Re: PATA-disk named sda

2007-07-06 Thread Robert Hancock
ned to use the fastest settings possible by default. In a lot of cases this messing with hdparm was only needed because of stupidity with the old IDE code (like DMA not being automatically enabled if the low-level driver was built modular). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To ema

Re: PATA-disk named sda

2007-07-06 Thread Robert Hancock
the fastest settings possible by default. In a lot of cases this messing with hdparm was only needed because of stupidity with the old IDE code (like DMA not being automatically enabled if the low-level driver was built modular). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-05 Thread Robert Hancock
proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and see how that helps. This workload will fill up memory with dirty data very quickly, and it seems like system responsiveness often goes down the toilet when this happens and the system is going crazy trying to write it all out. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, S

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-05 Thread Robert Hancock
, and it seems like system responsiveness often goes down the toilet when this happens and the system is going crazy trying to write it all out. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: pci hidden behind transparent bridge

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
the message saying to report this to LKML hasn't responded to these reports. Any patches adding such messages in the future should really include details of what they expect to be done with the reports.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
resumed first. This proposed change violates that. I don't think this sort of handling is something that individual drivers should have to deal with (at least not ones that are part of a framework like USB, libata, etc.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "n

Re: [PATCH] libata_acpi: A different strategy for using ACPI information

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
errors or timeouts), so this should be safe. We just had better be sure that the speed we give it is valid, since there is no sane way for the function to indicate failure. (Thus the problem with the "cram in all possible values to see what it supports" strategy for determining mode limit

Re: [PATCH] libata_acpi: A different strategy for using ACPI information

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
or timeouts), so this should be safe. We just had better be sure that the speed we give it is valid, since there is no sane way for the function to indicate failure. (Thus the problem with the cram in all possible values to see what it supports strategy for determining mode limits..) -- Robert Hancock

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
resumed first. This proposed change violates that. I don't think this sort of handling is something that individual drivers should have to deal with (at least not ones that are part of a framework like USB, libata, etc.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from

Re: pci hidden behind transparent bridge

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
really include details of what they expect to be done with the reports.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Kernel doesn't recognize complete memory

2007-06-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Frank Fiene wrote: On Samstag, 30. Juni 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Frank Fiene wrote: Lenovo Z61p, Intel Core2 Duo T7200 I have 4GB RAM installed and BIOS recognize 4GB RAM. Linux kernel (Ubuntu-7.04, 32bit-PAE and 64bit, openSUSE-10.2 32bit-PAE and 64bit) tells me: only 3GB of RAM

Re: Kernel doesn't recognize complete memory

2007-06-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Frank Fiene wrote: On Samstag, 30. Juni 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Frank Fiene wrote: Lenovo Z61p, Intel Core2 Duo T7200 I have 4GB RAM installed and BIOS recognize 4GB RAM. Linux kernel (Ubuntu-7.04, 32bit-PAE and 64bit, openSUSE-10.2 32bit-PAE and 64bit) tells me: only 3GB of RAM

Re: Kernel doesn't recognize complete memory

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Hancock
? Please help! Regards Frank Please post your bootup dmesg output. If your chipset doesn't support memory remapping above 4GB or the BIOS doesn't enable it, you won't be able to use all 4GB of memory. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL

Re: Kernel doesn't recognize complete memory

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Hancock
? Please help! Regards Frank Please post your bootup dmesg output. If your chipset doesn't support memory remapping above 4GB or the BIOS doesn't enable it, you won't be able to use all 4GB of memory. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
rk like that, but on Linux you have to pick one or the other (at least without a bunch of mucking with the config file). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 Intel DMAR crash on AMD x86_64

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
ould guess it likely crashes on any system without an Intel IOMMU in it. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

[PATCH -mm] sata_nv: allow changing queue depth

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
The sata_nv driver was missing the change_queue_depth hook in the SCSI host template which the other NCQ-capable libata drivers had. This made it impossible to change the queue depth by user request. Add this in. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/d

Re: speedstep-centrino (no such device)

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
), I need install powersaved, but speedstep-centrino is not used. More information can see in: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/66812> I believe acpi-cpufreq is preferred over speedstep-centrino in most cases today, does that work? -- Robert H

Re: Unable to change sata NCQ depth due to readonly /sys/block/sdc/device/queue_depth file

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
information on this. Forcing a change by changing permissions on the file did not work. Looks like sata_nv is missing the change_queue_depth function in the SCSI host template, resulting in this file showing as read-only. I'll cook up a patch when I get a chance. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon

Re: Unable to change sata NCQ depth due to readonly /sys/block/sdc/device/queue_depth file

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
information on this. Forcing a change by changing permissions on the file did not work. Looks like sata_nv is missing the change_queue_depth function in the SCSI host template, resulting in this file showing as read-only. I'll cook up a patch when I get a chance. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon

Re: speedstep-centrino (no such device)

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
), I need install powersaved, but speedstep-centrino is not used. More information can see in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/66812 I believe acpi-cpufreq is preferred over speedstep-centrino in most cases today, does that work? -- Robert Hancock

[PATCH -mm] sata_nv: allow changing queue depth

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
The sata_nv driver was missing the change_queue_depth hook in the SCSI host template which the other NCQ-capable libata drivers had. This made it impossible to change the queue depth by user request. Add this in. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/drivers

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 Intel DMAR crash on AMD x86_64

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
it likely crashes on any system without an Intel IOMMU in it. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Hancock
to pick one or the other (at least without a bunch of mucking with the config file). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [PATCH] ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Hancock
il, but does look cleaner than the previous version. Some people reported seeing some unrecognized FIS, etc. errors with the previous version, have those been looked into/fixed? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Hancock
allows you to use __copy_to/from_user instead, which skips the same checks that access_ok does - not worth it unless you do repeated copies to/from the same region of memory. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API)

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Hancock
allows you to use __copy_to/from_user instead, which skips the same checks that access_ok does - not worth it unless you do repeated copies to/from the same region of memory. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: [PATCH] ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Hancock
look cleaner than the previous version. Some people reported seeing some unrecognized FIS, etc. errors with the previous version, have those been looked into/fixed? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] libata: add HTS541616J9SA00 to NCQ blacklist

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
g Hitachi to the ID strings now.. In the past it hasn't seemed to have been Hitachi's (and IBM's before that) practice to have it there, but maybe they see the advantage of being able to figure out who made the drive now :-) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nos

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] libata: add HTS541616J9SA00 to NCQ blacklist

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
ORKAGE_NONCQ, }, /* Devices with NCQ limits */ Is that the right ID string? Strange that that one has Hitachi at the front and the others don't.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock

Re: Frequent SATA resets with sata_nv (fwd)

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
er doesn't expect.. Does this drive actually support NCQ? I can't tell from this part of the log. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: character driver over PCI

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
in this code. The way in which you're doing that is likely the problem.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: hsm violation

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
mmands that aren't actually completed yet..) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
arguments, which you haven't done. I rather doubt it is possible to do so convincingly. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: hsm violation

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
that aren't actually completed yet..) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: character driver over PCI

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
in this code. The way in which you're doing that is likely the problem.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Frequent SATA resets with sata_nv (fwd)

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
expect.. Does this drive actually support NCQ? I can't tell from this part of the log. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
, which you haven't done. I rather doubt it is possible to do so convincingly. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] libata: add HTS541616J9SA00 to NCQ blacklist

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
that that one has Hitachi at the front and the others don't.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] libata: add HTS541616J9SA00 to NCQ blacklist

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Hancock
that) practice to have it there, but maybe they see the advantage of being able to figure out who made the drive now :-) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Broadcom (bnx2) on PE1950/2950 failure

2007-06-22 Thread Robert Hancock
mii-tool probably doesn't work in that case.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: Terrible IO performance when using 4GB of RAM on a 32 bit machine

2007-06-22 Thread Robert Hancock
Peter Rabbitson wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Peter Rabbitson wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: What does /proc/mtrr look like in the two cases? Identical for mem=3900 and without it. reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB

Re: Terrible IO performance when using 4GB of RAM on a 32 bit machine

2007-06-22 Thread Robert Hancock
Peter Rabbitson wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Peter Rabbitson wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: What does /proc/mtrr look like in the two cases? Identical for mem=3900 and without it. reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB

Re: Broadcom (bnx2) on PE1950/2950 failure

2007-06-22 Thread Robert Hancock
-tool probably doesn't work in that case.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Terrible IO performance when using 4GB of RAM on a 32 bit machine

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hancock
. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: Broadcom (bnx2) on PE1950/2950 failure

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hancock
adapters but it did not worked properly since e1000 used them instead and finally bnx2 got eth3 working using MSI ? Huh? eth0 and eth1 are the e1000 adapters, eth3 (and presumably eth2) are the bnx2 adapters.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMA

Re: Dual slot PCI riser messes up ivtv

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hancock
alone, and so does the DVB card. But when I use them with the riser nothing works. Please post the output of lspci -vvv with the cards installed in the riser. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberth

Re: Dual slot PCI riser messes up ivtv

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hancock
alone, and so does the DVB card. But when I use them with the riser nothing works. Please post the output of lspci -vvv with the cards installed in the riser. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: Broadcom (bnx2) on PE1950/2950 failure

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hancock
but it did not worked properly since e1000 used them instead and finally bnx2 got eth3 working using MSI ? Huh? eth0 and eth1 are the e1000 adapters, eth3 (and presumably eth2) are the bnx2 adapters.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: Terrible IO performance when using 4GB of RAM on a 32 bit machine

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hancock
. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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

Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h

2007-06-18 Thread Robert Hancock
if you use them in a C++ program.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h

2007-06-18 Thread Robert Hancock
if you use them in a C++ program.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: solution to "usb disconnect problems regarding usb 1.1 and 2.0"

2007-06-17 Thread Robert Hancock
too weak to actually be able to supply this much power..) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: solution to usb disconnect problems regarding usb 1.1 and 2.0

2007-06-17 Thread Robert Hancock
this much power..) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [Processor] Hi-Temperature showed in trip points

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Hancock
to Toshiba, if anyone. Likely the CPU itself will start throttling or shut down well before that temperature is reached. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Processor] Hi-Temperature showed in trip points

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Hancock
to Toshiba, if anyone. Likely the CPU itself will start throttling or shut down well before that temperature is reached. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: sata_nv adma issues

2007-06-12 Thread Robert Hancock
. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc= to increase size.

2007-06-12 Thread Robert Hancock
and unmap them when you're finished with them. An x86_64 kernel likely would not have this problem.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=size to increase size.

2007-06-12 Thread Robert Hancock
you're finished with them. An x86_64 kernel likely would not have this problem.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: sata_nv adma issues

2007-06-12 Thread Robert Hancock
. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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

Re: sata_nv adma issues

2007-06-11 Thread Robert Hancock
till good enough to use until a real fix can be had. Please post the dmesg output from when this happens. If it starts working after the kernel disables NCQ, then it might mean that your drive has some problems with NCQ.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nosp

Re: sata_nv adma issues

2007-06-11 Thread Robert Hancock
enough to use until a real fix can be had. Please post the dmesg output from when this happens. If it starts working after the kernel disables NCQ, then it might mean that your drive has some problems with NCQ.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL

Re: PROBLEM: system clock slow on Athlon AMD64 since 2.6.21

2007-06-10 Thread Robert Hancock
he CPU is in C2. The workaround is to boot with processor.max_cstate=1. Which, if true, is extremely bizarre, as the whole point and reason for existence of the ACPI PM timer is that it NOT do this, and remain at the same rate regardless of CPU power management changes.. -- Robert H

Re: PROBLEM: system clock slow on Athlon AMD64 since 2.6.21

2007-06-10 Thread Robert Hancock
is in C2. The workaround is to boot with processor.max_cstate=1. Which, if true, is extremely bizarre, as the whole point and reason for existence of the ACPI PM timer is that it NOT do this, and remain at the same rate regardless of CPU power management changes.. -- Robert Hancock

Re: [PATCH] Make i386 kernel show the segfaults in kernel dmesg, like x86_64.

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Hancock
t;comm, tsk->pid, address, regs->eip, + regs->esp, error_code); Shouldn't we use printk_ratelimit() here, to prevent some nasty person from creating some rapidly-segfaulting process that floods the kernel logs? (Same with the x86_64 version if it doesn't already..) -- Robert Hancoc

Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Hancock
consequence of the way your BIOS configured the MTRRs (wastefully, using more of the precious register entries than it needed to, in addition to not covering all of the RAM). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Hancock
consequence of the way your BIOS configured the MTRRs (wastefully, using more of the precious register entries than it needed to, in addition to not covering all of the RAM). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: [PATCH] Make i386 kernel show the segfaults in kernel dmesg, like x86_64.

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Hancock
-esp, error_code); Shouldn't we use printk_ratelimit() here, to prevent some nasty person from creating some rapidly-segfaulting process that floods the kernel logs? (Same with the x86_64 version if it doesn't already..) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from

[PATCH -mm] MMCONFIG: validate against ACPI motherboard resources (revised)

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
the MMCONFIG initialization functions so that they simply do nothing if MMCONFIG is not compiled in. Based on an original patch by Rajesh Shah from Intel. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This should fix up the compile error in the previous version with CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=n.

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
rash within minutes of booting. Tried several kernels up to 2.6.21 and gave up, I can send dmesg output but the crashes are completely random. That is likely some other problem, like bad RAM or memory timing issues. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam&quo

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
the need to ifdef the calls, though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: Another missing RAM on x86_64

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
bit mysterious, then, where the extra 40-some MB of RAM has gone. However, there's not much the kernel can do about it, as the BIOS is not telling us about that memory.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.robe

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 ... http://frugalware.org/~crazy/other/mm/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/config Regards, Gabriel Presumably because: # CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set I'll cook up a patch later today. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" f

Re: Bad behaviour after hdparm -M 128

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Is this expected behaviour? I used kernel 2.6.21 with the libata PIIX SATA driver and a Seagate ST98823AS drive. Yes, that's expected if the drive rejects the command. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL

Re: spurious completions during NCQ?

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
the Intel Wi-Fi - but that should not count). The laptop came with Windows but I blew that away - did I mess some thing up regarding HPA and its ilk? It means the drive reported command tags were completed that were not outstanding. What kind of drive is this? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: spurious completions during NCQ?

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
the Intel Wi-Fi - but that should not count). The laptop came with Windows but I blew that away - did I mess some thing up regarding HPA and its ilk? It means the drive reported command tags were completed that were not outstanding. What kind of drive is this? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: Bad behaviour after hdparm -M 128

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Is this expected behaviour? I used kernel 2.6.21 with the libata PIIX SATA driver and a Seagate ST98823AS drive. Yes, that's expected if the drive rejects the command. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 ... http://frugalware.org/~crazy/other/mm/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/config Regards, Gabriel Presumably because: # CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set I'll cook up a patch later today. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL

Re: Another missing RAM on x86_64

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
: It's a bit mysterious, then, where the extra 40-some MB of RAM has gone. However, there's not much the kernel can do about it, as the BIOS is not telling us about that memory.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
the need to ifdef the calls, though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
within minutes of booting. Tried several kernels up to 2.6.21 and gave up, I can send dmesg output but the crashes are completely random. That is likely some other problem, like bad RAM or memory timing issues. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL

[PATCH -mm] MMCONFIG: validate against ACPI motherboard resources (revised)

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Hancock
the MMCONFIG initialization functions so that they simply do nothing if MMCONFIG is not compiled in. Based on an original patch by Rajesh Shah from Intel. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This should fix up the compile error in the previous version with CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=n. diff

Re: Another missing RAM on x86_64

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
be using the rest? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DMI_MATCH patch in reboot.c for SFF Dell OptiPlex 745 - fixes hang on reboot

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
rowing. Isn't there something better we can do here? Can we just reboot through the BIOS by default, is that really broken on some systems? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -

Re: [RFC 0/4] CONFIG_STABLE to switch off development checks

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
successful to the caller, but any access to the memory would result in an exception. I would think returning 1 as the address would work here, it's not NULL but any access to that page should still oops.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH -mm] 1/2: MMCONFIG: validate against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Olivier Galibert wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:03:32PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: -Validate that the area is reserved even if we read it from the chipset directly and not from the MCFG table. This catches the case where the BIOS didn't set the location properly in the chipset and has

Re: hisax isdn card (Sedlbauer Speed Fax+) does not get an interrupt

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
resumably whatever writes the driver is doing there are enabling the card to generate interrupts - in this case the IRQ handler needs to be registered before this point, and not after.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: hisax isdn card (Sedlbauer Speed Fax+) does not get an interrupt

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
whatever writes the driver is doing there are enabling the card to generate interrupts - in this case the IRQ handler needs to be registered before this point, and not after.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: [PATCH -mm] 1/2: MMCONFIG: validate against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Olivier Galibert wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:03:32PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: -Validate that the area is reserved even if we read it from the chipset directly and not from the MCFG table. This catches the case where the BIOS didn't set the location properly in the chipset and has

Re: [RFC 0/4] CONFIG_STABLE to switch off development checks

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
successful to the caller, but any access to the memory would result in an exception. I would think returning 1 as the address would work here, it's not NULL but any access to that page should still oops.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: DMI_MATCH patch in reboot.c for SFF Dell OptiPlex 745 - fixes hang on reboot

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
through the BIOS by default, is that really broken on some systems? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Another missing RAM on x86_64

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Hancock
be using the rest? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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

Re: [PATCH] Ignore partition table on device

2007-06-03 Thread Robert Hancock
disk is. Presumably what's happening there is that card reader is not responding as the kernel expects it to. If there's no card in the reader, it should be returning an error immediately indicating "not ready", but something here causes it to take 12 seconds and then fail the command.

Re: Kernel 2.6.22-rc3 safe to migrate to?

2007-06-03 Thread Robert Hancock
g up. I haven't investigated in any more detail. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Kernel 2.6.22-rc3 safe to migrate to?

2007-06-03 Thread Robert Hancock
haven't investigated in any more detail. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] Ignore partition table on device

2007-06-03 Thread Robert Hancock
happening there is that card reader is not responding as the kernel expects it to. If there's no card in the reader, it should be returning an error immediately indicating not ready, but something here causes it to take 12 seconds and then fail the command.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG)

2007-06-01 Thread Robert Hancock
Justin Piszcz wrote: I think that mem=8832M would work as well, to make the kernel use only the memory that is marked cacheable. (It looks like this parameter takes the highest memory address we want the kernel to use, not the highest memory amount.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: Case: 7454422: Re: Kernel 2.6.21.3 does not work with 8GB of RAM on Intel 965WH motherboards. (FULL DMESG)

2007-06-01 Thread Robert Hancock
Justin Piszcz wrote: I think that mem=8832M would work as well, to make the kernel use only the memory that is marked cacheable. (It looks like this parameter takes the highest memory address we want the kernel to use, not the highest memory amount.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: SELECT() returns 1 But FIONREAD says (Input/output error)

2007-05-31 Thread Robert Hancock
(). In this case the select() is only looking at read()'s. It's because you haven't done anything to handle the error which is still persisting. Likely the only thing sane you can do in this case is close the fd and try to reopen it later. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove

Re: Compact Flash performance...

2007-05-31 Thread Robert Hancock
simple "go" I/O to start a transaction, immediately after the previous one ends. Jeff Theoretically NVIDIA nForce4 ADMA could likely do this as well, as it seems to allow chaining up multiple commands to execute in succession (assuming they're not NCQ).. -- Robert Hancock Sa

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