Re: [STABLE] find missing bug fixes in a stable kernel

2014-01-13 Thread Jack Wang
numbers mean, eg : 8c4f3c3fa968 874d3954a35c 2 1 the first is the occurrences in upstream and second for the occurrence in 3.2.xx right? Regards, Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo

Re: [PATCH 2/2] net/mlx4_core: clean up srq_res_start_move_to()

2014-01-13 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:02:14 +0100 Paul Bolle pebo...@tiscali.nl wrote: diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c index a41f01e..8ace450 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c +++

Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4_core: clean up cq_res_start_move_to()

2014-01-13 Thread Jack Morgenstein
This time, replying to the list as well. -Jack P.S. sorry for the delay, I was swamped. On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:01:18 +0100 Paul Bolle pebo...@tiscali.nl wrote: + } else { + /* state == RES_CQ_HW */ + if (r-com.state != RES_CQ_ALLOCATED) if (state != RES_CQ_HW

Re: [BUG]NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 __blkdev_put+0x17f/0x1d0

2014-01-06 Thread Jack Wang
On 01/04/2014 07:09 AM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:36:30AM +0100, Jack Wang wrote: > >>> Bug happened at line 1486, looks disk->fops is NULL here for some >>> reason, is it reasonable to add a check like: >>> >>> if

Re: [BUG]NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 __blkdev_put+0x17f/0x1d0

2014-01-06 Thread Jack Wang
On 01/04/2014 07:09 AM, Al Viro wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:36:30AM +0100, Jack Wang wrote: Bug happened at line 1486, looks disk-fops is NULL here for some reason, is it reasonable to add a check like: if (disk-fops) if (disk-fops-release) ret = disk-fops-release

Re: [BUG]NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 __blkdev_put+0x17f/0x1d0

2014-01-02 Thread Jack Wang
On 12/30/2013 04:55 PM, Jack Wang wrote: > Hi, > > We saw NULL pointer dereference below: > > Dec 28 16:24:26 server kernel: [979193.076399] BUG: unable to handle > kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 > Dec 28 16:24:26 server kernel: [979193.076401] IP: []

Re: [BUG]NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 __blkdev_put+0x17f/0x1d0

2014-01-02 Thread Jack Wang
On 12/30/2013 04:55 PM, Jack Wang wrote: Hi, We saw NULL pointer dereference below: Dec 28 16:24:26 server kernel: [979193.076399] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 Dec 28 16:24:26 server kernel: [979193.076401] IP: [8116952f] __blkdev_put

Re: [PATCH 5/25] IB/mlx4: fix error return code

2013-12-30 Thread Jack Morgenstein
gt; port_num, int slave) > p->gid_group.name = "gid_idx"; > p->gid_group.attrs = alloc_group_attrs(show_port_gid_idx, > NULL, 1); > - if (!p->gid_group.attrs) > + if (!p->gid_group.attrs) { > + ret = -ENOMEM; > goto

[BUG]NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 __blkdev_put+0x17f/0x1d0

2013-12-30 Thread Jack Wang
se(disk, mode); 0x81162e8c <+380>: mov%r12d,%esi 0x81162e8f <+383>: mov%r14,%rdi 0x81162e92 <+386>: callq *%rax 0x81162e94 <+388>: mov %eax,%ebp 0x81162e96 <+390>: jmpq 0x81162d9a &l

[BUG]NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 __blkdev_put+0x17f/0x1d0

2013-12-30 Thread Jack Wang
: jmpq 0x81162d9a __blkdev_put+138 snip Bug happened at line 1486, looks disk-fops is NULL here for some reason, is it reasonable to add a check like: if (disk-fops) if (disk-fops-release) ret = disk-fops-release(disk, mode); Happy New Year and Best regards:) Jack

Re: [PATCH 5/25] IB/mlx4: fix error return code

2013-12-30 Thread Jack Morgenstein
= alloc_group_attrs(show_port_gid_idx, NULL, 1); - if (!p-gid_group.attrs) + if (!p-gid_group.attrs) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_free_pkey; + } ACK. Julia's patch is correct -- this is indeed a bug-fix. -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Please Confirm

2013-12-08 Thread Jack Kofi (ESQ).
Regards, Jack Kofi, esq -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Please Confirm

2013-12-08 Thread Jack Kofi (ESQ).
Regards, Jack Kofi, esq -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH RFC 51/77] mthca: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
f recent re-design of the MSI/MSI-X interrupts enabling > pattern this driver has to be updated to use the new technique to > obtain a optimal number of MSI/MSI-X interrupts required. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev > --- ACK. -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: [PATCH RFC 46/77] mlx4: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
should actually read something like the following: As a result of changes to the MSI/MSI_X enabling procedures, this driver must be modified in order to preserve its current msi/msi_x enablement logic. -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH RFC 46/77] mlx4: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
ut is already upstream. I will re-review. -Jack NACK. This change does not do anything logically as far as I can tell. pci_enable_msix in the current upstream kernel itself calls pci_msix_table_size. The current code yields the same resultswill as the code suggested below. (i.e., the sugge

Re: [PATCH RFC 46/77] mlx4: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
_msix_table_size(). There is no error here, and it is simply confusing. -Jack > As result of recent re-design of the MSI/MSI-X interrupts enabling > pattern this driver has to be updated to use the new technique to > obtain a optimal number of MSI/MSI-X interrupts required. > > S

Re: [PATCH RFC 46/77] mlx4: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
by pci_msix_table_size(). There is no error here, and it is simply confusing. -Jack As result of recent re-design of the MSI/MSI-X interrupts enabling pattern this driver has to be updated to use the new technique to obtain a optimal number of MSI/MSI-X interrupts required. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev

Re: [PATCH RFC 46/77] mlx4: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
about is already upstream. I will re-review. -Jack NACK. This change does not do anything logically as far as I can tell. pci_enable_msix in the current upstream kernel itself calls pci_msix_table_size. The current code yields the same resultswill as the code suggested below. (i.e., the suggested

Re: [PATCH RFC 46/77] mlx4: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
. The change log here should actually read something like the following: As a result of changes to the MSI/MSI_X enabling procedures, this driver must be modified in order to preserve its current msi/msi_x enablement logic. -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [PATCH RFC 51/77] mthca: Update MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement code

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Morgenstein
re-design of the MSI/MSI-X interrupts enabling pattern this driver has to be updated to use the new technique to obtain a optimal number of MSI/MSI-X interrupts required. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev agord...@redhat.com --- ACK. -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Reply..For Your Family

2013-10-01 Thread John Jack Dick Ven Der Berg
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Reply..For Your Family

2013-10-01 Thread John Jack Dick Ven Der Berg
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Re: [PATCH 092/104] mm: fix aio performance regression for database caused by THP

2013-09-30 Thread Jack Wang
an > Cc: Rik van Riel > Cc: Minchan Kim > Cc: Andi Kleen > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > [ luis: backported to 3.5: adjusted context ] > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques Hi Greg, I suppose this patch also needed for 3.4, right? Regards,

Re: [PATCH 092/104] mm: fix aio performance regression for database caused by THP

2013-09-30 Thread Jack Wang
-by: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org [ luis: backported to 3.5: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques luis.henriq...@canonical.com Hi Greg, I suppose this patch also needed for 3.4, right? Regards, Jack --- mm

Re: Drivers: scsi: FLUSH timeout

2013-09-24 Thread Jack Wang
ernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Hi, Back to 2010, Mike(cc-ed) try to add a flush time out interface, similar to what you want here, no idea why it's just ignored? http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg45017.html Jack -- To unsubscribe f

Re: Drivers: scsi: FLUSH timeout

2013-09-24 Thread Jack Wang
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Re: [ 04/23] SCSI: qla2xxx: Properly set the tagging for commands.

2013-08-14 Thread Jack Hill
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:40:56PM -0400, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Greg, Apologies if this question is due to my ignorance of kernel development practices. Feel free to point me at documentation. I noticed that you applied this patch to the 3.10

Re: [ 04/23] SCSI: qla2xxx: Properly set the tagging for commands.

2013-08-14 Thread Jack Hill
not applied to that tree? Thanks! Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [ 04/23] SCSI: qla2xxx: Properly set the tagging for commands.

2013-08-14 Thread Jack Hill
not applied to that tree? Thanks! Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [ 04/23] SCSI: qla2xxx: Properly set the tagging for commands.

2013-08-14 Thread Jack Hill
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:40:56PM -0400, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Greg, Apologies if this question is due to my ignorance of kernel development practices. Feel free to point me at documentation. I noticed that you applied this patch to the 3.10

Reply....Get Back To me Today

2013-07-21 Thread John Jack Dick Ven Der Berg
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2013-07-21 Thread John Jack Dick Ven Der Berg
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2013-07-21 Thread John Jack Dick Ven Der Berg
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2013-07-21 Thread John Jack Dick Ven Der Berg
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2013-07-10 Thread jack
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Re: [PATCH 8/9] scsi/pm8001: use pdev->pm_cap instead of pci_find_capability(..,PCI_CAP_ID_PM)

2013-06-26 Thread Jack Wang
de. > I think Lindar already replied to you, and tested it on hardware. So you can add her: Acked-by or Tested-by Regards, Jack > Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang > Cc: xjtu...@gmail.com > Cc: lindar_...@usish.com > Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" > Cc: linux-s...@v

Re: [PATCH 8/9] scsi/pm8001: use pdev-pm_cap instead of pci_find_capability(..,PCI_CAP_ID_PM)

2013-06-26 Thread Jack Wang
replied to you, and tested it on hardware. So you can add her: Acked-by or Tested-by Regards, Jack Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang wangyij...@huawei.com Cc: xjtu...@gmail.com Cc: lindar_...@usish.com Cc: James E.J. Bottomley jbottom...@parallels.com Cc: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel

kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 998)

2013-05-27 Thread Jack Wang
Hi all, We saw below bug in our production. Kernel is linux 3.4.23, as I know it means control was transferred to a data page. This could happen because of a stack overflow (overwrite return address with bogus pointer into data pages), or by calling a function pointer which isn't pointing where

kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 998)

2013-05-27 Thread Jack Wang
Hi all, We saw below bug in our production. Kernel is linux 3.4.23, as I know it means control was transferred to a data page. This could happen because of a stack overflow (overwrite return address with bogus pointer into data pages), or by calling a function pointer which isn't pointing where

[PATCH] libtraceevent: remove hard coded include to /usr/local/include in Makefile

2013-03-08 Thread Jack Mitchell
From: Jack Mitchell having /usr/local/include hardcoded into the makefile is not necessary as this is automatically included by GCC. It also infects cross-compile builds with the host systems includes. Signed-off-by: Jack Mitchell --- tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1

[PATCH] libtraceevent: remove hard coded include to /usr/local/include in Makefile

2013-03-08 Thread Jack Mitchell
From: Jack Mitchell jack.mitch...@dbbroadcast.co.uk having /usr/local/include hardcoded into the makefile is not necessary as this is automatically included by GCC. It also infects cross-compile builds with the host systems includes. Signed-off-by: Jack Mitchell jack.mitch...@dbbroadcast.co.uk

Re: [PATCH v2] IB/mlx4: silence GCC warning

2013-02-25 Thread Jack Morgenstein
(my gcc at least was already > if effect setting vlan in the generated assembly code), so I'll just > merge that. > > - R. Thanks! -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More maj

Re: [PATCH v2] IB/mlx4: silence GCC warning

2013-02-25 Thread Jack Morgenstein
vlan in the generated assembly code), so I'll just merge that. - R. Thanks! -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: [PATCH v2] IB/mlx4: silence GCC warning

2013-02-24 Thread Jack Morgenstein
s_eth, is_eth, is_vlan, is_grh, 0, > >ud_header); > > if (!is_eth) { -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH v2] IB/mlx4: silence GCC warning

2013-02-24 Thread Jack Morgenstein
) { -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: How to online remove an error scsi disk from the system?

2013-02-01 Thread Jack Wang
On 02/01/2013 04:50 PM, Jack Wang wrote: > Hi All, > In our product system, we have several sata disks attached to one > machine. So when one of the disk fails, the jbd2(yes, we use ext4) > will hang forever and we will get something in /var/log/messages like below. >

RE: How to online remove an error scsi disk from the system?

2013-02-01 Thread Jack Wang
he end_io can be called accordingly? Am I missing something here? Thanks, Tao [Jack Wang] Hi Tao, Have you tried: echo 1 > /sys/block/sdv/device/delete echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host another way is : find out which phy the disk attached to and: echo 1 > /sys/class/sa

RE: How to online remove an error scsi disk from the system?

2013-02-01 Thread Jack Wang
accordingly? Am I missing something here? Thanks, Tao [Jack Wang] Hi Tao, Have you tried: echo 1 /sys/block/sdv/device/delete echo - - - /sys/class/scsi_host/host another way is : find out which phy the disk attached to and: echo 1 /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-x:x:x/link_reset Jack

RE: How to online remove an error scsi disk from the system?

2013-02-01 Thread Jack Wang
On 02/01/2013 04:50 PM, Jack Wang wrote: Hi All, In our product system, we have several sata disks attached to one machine. So when one of the disk fails, the jbd2(yes, we use ext4) will hang forever and we will get something in /var/log/messages like below. It seems to me

RE: mvsas regression since 3.5

2012-12-23 Thread Jack Wang
[Jack Wang] Do you see bug51881, which may relate to what you see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51881 btw: also correct Dan's mail address. I'm using Asus PIKE 6480 SAS card, whose chipset is "RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV64460/64461/64462 S

RE: mvsas regression since 3.5

2012-12-23 Thread Jack Wang
[Jack Wang] Do you see bug51881, which may relate to what you see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51881 btw: also correct Dan's mail address. I'm using Asus PIKE 6480 SAS card, whose chipset is RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV64460/64461/64462 System

Re: [PATCH 00/26] AIO performance improvements/cleanups, v2

2012-12-13 Thread Jack Wang
t. > > -- > Jens Axboe > A really good performance, woo. I think the device tested is really fast PCIe SSD builded by fusionio with fusionio in house block driver? any compare number with current mainline? Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: [PATCH 00/26] AIO performance improvements/cleanups, v2

2012-12-13 Thread Jack Wang
with current mainline? Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[PATCH] usb: dwc3: debugfs: fix regdump offset

2012-12-10 Thread Jack Pham
ART. Signed-off-by: Jack Pham --- drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c index d4a30f1..be4eff7 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c @@ -56,7 +5

[PATCH] usb: dwc3: debugfs: fix regdump offset

2012-12-10 Thread Jack Pham
. Signed-off-by: Jack Pham ja...@codeaurora.org --- drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c index d4a30f1..be4eff7 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3

Re: [PATCH] IB/lmx4: silence GCC warning

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Morgenstein
iver. See, for example, mlx4_ib_post_send() in the same file (qp.c). -Jack On Friday 28 September 2012 14:48, Paul Bolle wrote: > Building qp.o (part of the "Mellanox ConnectX HCA support" driver) > triggers this GCC warning: > drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c: In function ‘mlx4

Re: [PATCH] IB/lmx4: silence GCC warning

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Morgenstein
, for example, mlx4_ib_post_send() in the same file (qp.c). -Jack On Friday 28 September 2012 14:48, Paul Bolle wrote: Building qp.o (part of the Mellanox ConnectX HCA support driver) triggers this GCC warning: drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c: In function ‘mlx4_ib_post_send’: drivers

Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

2012-09-25 Thread Jack Morgenstein
Hi Roland, I am on vacation until next Tuesday -- I'll look at this then. -Jack On Monday 24 September 2012 21:36, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Stephen Rothwell > wrote: > > After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc > > ppc64

Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

2012-09-25 Thread Jack Morgenstein
Hi Roland, I am on vacation until next Tuesday -- I'll look at this then. -Jack On Monday 24 September 2012 21:36, Roland Dreier wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au wrote: After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the infiniband tree

2012-07-16 Thread Jack Morgenstein
iniband tree and > commit 0ff1fb654bec ("{NET, IB}/mlx4: Add device managed flow steering > firmware API") from the net-next tree. > > Just context changes. I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix > as necessary. Thanks, Stephen! Your merge looks fine. Ack. -Ja

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the infiniband tree

2012-07-16 Thread Jack Morgenstein
fix as necessary. Thanks, Stephen! Ack for IB side. -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the infiniband tree

2012-07-16 Thread Jack Morgenstein
them) from the infiniband tree and commit 0ff1fb654bec ({NET, IB}/mlx4: Add device managed flow steering firmware API) from the net-next tree. Just context changes (I think). I have fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. Thanks, Stephen! Ack for IB side. -Jack

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the infiniband tree

2012-07-16 Thread Jack Morgenstein
, IB}/mlx4: Add device managed flow steering firmware API) from the net-next tree. Just context changes. I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. Thanks, Stephen! Your merge looks fine. Ack. -Jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v6

2008-02-21 Thread Jack Steiner
ds on a system simulator. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v6

2008-02-21 Thread Jack Steiner
callouts Unfortunately, the current driver does not allow me to quantify which of the differences is most significant. Also, I'll try to post the driver within the next few days. It is still in development but it compiles and can successfully run most workloads on a system simulator. --- jack

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v6

2008-02-20 Thread Jack Steiner
Flushing on the GRU is slow so being able to flush multiple pages with a single request is a benefit. Seems like the latter difference could be significant for other users of mmu notifiers. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v6

2008-02-20 Thread Jack Steiner
being able to flush multiple pages with a single request is a benefit. Seems like the latter difference could be significant for other users of mmu notifiers. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [patch] my mmu notifiers

2008-02-19 Thread Jack Steiner
not seen your patch recently). So I don't know exactly what you > are doing... > > But why does _anybody_ (why does Christoph's patches) need to invalidate > when they are going to be more permissive? This should be done lazily by > the driver, I would have thought. Agree. Althoug

Re: [patch] my mmu notifiers

2008-02-19 Thread Jack Steiner
will fault again & the TLB dropin will be repeated. This is optimized for the case where invalidates are rare - true for users of the GRU. In general, though, I agree. Most users of mmu_notifiers would likely required a mutex or something equivalent. --- jack -- To unsubscribe

Re: [patch] my mmu notifiers

2008-02-19 Thread Jack Steiner
. This is optimized for the case where invalidates are rare - true for users of the GRU. In general, though, I agree. Most users of mmu_notifiers would likely required a mutex or something equivalent. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [patch] my mmu notifiers

2008-02-19 Thread Jack Steiner
does Christoph's patches) need to invalidate when they are going to be more permissive? This should be done lazily by the driver, I would have thought. Agree. Although for most real applications, the performance difference is probably negligible. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6

2008-02-13 Thread Jack Steiner
and a hardware simulator. The driver itself is still a few weeks from being ready to post but I can send code fragments of the portions related to mmuops or external TLB management if anyone is interested. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6

2008-02-13 Thread Jack Steiner
itself is still a few weeks from being ready to post but I can send code fragments of the portions related to mmuops or external TLB management if anyone is interested. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] mlx4: fix build break

2008-02-11 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 00:18, Roland Dreier wrote: > Thanks, applied. > > Jack, I thought you guys tested the build on powerpc. How did this > sneak through? > It did not sneak through, because the problem does not exist in the OFED git. The following commit was pe

Re: [PATCH] mlx4: fix build break

2008-02-11 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 00:18, Roland Dreier wrote: Thanks, applied. Jack, I thought you guys tested the build on powerpc. How did this sneak through? It did not sneak through, because the problem does not exist in the OFED git. The following commit was performed to git

Re: 2.6.24 module problem

2008-02-03 Thread Jack Byer
It did this with and without the PAX patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

2.6.24 module problem

2008-02-03 Thread Jack Byer
Trying to boot 2.6.24 produces the following error messages when udev is called: VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed PAX: modprobe:752, uid/euid: 0/0, invalid execution attempt at 88018000 RIP: [] :videodev:videodev_init+0x0/0x87 PGD

2.6.24 module problem

2008-02-03 Thread Jack Byer
Trying to boot 2.6.24 produces the following error messages when udev is called: VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed PAX: modprobe:752, uid/euid: 0/0, invalid execution attempt at 88018000 RIP: [88018000]

Re: 2.6.24 module problem

2008-02-03 Thread Jack Byer
It did this with and without the PAX patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v5

2008-02-02 Thread Jack Steiner
ay do it once you add start,end to range_end > > > only thanks to the additional pin on the page. > > > > Right but that pin requires taking a refcount which we cannot do. > > GRU can use my patch without the pin. XPMEM obviously can't use my > patch as my invalida

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v5

2008-02-02 Thread Jack Steiner
an incremental patch adding invalidate_range_start/end would be required to support XPMEM too. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-31 Thread Jack Steiner
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:39:19PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote: > > > Jack has repeatedly pointed out needing an unregister outside the > > mmap_sem. I still don't see the benefit to not having the lock in the mm. > > I never u

Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-31 Thread Jack Steiner
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:24:44PM -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:56:12PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote: > > > @@ -2033,6 +2034,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) > > > unsigned long end; > > > > > > /* mm's last user ha

Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-31 Thread Jack Steiner
e_all" callout is not very descriptive. Why not use "exit_mmap". That matches the function name, the arch callout and better describes what is happening. --- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-31 Thread Jack Steiner
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:24:44PM -0600, Robin Holt wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:56:12PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote: @@ -2033,6 +2034,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) unsigned long end; /* mm's last user has gone, and its about to be pulled down

Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-31 Thread Jack Steiner
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:39:19PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote: Jack has repeatedly pointed out needing an unregister outside the mmap_sem. I still don't see the benefit to not having the lock in the mm. I never understood why this would

Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Steiner
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:41:29AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jack Steiner wrote: > > > I see what you mean. I need to review to mail to see why this changed > > but in the original discussions with Christoph, the invalidate_range > > callouts

Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Steiner
e unregister function. Currently, there is no __mmu_notifier_unregister() defined. Moving to a different lock solves the problem. -- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Steiner
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:37:20PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:28:05PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:20:50PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > >

Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Steiner
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:37:20PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:28:05PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:20:50PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: invalidate_range after populate allows

Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Steiner
the problem. -- jack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Steiner
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:41:29AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jack Steiner wrote: I see what you mean. I need to review to mail to see why this changed but in the original discussions with Christoph, the invalidate_range callouts were suppose to be made BEFORE

Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-01-29 Thread Jack Steiner
; > The last refcount is released by the invalidate_range itself. > > That is true for your implementation and to address Robin's issues. Jack: > Is that true for the GRU? I'm not sure I understand the question. The GRU never (currently) takes a reference on a page. It has no mechanism for tracking

Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-01-29 Thread Jack Steiner
itself. That is true for your implementation and to address Robin's issues. Jack: Is that true for the GRU? I'm not sure I understand the question. The GRU never (currently) takes a reference on a page. It has no mechanism for tracking pages that were exported to the external TLBs. --- jack

Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

2008-01-25 Thread Jack Harvard
On Jan 25, 2008 3:34 PM, Jack Harvard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2008 3:02 PM, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 25 2008 14:39, Jack Harvard wrote: > > >> On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote: >

Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

2008-01-25 Thread Jack Harvard
On Jan 25, 2008 3:02 PM, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 25 2008 14:39, Jack Harvard wrote: > >> On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote: > >> >Hi, > >> > > >> >I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process f

Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

2008-01-25 Thread Jack Harvard
On Jan 25, 2008 2:27 PM, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process failed. Here is the > >info: > > > >=FF<6>/init exit code:

Q: linux failed to execute /init?

2008-01-25 Thread Jack Harvard
Hi, I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process failed. Here is the info: =FF<6>/init exit code: -14 /init exit code: -14 <4>Failed to execute /init Failed to execute /init <6>/sbin/init exit code: -14 Just wondering what do those different exit codes mean? Thanks, -J -- To unsubscribe

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