Re: Suspend code ordering (again)

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
pecific device power state, so in both cases it should be safe to call _PTS before suspending, no? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
blow up the machine? Yuck. Still don't like this approach. It seems like (partially) covering up problems rather than solving them. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
. Still don't like this approach. It seems like (partially) covering up problems rather than solving them. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Suspend code ordering (again)

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
, so in both cases it should be safe to call _PTS before suspending, no? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [patch?] s2ram + P4 + tsc = annoyance

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
resume or something? Anyway, I asked it to please stop doing that, and it complied without even exploding (unlike crabby APICs). Are we missing some logic to resync the TSCs after resume, or something? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
problems I'm aware of are devices behind host bridges which can't receive/handle MMCONFIG requests, in which case the problem would be bus-wide. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
to this problem, but if it couldn't be fixed, I think the only sane solution would be to blacklist MMCONFIG support on that chipset. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Suspend code ordering (again)

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Hancock
machine and not the real one.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: HSM violation errors

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Hancock
was removed since it was broken, so this error shouldn't happen anymore. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Hancock
-893d-a6f2295b40c8/TW04015_WINHEC2004.ppt I suspect that might require more Windows hacking skill and/or motivation than one might be likely to find on this list, though :-) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Hancock
quote in reply to Robert Hancock), but as you point out, 9.3.2 says the opposite. So, 1.0 and 3.0 are very clear and rather different on this, and 2.0 is contradictory (and I presume this is one of the points ACPI 3.0 set out to clean up). I will rescind my point on ACPI 2.0 - I don't know what

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Hancock
quote in reply to Robert Hancock), but as you point out, 9.3.2 says the opposite. So, 1.0 and 3.0 are very clear and rather different on this, and 2.0 is contradictory (and I presume this is one of the points ACPI 3.0 set out to clean up). I will rescind my point on ACPI 2.0 - I don't know what

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Hancock
-893d-a6f2295b40c8/TW04015_WINHEC2004.ppt I suspect that might require more Windows hacking skill and/or motivation than one might be likely to find on this list, though :-) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: HSM violation errors

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Hancock
was removed since it was broken, so this error shouldn't happen anymore. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
culprit in this case. Yeah, and this is a PCI Express system not AGP, so it wouldn't load anyway. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
-space when sizing the bars of a device (I have some traces of configuration-space-access taken on a window machine for one of the PCI busses). Good to know. There was some speculation that it did not. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL

Re: [Bug 9528] x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
board specific. Looking at the DSDT for my A8N-SLI Deluxe, that SMIP region is defined at 0x442E (and is reported as reserved). This BIOS doesn't write there in the _PTS method like the ones in the report apparently do though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remo

Re: [Bug 9528] x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
at the DSDT for my A8N-SLI Deluxe, that SMIP region is defined at 0x442E (and is reported as reserved). This BIOS doesn't write there in the _PTS method like the ones in the report apparently do though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
-space when sizing the bars of a device (I have some traces of configuration-space-access taken on a window machine for one of the PCI busses). Good to know. There was some speculation that it did not. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Hancock
. Yeah, and this is a PCI Express system not AGP, so it wouldn't load anyway. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-22 Thread Robert Hancock
=e18c985289ee356f06dbc953281a3c140a02fbb3 -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Robert Hancock
verlap problem, and likely Tony Camuso's patch or something like it, to disable MMCONFIG accesses to devices behind certain broken host bridges). Once that works, then this patch really serves no purpose. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Robert Hancock
problem, and likely Tony Camuso's patch or something like it, to disable MMCONFIG accesses to devices behind certain broken host bridges). Once that works, then this patch really serves no purpose. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-22 Thread Robert Hancock
=e18c985289ee356f06dbc953281a3c140a02fbb3 -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Tony Camuso wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: First off, I would like to see confirmation from the horses's mouths here (namely AMD, ServerWorks/Broadcom, and whoever else) that there is no other way to get around this problem than disabling MMCONFIG for accesses behind those chips. I happen

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Hancock
hipsets so that MSI would function, because the BIOS failed to set them up properly. Are we sure there's not a similar BIOS configuration issue that could ideally be fixed in the BIOS, or else fixed up in the kernel? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam&quo

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Hancock
function, because the BIOS failed to set them up properly. Are we sure there's not a similar BIOS configuration issue that could ideally be fixed in the BIOS, or else fixed up in the kernel? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG]

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Tony Camuso wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: First off, I would like to see confirmation from the horses's mouths here (namely AMD, ServerWorks/Broadcom, and whoever else) that there is no other way to get around this problem than disabling MMCONFIG for accesses behind those chips. I happen

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Robert Hancock
n from SMI. In that case it would be quite reasonable for the BIOS to reserve that region to prevent another driver from loading and trying to take conflicting control of the device. One has to be careful before assuming that any such reservation is bogus. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon,

Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG

2007-12-19 Thread Robert Hancock
D K8 built-in northbridge). If this is not sufficient, I would suggest expanding that mechanism instead of adding all this new code. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG

2007-12-19 Thread Robert Hancock
-in northbridge). If this is not sufficient, I would suggest expanding that mechanism instead of adding all this new code. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-19 Thread Robert Hancock
. In that case it would be quite reasonable for the BIOS to reserve that region to prevent another driver from loading and trying to take conflicting control of the device. One has to be careful before assuming that any such reservation is bogus. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Re: [RFC/PATCH] 2.6.24-rcx: Make sys_poll() wait at least timeout ms

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007 schrieb Robert Hancock: That seems fishy. What is your value of HZ and what is the timeout value that was passed in the bad case? HZ set to 250, timeout to 4ms. Time spent in poll() taken by clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ) before and after

Re: Out of memory and no killable processes: 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
ry can be pretty easily exhausted on machines with lots of high memory. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: PCI resource problems caused by improper address rounding

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
tions and relying only on E820 would result in things really going blammo (like mappings things over MMCONFIG tables for instance). So disabling it on modern machines is really not an option. And if it's enabled, you likely wouldn't hit the problem it tries to fix. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon

Re: PCI resource problems caused by improper address rounding

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
ieces of information into one overall map like Linux does, which would explain why it needs to reserve all physical RAM.. (As mentioned in another post, I would guess the BIOS is reserving that memory range since it's the MMCONFIG aperture..) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To e

Re: PCI resource problems caused by improper address rounding

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
there will have disastrous results. (This BIOS has an MCFG table, though it looks like this Fedora kernel has MMCONFIG disabled, so we can't tell what it actually contains.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberth

Re: Memory Read Error

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
or .Please anyone help me First off, why are you trying to do this and how. Without such details it's impossible to answer this question. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ --

Re: [RFC/PATCH] 2.6.24-rcx: Make sys_poll() wait at least timeout ms

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
{ /* Infinite (< 0) or no (0) timeout */ timeout_jiffies = timeout_msecs; That seems fishy. What is your value of HZ and what is the timeout value that was passed in the bad case? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam&qu

Re: Memory Read Error

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
anyone help me First off, why are you trying to do this and how. Without such details it's impossible to answer this question. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: PCI resource problems caused by improper address rounding

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
there will have disastrous results. (This BIOS has an MCFG table, though it looks like this Fedora kernel has MMCONFIG disabled, so we can't tell what it actually contains.) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: PCI resource problems caused by improper address rounding

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
into one overall map like Linux does, which would explain why it needs to reserve all physical RAM.. (As mentioned in another post, I would guess the BIOS is reserving that memory range since it's the MMCONFIG aperture..) -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from

Re: [RFC/PATCH] 2.6.24-rcx: Make sys_poll() wait at least timeout ms

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
) or no (0) timeout */ timeout_jiffies = timeout_msecs; That seems fishy. What is your value of HZ and what is the timeout value that was passed in the bad case? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: PCI resource problems caused by improper address rounding

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
in things really going blammo (like mappings things over MMCONFIG tables for instance). So disabling it on modern machines is really not an option. And if it's enabled, you likely wouldn't hit the problem it tries to fix. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from

Re: Out of memory and no killable processes: 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
exhausted on machines with lots of high memory. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [RFC/PATCH] 2.6.24-rcx: Make sys_poll() wait at least timeout ms

2007-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
Karsten Wiese wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007 schrieb Robert Hancock: That seems fishy. What is your value of HZ and what is the timeout value that was passed in the bad case? HZ set to 250, timeout to 4ms. Time spent in poll() taken by clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, time) before

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

2007-12-16 Thread Robert Hancock
were they could only be flushed by a read, not a write) and PCI MMIO writes are only guaranteed to flush by doing a read from that device, not by other random port accesses. I suppose using the _p versions of port accesses might happen to mask such problems on certain machines.. -- Robert Hancoc

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

2007-12-16 Thread Robert Hancock
, we might suspect that there is compensating logic in either Windows ACPI code or some way that windows "sets up" the machine. You'd have to replace the iopl call to an equivalent one for Windows (seems like NtSetInformationProcess(ProcessUserModeIOPL) might do what you need).

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of outb to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

2007-12-16 Thread Robert Hancock
suspect that there is compensating logic in either Windows ACPI code or some way that windows sets up the machine. You'd have to replace the iopl call to an equivalent one for Windows (seems like NtSetInformationProcess(ProcessUserModeIOPL) might do what you need). -- Robert Hancock

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of outb to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

2007-12-16 Thread Robert Hancock
be flushed by a read, not a write) and PCI MMIO writes are only guaranteed to flush by doing a read from that device, not by other random port accesses. I suppose using the _p versions of port accesses might happen to mask such problems on certain machines.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: New question on that sata controller

2007-12-15 Thread Robert Hancock
, and if it runs the rest of the night at 400 without a self reboot or crash, I'll leave it there. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: New question on that sata controller

2007-12-15 Thread Robert Hancock
, and if it runs the rest of the night at 400 without a self reboot or crash, I'll leave it there. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Could not set non-blocking flag with 2.6.24-rc5

2007-12-14 Thread Robert Hancock
eproduce the failure, so it looks like a kernel issue to me. With this part of strace output it seems like an obvious userspace bug (calling fcntl on a -1 file descriptor). Could be some other change in behavior or timing difference is triggering the bug,however. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, C

Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Robert Hancock
continues to occur repeatedly, you don't have to worry about it. Yes, if it didn't recur, was likely just a transient glitch. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe

Re: Strange ATA problems

2007-12-14 Thread Robert Hancock
to occur repeatedly, you don't have to worry about it. Yes, if it didn't recur, was likely just a transient glitch. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Could not set non-blocking flag with 2.6.24-rc5

2007-12-14 Thread Robert Hancock
. With this part of strace output it seems like an obvious userspace bug (calling fcntl on a -1 file descriptor). Could be some other change in behavior or timing difference is triggering the bug,however. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: ATA ACPI needs "Mr interpreter, would you please shut up?" flag

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Hancock
decided that one board always choked on an empty channel. Maybe it's not that and it's just another case of the same issue where our resetting default timing values on the controller before calling _GTM would choke the _GTM method? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove

Re: PCI resource unavailable on mips

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Hancock
le to find a place to map all of the BARs. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: PCI resource unavailable on mips

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Hancock
to map all of the BARs. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: ATA ACPI needs Mr interpreter, would you please shut up? flag

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Hancock
decided that one board always choked on an empty channel. Maybe it's not that and it's just another case of the same issue where our resetting default timing values on the controller before calling _GTM would choke the _GTM method? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove

Re: Possible issue with dangling PCI BARs

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Hancock
idge's decode window (with higher decode priority than the MMCONFIG aperture, even).. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: mmaping an IO port device

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Hancock
d then executing inl/outl, etc. instructions directly. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: mmaping an IO port device

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Hancock
/outl, etc. instructions directly. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Possible issue with dangling PCI BARs

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Hancock
priority than the MMCONFIG aperture, even).. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Iomega ZIP-100 drive unsupported with jmicron JMB361 chip?

2007-12-10 Thread Robert Hancock
think it is? You are sure that this drive still works with older kernels using drivers/ide, and that the hardware didn't break at some point, I assume? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.c

Re: Iomega ZIP-100 drive unsupported with jmicron JMB361 chip?

2007-12-10 Thread Robert Hancock
that this drive still works with older kernels using drivers/ide, and that the hardware didn't break at some point, I assume? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: And you're quite right in your comment that we are often too quick to blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing. ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
And you're quite right in your comment that we are often too quick to blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing. ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows is doing.. -- Robert Hancock Saskat

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
34200 ctl 0x bmdma 0x irq 316 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc2334280 ctl 0x bmdma 0x00000000 irq 316 -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.robe

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
0x irq 316 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc2334280 ctl 0x bmdma 0x irq 316 -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
are often too quick to blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing. ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows is doing.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: And you're quite right in your comment that we are often too quick to blacklist hardware instead of looking into why it really is failing. ACPI is one of those areas where we often just need to figure out how to be bug-to-bug compatibile with what Windows

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Hancock
worked on the original Hitachi disk, but I've upgraded it to a newer Samsung). I'd say if the drive returns command aborted on one of these, we should just ignore that command and continue to the next one without trying to retry or disabling the ACPI support entirely. -- Robert Hancock Saskato

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Hancock
on the original Hitachi disk, but I've upgraded it to a newer Samsung). I'd say if the drive returns command aborted on one of these, we should just ignore that command and continue to the next one without trying to retry or disabling the ACPI support entirely. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Hancock
shared IRQ. */ I assume that with old IDE this would use ide_cs.c, but I'm drawing a blank on what modes that supports.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from th

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Hancock
ot; took about 15% of one cpu... I never bothered to check if that is the norm but i suspect i'll be removing that feature as it seems to not play nice with the kernel. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://w

Re: Possible EXT2 race

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Hancock
those at the disk layer, like these are saying it is, _after_ that error occurs: Dec 7 04:08:13 chaos kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Dec 7 04:08:13 chaos kernel: sdb1: rw=0, want=29687515944, limit=33736437 -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Hancock
assume that with old IDE this would use ide_cs.c, but I'm drawing a blank on what modes that supports.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: x86_64 dynticks not working prev: cpuidle, dynticks compatible or no?

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Hancock
never bothered to check if that is the norm but i suspect i'll be removing that feature as it seems to not play nice with the kernel. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from

Re: Possible EXT2 race

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Hancock
these are saying it is, _after_ that error occurs: Dec 7 04:08:13 chaos kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Dec 7 04:08:13 chaos kernel: sdb1: rw=0, want=29687515944, limit=33736437 -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Hancock
o IO port writes as fast as possible, then surely there's a better solution than trying to stall the IOs by an arbitrary and hardware-dependent amount of time, like udelay calls, etc. Does any remotely recent hardware even need this? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remo

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Hancock
a better solution than trying to stall the IOs by an arbitrary and hardware-dependent amount of time, like udelay calls, etc. Does any remotely recent hardware even need this? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

2007-12-05 Thread Robert Hancock
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: I've got an old 2xP-II @ 400MHz Compaq AP400 system, which I'm still using. It has many peculiarities, so, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to my questions would be "sorry, the pa

Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

2007-12-05 Thread Robert Hancock
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: I've got an old 2xP-II @ 400MHz Compaq AP400 system, which I'm still using. It has many peculiarities, so, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to my questions would be sorry, the patient

Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
fig. How about disabling ACPI entirely, acpi=off on kernel command line? I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of ACPI stuff broken on an older machine like that.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: ht

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
think there theory is that it's some other timing problem or some such, given the number of drives across all makers which are reported to do this. I believe Tejun is investigating? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: solid state drive access and context switching

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
the context switch for.. I could be wrong though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get

Re: solid state drive access and context switching

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
the context switch for.. I could be wrong though. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
think there theory is that it's some other timing problem or some such, given the number of drives across all makers which are reported to do this. I believe Tejun is investigating? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

2007-12-04 Thread Robert Hancock
try? If needed can provide complete dmesg (with nohz=off or with clocksource=tsc) and .config. How about disabling ACPI entirely, acpi=off on kernel command line? I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of ACPI stuff broken on an older machine like that.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-01 Thread Robert Hancock
and thus be worthless in a raid5 configuration. Can anyone offer any insight here? Thank you, Justin. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

2007-12-01 Thread Robert Hancock
and thus be worthless in a raid5 configuration. Can anyone offer any insight here? Thank you, Justin. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Possibly SATA related freeze killed networking and RAID

2007-11-29 Thread Robert Hancock
-triggered interrupt, an unhandled interrupt will keep interrupting forever since nobody knows how to clear it (until we decide to disable the IRQ entirely). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberth

Re: Possibly SATA related freeze killed networking and RAID

2007-11-29 Thread Robert Hancock
-triggered interrupt, an unhandled interrupt will keep interrupting forever since nobody knows how to clear it (until we decide to disable the IRQ entirely). -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com

Re: How to map user space's virtual memory into kernel logical address space

2007-11-28 Thread Robert Hancock
userspace, but then you have the same problem (and 10MB is awfully big for vmalloc). Is there a good reason why you have to be able to do this? There's likely a better way. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: How to map user space's virtual memory into kernel logical address space

2007-11-28 Thread Robert Hancock
userspace, but then you have the same problem (and 10MB is awfully big for vmalloc). Is there a good reason why you have to be able to do this? There's likely a better way. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove nospam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

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