Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Thanks for the excellent rundown. >sata_sil24: 3124/3132 chips don't have any outstanding serious >problems. IRQ loss on PCI-X was the only recent serious known >problem but it's fixed now. I'm still a little confused how to translate this known-good chipset to an actual buyable PCI card. It is

[patch 38/40] libata: backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA, part 2

2007-11-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. P5W-DH Deluxe has ICH7R which doesn't have PMP support but SIMG 4726 hardwired to the second port of AHC

[patch 37/40] libata: backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA

2007-11-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. Backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA. These are originally link flags (ATA_LFLAG_*) but li

[patch 14/40] libata: sync NCQ blacklist with upstream

2007-11-14 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Synchronize NCQ blacklist with the current upstream. Based on changes already in Linus's 2.6.24-rc kernel tree. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff

Re: Moderated list

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 15-11-07 00:23, David Miller wrote: From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, I also prefer keeping the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's been so. That's fine with me, I've changed it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great, thanks. Jaroslav -- given that this list won't need moderation I'd consider it

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 15-11-07 05:16, Bron Gondwana wrote: Totally unrelated - I sent something to the kolab mailing list a couple [ ... ] I'm sure if I had something that I considered worth informing the ALSA project of, I'd be wary of spending the same effort writing a good post knowing it may be dropped in

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:24PM +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > On 14-11-07 11:07, David Miller wrote: > > Added Jaroslav and Takashi to the already extensive CC > >> From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> So, when are you creating a replacement alsa-devel mailing list on >>> vger? That's

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: * marvell ones: I don't have much idea. Jeff? Mark? .. Right now, support is rather primitive and incomplete in sata_mv. That may change over the next few months, as Marvell is beginning to show some desire to have their chips fully supported, to/beyond the current levels t

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Breidenbach wrote: I read with interest I. Straford's current trials and tribulations with the Promise SATA300 TX4. Do people have a favorite alternative to this card that plays well with Linux? I've read the chipset compatibility list, but am not sure how to boil that info

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Is there an online Kernelish-English dictionary anywhere? ;) .. Unfortunately not. At some point, we *really* need to convice {Tejun,Jeff} that libata messages should be simpler, fewer, and more human readable by default, with perha

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sata_nv: fix ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Robert Hancock wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Robert Hancock wrote: >>> This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in >>> ADMA mode >>> on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting >>> the 64-bit >>> DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are all

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sata_nv: fix ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-11-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get allocated abov

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> Is there an online Kernelish-English dictionary anywhere? ;) > .. > > Unfortunately not. > > At some point, we *really* need to convice {Tejun,Jeff} that libata > messages should be simpler, fewer, and more human readable by default, > with perhaps

Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > I read with interest I. Straford's current trials and tribulations > with the Promise SATA300 TX4. Do people have a favorite > alternative to this card that plays well with Linux? I've read the > chipset compatibility list, but am not sure how to boil that > information do

Re: [PATCH] pata_sis.c: Add Packard Bell EasyNote K5305 to laptops

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Gabriel C wrote: > Hi, > > With newer kernels HDD in my old laptop is limited to UDMA 33. > With this patch I get UDMA 100 again. > > Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied to #tj-upstream-fixes with Hi, edited out. :-) -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday November 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 13 November 2007 07:08, Mark Lord wrote: > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > .. > > > > > This is all QA-101 that _cannot be argued against on a rational basis_, > > > it's just that these sorts of things have been largely ignored for > > > years

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday November 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > so please stop this "too busy and too noisy" nonsense already. It was > > > nonsense 10 years ago and it's nonsense tod

Re: [PATCH] libata-scsi: be tolerant of 12-byte ATAPI commands in 16-byte CDBs

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Mark Lord wrote: > Sebastian Kemper reported that issuing CD/DVD commands under libata > is not fully compatible with ide-scsi. In particular, the > GPCMD_SET_STREAMING > was being rejected at the host level in some instances. > > The reason is that libata-scsi insists upon the cmd_len field exac

Re: [PATCH 1/2] sata_nv: don't use legacy DMA in ADMA mode

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Tejun Heo wrote: > If so, can you please add that switching into register mode is okay as > long as there's no other ADMA commands in flight and add > WARN_ON((qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_RESULT_TF) && link->sactive)? More accurately, link->sactive test can be substituted with (ap->qc_allocated & ~(1 <

Re: [PATCH 1/2] sata_nv: don't use legacy DMA in ADMA mode

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Robert Hancock wrote: > We need to run any DMA command with result taskfile requested in ADMA mode > when the port is in ADMA mode, otherwise it may try to use the legacy DMA > engine > in ADMA mode which is not allowed. Enforce this with BUG_ON() since data > corruption could potentially

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sata_nv: fix ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Robert Hancock wrote: > This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA > mode > on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit > DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they > don't > get allocated above 4GB

Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
I Stratford wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 4:01 AM, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mikael Pettersson wrote: >>> First, a workaround for a HW erratum affecting 2nd-generation >>> chips like the SATA300 TX4 was included in kernel 2.6.24-rc2. >> ... >> Alright, if it's fixable, no problem. I ju

Re: [PATCH 1/2] libata: workaround DRQ=1 ERR=1 for ATAPI tape drives

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Albert Lee wrote: > After an error condition, some ATAPI tape drives set DRQ=1 together with ERR=1 > when asking the host to transfer the CDB of the next packet command (i.e. > request sense). > This patch, a revised version of Alan/Mark's previous patch, adds > ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR > to workaro

Re: [PATCH 2/2] libata: use ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR for ATAPI tape drives

2007-11-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Albert Lee wrote: > Per Mark's comments, maybe all ATAPI tape drives need ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR. > This patch applys ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR for all ATAPI tape drives. > > Signed-off-by: Albert Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied to #tj-upstream-fixes. -- tejun - T

Re: sata_mv PCI ERROR; PCI IRQ reason=0x00000000 highpoint rocketraid 2300 pci-e

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote: Hi list, I have a couple of Highpoint Rocket(Fake)Raid 2300 PCI-e X1 adapters in my system, I bought those because the box said ('Open Source' next to 'linux driver' btw, talk about false advertising). Here's the lspci output: 02:00.0 SCSI storage controller: HighPo

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > There are two parts to this. One is a Ubuntu development kernel which > we can give to large numbers of people to expand our testing pool. > But if we don't do a better job of responding to bug reports that > would be generated by expanded testing this w

Re: Moderated list

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:47:39 +0100 > I think alsa-user can stay as is. It's no place for dragging many > other addresses like alsa-devel. > > BTW, I also prefer keeping the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's been so. That's fine with me, I've changed it [EMAI

sata_mv PCI ERROR; PCI IRQ reason=0x00000000 highpoint rocketraid 2300 pci-e

2007-11-14 Thread Hein-Pieter van Braam
Hi list, I have a couple of Highpoint Rocket(Fake)Raid 2300 PCI-e X1 adapters in my system, I bought those because the box said ('Open Source' next to 'linux driver' btw, talk about false advertising). Here's the lspci output: 02:00.0 SCSI storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. RocketRA

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Morrison, Tom wrote: I have gotten it to boot from those hard-drives and it has the same behavior: Copying a large file to the same partition (>150MEG) causes the system to hang (no I/O - no input/output - nothing - complete freeze - like a primary resource

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: I have gotten it to boot from those hard-drives and it has the same behavior: Copying a large file to the same partition (>150MEG) causes the system to hang (no I/O - no input/output - nothing - complete freeze - like a primary resource is locked up or interr

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9373] New: PDC20267 exception Emask on I/O

2007-11-14 Thread Bjoern Olausson
On 11/14/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:11:25 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9373 > > > >Summary: PDC20267 exception Emask on I/O > >Product: IO/Storage > >Version: 2.5

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Gabriel C
Denys Vlasenko wrote: > hi Matthew, > > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their git tree. I did that and sent patches

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
hi Matthew, On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:35, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > >> Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their > >> git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then. >

RE: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
I have gotten it to boot from those hard-drives and it has the same behavior: Copying a large file to the same partition (>150MEG) causes the system to hang (no I/O - no input/output - nothing - complete freeze - like a primary resource is locked up or interrupt

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:37:37 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > ok, then you conceded it by not replying to it? good ;-) No, I don't intend to carry on this discussion, but I appreciate the smiley. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread david
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: Dumping even more crap on lkml is not the answer. that "crap" that i'd like to see dumped upon lkml would be netdev traffic mainly - most of the other kernel development lists (and i'm subscribed to many of them) are low-traffic. netdev is the main reaso

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:56 -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 > > > > > In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev > > > some of those bugs w

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 > > > In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev > > some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had it been all > > on lkml we'd

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:16:39 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > countered by the underlined sentences above, just in case you missed > > it. > > I didn't miss your claim. ok, then you conceded it by not replying to it? good ;-) Ingo - To unsubs

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:16:39 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > countered by the underlined sentences above, just in case you missed it. I didn't miss your claim. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majord

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > * Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds > > > > for all of us. I have one main complaint about networkin

RE: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
OK: 32-bit linux - Large Physical Memory / Large PTE (CONFIG_PTE_64BIT & CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT) 4 Gig of DDR RAM Here is the lspci -vv -bash-2.05b# lspci -vv 00:00.0 Power PC: Unknown device 1957:0012 (rev 20) !!! Invalid class 0b20 for header type 01 Control

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:56 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 > > > In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev > > some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had it been all > > on

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:24:48PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Suspend to RAM resume hangs on a tickless (NO_HZ) kernel > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9275 > > > Kernel: 2.6.23 > > > This is HP notebook nc6320 T2400 945GM > > > > No response from developers > > May

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 > In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev > some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had it been all > on lkml we'd all be aware of it. That's a rediculious argument. One

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:07:06AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:55:07 + > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:55:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > > I've created [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > By doing so you've just said (implicitly)

Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:46:09PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Allen Martin wrote: > .. >> Errata for which there is an SBIOS workaround are generally only >> released to BIOS vendors and under NDA. If Linux users were impacted by >> such a bug we would most likely release a patch, but a much more l

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:57 PM To: Morrison, Tom Cc: Jeff Garzik; linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations Morrison,

Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Allen Martin wrote: .. Errata for which there is an SBIOS workaround are generally only released to BIOS vendors and under NDA. If Linux users were impacted by such a bug we would most likely release a patch, but a much more likely .. All of that silly secrecy harms your company and your custo

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:57 PM To: Morrison, Tom Cc: Jeff Garzik; linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations Morrison,

RE: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards

2007-11-14 Thread Allen Martin
> > What I'm worred about is SMI traps implemented in the SBIOS for AHCI > > workarounds that may be disabled when in IDE mode. > > For Nvidia devices those would only be present if there were problems > with the AHCI hardware right, which would mean you could > simply tell us > what workarounds

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: .. ::: Can you give me exact details of how to set up and reproduce this? ::: -- Kernel version Linux-2.6.23.1 NOTE: I am using ppc (arch/ppc instead of arch/powerpc) .. Okay. Is that 32-bit or 64-bit? How much RAM ? My PPC machine is not currently set

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Kok, Auke
Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 00:27, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> You missed the following in my email: >> "we slowly scare them away due to the many bug reports without any >> reaction." >> >> The problem is that bug reports take time. If you go away from easy >> things like comp

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:38:20AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > so please stop this "too busy and too noisy" nonsense already. It was > > nonsense 10 years ago and it's nonsense today. In 10 years the kernel > > grew from a 1 million lines

RE: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
-Original Message- From: Mark Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:57 PM To: Morrison, Tom Cc: Jeff Garzik; linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations Morrison, Tom wrote: > > The pr

Re: 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Morrison, Tom wrote: All, I apologize if this has been discussed - but I haven't been able to find exactly what I am looking for in the discussions the last few weeks... I am running Linux 2.6.23.1 and have a 7042 SATA driver running (that seems to run very well) - it has the fixes talked abo

Re: [PATCH] libata-scsi: be tolerant of 12-byte ATAPI commands in 16-byte CDBs

2007-11-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:44:23PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Sebastian Kemper reported that issuing CD/DVD commands under libata > is not fully compatible with ide-scsi. In particular, the > GPCMD_SET_STREAMING > was being rejected at the host level in some instances. > > The reason is that liba

2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations

2007-11-14 Thread Morrison, Tom
All, I apologize if this has been discussed - but I haven't been able to find exactly what I am looking for in the discussions the last few weeks... I am running Linux 2.6.23.1 and have a 7042 SATA driver running (that seems to run very well) - it has the fixes talked about between Jeff & Olaf (

[PATCH] libata-scsi: be tolerant of 12-byte ATAPI commands in 16-byte CDBs

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Sebastian Kemper reported that issuing CD/DVD commands under libata is not fully compatible with ide-scsi. In particular, the GPCMD_SET_STREAMING was being rejected at the host level in some instances. The reason is that libata-scsi insists upon the cmd_len field exactly matching the SCSI opcode

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds > > > for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the > > > separate netdev list is a bad idea - network

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ide: fix serverworks.c UDMA regression

2007-11-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:34:47AM -0500, Tony Battersby wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:25:41PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > >> On Monday 15 October 2007, Tony Battersby wrote: > >> > >>> The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.

Re: 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> The AHCI code falls back to 32bit DMA in that case. Which in turn > causes the problem seen by Srihari. There is not much printk sticking > necessary, the code is simply not handling this. What code is not handling what? IOMMU merging should be always safe. If it is not the driver should no

Re: 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 12:55, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > [Sorry to reply to my own email thread] > > > > Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > > > No problems. Here's the log of unworking kernel with IOMMU turned on. >

Re: [PATCH 10/13] ide-cris: fix DMA methods

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Rename cris_dma_{on,off}() to cris_dma_host_{on,off}(). Haven't you killed dma_on/dma_off_quietly() methods in the previosu patch? * Remove no longer needed ->dma_off_quietly (IDE core has the needed code now). * Make cris_dma_host_on() void. Cc:

Re: [PATCH 13/13] ide: merge ->dma_host_{on,off} methods into ->dma_host_set method

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Merge ->dma_host_{on,off} methods into ->dma_host_set method which takes 'int on' argument. There should be no functionality changes caused by this patch. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PATCH 9/13] ide: remove ->ide_dma_on and ->dma_off_quietly methods from ide_hwif_t

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Make ide_dma_off_quietly() and __ide_dma_on() always available. * Drop "__" prefix from __ide_dma_on(). * Check for presence of ->dma_host_on instead of ->ide_dma_on. * Convert all users of ->ide_dma_on and ->dma_off_quietly methods to use ide_dma_on

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Mark Lord schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: This are the log entries I saw as I started e2fsck on a 5-disk Linux RAID-5 array; all disks connected to a sata_mv controller: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: edma_err 0x

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Mark Lord schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: This are the log entries I saw as I started e2fsck on a 5-disk Linux RAID-5 array; all disks connected to a sata_mv controller: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: edma_err 0x0084, EDMA self-disable ..

Re: sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Lord
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: This are the log entries I saw as I started e2fsck on a 5-disk Linux RAID-5 array; all disks connected to a sata_mv controller: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10 action 0x6 frozen ata6.00: edma_err 0x0084, EDMA self-disable .. Translation: "The

Re: [PATCH 4/13] cy82c693: correct DMA modes clipping

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Mask device DMA masks by ATA_{S,M}WDMA2 in cy82c693_ide_dma_on(). * Remove clipping of DMA modes by id->tDMA in cy82c693_dma_enable(): - id->tDMA may not be defined on newer devices - id->vendor6/id->tDMA word is in LE endianness (cy82c693 seems to b

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Larry Finger
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's >>> not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you >>> do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the >>> linux-2.6 di

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ide: fix serverworks.c UDMA regression

2007-11-14 Thread Tony Battersby
Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:25:41PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> On Monday 15 October 2007, Tony Battersby wrote: >> >>> The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.22 makes >>> it impossible to use UDMA on a Tyan S2707 motherboard (SvrWks

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's >> not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you >> do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the >> linux-2.6 directory. > .. > > Ah, I wo

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Fabio Comolli
FWIW, I see the same problem with another HP notebook, DV4378EA with radeon X700 video card. It does not happen frequently but I can say that since I disabled the tickless feature I can't reproduce the problem anymore. On Nov 14, 2007 2:24 PM, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > >

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds > > for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the > > separate netdev list is a bad idea - networking regressions should > > be discussed and fixed on lkml, like mo

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Suspend to RAM resume hangs on a tickless (NO_HZ) kernel > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9275 > > Kernel: 2.6.23 > > This is HP notebook nc6320 T2400 945GM > > No response from developers Maybe I'm optimistic, but I expected Ingo/Thomas to look after nohz problems. nohz=of

Re: Moderated list (Was: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

2007-11-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:21:30 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > > On 14-11-07 09:25, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:01:31 -0800 (PST), > > David Miller wrote: > >> From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) > >> > >>> The fact that it farts

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Hannes Reinecke
Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their >> git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then. >> >> And mind you, the patch is not trying to do anything >> complex, it mostly m

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:46:20AM -0700, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > Finally they replied and asked to rediff it against their > git tree. I did that and sent patches back. No reply since then. > > And mind you, the patch is not trying to do anything > complex, it mostly moves code around, removes 'i

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-11-07 13:01, David Miller wrote: From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. See? I got another one and I have received at least 10 of the following over the past 2 days. Nah, in th

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-11-07 12:56, David Miller wrote: From: Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:46:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not subscriber-only. Same as that arm list, it's _moderated_ for non-subscribers and given that I and other moderators have been doing our best to moderate q

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > HID > > > > Kernel NULL pointer dereference at :usbhid:hiddev_ioctl+0x2f/0xabc > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9216 > > Kernel: 2.6.23.1 > > Looks like this is a regres

Re: Moderated list (Was: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-11-07 09:25, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:01:31 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote: From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. See? I got another one and I have received a

Re: [PATCH 1/2] libata: workaround DRQ=1 ERR=1 for ATAPI tape drives

2007-11-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:13:05 +0800 Albert Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After an error condition, some ATAPI tape drives set DRQ=1 together with ERR=1 > when asking the host to transfer the CDB of the next packet command (i.e. > request sense). > This patch, a revised version of Alan/Mark's pr

Re: 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 12:55, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > [Sorry to reply to my own email thread] > > Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > No problems. Here's the log of unworking kernel with IOMMU turned on. > > Basically it goes on reseting the SATA ports throw

Moderated list (Was: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

2007-11-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:01:31 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote: > > From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) > > > The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. > > See? I got another one and I have received at least 10 of the > followi

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sata_nv: fix ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-11-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:15:51 -0600 Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA > mode > on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit > DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are al

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:56:57 -0800 (PST) > The fact that it farts at me every time I post to this thread. See? I got another one and I have received at least 10 of the following over the past 2 days. That's rediculious. And because a human adds the whi

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:46:24 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not subscriber-only. Same as that arm list, > it's _moderated_ for non-subscribers and given that I and other moderators > have been doing our best to moderate quickly (I tend to stay logged in to

Re: 2.6.24-rc & SB600 AHCI no go on >=4GB of RAM

2007-11-14 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
[Sorry to reply to my own email thread] Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > No problems. Here's the log of unworking kernel with IOMMU turned on. > Basically it goes on reseting the SATA ports throwing many errors (none are > present in 2.6.23 or on 2.6.24-rc with mem=3500M) fo

Re: [alsa-devel] [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-11-07 11:07, David Miller wrote: Added Jaroslav and Takashi to the already extensive CC From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So, when are you creating a replacement alsa-devel mailing list on vger? That's also subscribers-only. The operative term is "alternative" rather than "

Re: [PATCH 9/18] ide: kill duplicate code in ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_status()

2007-11-14 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Move the common code from ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_status() to ide_dump_status(). * ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_status() -> ide_dump_{ata,atapi}_error(). There should be no functionality changes caused by this patch. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[E

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread David Miller
From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:55:07 + > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:55:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > I've created [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > By doing so you've just said (implicitly) that you can not tolerate > someone having a different opinion from your ow

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:55:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:32:01 -0800 > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:18:01 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Find some other mailing list; I'm not hosting *nor* am I willi

sata_mv: hard resetting port

2007-11-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
This are the log entries I saw as I started e2fsck on a 5-disk Linux RAID-5 array; all disks connected to a sata_mv controller: Nov 13 18:57:33 superthecus kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x10 action 0x6 frozen Nov 13 18:57:34 superthecus kernel: ata6.00: edma_err 0x0

Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23

2007-11-14 Thread Patric Karlsson
I Stratford wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 4:01 AM, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mikael Pettersson wrote: First, a workaround for a HW erratum affecting 2nd-generation chips like the SATA300 TX4 was included in kernel 2.6.24-rc2. ... Alright, if it's fixable, no problem. I just wanted to rem

Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

2007-11-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:27:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:55:51 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I've created [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Let me just say - I'm astonished at how little spam gets though the vger > lists. Considering how many tim

Re: Promise SATA TX4 300 port timeout with sata_promise in 2.6.22, kernel panic in 2.6.23

2007-11-14 Thread I Stratford
On Nov 12, 2007 4:01 AM, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > First, a workaround for a HW erratum affecting 2nd-generation > > chips like the SATA300 TX4 was included in kernel 2.6.24-rc2. > ... > Alright, if it's fixable, no problem. I just wanted to remind that >