Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread David Miller
From: Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:26:29 + > Might be private between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and davem. I don't really > remember. I do know that at one point davem gave us some test kernels > to work with, but they did not fox U2 problem. You remember incorrect

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread David Miller
From: Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:38:48 + > The kernel people have known about this for well over a year, but no > fix. You use the word "people", the plural form, as if there is someone doing sparc64 kernel maintainence other than me. That would certainly

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Ferris McCormick a écrit : On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 13:21 +0100, Chini, Georg wrote: Ferris McCormick wrote: Hi, I'm running 2.6.20-rc5 on my ultra2 (2x300) for a few weeks now and have not observed any freezes at all. I attach my config, maybe you can find some hint what causes the probl

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 13:21 +0100, Chini, Georg wrote: > > Ferris McCormick wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > I'm running 2.6.20-rc5 on my ultra2 (2x300) for a few weeks now and have not > observed any freezes at all. I attach my config, maybe you can find some > hint > what causes the problem. >

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 13:26 +0100, bertrand wrote: > Ferris McCormick a écrit : > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:53 +0100, bertrand wrote: > >> Ferris McCormick a écrit : > >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > > I have seen your post on gentoo-sparc mailing list. I ha

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chini, Georg wrote: Ferris McCormick wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:53 +0100, bertrand wrote: Ferris McCormick a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 --- snip --- JKB This is a problem with U2+kernel-2.6.x generally. Unfortunately, I have no

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread bertrand
Hi, I'm running 2.6.20-rc5 on my ultra2 (2x300) for a few weeks now and have not observed any freezes at all. I attach my config, maybe you can find some hint what causes the problem. I have tested some configurations without any success. You can find in attachment my .config. Ferris, what

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread Chini, Georg
Ferris McCormick wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:53 +0100, bertrand wrote: Ferris McCormick a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 --- snip --- JKB This is a problem with U2+kernel-2.6.x generally. Unfortunately, I have no suggestion

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread bertrand
Ferris McCormick a écrit : On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:53 +0100, bertrand wrote: Ferris McCormick a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 --- snip --- JKB This is a problem with U2+kernel-2.6.x generally. Unfortunately, I have no suggestions nor do I have a solution.

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:53 +0100, bertrand wrote: > Ferris McCormick a écrit : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > --- snip --- > >> > >>JKB > > > > This is a problem with U2+kernel-2.6.x generally. Unfortunately, I > > have no suggestions nor do I have a solution. I

[PATCH] add unsigned to unused bit field in a.out.h

2007-03-21 Thread Robert Reif
Add unsigned to unused bit field in a.out.h to make sparse happy. diff --git a/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h b/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h index e4e83eb..9090060 100644 --- a/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h +++ b/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct relocation_info /* used when header.a_machtype

[PATCH] remove unneeded extern from main.c

2007-03-21 Thread Robert Reif
Remove unneeded extern from main.c. diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index a92989e..dd1566f 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ static int init(void *); extern void init_IRQ(void); extern void fork_init(unsigned long); extern void mca_init(void); -extern void sbus

[PATCH] fix section mismatch in cg3.c

2007-03-21 Thread Robert Reif
Fix section mismatch warning by moving data into __devinitdata section. Add __devinit to initialization functions. diff --git a/drivers/video/cg3.c b/drivers/video/cg3.c index ada6f7e..767c850 100644 --- a/drivers/video/cg3.c +++ b/drivers/video/cg3.c @@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ static int cg3_setcolreg(u

Re: [Repost] Ultra2 SMP freezes with heavy disk I/O

2007-03-21 Thread bertrand
Ferris McCormick a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:53:26 +0100 BERTRAND Jo_l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:01:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have posted this message yesterday but I don't see