Re: [2.6 patch] x86: add instrumentation menu

2007-10-22 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: It seems commit 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9 was incomplete due to a clash with the x86 architecture merge. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks. Will go Linus wards with our next pull request. tglx - To

Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations

2007-10-22 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Monday 22 October 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: It's almost always a bug to do spin_lock_irq() when local interrupts are disabled.  However iirc when we've tried to add runtime debugging to catch that, it triggered false-positives which made the

Re: Regression: 2.6.23-rc9 okay, 2.6.23.1 resume problems

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 22 October 2007 16:11, Mark Lord wrote: Rafael, What happens to the jiffies variable on resume from RAM, and from DISK? Do we restore it to the value it had at suspend, or just leave it be with whatever? The answer has to

[Git pull] x86 updates

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
lapic_shutdown for x86_64 x86: add safe_smp_processor_id for x86_64 x86: unify crash_32/64.c Nick Piggin (1): x86: lock bitops Rafael J. Wysocki (1): x86: Save registers in saved_context during suspend and hibernation Thomas Gleixner (19): x86: Add BITS to allow simple

Re: x86_64 and AMD with C1E

2007-10-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 10/24/2007 05:26 PM, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: I fill something wrong here. Is it possible to reduce the amount of timer interrupts? Is it possible to force enable C1,C2 and C3 states when c1e disabled? How are you disabling C1E?

Re: [PATCH] x86: Simplify cpu_idle_wait

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Venki Pallipadi wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:28:48AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: - set_cpus_allowed(current, tmp); + smp_mb(); + /* kick all the CPUs so that they exit out of pm_idle */ + smp_call_function(do_nothing, NULL, 0, 0); I think the last

Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote: I believe that the following is the output you are looking for - sorry for the delay - between doctors and grandkids I was ready for a few pain pills and a long nap. Hope you feel better again ! I suspect you often feel the same way after

Re: [PATCH] [3/3] Enable ACPI extended century handling for 32bit too

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Not that it matters much, see comment in the code. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c |7 --- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c

Re: CPA spam in dmesg (no pte level 0)

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: I enabled pretty much all debugging on 2.6.24-0cf975e16927fd70f34cee20d3856246c13bb4c8 and CPA code continuosly spams dmesg like this: [ 24.10] CPA 81008000 no pte level 0 [ 24.52] PGD 8063 PUD 0 [ 24.52] CPA

Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote: Thomas - Attached is the output I believe you requested (standard boot - ommiting the NOHPET directive) Unless you want to try something else i will run in this configuration today to try and verify that the problem is still with us. Thanks

Re: [PATCH] [1/5] CPA: Split static_protections into required_static_prot and advised_static_prot

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: There is a big difference between NX and RO. NX absolutely has to be cleared or the kernel will fail while RO just can be set, but does not need to. And for a large page area not setting NX if there is a area below it that needs it is essential, while

Re: [PATCH] [1/5] CPA: Split static_protections into required_static_prot and advised_static_prot

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:56:02PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: There is a big difference between NX and RO. NX absolutely has to be cleared or the kernel will fail while RO just can be set, but does not need

Re: [PATCH] [3/5] CPA: Make advised protection check truly advisory

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Only force RO in the advisory protection checks when all pages in the range are RO. Previously it would trigger when any page in the range was ro. I believe this will make try_preserve_large_page much safer to use. It might be quite useful to know

Re: [PATCH] [1/5] CPA: Split static_protections into required_static_prot and advised_static_prot

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Note the behaviour for pageattr and thus DEBUG_RODATA / debugging sitations where you don't care about your TLB this does not change, this makes only a difference for the initial init_32 direct mapping setup. Your patches do change the

Re: [PATCH] [3/5] CPA: Make advised protection check truly advisory

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 16:38:35 Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Only force RO in the advisory protection checks when all pages in the range are RO. Previously it would trigger when any page in the range

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
/power x86 PM: consolidate suspend and hibernation code x86 PM: update stale comments Thomas Gleixner (6): x86: avoid unused variable warning in mm/init_64.c x86: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: enable after mem_init() x86: introduce page pool in cpa x86: cpa, use page pool

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: So Thomas, don't do this. I don't like it. The same way I didn't like seeing Ingo trying to mix in a kgdb pull into his x86 pull. Keep these things separate - git is *really* good at having multiple branches

[git pull] hrtimer/ntp bugfixes

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull hrtimer and ntp bugfixes from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master Following problems are addressed by these patches: - ntp: fix incorrect drift compensation - hrtimer: fix a stupid restart handling thinko, which keeps a

Re: [PATCH] [3/5] CPA: Make advised protection check truly advisory

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) I care about RO as much as I care about the NX correctness. That's the same logic and the same problem. If we have overlapping regions, then we need to split large pages. Otherwise both protections

[PATCH] x86: remove over noisy debug printk

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
pageattr-test.c contains a noisy debug printk that people reported. The condition under which it prints (randomly tapping into a mem_map[] hole and not being able to c_p_a() there) is valid behavior and not interesting to report. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked

Re: futex local DoS on most architectures

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
for noting that it is still unfixed. cu Adrian [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/474 Subject: futex: disable PI/robust on archs w/o valid implementation From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have to disable the complete PI/robust functionality for those archs, which do

Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPA: Flush the caches when setting pages not present v2

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: The AMD64 pci-gart code sets pages not present to prevent cache coherency problems. When doing this it is safer to flush the caches too so that there are no cache lines left over from when the pages were still mapped. So consider clearing of the

Re: [PATCH] [1/8] CPA: Remove my copyright notice

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Not much left from the original code and I don't want my name on it because there is code in there I disagree with. I don't think any of the Ben inspired code is left in there either, but I left his name in for now. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

Re: [PATCH] [1/8] CPA: Fix gbpages support in try_preserve_lage_page

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Use correct page sizes and masks for GB pages in try_preserve_large_page() This prevents a boot hang on a GB capable system with CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES enabled. Doh, yes. Applied. Thanks, tglx Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] [1/5] Only do century BCD conversion when we know the RTC is BCD

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Minor logic fix. The century change was previously always BCD, even when the CMOS data would report itself not being BCD. I checked that whole rtc / BCD logic again. We always set RTC_ALWAYS_BCD: #ifndef RTC_PORT #define RTC_PORT(x)(0x70 + (x))

Re: [PATCH] [8/8] RFC: Fix some EFI problems

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008 21:04:06 Thomas Gleixner wrote: And you just copied the real bug in that logic as well: set_memory_uc(md-virt_addr, size); Oops you're right. I wanted to fix that, but didn't. Ok I'll put up my brown

Re: [PATCH] [7/8] Implement true end_pfn_mapped for 32bit

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Even on 32bit 2MB pages can map more memory than is in the true max_low_pfn if end_pfn is not highmem and not aligned to 2MB. Add a end_pfn_map similar to x86-64 that accounts for this fact. This is important for code that really needs to know about

Re: [PATCH] [8/8] RFC: Fix some EFI problems

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: From code review the EFI memory map handling has a couple of problems: - The test for _WB memory was reversed so it would set cache able memory to uncached - It would always set a wrong uninitialized zero address to uncached (so I suspect it always

Re: [PATCH] [1/5] Only do century BCD conversion when we know the RTC is BCD

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: So the warning comes a bit late :) I suspect if this was wrong before it would not have been noticed because user space hwclock would work around it. And how exaclty does it work around ? By setting the binary cmos clock with BCD values ? The

Re: [PATCH] [1/2] CPA: Fix set_memory_x for ioremap v2

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: There would be several possible ways to fix this: - Simply don't set the NX bit in the original ioremap and drop set_memory_x and add a ioremap_exec(). That would be my preferred solution, but unfortunately has been dismissed before - Drop all __pas and

Re: git-x86 mm branch compile error

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Kevin Winchester wrote: Kevin Winchester wrote: CC arch/x86/mm/pageattr.o arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c: In function ‘change_page_attr_set_clr’: arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:778: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of ‘cpa_check_alias’ make[1]: ***

Re: [PATCH] [7/8] Implement true end_pfn_mapped for 32bit

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ #define max_pfn_mapped end_pfn_map #else #include asm/page_32.h -#define max_pfn_mapped max_low_pfn +#define max_pfn_mapped end_pfn_map We can nuke either max_pfn_mapped or end_pfn_map

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that clockevents_program_event() actually fails when this happens - I am surprised that this is not causing observeable

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: can you please apply the following patch ? I really should have thought about that, when I fixed the above one. I still get the bug with this patch. At least I'm now certain it happens during

Re: 2.6.24-git: kmap_atomic() WARN_ON()

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi Thomas, On Thursday, 7 of February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: current mainline triggers: Has the issue been fixed in the meantime? Nope. Just for reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/14/38 looks frighteningly similar. Thanks

Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Linus, please pull hrtimer fixes from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which

[GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
() in clockevents_program_event(). The second patch prevents a false positive of the same WARN_ON(). Fixes are confirmed to solve http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/137 Thanks, tglx --- Thomas Gleixner (2): hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow hrtimer: catch expired

Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:37:49PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Linus, please pull hrtimer fixes from: ssh

Re: futex local DoS on most architectures

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: This patch is intended for easy backporting and needs to be cleaned up further for current mainline. So... I queued up this version with a cc to stable under the assumption that this is the patch which should be applied to 2.6.x.y, but this

[PATCH 1/2] futex: fix init order

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
queues before the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/futex.c | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/futex.c

[PATCH 2/2] futex: runtime enable pi and robust functionality

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
and the PI/robust features are enabled. The relevant syscalls return -ENOSYS and the robust list exit code is blocked, when the detection fails. Fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/149 Originally reported by: Lennart Buytenhek Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup not working under 3.6 - RT patch set seem to break it

2012-10-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: On 29/10/12 20:14, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: Unless RT patchset is the culprit. Hm.. that would be unexpected, but I guess it is worth a shot. I'll let you know what happens without -rt. Ha, this is exciting, vanilla 3.6.4 works, with -rt10 patch it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.4-rt10

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.4-rt10 release. This is just an update to 3.6.4 with no RT related changes FYI, please disable SLUB and switch back to SLAB. Seems I took a bit too naive approach of making it suitable for RT. Thanks

Re: [PATCH] slub: Use the correct per cpu slab on CPU_DEAD

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Correct this by extending the arguments of unfreeze_partials with the target cpu number and use per_cpu_ptr instead of this_cpu_ptr. Passing the kmem_cache_cpu pointer instead simplifies this a bit

Re: [PATCH] Fix crypto api init for 3.6.4-rt10

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Milan Broz wrote: Fix crypto api for 3.6.4-rt10 (broken only in realtime patchset) In peterz-srcu-crypto-chain.patch the blocking notifier is changed to srcu notifier and added initialization to module init fucntion. Later, in

Re: Process Hang in __read_seqcount_begin

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Peter LaDow wrote: Anyway, based on earlier discussion, is there any reason not to use a lock (presuming any solution properly takes into account possible recursion)? I understand that the mainline is protected, but perhaps in the RT version we can use seqlock (and

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.4-rt11

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.4-rt11 release. Changes since 3.6.3-rt10: * Crypto wreckage fix (Milan Broz) Another proof why copy and paste should be forbidden, but if that would happen most of us would be serving time. * Another attempt to tame SLUB My

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.4-rt11

2012-10-31 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Paul Gortmaker wrote: [[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.4-rt11] On 31/10/2012 (Wed 02:19) Thomas Gleixner wrote: Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.4-rt11 release. The rt11 content is present on master in the 3.6-rt patch repo: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.5-rt14

2012-11-01 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.5-rt14 release. 3.6.4-rt12 is an intermediate release with a few changes. 3.6.5-rt13 is an update to 3.6.5 and 3.6.5-rt14 has a fix for my stupidity to release from the wrong tree missing a fix for x86-32. Changes since 3.6.3-rt11: * Fix the

Re: [PATCH RT 3/4] net: netfilter: Serialize xt_write_recseq sections on RT

2012-11-01 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Peter LaDow wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: From: Thomas Gleixner t...@linutronix.de The netfilter code relies only on the implicit semantics of local_bh_disable() for serializing wt_write_recseq sections. RT breaks

RE: [PATCH 1/3] alarmtimer: Replace the spinlock rtcdev_lock with mutex

2012-11-01 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Liu, Chuansheng wrote: From: Oliver Neukum [mailto:oneu...@suse.de] On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:20:55 Chuansheng Liu wrote: When do code reviewing, found no special requirement to use spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore, because alarmtimer_get_rtcdev() is

Re: [PATCH 2/3] alarmtimer: Using the alarmtimer_get_rtcdev for all posix clock interface

2012-11-01 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Chuansheng Liu wrote: Some posix clock interface directly use the variable rtcdev, cleanup it here by alarmtimer_get_rtcdev(). Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng chuansheng@intel.com --- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 13 ++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+),

Re: [PATCH RT 3/4] net: netfilter: Serialize xt_write_recseq sections on RT

2012-11-01 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Peter LaDow wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner t...@linutronix.de wrote: Cough. You are missing a boat load of crucial fixes. There is a damned good reason why 3.0.stable got 12 updates and the -rt version 14. I don't doubt there are. But we've

Re: [PATCH] IRQ CORE: irq_work_queue function return value not used.

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 22:24 +0900, anish kumar wrote: From: anish kumar anish198519851...@gmail.com As no one is using the return value of irq_work_queue function it is better to just make it void. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.5-rt15

2012-11-02 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.5-rt15 brown paper bag release. Changes since 3.6.5-rt14: * Fix typos and other stupidities^Wcrimes committed by an overworked and tired RT maintainer (courtesy Paul Gortmaker) The embarrasing delta patch against 3.6.5-rt14 is appended

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.2-rt4

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.2-rt4 release. rt4 is just an update to 3.6.2. The not announced 3.6.1-rt3 is an intermediate release with a single change. Changes since 3.6.1-rt2: * Remove the softirq noise printk The delta patch against 3.6.1-rt2 is appended below and

Re: [PATCH v5] posix timers: allocate timer id per process

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
B1;2601;0cOn Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote: Patch replaces global idr with global hash table for posix timers and makes timer ids unique not globally, but per process. Next free timer id is type of integer and stored on signal struct (posix_timer_id). If free timer id reaches

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND 2] Take over futex of dead task only if FUTEX_WAITERS is not set

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Darren, Siddhesh, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Darren Hart wrote: Hi Siddesh, Thanks for the patch and your work to isolate it in the glibc bug 14076. On 10/21/2012 08:20 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: In futex_lock_pi_atomic, we consider that if the value in the futex variable is 0 with

Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:30:26PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: I fetched the series from your arch-tile branch and built it, and it works fine. It looks good from my inspection: Acked-by: Chris Metcalf cmetc...@tilera.com Thanks; Acked-by

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.3-rt6

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.3-rt6 release. rt6 is just an update to 3.6.3. The not announced 3.6.2-rt5 is an intermediate release with a single change. Changes since 3.6.2-rt4: * Make the early printk changes work (hopefully) everywhere The new patch queue also

Re: [PATCH] tile: support GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Jeff King wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: I agree that this is a common issue. Acked-by/Reviewed-by mails come in after the fact that the patch has been committed to an immutable (i.e no-rebase mode) branch or if the change

Re: [PATCH v5] posix timers: allocate timer id per process

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 11:40 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote: This patch is required CRIU project (www.criu.org). To migrate processes with posix timers we have to make sure, that we can restore posix timer with proper id. Currently, this is not

Re: [PATCH v5] posix timers: allocate timer id per process

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 23:47 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Not so good to me. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet eduma...@google.com And that should be either an Acked-by or a Reviewed-by. You can't sign off on patches which have not been

Re: [PATCH] genirq: provide means to retrigger parent

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Kevin Hilman wrote: Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk writes: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:07:49PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: From: Thomas Gleixner t...@linutronix.de Attempts to retrigger nested threaded IRQs currently fail because they have

Re: irq/manage.c wrong comment( ? )

2012-10-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, anish kumar wrote: ping... Oh well. On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 00:32 +0900, anish kumar wrote:? Hello tglx, I just found the below inconsistency while going through the code. kernel/irq/manage.c if (new-flags IRQF_ONESHOT) { /* *

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND 2] Take over futex of dead task only if FUTEX_WAITERS is not set

2012-10-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: Now there is a different solution to that problem. Do not look at the user space value at all and enforce a lookup of possibly available pi_state. If pi_state can be found, then the new incoming locker T3 blocks on that pi_state and

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.1-rt1 release. This is a pretty straight forward move from the 3.4-rt series which includes a few significant updates which need to be backported to the 3.x-rt stable series: * Make interrupt randomness work again on RT. Based on the 3.x.y

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 15:46 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: So instead of splitting the softirq threads I split the softirq locks so different softirqs can be handled seperately. If a softirq is raised in the context of a thread

Re: [PATCH 2/9] ARM: export set_irq_flags

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
either need to replace the call to set_irq_flags with something else or export that function. This patch does the latter. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de Cc: Magnus Damm d...@opensource.se Cc: Linus Walleij linus.wall...@linaro.org Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki r...@sisk.pl Cc: Thomas

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 18:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: I've started looking at playing with the NAPI code again, and trying to see if I can add an ENAPI interface (Even Newer API), where the driver uses its own interrupt thread

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 15:46 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: The RT patch against 3.6.1 can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.6/patch-3.6.1-rt1.patch.xz The split quilt queue is available

Re: [PATCH RFC] irq: Set CPU affinity as soon as the irq thread is created

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 18:07 -0500, Sankara Muthukrishnan wrote: Hi there, This also affects mainline. Please Cc LKML (as I did). As irq_thread_check_affinity is called inside the while loop in the IRQ thread, the core affinity is set only

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.1-rt1

2012-10-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 20:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: 0007-stomp-machine-deal-clever-with-stopper-lock.patch With this one, things have changed quite a bit. I'll take a deeper look at what you did and figure out how this applies to

[GIT PULL] timers for 3.7

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest timers-core-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-core-for-linus Thanks, tglx -- Arnd Bergmann (1): time/jiffies: bring back unconditional LATCH definition Dan Carpenter (1):

Re: [GIT PULL] timers for 3.7

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Linus, please pull the latest timers-core-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-core-for-linus Forgot to add the short description: * Bug fixes (one for a long standing dead loop

Re: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support with irq thread

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Chuansheng Liu wrote: In our system, there is one edge interrupt, and we want it to be irq thread with IRQS_ONESHOT, and found in handle_edge_irq(), even with IRQS_ONESHOT, the irq is still unmasked without care of flag IRQS_ONESHOT. It causes IRQS_ONESHOT can not

RE: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support with irq thread

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Liu, Chuansheng wrote: -Original Message- From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:t...@linutronix.de] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 8:32 PM To: Liu, Chuansheng Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support

RE: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support with irq thread

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Liu, Chuansheng wrote: -Original Message- From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:t...@linutronix.de] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 8:46 PM To: Liu, Chuansheng Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support

RE: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support with irq thread

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Liu, Chuansheng wrote: -Original Message- From: anish kumar [mailto:anish198519851...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 11:25 PM To: Liu, Chuansheng Cc: Thomas Gleixner; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt

RE: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support with irq thread

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Liu, Chuansheng wrote: On SMP an interrupt which is raised after the ack() again before the handler finishes, can invoke another delivery on a different CPU, which then sees the IRQ_INPROGESS flag, masks it and flags it PENDING. When the primary handler on the first

RE: [PATCH] genirq: for edge interrupt IRQS_ONESHOT support with irq thread

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Liu, Chuansheng wrote: But IRQS_ONESHOT does not work well for edge interrupt. And pasting the IRQS_ONESHOT description: * IRQS_ONESHOT- irq is not unmasked in primary handler Right, and edge type interrupts doe not support it. Can we do

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND 2] Take over futex of dead task only if FUTEX_WAITERS is not set

2012-10-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Darren Hart wrote: On 10/23/2012 01:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Now the proposed change - if (unlikely(ownerdied || !(curval FUTEX_TID_MASK))) { + if (unlikely(ownerdied || + !(curval (FUTEX_TID_MASK | FUTEX_WAITERS

Re: [PATCH] hrtimer:__run_hrtimer races with enqueue_hrtimer

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, he, bo wrote: From: Yanmin Zhang yanmin.zh...@intel.com We hit a kernel panic at __run_hrtimer=BUG_ON(timer-state != HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK). 2[ 10.226053, 3] kernel BUG at /home/android/xiaobing/ymz/r4/hardware/intel/linux-2.6/kernel/hrtimer.c:1228! Basically,

Re: [PATCH V2] hrtimer:__run_hrtimer races with enqueue_hrtimer

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Yanmin Zhang wrote: Basically, __run_hrtimer has a race with enqueue_hrtimer. When __run_hrtimer calls NAK. See my reply to V1. It's not a race in the core code. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: [PATCH 01/16] math128: Introduce various 128bit primitives

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 11:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Peter Zijlstra pet...@infradead.org wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 11:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: So can we control this by restricting the users and avoiding the overflow?

RE: [PATCH] hrtimer:__run_hrtimer races with enqueue_hrtimer

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:t...@linutronix.de] Your code is returning HRTIMER_RESTART from the timer callback and at the same time it starts the timer from some other context. That's what needs to be fixed. The timer user should fix it. But could

Re: [PATCH 01/16] math128: Introduce various 128bit primitives

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 11:12 -0700, Juri Lelli wrote: - scale down (right by 10) incoming parameters as to do internal math with ~1us resolution (and scale up outgoing params) Would scaling down by 9 be sufficient? That way the resolution is

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.3-rt7

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.3-rt7 release. Changes since 3.6.3-rt6: * Enable SLUB for RT Last time I looked at SLUB for RT (some years ago) it was just way more painful than dealing with SLAB, but Christoph Lameter has done major surgery on the SLUB code

Re: Process Hang in __read_seqcount_begin

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Peter LaDow wrote: (I've added netfilter and linux-rt-users to try to pull in more help). On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com wrote: Upstream kernel is fine, there is no race, as long as : local_bh_disable() disables BH and

Re: Process Hang in __read_seqcount_begin

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Peter LaDow wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com wrote: If this were safe, we wouldn't be seeing this lockup and your patch wouldn't be needed. So it seems that your patch doesn't really address the issue that we are not sure a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.3-rt7

2012-10-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.3-rt7 release. Changes since 3.6.3-rt6: * Enable SLUB for RT Last time I looked at SLUB for RT (some years ago) it was just way more painful than dealing with SLAB, but Christoph

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.6.3-rt7

2012-10-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Anca Emanuel wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Thomas Gleixner t...@linutronix.de wrote: Looks like CONFIG_NUMA=y exposes explosions. I just noticed that none of the machines which are in my basic set of test systems have that enabled. /me goes to do some

[PATCH] cpufreq: powernow-k8: Remove bogus smp_processor_id() usage

2012-10-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
...@kernel.org Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki r...@sisk.pl Cc: Andreas Herrmann andreas.herrma...@amd.com Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner t...@linutronix.de --- drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 11 +-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers

[PATCH] slub: Use the correct per cpu slab on CPU_DEAD

2012-10-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
of the cpu on which this is called. So we fail to look at the partials of the dead cpu. Correct this by extending the arguments of unfreeze_partials with the target cpu number and use per_cpu_ptr instead of this_cpu_ptr. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner t...@linutronix.de --- mm/slub.c |8

Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: powernow-k8: Remove bogus smp_processor_id() usage

2012-10-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Thomas. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 07:29:25PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: This is fully preemptible non cpu bound context though the comment in the code says: * Must run on @pol-cpu. cpufreq core is responsible for ensuring

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.3-rt8

2012-10-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.3-rt8 release. Changes since 3.6.3-rt7: * Fix the SLUB fallout on NUMA machines I missed to fixup the smp function calls which can result in a deadlock on RT. * Fix a mainline issue with cpufreq/powernow-k8 (Same patch is

Re: irq_set_chained_handler() called too early for hwirq to be initialized

2012-10-28 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Roland Stigge wrote: consider arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/irq.c: irq_set_chained_handler() is called at a point where it accesses irq_to_desc(IRQ_LPC32XX_SUB2IRQ)-irq_data.hwirq but which is not yet initialized. None of the functions which are called inside of

Re: irq_set_chained_handler() called too early for hwirq to be initialized

2012-10-28 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Roland Stigge wrote: On 28/10/12 18:34, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Roland Stigge wrote: consider arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/irq.c: irq_set_chained_handler() is called at a point where it accesses irq_to_desc(IRQ_LPC32XX_SUB2IRQ)-irq_data.hwirq but which

[ANNOUNCE] 3.6.3-rt9

2012-10-28 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Dear RT Folks, I'm pleased to announce the 3.6.3-rt9 release. Changes since 3.6.3-rt8: * hrtimer fix for interrupt stall case (Watanabe) * Disable RCU_FAST_NO_HZ. Uses a timer_list timer in the guts of the irq disable idle code. Needs some thought * Netfilter RT workaround *

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