Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-24 Thread Mike Houston
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: > > > > I still happen to have a Windows Vista install kicking around, so > > to make sure we're not flogging a dead horse I booted that and > > let it set up the

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-24 Thread Mike Houston
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: I still happen to have a Windows Vista install kicking around, so to make sure we're not flogging a dead horse I booted that and let it set up the yukon2 chip

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: > > > > I still happen to have a Windows Vista install kicking around, so to > > make sure we're not flogging a dead horse I booted that and let it > > set up the

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: > > I still happen to have a Windows Vista install kicking around, so to > make sure we're not flogging a dead horse I booted that and let it > set up the yukon2 chip and I tested it. (more to make sure that > eeprom update didn't break it). I used it

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Mike Houston
On Tue, 22 May 2007 17:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and the load off "sk->sk_prot->ioctl" oopses, because "sk->sk_prot" > is corrupt and contains 0x8e3cad42, which is not a valid kernel > pointer. > > The other oops is even worse. > > I also think it meshes

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > It looks like the chip reads the wrong memory sometimes. The problem happens > > only on the on-board NIC's and only on this kind of motherboard. > >

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: It looks like the chip reads the wrong memory sometimes. The problem happens only on the on-board NIC's and only on this kind of motherboard. Do you know

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Mike Houston
On Tue, 22 May 2007 17:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the load off sk-sk_prot-ioctl oopses, because sk-sk_prot is corrupt and contains 0x8e3cad42, which is not a valid kernel pointer. The other oops is even worse. I also think it meshes with sky2

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: I still happen to have a Windows Vista install kicking around, so to make sure we're not flogging a dead horse I booted that and let it set up the yukon2 chip and I tested it. (more to make sure that eeprom update didn't break it). I used it for a

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: I still happen to have a Windows Vista install kicking around, so to make sure we're not flogging a dead horse I booted that and let it set up the yukon2 chip

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > It looks like the chip reads the wrong memory sometimes. The problem happens > only on the on-board NIC's and only on this kind of motherboard. Do you know if it happens for particular addresses? (Ie, can you tell what the physical address of

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: In this case I actually had the kernel crash. First time for me ever having a kernel oops! System locked up with keyboard LED's blinking. Not sure if anyone wants to see all of it (maybe some screwy userland stuff involved), so

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: > > In this case I actually had the kernel crash. First time for me ever > having a kernel oops! System locked up with keyboard LED's blinking. > > Not sure if anyone wants to see all of it (maybe some screwy > userland stuff involved), so I won't

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 21 May 2007 21:31:46 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There maybe some hardware level interaction with SATA controller. > I saw no failures running off i386 kernel of PATA drive and quickly > see errors with SATA/AHCI and x86_64. AHCI SATA on i386, but I'm not sure

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I can't really see that being a real problem in this day and age of PCI-X > etc, but it _used_ to be a possible issue a decade ago. Maybe you've found > a case where it matters even on modern hardware? We occasionally used to > set the PCI latency timer to make people

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > AHCI on this motherboard doesn't seem to use MSI. The problems occur > > even if I boot with nomsi. > > Have you tried playing with PCI latency

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: AHCI on this motherboard doesn't seem to use MSI. The problems occur even if I boot with nomsi. Have you tried playing with PCI latency counters etc?

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: I can't really see that being a real problem in this day and age of PCI-X etc, but it _used_ to be a possible issue a decade ago. Maybe you've found a case where it matters even on modern hardware? We occasionally used to set the PCI latency timer to make people

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 21 May 2007 21:31:46 -0700 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There maybe some hardware level interaction with SATA controller. I saw no failures running off i386 kernel of PATA drive and quickly see errors with SATA/AHCI and x86_64. AHCI SATA on i386, but I'm not sure that

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: In this case I actually had the kernel crash. First time for me ever having a kernel oops! System locked up with keyboard LED's blinking. Not sure if anyone wants to see all of it (maybe some screwy userland stuff involved), so I won't include

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Mike Houston wrote: In this case I actually had the kernel crash. First time for me ever having a kernel oops! System locked up with keyboard LED's blinking. Not sure if anyone wants to see all of it (maybe some screwy userland stuff involved), so

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: It looks like the chip reads the wrong memory sometimes. The problem happens only on the on-board NIC's and only on this kind of motherboard. Do you know if it happens for particular addresses? (Ie, can you tell what the physical address of the

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > AHCI on this motherboard doesn't seem to use MSI. The problems occur > even if I boot with nomsi. Have you tried playing with PCI latency counters etc? Maybe the SATA/AHCI thing is better at saturating the bus, and the sky2 hardware gets

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:36:15 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > There maybe some hardware level interaction with SATA controller. > > I saw no failures running off i386 kernel of PATA drive and quickly > > see errors with SATA/AHCI and x86_64. > > > I

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: There maybe some hardware level interaction with SATA controller. I saw no failures running off i386 kernel of PATA drive and quickly see errors with SATA/AHCI and x86_64. I presume AHCI is the only other device in the system using PCI MSI, when you see problems?

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:58:06 -0400 Mike Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:37:55 -0700 > Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400 > > Mike Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 > > >

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:37:55 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400 > Mike Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 > > Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It's almost certainly a problem with

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400 Mike Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 > Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and hardware (not a > > sky2) driver issue. Since there are many similar boards and >

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and hardware (not a > sky2) driver issue. Since there are many similar boards and > configurations, I made the decision not to enforce restrictions in > the driver. >>

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 20 May 2007 17:05:06 -0400 Mike Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:14 -0700 (PDT) > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Stephen Hemminger (7): > > [TCP] slow start: Make comments and code logic clearer. > > *** sky2: remove Gigabyte

Re: [RFC] linux-2.6.22-rc2. SLUB report[kzalloc(0)]

2007-05-21 Thread Jiri Slaby
Dan Kruchinin napsal(a): > Hi. > > There is a BUG message from SLUB during boot process: > -- > May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.177484] BUG: at > include/linux/slub_def.h:77 kmalloc_index() > May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.178355] [] > show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 > May 21

Re: [RFC] linux-2.6.22-rc2. SLUB report[kzalloc(0)]

2007-05-21 Thread Jiri Slaby
Dan Kruchinin napsal(a): Hi. There is a BUG message from SLUB during boot process: -- May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.177484] BUG: at include/linux/slub_def.h:77 kmalloc_index() May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.178355] [c01062ca] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 May 21 05:39:10

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 20 May 2007 17:05:06 -0400 Mike Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Hemminger (7): [TCP] slow start: Make comments and code logic clearer. *** sky2: remove Gigabyte 88e8056

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and hardware (not a sky2) driver issue. Since there are many similar boards and configurations, I made the decision not to enforce restrictions in the driver. May 20

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400 Mike Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and hardware (not a sky2) driver issue. Since there are many similar boards and

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:37:55 -0700 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400 Mike Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:58:06 -0400 Mike Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:37:55 -0700 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:55 -0400 Mike Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 Stephen Hemminger

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: There maybe some hardware level interaction with SATA controller. I saw no failures running off i386 kernel of PATA drive and quickly see errors with SATA/AHCI and x86_64. I presume AHCI is the only other device in the system using PCI MSI, when you see problems?

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:36:15 -0400 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Hemminger wrote: There maybe some hardware level interaction with SATA controller. I saw no failures running off i386 kernel of PATA drive and quickly see errors with SATA/AHCI and x86_64. I presume AHCI

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: AHCI on this motherboard doesn't seem to use MSI. The problems occur even if I boot with nomsi. Have you tried playing with PCI latency counters etc? Maybe the SATA/AHCI thing is better at saturating the bus, and the sky2 hardware gets upset

[RFC] linux-2.6.22-rc2. SLUB report[kzalloc(0)]

2007-05-20 Thread Dan Kruchinin
Hi. There is a BUG message from SLUB during boot process: -- May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.177484] BUG: at include/linux/slub_def.h:77 kmalloc_index() May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.178355] [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.179263] []

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-20 Thread Mike Houston
On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger (7): > [TCP] slow start: Make comments and code logic clearer. > *** sky2: remove Gigabyte 88e8056 restriction *** > sky2: PHY register settings > sky2: keep track of

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:01, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA > > drives > > with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it > > completely

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA > drives > with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it > completely unresponsive. I can't even move the mouse pointer when it's > running, I

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 19 May 2007 07:17, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although > mirroring might still be ongoing) > > Various random fixes all over - the shortlog (appended) is fairly > readable. The most notable ones are probably more

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 19 May 2007 07:17, Linus Torvalds wrote: It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although mirroring might still be ongoing) Various random fixes all over - the shortlog (appended) is fairly readable. The most notable ones are probably more SLUB

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA drives with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it completely unresponsive. I can't even move the mouse pointer when it's running, I can't log

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:01, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA drives with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it completely unresponsive. I can't

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-20 Thread Mike Houston
On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Hemminger (7): [TCP] slow start: Make comments and code logic clearer. *** sky2: remove Gigabyte 88e8056 restriction *** sky2: PHY register settings sky2: keep track of receive

[RFC] linux-2.6.22-rc2. SLUB report[kzalloc(0)]

2007-05-20 Thread Dan Kruchinin
Hi. There is a BUG message from SLUB during boot process: -- May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.177484] BUG: at include/linux/slub_def.h:77 kmalloc_index() May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.178355] [c01062ca] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 May 21 05:39:10 midgard kernel: [ 31.179263]

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-19 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although > mirroring might still be ongoing) > trivia make: Entering directory `/home/bor/src/linux-git' GEN /home/bor/build/linux-2.6.22/Makefile scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-19 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Linus Torvalds wrote: It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although mirroring might still be ongoing) trivia make: Entering directory `/home/bor/src/linux-git' GEN /home/bor/build/linux-2.6.22/Makefile scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig

Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although mirroring might still be ongoing) Various random fixes all over - the shortlog (appended) is fairly readable. The most notable ones are probably more SLUB fixes, and the epoll optimizations and cleanups. But there's

Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although mirroring might still be ongoing) Various random fixes all over - the shortlog (appended) is fairly readable. The most notable ones are probably more SLUB fixes, and the epoll optimizations and cleanups. But there's