On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:27:42PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > Actually I think David might have been wrong about mips. afaict its
> > dma_free_coherent() is callable under local_irq_disable(), so ARM SMP is
> > the sole exception?
>
> All I recall at this point was getting some arch-spec
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:57:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:46:03 +0200 Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ...
> >
> > All my testers have reported back that with these 5 patches applied they can
> > now run with a 2.6.24 kernel the same way they ran before.
On Monday 18 February 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Russell, Ralf: is there something we can do here to relax this requirement?
>
> I'm thinking that perhaps we can do some rcu/refcounting tricks: launch the
> IPI from within dma_free_coherent(), but don't wait for it to complete.
> When all CPUs
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:02 +, Russell King wrote:
> Another solution jejb suggested was to make dma_free_coherent() lazy,
> but (a) I'm unconvinced that this'll work with drivers which
> constantly
> alloc+free in IRQ context since there's generally only 2MB of VM space
> for such mappings, an
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:57:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But arm and mips require enabled local irqs because their
> dma_free_coherent() needs to do a cross-cpu IPI call. Presumably because
> of certain unusual TLB protocols.
Consider that TLB flushing needs to call a function on another
On Mon, Feb 18 2008 at 14:57 +0200, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:46:03 +0200 Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> All my testers have reported back that with these 5 patches applied they can
>> now run with a 2.6.24 kernel the same way they ra
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:46:03 +0200 Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> All my testers have reported back that with these 5 patches applied they can
> now run with a 2.6.24 kernel the same way they ran before. However there is
> that reported issue, with the dma_free_coherent WARN_
On Sun, Feb 17 2008 at 19:24 +0200, James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 18:46 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 14 2008 at 20:47 +0200, Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Submitted are a new set of patches, that fix lots of problems
>>> with the gdth
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 18:46 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14 2008 at 20:47 +0200, Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Submitted are a new set of patches, that fix lots of problems
> > with the gdth driver.
> >
> > It fixes the following problems:
> > - scan for drives on hosts.
On Thu, Feb 14 2008 at 20:47 +0200, Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Submitted are a new set of patches, that fix lots of problems
> with the gdth driver.
>
> It fixes the following problems:
> - scan for drives on hosts. (Already in mainline)
> - truly fixes the exit/reboot problems but
Submitted are a new set of patches, that fix lots of problems
with the gdth driver.
It fixes the following problems:
- scan for drives on hosts. (Already in mainline)
- truly fixes the exit/reboot problems but does call flush() before
reboot.
- fix crash when accessing array with icpcon manageme
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