Re: [PATCH 1/2] arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/iommu.c: add missing of_node_put

2011-08-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall ju...@diku.dk np is initialized to the result of calling a function that calls of_node_get, so of_node_put should be called before the pointer is dropped. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:

Re: Please pull 'next' branch of 4xx tree

2011-08-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ben, Finally somewhat caught up.  Now that -rc1 is out, here are some patches for the next merge window. josh The following changes since commit 53d1e658df6e26d62500410719aaee2b82067c03:  Merge branch

[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: clean up FPGA device tree nodes for Freecsale QorIQ boards

2011-08-29 Thread Timur Tabi
Standarize and document the FPGA nodes used on Freescale QorIQ reference boards. There are three kinds of FPGAs used on the boards: pixis, qixis, and cpld. Although their are minor differences among the boards that have one kind of FPGA, most of the functionality is the same, so it makes sense

Re: linux-next: build failure in Linus' tree

2011-08-29 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Linus, On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:44:51 +1000 Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au wrote: After merging the fixes tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `.sys_call_table': (.text+0xbd00): undefined reference

Re: linux-next: build failure in Linus' tree

2011-08-29 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 08:32 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Linus, On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:44:51 +1000 Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au wrote: After merging the fixes tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o:

Re: kvm PCI assignment VFIO ramblings

2011-08-29 Thread David Gibson
eOn Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:17:05PM -0700, Aaron Fabbri wrote: [snip] Yes. In essence, I'd rather not have to run any other admin processes. Doing things programmatically, on the fly, from each process, is the cleanest model right now. The persistent group model doesn't necessarily prevent

Re: Please pull 'next' branch of 4xx tree

2011-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 09:05 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ben, Finally somewhat caught up. Now that -rc1 is out, here are some patches for the next merge window. josh The following changes since commit

Re: VFIO v2 design plan

2011-08-29 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:05:23AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: I don't think too much has changed since the previous email went out, but it seems like a good idea to post a summary in case there were suggestions or objections that I missed. VFIO v2 will rely on the platform iommu driver

Re: VFIO v2 design plan

2011-08-29 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 13:04 +1000, David Gibson wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:05:23AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: I don't think too much has changed since the previous email went out, but it seems like a good idea to post a summary in case there were suggestions or objections that

[PATCH] perf events, powerpc: Add POWER7 stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events

2011-08-29 Thread Anshuman Khandual
perf events, powerpc: Add POWER7 stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events Extent the POWER7 PMU driver with definitions for generic front-end and back-end stall events. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual khand...@linux.vnet.ibm.com diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/power7-pmu.c

Re: [PATCH v9 11/13] powerpc: select HAVE_SECCOMP_FILTER and provide seccomp_execve

2011-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:36 -0500, Will Drewry wrote: Facilitate the use of CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER by wrapping compatibility system call numbering for execve and selecting HAVE_SECCOMP_FILTER. v9: rebase on to bccaeafd7c117acee36e90d37c7e05c19be9e7bf Signed-off-by: Will Drewry

Re: [v3 PATCH 1/1] booke/kprobe: make program exception to use one dedicated exception stack

2011-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
As I understand it, the problem comes from the fact that stwu combines the creation of a stack frame with storing into that stack frame. If they were Yes. separate instructions you'd have a new exception frame at a lower address by the time you actually store to the non-exception