Re: Offline/STANDBY memory - Linux vs z/VM

2016-08-30 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 06:23:50AM -0400, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Hmmm... a difference of exactly 512MB. > That's two chunks, since a chunk is 256 MB. > > I hard rebooted and this time Linux took three extra chunks: (just can't > keep his hands out of the cookie jar :)) > > # zruncommand

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-17 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:20:26PM -0500, Rick Troth wrote: On 02/14/2014 06:04 AM, Heiko Carstens wrote: ... As far as I know there is no plain 31 bit distribution left. NORD ships a 31-bit kernel. (for varying values of ships) I never heard of NORD, do you have a link? The latest

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-14 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:12:54PM -0700, Mark Post wrote: On 2/13/2014 at 02:05 PM, Heiko Carstens heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com wrote: Giving maintainership of the 31 bit code to somebody else wouldn't help us at all. We would still need to take care of the old code if we would change

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-14 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 02:12:42AM +, David Boyes wrote: Heiko asked for comments/opinions. I think he may have gotten more than he expected. 8-) But that's fine. Thanks for your valuable coments! However which distribution is currently being used on those 31 bit only machines? As far as I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-13 Thread Heiko Carstens
Hi Rick, Please note, that we will not remove the 31 bit compatibility layer which allows to run 31 bit applications with a 64 bit kernel. It is also possible to run a complete 31 bit user space distribution with a 64 bit kernel. Good. Question: If you're dropping 31-bit in the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-13 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:51:36PM -0700, Mark Post wrote: On 2/12/2014 at 04:29 AM, Heiko Carstens heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com wrote: Keeping the 31 bit kernel support adds extra maintenance and development effort which we do not want to spend anymore, especially since the effort seems

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-13 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 05:53:47PM +, David Boyes wrote: After the removal of the 31 bit kernel support it is not possible to run new Linux kernels on old 31 bit only machines. The only supported 31 bit only machines were the G6 and Multiprise 3000 introduced in 1999. However

[ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-12 Thread Heiko Carstens
Hi all, we plan to remove 31 bit kernel support of the s390 architecture in the Linux kernel sources. The reason for this is quite simple: the current 31 bit kernel was broken for nearly a year before somebody noticed. Keeping the 31 bit kernel support adds extra maintenance and development

Re: [ANNOUNCE] s390 31 bit kernel support removal

2014-02-12 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:44:44PM -0700, Mark Post wrote: On 2/12/2014 at 04:29 AM, Heiko Carstens heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com wrote: The reason for this is quite simple: the current 31 bit kernel was broken for nearly a year before somebody noticed. That's an interesting assertion

Re: Hangs with 3.2.41

2013-05-15 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:17:48PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Hi, On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:38:49PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Does this ring a bell to anyone? Is there some known deadlock problem that has been fixed in a later kernel? If not, does somebody know how to debug that? I

Re: Twin penguins prospered for 417 days, then died

2013-01-15 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 08:36:58PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 01:11:34PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: That patch is for x86 only and won't fix your problem. However we do have a similar bug in the s390 kernel code. The only difference is that it will indeed trigger

Re: Twin penguins prospered for 417 days, then died

2013-01-14 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:24:41PM +0200, Juha Vuori wrote: Hello, Yesterday, it was 417 days since our currently running z/VM was IPLed. A set of four SLES 11.1 guests had been alive as long as VM. [...] I opened a SR with Novell about zlnx011, and the conclusion was the TID

Re: zLinux support of non-mainframe disk storage

2012-08-22 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:51:29PM -0600, Mark Post wrote: On 8/16/2012 at 05:11 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: Does it still need a EW segment, or is it now well behaved for shared R/O? I guess it does. From /usr/src/linux/arch/s390/kernel/early.c: hlen =

Re: Adding LCPUS to a LPAR dynamically

2012-08-13 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:24:44PM -0400, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi I think I know the answer to this but wanted to confirm. If I need to add Logical CPUS to an LPAR does this take an IPL of the LPAR to get them in ? In general: you can add additional CPUs to a running

Re: Does cpuplugd use the cpu hot plug interface?

2012-02-23 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:22:57PM -0600, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote: Hello listers, We are experiencing a problem where occasionally we get some uninterruptable processes that appear to hang. We use CPUPLUGD. The problem re-appeared whenever we moved workload around and caused some

Re: Where is kernel loaded in memory?

2011-03-17 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:40:36PM -0500, Mark Wheeler wrote: Greetings all, Is there a way to tell externally (command or otherwise) where the zLinux kernel is loaded in memory? The kernel gets loaded to address absolute zero and uses a 1:1 mapping for virtual to physical pages. /proc/iomem

Re: zSeries multibook query

2010-10-06 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 09:29:38AM +1000, Shane wrote: I made the following comment in a thread on IBM-MAIN - perhaps the Boeblingen folks might know. quote Given that Linux is (NUMA) node aware, it would be interesting to see how a (non-z/VM) multi-book s390x Linux partition would appear re

Re: Linux HA with RHEL and MySQL on System z

2010-03-15 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:18:09AM -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: On Saturday, 03/13/2010 at 06:49 EST, Frank Pani fpa...@ca.ibm.com wrote: 1) Because the database will be 200-300GB, we can use LVM and have it available to mount RW on either system. We need to be very careful no to mount

Re: IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-15 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:52:18 +0200 Ivan Warren i...@vmfacility.fr wrote: Daniel Jarboe wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: SLES11 was checking the CPU Model, not liking 9672, and aborting. I changed CPUMODEL to something more current (2096) and the SLES11

Re: IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-15 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:55:08 -0400 David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: On 4/15/09 5:49 AM, Heiko Carstens heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com wrote: How about the patch below? Since I would expect that this is going to happen a lot of times as soon as some distro starts to compile the kernel

Re: RHEL System z Max Memory= 64GB?

2008-05-30 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:19:24PM -0400, Brad Hinson wrote: It's related to this kernel patch, submitted upstream a few days ago: http://git390.osdl.marist.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7f7032120414df426a9f2949caf9f6eafcea0a7e When a guest (or Linux in LPAR) has more than

Re: FCP

2008-05-27 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:16:02PM -0400, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi All, Has anyone run into the following error while trying to get FCP to work between z/VM 5.3 and RedHat Linux 4.6. We are connecting to a IBM DS8100. We present the FCP device to the Linux guest and it sees

Re: Betr.: Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-27 Thread Heiko Carstens
I am looking for a place where I can see the active cmma setting. I can't find it in either /sys or /proc. Am I looking in the wrong place or is there no such thing? I seems that with SLES10SP1 the ipl default was changed from cmma=off to cmma=on but I am looking for confirmation of this.

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-27 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:39:32PM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yes, you're absolutely right. Linux issues the ESSA instruction once to figure out if it will work or not (program check or not), just to tell

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-27 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:37:32PM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: I am sure you got the wink on my suggestion to make CP count the 2nd time you try the ESSA... There's different ways to correct bad defaults: Question the Defaults and Resist Change :-) Sure. I for myself would it enable by

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-24 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:27:22PM +0100, Pieter Harder wrote: Hi list, I am looking for a place where I can see the active cmma setting. I can't find it in either /sys or /proc. Am I looking in the wrong place or is there no such thing? I seems that with SLES10SP1 the ipl default was

Re: Can a Kernel routine issue a syscall (SVC) to another Kernel routine?

2007-12-28 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:12:07AM +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Does the SVC FLIH handle recursion? Or does it expect at most one concurrent SVC per process? The short answer is: no, in-kernel SVCs don't work. -- For

Re: [PATCH] zfcp: add some internal zfcp adapter statistics

2007-11-03 Thread Heiko Carstens
+static void zfcp_fsf_req_latency(struct zfcp_fsf_req *fsf_req) +{ + struct fsf_qual_latency_info *lat_inf; + struct zfcp_unit *unit; + + lat_inf = fsf_req-qtcb-prefix.prot_status_qual.latency_info; + unit = fsf_req-unit; + + switch

Re: [PATCH] zfcp: add some internal zfcp adapter statistics

2007-11-03 Thread Heiko Carstens
+ if (!(adapter-adapter_features FSF_FEATURE_MEASUREMENT_DATA)) { + ZFCP_LOG_NORMAL(error: Enhanced measurement feature not + supported); + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } Btw. any user can flood the console with these messages if the adapter

Re: SLES 8 31-bit and 4 GB memory

2007-03-30 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:08:50PM +0300, Markku K Kymalainen wrote: What happens if setting 4 GB memory for zLinux machine running SLES 8 s390 kernel (not s390x) on zVM V4.4 ? Can kernel use memory over 2 GB and if yes what will it do with it ? The 31-bit kernel cannot make use of more than

Re: How to start with zLinux assembly programming

2007-03-29 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:16:23PM +0200, Peter 1 Oberparleiter wrote: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 29.03.2007 10:02:33: How to start with zLinux assembly programming language. Where to get the information like what are the tools required and information about the

Re: Perceptions of zLinux

2007-02-22 Thread Heiko Carstens
=fe355b7f1c7400cbb71762a1237461be03f88265 -- Heiko Carstens Linux on System z Development IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Johann Weihen Geschaeftsfuehrung : Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: Boeblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

Re: [PATCH] s390 need definitions for pagefault_disable and pagefault_enable

2006-11-07 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 06:35:21PM +, Andy Whitcroft wrote: diff --git a/arch/s390/lib/uaccess_std.c b/arch/s390/lib/uaccess_std.c index 9bbeaa0..ad296dc 100644 --- a/arch/s390/lib/uaccess_std.c +++ b/arch/s390/lib/uaccess_std.c @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ #include linux/errno.h #include

Re: [PATCH] s390 need definitions for pagefault_disable and pagefault_enable

2006-11-07 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:09:44AM +, Andy Whitcroft wrote: Heiko Carstens wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 06:35:21PM +, Andy Whitcroft wrote: diff --git a/arch/s390/lib/uaccess_std.c b/arch/s390/lib/uaccess_std.c index 9bbeaa0..ad296dc 100644 --- a/arch/s390/lib/uaccess_std.c

Re: BUG: Soft Lockup detected on CPU#

2006-10-07 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:56:05PM -0400, Greg Keuken wrote: Hello, I've been playing around with my kernel (sounds almost rude) on our z890 LPAR (via sources from kernel.org) and received the following error after upgrading. Everything stills boots up fine. I am not sure what this error is

Re: Kernel Compilation Failure with gcc 3.4.6

2006-09-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
dasd_int.h:493: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'dasd_chanq_deq': function body not available dasd_3990_erp.c:2999: sorry, unimplemented: called from here Reducing the optimization level to -O0 didn't help. From my searches on Google, it appears that a lot of people have

Re: [PATCH] s390: fix duplicate export of overflow{ug}id

2006-06-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:48:12PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:31:41PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: overflowuid and overflowgid were exported twice. Remove the export from s390_ksyms.c There's a gotcha with this.

Re: SLES9 DB2 Restore Problem with 3590 tapes

2006-04-07 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:15:19PM -0400, Neale Ferguson wrote: From the console log: Krnl Code: 00 00 b9 04 00 2b b9 04 00 3c c0 e5 ff ff e9 61 e3 30 b1 18 It's not the tape error per se but the code in the kernel. X'' will give you an operation exception and the kernel will throw up

Re: After run command shutdown -r now...

2006-01-13 Thread Heiko Carstens
Hi, Please teach me. I use SLES9 64bit applied SP3 for zSeries under z/VM v5.1. After I run command shutdown -r now, z/Linux was shutting down normally. But next message was displayed in 3270 screen, the system didn't start. Message= md: stopping

Re: SLES9 FTP installation hangs

2005-11-04 Thread Heiko Carstens
The 'Creating initrd' stage repeatedly hangs at 62% completed. I have seen references to this in the archives, but no definite culprits. Memory is set at 512M, with 4 non-diag vdisk swap disks. I made ramdisk_size=196608. The installation server has been configured with mkinstallroot. There