Re: Getting the latest and greatest Linux perf features on every Debian kernel

2022-12-25 Thread Andi Kleen
Ian Rogers writes: > So I wanted to say a BIG thanks to Ben as I see in the 5.16 changelog > that the perf wrapper script for Debian is now gone! > https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/linux/linux_6.1~rc8-1~exp1_changelog Halleluja! This wrapper literally is the singlest

Bug#723180: [PATCH] Revert x86: Disable IST stacks for debug/int 3/stack fault for PREEMPT_RT

2014-01-05 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:45:47AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 19:18 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 02:55:48PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: where do I start. Let me explain what is going on here. The code sequence Yes the IST

Bug#723180: [PATCH] Revert x86: Disable IST stacks for debug/int 3/stack fault for PREEMPT_RT

2014-01-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 02:55:48PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: where do I start. Let me explain what is going on here. The code sequence Yes the IST stacks are needed for correctness, even in more cases than the example below. You cannot just disable them, just because you don't

Bug#684569: linux-image-3.5-trunk-686-pae: microcode module loaded on Celeron CPU

2012-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:44:48AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Looking into this some more, this seems unlikely in Debian because the microcode packages are in non-free [1] and therefore not available for Debian users not having enabled non-free repositories Because of that the microcode

Bug#684569: microcode module loaded on Celeron CPU

2012-08-13 Thread Andi Kleen
At least when updates come through the BIOS the OS distributor does not have to be involved. The non-free packages also allow users to use the updates from Intel without too much fuss when they want them. One alternative would be to offer a downloader. Just hiding them from the user is not a

Bug#684569: linux-image-3.5-trunk-686-pae: microcode module loaded on Celeron CPU

2012-08-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 03:17:19PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: This really depends on what operations you want to do, and how buggy the CPU microcode installed by the BIOS is. If you care that much about it, you can blacklist it. Understood. Although I do not understand from where the

Bug#404148: disabling hw iommu on nvidia

2007-04-02 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 00:29:16 dann frazier wrote: hey Andi, Debian is looking at patching our kernel to disable the hw iommu on nvidia chipsets for the data corruption bug that's been discussed on lkml[1]. It would be better if you waited until the official solution. The hardware

Bug#341801: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 07 July 2006 23:18, Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:52:38 +0200 Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We received the following bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/341801 | I have a Asus A8V with 4GB of RAM. When I turn on the hardware memory | hole in