RE: ip_contrack module refuses to load...

2005-09-01 Thread Luck, Tony
>doesn't that mean that those variables are a >special kind of (per-CPU) variables and should >get a special handling anyway? > >if not, then I'd agree with Peter that a per-cpu >variable on UP should not be treated any different >from a normal variable ... > >maybe you could clarify On ia64 we

Re: ip_contrack module refuses to load...

2005-09-01 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:01:01PM -0700, david mosberger wrote: > Ah, I understand now what you mean. Sounds to me like the generic > module loader infrastructure needs to be changed to support the > IA64-usage. On IA64, we want to have per-CPU variables remapped even > on UP, because it allows

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] IOCHK interface for I/O error handling/detecting (for ia64)

2005-09-01 Thread Brent Casavant
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-ia64/io.h > === > --- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-ia64/io.h > +++ linux-2.6.13/include/asm-ia64/io.h > @@ -70,6 +70,26 @@ extern unsigned int num_io_spaces;

RE: Update to Software Developer's Manual

2005-09-01 Thread John Ik Lee \(WA\)
Hi, Could you IPF platform makers share when the new PAL entry PAL_MC_ERROR_INJECT is going to be available in your platforms? Thanks, John Ik Lee (J.I.) Sr. Staff Engineer Platform Solutions, Inc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian

Re: testing mca/init patch

2005-09-01 Thread david mosberger
Keith, On 8/31/05, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:58:58 -0700, > david mosberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >- In several places there are checks of the form: > > > >+ if ((r12 & -KERNEL_STACK_SIZE) != r13) { > > > > I don't understand why you're doing this. Y

[PATCH] get XPC to cleanly disengage from remote memory references

2005-09-01 Thread Dean Nelson
When XPC is being shutdown (i.e., rmmod, reboot) it doesn't ensure that other partitions with whom it was connected have completely disengaged from any attempt at cross-partition memory references. This can lead to MCAs in any of these other partitions when the partition is reset. Signed-off-by: D

Probable TLB race condition?

2005-09-01 Thread Smarduch Mario-CMS063
This is continuing on the TLB issues we're observing on 2.4 IA64 NUMA platform. Thanks to this maillist 2 issues have been identified! However another issue (perhaps issues) persists. We're getting core dumps in bunches when doing MT forks. I would include an example but unfortunatelly its diffic

RE: testing mca/init patch

2005-09-01 Thread Luck, Tony
Keith wrote: >That delay is coming from your SAL, nothing I can do about it. > ... >This is wrong. The slave INIT handler was not invoked when the monarch >was delivered, instead the slave events were delivered _after_ the >monarch returned to the interrupted context. It works for me on SGI's >S