Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 December 2006 21:23, Frans Pop wrote: > Als de oplossing wordt om machines uit te sluiten, lijkt me dit wel een > candidaat voor documentatie in de Release Notes. Een voorgestelde tekst > daarvoor zou zeer welkom zijn (BR tegen release-notes). Sorry, this mail was intended as a priv

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
Hoi Bas, On Thursday 28 December 2006 20:15, you wrote: > You wrote: > > forgot to ask you to for the ouput of dmidecode and acpidump. > > for the acpi blacklisting. > > Attached. Als de oplossing wordt om machines uit te sluiten, lijkt me dit wel een candidaat voor documentatie in de Release No

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
A couple of observations: * This bug will not cause hardware damage. The hard thermal cutoff temperature is well below the temperature at which actual damage will occur. * It's not clear that the vendor DSDT is broken. It's an unusual interpretation of the spec, but not necessarily an invalid

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread maximilian attems
hello, On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 09:46:04PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > At Jurij's request, I've tried out his patch. It seems to work > perfectly here (HP nc6120) , and fixes the "no fans after suspend" > problem of #400488. forgot to ask you to for the ouput of dmidecode and acpidump. for t

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread maximilian attems
hello, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm more than willing to help test a kernel package, but I'll be on > > [VAC] from 2006-12-23 to 2007-01-03 inclusive. So, please do not > > release Etch just now :) > > I have ordered an nx6325, which sho

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:52:06PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:40:58AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > > I have reviewed the information available on the thermal problems with > > > HP laptops, and it appears that there is a fairly conservative set of > > > patche

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-27 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi! At Jurij's request, I've tried out his patch. It seems to work perfectly here (HP nc6120) , and fixes the "no fans after suspend" problem of #400488. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-27 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:22:45AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > why was that fact never rc for sarge? > > #259481, #262383 > > Discussing why it was not RC for Sarge seems pretty irrelevant to me. > It's up to release managers what is RC, and Et

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:22:45AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:52:06PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > > > backports are risky, again as you see for the net-r8169-1.patch, > > > that is a "localized" driver enhancement with big slow down consequences > > > #40052

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:52:06PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > backports are risky, again as you see for the net-r8169-1.patch, > > that is a "localized" driver enhancement with big slow down consequences > > #400524 and #403782. yes upstream has a fix for that and it should > > land soon, b

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:09:02PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > So far I have not tried building the kernel with this patches, but I think > this is > a reasonable way to resolve the problem, as the resulting cumulative patch > (attached) > is only 19K. Sorry, I made this patch reversed by mist

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread maximilian attems
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:09:02PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > > > > Hi *, > > > > this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care > > to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm,

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:40:58AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > I have reviewed the information available on the thermal problems with > > HP laptops, and it appears that there is a fairly conservative set of > > patches which takes care of the problems (thanks to Bas for pointing > > mo

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > > Hi *, > > this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care > to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you > know how expensive these laptops are. > > I basically see 3 solutio

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:22, you wrote: > This is exactly the same kind of > argument you are using in d-i, don't you think ? There is a difference between being conservative with fixes for minor issues and fixes for issues that can fry peoples hardware, don't you think? Of course care is

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:42:46PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:31:15PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > > Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? > > > > > >

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-24 15:57]: > Since HP supports Debian officially now not on laptops. > I'm sure Dann or someone else from HP can provide us a list of > affected models. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:31:15PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? > > > > It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case > >

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:48:27PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 24 December 2006 03:07, Frederik Schueler wrote: > > 2. port 2.6.19 ACPI - noop because way too much work, unless someone > > "crazy enough" to accomplish this task. > > Did you see that Bas Zoetekouw managed [1, #400488] to so

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? > > > > It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case > > basis using drivers/acpi/blacklist.c > >

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? > > It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case > basis using drivers/acpi/blacklist.c This looks like a good idea to me, do we kn

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 24 December 2006 03:07, Frederik Schueler wrote: > 2. port 2.6.19 ACPI - noop because way too much work, unless someone > "crazy enough" to accomplish this task. Did you see that Bas Zoetekouw managed [1, #400488] to solve the problem for his box by applying some selected patches from u

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > > Hi *, > > this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care > to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you > know how expensive these laptops are. > > I basically see 3 solutio

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > > Hi *, > > this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care > to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you > know how expensive these laptops are. > > I basically see 3 solutio

Re: Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-23 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi *, this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you know how expensive these laptops are. I basically see 3 solutions/workarounds: 1. the brutal one: deactivate ACPI in 2.6.18, have the bios keep c

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:50:40AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 05:42]: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > > maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc '

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 05:42]: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > >> Fix it or document it, I don't care. But

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Some more information. 1) On my machine, reading the temperature using, say, yacpi, causes one processor to process all the pending ACPI events. On a uniprocessor machine, the machine would appear to hang for several seconds; not so on my dual-core machine :) 2) The lare slab usage (1.1

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the current st

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > severity 404143 critical > thanks > > maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >> Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the current state

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 11:34]: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > severity 404143 critical > > thanks > > > > * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 01:27]: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Co

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Ludovic Brenta
forward 400488 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7122 forward 404143 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534 thanks When I said there's a memory leak, that's not technically true. What happens is that ACPI events get piled up in a queue and never processed, due to a deadlock in L

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Sven Luther writes: > Euh, it seems to me more that the hardware has a bug which causes > normal operation to damage it. > > As thus, i think that any damage done would be under the > responsability of the manufacturer to repare or fix. This seems to > be both the position of Bastian and Maximilian

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:09:45PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > >> Sorry, I don't accept this.

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
severity 404143 critical thanks maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the current state is not >> releasable. > we are not talking about "a" patch. > what you need is an ba

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Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread maximilian attems
severity 404143 important thanks On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > severity 404143 critical > thanks > > > This bug however has the potential to damage hardware. Which is a > critical bug. yes, but it is a very specific affected hardware range. upstream did not is

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >> Sorry, I don't accept this. We are talking about an *overheating* > >> problem, which means *broken* h

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Sorry, I don't accept this. We are talking about an *overheating* >> problem, which means *broken* hardware. There needs to be at least a fix >> documented in the release-notes. >

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > severity 404143 critical > thanks > > * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 01:27]: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Consequence: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd63 (=2.6.18-7) is unsuitable

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Sorry, I don't accept this. We are talking about an *overheating* > problem, which means *broken* hardware. There needs to be at least a fix > documented in the release-notes. Garbage-in, garbage-out. The BIOS of that machin

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Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm more than willing to help test a kernel package, but I'll be on > [VAC] from 2006-12-23 to 2007-01-03 inclusive. So, please do not > release Etch just now :) I have ordered an nx6325, which should arrive directly after Christmas. I would also be happy to test a fix

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Andreas Barth
severity 404143 critical thanks * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061222 01:27]: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Consequence: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd63 (=2.6.18-7) is unsuitable for > > release. > > Failing for you don't makes it unsuitable. That is a

Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
severity 404143 serious thanks maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > severity 404143 important > tags 404143 upstream > stop [...] > big nack, > acpi has a huge potential destabilisation. > at this time of the game adding acpi patches is pron to regression > at unexpected corners. > > et

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Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-22 Thread maximilian attems
severity 404143 important tags 404143 upstream stop On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:51:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 > Version: 2.6.18-7 > Severity: grave > Justification: hardware overheating hazard; requires periodic reboots > > (This is not the same bug

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2006-12-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#404143: Fans unreliable under load, permanent memory leak

2006-12-21 Thread ludovic
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 Version: 2.6.18-7 Severity: grave Justification: hardware overheating hazard; requires periodic reboots (This is not the same bug as #400488 (upstream #7122)) This bug affects several amd64 notebooks from HP, notably the nx6125 and the nx6325; there may be othe