RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 pciehp regression

2005-04-20 Thread Sy, Dely L
On Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:50 PM, Tom Duffy wrote: > > The errors I encountered were: > > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > > Umount /sys failed: 16 > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > > mount: error 2 mounting none > > Switching to new root > > Switchroot: mount failed

RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 pciehp regression

2005-04-20 Thread Tom Duffy
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:56 -0700, Sy, Dely L wrote: > On Friday, April 15, 2005 12:48 PM, Tom Duffy wrote: > > From: "Sy, Dely L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Thanks for reporting this. I'll look into it. Which was the last > > > kernel you tested on your hw and worked for you? > > > That is a

RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 pciehp regression

2005-04-20 Thread Sy, Dely L
On Friday, April 15, 2005 12:48 PM, Tom Duffy wrote: > From: "Sy, Dely L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks for reporting this. I'll look into it. Which was the last > > kernel you tested on your hw and worked for you? > That is a good question. I think it was a 2.6.11 kernel. It was >

RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 pciehp regression

2005-04-20 Thread Sy, Dely L
On Friday, April 15, 2005 12:48 PM, Tom Duffy wrote: From: Sy, Dely L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for reporting this. I'll look into it. Which was the last kernel you tested on your hw and worked for you? That is a good question. I think it was a 2.6.11 kernel. It was definately before

RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 pciehp regression

2005-04-20 Thread Tom Duffy
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:56 -0700, Sy, Dely L wrote: On Friday, April 15, 2005 12:48 PM, Tom Duffy wrote: From: Sy, Dely L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for reporting this. I'll look into it. Which was the last kernel you tested on your hw and worked for you? That is a good question. I

RE: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 pciehp regression

2005-04-20 Thread Sy, Dely L
On Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:50 PM, Tom Duffy wrote: The errors I encountered were: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Umount /sys failed: 16 mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root Switchroot: mount failed 22 umount

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 regression - certain applications get SIGSEGV but are fine with 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > tis 2005-04-19 klockan 11:33 +0200 skrev Jesper Juhl: > > Everything is fine with 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 & > > earlier kernels as well, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 seems to have a problem. > > I don't know what's causing this, all I can

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 regression - certain applications get SIGSEGV but are fine with 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-19 Thread Alexander Nyberg
tis 2005-04-19 klockan 11:33 +0200 skrev Jesper Juhl: > Everything is fine with 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 & > earlier kernels as well, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 seems to have a problem. > I don't know what's causing this, all I can do at the moment is describe > the symptoms. > >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 regression - certain applications get SIGSEGV but are fine with 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-19 Thread Alexander Nyberg
tis 2005-04-19 klockan 11:33 +0200 skrev Jesper Juhl: Everything is fine with 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 earlier kernels as well, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 seems to have a problem. I don't know what's causing this, all I can do at the moment is describe the symptoms. Certain

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 regression - certain applications get SIGSEGV but are fine with 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

2005-04-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alexander Nyberg wrote: tis 2005-04-19 klockan 11:33 +0200 skrev Jesper Juhl: Everything is fine with 2.6.12-rc2, 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 earlier kernels as well, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 seems to have a problem. I don't know what's causing this, all I can do at the

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3: hostap: do not #include .c files

2005-04-18 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:03:12AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c:#include "hostap_crypt.c" > Please do not #include .c files. A tested patch would be appreciated.. ;-) > A proper separation in a .c file and a header file is the better > solution. Agreed and

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:56:15 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: >> >This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It >> >> What problems? >> > >Sorry, in -mm on x64 check_nmi_watchdog() has started to be run as a >late_initcall(). Currently it reports the NMIs as stuck on a few

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Alexander Nyberg
mån 2005-04-18 klockan 13:14 +0200 skrev Arjan van de Ven: > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > [Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] > > > > Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. > > This makes x64 deliver NMI

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > [Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] > > Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. > This makes x64 deliver NMI interrupts every fourth second at a constant > rate when going through

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Alexander Nyberg
[Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. This makes x64 deliver NMI interrupts every fourth second at a constant rate when going through the local apic. Makes both cpus on my box to get NMIs at constant

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> >This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It > > What problems? > Sorry, in -mm on x64 check_nmi_watchdog() has started to be run as a late_initcall(). Currently it reports the NMIs as stuck on a few systems although they are not, both of mine are reported as stuck. This

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Alexander Nyberg
This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It What problems? Sorry, in -mm on x64 check_nmi_watchdog() has started to be run as a late_initcall(). Currently it reports the NMIs as stuck on a few systems although they are not, both of mine are reported as stuck. This

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Alexander Nyberg
[Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. This makes x64 deliver NMI interrupts every fourth second at a constant rate when going through the local apic. Makes both cpus on my box to get NMIs at constant

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: [Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. This makes x64 deliver NMI interrupts every fourth second at a constant rate when going through the

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Alexander Nyberg
mån 2005-04-18 klockan 13:14 +0200 skrev Arjan van de Ven: On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: [Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. This makes x64 deliver NMI interrupts

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-18 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:56:15 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It What problems? Sorry, in -mm on x64 check_nmi_watchdog() has started to be run as a late_initcall(). Currently it reports the NMIs as stuck on a few systems although

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3: hostap: do not #include .c files

2005-04-18 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:03:12AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.c:#include hostap_crypt.c Please do not #include .c files. A tested patch would be appreciated.. ;-) A proper separation in a .c file and a header file is the better solution. Agreed and this

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:27:02 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: >This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It What problems? >changes the perfctr selection to use RETIRED_UOPS instead >(makes both processors tick even on my box). This patch mixes what appears to be cleanups

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Alexander Nyberg
mån 2005-04-11 klockan 01:25 -0700 skrev Andrew Morton: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > I tried to kexec on my x64 and it hangs up in calibrate_delay() because the PIT never fires any interrupts so jiffies is never updated. Has kexec

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > [Mikael Pettersson on CC, would like your advice] This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It changes the perfctr selection to use RETIRED_UOPS instead (makes both processors

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 20:23 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: >> Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 20:23 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: Juergen Kreileder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ I'm

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Alexander Nyberg
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ [Mikael Pettersson on CC, would like your advice] This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It changes the perfctr selection to use RETIRED_UOPS instead (makes both processors tick

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Alexander Nyberg
mån 2005-04-11 klockan 01:25 -0700 skrev Andrew Morton: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ I tried to kexec on my x64 and it hangs up in calibrate_delay() because the PIT never fires any interrupts so jiffies is never updated. Has kexec

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-17 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:27:02 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: This patch fixes the NMI checking problems in -mm x64 for me. It What problems? changes the perfctr selection to use RETIRED_UOPS instead (makes both processors tick even on my box). This patch mixes what appears to be cleanups with

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 20:23 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > > I'm getting frequent lockups on my

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-15 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > I'm getting frequent lockups on my PowerMac G5 with rc2-mm3. I think I finally found the culprit. Both

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-15 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Juergen Kreileder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ I'm getting frequent lockups on my PowerMac G5 with rc2-mm3. I think I finally found the culprit. Both rc2-mm3 and

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 20:23 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: Juergen Kreileder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ I'm getting frequent lockups on my PowerMac G5 with

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Ingo Molnar wrote: does the patch below fix the problem for you? Works perfectly, thankyou! - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Ingo Molnar wrote: does the patch below fix the problem for you? Works perfectly, thankyou! - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the > serial > > > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI?

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial > > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? > > > > Turned out it was some old ups software that got

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial > > port work if you do `echo foo > /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? > > Turned out it was some old ups software that got reactivated on the box > displaying the > console - was a pain

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > > > > > > > - The anticipatory I/O

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo. > > I have some programs that crash > in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. After seeing this: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.1/1091.html does the patch below fix the problem for you? (already in Andrew's tree, should be in the next -mm

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi Ingo. I have some programs that crash in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. After seeing this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.1/1091.html I tried to revert the sched-unlocked-context-switches.patch and indeed the problem goes away. Attached is the (crappy) test-case. If you can make it to say

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hi Ingo. I have some programs that crash in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. After seeing this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.1/1091.html I tried to revert the sched-unlocked-context-switches.patch and indeed the problem goes away. Attached is the (crappy) test-case. If you can make it to say

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stas Sergeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo. I have some programs that crash in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3. After seeing this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.1/1091.html does the patch below fix the problem for you? (already in Andrew's tree, should be in the next -mm patch)

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 07:39, Andrew Morton wrote: Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial port work if you do `echo foo /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? Turned out it was some old ups software that got reactivated on the box displaying the console - was a pain to disable

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial port work if you do `echo foo /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? Turned out it was some old ups software that got reactivated on

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:20, Andrew Morton wrote: Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't think so - it works OK here. Checked the .config? Does the serial port work if you do `echo foo /dev/ttyS0'? ACPI? Turned out

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Steven Pratt
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AS basically does its own TCQ strangulation, which IIRC involves things > > like completing all reads before issuing new writes, and completing all > > reads from one process before reads from another. As well as the > >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 06:42 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: >> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hrm... I just noticed you have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled... Can you > test without it and let me know if it makes a difference ? IIRC I had disabled that for rc2-mm2 and it didn't make a difference. I'll disable it again

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 (ACPI build problem)

2005-04-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:53:02PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > Hello. > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > Fails to compile with > !CONFIG_ACPI && CONFIG_SMP. > CONFIG_SMP sets CONFIG_X86_HT, > which sets

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> > See this patch from Steve French: > http://cifs.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5cifs/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, that fixed it. M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >>> Hrm... I just noticed you have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled... Can you > >>> test without it and let me know if it makes a difference ? > >> > >> IIRC I had disabled that for rc2-mm2 and it didn't make a > >> difference. I'll disable it again when I try older versions. > >> > >> I just got

[patch 0/3] Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: OK, the `int $3' is part of the CONFIG_TRAP_BAD_SYSCALL_EXITS thing which I never use. I'm not sure what problem is actually being reported here, now you mention it. The problem being reported here is that CONFIG_TRAP_BAD_SYSCALL_EXITS does nothing but locking up your

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 (ACPI build problem)

2005-04-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ Fails to compile with !CONFIG_ACPI && CONFIG_SMP. CONFIG_SMP sets CONFIG_X86_HT, which sets CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT, but that fails without CONFIG_ACPI: CC arch/i386/kernel/setup.o

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Steven Pratt
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - The effects of tcq on AS are much less disastrous than I thought they > were. Do I have the wrong workload? Memory fails me. Or did we fix the > anticipatory scheduler? > > Yes, we did fix it ;) Quite a long time ago, so

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3: 10 seconds of nothingness

2005-04-12 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> [ 19.617890] Testing NMI watchdog ... <6>ACPI: No ACPI bus support > for 2-2 [ 19.705673] ACPI: No ACPI bus support for 2-2:1.0 > [ 20.002417] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and > address 2 [ 20.121763] ACPI: No ACPI bus support for 3-2 > [ 20.156293] ACPI: No ACPI

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 06:20, Stas Sergeev wrote: Here we go again: You might be right about the int3 instruction: (gdb) disas 0xc0102ee0 Dump of assembler code for function restore_all: 0xc0102ed1 : mov0x30(%esp),%eax 0xc0102ed5 : mov0x2c(%esp),%al 0xc0102ed9 : test

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > > > > - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI > >   disks which

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI >   disks which perform tagged command queueing.  There's a patch here

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Andrew Morton wrote: > Jindrich Makovicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ >> >>MPlayer randomly crashes in various pthread_* calls when using binary >>codecs. 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 was ok.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > AS basically does its own TCQ strangulation, which IIRC involves things > > > like completing all reads before issuing new writes, and completing all > > > reads from one process before reads from another. As well as the > > > fundamental way

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 11 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > - CFQ is seriously, seriously read-starved on this workload. > > CFQ3: > > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu > r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa > 1 5 1008

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Piggin
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >- The effects of tcq on AS are much less disastrous than I thought they > > > were. Do I have the wrong workload? Memory fails me. Or did we fix > > the > > > anticipatory scheduler? >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 06:42 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > >> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>>

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- The effects of tcq on AS are much less disastrous than I thought they > > were. Do I have the wrong workload? Memory fails me. Or did we fix the > > anticipatory scheduler? > > > > > > Yes, we did fix it ;) > Quite a long time ago, so maybe

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. > SIGTRAP - it looks like the "int $3" > triggered, not "mov0x30(%esp),%eax", > which is just the next insn and so the > %eip points to it, but it might be

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. SIGTRAP - it looks like the "int $3" triggered, not "mov0x30(%esp),%eax", which is just the next insn and so the %eip points to it, but it might be innocent. And besides, 0x30(%esp) is EFLAGS, not OLDSS. So I

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: So it turns out that patch was broken. I've fixed it locally and the results are good, but odd. The machine is a 4GB x86_64 with aic79xx controllers and MAXTOR ATLAS10K4_73WLS disks. ext2 filesystem. The workload is continuous pagecache writeback versus

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: So it turns out that patch was broken. I've fixed it locally and the results are good, but odd. The machine is a 4GB x86_64 with aic79xx controllers and MAXTOR ATLAS10K4_73WLS disks. ext2 filesystem. The workload is continuous pagecache writeback versus

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. SIGTRAP - it looks like the int $3 triggered, not mov0x30(%esp),%eax, which is just the next insn and so the %eip points to it, but it might be innocent. And besides, 0x30(%esp) is EFLAGS, not OLDSS. So I think

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Stas Sergeev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap. SIGTRAP - it looks like the int $3 triggered, not mov0x30(%esp),%eax, which is just the next insn and so the %eip points to it, but it might be innocent. And

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Piggin
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The effects of tcq on AS are much less disastrous than I thought they were. Do I have the wrong workload? Memory fails me. Or did we fix the anticipatory scheduler?

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 11 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: - CFQ is seriously, seriously read-starved on this workload. CFQ3: procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 1 5 1008 25888

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS basically does its own TCQ strangulation, which IIRC involves things like completing all reads before issuing new writes, and completing all reads from one process before reads from another. As well as the fundamental way that waiting for

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Andrew Morton wrote: Jindrich Makovicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ MPlayer randomly crashes in various pthread_* calls when using binary codecs. 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 was ok. I tried to

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI   disks which perform tagged command queueing.  There's a patch here from

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 April 2005 04:25, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI   disks which perform tagged

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 06:20, Stas Sergeev wrote: Here we go again: You might be right about the int3 instruction: (gdb) disas 0xc0102ee0 Dump of assembler code for function restore_all: 0xc0102ed1 restore_all+0: mov0x30(%esp),%eax 0xc0102ed5 restore_all+4: mov0x2c(%esp),%al

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3: 10 seconds of nothingness

2005-04-12 Thread Alexander Nyberg
[ 19.617890] Testing NMI watchdog ... 6ACPI: No ACPI bus support for 2-2 [ 19.705673] ACPI: No ACPI bus support for 2-2:1.0 [ 20.002417] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 20.121763] ACPI: No ACPI bus support for 3-2 [ 20.156293] ACPI: No ACPI bus

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Steven Pratt
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The effects of tcq on AS are much less disastrous than I thought they were. Do I have the wrong workload? Memory fails me. Or did we fix the anticipatory scheduler? Yes, we did fix it ;) Quite a long time ago, so maybe

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 (ACPI build problem)

2005-04-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ Fails to compile with !CONFIG_ACPI CONFIG_SMP. CONFIG_SMP sets CONFIG_X86_HT, which sets CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT, but that fails without CONFIG_ACPI: CC arch/i386/kernel/setup.o

[patch 0/3] Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: OK, the `int $3' is part of the CONFIG_TRAP_BAD_SYSCALL_EXITS thing which I never use. I'm not sure what problem is actually being reported here, now you mention it. The problem being reported here is that CONFIG_TRAP_BAD_SYSCALL_EXITS does nothing but locking up your

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hrm... I just noticed you have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled... Can you test without it and let me know if it makes a difference ? IIRC I had disabled that for rc2-mm2 and it didn't make a difference. I'll disable it again when I try older versions. I just got another crash with rc2-mm3.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Martin J. Bligh
See this patch from Steve French: http://cifs.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5cifs/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, that fixed it. M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 (ACPI build problem)

2005-04-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:53:02PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: Hello. Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ Fails to compile with !CONFIG_ACPI CONFIG_SMP. CONFIG_SMP sets CONFIG_X86_HT, which sets CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT,

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hrm... I just noticed you have CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled... Can you test without it and let me know if it makes a difference ? IIRC I had disabled that for rc2-mm2 and it didn't make a difference. I'll disable it again when I try older versions.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 06:42 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-12 Thread Steven Pratt
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS basically does its own TCQ strangulation, which IIRC involves things like completing all reads before issuing new writes, and completing all reads from one process before reads from another. As well as the

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: >> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ >> >> I'm getting frequent lockups on my

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI >disks which perform tagged command queueing. There's a patch here from > Jens >which is designed to fix that up by constraining the number of requests >which we'll

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > I'm getting frequent lockups on my PowerMac G5 with rc2-mm3. > > 2.6.11-mm4 works fine but

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 03:18 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > I'm getting frequent lockups on my PowerMac G5 with rc2-mm3. > > 2.6.11-mm4 works fine but

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ I'm getting frequent lockups on my PowerMac G5 with rc2-mm3. 2.6.11-mm4 works fine but all 2.6.12 versions I've tried (all since -rc1-mm3) lock up randomly. The

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Jindrich Makovicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > MPlayer randomly crashes in various pthread_* calls when using binary > codecs. 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 was ok. I tried to reverse >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Apr 11, 2005 10:46 PM, Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On Monday, April 11, 2005 01:25:32 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > > > > - The anticipatory I/O

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 11 April 2005 11:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > > (Please do reply-to-all) > > > > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 04.11, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-r >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Monday 11 April 2005 11:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > (Please do reply-to-all) > > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 04.11, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-r > > >c2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > > Is this not needed

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-11 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--On Monday, April 11, 2005 01:25:32 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm3/ > > > - The anticipatory I/O scheduler has always been fairly useless with SCSI > disks which perform tagged

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