Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Modra
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:35:03AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > Did you try the patch I posted? /me reads other email. I see you did. Applying. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org htt

Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Modra
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:27:26AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > binutils-2.19 _end is what we expect > binutils-2.19.1 _end is what we expect > binutils-2.19.50.0.1 _end is what we expect > binutils-2.19.51.0.1 _end is 1000 > > From the release notes: > > binutils-2.19.50.

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix another bug in move of altivec code to vector.S

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 23:17 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > When moving load_up_altivec to vector.S a typo in a comment caused a > thinko setting the wrong variable. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab Good catch, thanks. Cheers, Ben. > --- > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S b/arch/power

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix another bug in move of altivec code to vector.S

2009-07-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
When moving load_up_altivec to vector.S a typo in a comment caused a thinko setting the wrong variable. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S index ef36cbb..ea4d646 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/ke

Re: [PATCH v2] edac: mpc85xx: add support for mpc83xx memory controller

2009-07-10 Thread Ira W. Snyder
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:36:20AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:24:38PM -0700, Doug Thompson wrote: >>> >>> Ok, is this the one you want me to push upstream? >>> >> >> Yep, this is the finished version. >> >> Thanks,

Re: [PATCH v2] edac: mpc85xx: add support for mpc83xx memory controller

2009-07-10 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Ira W. Snyder wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:24:38PM -0700, Doug Thompson wrote: Ok, is this the one you want me to push upstream? Yep, this is the finished version. Thanks, Ira doug t is that for .31 or .32? If .31 I'm fine. If for .32 I still hav

Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

2009-07-10 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Alan Modra wrote: Hmm, having said all that, the following linker patch seems reasonable to me and probably won't break anything else (always some risk). Please test it for me. Index: ld/ldlang.c === R

Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

2009-07-10 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Kumar Gala wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Alan Modra wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Edmar Wienskoski-RA8797 wrote: I understand your arguments, but there is something inconsistent about this. If I change the script to be: _end3 = .

Re: [PATCH v2] edac: mpc85xx: add support for mpc83xx memory controller

2009-07-10 Thread Ira W. Snyder
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:24:38PM -0700, Doug Thompson wrote: > > Ok, is this the one you want me to push upstream? > Yep, this is the finished version. Thanks, Ira > doug t > > > --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > > From: Ira W. Snyder > Subject: [PATCH v2] edac: mpc85xx: add su

Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

2009-07-10 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Alan Modra wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:31:53PM -0500, Edmar Wienskoski-RA8797 wrote: I understand your arguments, but there is something inconsistent about this. If I change the script to be: _end3 = . ; . = _end3; . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);

Re: [00/15] swiotlb cleanup

2009-07-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ian Campbell wrote: > I've not examined the series in detail it looks OK but I don't > think it is quite sufficient. The Xen determination of whether a > buffer is dma_capable or not is based on the physical address > while dma_capable takes only the dma address. > > I'm not sure we can "i

Re: [00/15] swiotlb cleanup

2009-07-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 06:12 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Hm, the functions and facilities you remove here were added as part > of preparatory patches for Xen guest support. You were aware of > them, you were involved in discussions about those aspects with Ian > and Jeremy but still you chose not

Re: [00/15] swiotlb cleanup

2009-07-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 14:35 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > I don't think that we need to take account of dom0 support; we don't > have a clear idea about an acceptable dom0 design (it needs to use > swiotlb code? I don't know yet), we don't even know we will have dom0 > support in mainline. That's

Re: [PATCH 00/11] swiotlb: Introduce architecture-specific APIs to replace __weak functions (v2)

2009-07-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 15:55 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 16:32 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > This series:[...] > Looks like I was only CCed on part of them... it's not very handy for me > as I end up having some of the patches in one folder and some > elsewhere :-)

Re: Bestcomm trouble with NAPI for MPC5200 FEC

2009-07-10 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
Grant Likely wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently trying to implement NAPI for the FEC on the MPC5200 to >> solve the well known problem, that network packet storms can cause >> interrupt flooding, which may totally block the system. >

Memory usage of a process

2009-07-10 Thread Günter Leonhardt
Hello, analysing the memory usage of a process, I found some questions. I'am using a system with 128 MB physical RAM, no disk, 2.6.27 kernel. Running top, I see 38 MB in use, 90 MB free, but a VSZ for my process of 158 MB. Looking at /proc//maps, I see that the process uses 140 MB without shared

Re: [PATCH Resend2] Remove 'SBC8240 Wind River' Device Driver Code

2009-07-10 Thread Subrata Modak
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:53 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 14:17 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > > Is it possible to get this patch through and before 2.6.31 stable is > > released ? > Hi David, > Hm, I was ignoring this until I was sure all the last-minute fixes for > 2.6.3

Re: [PATCH Resend2] Remove 'SBC8240 Wind River' Device Driver Code

2009-07-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 14:17 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > Is it possible to get this patch through and before 2.6.31 stable is > released ? Hm, I was ignoring this until I was sure all the last-minute fixes for 2.6.31 were out of the way; I was planning to submit it for 2.6.32. Do we really need

Re: [PATCH Resend2] Remove 'SBC8240 Wind River' Device Driver Code

2009-07-10 Thread Subrata Modak
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:14 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 12:42 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:18 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > Subrata Modak wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 08:59 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2009-07-

Re: Badness at drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:210 during shutdown

2009-07-10 Thread Sachin Sant
Alan Cox wrote: [c0003cf6ba70] [c040a3d0] .tty_ldisc_put+0xa4/0xf4 (unreliable) [c0003cf6bb10] [c040a7c8] .tty_ldisc_reinit+0x38/0x80 [c0003cf6bba0] [c040b1d8] .tty_ldisc_hangup+0x190/0x260 [c0003cf6bc40] [c0401090] .do_tty_hangup+0x188/0x4c0 [c

Re: Bestcomm trouble with NAPI for MPC5200 FEC

2009-07-10 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
Wolfram Sang wrote: > Hello Wolfgang, > >> I'm currently trying to implement NAPI for the FEC on the MPC5200 to >> solve the well known problem, that network packet storms can cause >> interrupt flooding, which may totally block the system. The NAPI Just bombard the FEC with network packets. I us

Re: Bestcomm trouble with NAPI for MPC5200 FEC

2009-07-10 Thread Wolfram Sang
Hello Wolfgang, > I'm currently trying to implement NAPI for the FEC on the MPC5200 to > solve the well known problem, that network packet storms can cause > interrupt flooding, which may totally block the system. The NAPI That's great news. Do you happen to have a scenario which reliably trigger

[RFC/PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Use names rather than numbers for SPRGs

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The kernel uses SPRG registers for various purposes, typically in low level assembly code as scratch registers or to hold per-cpu global infos such as the PACA or the current thread_info pointer. We want to be able to easily shuffle the usage of those registers as some implementations have specifi

[RFC/PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Rename exception.h to exception-64s.h

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The file include/asm/exception.h contains definitions that are specific to exception handling on 64-bit server type processors. This renames the file to exception-64s.h to reflect that fact and avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h

Re: Bestcomm trouble with NAPI for MPC5200 FEC

2009-07-10 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
Grant Likely wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently trying to implement NAPI for the FEC on the MPC5200 to >> solve the well known problem, that network packet storms can cause >> interrupt flooding, which may totally block the system. >

Re: [PATCH Resend2] Remove 'SBC8240 Wind River' Device Driver Code

2009-07-10 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 12:42 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:18 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > Subrata Modak wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 08:59 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 07:47 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I

Re: [PATCH Resend2] Remove 'SBC8240 Wind River' Device Driver Code

2009-07-10 Thread Subrata Modak
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:18 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Subrata Modak wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 08:59 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > >> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 07:47 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Is there somebody else whom i should also address to get an attention >

Re: [PATCH Resend2] Remove 'SBC8240 Wind River' Device Driver Code

2009-07-10 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Subrata Modak wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 08:59 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 07:47 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: Hi, Is there somebody else whom i should also address to get an attention for this patch ? I apolozise if i have not included someone. Kindly connect to the c