Re: [PATCH 2/7] i2c: add info->archdata field

2008-10-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 08:50 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:27:34 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:21 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > Hi Anton, > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:12:53 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > > > If present the info->

Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Régis Odeyé
Hello Everyone, I'm looking for some information about the Extended Addressing Mode (XAEN bit of HID0 register) of PPC32 support in Linux. I do not see anything in the main kernel tree but there may be some patches available ? Any information will be appreciate. Regards. -- Régis ODEYE Kontro

Re: [PATCH] mfd/wm8350: don't export static functions

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Mark, On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:04:16 +0100 Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:47:54PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this: > > > drivers/mfd/wm8350-core.c:1131: error: __ksymtab_wm8350_create_cache

Re: [PATCH] mfd/wm8350: don't export static functions

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Mark, On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:37:22 +0100 Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:31:12PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > I thought that this had been applied, but I have had to apply it to my > > tree today again. > > Samuel doesn't seem to have picked it up

Re: [PATCH 2/7] i2c: add info->archdata field

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:37:55PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 08:50 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:27:34 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:21 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > Hi Anton, > > > > > > > > On T

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:22:48PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > The notifier can be registered before the devices, though it's a little > > bit fishy and fragile. > > > > Easier I suppose to just have OF specific hooks in the bus code

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:36:41PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:22:48PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > The notifier can be registered before the devices, though it's a little > > > bit fishy and fragile.

Re: [PATCH 2/7] i2c: add info->archdata field

2008-10-22 Thread Jean Delvare
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:08:13 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:37:55PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 08:50 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:27:34 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:21

Re: [PATCH] mfd/wm8350: don't export static functions

2008-10-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:31:12PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > I thought that this had been applied, but I have had to apply it to my > tree today again. Samuel doesn't seem to have picked it up (though looking at the CC list you've not sent it to him). I'm going to push another batch of st

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Régis Odeyé wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm looking for some information about the Extended Addressing Mode (XAEN bit of HID0 register) of PPC32 support in Linux. I do not see anything in the main kernel tree but there may be some patches available ? Any information

Re: [PATCH 2/7] i2c: add info->archdata field

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:07:48PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:08:13 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:37:55PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 08:50 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:27:34 +1

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Régis Odeyé
Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Régis Odeyé wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm looking for some information about the Extended Addressing Mode (XAEN bit of HID0 register) of PPC32 support in Linux. I do not see anything in the main kernel tree but there may be some patches available ?

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Régis Odeyé wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Régis Odeyé wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm looking for some information about the Extended Addressing Mode (XAEN bit of HID0 register) of PPC32 support in Linux. I do not see anything in the main ke

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
I'm extremely troubled that it is "not used in the code", surely device_type is checked as a legacy for Open Firmware (otherwise a lot of devices may never be detected!), or does device tree parsing/checking follow a different path for FDT? (absolutely fine with it being removed from new DTS b

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Régis Odeyé
Kumar Gala wrote: So we have XAEN support in the tree.. however non-contiguous is something you'll have to work on yourself. Patches are welcome for this OK. I will let you know about this. Where can I glance through Becky patches ? This is the bulk: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/gi

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Régis Odeyé wrote: of ram. So I need 4GB+IOs (~1GB) of physical addressing space. My plan is to put a part of this ram above of 4GB to keep accesses to the IOs below the 4GB limit. It means non-contiguous ram addressing and XAEN features to be

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:38:03AM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: > I'm extremely troubled that it is "not used in the code", surely > device_type is checked as a legacy for Open Firmware (otherwise a lot of > devices may never be detected!), Checked where? Can you point out a code snippet? (Except f

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Régis Odeyé wrote: of ram. So I need 4GB+IOs (~1GB) of physical addressing space. My plan is to put a part of this ram above of 4GB to keep accesses to the IOs below the 4GB limit. It means non-

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Régis Odeyé
Matt Sealey wrote: I'd also be interested in any work done to enable non-contiguous memory areas. Reading the docs for the MPC8641D though I am not sure you can set up LAWs for it? One thing I wanted to try was installing 4GB in a system and "overlapping" IO (since there is very little of i

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: So to confirm, XAEN support through Becky's patches does support the MPC8641D/e600 cores? Yes, its the only part that has XAEN. Okay I saw a lot of e500/BookE support go past but nothing specific :) NOT supported because

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Kumar Gala wrote: Your bigger issue is if you can setup the DDR controller for the hole you want. I just remembered;; ~~ The CCSR window always takes precedence over all local access windows. However, the CCSR window must not overlap an LAW that maps to the DDR controller. Otherwise, un

Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add 16K/64K pages support for the 44x PPC32 architectures.

2008-10-22 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi Ilya, I just tried your patch on my 440 board because it would help us in our environment. Unfortunately I run into a bug on early boot (mark_bootmem). A log can be found in this mail, this is the bug when running with 64k page size. I tried this with and without your 2/2 265k patch and als

[PATCH] powerpc: XICS - fix getting the server number size

2008-10-22 Thread Sebastien Dugue
The 'ibm,interrupt-server#-size' properties are not cpu nodes properties, but rather live under the interrupt source controller nodes (compatible ibm,ppc-xics). Therefore, this patch moves the detection of this property outside of xics_update_irq_servers() and into xics_init_IRQ(). Also th

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: So to confirm, XAEN support through Becky's patches does support the MPC8641D/e600 cores? Yes, its the only part that has XAEN. Okay I saw a lot of e500/BookE support go pas

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: Your bigger issue is if you can setup the DDR controller for the hole you want. I just remembered;; ~~ The CCSR window always takes precedence over all local access windows. However, the CCSR window must not overlap an L

Re: build failure on powerpc with current -git

2008-10-22 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Rothwell writes: > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:33:10 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > It's a bug in older versions of ld (including 2.16.1) that's fixed in > > > the current version (2

[PATCHv3 1/1] powerpc: Update page in counter for CMM

2008-10-22 Thread Brian King
A new field has been added to the VPA as a method for the client OS to communicate to firmware the number of page ins it is performing when running collaborative memory overcommit. The hypervisor will use this information to better determine if a partition is experiencing memory pressure and needs

Re: [patch] mutex: optimise generic mutex implementations

2008-10-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speed up generic mutex implementations. > > - atomic operations which both modify the variable and return something imply > full smp memory barriers before and after the memory operations involved > (failing atomic_cmpxchg, atomic_add_unless, etc do

Re: [patch] mutex: optimise generic mutex implementations

2008-10-22 Thread David Howells
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speed up generic mutex implementations. > > - atomic operations which both modify the variable and return something imply > full smp memory barriers before and after the memory operations involved > (failing atomic_cmpxchg, atomic_add_unless, etc don't

oops in net_rx_action

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Friesen
I just tried booting a post 2.6.27 -git on a Motorola ATCA6101 (very similar to a Maple board). The first time I booted I got the first log below. I rebooted and got as far as a login prompt. I was able to log in via the serial console, but then got an almost identical oops again, as shown

Re: build failure on powerpc with current -git

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Friesen
Paul Mackerras wrote: Chris, could you try just the following change (my previous patch without the arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper change) and let me know if it fixes things with the ld you use? The build completes with no errors. Haven't actually booted it though. Gets my vote... Chris

Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add 16K/64K pages support for the 44x PPC32 architectures.

2008-10-22 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Ilya, here the snippet you asked for with CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE enabled and bootmem_debug set. ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 0400 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.27-dirty Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size:1521505 Bytes = 1.5 MB Load Addr

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: So to confirm, XAEN support through Becky's patches does support the MPC8641D/e600 cores? Yes, its the only part that has XAEN. Okay I saw a lot of e500/

Re: build failure on powerpc with current -git

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Friesen
Hollis Blanchard wrote: binutils 2.16.1 is the most recent binutils that will build with crosstool, so IMHO it's worth supporting. :) I was wondering about thatwasted a bunch of time trying to build something more recent. Chris ___ Linuxppc-de

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: ~~ The CCSR window always takes precedence over all local access windows. However, the CCSR window must not overlap an LAW that maps to the DDR controller. Otherwise, undefined behavior occurs. ~~ So, it's not really possi

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:46:06PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:36:41PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:22:48PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > The notifier can be registe

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Anton Vorontsov wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:38:03AM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: I'm extremely troubled that it is "not used in the code", surely device_type is checked as a legacy for Open Firmware (otherwise a lot of devices may never be detected!), Checked where? of_find_device_by_

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:40:50PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: > > > Anton Vorontsov wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:38:03AM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: >>> I'm extremely troubled that it is "not used in the code", surely >>> device_type is checked as a legacy for Open Firmware (otherwise a lot

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Anton Vorontsov wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:40:50PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: I think I got it. ;-) You think that I'm not aware of that we _can_ use the device_type for matching the nodes. Well, I'm aware of it, sure we can. ;-) I'm sure you are aware, I am just a little jumpy regardi

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:09:01PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: > Anton Vorontsov wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:40:50PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: >> >> I think I got it. ;-) You think that I'm not aware of that we _can_ >> use the device_type for matching the nodes. Well, I'm aware of it, >> su

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Becky Bruce
On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Matt Sealey wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: Kumar Gala wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: So to confirm, XAEN support through Becky's patches does support the MPC8641D/e600 cores? Yes, its the on

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: XICS - fix getting the server number size

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Sebastien Dugue wrote: The 'ibm,interrupt-server#-size' properties are not cpu nodes properties, but rather live under the interrupt source controller nodes (compatible ibm,ppc-xics). Therefore, this patch moves the detection of this property outside of xics

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_type = "rtc" properties in .dts files

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
Matt Sealey wrote: > Anton Vorontsov wrote: >> We don't want to encourage the device_type usage. It isn't used in the >> code, so we can simply remove it from the dts files. > > I'm extremely troubled that it is "not used in the code", > surely device_type is checked as a legacy for Open Firmwar

build break CONFIG_SPU_FS=n CONFIG_CBE_THERM=y

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
as of 4792adbac9eb41cea77a45ab76258ea10d411173 CONFIG_SPU_FS=n CONFIG_PPC_CELL=y CONFIG_PPC_CELL_NATIVE=y CONFIG_PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE=y CONFIG_CBE_RAS=y CONFIG_PPC_IBM_CELL_RESETBUTTON=y CONFIG_CBE_THERM=y rest mostly pseries_defconfig. MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: modpost: Found 8 section mismat

[PATCH 1/2 kexec-tools] ppc64: new relocatble kernel activation ABI

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
The updates kexec-tools to match the kernel after the patches "kexec exit should not use magic numbers" and "better flag for running relocatable" are applied. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Still proposed change Index: kexec-tools/purgatory/arch/ppc64/v2wrap.S

[PATCH 2/2 kexec-tools] ppc64: segemments are sorted

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
Every time add_segment is called, the segments are sorted. If the first hole in memory is not big enough for the kernel then something besides the kernel may be at Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Found during custom environment testing with several reserved blocks of memory,

[PATCH 3/3] powerpc/ppc64/kdump: better flag for running relocatable

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
The __kdump_flag ABI is overly constraining for future development. As of 2.6.27, the kernel entry point has 4 constraints: Offset 0 is the starting point for the master (boot) cpu (entered with r3 pointing to the device tree structure), offset 0x60 is code for the slave cpus (entered with r3 s

[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: kexec exit should not use magic numbers

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
The relocatable kernel kdump patch (54622f10a6aabb8bb2bdacf3dd070046f03dc246) added a magic flag value in a register to tell purgatory that it should be a panic kernel. This part is wrong and is reverted by this patch. The kernel gets a list of memory blocks and a entry point from user space. Its

Re: [PATCH 2/2 kexec-tools] ppc64: segemments are sorted

2008-10-22 Thread Milton Miller
On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Milton Miller wrote: Every time add_segment is called, the segments are sorted. If the first hole in memory is not big enough for the kernel then something besides the kernel may be at info->segment[0]. --- Found during custom environment testing with several

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > > > The board info has another problem though. We can't remove it, thus > > > we can't implement module_exit() for the 'OF glue'. That's not a problem. Why would you want to remove it? > > And try to solve this problem... maybe then thin

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:04:52PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > > > > > The board info has another problem though. We can't remove it, thus > > > > we can't implement module_exit() for the 'OF glue'. > > That's not a problem. Why would y

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > > > > So if we register the board infos after > > > the controller registered, then nobody will probe the board infos. > > > > See above.  If you're doing it right, there's no problem. > > That is, scan the OF tables early.  Just like PNP

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 08:08 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > We are developing a board based on Freescale 8641D which can get > 4GB > > of ram. So I need 4GB+IOs (~1GB) of physical addressing space. > > My plan is to put a part of this ram above of 4GB to keep accesses > > to the IOs below the 4GB

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Becky Bruce wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Matt Sealey wrote: Yeah so I saw BookE and e500 stuff go past but nothing specific for e600/XAEN. I mailed Becky and got no response. I'm glad to know it's in there though, somewhere. Huh? I have one mail from you, on Sep 1, to which I resp

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 08:08 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: We are developing a board based on Freescale 8641D which can get 4GB of ram. So I need 4GB+IOs (~1GB) of physical addressing space. My plan is to put a part of this ram above of 4GB to keep accesses to the

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:52:46PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > > > > > > So if we register the board infos after > > > > the controller registered, then nobody will probe the board infos. > > > > > > See above.  If you're doing it right

Re: Extended Addressing Mode

2008-10-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:21 -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: > > Because we're Genesi! And we have a firmware solution that > kind of has to keep 32-bit pointers in the unlikely event that > someone actually uses the client interface (besides yaboot!). > > Having I/O in the 36-bit range could cause al

Re: build failure on powerpc with current -git

2008-10-22 Thread Hollis Blanchard
(Oops, resending in plain text...) On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stephen Rothwell writes: > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:33:10 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It's a bug in older versions of ld (including 2.16.1) that's fi

Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Fix problem with max number of QPs and CQs in systems with different adapters

2008-10-22 Thread Roland Dreier
thanks, applied ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Re: [PATCH]IB/ehca:reject dynamic memory add/remove

2008-10-22 Thread Roland Dreier
thanks, applied with a slightly expanded changelog. ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: kexec exit should not use magic numbers

2008-10-22 Thread Simon Horman
[ Added Mohan Kumar to CC list ] On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:39:18PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote: > The relocatable kernel kdump patch (54622f10a6aabb8bb2bdacf3dd070046f03dc246) > added a magic flag value in a register to tell purgatory that it should > be a panic kernel. This part is wrong and is

ppc64_defconfig build warnings

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, Things are getting better. Here are the messages from a ppc64_defconfig build this morning (Linus' tree plus a merge of DaveM's pending network tree): kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_add_time_stamp': kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:969: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long lo

Re: build failure on powerpc with current -git

2008-10-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:50:25AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > >> binutils 2.16.1 is the most recent binutils that will build with >> crosstool, so IMHO it's worth supporting. :) > > I was wondering about thatwasted a bunch of time trying to build > something more

Re: hugetlbfs for ppc440 - kernel BUG

2008-10-22 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:50:30PM -0700, Satya wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ben, > > Look here: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/zeptoos/hugepages/ > > > > thanks, > > ./satya > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt < > >

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/ppc64/kdump: better flag for running relocatable

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Neuling
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The __kdump_flag ABI is overly constraining for future development. > > As of 2.6.27, the kernel entry point has 4 constraints: Offset 0 is > the starting point for the master (boot) cpu (entered with r3 pointing > to the device tree structure), offse

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/ppc64/kdump: better flag for running relocatable

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Mackerras
Milton Miller writes: > Move the flag to 0x5c, 1 word before the secondary cpu entry point at > 0x60. Use the copy at address 0 not the one in the base kernel image to > make it easier on kexec-tools. Why is it easier on kexec-tools? Doesn't kexec-tools know where it put the kernel? I'd much r

[PATCH] powerpc: print physical_start for the relocatable kernel

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Neuling
Print physical start address for the relocatable kernel. Also fixes this warning: arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c:447:5: warning: "kernstart_addr" is not defined Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/ppc64/kdump: better flag for running relocatable

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Mackerras
Paul Mackerras writes: > Milton Miller writes: > > > Move the flag to 0x5c, 1 word before the secondary cpu entry point at > > 0x60. Use the copy at address 0 not the one in the base kernel image to > > make it easier on kexec-tools. > > Why is it easier on kexec-tools? Doesn't kexec-tools know

[PATCH] Work around ld bug in older binutils

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Mackerras
Commit 549e8152de8039506f69c677a4546e5427aa6ae7 ("powerpc: Make the 64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable") added lines to vmlinux.lds.S to add the extra sections needed to implement a relocatable kernel. However, those lines seem to trigger a bug in older versions of GNU ld (such as

Re: [patch] mutex: optimise generic mutex implementations

2008-10-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Speed up generic mutex implementations. > > > > - atomic operations which both modify the variable and return something > > imply > > full smp memory barriers before and after the memory oper

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:04 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > So if we register the board infos after > > the controller registered, then nobody will probe the board infos. > > See above. If you're doing it right, there's no problem. > That is, scan the OF tables early. Just like PNP tables > ge

linux-next: rr tree build failure

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Rusty, Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c: In function 'mm_needs_global_tlbie': arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c:117: error: implicit declaration of function '__cpus_setall' Caused by commit 20ec1a8465bd6d2e7e68fa

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > > > So have it live in the __init text section... > > Won't work, unfortunately. I2C devices are created by the > i2c controllers, via drivers/of_i2c.c  of_register_i2c_devices(). And I'm pointing out a way to have the normal I2C core code

[PATCH] powerpc: print physical_start for the relocatable kernel

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Neuling
Print physical start address for the relocatable kernel. Also fixes this warning: arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c:447:5: warning: "kernstart_addr" is not defin Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+),

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:04 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > So if we register the board infos after > > > the controller registered, then nobody will probe the board infos. > > > > See above. If you're doing it right, there's no pr

Re: [PATCH 4/7] gpiolib: implement dev_gpiochip_{add,remove} calls

2008-10-22 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > --- a/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c > +++ b/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c > @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_client *client, > struct pcf857x  *gpio; > int status; >   > -

linux-next: ttydev tree build failure

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Alan, Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: drivers/char/hvc_console.c: In function 'hvc_set_winsz': drivers/char/hvc_console.c:532: warning: passing argument 2 of 'tty_do_resize' from incompatible pointer type drivers/char/hvc_console.c:532: error: too many arg