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Am 11.07.23 um 10:53 schrieb Paul Menzel:
Dear Su,
Thank you for your patch.
Am 10.07.23 um 08:38 schrieb Su Hui:
From: wuych
Can you please write the full name correctly? Maybe Yun Chuan?
git
Dear Su,
Thank you for your patch.
Am 10.07.23 um 08:38 schrieb Su Hui:
From: wuych
Can you please write the full name correctly? Maybe Yun Chuan?
git config --global user.name "Yun Chuan"
git commit --amend --author="Yun Chuan "
I only got the cover letter by the way.
Kind rega
Dear Jakub,
Sorry, one more addition.
Am 16.03.22 um 06:16 schrieb Paul Menzel:
Am 16.03.22 um 02:35 schrieb Jakub Kicinski:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:58:57 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote:
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the
message level for the network device to
Dear Jakub,
Am 16.03.22 um 02:35 schrieb Jakub Kicinski:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:58:57 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote:
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the
message level for the network device to 0x010 but it fails.
$ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x010
Dear Linux folks,
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC (ppc64le), I am unable to set the
message level for the network device to 0x010 but it fails.
$ sudo ethtool -s enP1p1s0f2 msglvl 0x010
netlink error: cannot modify bits past kernel bitset size (offset 56)
netlink error: In
Dear Zhouyi,
Thank you for still looking into this.
Am 10.03.22 um 03:37 schrieb Zhouyi Zhou:
I try to reproduce the bug in ppc64 VM in Oregon State University
using the vmlinux extracted from
https://owww.molgen.mpg.de/~pmenzel/rcutorture-2022.02.01-21.52.37-torture-locktorture-kasan-lock01
Dear Michal,
Thank you for your reply.
Am 14.02.22 um 10:43 schrieb Michal Suchánek:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 07:08:07AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
Dear PPC folks,
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running `ppc64_cpu --smt=off` or `ppc64_cpu
--smt=8`, Linux 5.17-rc4 does not log anything. I
Currently, `git status` lists the file as untracked by git, so tell git
to ignore it.
Fixes: aa3bc365ee73 ("powerpc/ps3: Add check for otheros image size")
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
---
arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/po
Dear PPC folks,
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running `ppc64_cpu --smt=off` or
`ppc64_cpu --smt=8`, Linux 5.17-rc4 does not log anything. I would have
expected a message about the change in number of processing units.
Kind regards,
Paul
Dear Paul,
Am 13.02.22 um 15:45 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 08:39:13AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
Am 13.02.22 um 00:48 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:05:50AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
[…]
Running rcutorture on the POWER8 system IBM S822LC with
Dear Michael,
Am 11.02.22 um 15:19 schrieb Paul Menzel:
Am 11.02.22 um 02:48 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
Am 08.02.22 um 11:09 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
[…]
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running Ubuntu 21.10, building Linux
5.17-rc2+ with
Dear Michal,
Am 09.02.22 um 13:01 schrieb Michal Suchánek:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 07:44:15AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
Am 11.01.22 um 12:37 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
[…]
How can this be tested?
Apparently KEXEC_SIG_FORCE is x86 only although the use of the option is
arch neutral
Dear Michael,
Am 11.02.22 um 02:48 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
Am 08.02.22 um 11:09 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
[…]
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running Ubuntu 21.10, building Linux
5.17-rc2+ with rcutorture tests
I'm not sure if that'
Dear Michal,
Thank you for the patch.
Am 11.01.22 um 12:37 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
Could you please remove the dot/period at the end of the git commit
message summary?
Copy the code from s390x
Both powerpc and s390x use appended signature format (as opposed to EFI
based patforms using P
make: *** [Makefile:58: vpermxor1.o] Error 1
So, include the header `asm/ppc-opcode.h` defining this macro also when
not building the Linux kernel but only this too.
Cc: Matt Brown
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
---
v2: Resend
lib/raid6/vpermxor.uc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+
S variable.
So, do the same as commit 9564a8cf422d ("Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd
files for future Make") and commit 929bef467771 ("bpf: Use $(pound) instead
of \# in Makefiles") and define and use a `$(pound)` variable.
Reference for the change in make:
https://git.savannah.gnu.
[Correct sha1 for test for 2022.02.01-21.52.37]
Am 08.02.22 um 13:12 schrieb Paul Menzel:
Dear Michael,
Thank you for looking into this.
Am 08.02.22 um 11:09 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
[…]
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running Ubuntu 21.10, building Linux
5.17-rc2
Dear Michael,
Thank you for looking into this.
Am 08.02.22 um 11:09 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
[…]
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running Ubuntu 21.10, building Linux
5.17-rc2+ with rcutorture tests
I'm not sure if that's the host kernel version or the vers
Dear Linux folks,
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running Ubuntu 21.10, Linux 5.17-rc1+
built with
$ grep HZ /boot/config-5.17.0-rc1+
CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=y
# CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC is not set
CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y
# CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is not set
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
# CONFIG_HZ
Dear Sebastian, dear Paul,
In commit a6fda6dab9 (rcutorture: Tweak kvm options)
`tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/rcu/CFcommon` was extended
by the three selections below:
CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST=y
CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y
CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y
Unfortunately, `CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_
Dear Linux folks,
On the POWER8 server IBM S822LC running Ubuntu 21.10, building Linux
5.17-rc2+ with rcutorture tests
$ tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh --duration 10
the built init
$ file tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/initrd/init
tools/testing/selftests/r
Dear David,
Am 26.01.22 um 13:06 schrieb David Laight:
From: Paul Menzel
Sent: 26 January 2022 11:42
..
+pound := \#
Please use 'hash' not 'pound'.
Only american greengrocers use that horrid name.
A 'pound' is '£'.
Sure, I can change that, if y
Matt Brown
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
---
lib/raid6/test/test.c | 14 +++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/raid6/test/test.c b/lib/raid6/test/test.c
index a3cf071941ab..937d2a8bb294 100644
--- a/lib/raid6/test/test.c
+++ b/lib/raid6/test/test.c
@@ -19,7
make: *** [Makefile:58: vpermxor1.o] Error 1
So, include the header `asm/ppc-opcode.h` defining this macro also when
not building the Linux kernel but only this too.
Cc: Matt Brown
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
---
lib/raid6/vpermxor.uc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
variable.
So, do the same as commit 9564a8cf422d (Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd
files for future Make) and commit 929bef467771 (bpf: Use $(pound) instead
of \# in Makefiles) and define and use a `$(pound)` variable.
Reference for the change in make:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/c
Dear Paul,
Am 25.01.22 um 21:33 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 07:48:59PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
Building Linux 5.17-rc1+ (dd81e1c7d5fb) under Ubuntu 21.04 with
CONFIG_TORTURE_TEST=y
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y
and
$ clang --version
Ubuntu clang
[Cc: +linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org]
Dear Arnd,
Am 28.09.21 um 09:50 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
From: Arnd Bergmann
Compile-testing drivers that require access to a firmware layer
fails when that firmware symbol is unavailable. This happened
twice this week:
- My proposed to change to rework
Dear Linux folks,
Am 20.09.21 um 17:45 schrieb Nathan Chancellor:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:43:33AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
Building Linux for ppc64le with Ubuntu clang version 12.0.0-3ubuntu1~21.04.1
shows the warning below.
arch/powerpc/boot/inffast.c:20:1: warning: unused function
Dear Christophe,
Thank you for the review.
Am 20.09.21 um 10:36 schrieb Christophe Leroy:
Le 20/09/2021 à 09:46, Paul Menzel a écrit :
Building Linux for ppc64le with Ubuntu clang version 12.0.0-3ubuntu1~21.04.1
shows the warning below.
arch/powerpc/boot/inffast.c:20:1: warning
Fix it, by moving the check from the preprocessor to C, so the compiler
sees the use.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
---
v2: Use IS_ENABLED
v3: Use if statement over ternary operator as requested by Christophe
lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c | 13 ++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Fix it, by moving the check from the preprocessor to C, so the compiler
sees the use.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
---
lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c | 7 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c b/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c
index f19c4fbe1be7..fb
Fix it, by moving the check from the preprocessor to C, so the compiler
sees the use.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel
---
lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c | 6 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c b/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c
index f19c4fbe1be7..444ad3c3c
Dear Linux folks,
Building Linux with LLVM’s integrated assembler fails with the error
below [1].
```
$ ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- make LLVM=1
LLVM_IAS=1 -j72 pseries_defconfig arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.o
...
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S:72:
Dear Christophe,
Am 11.08.21 um 16:10 schrieb Christophe Leroy:
Le 10/08/2021 à 20:38, Paul Menzel a écrit :
Am 29.07.21 um 10:23 schrieb Paul Menzel:
I just wanted to make you aware that building Linux for ppc64le with
clang/lld.ld fails with [1]:
ld.lld: error: can't c
Dear Linux folks,
Am 29.07.21 um 10:23 schrieb Paul Menzel:
I just wanted to make you aware that building Linux for ppc64le with
clang/lld.ld fails with [1]:
ld.lld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_PPC64_ADDR64
against symbol: empty_zero_page in readonly segment; reco
("powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Reported-by: Paul Menzel
Tested-by: Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile | 7 +++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/
Dear Michael,
Am 29.07.21 um 09:41 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
Am 28.07.21 um 14:43 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
Am 28.07.21 um 01:14 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 10:45 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
On ppc64le Go 1.16.2 from
Dear Linux folks,
I just wanted to make you aware that building Linux for ppc64le with
clang/lld.ld fails with [1]:
ld.lld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_PPC64_ADDR64
against symbol: empty_zero_page in readonly segment; recompile object
files with -fPIC or pass '-Wl,-z,notext
Dear Michael,
Am 28.07.21 um 14:43 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
Am 28.07.21 um 01:14 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 10:45 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
On ppc64le Go 1.16.2 from Ubuntu 21.04 terminates with a segmentation
fault [1], and it might be
Dear Benjamin,
Am 28.07.21 um 01:14 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 10:45 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
On ppc64le Go 1.16.2 from Ubuntu 21.04 terminates with a segmentation
fault [1], and it might be related to *[release-branch.go1.16] runtime:
fix crash during VDSO calls
Dear Christophe,
On ppc64le Go 1.16.2 from Ubuntu 21.04 terminates with a segmentation
fault [1], and it might be related to *[release-branch.go1.16] runtime:
fix crash during VDSO calls on PowerPC* [2], conjecturing that commit
ab037dd87a2f (powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementat
Dear Christophe,
Am 07.05.21 um 10:59 schrieb Christophe Leroy:
Le 07/05/2021 à 10:42, Paul Menzel a écrit :
[+Andrey]
Am 07.05.21 um 10:31 schrieb Christophe Leroy:
Le 06/05/2021 à 21:32, Paul Menzel a écrit :
[corrected subject]
Am 06.05.21 um 21:31 schrieb Paul Menzel:
On the
[+Andrey]
Dear Christophe,
Am 07.05.21 um 10:31 schrieb Christophe Leroy:
Le 06/05/2021 à 21:32, Paul Menzel a écrit :
[corrected subject]
Am 06.05.21 um 21:31 schrieb Paul Menzel:
On the POWER8 system IBM S822LC, Linux 5.13+, built with USSAN, logs
the warning below
[corrected subject]
Am 06.05.21 um 21:31 schrieb Paul Menzel:
Dear Linux folks,
On the POWER8 system IBM S822LC, Linux 5.13+, built with USSAN, logs the
warning below.
```
[ 0.030091]
[ 0.030295
Dear Linux folks,
On the POWER8 system IBM S822LC, Linux 5.13+, built with USSAN, logs the
warning below.
```
[0.030091]
[0.030295] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in
arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.
Dear Christophe,
Am 11.04.21 um 18:23 schrieb Christophe Leroy:
Le 11/04/2021 à 13:09, Paul Menzel a écrit :
Related to * [CVE-2021-29154] Linux kernel incorrect computation of
branch displacements in BPF JIT compiler can be abused to execute
arbitrary code in Kernel mode* [1], on the
Dear Linux folks,
Related to * [CVE-2021-29154] Linux kernel incorrect computation of
branch displacements in BPF JIT compiler can be abused to execute
arbitrary code in Kernel mode* [1], on the POWER8 system IBM S822LC with
self-built Linux 5.12.0-rc5+, I am unable to disable `bpf_jit_enable
Dear Linux folks,
On the POWER8 system IBM S822LC, Linux 5.12-rc5+ logs the warning below.
```
[0.723485] [ cut here ]
[0.723491] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c:109 do_feature_fixups+0xb0/0xf0
[0.723512] Modules linked in:
[
a
reference to vio_bus_type, but we haven't registered vio_bus_type with
the driver core.
Fix it by also guarding vio_register_driver() with a check to see if
we are on pseries.
Fixes: 4336b9337824 ("powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries
specific")
Reported-by: Paul
Dear Michael,
Thank you very much for your response.
Am 15.03.21 um 08:53 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel writes:
On the POWER8 system IBM S822LC, Linux 5.12-rc2+ logs the errors below.
That's a bare metal system, you can see that from the line "Using
PowerNV machine d
Dear Catalin,
Am 13.07.20 um 20:27 schrieb Catalin Marinas:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:08:52PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
Am 09.07.20 um 19:57 schrieb Catalin Marinas:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:37:10PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
Despite Linux 5.8-rc4 reporting memory leaks on the IBM POWER 8
Dear Catalin,
Am 09.07.20 um 19:57 schrieb Catalin Marinas:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:37:10PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
Despite Linux 5.8-rc4 reporting memory leaks on the IBM POWER 8 S822LC, the
file does not contain more information.
$ dmesg
[…] > [48662.953323] perf: interrupt took
Dear Linux folks,
Despite Linux 5.8-rc4 reporting memory leaks on the IBM POWER 8 S822LC,
the file does not contain more information.
$ dmesg
[…] > [48662.953323] perf: interrupt took too long (2570 > 2500), lowering
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 77750
[48854.810636] perf: interrup
Dear Nicholas,
Am 07.07.20 um 09:03 schrieb Nicholas Piggin:
Excerpts from Paul Menzel's message of July 6, 2020 3:20 pm:
Am 06.07.20 um 02:41 schrieb Nicholas Piggin:
Excerpts from Paul Menzel's message of July 5, 2020 8:30 pm:
Am 05.07.20 um 11:22 schrieb Paul Menzel:
[
Dear Nicholas,
Thank you for the quick response.
Am 06.07.20 um 02:41 schrieb Nicholas Piggin:
Excerpts from Paul Menzel's message of July 5, 2020 8:30 pm:
Am 05.07.20 um 11:22 schrieb Paul Menzel:
With an IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 20.04, after updating to Firefox 78.0,
using Firefox
Dear Linux folks,
With an IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 20.04, after updating to Firefox 78.0,
using Firefox seems to hang the system. This happened with self-built
Linux 5.7-rc5+ and now with 5.8-rc3+.
(At least I believe the Firefox update is causing this.)
Log in is impossible, and using the Se
Dear Rafael,
On 04/29/2019 09:17 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:54 PM Paul Menzel wrote:
>> Updating an IBM S822LC from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 some user space stuff
>> seems to have changed, so that going into sleep/suspend is enabled.
>>
>>
Dear Linux folks,
Updating an IBM S822LC from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 some user space stuff
seems to have changed, so that going into sleep/suspend is enabled.
That raises two questions.
1. Is suspend actually supported on a POWER8 processor?
Apr 27 10:18:13 power NetworkManager[7534]: [1
Dear Christophe,
On 26.03.19 13:55, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 26/03/2019 à 13:49, Paul Menzel a écrit :
On 19.02.19 10:44, Paul Menzel wrote:
On a the IBM S822LC (8335-GTA) with Ubuntu 18.10, and Linux 5.0-rc5+
accessing `/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak` takes a long time. According to
Dear Linux folks,
On 19.02.19 10:44, Paul Menzel wrote:
On a the IBM S822LC (8335-GTA) with Ubuntu 18.10, and Linux 5.0-rc5+
accessing `/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak` takes a long time. According to
strace it takes three seconds.
```
$ sudo strace -tt -T cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
10:35
Dear Linux folks,
On a the IBM S822LC (8335-GTA) with Ubuntu 18.10, and Linux 5.0-rc5+
accessing `/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak` takes a long time. According to
strace it takes three seconds.
```
$ sudo strace -tt -T cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
10:35:49.861641 execve("/bin/cat", ["cat", "/sys/ke
Dear Michael,
On 07/30/18 08:43, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Paul Menzel writes:
>> Am 19.07.2018 um 16:33 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
> ...
>>>
>>> The fix is fairly simple. We need to tell kmemleak to ignore PUD
>>> allocations and never report them as lea
Dear Michael,
Am 19.07.2018 um 16:33 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Paul Menzel reported that kmemleak was producing reports such as:
unreferenced object 0xc000f8b8 (size 16384):
comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294937416 (age 312.240s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
Dear Christophe,
Am 26.05.2018 um 18:02 schrieb christophe leroy:
Le 26/05/2018 à 06:35, Paul Menzel a écrit :
Building the configuration created with `make tinyconfig` on the Power
8 system IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 18.04 fails with the error below.
```
$ git describe --dirty
v4.17-rc6-296
Dear Linux folks,
Building the configuration created with `make tinyconfig` on the Power 8
system IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 18.04 fails with the error below.
```
$ git describe --dirty
v4.17-rc6-296-gbc2dbc5420e8
$ git log --oneline -1
bc2dbc5420e8 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Me
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