Re: Understanding how kernel updates MMU hash table

2012-12-13 Thread pegasus
Hi Ben There has been quite much confusion with my post disappearing from the new nabble system to it having getting posted twice..Im sorry for all this. Nevertheless, Id like to continue where we left off. Here I again repost my response which initially disappeared and then showed up twice. Ive

Re: [PATCH] pci: Provide support for parsing PCI DT ranges property

2012-12-13 Thread Thierry Reding
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:37:50PM +, Andrew Murray wrote: > DT bindings for PCI host bridges often use the ranges property to describe > memory and IO ranges - this binding tends to be the same across architectures > yet several parsing implementations exist, e.g. arch/mips/pci/pci.c, > arch/p

Re: [PATCH] pci: Provide support for parsing PCI DT ranges property

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Murray
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:13:33AM +, Thierry Reding wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I don't like iterator interfaces too much, but I can live with that. > Other than that the patch looks good to me and I'll try to work it into > my Tegra PCIe patch series. > > Just two minor comments below. > > > d

Re: [PATCH] pci: Provide support for parsing PCI DT ranges property

2012-12-13 Thread Thierry Reding
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:45:43AM +, Andrew Murray wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:13:33AM +, Thierry Reding wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > I don't like iterator interfaces too much, but I can live with that. > > Other than that the patch looks good to me and I'll try to work it into >

Re: [PATCH] pci: Provide support for parsing PCI DT ranges property

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Murray
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:03:18AM +, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:45:43AM +, Andrew Murray wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:13:33AM +, Thierry Reding wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > I don't like iterator interfaces too much, but I can live with that. > >

Re: [PATCH] powerpc+of: Rename and fix OF reconfig notifier error inject module

2012-12-13 Thread Akinobu Mita
2012/12/13 Benjamin Herrenschmidt : > This module used to inject errors in the pSeries specific dynamic > reconfiguration notifiers. Those are gone however, replaced by > generic notifiers for changes to the device-tree. So let's update > the module to deal with these instead and rename it along th

Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH 11/26] powerpc: Convert print_symbol to %pSR

2012-12-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 12 December 2012, Joe Perches wrote: > Use the new vsprintf extension to avoid any possible > message interleaving. > > Convert the #ifdef DEBUG block to a single pr_debug. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches nice cleanup! Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann __

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support

2012-12-13 Thread Tabi Timur-B04825
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Wang Dongsheng wrote: > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_timer.h > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_timer.h > new file mode 100644 > index 000..2428972 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic_timer.h > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ > +/* > + * arch/p

Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc/fsl: add timer wakeup source

2012-12-13 Thread Tabi Timur-B04825
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Wang Dongsheng wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng Wang, Your patches must always have a From: line of your Freescale email address. Do not use your gmail.com address to send patches. This needs to be fixed when this patch is applied. -- Timur Tabi Lin

Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.7

2012-12-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > JFYI, when comparing v3.7 to v3.7-rc8[3], the summaries are: > - build errors: +2/-0 + error: No rule to make target include/config/auto.conf: => N/A x86_64-randconfig + error: vga16fb.c: undefined reference to `vgacon_remap_ba

Re: Understanding how kernel updates MMU hash table

2012-12-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 00:48 -0800, pegasus wrote: > 1. Linux page table structure (PGD, PUD, PMD and PTE) is directly used in > case of architecture that lend themselves to such a tree structure for > maintaining virtual memory information. Otherwise Linux needs to maintain > two seperate construc

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] Hot-plug and Online/Offline framework

2012-12-13 Thread Toshi Kani
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 10:30 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:03:54AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 04:16 +, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 08:37:44PM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 16:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > >