Re: [PATCH] drm: refactor call to request_module

2013-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
e code or are there any problems with stack sizes on some systems? (This patch would be good alone for decreasing the number of code lines. ;-)) > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder_slave.c |6 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) Ack

[PATCH v2] sp5100_tco: Set the AcpiMmioSel bitmask value to 1 instead of 2

2013-03-03 Thread Paul Menzel
to be zero. However, the sp5100_tco driver should use the correct bitmask value. [1] http://support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/45482.pdf Signed-off-by: Takahisa Tanaka CC: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Hopefully improved the commit message. drivers/watchdog/sp5100_tco.h

Re: [PATCH v2] sp5100_tco: Remove code that may cause a boot failure

2013-03-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takahisa, thank you for your patch. Am Sonntag, den 03.03.2013, 14:52 +0900 schrieb Takahisa Tanaka: > The critical problem which can't boot OS until the power is completely > cut off found on PC with SB700 chipset. As commented in my first reply – at least I think – please add the

Re: [PATCH] md: dm-verity: Fix to avoid a deadlock in dm-bufio

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Menzel
ch: 8.28s > > Signed-off-by: Paul Taysom > --- > drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 29 +++++++-- > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Acked-by: Paul Menzel Thanks, Paul [1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=39148 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH linux-next] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tim, thanks for the patch. Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 13:31 -0700 schrieb Tim Gardner: Noting the `gcc` version and build environment is never wrong. ;-) > drivers/md/dm-raid.c: In function 'raid_ctr': > drivers/md/dm-raid.c:453:53: warning: 'rebuilds_per_group' may be used >

Re: [PATCH linux-next] DM RAID: validate_raid_redundancy: Silence uninitialized variable warning

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tim, Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 23:16 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel: > Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2013, 13:31 -0700 schrieb Tim Gardner: > > Noting the `gcc` version and build environment is never wrong. ;-) > > > drivers/md/dm-raid.c: In function 'raid_ctr': > > dri

Re: [PATCH] sp5100_tco: Remove code that may cause a boot failure

2013-02-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takahisa, Am Samstag, den 23.02.2013, 20:31 +0900 schrieb Takahisa Tanaka: > The critical problem which can't boot OS until the power is completely > cut off found on PC with SB700 chipset. all SB700 boards or just a specific one? > This patch fix the problem, but, this patch prevents the

Re: int3403_driver_init needs over 330 ms to finish

2018-03-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rui, On 03/14/2018 08:32 AM, Zhang Rui wrote: On 二, 2018-03-13 at 20:39 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Booting the Dell XPS 13 9370 with Linux 4.16-rc4+ and `initcall_debug`, shows it is shown that int3403_driver_init needs over 330 ms to run.  [2.524839] initcall

efisubsys_init takes more than a few milliseconds

2018-03-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ard, According to `initcall_debug`, `efisubsys_init` takes more than a few milliseconds to execute on a Dell XPS 13 9370 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz). ``` […] [0.144474] calling efisubsys_init+0x0/0x2cf @ 1 [0.144474] Registered efivars operations [0.173690]

Re: efisubsys_init takes more than a few milliseconds

2018-03-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ard, Thank you for the quick reply. On 03/24/2018 11:35 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On 24 March 2018 at 22:10, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Ard, According to `initcall_debug`, `efisubsys_init` takes more than a few milliseconds to execute on a Dell XPS 13 9370 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U

Re: efisubsys_init takes more than a few milliseconds

2018-03-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ard, On 03/25/2018 09:41 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: On 03/24/2018 11:35 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: On 24 March 2018 at 22:10, Paul Menzel wrote: According to `initcall_debug`, `efisubsys_init` takes more than a few milliseconds to execute on a Dell XPS 13 9370 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7

Re: i8042 AUX port [serio1] suspend takes a second on Dell XPS 13 9360

2018-02-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dmitry, On 01/30/18 19:07, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 09:52:45AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 06:36:34PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I do not know, when it started, but with Linux 4.14-rc8 and 4.15, benchmarking suspend and resume time

Add touchpad of Dell XPS 13 9360 to Synaptics Intertouch list

2018-02-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Dell XPS 13 9360, Linux asks me to report the device DLL075b to be added to `forcepad_pnp_ids`. [7.180131] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Your touchpad (PNP: DLL075b PNP0f13) says it can support a different bus. If i2c-hid and hid-rmi are not used, you might want

Re: i8042 AUX port [serio1] suspend takes a second on Dell XPS 13 9360

2018-02-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mario, dear Dmitry, On 02/15/18 09:26, Paul Menzel wrote: On 02/14/18 18:11, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmenzel+linux-in...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 10:41 AM To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux

[PATCH] input/mouse/synaptics: Add SYN1217 to PNP detection list

2018-02-15 Thread Paul Menzel
-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c index 3d2e23a0ae39..80ddbb966d83 100644 --- a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c @@ -178,6

Re: Regression from efi: call get_event_log before ExitBootServices

2018-03-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jarkko, On 03/12/18 11:17, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: On Sat, 2018-03-10 at 10:45 +, Thiebaud Weksteen wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:54 PM Jeremy Cline wrote: and it's hanging at "memset(log_tbl, 0, sizeof(*log_tbl) + log_size);" Thanks. Well, it looks like the memory that is

string_selftest_init needs 636 ms to run

2018-03-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Geert, Sorry for writing you directory, but I saw you created the module *string_selftest* in commit d6b28e09 (lib: add module support to string tests). I believe, I only did `make olddefconfig`, and the option is selected. ``` $ grep STRING_SELFTEST .config CONFIG_STRING_SELFTEST=y

Re: `do_IRQ: 1.55 No irq handler for vector` on ASRock E350M1

2018-03-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Yazen, Eric, Tom, On 02/26/18 17:42, Tom Lendacky wrote: On 2/26/2018 10:37 AM, Morton, Eric wrote: Yazen dug out PLAT-21393 as sounding like this issue. I haven't had a chance to digest it. Yes, internally to AMD, that was the bug that tracked the issue I was referring to. If you

Reduce init time of `lp_init()` and `ppdev_init()`

2018-03-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I am trying to reduce the start-up time of the Linux kernel on an old Lenovo X60. Looking through the time stamps of Linux 4.16-rc7+, the modules `lp` and `ppdev` both take more than ten milliseconds to initialize according to `initcall_debug`. ``` [8.337692] calling

uvcvideo: Unknown video format,00000032-0002-0010-8000-00aa00389b71

2018-03-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Dell XPS 13 9370, Linux 4.16-rc6 outputs the messages below. ``` [2.338094] calling uvc_init+0x0/0x1000 [uvcvideo] @ 295 [2.338569] calling iTCO_wdt_init_module+0x0/0x1000 [iTCO_wdt] @ 280 [2.338570] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.11 [

Re: uvcvideo: Unknown video format,00000032-0002-0010-8000-00aa00389b71

2018-03-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Laurent, On 03/20/18 14:30, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:20:14 EET Paul Menzel wrote: On the Dell XPS 13 9370, Linux 4.16-rc6 outputs the messages below. ``` […] [2.340736] input: Integrated_Webcam_HD: Integrate as /devices/pci:00/:00:14.0/usb1

Re: uvcvideo: Unknown video format,00000032-0002-0010-8000-00aa00389b71

2018-03-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Laurent, On 03/21/2018 10:25 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 18:46:24 EET Paul Menzel wrote: On 03/20/18 14:30, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:20:14 EET Paul Menzel wrote: On the Dell XPS 13 9370, Linux 4.16-rc6 outputs the messages below

Re: i8042 AUX port [serio1] suspend takes a second on Dell XPS 13 9360

2018-02-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mario, Thank you for your reply. Am 15.02.2018 um 16:22 schrieb mario.limoncie...@dell.com: -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmenzel+linux-in...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 2:26 AM To: Limonciello, Mario ; Dmitry Torokhov Cc: linux

Re: [solved] QEMU ATA hard disk not detected

2018-05-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 05/13/18 10:34, Paul Menzel wrote: In QEMU 2.11 a disk is only detected by the AHCI driver and not by libata. On QEMU’s Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), that causes an attached drive not to be detected as that machine doesn’t support AHCI. Here is the output

`ucsi_acpi: probe of USBC000:00 failed with error -12` on Dell XPS 13 9370

2018-05-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Linux 4.17-rc5 shows the error below on the Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable. ``` […] [0.440240] usb: port power management may be unreliable [0.441358] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [0.441367] usbcore: registered new interface

Re: `ucsi_acpi: probe of USBC000:00 failed with error -12` on Dell XPS 13 9370

2018-05-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, As always, thank you for the prompt response. On 05/15/18 18:00, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:34:03PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Linux 4.17-rc5 shows the error below on the Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable. ``` […] [0.440240] usb: port power management

Re: Regression 4.17-rc1: SSD doesn’t properly resume causing system hang (NULL pointer dereference)

2018-04-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bart, On 04/25/18 14:26, Bart Van Assche wrote: On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 07:37 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 24.04.2018 um 23:17 schrieb Bart Van Assche: On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 23:04 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: I applied your change, and rebuilt the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, it looks like

Probe HD-audio devices in parallel (was: azx_probe() called twice)

2018-04-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 04/25/18 14:34, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:29:31 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 04/25/18 13:58, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:48:27 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: With the attached debug patch, `azx_probe()` seems to have been called twice

Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`

2018-04-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Theodore, Am 25.04.2018 um 09:41 schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o: Does this help on your system? Thank you, after figuring out how to apply the paste, yes it helped on my Lenovo X60. commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce Author: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed Apr 25 01:12:32 2018

Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

2018-05-06 Thread Paul Menzel
172b-7230-3a44524e6...@molgen.mpg.de Reported-by: Paul Menzel Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c index 18a42f8f5dc5..e70eba5ea906 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pcieh

QEMU ATA hard disk not detected

2018-05-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, In QEMU 2.11 a disk is only detected by the AHCI driver and not by libata. On QEMU’s Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), that causes an attached drive not to be detected as that machine doesn’t support AHCI. Here is the output with the machine Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9,

Re: `ucsi_acpi: probe of USBC000:00 failed with error -12` on Dell XPS 13 9370

2018-05-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Heikki, On 05/16/18 13:58, Heikki Krogerus wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:02:26AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 06:47:37PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 05/15/18 18:00, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:34:03PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Linux 4.17-rc5

Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

2018-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Command Completed status after writing to the Slot Control register. Link: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-e7-v2-spec-update.html Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8770820b-85a0-172b-7230-3a44524e6...@molgen.mpg.de R

Re: pciehp 0000:00:1c.0:pcie004: Timeout on hotplug command 0x1038 (issued 65284 msec ago)

2018-05-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bjorn, Am 08.05.2018 um 14:34 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 08:59:34AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 07.05.2018 um 23:33 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:33:27AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: commit b0d6f2230e12c85ae3b65a854a53c67c7c1f6406 Author: Bjorn

Re: [PATCH v2] drm/vc4: Fix sleeps during the IRQ handler for DSI transactions.

2017-10-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Eric, Some nit picks where stuff contradicts the coding style. Am Freitag, den 13.10.2017, 17:12 -0700 schrieb Eric Anholt: > VC4's DSI1 has a bug where the AXI connection is broken for 32-bit > writes from the CPU, so we use the DMA engine to DMA 32-bit values > into registers instead.

Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/utils.c:838:5

2017-12-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Luca, Am 18.12.2017 um 19:30 schrieb Luca Coelho: On Wed, 2017-12-13 at 16:32 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote: On Wed, 2017-12-13 at 14:25 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I enabled the undefined behavior sanitizer, and built Linus’ master branch under Ubuntu 17.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0

net/wireless/shipped-certs.c:2:1: error: expected expression at end of input

2017-12-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Building the Linux kernel fails with the error below on Debian Sid/unstable with gcc (Debian 7.2.0-8) 7.2.0. ``` $ git describe v4.15-rc2-79-gfd6d2e506ce6 $ git log --oneline -1 fd6d2e506ce6 Merge tag 'docs-4.15-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux $ time ARCH=i386 make

Re: net/wireless/shipped-certs.c:2:1: error: expected expression at end of input

2017-12-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, On 12/05/17 11:03, Johannes Berg wrote: On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 11:01 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: ``` $ git describe v4.15-rc2-79-gfd6d2e506ce6 $ git log --oneline -1 fd6d2e506ce6 Merge tag 'docs-4.15-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux $ time ARCH=i386 make deb-pkg -j50 […] net

Re: net/wireless/shipped-certs.c:2:1: error: expected expression at end of input

2017-12-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, On 12/05/17 11:31, Johannes Berg wrote: Ah, here we go - you probably don't have "hexdump" installed on this system? Well, I didn’t, but got the error, that hexdump couldn’t be found. After installing it, I got the error above, and sent the message. Ah, ok. Removing the

[Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, With Linux 4.15-rc2 built by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, the error messages below are shown by the Linux kernel. These are new. ``` Dez 06 13:22:24 Ixpees kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x62, date = 2017-04-27 Dez 06 13:22:24 Ixpees kernel: Linux

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-14 Thread Paul Menzel
[Mario from Dell added to CC list.] Dear Alexander, On 12/11/17 17:08, alexander.stef...@infineon.com wrote: On 12/08/17 17:18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I have no access to the system right now, but want to point out, that the log

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-15 Thread Paul Menzel
) occurred continue selftest` [Mario from Dell added to CC list.] Dear Alexander, On 12/11/17 17:08, alexander.stef...@infineon.com wrote: On 12/08/17 17:18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I have no access to the system right now

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mario, On 12/15/17 15:39, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmen...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 5:54 AM To: Limonciello, Mario ; Alexander Steffen ; Jason Gunthorpe Cc: linux-integr...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Alexander, On 12/15/17 15:54, alexander.stef...@infineon.com wrote: […] the added line breaks to the quoted parts really mess up the citation. Can we please try to use MUAs avoiding that, or fixing that manually? Sorry, I'm not sure whether my company has a way for me to avoid using

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mario, On 12/15/17 16:24, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmen...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 9:11 AM To: Limonciello, Mario ; Alexander Steffen ; Jason Gunthorpe Cc: linux-integr...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel

Re: TPM driver breaks S3 suspend

2017-12-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Chris, Thank you for bringin gup the issue. We have a desktop which has S3 suspend (to RAM) problem due to error messages as follows. [ 198.908282] tpm tpm0: Error (38) sending savestate before suspend [ 198.908289] __pnp_bus_suspend(): tpm_pm_suspend+0x0/0x160 returns 38 [

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] v4.15-rc2 on thinkpad x60: ethernet stopped working

2017-12-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Pavel, On 12/10/17 09:39, Pavel Machek wrote: In v4.15-rc2+, network manager can not see my ethernet card, and manual attempts to ifconfig it up did not really help, either. Card is: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller Dmesg says:

Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/utils.c:838:5

2017-12-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kalle, On 12/21/17 11:38, Kalle Valo wrote: Paul Menzel writes: http://pastebin.coelho.fi/7b624f474846da52.txt Thank you. The warning is gone now. Thank you. For the next time, it’d be great to provide the output of `git format-patch -1`, which can be applied with `git am

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Alexander, dear Mimi, On 12/22/17 15:00, alexander.stef...@infineon.com wrote: On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 13:54 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Jason, On 12/08/17 17:18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I have no access to the system

Re: Decreasing time for `rsa_init`

2017-12-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stephan, dear Linux folks, Am 13.07.2017 um 20:20 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am Mittwoch, den 12.07.2017, 19:38 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: On 07/12/17 19:28, Stephan Müller wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2017, 12:59:58 CEST schrieb Paul Menzel: Building CRYPTO_RSA not as module

Re: `pci_apply_final_quirks()` taking half a second

2017-12-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bjorn, Am 08.04.2017 um 17:41 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Measuring where time is spent during boot with `systemd-bootchart` on an Asus A780FullHD, it turns out that half a second is spent in `pci_apply_final_quirks()`. I agree

How to enable output to serial console at run-time?

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, If I want to output the Linux kernel messages to the serial console, but the `console=ttyS…` line is missing on the Linux command line, is there a way to activate that during run-time by, for example, using the sysfs interface? Kind regards, Paul

Is 115200 still the maximum baudrate?

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, The Linux serial console documentation [1] says that 115200 is the maximum supported baudrate. > The maximum baudrate is 115200. Is that still accurate? If yes, where should I look to support higher values? Kind regards, Paul [1]

Re: How to enable output to serial console at run-time?

2017-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, Am 02.11.2017 um 17:53 schrieb Greg KH: On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 04:39:36PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: If I want to output the Linux kernel messages to the serial console, but the `console=ttyS…` line is missing on the Linux command line, is there a way to activate that during run

Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods

2017-08-04 Thread Paul Menzel
you the script(?) please be updated to use HTTPS URLs? Author: Borislav Petkov AuthorDate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:12:27 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar CommitDate: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:26:24 +0200 x86/microcode: Document the three loading methods Paul Menzel recently asked how to load microcode

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: changed some expensive calls of udelay to usleep_range

2017-09-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Matthew, On 08/23/17 17:59, Matthew Tan wrote: Calls to udelay are not preemtable by userspace so userspace applications experience a large (~200us) latency when running on core 0. Instead usleep_range can be used to be more friendly to userspace since it is

Re: meiI: can't suspend (mei_me_pm_runtime_suspend [mei_me] returned -62)

2017-08-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Alexander, On 2017-08-14 08:35, Alexander Usyskin wrote: Can you try rc5? There is the patch included that should fix mei device suspend/resume flow. Commit 557909e195ae (mei: exclude device from suspend direct complete optimization) indeed seems to have fixed this. Thank you. Kind

Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:237 initialize_tlbstate_and_flush+0x120/0x130

2017-09-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Andy, On 09/10/17 19:42, Andy Lutomirski wrote: On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: With Linux built from commit 4dfc2788033d (Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu), I get the warning below on a Lenovo X60t

Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm/32: Load a sane CR3 before cpu_init() on secondary CPUs

2017-09-18 Thread Paul Menzel
ier. Reported-by: Paul Menzel Reported-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: 72c0098d92ce ("x86/mm: Reinitialize TLB state on hotplug and resume") Link: http://lkml

Decrease boot time with AHCI drives?

2018-04-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I am trying to decrease the boot time of the Linux kernel so the LUKS passphrase dialog (in the initrd) is shown as quickly as possible. The devices I test with is a Lenovo X60 and ASRock E350M1 both running with coreboot and the GRUB payload. The goal is to do this without

Commit *driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver* causes regression

2018-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Commit 1455cf8 (driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver) [1], introduced in Linux 4.14-rc1, causes a regression in user space. After disconnecting USB devices, they are still shown as plugged in [2][3]. I seem to be having a similar issue, but with an

Re: Commit *driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver* causes regression

2018-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, On 04/06/18 15:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 02:20:40PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Commit 1455cf8 (driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver) [1], introduced in Linux 4.14-rc1, causes a regression in user space. After disconnecting USB

How to disable tracing at runtime from the Linux kernel command line?

2018-04-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I am trying to reduce the boot time of a standard Linux distribution kernel. Currently, distributions – at least Debian und Ubuntu – enable function tracing. ``` CONFIG_FTRACE=y CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING=y ``` This is

How to disable Linux kernel self-extraction (KERNEL_GZIP, KERNEL_BZIP2, …)?

2018-04-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, I try to decrease boot time, and my system has an SSD and enough space, so loading 18 instead of 12 MB doesn’t make a difference, but the self-extraction is noticeable. So, I like to disable it. From `init/Kconfig`: The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting

Re: How to disable Linux kernel self-extraction (KERNEL_GZIP, KERNEL_BZIP2, …)?

2018-04-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Pavel, Am 22.04.2018 um 12:20 schrieb Pavel Machek: On Fri 2018-04-20 16:36:00, Paul Menzel wrote: I try to decrease boot time, and my system has an SSD and enough space, so loading 18 instead of 12 MB doesn’t make a difference, but the self-extraction is noticeable. So, I like

[PATCH] ALSA: hda: Request driver probe from an async task

2018-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
From: Paul Menzel Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:28:43 +0100 On an ASRock E350M1, with Linux 4.17-rc1 according to `initcall_debug` calling `azx_driver_init` takes sometimes more than a few milliseconds, and up to 200 ms. ``` [2.892598] calling azx_driver_init+0x0/0xfe4 [snd_hda_intel] @ 218

Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Request driver probe from an async task

2018-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 04/23/18 14:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:05:52 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: From: Paul Menzel Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:28:43 +0100 On an ASRock E350M1, with Linux 4.17-rc1 according to `initcall_debug` calling `azx_driver_init` takes sometimes more than

Re: How to disable Linux kernel self-extraction (KERNEL_GZIP, KERNEL_BZIP2, …)?

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Adam, Thank you very much to join the discussion. On 04/24/18 04:08, Adam Borowski wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 07:02:30PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: I try to decrease boot time, and my system has an SSD and enough space, so loading 18 instead of 12 MB doesn’t make a difference, but

Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Request driver probe from an async task

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Takashi, On 04/24/18 14:15, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:59:58 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 04/23/18 14:33, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:30:36 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On 04/23/18 14:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:05:52 +0200, Paul

Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Theodore, On 04/24/18 17:49, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 09:56:21AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 01:48:16PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Since Linux 4.17-rcX, Linux spams a lot of `random: get_random_u32 called from` messages. I believe

Re: Regression 4.17-rc1: SSD doesn properly resume causing system hang (NULL pointer dereference)

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bart, On 04/24/18 19:31, Bart Van Assche wrote: On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 19:10 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Please find the configuration file attached. The log only has `initcall_debug no_console_suspend` added. What I was looking for in the .config is the following: CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT

Re: Regression 4.17-rc1: SSD doesn properly resume causing system hang (NULL pointer dereference)

2018-04-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Bart, Am 24.04.2018 um 23:17 schrieb Bart Van Assche: On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 23:04 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: I applied your change, and rebuilt the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, it looks like, it didn’t make a difference. In that case I don't know what is causing the failure. Can you run

How to move serial8250_init out of the critical path to decrease boot time?

2018-04-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Menzel Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 08:57:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tty/serial/8250: Request driver probe from an async task Currently, according to `initcall_debug` running `serial8250_init` takes around 33 ms on a Lenovo X60 and TUXEDO Book BU1

`do_IRQ: 1.55 No irq handler for vector` on ASRock E350M1

2018-02-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Thomas, On the ASRock E350M1 (AMD A50M), since Linux 4.15 I get the message below. do_IRQ: 1.55 No irq handler for vector Kind regards, Paul smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: i8042 AUX port [serio1] suspend takes a second on Dell XPS 13 9360 and TUXEDO Book 1406

2018-02-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dmitry, Am 30.01.2018 um 19:39 schrieb Paul Menzel: On 01/30/18 19:07, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 09:52:45AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 06:36:34PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I do not know, when it started, but with Linux 4.14-rc8

Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:849:33

2018-01-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On 12/13/17 14:13, Paul Menzel wrote: I enabled the undefined behavior sanitizer, and built Linus’ master branch under Ubuntu 17.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3) 7.2.0. ``` $ grep UBSAN /boot/config-4.15.0-rc3+ CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y

Re: dell-smbios makes wireless card unusable on Dell XPS 13 9360

2018-02-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mario, On 02/06/18 16:58, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmenzel+platform-driver-...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 9:50 AM To: Pali Rohár ; Limonciello, Mario ; it+platform-driver-...@molgen.mpg.de Cc: platform

Re: dell-smbios makes wireless card unusable on Dell XPS 13 9360

2018-02-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mario, On 02/06/18 20:51, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: -Original Message- From: platform-driver-x86-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:platform-driver-x86- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Paul Menzel Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:08 AM To: Limonciello, Mario Cc: Pali

Re: `pci_apply_final_quirks()` taking half a second

2017-12-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Am 29.12.2017 um 17:14 schrieb Alan Stern: On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 04:55:20PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 08.04.2017 um 17:41 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Measuring where time is spent

Re: `pci_apply_final_quirks()` taking half a second

2018-01-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Alan, First, please note, that your mailer (MUA) doesn’t set the references header, which breaks threading for people not having their own answers in the inbox. Am 31.12.2017 um 22:16 schrieb Alan Stern: On Sun, 31 Dec 2017, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 29.12.2017 um 17:14 schrieb Alan

Decreasing time for `rsa_init`

2017-07-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux crypto folks, Building CRYPTO_RSA not as module, but into the Linux kernel, `rsa_init()` takes 130 ms on an ASRock E350M1. (Timings are shown by adding `initcall_debug` to Linux command line [1]. The times are visualized by `analyze_boot.py` from pm-graph [2] or

Re: Decreasing time for `rsa_init`

2017-07-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stephan, Thank you for the quick response. On 07/12/17 19:28, Stephan Müller wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2017, 12:59:58 CEST schrieb Paul Menzel: Building CRYPTO_RSA not as module, but into the Linux kernel, `rsa_init()` takes 130 ms on an ASRock E350M1. (Timings are shown

Re: Decreasing time for `rsa_init`

2017-07-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stephan, Am Mittwoch, den 12.07.2017, 19:38 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > On 07/12/17 19:28, Stephan Müller wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2017, 12:59:58 CEST schrieb Paul Menzel: > > > Building CRYPTO_RSA not as module, but into the Linux kernel, > > >

Re: irq: Invalid fwnode type (2) for irqdomain

2017-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Marc, dear John, Am Donnerstag, den 06.07.2017, 15:21 +0100 schrieb Marc Zyngier: > On 05/07/17 11:41, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > On a Lenovo X60t with coreboot based firmware testing the latest > > > master > >

Early loading of microcode updates with all firmware

2017-06-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, Thank you for recently updating the document *Early load microcode* [1]. My goal is to include all microcode updates from AMD and Intel, as the image is supposed to run on several systems. Therefore, I included the files in the initramfs image, under `/lib/firmware`, and

Re: Early loading of microcode updates with all firmware

2017-06-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, On 06/30/17 13:37, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:44:43PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: But, the microcode is not updated. For example, I have to manually run the command below. Yes, you need something in userspace to trigger that reload. Reading

irq: Invalid fwnode type (2) for irqdomain

2017-07-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On a Lenovo X60t with coreboot based firmware testing the latest master branch from Linus, the message below is new, and isn’t there with Linux 4.12. ``` irq: Invalid fwnode type (2) for irqdomain ``` `git blame kernel/irq/irqdomain.c` shows, the message is added in commit

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jason, dear Alexander, Thank you for your replies. Am 08.12.2017 um 16:56 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe: On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 12:14:04PM +, alexander.stef...@infineon.com wrote: […] Anyway, from the log messages it is clear that tpm_msleep got called seven times with delays of

Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

2017-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jason, On 12/08/17 17:18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I have no access to the system right now, but want to point out, that the log was created by `journactl -k`, so I do not know if that messes with the time stamps. I checked

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:237 initialize_tlbstate_and_flush+0x120/0x130

2017-09-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, With Linux built from commit 4dfc2788033d (Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu), I get the warning below on a Lenovo X60t with a 32-bit CPU. ``` $ dmesg [0.00] Linux version 4.13.0+ (root@d44d03a193d6) (gcc

Re: net/wireless/shipped-certs.c:2:1: error: expected expression at end of input

2017-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Damian, On 12/13/17 08:53, Damian Tometzki wrote: I got. the same Build error. So first you didn’t have hexdump installed, and then after installing it you got it? Removing the generated file fixed the build? Kind regards, Paul

Re: net/wireless/shipped-certs.c:2:1: error: expected expression at end of input

2017-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Damian, On 12/13/17 12:00, Damian Tometzki wrote: Hexdump was already installed in the System. I commented out this step. Please try to reproduce it from a clean environment (`git clean -dfx`, save your .config before), and then please give more details. Kind regards, Paul

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence

2021-01-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, dear Greg, Am 05.01.21 um 18:25 schrieb Greg KH: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 03.11.20 um 19:39 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:35:09 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: According to *Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1* [3], it’s my

[PATCH] init/Kconfig: Fix CPU number in LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT description

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
for the first time. My guess is, that the description was written with the configuration values used in the SUSE in mind. Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 23b2899f7f ("printk: allow increasing the ring buffer depending on the number of CPUs") Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel

Re: Start messages in message buffer missing (dmesg)

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 11.08.20 um 00:13 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 21.07.20 um 17:20 schrieb Paul Menzel: On two identical Dell PowerEdge T440 with Linux 5.4.39 and systemd 242 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers [8086:2020] (rev 07) running `dmesg

[PATCH v2 1/2] init/Kconfig: Fix CPU number in LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT description

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Add Reviewed-by tag init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index d6a0b31b13dc..9dc607e3806f 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ config LOG_CPU_MAX

[PATCH v2 2/2] init/Kconfig: Increase default log buffer size from 128 KB to 512 KB

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
a lot of lines. Therefore, increase the default from 128 KB to 512 KB. Anyone, with limited memory, can still lower it. Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- v2: New patch in series. Is sending it to linux-kernel enough? If not, who to send it also to? init/Kconfig

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000: do not panic on malformed rx_desc

2020-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tong, Thank you for your patch. Am 08.09.20 um 18:22 schrieb Tong Zhang: length may be corrupted in rx_desc How can that be? and lead to panic, so check the sanity before passing it to skb_put [ 167.667701] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:b1e32cc1 len:60224 put:60224

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000: do not panic on malformed rx_desc

2020-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tong, Am 01.10.20 um 09:03 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 08.09.20 um 18:22 schrieb Tong Zhang: length may be corrupted in rx_desc How can that be? and lead to panic, so check the sanity before passing it to skb_put [  167.667701] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:b1e32cc1 len:60224

Linux 5.9: smartpqi: controller is offline: status code 0x6100c

2020-10-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, With Linux 5.9 and $ lspci -nn -s 89: 89:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Adaptec Smart Storage PQI 12G SAS/PCIe 3 [9005:028f] (rev 01) $ more /sys/devices/pci:88/:88:00.0/:89:00.0/host15/scsi_host/host15/driver_version 1.2.8-026

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