

2011-11-01 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
-by: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Cheers, Rusty. -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-26 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
be the closest one we have now, although we might want to be more specific than that. Thanks, Mathieu Thanks, Rusty. PS. Can't see how this related to lockdep either... -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-22 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Richard Mortimer (ri...@oldelvet.org.uk) wrote: On 21/01/2011 22:50, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 21/01/2011 20:40, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * Richard Mortimer (ri...@oldelvet.org.uk) wrote: Thanks for the info! At first glance, it does not seem to contradict my findings. When you find

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-21 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Richard Mortimer (ri...@oldelvet.org.uk) wrote: On 21/01/2011 00:04, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyersmathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:33:39 -0500 So I guess we go for the following. Is it verbose enough

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-21 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com) wrote: * Richard Mortimer (ri...@oldelvet.org.uk) wrote: [...] I'm also getting a lot of Kernel unaligned access errors from the kernel. I don't know if they are related to this or not and this is the first time that I personally have

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-21 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
tracing in your tests, as I think the unaligned access only happens when accessing the struct tracepoint fields below the int state field. Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-20 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:33:39 -0500 So I guess we go for the following. Is it verbose enough ? It's got all of the details that seem to matter, thanks. I'm letting people following

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:08:45 -0500 The following works fine for me now. Comments are welcome. Thanks for doing this work Mathieu. - No aligned() type attribute nor variable attribute

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:08:45 -0500 - No aligned() type attribute nor variable attribute. I get a crash on x86_64 (NULL pointer exception when executing __trace_add_event_call, the 5th

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
that). Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE 2048 -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
seems to support having both specified. I think this would provide the kind of alignment guarantees we really need here: both specifying the minimum _and_ maximum alignment. Thoughts ? Mathieu Sam -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Steven Rostedt (rost...@goodmis.org) wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 11:15 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * Steven Rostedt (rost...@goodmis.org) wrote: After applying David's remove align patch, I got it to boot on x86_64 with the following two patches. I thought just adding the align

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:33:26 -0500 I'm still unsure that __long_long_aligned is needed over __long_aligned though. AFAIK, the only requirement we have for, e.g. tracepoints, is to align

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:20:53 -0500 Now what I'm discussing with David Miller is if creating a __long_packed_aligned and using it for *both* type and variable alignment would

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
system can generate an unaligned access trap for an access to a 64-bit variable aligned on 32-bit, given that there is, by definition, no 64-bit memory accesses available on the architecture ? Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:13:27 -0500 Hrm, I'd like to see what kind of ill-conceived 32-bit architecture would generate a unaligned access for a 32-bit aligned u64. Do you have examples

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
trap. Ah! There is always an odd case ;) Thanks! Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency RD Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-18 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
the beginning of the section is aligned on pointer size. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 19 ++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-18 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Steven Rostedt (rost...@goodmis.org) wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 13:16 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 12:33 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:46 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Also align TRACE_PRINTKS on 8 bytes to make sure the beginning

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-18 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Steven Rostedt (rost...@goodmis.org) wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:13 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * Steven Rostedt (rost...@goodmis.org) wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 13:16 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 12:33 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2011-01

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
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Reverts needed for 2.6.32.x ia64 percpu usage

2010-06-01 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
) From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Subject: Re: 2.6.32-stable percpu fixes * Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk) wrote: These commits included in 2.6.32.12: ea0a09acd81c6d52c77d80f0d4089795df7bcb58 modules: fix incorrect percpu usage

Re: 2.6.32-stable percpu fixes

2010-05-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
not be reverted in 2.6.32-stable? (Matthieu previously asked whether it was really correct for 2.6.32: http://linux.kernel.org/pipermail/stable-review/2010-April/003571.html ) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating