Re: Bug across major branches, advice for bisecting and contributing

2024-09-13 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:03:29 +0530, James young wrote: > I've hit an odd CIFS corruption issue, in certain contexts, on ARM, > dependent on the Linux kernel version. I have a repeatable test. It > looks like: > * Debian 11, bullseye, kernel 6.1: ok > * Debian 12, bookworm, kernel 6.6: impacted > *

Re: Submitting a selftest patch

2024-05-08 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Wed, 08 May 2024 08:08:20 +0530 Camila Alvarez wrote: > I’ve been discussing a bug with one of the maintainers of a subsystem. > At one point I was asked to craft a selftest for the issue.  > > My question is: how do I send the patch with the selftest? Do I need > to reference the email where

Re: git send-email and gmail smtp

2024-04-17 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:00:56 +0530, Jim Cromie wrote: > so I tried to submit a patchset via sendemail, > and ran aground on authorization. > > its been a while since I sent from this computer, > laptop power cord is cut :-( > but failure wording is ambiguous > > 5.7.8 Username and Password not ac

amd-pstate: Setting the maximum frequency in guided mode

2023-08-15 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
Hi, I am trying out the amd-pstate guided mode. If I understand the docs correctly [1], guided mode essentially enforces a range (min, max) over the frequency which can be selected by the processor, i.e. it is like active mode but with range enforced. If true, it looks attractive for battery savi

Re: Where can I find information on memremap behavior?

2023-02-03 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:28:18 +0530, Anton Gusev wrote > I am trying to investigate a potential NULL dereference > in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c in the function efi_mem_reserve_persistent. > > In it, a result of memremap call is dereferenced without null checks. > I'd like to understand if it's an

Re: custom compil

2023-01-26 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
Please use plain text email and top-posting. Quoting Greg KH: A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What

Re: custom compil

2023-01-25 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 03:25:08 +0530, A.Péré wrote: > Is there a distribution with automated tools to compile a kernel > with custom config settings Yes, it is your favourite distro, whichever that may be. You just need the tools to build, which you may already have, but can be seen in docs: http

RE: clock_gettime function doesn't scale to real time.. and changing CNTFRQ_EL0 doesn't make any change..(arm64)

2022-11-08 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Tue, 08 Nov 2022 10:45:55 +0530 Chan Kim wrote: > > Hello all, > > I fixed this problem and now the time measurement and commands like sleep > works just fine. > > Two points I fixed : > - I had 'clock-frequency' property set with wrong frequency in my timer node > in the device tree so I

Re: REPOST : Kernel panic when try to install Rocky 8.4

2022-11-07 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
As Greg KH says on the mailing list: A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing

Re: REPOST : Kernel panic when try to install Rocky 8.4

2022-11-04 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:04:43 +0530, mavis wrote: > Hi All, > > I tried to install Rocky linux 8.4 (kernel 4.18.0-305) but when the kernel > starts, it result to > "Kernel Panic - not syncing : Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast > exception handler". > > I tried to use other distribs (Centos

Re: clock_gettime function doesn't scale to real time.. and changing CNTFRQ_EL0 doesn't make any change..(arm64)

2022-11-04 Thread Siddh Raman Pant
On Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:34:15 +0530, Chan Kim wrote: > Hello linux experts and newbies, > > I have ported linux on our arm64 fpga board. Both 5.10.0 and 5.15.xx works > ok with minimal config. > > I have run a simple application and timed the processing time using > clock_gettime function. > > It