[REGRESSION][BISECTED] 5.9-rc4 disables console on radeon

2020-09-08 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Starting with linux-5.9-rc4, the Dell monitor on my desktop PC goes black during boot when the kernel activates the framebuffer console, except for this error message shown in the center of the screen: "Dell U2412M The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display. Please change

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-git8 fails to boot on 486 due to TSC breakage

2008-02-25 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Ingo Molnar writes: > > * H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please fix it in both places. Using XOR instead of AND-NOT is a bug, > > plain and simple. > > yes, i already fixed that when i added Mikael's patch and it's all > queued up. Ok. For reference and for LKML

[BUG] 2.6.25-rc3 hangs in early boot on Sun Ultra5

2008-02-25 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Booting 2.6.25-rc3 on my Ultra5 causes a hang before or as the console is switched over to the framebuffer. The console output is (extrapolated from dmesg in -rc2 and handwritten notes, as I don't have a serial cable to my U5): PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 3.25.3 2000/06/29 14:12' PROMLIB:

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3 hangs in early boot on Sun Ultra5

2008-02-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Mikael Pettersson writes: > Booting 2.6.25-rc3 on my Ultra5 causes a hang before or as > the console is switched over to the framebuffer. The console > output is (extrapolated from dmesg in -rc2 and handwritten > notes, as I don't have a serial cable to my U5): > > PROM

Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

2012-07-07 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Catalin Marinas writes: > Compilation requires a new aarch64-none-linux-gnu- > toolchain (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-05/msg01694.html). Where are the corresponding binutils patches? Without those it's impossible for people outside ARM to build the toolchain and kernel. /Mikael --

Re: SATA kernel-buffered read VERY slow (not raid, Promise TX300 card); 2.6.23.1(vanilla)

2008-01-03 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Linda Walsh writes: > Robert Hancock wrote: > > Linda Walsh wrote: > >> Alan Cox wrote: > rate began falling; at 128k block-reads-at-a-time or larger, it > drops below > 20MB/s (only on buffered SATA). > >>> Try disabling NCQ - see if you've got a drive with the 'NCQ = no >

Re: Re:Believed resolved: SATA kern-buffRd read slow: based on promise driver bug

2008-01-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Linda Walsh writes: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Linda Walsh writes: > > > Robert Hancock wrote: > > > > Linda Walsh wrote: > > > >>>> read rate began falling; at 128k block-reads-at-a-time or larger, > > i

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

2008-01-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Alexander Shaduri writes: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:10:12 + > Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and we have q->page == 0x48464443. Seeing how we assign that sucker, that > > smells like we've got a page on quicklist with {0x43, 0x44, 0x46, 0x48} > > in its first 4 bytes. Instead

[BUG] 2.6.24-rc8 broke warm reboots on ASUS P5B-E Plus

2008-01-17 Thread Mikael Pettersson
The problematic machine has an Intel P965/ICH8R based ASUS P5B-E Plus mainboard with a Core2Duo 6600 processor. Kernels up to and including 2.6.24-rc7 work fine on it. Kernel 2.6.24-rc8 boots Ok, but if I try to do a warm reboot after having run 2.6.24-rc8, the BIOS hangs. The initial BIOS screen

Re: NFSv2/3 broken exporting/mounting (permission denied) in 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-07 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:20:41 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > I get a "permission denied" when trying to mount a localhost nfsv2/3 > exported volume, on v2.6.24-rc4-124-gf194d13. It works w/ nfsv4 mounting. > It worked fine in 2.6.24-rc3. Here's a sequence of ops I tried: > > # mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1

Re: acpi ->video_device_list corruption

2007-12-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
William Lee Irwin III writes: > The ->cap fields of struct acpi_video_device and struct acpi_video_bus > are 1B each, not 4B. The oversized memset()'s corrupted the subsequent > list_head fields. This resulted in silent corruption without > CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST and BUG's with it. This patch uses

Re: Soft lockup 2.6.23.14-uc0

2008-02-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Doug Kehn writes: > Hi All, > > I am observing kernel soft lockups when running > network throughput tests with NUTTCP. The kernel is a > stock 2.6.23 kernel with patches from uClinux.org. I > have applied the incremental 2.6.23 patches to produce > the resulting 2.6.23.14-uc0 kernel.

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-rc8 broke warm reboots on ASUS P5B-E Plus

2008-01-18 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:13:50 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > The problematic machine has an Intel P965/ICH8R based ASUS P5B-E Plus > mainboard with a Core2Duo 6600 processor. Kernels up to and including > 2.6.24-rc7 work fine on it. > > Kernel 2.6.24-rc8 boots Ok, but if I t

Re: The SX4 challenge

2008-01-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Jeff Garzik writes: > > Promise just gave permission to post the docs for their PDC20621 (i.e. > SX4) hardware: > http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/promise/pdc20621-pguide-1.2.pdf.bz2 > > joining the existing PDC20621 DIMM and PLL docs: >

Re: modprobing ipmi_si on Dell Power Edge 2600 make the terminal hang kernel ver. >= 2.6.20

2008-01-21 Thread Mikael Pettersson
william cheng writes: > Dear all, > > We got some problem on modprobing the ipmi_si module on Dell > Power Edge 2600. > On modprobing the ipmi_si the terminal hang and the process > cannot be terminated by control-C. > We got these messages in dmesg > >

[PATCH 2.6.24] sym53c8xx_2 modpost section mismatch fix

2008-01-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
sym2_io_error_detected() calls sym2_remove(), which is marked __devexit. Fixed by removing the __devexit from sym2_remove(). Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Resend. Previously reported against 2.6.24-rc6 on 2007-12-15. --- linux-2.6.24-rc5/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glu

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] sym53c8xx_2 modpost section mismatch fix

2008-01-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Sam Ravnborg writes: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:03:15PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Building 2.6.24 with > > > > # CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set > > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y > > > > results in the following during modpost: > > &g

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Gene Heskett writes: > Greeting; > > I had to reboot early this morning due to a freezeup, and I had a > bunch of these in the messages log: > == > Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel: [42461.915961] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 > SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Jan 27

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Tino Keitel writes: > Hi folks, > > with 2.6.24-rc8, Wake On LAN doesn't work anymore as it used to with > 2.6.23 on my Mac mini Core Duo. I saw that this was reported in > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721 and on netdev a patch > for the sky2 driver was sent by Stephen

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Zijlstra writes: > > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. > > What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark? MAINTAINERS clearly lists linux-ide as the primary mailin

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Gene Heskett writes: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >> 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead. > > > >What, and keep all us other interested people in the d

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Ingo Molnar writes: > > * Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now I tried the 2.6.24 release and noticed that WOL is still > > > broken. I'll be happy to test any patches that can make it into > > > 2.6.24.1. > >

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Gene Heskett writes: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > >> As slight change here, I was going to use the same .config as 2.6.24-rc8, > >> but just discovered that neither rc8 nor final is finding the drivers for > >> my > > > >If it is not finding a driver that is nothing to do

Re: futex local DoS on most architectures

2008-02-11 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Adrian Bunk writes: > The issue described in [1] is still present and unfixed (and even the > fix there wasn't complete since it didn't cover SMP). > > Thanks to Riku Voipio for noting that it is still unfixed. > > cu > Adrian > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/474 I think calling

Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-25 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:02:15 -0700, Josh Goldsmith wrote: > I have a Linksys NSLU2 running 2.6.21 (I can replicate the problem on > 2.6.23 but it isn't fully supported on SlugOS). It is a armv5teb device > with 32MB of RAM, 400+ MB swap on its 160GB USB2 root disk. The machine is > used as

Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

2007-11-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:28:03 -0700, Josh Goldsmith wrote: > Is your 486 running a IDE disk on a normal interface or via USB? I wonder > if the NSLU2 only having I/O via USB might be significant. My 486 has neither PCI nor USB, the disk is attached to a plain ancient IDE port. > Also, this is

Re: acpi ->video_device_list corruption

2007-12-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
William Lee Irwin III writes: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > IMO the memset(ptr, 0, sizeof(*ptr)) idiom is both safer > > and avoids having to write an uninteresting type name. > > How about this, then? Looks good. Acked-

[PATCH 2.6.24-rc5] sym53c8xx_2 modpost section mismatch fix

2007-12-15 Thread Mikael Pettersson
sym2_remove(), which is marked __devexit. Fixed by removing the __devexit from sym2_remove(). Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.24-rc5/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c.~1~2007-12-15 15:37:04.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc5/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_

Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

2008-02-15 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andi Kleen writes: > Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >this subdir; > > 3. sysctl inodes are now smaller than the procfs ones. > > That's always a good thing. > > > Note: update your initscripts to mount sysctl filesystem > > right after the proc is mounted in order not

Re: Hardcoded instruction causes certain features to fail on ARM platfrom due to endianness

2012-10-15 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Yangfei (Felix) writes: > Hi all, > > I found that hardcoded instruction in inline asm can cause certains > certain features fail to work on ARM platform due to endianness. > As an example, consider the following code snippet of > platform_do_lowpower function from

[3.6-rc3 regression] sata_mv cannot get optional clkdev breaking boot on QNAP TS-119P+

2012-08-25 Thread Mikael Pettersson
My Kirkwood-based QNAP TS-119P+ boots fine with the 3.5 kernel. With 3.6-rc2 and 3.6-rc3 however sata_mv complains: sata_mv sata_mv.0: cannot get optional clkdev sata_mv sata_mv.0: slots 32 ports 2 and then the kernel grinds to a halt with no further messages. Full boot log from 3.6-rc3

Re: [3.6-rc3 regression] sata_mv cannot get optional clkdev breaking boot on QNAP TS-119P+

2012-08-25 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andrew Lunn writes: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 03:01:33PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > My Kirkwood-based QNAP TS-119P+ boots fine with the 3.5 kernel. With > > 3.6-rc2 and 3.6-rc3 however sata_mv complains: > > > > sata_mv sata_mv.0: cannot get optional cl

Re: Updated: [PATCH] hardening: add PROT_FINAL prot flag to mmap/mprotect

2012-10-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Ard Biesheuvel writes: > This patch adds support for the PROT_FINAL flag to > the mmap() and mprotect() syscalls. > > The PROT_FINAL flag indicates that the requested set > of protection bits should be final, i.e., it shall > not be allowed for a subsequent mprotect call to > set

Re: HDD problem, software bug, bios bug, or hardware ?

2012-09-08 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Adko Branil writes: > After updating bios no more crashes happened, i tested it many times > on heavy HDD IO loads, with many kernels (including CONFIG_PREEMPT > kernels). But now if enable "Cool'n' Quiet" option in bios,  > CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernel with passed "nosmp" at boot time, >

Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

2008-02-22 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Al Viro writes: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Andi Kleen writes: > > > Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >this subdir; > > > > 3. sysctl inodes are now smaller than the procfs o

[BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-git8 fails to boot on 486 due to TSC breakage

2008-02-24 Thread Mikael Pettersson
The kernel for this 486 has CONFIG_M486=y and CONFIG_M586TSC=n, but the 2.6.25 kernels still try to access the TSC. Here's the oops from 2.6.25-rc2-git8: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.25-rc2-git8 #1) EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0 EIP is at native_read_tsc+0x6/0x10 EAX: 8ce6

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-git8 fails to boot on 486 due to TSC breakage

2008-02-24 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Ingo Molnar writes: > > * Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The kernel for this 486 has CONFIG_M486=y and CONFIG_M586TSC=n, but > > the 2.6.25 kernels still try to access the TSC. Here's the oops from > > 2.6.25-rc2-git8: > > hm,

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-git8 fails to boot on 486 due to TSC breakage

2008-02-24 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Mikael Pettersson writes: > Ingo Molnar writes: > > > > * Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The kernel for this 486 has CONFIG_M486=y and CONFIG_M586TSC=n, but > > > the 2.6.25 kernels still try to access the TSC.

Re: HDD problem, software bug, bios bug, or hardware ?

2012-09-02 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Adko Branil writes: > >Right near the end there's a lockdep warning about a deadlock > > >between sata_promise's hardreset thing and the machine getting a > >ata_bmdma_interrupt. > > >But since I don't know this code, it would be nice if you could take a > >look at it. > > I picked up

[PATCH] sata_promise: fix hardreset lockdep error

2012-09-16 Thread Mikael Pettersson
machine. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson Tested-by: Adko Branil Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org --- This bug affects 2.6.32 and newer kernels. drivers/ata/sata_promise.c | 15 +-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -rupN linux-3.6-rc5/drivers/ata/sata_promise.c linux

Re: [PATCH 3/3] kcmp: enable the kcmp syscall when C/R is enabled

2012-12-19 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Alexander Kartashov writes: > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S > @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ > /* 375 */ CALL(sys_setns) > CALL(sys_process_vm_readv) > CALL(sys_process_vm_writev) > -CALL(sys_ni_syscall)/* reserved for

[3.7.0 regression] rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to initialize hw

2012-12-17 Thread Mikael Pettersson
I just updated an old 1st gen AMD64 laptop from kernel 3.6.0 to 3.7.0, Fedora 15 user-space, and was greeted by the following kernel warning: WARNING: at net/wireless/core.c:389 wiphy_register+0x5c3/0x600 [cfg80211]() Hardware name: SAM#451B Modules linked in: rt2500pci(+) snd_mpu401_uart

Re: [3.7.0 regression] rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to initialize hw

2012-12-17 Thread Mikael Pettersson
devendra.aaru writes: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > I just updated an old 1st gen AMD64 laptop from kernel 3.6.0 to 3.7.0, > > Fedora 15 user-space, and was greeted by the following kernel warning: > > > > WARNING: at net/wireles

Re: [3.7.0 regression] rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to initialize hw

2012-12-17 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Gertjan van Wingerde writes: > Mikael, Devendra, > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:59 PM, devendra.aaru > wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >> devendra.aaru writes: > >> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Mikael

Re: container-of Implementation

2013-01-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Schrober writes: > Hi, > > I wondered why the container_of implementation is so complicated. > > #define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \ > const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr);\ > (type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );}) >

[3.7-rc5/rc6 regression] "drm/nvc0/disp: fix regression in vblank semaphore release" broke nouveau driver and mplayer

2012-11-17 Thread Mikael Pettersson
mplayer worked fine on my Dell Latitude E6510 (nVidia GT218 [NVS 3100M] graphics) up to and including kernel 3.7-rc4. However, with 3.7-rc5 or -rc6, any attempt to run mplayer just blanks the screen, shows some stray white pixels in the upper left corner, kills the X server, and spews the

Re: [3.7-rc5/rc6 regression] "drm/nvc0/disp: fix regression in vblank semaphore release" broke nouveau driver and mplayer

2012-11-18 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Marcin Slusarz writes: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:35:18PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > mplayer worked fine on my Dell Latitude E6510 (nVidia GT218 [NVS 3100M] > > graphics) > > up to and including kernel 3.7-rc4. However, with 3.7-rc5 or -rc6, any > >

Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-10-01 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Tim Shepard writes: > This weekend I finally figured out why the keyboard in my MacBook Pro > stopped working between 3.4 and 3.5. > > When I turned on CONFIG_EXPERT it turned off CONFIG_HID_APPLE. There > was no warning that selecting "Configure standard kernel features" will > invisibly

Re: [PATCH 09/16] sparc64: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code

2019-08-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
For the record the futex test case OOPSes a 5.3-rc3 kernel running on a Sun Blade 2500 (2 x USIIIi). This system runs a custom distro with a custom toolchain (gcc-8.3 based), so I doubt it's a distro problem. On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 9:17 AM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > There isn't really a way

Re: [5.0-rc5 regression] "scsi: kill off the legacy IO path" causes 5 minute delay during boot on Sun Blade 2500

2019-02-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 5:05 PM Jens Axboe wrote: > > On 2/10/19 8:44 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 10:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 7:19 PM James Bottomley > >> wrote: > > [...] > >>> I thi

[5.0-rc5 regression] "scsi: kill off the legacy IO path" causes 5 minute delay during boot on Sun Blade 2500

2019-02-09 Thread Mikael Pettersson
4.20 and earlier kernels boot fine on my Sun Blade 2500 (UltraSPARC IIIi), but the 5.0-rc kernels consistently experience a 5 minute delay late during boot, after enabling networking but before allowing user logins. E.g. 5.0-rc5 dmesg has: [Fri Feb 8 17:13:17 2019] random: dbus-daemon:

Re: [5.0-rc5 regression] "scsi: kill off the legacy IO path" causes 5 minute delay during boot on Sun Blade 2500

2019-02-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 7:19 PM James Bottomley wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 18:04 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > 4.20 and earlier kernels boot fine on my Sun Blade 2500 (UltraSPARC > > IIIi), but the 5.0-rc kernels consistently experience a 5 minute > > delay >

Re: bit fields && data tearing

2014-09-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 18:51 -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > > > Apologies for hijacking this thread but I need to extend this discussion > > somewhat regarding what a compiler might do with adjacent fields in a > > structure. > > > > The tty subsystem

Re: [BISECTED] 3.17-rc1 radeon screen corruption due to "Always flush the HDP cache before submitting a CS to the GPU"

2014-09-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Michel Dänzer writes: > On 30.08.2014 22:59, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Since 3.17-rc1 my radeon card (RV370 / X1050 card) causes screen corruption > > after a while in X + firefox. This still occurs with yesterday's HEAD > > of Linus' repo. 3.16 and ealier kernels a

Re: [BISECTED] 3.17-rc1 radeon screen corruption due to "Always flush the HDP cache before submitting a CS to the GPU"

2014-09-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Michel Dänzer writes: > On 06.09.2014 01:49, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Michel Dänzer writes: > > > On 30.08.2014 22:59, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > Since 3.17-rc1 my radeon card (RV370 / X1050 card) causes screen > > corruption > > >

[BISECTED] 3.17-rc1 radeon screen corruption due to "Always flush the HDP cache before submitting a CS to the GPU"

2014-08-30 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Since 3.17-rc1 my radeon card (RV370 / X1050 card) causes screen corruption after a while in X + firefox. This still occurs with yesterday's HEAD of Linus' repo. 3.16 and ealier kernels are fine. I ran a bisect, which identified: commit 72a9987edcedb89db988079a03c9b9c65b6ec9ac Author: Michel

Re: [BISECTED] 3.17-rc1 radeon screen corruption due to "Always flush the HDP cache before submitting a CS to the GPU"

2014-09-02 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Michel Dänzer writes: > On 30.08.2014 22:59, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Since 3.17-rc1 my radeon card (RV370 / X1050 card) causes screen corruption > > after a while in X + firefox. This still occurs with yesterday's HEAD > > of Linus' repo. 3.16 and ealier kernels a

Re: [BISECTED] 3.17-rc1 radeon screen corruption due to "Always flush the HDP cache before submitting a CS to the GPU"

2014-09-08 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Michel Dänzer writes: > On 06.09.2014 01:49, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Michel Dänzer writes: > > > On 30.08.2014 22:59, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > Since 3.17-rc1 my radeon card (RV370 / X1050 card) causes screen > > corruption > > >

Re: [PATCH] Don't allow blocking of signals using sigreturn.

2015-03-11 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Jann Horn writes: > Or should I throw this patch away and write a patch > for the prctl() manpage instead that documents that > being able to call sigreturn() implies being able to > effectively call sigprocmask(), at least on some > architectures like X86? Well, that is the semantics of

Re: [PATCH] Don't allow blocking of signals using sigreturn.

2015-03-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andy Lutomirski writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Mikael Pettersson > wrote: > > Jann Horn writes: > > > Or should I throw this patch away and write a patch > > > for the prctl() manpage instead that documents that > > > being able

Re: [PATCH] seccomp.2: Add note about alarm(2) not being sufficient to limit runtime

2015-03-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Jann Horn writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:43:50PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Jann Horn writes: > > > Or should I throw this patch away and write a patch > > > for the prctl() manpage instead that documents that > > > being able to

[REGRESSION,BISECTED] 4.1-rc2 radeon audio changes oops the kernel hard

2015-05-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On my Ivy Bridge i7 mobo w/ Radeon graphics, the 4.1-rc2 kernel oopses hard, requiring a hard reset: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0010 IP: [] radeon_audio_detect+0x5b/0x150 [radeon] PGD 0 Oops: [#1] SMP Modules linked in: af_packet

RE: [REGRESSION,BISECTED] 4.1-rc2 radeon audio changes oops the kernel hard

2015-05-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Deucher, Alexander writes: > > -Original Message- > > From: Mikael Pettersson [mailto:mikpeli...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 11:53 AM > > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: Deucher, Alexander > > Subject: [REGRESSION,BISECTE

Re: [PATCH] arm: Blacklist gcc 4.8.[012] and 4.9.0 with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

2014-10-11 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Hurley writes: > On 10/10/2014 12:36 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:26:14PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > >> gcc versions 4.8.[012] and 4.9.0 generates code that prematurely > >> adjusts the stack pointer such that still-to-be-referenced locals > >>

Re: [PATCH] arm: Blacklist gcc 4.8.[012] and 4.9.0 with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

2014-10-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Peter Hurley writes: > On 10/11/2014 12:33 PM, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Peter Hurley writes: > > > On 10/10/2014 12:36 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:26:14PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > > > >> gc

Re: status of ia64 / hpsim

2015-01-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Tony Luck writes: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig > wrote: > > IS the ia64 hpsim architecture still in use? I noticed it because it > > has a fairly rudimentary SCSI driver under arch/ia64, which doesn't > > look very maintained. > > Mikael was doing something with

Re: fork on processes with lots of memory

2016-01-26 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Felix von Leitner writes: > > Dear Linux kernel devs, > > > I talked to someone who uses large Linux based hardware to run a > > process with huge memory requirements (think 4 GB), and he told me that > > if they do a fork() syscall on that process, the whole system comes to > > standstill.

Re: 4.7-rc6, ext4, sparc64: Unable to handle kernel paging request at ...

2016-07-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Meelis Roos writes: > > > Just got this on bootup of my Sun T2000: > > >... > > > I have not seen it before, this includes 4.6.0 4.6.0-08907-g7639dad > > > 4.7.0-rc1-00094-g6b15d66 4.7.0-rc4-00014-g67016f6. > > > > > > It is not reproducible, did not appear on next reboot of the same > > >

Re: SIGSYS annoyance

2016-06-10 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Andy Lutomirski writes: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski > > wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176099 > >> > >> Should SIGSYS be delivered to the handler even if blocked? What, if > >>

[4.3-rc1 regression] modular 8250 doesn't load

2015-09-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
I have CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=m. With 4.2 '/sbin/modprobe 8250' worked and resulted in: [ 41.354550] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled [ 41.375156] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A With 4.3-rc1 however the command fails and logs

Re: [4.3-rc1 regression] modular 8250 doesn't load

2015-09-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Greg Kroah-Hartman writes: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 07:08:10PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > I have CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=m. With 4.2 '/sbin/modprobe 8250' worked > > and resulted in: > > > > [ 41.354550] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing

Re: [4.3-rc1 regression] modular 8250 doesn't load

2015-09-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Greg Kroah-Hartman writes: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 08:06:21PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Greg Kroah-Hartman writes: > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 07:08:10PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > I have CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=m. With 4.

Re: [4.3-rc1 regression] modular 8250 doesn't load

2015-09-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Greg Kroah-Hartman writes: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 02:12:43PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:42:24PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > Greg Kroah-Hartman writes: > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 08:06:21PM +0200, Mikael Pett

Re: [PATCH] lib: One less subtraction in binary search iterations.

2013-07-09 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Vineet Gupta writes: > On 07/09/2013 09:21 AM, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > >> > >> Not correct. > >> > >>> while (start < end) { > >>> - size_t mid = start + (end - start) / 2; > >>> + size_t mid =

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