Re: [patch] Fix large MCA bootmem allocation

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Anderson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:00:09PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > > > Given that ia64_mca_cpu_init() does not get called in > > > the hot-plug path > > > > Surely it must be ... > > That's what I thought, until testing showed otherwise.

RE: git pull on ia64 linux tree

2008-02-06 Thread Luck, Tony
> Any reason the various ptrace bits are not included in this pull? The ptrace bits depend upon some generic changes to add arch_ptrace_stop() ... I think Andrew included them as part 89/260 of today's early morning mail patch bomb. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)

2008-02-06 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 07:03:23 pm Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2008 00:35:54 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > Ok. The only other vendors I really have in mind are HP and Fujitsu, > > > since both those vendors use WMI on their laptops, so they would be my > > > most likely cand

Re: [patch] Fix large MCA bootmem allocation

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:00:09PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Given that ia64_mca_cpu_init() does not get called in > > the hot-plug path > > Surely it must be ... That's what I thought, until testing showed otherwise. The two code paths are setup_arch->cpu_init->ia64_mca_cpu_init for the boot

Re: [patch] Fix large MCA bootmem allocation

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Holt
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:39:42PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > Robin Holt wrote: > Which other stuff in the cpu_init path would cause a panic on hot-added > CPU? I had not looked. I was going off what Tony Luck had said earlier. Thanks, Robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: [RFC][PATCH] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64

2008-02-06 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hello Tony, Thank you for review. Luck, Tony wrote: > +/* Insert a long branch code */ > +static void __kprobes set_brl_inst(void *from, void *to) > +{ > + s64 rel = ((s64) to - (s64) from) >> 4; > + bundle_t *brl; > + brl = (bundle_t *) ((u64) from & ~0xf); > + brl->quad0.template

Re: [patch] Fix large MCA bootmem allocation

2008-02-06 Thread Hidetoshi Seto
Robin Holt wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:50:11PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: Hidetoshi Seto wrote: Then, I suppose we need a CPU_UP_PREPARE callback to allocate memory before hot-added CPU enters cpu_init(). Ah, we cannot allocate bootmem later, so it would be better to make the callback

Re: [patch] Fix large MCA bootmem allocation

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Holt
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:50:11PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto wrote: > Hidetoshi Seto wrote: >> Then, I suppose we need a CPU_UP_PREPARE callback to allocate memory >> before hot-added CPU enters cpu_init(). > > Ah, we cannot allocate bootmem later, so it would be better to make > the callback to return