Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:54:32AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: >>> ... >>> Then I think bugzilla needs: >>> adding more categories such as security, >> "security" would be a flag like "regression",

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:54:32AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: ... Then I think bugzilla needs: adding more categories such as security, security would be a flag like regression, not a category.

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 22:32 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:51:42 Stephane Eranian wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. > > I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you > > are stuck)

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:51:42 Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello, > > Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. > I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you > are stuck) do the right cleanup. Thanks. Can that other patch please be

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Stephane Eranian
Hello, Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you are stuck) do the right cleanup. Changelog: - fix the NMI watchdog on Intel CoreDuo processor whereby the kernel would get stuck

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
> I'm satisfied that Stephane's last patch fixes it .. Great. Can someone send a final version with proper Changelog and Signed-off-by please? Thanks. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
> If you look at the LOC values you'll notice a lot of time has passed, > with only one NMI and on only one cpu .. > > It's possible this is something else completely tho .. It only ticks when the CPU is not idle. If you want to see the "operating frequency" run a main(){for(;;;);} for each

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
If you look at the LOC values you'll notice a lot of time has passed, with only one NMI and on only one cpu .. It's possible this is something else completely tho .. It only ticks when the CPU is not idle. If you want to see the operating frequency run a main(){for(;;;);} for each core.

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
I'm satisfied that Stephane's last patch fixes it .. Great. Can someone send a final version with proper Changelog and Signed-off-by please? Thanks. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Stephane Eranian
Hello, Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you are stuck) do the right cleanup. Changelog: - fix the NMI watchdog on Intel CoreDuo processor whereby the kernel would get stuck

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:51:42 Stephane Eranian wrote: Hello, Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you are stuck) do the right cleanup. Thanks. Can that other patch please be

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 22:32 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:51:42 Stephane Eranian wrote: Hello, Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you are stuck) do the right

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 03:00 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.08.31 17:24:46 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 20:06 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > > > > > > > something to do with the nmi hertz adjustment that happens after > > > > check_nmi_watchdog() .. > > > >

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.08.31 17:24:46 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 20:06 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > > > > something to do with the nmi hertz adjustment that happens after > > > check_nmi_watchdog() .. > > > > Hm hm, does the same thing (watchdog stuck after check) happen with >

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 20:06 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > something to do with the nmi hertz adjustment that happens after > > check_nmi_watchdog() .. > > Hm hm, does the same thing (watchdog stuck after check) happen with > older kernels, ie. those before Stephane's changeset that made it

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.08.31 09:35:23 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:21 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > In this patch, the setup_*() routine now extract the MSR from the wd_ops > > to copy them into the nmi_watchdog_ctlblk. This is not done for P4 because > > of the special and ugly

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:21 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Daniel, > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:43:20AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > Daniel, > > > > > Yes, I realized I missed a small detail in the switch statement. > > >

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:43:20AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > Daniel, > > > Yes, I realized I missed a small detail in the switch statement. > > Could you try the new version? > > This patch still has the stuck NMI ..

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Daniel, > Yes, I realized I missed a small detail in the switch statement. > Could you try the new version? This patch still has the stuck NMI .. Essentially the same thing that happened without the patch.. Feel free to keep sending

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, Yes, I realized I missed a small detail in the switch statement. Could you try the new version? This patch still has the stuck NMI .. Essentially the same thing that happened without the patch.. Feel free to keep sending

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:43:20AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, Yes, I realized I missed a small detail in the switch statement. Could you try the new version? This patch still has the stuck NMI .. Essentially

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:21 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:43:20AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, Yes, I realized I missed a small detail in the switch statement. Could you try the

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.08.31 09:35:23 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:21 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: In this patch, the setup_*() routine now extract the MSR from the wd_ops to copy them into the nmi_watchdog_ctlblk. This is not done for P4 because of the special and ugly case of

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 20:06 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: something to do with the nmi hertz adjustment that happens after check_nmi_watchdog() .. Hm hm, does the same thing (watchdog stuck after check) happen with older kernels, ie. those before Stephane's changeset that made it use

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.08.31 17:24:46 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 20:06 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: something to do with the nmi hertz adjustment that happens after check_nmi_watchdog() .. Hm hm, does the same thing (watchdog stuck after check) happen with older

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 03:00 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.08.31 17:24:46 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 20:06 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: something to do with the nmi hertz adjustment that happens after check_nmi_watchdog() .. Hm hm, does the

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-30 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:21:59PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 14:24 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > > Now on Core Duo, there is no PEBS anyway, so it is okay to use counter 0 > > for NMI. The problem is that the detection code in perfctr-watchdog.c > >

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: ... Then I think bugzilla needs: adding more categories such as security, "security" would be a flag like "regression", not a category. system calls (lots of implementation suggestions for posix and

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:59:47PM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: > > Bugzilla is for tracking bugs, not for discussing possible > > kernel features. > > True, but some of them are categorized as bugs from the reporter's > prospective, when they say "man page says" or "according to POSIX it's

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:59:47PM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: Bugzilla is for tracking bugs, not for discussing possible kernel features. True, but some of them are categorized as bugs from the reporter's prospective, when they say man page says or according to POSIX it's wrong.

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: ... Then I think bugzilla needs: adding more categories such as security, security would be a flag like regression, not a category. system calls (lots of implementation suggestions for posix and

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-30 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:21:59PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 14:24 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Now on Core Duo, there is no PEBS anyway, so it is okay to use counter 0 for NMI. The problem is that the detection code in perfctr-watchdog.c treats a Core

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-29 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 14:24 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Now on Core Duo, there is no PEBS anyway, so it is okay to use counter 0 > for NMI. The problem is that the detection code in perfctr-watchdog.c > treats a Core Duo and a Core 2 Duo the same way as they both have the >

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-29 Thread Natalie Protasevich
> Bugzilla is for tracking bugs, not for discussing possible > kernel features. True, but some of them are categorized as bugs from the reporter's prospective, when they say "man page says" or "according to POSIX it's wrong". I am going to push ones that are feature suggestions, re-design

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: >... > Then I think bugzilla needs: > adding more categories such as security, "security" would be a flag like "regression", not a category. > system calls (lots of > implementation suggestions for posix and non-posix

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-29 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 01:13:44PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:46 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > I think I found the problem. As I suspected, it seems there is an assymetry > > between the 1st end 2nd counter (just like what they have on P6 core). Yet > >

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-29 Thread Natalie Protasevich
n 8/27/07, David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/27/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now that I'm looking at the kernel bugzilla .. If you set the kernel > > version to 2.6.22 and set the "Regression" check box you could denote > > the fact that it's a regression in that

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-29 Thread Natalie Protasevich
n 8/27/07, David Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/27/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I'm looking at the kernel bugzilla .. If you set the kernel version to 2.6.22 and set the Regression check box you could denote the fact that it's a regression in that kernel version

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-29 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 01:13:44PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:46 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: I think I found the problem. As I suspected, it seems there is an assymetry between the 1st end 2nd counter (just like what they have on P6 core). Yet for

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote: ... Then I think bugzilla needs: adding more categories such as security, security would be a flag like regression, not a category. system calls (lots of implementation suggestions for posix and non-posix ones), ...

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-29 Thread Natalie Protasevich
Bugzilla is for tracking bugs, not for discussing possible kernel features. True, but some of them are categorized as bugs from the reporter's prospective, when they say man page says or according to POSIX it's wrong. I am going to push ones that are feature suggestions, re-design suggestions,

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-29 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 14:24 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Now on Core Duo, there is no PEBS anyway, so it is okay to use counter 0 for NMI. The problem is that the detection code in perfctr-watchdog.c treats a Core Duo and a Core 2 Duo the same way as they both have the

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
Here's a simpler patch that fixes the boot hang .. We have to call off the IPI looping regardless of the check_nmi_watchdog outcome.. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c ===

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:46 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > I think I found the problem. As I suspected, it seems there is an assymetry > between the 1st end 2nd counter (just like what they have on P6 core). Yet > for architectural perfmon v1, this restriction is supposed to be lifted. > >

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Bjorn, It looks like we need to revisit the patch that makes the NMI watchdog use the 2nd counter (PERFREVTSEL1/PMC1) for architectural perfmon. The Intel Core Duo processor has a bug (AE49) with the enable bit of the 2nd counter not working. The Core 2 Duo/Quad processors also implement

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:30:35AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Here is some output from my boot log, > > md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 > device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team > TCP

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Daniel, > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:34:44AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:12 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > Daniel, > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > >

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:34:44AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:12 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > Daniel, > > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:55 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:12 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Daniel, > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:55 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > > > Yet the model name looks strange. So we need to run one more test, > > > as the

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:55 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > Yet the model name looks strange. So we need to run one more test, > > as the fam/model is not enough. What we need to check is whether or > > not this

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:55 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Yet the model name looks strange. So we need to run one more test, as the fam/model is not enough. What we need to check is whether or not this processor

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:12 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:55 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Yet the model name looks strange. So we need to run one more test, as the fam/model is not

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:34:44AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:12 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:55 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Yet the model name

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:05 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:34:44AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 02:12 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Daniel, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:30:35AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: Here is some output from my boot log, md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team TCP cubic

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Stephane Eranian
Bjorn, It looks like we need to revisit the patch that makes the NMI watchdog use the 2nd counter (PERFREVTSEL1/PMC1) for architectural perfmon. The Intel Core Duo processor has a bug (AE49) with the enable bit of the 2nd counter not working. The Core 2 Duo/Quad processors also implement

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:46 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: I think I found the problem. As I suspected, it seems there is an assymetry between the 1st end 2nd counter (just like what they have on P6 core). Yet for architectural perfmon v1, this restriction is supposed to be lifted.

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Walker
Here's a simpler patch that fixes the boot hang .. We have to call off the IPI looping regardless of the check_nmi_watchdog outcome.. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c ===

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:55 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Yet the model name looks strange. So we need to run one more test, > as the fam/model is not enough. What we need to check is whether or > not this processor implements architectural perfmon or not. > > Could you please compile and run

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-27 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:55:31AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > Here is the cpuinfo for processor 0 .. It's got four cores so this isn't > the full /proc/cpuinfo output .. > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 14 The looks

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread David Rees
On 8/27/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I'm looking at the kernel bugzilla .. If you set the kernel > version to 2.6.22 and set the "Regression" check box you could denote > the fact that it's a regression in that kernel version .. > > I don't know if this URL is going to

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:08:34 -0700 Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It's a hassle when someone doesn't have a bugzilla account. But there are > > humans sitting behind bugzilla handling stuff (fsvo "human"). I've already >

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:54 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Daniel, > > You mentioned you have a development board with a dual Pentium-M. > > What are the exact family/model numbers? > > What Bjorn points you at below is a fix that applies to > Intel Core Duo/Solo (Yonah) and Intel Core 2

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-08-27 Thread Stephane Eranian
Daniel, You mentioned you have a development board with a dual Pentium-M. What are the exact family/model numbers? What Bjorn points you at below is a fix that applies to Intel Core Duo/Solo (Yonah) and Intel Core 2 series but not to regular Pentium-M (no architectural perfmon there). I have

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 19:02 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Indeed, now we need a predefined search "show regressions in 2.6.x" :) > > So the plan is simple: > - copy all regressions into bugzilla after each release > - make sure that all regressions reported on lkml after realase hit bugzilla

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 09:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > It's a hassle when someone doesn't have a bugzilla account. But there are > humans sitting behind bugzilla handling stuff (fsvo "human"). I've already > forwarded your bugzilla report to Stephane pointing out that he doesn't > have an

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Daniel Walker pisze: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:26 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: >> On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [..] > I'm not sure that we

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:26:48 -0700 Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 00:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Daniel Walker pisze: > > > [snip] > > > > Have you considered

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:44:03AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > What I haven't been doing is ensuring that the Product and Component fields > are suitably set. That's something which Natalie is now cleaning up. I always fixed them when they were wrong, and I'd therefore be surprised if

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 00:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Daniel Walker pisze: > > [snip] > > > Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? > > > > Yes, I have considered it. > > > > Bugzilla

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:09 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:41:17AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just > >> getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting >

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:41:17AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just >> getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting >> transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? > > Maybe this was a

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:26 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > > > I'm not sure that we need one, really. Any

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > > I'm not sure that we need one, really. Any bugs in a stable release can > > > be > > > handled via email and/or

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Daniel Walker pisze: > > > [snip] > > > > Have you considered maintaining all the

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 02:45 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > Daniel Walker pisze: > > [snip] > > > Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? > > > > Yes, I have considered it. > > > > Bugzilla sucks when it comes to

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, 27 August 2007 13:38, Michal Piotrowski wrote: [..] > > I can copy all regression reports into Bugzilla after each release. > > The unresolved ones, that is? Yes, exactly. > If you can do that, it would be a very good >

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 02:45 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Daniel Walker pisze: > [snip] > > Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? > > Yes, I have considered it. > > Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is > a regression field, but there are no

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 27 August 2007 13:38, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Daniel Walker pisze: > > > [snip] > > > > Have you considered maintaining all the

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/26/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is > > a regression field, but there are no difference between > > 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 regression. > > Here's how to use Bugzilla

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Daniel Walker pisze: > > [snip] > > > Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? > > > > Yes, I have considered it. > > > > Bugzilla

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just > > getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting > > transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? > > Maybe this was a dumb

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? Maybe this was a dumb assumption on my part, but I thought regressions were getting

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread David Rees
On 8/26/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is > a regression field, but there are no difference between > 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 regression. Here's how to use Bugzilla to track regressions between different kernel versions: Create

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Walker pisze: > [snip] > > Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? > > Yes, I have considered it. > > Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is > a regression field, but

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread David Rees
On 8/26/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no difference between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 regression. Here's how to use Bugzilla to track regressions between different kernel versions: Create a

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? Maybe this was a dumb assumption on my part, but I thought regressions were getting

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? Maybe this was a dumb assumption

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, David Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/07, Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no difference between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 regression. Here's how to use Bugzilla to track

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 27 August 2007 13:38, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla?

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 02:45 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There is a regression field, but there are no difference between

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2007 13:38, Michal Piotrowski wrote: [..] I can copy all regression reports into Bugzilla after each release. The unresolved ones, that is? Yes, exactly. If you can do that, it would be a very good thing, IMO.

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 02:45 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla? Yes, I have considered it. Bugzilla sucks when it comes to tracking things. There

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:02 +0200 Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Walker pisze: [snip] Have you considered maintaining all the lists in Bugzilla?

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I'm not sure that we need one, really. Any bugs in a stable release can be handled via email and/or bugzilla as we

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:26 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I'm not sure that we need one, really. Any bugs in a

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:09 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:41:17AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting

Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

2007-08-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:41:17AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting transitioned into bugzilla for tracking? Maybe this was a dumb

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