Re: CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE and memory hot plug code on x86_64

2015-08-28 Thread Steffen Persvold
On 27/08/15 22:20 , "yhlu.ker...@gmail.com on behalf of Yinghai Lu" wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Steffen Persvold wrote: >> We’ve encountered an issue in a special case where we have a sparse E820 map >> [1]. >> >> Basically the memory hot

CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE and memory hot plug code on x86_64

2015-06-26 Thread Steffen Persvold
ked twice with the same struct memory_block once for node0 (which gets a match) and once for node1. However when all the pfns are mapped, it just goes through the range just fine without a paging request. Cheers, -- Steffen Persvold Chief Architect NumaChip, Numascale AS Tel: +47 23 16 71 88 Fax: +47

RFC: Additions to APIC driver

2015-06-25 Thread Steffen Persvold
file?) Any insight into this from the great minds behind this would be highly appreciated. Kind regards, -- Steffen Persvold Chief Architect NumaChip, Numascale AS Tel: +47 23 16 71 88 Fax: +47 23 16 71 80 Skype: spersvold -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/PCI: Support additional MMIO range capabilities

2014-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
On 29 Apr 2014, at 3:20 , Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:33:09AM +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >> I am sure, it's because some server systems had MMIO ECS access not >> enabled in BIOS. I can't remember which systems were affected. > > Ok, now AMD people: what's the story w

Re: [PATCH] x86, amd, mce: Prevent potential cpu-online oops

2013-04-09 Thread Steffen Persvold
On 4/9/2013 12:24 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 11:45:44AM +0200, Steffen Persvold wrote: Hmm, yes of course. This of course breaks on our slave servers when the shared mechanism doesn't work properly (i.e NB not visible). Then all cores gets individual kobjects and

Re: [PATCH] x86, amd, mce: Prevent potential cpu-online oops

2013-04-09 Thread Steffen Persvold
On 4/9/2013 11:38 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 11:25:16AM +0200, Steffen Persvold wrote: Why not let all cores just create their individual kobject and skip this "shared" nb->bank4 concept ? Any disadvantage to that (apart from the obvious storage bloat?). W

Re: [PATCH] x86, amd, mce: Prevent potential cpu-online oops

2013-04-09 Thread Steffen Persvold
On 4/4/2013 9:07 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:05:46PM +0200, Steffen Persvold wrote: It made more sense (to me) to skip the creation of MC4 all together if you can't find the matching northbridge since you can't reliably do the dec_and_test() reference count

Re: [PATCH] x86, amd, mce: Prevent potential cpu-online oops

2013-04-04 Thread Steffen Persvold
On 4/4/2013 9:07 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:05:46PM +0200, Steffen Persvold wrote: It made more sense (to me) to skip the creation of MC4 all together if you can't find the matching northbridge since you can't reliably do the dec_and_test() reference count

Re: [PATCH] x86, amd, mce: Prevent potential cpu-online oops

2013-04-04 Thread Steffen Persvold
;> offlining cores. >> >> Signed-off-by: Steffen Persvold >> Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman > > Huh, what's up? > > This one is almost reverting 21c5e50e15b1a which you wrote in the first > place. What's happening? What stale pointer access, where? We have the

Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] Add NumaChip remote PCI support

2012-11-30 Thread Steffen Persvold
ing quirk that reduces the size of the MMCONFIG region you register for bus 0. Just brainstorming here; it's not obvious to me yet what the best solution is. Bjorn Kind regards, -- Steffen Persvold, Chief Architect NumaChip Numascale AS - www.numascale.com Tel: +47 92 49 25 54 Skype

Re: [PATCH v2] Fix AMD Northbridge-ID contiguity assumptions

2012-10-12 Thread Steffen Persvold
so technically this could fit into a u16 instead of a u32 (you'll have to shift left by 3 instead of 8). However, to allow some flexibility I think a u32 is better and I think we can live with those two extra bytes per struct member, or ? Cheers, -- Steffen Persvold, Chief Architect NumaChi

Re: DMA memory limitation?

2001-07-06 Thread Steffen Persvold
y are a limited resource (allocated at boot time). My solution for now was to use : #if defined(__ia64__) int flag = GFP_DMA; #else int flag = 0; #endif Maybe IA64 could implement GFP_HIGHMEM (as on i386) so that if no flags were used you were guaranteed to get 32bit memory ??? Regards --

Re: DMA memory limitation?

2001-07-06 Thread Steffen Persvold
ou use GFP_DMA on IA64 you are ensured that the memory you get is below 4G and not 16M as on i386, hence no bounce buffers are needed. On Alpha GFP_DMA is not limited at all (I think). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I really think there should be a general way of allocating memory that is 32bit ad

Router problems with transparent proxy

2001-07-01 Thread Steffen Persvold
proxy setup (and 100% idle almost all the time). Just for the record : We also tried standard RH7.1 kernels (2.4.2-2 and 2.4.3) with the same results. Any ideas ? Anybody experienced similar behaviour ? It looks like a resource leak somewhere in the IP filter code to me. Regards, -- Ste

Functionality of mmap, nopage and remap_page_range

2001-06-12 Thread Steffen Persvold
->no_page function called) Any help appreciated. -- Steffen Persvold Systems Engineer Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) Tlf : (+47) 22 62 89 50 Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax : (+47) 22 62 89 51 N-0621 Oslo, Norway - To unsubscribe fr

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-09 Thread Steffen Persvold
"L. K." wrote: > I haven't encountered any CPU with builtin temperature sensors. > Eh, all Pentium class cpus have a build in sensor for core temperature (I believe Athlons too). It's just the logic which is outside in form of a A/D converter connected to a I2C bu

Question regarding pci_alloc_consitent() and __get_free_pages

2001-06-01 Thread Steffen Persvold
__get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order) always return physical contiguous memory ? All feedback appreciated, -- Steffen Persvold Systems Engineer Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) Tlf : (+47) 22 62 89 50 Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax : (+47) 22

Re: VIA/PDC/Athlon

2001-05-17 Thread Steffen Persvold
on RedHat) and is used to dump/modify PCI configuration space (/proc/bus/pci). If you know how to use these tools to dump PNP bios, please tell us. Regards -- Steffen Persvold Systems Engineer Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) - To unsubscribe

Kernel crash using NFSv3 on 2.4.4

2001-04-30 Thread Steffen Persvold
0, 0x0, 0x2, 0xbc55) kernel .text 0xc010 0xc01352bc 0xc01353bc 0xc0106ea7 system_call+0x33 kernel .text 0xc010 0xc0106e74 0xc0106eac [0]more> -- Steffen PersvoldSystems Engineer Email :

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > I've learned it the hard way, I have two types : Compaq DL360 (rev 5) and a > > Tyan S2510 (rev 6). On the compaq machine I constantly get data corruption on > > the last double word (4

Re: ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
Gérard Roudier wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I just compiled 2.4.4 and are running it on a Serverworks LE motherboard. > > Whenever I try to add a write-combining region, it gets rejected. I took a peek > > i

ServerWorks LE and MTRR

2001-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
. I have several rev 06 and they are working fine with this patch. Best regards, -- Steffen PersvoldSystems Engineer Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) Norway : Tel : (+47) 2262 8950 Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax : (

Kiobufs and userspace memory

2001-04-29 Thread Steffen Persvold
If the application didn't initialize the buffer by memset or anything, all the pages maps to the same page (the zero page) right ? So if a map_user_kiobuf() call is made on this buffer, will it sort this out and map the pages to real ones ? Any response greatly appreciated, -- Steffen Persvold

Question regarding kernel threads and userlevel

2001-04-27 Thread Steffen Persvold
(it has a nice level of -20) ? Best regards, -- Steffen PersvoldSystems Engineer Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) Norway : Tel : (+47) 2262 8950 Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax : (+47) 2262 8951 N-0621 Os

Re: APIC errors ...

2001-04-19 Thread Steffen Persvold
e I've had problems with so far, is the Compaq DL360 which seem to have disabled the SMB on the OSB4 and instead using another approach (proprietary). This could be the problem with the Dell machines too (2450, 2550, 1550). Best regards -- Steffen PersvoldSystems Eng

2.4.3 and Alpha

2001-04-13 Thread Steffen Persvold
s390 and sparc64 kernels but not on others. Any plans on when this is done ? Best regards, -- Steffen Persvold Systems Engineer Email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Scali AS (http://www.scali.com) Tlf : (+47) 22 62 89 50 Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax : (+47) 22 62 89 51