Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2021-01-05 Thread Will Deacon
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 08:20:51AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2021, at 5:26 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > Sorry for the slow reply, I was socially distanced from my keyboard. > > > >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 04:36:11PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:11

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2021-01-05 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 08:20:51AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Interestingly, the architecture recently added a control bit to remove > > this synchronisation from exception return, so if we set that then we'd > > have a problem with SYNC_CORE and adding an ISB would be necessary

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2021-01-05 Thread Andy Lutomirski
> On Jan 5, 2021, at 5:26 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > Hi Andy, > > Sorry for the slow reply, I was socially distanced from my keyboard. > >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 04:36:11PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:11 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: +static inline void

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2021-01-05 Thread Will Deacon
Hi Andy, Sorry for the slow reply, I was socially distanced from my keyboard. On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 04:36:11PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:11 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > +static inline void membarrier_sync_core_before_usermode(void) > > > +{ > > > + /* >

RE: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2021-01-01 Thread David Laight
From: Andy Lutomirski > Sent: 29 December 2020 00:36 ... > I mean that the mapping from the name "sync_core" to its semantics is > x86 only. The string "sync_core" appears in the kernel only in > arch/x86, membarrier code, membarrier docs, and a single SGI driver > that is x86-only. Sure, the

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-30 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Excerpts from Russell King - ARM Linux admin's message of December 30, 2020 8:58 pm: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:00:28AM +, Russell King - ARM Linux admin > wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 12:33:02PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> > Excerpts from Russell King - ARM Linux admin's message

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-30 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:00:28AM +, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 12:33:02PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > Excerpts from Russell King - ARM Linux admin's message of December 29, 2020 > > 8:44 pm: > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 01:09:12PM +1000, Nicholas

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-30 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 12:33:02PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > Excerpts from Russell King - ARM Linux admin's message of December 29, 2020 > 8:44 pm: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 01:09:12PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > >> I think it should certainly be documented in terms of what guarantees

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-29 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Excerpts from Russell King - ARM Linux admin's message of December 29, 2020 8:44 pm: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 01:09:12PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> I think it should certainly be documented in terms of what guarantees >> it provides to application, _not_ the kinds of instructions it may or

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-29 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 01:09:12PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > I think it should certainly be documented in terms of what guarantees > it provides to application, _not_ the kinds of instructions it may or > may not induce the core to execute. And if existing API can't be > re-documented

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 29, 2020 10:36 am: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:11 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> >> Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 28, 2020 4:28 am: >> > The old sync_core_before_usermode() comments said that a non-icache-syncing >> >

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 29, 2020 10:56 am: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:36 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> >> Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 29, 2020 7:06 am: >> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM Mathieu Desnoyers >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> - On Dec

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:36 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 29, 2020 7:06 am: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM Mathieu Desnoyers > > wrote: > >> > >> - On Dec 28, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > >> > >> > On

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:11 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 28, 2020 4:28 am: > > The old sync_core_before_usermode() comments said that a non-icache-syncing > > return-to-usermode instruction is x86-specific and that all other > > architectures

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 29, 2020 7:06 am: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM Mathieu Desnoyers > wrote: >> >> - On Dec 28, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin >> > wrote:

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 1:09 PM Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > - On Dec 27, 2020, at 4:36 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > > [...] > > >> You seem to have noticed odd cases on arm64 where this guarantee does not > >> match reality. Where exactly can we find this in the code, and

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of December 28, 2020 4:28 am: > The old sync_core_before_usermode() comments said that a non-icache-syncing > return-to-usermode instruction is x86-specific and that all other > architectures automatically notice cross-modified code on return to > userspace.

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 07:29:34PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: > > After chatting with rmk about this (but without claiming that any of > > this is his opinion), based on the manpage, I think membarrier() > > currently doesn't

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:44:33AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 07:29:34PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: > > > After chatting with rmk about this (but without claiming that any of > > > this is

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
- On Dec 28, 2020, at 3:24 PM, Russell King, ARM Linux li...@armlinux.org.uk wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:44:33AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin >> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 07:29:34PM +0100, Jann Horn

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
- On Dec 28, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 07:29:34PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: >> > After chatting with rmk about this (but without claiming that any of >> >

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
- On Dec 28, 2020, at 4:06 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM Mathieu Desnoyers > wrote: >> >> - On Dec 28, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin >> >

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
- On Dec 27, 2020, at 4:36 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: [...] >> You seem to have noticed odd cases on arm64 where this guarantee does not >> match reality. Where exactly can we find this in the code, and which part >> of the architecture manual can you point us to which

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:32 PM Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > - On Dec 28, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 07:29:34PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: > >> >

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 07:29:34PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote: > After chatting with rmk about this (but without claiming that any of > this is his opinion), based on the manpage, I think membarrier() > currently doesn't really claim to be synchronizing caches? It just > serializes cores. So arguably

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 10:30 AM Jann Horn wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 6:14 PM Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:25 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > > wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 01:36:13PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Jann Horn
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 6:14 PM Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:25 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 01:36:13PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:18 PM Mathieu Desnoyers > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > -

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 9:23 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:14:23AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:25 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > > wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 01:36:13PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 09:14:23AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:25 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 01:36:13PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:18 PM Mathieu Desnoyers > > > wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 2:25 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 01:36:13PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:18 PM Mathieu Desnoyers > > wrote: > > > > > > - On Dec 27, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > > >

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-28 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux admin
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 01:36:13PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:18 PM Mathieu Desnoyers > wrote: > > > > - On Dec 27, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > > > > > > > > > I admit that I'm rather surprised that the code worked at all on

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-27 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:18 PM Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > - On Dec 27, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > > > > > I admit that I'm rather surprised that the code worked at all on arm64, > > and I'm suspicious that it has never been very well tested. My apologies

Re: [RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
- On Dec 27, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Andy Lutomirski l...@kernel.org wrote: > The old sync_core_before_usermode() comments said that a non-icache-syncing > return-to-usermode instruction is x86-specific and that all other > architectures automatically notice cross-modified code on return to >

[RFC please help] membarrier: Rewrite sync_core_before_usermode()

2020-12-27 Thread Andy Lutomirski
The old sync_core_before_usermode() comments said that a non-icache-syncing return-to-usermode instruction is x86-specific and that all other architectures automatically notice cross-modified code on return to userspace. Based on my general understanding of how CPUs work and based on my atttempt

Re: Could you please help to have a look a bug trace in pmu arm-cci.c

2019-02-04 Thread Will Deacon
On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 06:42:46PM +, Robin Murphy wrote: > On 01/02/2019 18:01, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 07:09:42PM +, Robin Murphy wrote: > > > On 2019-01-30 6:21 pm, Will Deacon wrote: > > > > [+Suzuki and Robin] > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:19:20AM

Re: Could you please help to have a look a bug trace in pmu arm-cci.c

2019-02-01 Thread Robin Murphy
On 01/02/2019 18:01, Will Deacon wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 07:09:42PM +, Robin Murphy wrote: On 2019-01-30 6:21 pm, Will Deacon wrote: [+Suzuki and Robin] On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:19:20AM +, Li, Meng wrote: When enable kernel configure CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, there is below

Re: Could you please help to have a look a bug trace in pmu arm-cci.c

2019-02-01 Thread Will Deacon
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 07:09:42PM +, Robin Murphy wrote: > On 2019-01-30 6:21 pm, Will Deacon wrote: > > [+Suzuki and Robin] > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:19:20AM +, Li, Meng wrote: > > > When enable kernel configure CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, there is below > > > trace > > >

RE: Could you please help to have a look a bug trace in pmu arm-cci.c

2019-01-31 Thread Li, Meng
t; Subject: Re: Could you please help to have a look a bug trace in pmu arm-cci.c > > On 2019-01-30 6:21 pm, Will Deacon wrote: > > [+Suzuki and Robin] > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:19:20AM +, Li, Meng wrote: > >> When enable kernel configure CONFIG_DEBUG_AT

Re: Could you please help to have a look a bug trace in pmu arm-cci.c

2019-01-30 Thread Robin Murphy
On 2019-01-30 6:21 pm, Will Deacon wrote: [+Suzuki and Robin] On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:19:20AM +, Li, Meng wrote: When enable kernel configure CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, there is below trace during pmu arm cci driver probe phase. [ 1.983337] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid

Re: Could you please help to have a look a bug trace in pmu arm-cci.c

2019-01-30 Thread Will Deacon
[+Suzuki and Robin] On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 07:19:20AM +, Li, Meng wrote: > When enable kernel configure CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, there is below trace > during pmu arm cci driver probe phase. > > [ 1.983337] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at >

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Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
First I'm getting the data off the RAID... then I'm going to delete the whole thing again... create a new RAID using partitions... follow every step carefully... then once the new RAID array is there, I'll throw a bit of data on it, and then reboot and see if it's still there... if so, I'll

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
First I'm getting the data off the RAID... then I'm going to delete the whole thing again... create a new RAID using partitions... follow every step carefully... then once the new RAID array is there, I'll throw a bit of data on it, and then reboot and see if it's still there... if so, I'll

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:02:23PM +0100, Stephen Mueller wrote: > Looks like it worked! Thanks! Well at least you could backup the data, just in case. > I used: > > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --assume-clean --verbose --level-10 > --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf I wonder

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:02:23PM +0100, Stephen Mueller wrote: > Looks like it worked! Thanks! Well at least you could backup the data, just in case. > I used: > > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --assume-clean --verbose --level-10 > --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf I wonder

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:09:39PM +0100, Stephen Mueller wrote: > OK, I used gdisk to remove the GPT and MBR from each disk. > mdadm --assemble still doesn't work... says it can't find the > superblock. The mdadm --examine commands also say that no > superblock is detected. Yes the GPT overwrite

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
Looks like it worked! Thanks! I used: sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --assume-clean --verbose --level-10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf And I got my instructions for creating the array here, and they also don't use partitions...

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:09:39PM +0100, Stephen Mueller wrote: > OK, I used gdisk to remove the GPT and MBR from each disk. > mdadm --assemble still doesn't work... says it can't find the > superblock. The mdadm --examine commands also say that no > superblock is detected. Yes the GPT overwrite

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
Looks like it worked! Thanks! I used: sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --assume-clean --verbose --level-10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf And I got my instructions for creating the array here, and they also don't use partitions...

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
OK, I used gdisk to remove the GPT and MBR from each disk. mdadm --assemble still doesn't work... says it can't find the superblock. The mdadm --examine commands also say that no superblock is detected. I guess I'll go ahead with --create... On 3/23/2017 20:59, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu,

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
OK, I used gdisk to remove the GPT and MBR from each disk. mdadm --assemble still doesn't work... says it can't find the superblock. The mdadm --examine commands also say that no superblock is detected. I guess I'll go ahead with --create... On 3/23/2017 20:59, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu,

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:38:08PM +0100, Stephen Mueller wrote: > Apologies, I should have started this on linux-raid... > > > stephen@fred> sudo gdisk -l /dev/sdc > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 > > Partition table scan: > MBR: protective > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT:

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:38:08PM +0100, Stephen Mueller wrote: > Apologies, I should have started this on linux-raid... > > > stephen@fred> sudo gdisk -l /dev/sdc > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 > > Partition table scan: > MBR: protective > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT:

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
Apologies, I should have started this on linux-raid... stephen@fred> sudo gdisk -l /dev/sdc GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sdc: 7814037168

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Mueller
Apologies, I should have started this on linux-raid... stephen@fred> sudo gdisk -l /dev/sdc GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sdc: 7814037168

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:09:41PM +0100, r...@mueller.org wrote: > Thank you very much or your reply. > > I naively thought that starting without partitions would be the best > starting point, given 3 of the disks had been in a RAID5 array > previously (possibly with partitions, not sure), but

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:09:41PM +0100, r...@mueller.org wrote: > Thank you very much or your reply. > > I naively thought that starting without partitions would be the best > starting point, given 3 of the disks had been in a RAID5 array > previously (possibly with partitions, not sure), but

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread raid
Thank you very much or your reply. I naively thought that starting without partitions would be the best starting point, given 3 of the disks had been in a RAID5 array previously (possibly with partitions, not sure), but that looks like a bad choice, based on some other things I've googled.

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread raid
Thank you very much or your reply. I naively thought that starting without partitions would be the best starting point, given 3 of the disks had been in a RAID5 array previously (possibly with partitions, not sure), but that looks like a bad choice, based on some other things I've googled.

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 05:49:05PM +0100, r...@mueller.org wrote: > I am hoping someone here will help me. Was reading this site... > > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid > > and it said to email this list if you've tried everything other than mdadm > --create. > > > I am

Re: RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 05:49:05PM +0100, r...@mueller.org wrote: > I am hoping someone here will help me. Was reading this site... > > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid > > and it said to email this list if you've tried everything other than mdadm > --create. > > > I am

RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread raid
I am hoping someone here will help me. Was reading this site... https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid and it said to email this list if you've tried everything other than mdadm --create. I am running Ubuntu 16.04. Machine name is fred. I used webmin to create a 4 disk RAID10

RAID array is gone, please help

2017-03-23 Thread raid
I am hoping someone here will help me. Was reading this site... https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid and it said to email this list if you've tried everything other than mdadm --create. I am running Ubuntu 16.04. Machine name is fred. I used webmin to create a 4 disk RAID10

RE: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Chen, Yu C
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Pan, Jacob jun > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 5:19 AM > To: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Chen, Yu C; 'Len Brown'; Jacob Pan; H. Peter Anvin; Peter Zijlstra; > x...@kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Pan, Jacob jun > Subject: Re: Hi, Ingo,

RE: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Chen, Yu C
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Pan, Jacob jun > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 5:19 AM > To: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Chen, Yu C; 'Len Brown'; Jacob Pan; H. Peter Anvin; Peter Zijlstra; > x...@kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Pan, Jacob jun > Subject: Re: Hi, Ingo,

Re: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Jacob Pan
e Architecture > > > > > > > > > Previously we found this patch might decrease the performance on > > > one of our servers, due to the small gap between using old PIT > > > calibration and new MSR calibration method, so we currently would > > >

Re: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Jacob Pan
e performance on > > > one of our servers, due to the small gap between using old PIT > > > calibration and new MSR calibration method, so we currently would > > > like to hold this patch for now, until we got a clear answer from > > > our architect. Would you ple

Re: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
to the small gap between using old PIT > > calibration and new MSR calibration method, so we currently would > > like to hold this patch for now, until we got a clear answer from our > > architect. Would you please help revert this patch (the other patches > > are safe and

Re: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
ion method, so we currently would > > like to hold this patch for now, until we got a clear answer from our > > architect. Would you please help revert this patch (the other patches > > are safe and can be merged), sorry for the inconvenience. > > > I modified the subject

Re: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Jacob Pan
hold this patch for now, until we got a clear answer from our > architect. Would you please help revert this patch (the other patches > are safe and can be merged), sorry for the inconvenience. > I modified the subject slightly to be more specific. Adding lkml and x86 list, and a few

Re: Hi, Ingo, would you please help drop the TSC MSR calibration patch

2016-07-11 Thread Jacob Pan
Architecture > > > Previously we found this patch might decrease the performance on > one of our servers, due to the small gap between using old PIT > calibration and new MSR calibration method, so we currently would > like to hold this patch for now, until we got a clear answer f

Please Help

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2014-08-20 Thread mrissouf issouf
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2013-12-03 Thread Amisi Salem
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HP6715b laptop's wireless radio on LED went off after 1st boot of 3.9.6 from 3.4.4 - please help / any ideas ?

2013-06-27 Thread Jason Vas Dias
After building and installing 3.9.6 kernel & modules on my 2.2ghz HP6715b x86-64 Turion dual core laptop , which has always run Linux with no b43 wireless problems since 2007, now has no access to its onboard broadcom 4311 wireless radio . I had always used the b43 driver with the correct

HP6715b laptop's wireless radio on LED went off after 1st boot of 3.9.6 from 3.4.4 - please help / any ideas ?

2013-06-27 Thread Jason Vas Dias
After building and installing 3.9.6 kernel modules on my 2.2ghz HP6715b x86-64 Turion dual core laptop , which has always run Linux with no b43 wireless problems since 2007, now has no access to its onboard broadcom 4311 wireless radio . I had always used the b43 driver with the correct firmware

Re: ACPI and NUMA guys, please help to check if this patch is OK

2012-11-13 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Ethan Zhao wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/numa.c b/drivers/acpi/numa.c > index e56f3be..55c8a8e 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/numa.c > +++ b/drivers/acpi/numa.c > @@ -161,6 +161,13 @@ static __init int slit_valid(struct acpi_table_slit > *slit) > { > int i, j; >

Re: ACPI and NUMA guys, please help to check if this patch is OK

2012-11-13 Thread Ethan Zhao
David, I come back to suggest the above again because I hit the same issue on another type server and that took me sometime to find out what's wrong for no clear information when validating the SLIT. That patch will not invalidate the SRAT if SLIT is bad. The patch will only suppress the

Re: ACPI and NUMA guys, please help to check if this patch is OK

2012-11-13 Thread Ethan Zhao
David, I come back to suggest the above again because I hit the same issue on another type server and that took me sometime to find out what's wrong for no clear information when validating the SLIT. That patch will not invalidate the SRAT if SLIT is bad. The patch will only suppress the

Re: ACPI and NUMA guys, please help to check if this patch is OK

2012-11-13 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Ethan Zhao wrote: diff --git a/drivers/acpi/numa.c b/drivers/acpi/numa.c index e56f3be..55c8a8e 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/numa.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/numa.c @@ -161,6 +161,13 @@ static __init int slit_valid(struct acpi_table_slit *slit) { int i, j;

RE: Please help with following NUMA-related questions

2005-08-09 Thread Xie, Bill
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:48 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Please help with following NUMA-related questions I will greatly appreciate any help regarding the following matters: (1) How to know whether my machine is NUMA-aware or not, (2) Difference between memory bank inter

RE: Please help with following NUMA-related questions

2005-08-09 Thread Xie, Bill
setting for NUMA: band interleave : AUTO node interleave : DISABLE SRAT : AUTO Best Regards Bill Xie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sheo Shanker Prasad Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:48 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Please

Please help with following NUMA-related questions

2005-07-25 Thread Sheo Shanker Prasad
I will greatly appreciate any help regarding the following matters: (1) How to know whether my machine is NUMA-aware or not, (2) Difference between memory bank interleaving and node interleaving (3) When the BIOS asks me to set bank interleaving as AUTO, then it says that AUTO allows memory

Please help with following NUMA-related questions

2005-07-25 Thread Sheo Shanker Prasad
I will greatly appreciate any help regarding the following matters: (1) How to know whether my machine is NUMA-aware or not, (2) Difference between memory bank interleaving and node interleaving (3) When the BIOS asks me to set bank interleaving as AUTO, then it says that AUTO allows memory

[PATCH libata-dev-2.6] sata_via: VT6420 PATA support - please help, correct this driver's alfa source code

2005-04-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I traid to write VT6420 PATA support into the libata: sata_via.c, because the way through via82cxxx.c doesn't work. Please help me with this and correct this driver's alfa source code. /* */ ... this sign in source code means, that this part i added into current libata-dev-2.6: sata_via.c Petr

[PATCH libata-dev-2.6] sata_via: VT6420 PATA support - please help, correct this driver's alfa source code

2005-04-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I traid to write VT6420 PATA support into the libata: sata_via.c, because the way through via82cxxx.c doesn't work. Please help me with this and correct this driver's alfa source code. /* */ ... this sign in source code means, that this part i added into current libata-dev-2.6: sata_via.c Petr

Re: sched_setscheduler() and usage issues ....please help

2005-03-30 Thread Arun Srinivas
setscheduler() and usage issues ....please help Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:31:43 -0500 On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 13:25 +0530, Arun Srinivas wrote: > thanks.gcc says "could not find strutils.h". I am using kernel 2.6.x with > gcc 3.3.4. Where can I find the file? Oops! Sorry, I gave you a m

Re: sched_setscheduler() and usage issues ....please help

2005-03-30 Thread Arun Srinivas
() and usage issues please help Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:31:43 -0500 On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 13:25 +0530, Arun Srinivas wrote: thanks.gcc says could not find strutils.h. I am using kernel 2.6.x with gcc 3.3.4. Where can I find the file? Oops! Sorry, I gave you a modified version of my actual program

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