Re: [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Hancock
of figuring out what's going on, and neither does Joe libata Developer unless they really care to dig through the spec and count bits to figure out what they mean. At least with this you can see that there was a CRC error, etc. and go from that.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email

Re: [PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Hancock
output. With libata errors, if they're at the console (which they'd have to be to see these messages), unless something has actually caused a panic the scrollback buffer should still be functional and they'd be able to see the entire output.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email

[PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.21.1/drivers/ata/libat

Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
the Transport layer since the last time this bit was cleared." -- 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] Cleanup libata HPA support

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:46 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Ben Collins wrote: The original HPA patch that Kyle worked on has gone into current git without some fixes that we worked through late in the Ubuntu feisty release. Here's the main copy of the notes I sent to Alan

Re: increase Linux kernel address space 3.5 G memory on Redhat Enterprise

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
split and reducing the kernel memory available so much. -- 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 t

Re: increase Linux kernel address space 3.5 G memory on Redhat Enterprise

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
split and reducing the kernel memory available so much. -- 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] Cleanup libata HPA support

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:46 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Ben Collins wrote: The original HPA patch that Kyle worked on has gone into current git without some fixes that we worked through late in the Ubuntu feisty release. Here's the main copy of the notes I sent to Alan

Re: [2.6.21.1] SATA freeze

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
time this bit was cleared. -- 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

[PATCH] libata: add human-readable error value decoding

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hancock
looking at error reports. Some bits that drivers/ide decoded are not decoded here, since the bits are either command-dependent or obsolete, and properly parsing them would add too much complexity. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.21.1/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c 2007

Re: [PATCH] Cleanup libata HPA support

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Hancock
ted to libata-dev). We've not had any reports of further problems. That sata_nv issue should not be present anymore in the current libata-dev tree. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To uns

Re: [PATCH] Cleanup libata HPA support

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Hancock
to libata-dev). We've not had any reports of further problems. That sata_nv issue should not be present anymore in the current libata-dev tree. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: select-like implementation for kernel sockets

2007-05-06 Thread Robert Hancock
don't want to use polling). Is there a way to listen-in on multiple kernel sockets from one kernel thread? In the user space I would have used select(), but I am not familiar with a similar solution for the kernel space. Thanks, Eitan. Eitan Richardson AudioCodes Ltd. -- Robert Hancock

Re: select-like implementation for kernel sockets

2007-05-06 Thread Robert Hancock
don't want to use polling). Is there a way to listen-in on multiple kernel sockets from one kernel thread? In the user space I would have used select(), but I am not familiar with a similar solution for the kernel space. Thanks, Eitan. Eitan Richardson AudioCodes Ltd. -- Robert Hancock

Re: "modularized" 2.4.34.4 -> ide-core "unresolved symbols"

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Hancock
drivers/ide ever really played well when built modular, at least not in 2.4, quite possibly in 2.6 as well. Things like DMA not getting turned on automatically when the low-level driver was a module, etc. Likely why Red Hat/Fedora never built it modular when they did everything else.. -- R

[PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA freeze/thaw/irq_clear issues

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Hancock
ADMA status if the port has ADMA switched off because of an ATAPI device, and it also checks to see if any ADMA interrupt has been raised even when we are in port-register mode. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.21.1/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c2007-04-27

[PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA freeze/thaw/irq_clear issues

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Hancock
ADMA status if the port has ADMA switched off because of an ATAPI device, and it also checks to see if any ADMA interrupt has been raised even when we are in port-register mode. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.21.1/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c2007-04-27 15:49

Re: modularized 2.4.34.4 - ide-core unresolved symbols

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Hancock
modular, at least not in 2.4, quite possibly in 2.6 as well. Things like DMA not getting turned on automatically when the low-level driver was a module, etc. Likely why Red Hat/Fedora never built it modular when they did everything else.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Hancock
that will track down the one that is causing the lockup, if it is an actual MMCONFIG access that's doing 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 "un

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Hancock
that will track down the one that is causing the lockup, if it is an actual MMCONFIG access that's doing 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

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:34 am Robert Hancock wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: I'm testing it now on my 965... Bah... nevermind Robert, I see you're doing this already in pci_mmcfg_reject_broken. I'm about to reboot & test

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Hancock
days.. -- 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: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-02 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: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:34 am Robert Hancock wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: On Tuesday, May 01, 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote: I'm testing it now on my 965... Bah... nevermind Robert, I see you're doing this already in pci_mmcfg_reject_broken. I'm about to reboot test now

Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Monday, April 30, 2007 4:20 pm Robert Hancock wrote: Right, but you patch should obsolete this stuff anyway. I'll test it out in the next few days. We likely still want this chipset-specific support, it will catch the case where the MCFG table lists a location which

Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Monday, April 30, 2007 4:20 pm Robert Hancock wrote: Right, but you patch should obsolete this stuff anyway. I'll test it out in the next few days. We likely still want this chipset-specific support, it will catch the case where the MCFG table lists a location which

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Olivier Galibert wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:14:37PM -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: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:10 pm Robert Hancock wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: Add support for Intel 915 bridge chips to the new PCI MMConfig detection code. Tested and works on my sole 915 based platform (a Toshiba laptop). I added register masking per Oliver's suggestion

Re: Nvidia nForce5 NCQ support status?

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
this. It seems they've left those chipsets out in the cold, as we have ADMA support on the nForce4 and the latest 6-series chipsets apparently support AHCI.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberth

Re: Nvidia nForce5 NCQ support status?

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
this. It seems they've left those chipsets out in the cold, as we have ADMA support on the nForce4 and the latest 6-series chipsets apparently support AHCI.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:10 pm Robert Hancock wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: Add support for Intel 915 bridge chips to the new PCI MMConfig detection code. Tested and works on my sole 915 based platform (a Toshiba laptop). I added register masking per Oliver's suggestion

Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Olivier Galibert wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:14:37PM -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

[RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -up linux-2.6.21.1/arch/i386/pci/init.c linux-2.6.21.1edit/arch/i386/pci/init.c --- linux-2.6.21.1/arch/i386/pci/init.c 2007-04-27 15:49:26.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.21.1edit/arch/i386/pci/init.c 2007-04-29 18:36:32.0 -0600 @@

Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
TEL_82915GM_HB, pci_mmcfg_intel_915 }, { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82945G_HB, pci_mmcfg_intel_945 }, }; -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this

Re: PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Sunday, April 29, 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Problem is that even if we read the MMCONFIG table location from the hardware registers, that doesn't mean we can trust the result. It could be that the BIOS hasn't lied about where it put the table, it just stuck it someplace

Re: PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
r solution. -- 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 i

Re: PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
wants to allocate memory and use other kernel services that are not available in really early boot. It could be probably done somehow, but would be quite ugly with lots of special cases. Yeah, if we can do this part of MMCONFIG initialization later that would likely be a better solution. -- Robert

Re: PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Sunday, April 29, 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Problem is that even if we read the MMCONFIG table location from the hardware registers, that doesn't mean we can trust the result. It could be that the BIOS hasn't lied about where it put the table, it just stuck it someplace

Re: [PATCH] support PCI MCFG space on Intel i915 bridges

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
}, { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82945G_HB, pci_mmcfg_intel_945 }, }; -- 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

[RFC PATCH] PCI MMCONFIG: add validation against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Hancock
-by: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -up linux-2.6.21.1/arch/i386/pci/init.c linux-2.6.21.1edit/arch/i386/pci/init.c --- linux-2.6.21.1/arch/i386/pci/init.c 2007-04-27 15:49:26.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.21.1edit/arch/i386/pci/init.c 2007-04-29 18:36:32.0 -0600 @@ -12,7 +12,7

Re: PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: I've seen a lot of systems (including brand new Xeon-based servers from IBM and HP) that output messages on boot like: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f000 is not E820-reserved PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. So Microsoft is explicitly telling the BIOS

Re: PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: I've seen a lot of systems (including brand new Xeon-based servers from IBM and HP) that output messages on boot like: PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f000 is not E820-reserved PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. So Microsoft is explicitly telling the BIOS

Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Hancock
proper mappings, this will blow up if it tries to access memory above the 4GB mark if the device cannot do >32bit DMA.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from th

Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Hancock
proper mappings, this will blow up if it tries to access memory above the 4GB mark if the device cannot do 32bit DMA.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] use mutex instead of semaphore in RocketPort driver

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Hancock
ough it has locked the mutex even though it has not. -- 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 mess

Re: old ISA DMA bug in 2.6.12?

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Hancock
like the aha1542 driver doesn't set the DMA mask, so the kernel will default to thinking it can do 32-bit DMA when it should be 24-bit. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubs

Re: old ISA DMA bug in 2.6.12?

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Hancock
like the aha1542 driver doesn't set the DMA mask, so the kernel will default to thinking it can do 32-bit DMA when it should be 24-bit. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] use mutex instead of semaphore in RocketPort driver

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Hancock
the mutex even though it has not. -- 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: BUG/CRASH help - 2.6.20 (fc5) - spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, kswapd

2007-04-23 Thread Robert Hancock
[] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xd [] __wake_up+0x18/0x43 [] __wake_up_bit+0x2e/0x33 [] shrink_inactive_list+0x483/0x6c9 RAM issues are a possibility for this sort of problem, tried running Memtest86+? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: BUG/CRASH help - 2.6.20 (fc5) - spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, kswapd

2007-04-23 Thread Robert Hancock
] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xd [c041febf] __wake_up+0x18/0x43 [c04379ce] __wake_up_bit+0x2e/0x33 [c045a496] shrink_inactive_list+0x483/0x6c9 RAM issues are a possibility for this sort of problem, tried running Memtest86+? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from

Re: [BUG? -rc7] SMP: Just one CPU activated: P4 3GHz HT

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Hancock
without ACPI anymore, so going without ACPI can be problematic. -- 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 t

Re: [BUG? -rc7] SMP: Just one CPU activated: P4 3GHz HT

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Hancock
without ACPI anymore, so going without ACPI can be problematic. -- 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: problem with

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Hancock
of that header has everything inside #ifdef __KERNEL__ stripped out. -- 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 t

Re: problem with asm/semaphore.h

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Hancock
of that header. The userspace version of that header has everything inside #ifdef __KERNEL__ stripped out. -- 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

Re: problem with

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Hancock
covered under the GPL). -- 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: problem with asm/semaphore.h

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Hancock
and thus covered under the GPL). -- 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

PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
hat basis it doesn't seem like a valid check to require it to be so reserved, then. Really, I think we should be basing this check on whether the corresponding memory range is reserved in the ACPI resources, like Windows expects. This does require putting more fingers into ACPI from this early bo

Re: problem with

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
#include #endif Did I missed something? Please guide me how to fix it. Sincerely You're trying to use a kernel data structure in a user-space program. Don't. The definitions in that header are inside #ifdef __KERNEL__ and so the provided userspace headers remove that part. -- Robe

Re: Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
amount of SATA fixes backported from 2.6.21... News to me.. pleast post details. -- 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: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
Some drives seem to spin up at step #3 even when its cache is clean and power goes off right after the disk finishes the command. So, it's really bad when it happens - spin down, spin up followed by immediate power off. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam&

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
) is much greater than the number of people running a SAN, multi-initiator, etc. environment where you might not want this.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
, Steve That patch on its own will not help, you also need Tejun's stop-on-shutdown patch, otherwise the kernel will not try to stop the disk before powering off. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: [PATCH] libata: add Samsung HD401LJ to the NCQ blacklist

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
of the drive and controller just not getting along, but you might want to try a different SATA cable as well. -- 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 &q

Re: [PATCH] libata: add Samsung HD401LJ to the NCQ blacklist

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
of the drive and controller just not getting along, but you might want to try a different SATA cable as well. -- 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

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
, Steve That patch on its own will not help, you also need Tejun's stop-on-shutdown patch, otherwise the kernel will not try to stop the disk before powering off. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
) is much greater than the number of people running a SAN, multi-initiator, etc. environment where you might not want this.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
Some drives seem to spin up at step #3 even when its cache is clean and power goes off right after the disk finishes the command. So, it's really bad when it happens - spin down, spin up followed by immediate power off. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL

Re: Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
amount of SATA fixes backported from 2.6.21... News to me.. pleast post details. -- 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: problem with asm/semaphore.h

2007-04-18 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

PCI Express MMCONFIG and BIOS Bug messages..

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Hancock
check to require it to be so reserved, then. Really, I think we should be basing this check on whether the corresponding memory range is reserved in the ACPI resources, like Windows expects. This does require putting more fingers into ACPI from this early boot stage, though.. -- Robert Hancock

Re: Memory Allocation

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Hancock
this problem in Linux on the X86 plateform??? -- 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: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Hancock
region above 3GB preventing RAM from being mapped there, and doesn't support remapping the covered RAM to above 4GB. Nothing the kernel can do about it. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberth

Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Hancock
region above 3GB preventing RAM from being mapped there, and doesn't support remapping the covered RAM to above 4GB. Nothing the kernel can do about it. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: Memory Allocation

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Hancock
this problem in Linux on the X86 plateform??? -- 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: Machine Check Exception on Opteron 265

2007-04-14 Thread Robert Hancock
such a problem. So now we wonder if this might be an MCE bug, or really a HW problem, and if it is one of the CPUs, or the RAM thats faulty. We are running 2.6.18. Sounds like some bad RAM.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: Machine Check Exception on Opteron 265

2007-04-14 Thread Robert Hancock
such a problem. So now we wonder if this might be an MCE bug, or really a HW problem, and if it is one of the CPUs, or the RAM thats faulty. We are running 2.6.18. Sounds like some bad RAM.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Hancock
hed() voluntarily since CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY and CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL are both turned on? From my understanding these 2 options should make schedule happen even if CPU is under heavy load.. No, only CONFIG_PREEMPT will do that. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove &quo

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Hancock
dn't have to, and yet the drive loses power so it does an emergency retract. Making the kernel shutdown on reboot would only add more spindown/up cycles for normally working systems. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Hancock
to, and yet the drive loses power so it does an emergency retract. Making the kernel shutdown on reboot would only add more spindown/up cycles for normally working systems. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Hancock
() voluntarily since CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY and CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL are both turned on? From my understanding these 2 options should make schedule happen even if CPU is under heavy load.. No, only CONFIG_PREEMPT will do that. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from

Re: Help Understanding Linux memory management

2007-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
to disable the pagecache? Not as far as I know, it's unlikely this would be of any benefit. -- 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 "unsubscri

Re: Help Understanding Linux memory management

2007-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
to disable the pagecache? Not as far as I know, it's unlikely this would be of any benefit. -- 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: Two questions regarding Opening files within Kernel!

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Hancock
/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad -- 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: Two questions regarding Opening files within Kernel!

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Hancock
/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad -- 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: 2.6.9 won't compile

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Hancock
to be personally CC'ed in the answers/comments posted in response to this post ? Your compiler is probably too new to be able to compile 2.6.9. You'd likely be better off trying the latest kernels and making a detailed report of the problems you're having with it.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon

Re: Invalid operand: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:434! and arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:42!)

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Hancock
(defective RAM? Bad application or device driver?), please let me know as I'm pulling what little hair I have left out on this one. Suggestions on what to try would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! First try updating to the latest RHEL update kernel, that one's out of date. -- Robert Hancock

Re: Invalid operand: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:434! and arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:42!)

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Hancock
(defective RAM? Bad application or device driver?), please let me know as I'm pulling what little hair I have left out on this one. Suggestions on what to try would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! First try updating to the latest RHEL update kernel, that one's out of date. -- Robert Hancock

Re: 2.6.9 won't compile

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Hancock
to be personally CC'ed in the answers/comments posted in response to this post ? Your compiler is probably too new to be able to compile 2.6.9. You'd likely be better off trying the latest kernels and making a detailed report of the problems you're having with it.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon

Re: IRQ splitting

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Hancock
share a physical interrupt line and there is no way to separate them in software. You can try moving the card(s) to different slots.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubs

Re: IRQ splitting

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Hancock
share a physical interrupt line and there is no way to separate them in software. You can try moving the card(s) to different slots.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: set up new kernel with grub

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Hancock
is "make modules_install install". -- 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: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver (v2)

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This adds some NCQ blacklist entries taken from the Silicon Image 3124/3132 Windows driver .inf files. There are some confirming reports of problems with these drives under Linux (for example http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/178) so let's disable NCQ

Re: [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver (v2)

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This adds some NCQ blacklist entries taken from the Silicon Image 3124/3132 Windows driver .inf files. There are some confirming reports of problems with these drives under Linux (for example http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/178) so let's disable NCQ

Re: set up new kernel with grub

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Hancock
is make modules_install install. -- 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: OHCI: USB webcam works, but not on USB Hub

2007-04-03 Thread Robert Hancock
B keyboard/mouse on the same hub would prevent it from getting enough bandwidth. Essentially the driver should fallback to a lower-bandwidth descriptor if the one it tries to use fails rather than just bailing out. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nosp

Re: 2.6.20.4: NETDEV WATCHDOG and lockups

2007-04-03 Thread Robert Hancock
is disabled you can't take advantage of CPU clock frequency scaling to save 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 "unsubscri

Re: 2.6.20.4: NETDEV WATCHDOG and lockups

2007-04-03 Thread Robert Hancock
is disabled you can't take advantage of CPU clock frequency scaling to save 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: OHCI: USB webcam works, but not on USB Hub

2007-04-03 Thread Robert Hancock
/mouse on the same hub would prevent it from getting enough bandwidth. Essentially the driver should fallback to a lower-bandwidth descriptor if the one it tries to use fails rather than just bailing out. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver (v2)

2007-04-02 Thread Robert Hancock
This adds some NCQ blacklist entries taken from the Silicon Image 3124/3132 Windows driver .inf files. There are some confirming reports of problems with these drives under Linux (for example http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/178) so let's disable NCQ on these drives. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock

[PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver (v2)

2007-04-02 Thread Robert Hancock
This adds some NCQ blacklist entries taken from the Silicon Image 3124/3132 Windows driver .inf files. There are some confirming reports of problems with these drives under Linux (for example http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/178) so let's disable NCQ on these drives. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock

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