Re: [Patch 3/6] Modify ptrace code to use Hardware Breakpoint interfaces

2009-06-09 Thread K.Prasad
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:13:45PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:05:24PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: > > Modify the ptrace code to use the hardware breakpoint interfaces for > > user-space. > > > > Signed-off-by: K.Prasad > > --- > > arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 47 > >

[PATCH] powerpc: Add configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
Add the option to build the code under arch/powerpc with -Werror. The intention is to make it harder for people to inadvertantly introduce warnings in the arch/powerpc code. It needs to be configurable so that if a warning is introduced, people can easily work around it while it's being fixed. Th

Re: [Patch 2/6] Introduce PPC64 specific Hardware Breakpoint interfaces

2009-06-09 Thread K.Prasad
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:11:58PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:05:11PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote: Hi David, Sorry for the delay in response below. In the meanwhile, I discovered an issue in detecting stray exceptions that affected user-space handling of breakpoints.

Re: "next" branch update

2009-06-09 Thread Timur Tabi
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi ! > > I've updated my "next" branch with the following patches. We're getting > real close to the merge window now, so if something is missing, please > holler ASAP. [PATCH 1/2 v9] powerpc: introduce macro spin_event_timeout() --

Re: "next" branch update

2009-06-09 Thread Grant Likely
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Hi ! > > I've updated my "next" branch with the following patches. We're getting > real close to the merge window now, so if something is missing, please > holler ASAP. Just these two; but I see you've got them marked "under review

"next" branch update

2009-06-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! I've updated my "next" branch with the following patches. We're getting real close to the merge window now, so if something is missing, please holler ASAP. Cheers, Ben. Becky Bruce (1): powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit Benjamin Herrenschmidt (8): powerpc/mm: Fix some

Re: [BUILD FAILURE 02/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.o]

2009-06-09 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 05 June 2009, Subrata Modak wrote: > Correct, it fixes the issue. However, since few changes might have gone > to the Kconfig, the patch does not apply cleanly. Below is the patch, just > a retake of the earlier one, but on the latest code. And it got mangled a bit along the way. Plus,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.31] ehca: Tolerate dynamic memory operations and huge pages

2009-06-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 15:59 +0200, Hannes Hering wrote: > This patch implements toleration of dynamic memory operations and 16 GB > gigantic pages. On module load the driver walks through available system > memory, checks for available memory ranges and then registers the kernel > internal memory r

[PATCH] of_serial: Add UPF_FIXED_TYPE flag

2009-06-09 Thread Dave Mitchell
This patch adds the UPF_FIXED_TYPE flag which will bypass the 8250's autoconfig probe for uart type. The uart type identified by the of_serial's parse of the flat device tree will be utilized as defined. Signed-off-by: Dave Mitchell --- drivers/serial/of_serial.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 in

"Info threads" hangs in Linux-2.6.29 with KGDBOE

2009-06-09 Thread srikanth krishnakar
Hi All, *ISSUE *: "*Info threads*" hangs in KGDBOE Kernel : Linux-2.6.29 Bug found in Architectures: PowerPC (ppc32), x86 --- While trying to run kernel* Linux-2.6.29* on* PowerPC* Xilinx target with *KGDBOE *enabled. Further issues arise when I run "*info threads*" after connecting to the

Re: [BUILD FAILURE 01/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]

2009-06-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > In any case, doing PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE for DMA memory is incorrect on > > many architectures. So at this stage, there's no much option but ifdef I > > suspect for now until this is fixed properly. > > Ok. But, i am not sure whether Greg will agree to this. If, Ok, is the > following patch i s

Re: [PATCH v4] zone_reclaim is always 0 by default

2009-06-09 Thread Andrew Morton
just because i7's > > might be there seems ill-advised to me and will have other consequences for > > existing more traditional x86-64 NUMA machines. > > I was sort-of planning on coming up with an x86_64 arch specific function > for setting zone_reclaim_mode, bu

[PATCH] powerpc/mpc52xx/mtd: fix mtd-ram access for 16-bit Local Plus Bus

2009-06-09 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi all, this patch adds support for RAM chips connected to the Local Plus Bus of a MPC5200B in 16-bit mode. As no single byte write accesses are allowed by the bus in this mode, a byte write has to be split into a word read - modify - write sequence (mpc52xx_memcpy2lpb16, as fix/extensio

Re: [PATCH -next] powerpc/85xx: Add support for X-ES MPC85xx boards

2009-06-09 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Nate Case wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 17:52 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: +static void xes_mpc85xx_configure_l1(void) +{ [snip] I'd prefer we move this into __setup_cpu_e500v1/__setup_cpu_e500v2 so its done for all processors regardless of platform. How does someth

Re: [BUILD FAILURE 01/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]

2009-06-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 20:34, Subrata Modak wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 13:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 20:06 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: >> > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 09:36 -0400, Frank Mori Hess wrote: >> > > On Saturday 06 June 2009, Greg KH wrote: >> > > > Fr

Re: [PATCH -next] powerpc/85xx: Add support for X-ES MPC85xx boards

2009-06-09 Thread Nate Case
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 17:52 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > +static void xes_mpc85xx_configure_l1(void) > > +{ [snip] > > I'd prefer we move this into __setup_cpu_e500v1/__setup_cpu_e500v2 so > its done for all processors regardless of platform. How does something like this look? Let me know and

Re: [BUILD FAILURE 02/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.o]

2009-06-09 Thread Subrata Modak
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:26 -0500, Subrata Modak wrote: > >On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 10:07 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Subrata Modak > > wrote: > > > CC drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.o > > > In file included from drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.c:1060: > > > drivers/usb/host/

Re: [BUILD FAILURE 01/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]

2009-06-09 Thread Subrata Modak
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 13:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 20:06 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 09:36 -0400, Frank Mori Hess wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 June 2009, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Frank and Ian, any thoughts about the vmap call in the > >

Re: SD card over (xilinx_)SPI, timeout error while CID

2009-06-09 Thread Joachim Foerster
Hi, On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 17:34 +0200, Joachim Foerster wrote: > we have a very strange problem with SD-card-over-SPI support using > 2.6.29.4 on our custom PowerPC 405 (Virtex-4 FX FPGA) based board. To > summarize the problem in one sentence: mmc_spi gets a timeout (error > -110) after sending M

Re: [PATCH v4] zone_reclaim is always 0 by default

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Gorman
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:48:34PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Hi > > sorry for late responce. my e-mail reading speed is very slow ;-) > > First, Could you please read past thread? > I think many topic of this mail are already discussed. > I think I caught them all but the horrible fact of

Re: [Powerpc/SLQB] Next June 06 : BUG during scsi initialization

2009-06-09 Thread Nick Piggin
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:42:14PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote: > Pekka J Enberg wrote: > >Hi Sachin, > __slab_alloc_page: nid=2, cache_node=c000de01ba00, > cache_list=c000de01ba00 > __slab_alloc_page: nid=2, cache_node=c000de01bd00, > cache_list=c000de01bd00 > __slab_alloc_page: nid

[PATCH 2.6.31] ehca: Tolerate dynamic memory operations and huge pages

2009-06-09 Thread Hannes Hering
This patch implements toleration of dynamic memory operations and 16 GB gigantic pages. On module load the driver walks through available system memory, checks for available memory ranges and then registers the kernel internal memory region accordingly. The translation of address ranges is implemen

Re: [PATCH v4] zone_reclaim is always 0 by default

2009-06-09 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
Hi sorry for late responce. my e-mail reading speed is very slow ;-) First, Could you please read past thread? I think many topic of this mail are already discussed. > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:15PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > > Current linux policy is, zone_reclaim_mode is enabled

Re: [PATCH v4] zone_reclaim is always 0 by default

2009-06-09 Thread Robin Holt
re traditional x86-64 NUMA machines. I was sort-of planning on coming up with an x86_64 arch specific function for setting zone_reclaim_mode, but didn't like the direction things were going. Something to the effect of... --- 20090609.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2009-06-09 06:51:34.0

[PATCH] mpc83xx/usb.c: fix usb mux setup for mpc834x

2009-06-09 Thread Peter Korsgaard
usb0 and usb1 mux settings in the sicrl register were swapped (twice!) in mpc834x_usb_cfg(), leading to various strange issues with fsl-ehci and full speed devices. The USB port config on mpc834x is done using 2 muxes: Port 0 is always used for MPH port 0, and port 1 can either be used for MPH por

Re: [PATCH v4] zone_reclaim is always 0 by default

2009-06-09 Thread Mel Gorman
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 04:55:07AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:50:48PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Let me start by saying I agree completely with everything you wrote and > still disagree with this patch, but was willing to compromise and work > around this for our upcom

Re: [PATCH v4] zone_reclaim is always 0 by default

2009-06-09 Thread Robin Holt
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:50:48PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: Let me start by saying I agree completely with everything you wrote and still disagree with this patch, but was willing to compromise and work around this for our upcoming x86_64 machine by putting a "value add" into our packaging of addi

Re: 2.6.30-rc6: Problem with an SSD disk on Freescale PowerPC mpc8315e-rdb, works fine on x86

2009-06-09 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Adding the sata_fsl.c developers to the recipients: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > Hello, > > using 2.6.30-rc6, I get the following problems when I read from a SSD > disk, connected to the > 3.0 Gb SATA controller of the MPC8315E SoC rev 1.0 running Linux 2.6.30-rc6. > >