Re: [PATCH v2 13/13] x86/platform/uv: Update Copyrights to conform to HPE standards

2020-09-21 Thread Russ Anderson
810dfba 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h > > @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ > > /* > > * UV BIOS layer definitions. > > * > > + * (C) Copyright 2020 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP > > * Co

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] edac,ghes,cper: Add Row Extension to Memory Error Record

2020-09-16 Thread Russ Anderson
ad_uefi.c | 85 + > 22 files changed, 746 insertions(+), 237 deletions(-) > rename drivers/firmware/efi/{arm-init.c => efi-init.c} (99%) > create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com

Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] UEFI v2.8 Memory Error Record Updates

2020-09-14 Thread Russ Anderson
t; drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c | 18 -- > include/linux/cper.h| 24 ++-- > 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.26.2 > -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com

Re: [patch V2 00/46] x86, PCI, XEN, genirq ...: Prepare for device MSI

2020-09-07 Thread Russ Anderson
ith quick testing on a 32 socket, 1536 CPU, 12 TB memory Cascade Lake system and a 8 socket, 144 CPU, 3 TB memory Cooper Lake system without any obvious regression. -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com

Re: x86/uv cleanups

2020-05-06 Thread Russ Anderson
Travis is working on a patch to remove old SGI UV1 code. Dimitri Sivanich is working on a sgi_rtc cleanup patch. We are looking at additional cleanup that should have been done previously. Steve Wahl will be involved on an ongoing basis, so you will see more from us. Thanks. -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com

Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] x86/mm/tlb: Remove UV special case

2019-07-09 Thread Russ Anderson
o); > > - if (cpumask) > > - smp_call_function_many(cpumask, flush_tlb_func_remote, > > - (void *)info, 1); > > - return; > > - } > > - > > /* > > * If no page tables were freed, we can skip sending IPIs to > > * CPUs in lazy TLB mode. They will flush the CPU themselves > > -- > > 2.17.1 > > > > -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com

Re: [Patch v3 0/4] Protect against concurrent calls into UV BIOS

2019-02-14 Thread Russ Anderson
requisites for that change. > > Also, if your colleagues reviewed your patches, now would be the time > to ask them to give their Reviewed-by as well. Reviewed-by: Russ Anderson Thanks. > -- > Ard. > > > > > --- > > > > Calls into UV BIOS were not being

Re: [PATCH] Raise maximum number of memory controllers

2018-09-26 Thread Russ Anderson
csrow0 -> > ../../../devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 26 11:08 dimm0 -> > ../../../devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/dimm0 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 26 11:08 dimm3 -> > ../../../devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/dimm3 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep

Re: [PATCH] Raise maximum number of memory controllers

2018-09-26 Thread Russ Anderson
sockets? > Normally, the number "1" in the above string "Skylake Socekt#1 IMC#1" > should be 7 (that was 15/2), but it was 1 here. Yes, that is from a 32 socket system. Thanks. -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com

Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: Correct ident mapping of efi old_map when kalsr enabled

2017-05-07 Thread Russ Anderson
platforms, both old and new mapping, with new mapping being the default. Thanks. -- Russ Anderson, Hawks 2 Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com (r...@sgi.com)

Re: [Patch Part2 v6 22/27] x86, uv: Use hierarchy irqdomain to manage UV interrupts

2014-12-17 Thread Russ Anderson
> >>> - if (apic_set_affinity(data, mask, &dest)) > >>> - return -1; > >>> - > >>> - mmr_value = 0; > >>> - entry = (struct uv_IO_APIC_route_entry *)&mmr_value; > >>> - > >>> - entry->vector

Re: [PATCH] efi: Quirk out SGI UV

2014-03-04 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Borislav Petkov > > Getting this thing to work with the new mapping scheme would need more > work. Thanks Boris. Allows SGI UV to boot (without the extra bootline). Acked-by: Russ Anderson > Signed-o

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-21 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:13:13AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 17:59 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:09:42PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:45 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > >

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-21 Thread Russ Anderson
s. :-) I don't want to join the fight, either. I have not looked at your code changes but the description looks like the right direction. > > From: linux-acpi-ow...@vger.kernel.org > > [mailto:linux-acpi-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Russ Anderson > > Sent: Friday,

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:09:42PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:45 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:26:45PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > Because I'm trying to ensure that the default behaviour of th

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
;? > Set the default to Y in order to encourage distributions and > users to configure kernels to avoid awkward surprises. What are the "awkward surprises"? Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:26:45PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:06 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:39:23PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > >

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:39:23PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > For some customers _any_ amount is significant, especially > > on large clustered systems where the amount is multiplied > > by tens or hundre

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > There are any number of reasons why a BMC may not respond. > > BMCs are notorious for being flakey, with different types > > of BMCs that ma

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:00:48PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:59 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs. Our > > large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through > > a system c

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:16:22PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:14 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > The distro that added this change created all sorts of support > > problems. Problems include kipmi0 spinning at 100% of cpu > > (creating a p

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
Provides a driver for System Interfaces (KCS, SMIC, BT). >Currently, only KCS and SMIC are supported. If > -- > 1.8.5.3 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.o

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
's. Physical/virtual shouldn't matter all that much > because we map the region *both* as a 1:1 map and in virtual space too. > > Can SGI please give us a reliable way to do that during boot? I'm not sure what you are asking for. We had a reliable way to boot before the recen

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
it a > limitation of the firmware? That was a non-upstream regression in the distro kernel. The 3.13 community kernel was boots fine. The current problem is a regression introduced in this merge window which needs to be fixed. -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager

Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow NR_CPUS=1024

2013-11-04 Thread Russ Anderson
hat you know of) have x86 hardware with > more than 4096 CPUs? Yes. We have a system in the lab with 254 12-core IVB sockets for a total of 3048 cores. With HT is it 6096 cpus. > If so, I can actually make a bump to the MAXSMP count a separate patch. > > josh -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Pa

Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow NR_CPUS=1024

2013-11-03 Thread Russ Anderson
6 wasn't working very well and you had to select MAXSMP > > deliberately and keep all the pieces. > > > > But today it's all pretty robust so I see no reason why not to allow up to > > 4096 CPUs. > > Adding Russ from SGI as they are one of the consume

[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Update UV3 hub revision ID

2013-10-15 Thread tip-bot for Russ Anderson
Commit-ID: dd3c9c4b603c664fedc12facf180db0f1794aafe Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/dd3c9c4b603c664fedc12facf180db0f1794aafe Author: Russ Anderson AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:17:34 -0500 Committer: Ingo Molnar CommitDate: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:44:46 +0200 x86: Update UV3 hub

[PATCH] x86: Update UV3 hub revision ID

2013-10-14 Thread Russ Anderson
The UV3 hub revision ID is different than expected. The first revision was supposed to start at 1 but instead will start at 0. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/apic

Re: [PATCH v2] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable to handle missing sections

2013-08-27 Thread Russ Anderson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:49:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:23:17 -0500 Russ Anderson wrote: > > > "cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/removable" crashed the system. > > > > The problem is that show_mem_remov

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21330 Aug 23 21:23 ssdt.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Aug 23 21:23 uefi1.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298 Aug 23 21:23 uefi.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Aug 23 21:23 xsdt.dat --- -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partit

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
0 0105C (v01 SGI2 UVX 0002 MSFT 0001) ACPI: SPCR 7e6c2000 00050 (v01 ) ACPI: DMAR 7d6d3000 0013C (v01 INTEL TIANO0001 MSFT 0113) -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r.

[PATCH v2] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable to handle missing sections

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson The failing output: --- harp5-sys:~ # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/removable 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 [ 372.78] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ea00c320 [ 3

Re: [PATCH] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable section count

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
nr + i)) > continue; Yes, I will make that change and resubmit the patch. Thanks. > Thanks, > Yasuaki Ishimatsu -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: [PATCH] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable section count

2013-08-22 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:10:45PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:38:38PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > "cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/removable" crashed the system. > > On what kernels? linux-next or Linus's tree, or 3.1

[PATCH] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable section count

2013-08-22 Thread Russ Anderson
I suspect other usages of sections_per_block will also need to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson The failing output: --- harp5-sys:~ # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/removable 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 [ 372.78] BUG:

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-16 Thread Russ Anderson
2.23%) UV2: 255 nodes 16TB:1141.02 1138.12 -2.90 (0.25%) UV2: 64 nodes 2TB: 128.15 126.53 -1.62 (1.26%) UV2: 32 nodes 2TB: 121.87 121.07 -0.80 (0.66%) Time in seconds. Acked-by: Russ Anderson > > ... >

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-16 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:15:21PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:43:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:46:29 -0700 Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> > >> >

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-15 Thread Russ Anderson
t; > > Looks nice. I wonder how much difference it makes. > > Russ said he would test on his 256 nodes system, but looks he never > got chance. I reserved time tonight on a couple big systems to measure the performance difference. Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Proj

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-10 Thread Russ Anderson
dummy_size, dummy); > + > + if (status == EFI_SUCCESS) { > + /* > + * This should have failed, so if it didn't make sure > + * that we delete it... > + */

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-06 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:00:39PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jun, at 09:48:46AM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > This looks like it will try to allocate more than the remaining size. > > Is that intended? > > Yes, the intention is to trigger garbage collection. OK, if

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-06 Thread Russ Anderson
BLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS, > + dummy_size, dummy); > + > + if (status == EFI_SUCCESS) { > + /* > + * This should have failed, so if it didn't make sure > + * that we delete

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-02 Thread Russ Anderson
*/ > + efi.set_variable(efi_name, &guid, attributes, 0, > + dummy); > + } > > - if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size || > - (max_size && size > max_size)) > - retu

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:03:11AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > If nvram becaomes full, some &

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:43:49AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > When did writing EFI variables to nvram become necessary to boot on > > UEFI? And if it is necessary, why is it that only linux boot loaders

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Anderson
In any case, Samsung clearly > haven't fixed this problem on a pile of machines that have already > shipped. Which means the previous patch(es) that caused the bricking should get pulled, too. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:32:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:28 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:21:53PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:17 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:30:43AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > > That's a great idea. This patch moves the QueryVariableInfo() > > > > call from bootime to runtime, in efi_late_init(). The attached > > &

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:21:53PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:17 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > That's a great idea. This patch moves the QueryVariableInfo() > > call from bootime to runtime, in efi_late_init(). The attached > > patc

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:16:12AM +0800, joeyli wrote: > 於 四,2013-05-30 於 00:53 +0200,Jiri Kosina 提到: > > On Wed, 29 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > > > Yes, but this call is clearly happening way before ExitBootServices() > > > > -- > >

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > What appears to be happening is that your the EFI runtime services code > > > is calling into the EFI boot services code, which is definitely a bug in > >

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:43:31AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 23 May, at 03:32:34PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > >efi: mem127: type=4, attr=0xf, > > range=[0x6bb22000-0x7ca9c000) (271MB) > > EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE > > >efi: mem133: t

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:45:44AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 23 May, at 05:23:21PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > Interesting data point. The failure is on a rhel7/grub2 root. > > The identical kernel on a rhel6/grub root boots. So maybe > > grub2 brings out th

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-27 Thread Russ Anderson
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:27:12PM +0800, joeyli wrote: > Hi Dave, > > 於 五,2013-05-24 於 17:05 -0400,Dave Jones 提到: > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:02:15PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:11AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > > > > Ru

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-24 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:11:01PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 15:05 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > One other data point is if the query_variable_info call is hacked to > > remove one of the EFI flags (ie comment out EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVI

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-24 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:43:31AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 23 May, at 03:32:34PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > >efi: mem127: type=4, attr=0xf, > > range=[0x6bb22000-0x7ca9c000) (271MB) > > EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE > > >efi: mem133: t

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-24 Thread Russ Anderson
lementation. That still makes it a kernel bug. I'm still digging to better understand the root problem. > Robin > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:43:31AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > > On Thu, 23 May, at 03:32:34PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > >efi: mem12

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 22 May, at 11:27:47AM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > [6.062157] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 > > [6.067731] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at > > 7ca95b10

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 22 May, at 11:27:47AM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > [6.062157] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 > > [6.067731] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at > > 7ca95b10

[regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-22 Thread Russ Anderson
785] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0009 --- -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: [PATCH] cpu: Speedup disable_nonboot_cpus()

2013-05-21 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:17:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2013 17:35:44 -0500 Russ Anderson wrote: > > > The routine disable_nonboot_cpus() shuts down cpus sequentially > > using for_each_online_cpu(cpu) to call cpu_down() one cpu at > > a

[PATCH] cpu: Speedup disable_nonboot_cpus()

2013-05-03 Thread Russ Anderson
but one cpu from 16 minutes down to 4 minutes. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson To: Andrew Morton Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Russ Anderson --- kernel/cpu.c | 104 ++- 1 file changed, 61 inserti

Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)

2013-04-11 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:15:27PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 04/11/2013 07:53 PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:15:18PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > >> > >> One more thing we have to note is that, there are 4 notifiers fo

Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)

2013-04-11 Thread Russ Anderson
sser CPUs are online on each iteration (and hence it reduces the > synchronization overhead of the stop-machine phase). > > The only downside to this whole idea of running the notifiers of a given > priority in parallel, is error handling - if a notifier fails, it would be > troubles

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:59:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Russ Anderson wrote: > > > Yes, I have a test patch that replaces for_each_online_cpu(cpu) with a cpu > > bitmask in disable_nonboot_cpus(). The lower level routines already take a > > bitmask. It allow

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:29:12AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:10:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Yeah, we've had issues with ACPI in the past, so I do think we should > > always reboot using the BP. Even if it almost certainl

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
cant change with ramifications on other code. I will post a patch shortly with the cpu bitmask change. Changing __cpu_notify() will take more discussion. > Linus -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.c

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-08 Thread Russ Anderson
gt; > selected by the x86 arch. I don't know which other arch's would also > > benefit, if any. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robin Holt > > To: Andrew Morton > > Cc: Russ Anderson > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > > Cc: Ingo Molnar > > Cc: "H. Peter

Re: [patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-25 Thread Russ Anderson
(quote) > > A 4 TB (single rack) UV1 system takes 512 seconds to get through > > the zone code. This performance optimization reduces the time > > by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. > > > > A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds, > >

Re: [patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-23 Thread Russ Anderson
e previous pfn, so check that range first. If it is in the same range, return that nid. If not, scan the list as before. A 4 TB (single rack) UV1 system takes 512 seconds to get through the zone code. This performance optimization reduces the time by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. A 2 TB

[patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-18 Thread Russ Anderson
time by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds, a 112.9 second (53%) reduction. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson --- mm/page_alloc.c | 11 ++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/mm/page_alloc.c

[bugfix] mm: zone_end_pfn is too small

2013-03-18 Thread Russ Anderson
RIP [] free_one_page+0x382/0x430 RSP ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson Reported-by: George Beshers Acked-by: Hedi Berriche --- include/linux/mmzone.h |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 inserti

Re: [PATCH] cpuidle - fix lock contention in the idle path

2013-01-02 Thread Russ Anderson
it with a fix. I agree. > The following patch is a hot fix by returning to the initial behavior > by removing the lock when getting the driver. The patch fixes the problem. Verified on a system with 1024 cpus. Thanks. > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Reported-by: Russ Anderson Acked-b

Re: [PATCH] cpuidle - fix lock contention in the idle path

2012-12-31 Thread Russ Anderson
> > - spin_lock(&cpuidle_driver_lock); > > - drv = __cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev->cpu); > > - spin_unlock(&cpuidle_driver_lock); > > - > > - return drv; > > + return __cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev->cpu); > > } > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(

[regression] cpuidle_get_cpu_driver livelocks idle system

2012-12-17 Thread Russ Anderson
: G O 3.7.0.rja-sgi+ #38 RIP: 0010:[] [] _raw_spin_lock+0x25/0x30 [...] Call Trace: [] cpuidle_get_cpu_driver+0x1c/0x30 [] cpuidle_idle_call+0x7d/0x1b0 [] cpu_idle+0xdd/0x130 [] start_secondary+0xc6/0xcc ---- -- Russ Anderson

Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

2012-11-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:28:56AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:48:34PM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > This is a static checker fix. The problem is that we store the bits > >

Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

2012-11-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:10:55AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:28:56 +0300 Dan Carpenter > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:48:34PM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > > T

Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

2012-11-19 Thread Russ Anderson
ECTOR_SHFT) >> 12) | > APIC_DM_INIT; > uv_write_global_mmr64(pnode, UVH_IPI_INT, val); > > val = (1UL << UVH_IPI_INT_SEND_SHFT) | > - (phys_apicid << UVH_IPI_INT_APIC_ID_SHFT) | > + ((unsigned long)phys_apicid << UVH_IPI_INT_

Re: [patch] __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set

2007-10-31 Thread Russ Anderson
ecessary (and misleading). I think the intended behavior is for chip->disable() to disable the interrupt in the chipset. If, for some reason, the interrupt cannot be disabled in the hardware, the IRQ_DISABLED would prevent the interrupt handler from being called. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partit

[patch] __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set

2007-10-30 Thread Russ Anderson
ned-off-by: Russ Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- kernel/irq/handle.c |8 +--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linus/kernel/irq/handl

linux-ia64 build warning messages

2007-06-05 Thread Russ Anderson
y' (at offset 0x1e0) and 'slab_early_init' WARNING: drivers/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:sn_sal_console_setup from .data.rel between 'sal_console' (at offset 0x1c78) and 'ioc4_serial_submodule' WARNING: drivers/built-in.o - Section mismatch: re

Re: [PATCH] ia64 sn xpc: Convert to use kthread API.

2007-04-23 Thread Russ Anderson
Jes Sorensen wrote: > > Russ/Dean/Robin - could one of you provide some feedback to this one > please. Dean's on vacation for a couple days and will test it when he gets back. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc [EMAIL P

Re: [patch] Remove limit on MCA recoveries

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Anderson
Matthias Fouquet-Lapar wrote: > Keith Owens wrote: > > Russ Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The MCA recovery driver saves the addresses of memory errors > > >in an array. The array has 32 entries. The effect is > > >that after 32 recoveries, th