Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 9/3/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching > to console from X > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 > Last known good : ? > Submitter : Jeff Chua <[EM

Re: highres timers break cpu hotplug in 2.6.23-rc5 [was Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3]

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 9/3/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It gets weirder. With "nohz=off" on commandline, I have to press any > key (generate interrupt?) for echo 1 > online to finish. 2.6.23-rc5 > kernel... but hotplug/unplug works reliably now. > > With nohz=off highres=off I can unplug/replug

Re: highres timers break cpu hotplug in 2.6.23-rc5 [was Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3]

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 9/3/07, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It gets weirder. With nohz=off on commandline, I have to press any key (generate interrupt?) for echo 1 online to finish. 2.6.23-rc5 kernel... but hotplug/unplug works reliably now. With nohz=off highres=off I can unplug/replug cpus as much

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc5: known regressions

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 9/3/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last known good : ? Submitter : Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused

Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions

2007-08-29 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/29/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching > to console from X > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 > Last known good : ? > Submitter : Jeff Chua <[EM

Re: [1/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions

2007-08-29 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/29/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last known good : ? Submitter : Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-28 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/28/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you try 20-or-so tests? Mine hangs randomly, so it survived 4 or > so cycles at one point. Mine still survives with this ... with sleep 1 ... # for((i=0; i<100; i++)); do echo $i; echo $((i % 2)) >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online;

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-28 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/28/07, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you try 20-or-so tests? Mine hangs randomly, so it survived 4 or so cycles at one point. Mine still survives with this ... with sleep 1 ... # for((i=0; i100; i++)); do echo $i; echo $((i % 2)) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online; sleep 1;

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/27/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 2007-08-27 12:43:50, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Trying to do few onlines/offlines reliably hangs my machine (thinkpad > > x60, i386 architecture). I just 3 cycles of on-line/off-line on 2.6.23-rc3 on ThinkPad x60s, and my

Re: cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/27/07, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 2007-08-27 12:43:50, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Trying to do few onlines/offlines reliably hangs my machine (thinkpad x60, i386 architecture). I just 3 cycles of on-line/off-line on 2.6.23-rc3 on ThinkPad x60s, and my system still

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-07 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/8/07, David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try adding acpi_sleep=s3_bios to your kernel boot options and see if it > helps. I tried, but that didn't help. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-07 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/8/07, David Weinehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding acpi_sleep=s3_bios to your kernel boot options and see if it helps. I tried, but that didn't help. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
Here's my dmesg ... Thanks, Jeff Linux version 2.6.23-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.5) #5 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 4 13:03:10 SGT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009f000 - 000a (reserved)

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/7/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it show little penguins as the system boots? No I don't have that. I'm not using a "splash" screen in grub2. And funny thing is I don't get any problem up to 2.6.22. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/7/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: > > > > I thought he was using a VGA console, wouldn't that be in text mode? > > > > That is, exactly, the problem. It should be, it's not. The text-console is the VGA console right? I hope we're refering to the same

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/7/07, Indan Zupancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does executing unicode_start, unicode_stop fixes it? Doesn't seem to fix it. Now that I've to type blinding, I realised that the text-console is about 1/20 of the whole screen size. If I hold on to ENTER key, I could see the screen scroll.

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ÿÿÿ > That looks pretty much like all-one-bits (ÿ = 255). > What about vcsa1 (use hexdump -C)? # hexdump -C /dev/vcsa1 19 50 00 18 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |.P..|

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unclassified > > Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching > to console from X > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 > Last known good : ? > Submitter :

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means it's not in the whitelist, AFAICS. > > Similar machines are known to work with "--acpi_sleep=3" or with > "--acpi_sleep=1 --vbe_mode". Good news. "s2ram --force --acpi_sleep 1 --vbe_mode" works. I also tried "--acpi_sleep=3",

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This means it's not in the whitelist, AFAICS. Similar machines are known to work with --acpi_sleep=3 or with --acpi_sleep=1 --vbe_mode. Good news. s2ram --force --acpi_sleep 1 --vbe_mode works. I also tried --acpi_sleep=3, but that

Re: [1/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unclassified Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6 Last known good : ? Submitter : Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ÿÿÿ That looks pretty much like all-one-bits (ÿ = 255). What about vcsa1 (use hexdump -C)? # hexdump -C /dev/vcsa1 19 50 00 18 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |.P..| 0010 ff

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/7/07, Indan Zupancic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does executing unicode_start, unicode_stop fixes it? Doesn't seem to fix it. Now that I've to type blinding, I realised that the text-console is about 1/20 of the whole screen size. If I hold on to ENTER key, I could see the screen scroll. But

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/7/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indan Zupancic wrote: I thought he was using a VGA console, wouldn't that be in text mode? That is, exactly, the problem. It should be, it's not. The text-console is the VGA console right? I hope we're refering to the same thing. It's

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/7/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it show little penguins as the system boots? No I don't have that. I'm not using a splash screen in grub2. And funny thing is I don't get any problem up to 2.6.22. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-06 Thread Jeff Chua
Here's my dmesg ... Thanks, Jeff Linux version 2.6.23-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.5) #5 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 4 13:03:10 SGT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009f000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009f000 - 000a (reserved)

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does 's2ram -i' say about your machine? This machine can be identified by: sys_vendor = "LENOVO" sys_product = "1702E7A" sys_version = "ThinkPad X60s" bios_version = "7BETD0WW (2.11 )" Thanks, Jeff. - To

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you try with the boot option acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode > OR > if using s2ram, use s2ram -f a3 Tried both, text-console still not restored. In fact, with "s2ram -f a3", backlight doesn't get restored. I've to switch to F1 and back

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, please submit your .config and kernel command line. # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,14)/linux/bzc1 root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda3 reboot=bios Below is my .config ... # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that the X server did all that on its own these days, but that may > be just the newer "intel" driver, not the older "i810" driver that you > probably use. I've just checked. Upon boot-up into text-console (even without starting

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, since you're using VGA console this means suspend-to-ram isn't > restoring the mode. > Does it matter if you suspend from inside X or not? Just tested it. It doesn't matter... text console still messed up. X is ok after resume.

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/6/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does 's2ram -i' say about your machine? This machine can be identified by: sys_vendor = LENOVO sys_product = 1702E7A sys_version = ThinkPad X60s bios_version = 7BETD0WW (2.11 ) Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, since you're using VGA console this means suspend-to-ram isn't restoring the mode. Does it matter if you suspend from inside X or not? Just tested it. It doesn't matter... text console still messed up. X is ok after resume. Thanks,

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, please submit your .config and kernel command line. # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,14)/linux/bzc1 root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda3 reboot=bios Below is my .config ... # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the X server did all that on its own these days, but that may be just the newer intel driver, not the older i810 driver that you probably use. I've just checked. Upon boot-up into text-console (even without starting X),

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you try with the boot option acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode OR if using s2ram, use s2ram -f a3 Tried both, text-console still not restored. In fact, with s2ram -f a3, backlight doesn't get restored. I've to switch to F1 and back to X to

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, can you please describe "messed up" in more detail? The screen went into some graphic mode that can't be reset no matter what I tried (stty reset). I see all kinds of ramdom pattern/color everywhere. Then typing "startx" would get in X

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff - do I understand correctly that the "or" means that even *without* a > suspend-to-ram sequence, and just by going into X and then going back to > text-mode, the screen is corrupt? I've done more tests. It seems that "suspend-to-ram"

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After resume from s2ram or switching to console from X, my console is > > messed up on rc1 and rc2. Is there a fix for this? > > This is on IBM X60. i915 chipset. No problem on 2.6.22. If this is a > known problem,

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After resume from s2ram or switching to console from X, my console is messed up on rc1 and rc2. Is there a fix for this? This is on IBM X60. i915 chipset. No problem on 2.6.22. If this is a known problem, than I don't need to bisect all over

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff - do I understand correctly that the or means that even *without* a suspend-to-ram sequence, and just by going into X and then going back to text-mode, the screen is corrupt? I've done more tests. It seems that suspend-to-ram sequence is

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/5/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, can you please describe messed up in more detail? The screen went into some graphic mode that can't be reset no matter what I tried (stty reset). I see all kinds of ramdom pattern/color everywhere. Then typing startx would get in X just

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After resume from s2ram or switching to console from X, my console is > messed up on rc1 and rc2. Is there a fix for this? This is on IBM X60. i915 chipset.

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A lot of the changes are small, and a lot of them really are fixes, but > there's a MIPS merge in there too, and some absolutely _huge_ diffs due to > some drivers undergoing Lindent cleanups (28 _thousand_ lines changes in > advansys.c, and

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of the changes are small, and a lot of them really are fixes, but there's a MIPS merge in there too, and some absolutely _huge_ diffs due to some drivers undergoing Lindent cleanups (28 _thousand_ lines changes in advansys.c, and the

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/4/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After resume from s2ram or switching to console from X, my console is messed up on rc1 and rc2. Is there a fix for this? This is on IBM X60. i915 chipset. No problem on 2.6.22. If this is a known

Re: 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions [section mismatch]

2007-06-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 6/2/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that Sam is working on this. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git=search=f285e3d329ce68cc355fadf4ab2c8f34d7f264cb=commit=section+mismatch I still got the section mismatch errors on 2.6.22-rc4.

Re: 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions [section mismatch]

2007-06-05 Thread Jeff Chua
On 6/2/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that Sam is working on this. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.gita=searchh=f285e3d329ce68cc355fadf4ab2c8f34d7f264cbst=commits=section+mismatch I still got the section mismatch errors on

Re: [1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

2007-06-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 6/2/07, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The fix is in -mm and sent to Andi. So it will likely be merged soon. I recommemd to ignore the warnings for now. Thanks, I'll check when the next rc4 is ready. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

2007-06-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 6/2/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that Sam is working on this. I'm a bit lost looking at those patches and don't know which ones are the appropriate ones I should I apply? Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

2007-06-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 6/2/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that Sam is working on this. I'm a bit lost looking at those patches and don't know which ones are the appropriate ones I should I apply? Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions v2

2007-06-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 6/2/07, Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fix is in -mm and sent to Andi. So it will likely be merged soon. I recommemd to ignore the warnings for now. Thanks, I'll check when the next rc4 is ready. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: Linux v2.6.22-rc3

2007-05-27 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/26/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But now you _can_ do something: you can download the latest -rc kernel, and smile smugly to yourself, knowing that you are running the latest and greatest on your machine. Got this only after "recompile". "make clean" will make the

Re: Linux v2.6.22-rc3

2007-05-27 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/26/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But now you _can_ do something: you can download the latest -rc kernel, and smile smugly to yourself, knowing that you are running the latest and greatest on your machine. Got this only after recompile. make clean will make the warnings go

Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:18 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: I'm sorry... but why are you posting these patches here? Those aren't GPL modules, and thus very offtopic for lkml, maybe except for if you want to deliberately have people look

patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Attached are patches for vmware-5.5.3 to make the vmmon and vmnet modules compile under Linux-2.6.22-rc1. Thanks, Jeff. --- vmware/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h.org 2006-12-26 16:47:25 +0800 +++ vmware/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h 2006-12-26 16:48:00 +0800 @@ -18,7 +18,9 @@

patch for cisco client for Linux-2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Attached is my patch for vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.00.0490-k9 to make it run on Linux-2.6.22-rc1. Thanks, Jeff. patch-2.6.22-vpn Description: Binary data

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/13/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, the merge window has closed, and 2.6.22-rc1 is out there. Got this ... Thanks, Jeff. # make config scripts/kconfig/conf arch/i386/Kconfig drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:116:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refers to

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Take that back. It's after patching reiser4-for-2.6.21.patch.gz that causes duplicated export symbols. Sorry, Jeff. On 5/13/07, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linus, > So give it a good testing. We'll see how the regression tracking ends up > working, but in order to ac

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Linus, So give it a good testing. We'll see how the regression tracking ends up working, but in order to actually track that, we want people actively testing -rc1 and making good reports! Here's a little patch to fix filemap.c compilation problem ... Thanks, Jeff ---

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Linus, So give it a good testing. We'll see how the regression tracking ends up working, but in order to actually track that, we want people actively testing -rc1 and making good reports! Here's a little patch to fix filemap.c compilation problem ... Thanks, Jeff ---

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Take that back. It's after patching reiser4-for-2.6.21.patch.gz that causes duplicated export symbols. Sorry, Jeff. On 5/13/07, Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus, So give it a good testing. We'll see how the regression tracking ends up working, but in order to actually track

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/13/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, the merge window has closed, and 2.6.22-rc1 is out there. Got this ... Thanks, Jeff. # make config scripts/kconfig/conf arch/i386/Kconfig drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:116:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refers to

patch for cisco client for Linux-2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Attached is my patch for vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.00.0490-k9 to make it run on Linux-2.6.22-rc1. Thanks, Jeff. patch-2.6.22-vpn Description: Binary data

patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Attached are patches for vmware-5.5.3 to make the vmmon and vmnet modules compile under Linux-2.6.22-rc1. Thanks, Jeff. --- vmware/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h.org 2006-12-26 16:47:25 +0800 +++ vmware/vmmon-only/include/compat_kernel.h 2006-12-26 16:48:00 +0800 @@ -18,7 +18,9 @@

Re: patch for vmware for Linux-2.6.21

2007-05-13 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:18 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: I'm sorry... but why are you posting these patches here? Those aren't GPL modules, and thus very offtopic for lkml, maybe except for if you want to deliberately have people look at non

PCI changed from 2.6.10-rc1 to 2.6.10-rc2. help needed.

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Chua
I'm trying to get the Brooktrout TR1034 fax card to run with Linux-2.6.21, but it just won't run, so I downgraded to 2.6.9 and it seems to load just fine. Then I tried 2.6.10-rc1, and with a few changes, it seems to work. But, when I tried 2.6.10-rc2, it failed. Here's what I patched to make it

PCI changed from 2.6.10-rc1 to 2.6.10-rc2. help needed.

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff Chua
I'm trying to get the Brooktrout TR1034 fax card to run with Linux-2.6.21, but it just won't run, so I downgraded to 2.6.9 and it seems to load just fine. Then I tried 2.6.10-rc1, and with a few changes, it seems to work. But, when I tried 2.6.10-rc2, it failed. Here's what I patched to make it

Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/1/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 1 2007 14:13, Jeff Chua wrote: > On 5/1/07, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? It's working fine >> for me with

Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/1/07, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? It's working fine for me with 2.6.20, but freezes the whole computer with 2.6.21. Before I I'm on i386 and noticed it makes the "guest" very unresponsive. Uncheck "disable

Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/1/07, Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? It's working fine for me with 2.6.20, but freezes the whole computer with 2.6.21. Before I I'm on i386 and noticed it makes the guest very unresponsive. Uncheck disable

Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

2007-05-01 Thread Jeff Chua
On 5/1/07, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 1 2007 14:13, Jeff Chua wrote: On 5/1/07, Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? It's working fine for me with 2.6.20, but freezes the whole computer with 2.6.21. Before

2.6.21 - BUG: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:177 send_IPI_mask_bitmask()

2007-04-27 Thread Jeff Chua
Got this error just before suspend to disk. Suspend/resume without problem, but only saw this after upgrading to 2.6.21 (no problem with 2.6.21-rc7, I think). CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS unset CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:1b.0 disabled Disabling non-boot

Re: Question about Reiser4 (how to boot it?)

2007-04-27 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, that is certainly helpful, but that only mounts one directory (partition) as Reiser4. This I have already done. I was more interested in how to have a whole partition dedicated to Reiser4 and being able to boot into it. Not

Re: Question about Reiser4 (how to boot it?)

2007-04-27 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that is certainly helpful, but that only mounts one directory (partition) as Reiser4. This I have already done. I was more interested in how to have a whole partition dedicated to Reiser4 and being able to boot into it. Not able

2.6.21 - BUG: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:177 send_IPI_mask_bitmask()

2007-04-27 Thread Jeff Chua
Got this error just before suspend to disk. Suspend/resume without problem, but only saw this after upgrading to 2.6.21 (no problem with 2.6.21-rc7, I think). CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS unset CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:1b.0 disabled Disabling non-boot

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
I'll try it with 2.6.21 soon. Just to inform you that the reiserfs4 patch cleanly on 2.6.21 and working well. I've not encountered any problem so far. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What plugins etc are you looking at? None. Just want vanilla reiser4 as I've many small files to deal with. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:49:11 +0800, "Jeff Chua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Reiser4 has great potential and I'll be more than happy to test it. > Yeah,... let us know the details of your testing. Ok

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:29:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >... What I will NOT do: Waste my time with tracking 2.6.22-rc regressions. We have an astonishing amount of -rc testers, but obviously not the developer manpower for handling

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:29:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: ... What I will NOT do: Waste my time with tracking 2.6.22-rc regressions. We have an astonishing amount of -rc testers, but obviously not the developer manpower for handling

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:49:11 +0800, Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Reiser4 has great potential and I'll be more than happy to test it. Yeah,... let us know the details of your testing. Ok, got reiser4 running on 1 full 250GB

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What plugins etc are you looking at? None. Just want vanilla reiser4 as I've many small files to deal with. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff Chua
I'll try it with 2.6.21 soon. Just to inform you that the reiserfs4 patch cleanly on 2.6.21 and working well. I've not encountered any problem so far. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Laurent Riffard's Reiser4 patch to the default linux-2.6.20 kernel and a couple of others. Thank you. Got it. Testing it now. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/25/07, Edward Shishkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hope we survive this, at least such peaks is not something new in our practice. Well, gentlemen, so we'll address other items (except #26, 27) and resume this discussion. Will you be releasing a patch for 2.6.21-rc7 for those who are keen

Re: [3/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/25/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject: suspend to disk hangs (CONFIG_NO_HZ) > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/25/217 > > Submitter : Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [3/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/25/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: suspend to disk hangs (CONFIG_NO_HZ) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/25/217 Submitter : Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status : unknown That's still rather a lot

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/25/07, Edward Shishkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope we survive this, at least such peaks is not something new in our practice. Well, gentlemen, so we'll address other items (except #26, 27) and resume this discussion. Will you be releasing a patch for 2.6.21-rc7 for those who are keen

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laurent Riffard's Reiser4 patch to the default linux-2.6.20 kernel and a couple of others. Thank you. Got it. Testing it now. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-23 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/23/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Obviously there's a significant number of people interested in reiser4 Count me in. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-23 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/23/07, William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously there's a significant number of people interested in reiser4 Count me in. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/18/07, Jasper Spaans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Might be a setting in the bios... look for something like memory hole, memory remapping, 4G DRAM, etc. I checked. BIOS says 4GB. No memory hole setting. But I'll play around a bit more. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/18/07, Jasper Spaans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might be a setting in the bios... look for something like memory hole, memory remapping, 4G DRAM, etc. I checked. BIOS says 4GB. No memory hole setting. But I'll play around a bit more. Thanks, Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/16/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Chua wrote: > I've noticed that with 4GB physical ram, I'm only see 3098000 MB on > the Dell 745, and 3107056MB on the IBM X60s. > > I've tested with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y, > CONFIG_X86_PAE=y,

Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/16/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The X60 most certainly contains a chipset which severely limits the amount of accessible RAM due to issues with remapping of PCIe addresses. Intel explains it somewhere on their web presence. A quick & lazy web search turned this Intel

4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff Chua
I've noticed that with 4GB physical ram, I'm only see 3098000 MB on the Dell 745, and 3107056MB on the IBM X60s. I've tested with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y, CONFIG_X86_PAE=y, but nothing makes any difference. Tested on Linux 2.6.20, Linux 2.6.21-rc7. # dmesg copy_e820_map()

4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff Chua
I've noticed that with 4GB physical ram, I'm only see 3098000 MB on the Dell 745, and 3107056MB on the IBM X60s. I've tested with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y, CONFIG_X86_PAE=y, but nothing makes any difference. Tested on Linux 2.6.20, Linux 2.6.21-rc7. # dmesg copy_e820_map()

Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/16/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The X60 most certainly contains a chipset which severely limits the amount of accessible RAM due to issues with remapping of PCIe addresses. Intel explains it somewhere on their web presence. A quick lazy web search turned this Intel paper

Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux.

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff Chua
On 4/16/07, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Chua wrote: I've noticed that with 4GB physical ram, I'm only see 3098000 MB on the Dell 745, and 3107056MB on the IBM X60s. I've tested with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y, CONFIG_X86_PAE=y, but nothing makes any difference

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