Re: NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!! on Dell XPS 13 9360

2024-08-21 Thread Paul Menzel
[Added URLs for files.] Am 21.08.24 um 10:20 schrieb Paul Menzel: Dear Anna-Maria, Thank you very much for the support. I was finally able to collect the data you asked for. Am 09.04.24 um 09:57 schrieb Anna-Maria Behnsen: Paul Menzel writes: […] Am 08.04.24 um 12:10 schrieb Anna

Re: NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #08!!! on Dell XPS 13 9360

2024-08-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Anna-Maria, Thank you very much for the support. I was finally able to collect the data you asked for. Am 09.04.24 um 09:57 schrieb Anna-Maria Behnsen: Paul Menzel writes: […] Am 08.04.24 um 12:10 schrieb Anna-Maria Behnsen: Paul Menzel writes: On Dell XPS 13 9360/0596KF, BIOS

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix extended features logging

2021-04-10 Thread Paul Menzel
e same solution is used in EFI and uvesafb drivers. Thank you for fixing this. Fixes: 9a295ff0ffc9 ("iommu/amd: Print extended features in one line to fix divergent log levels") Signed-off-by: Alexander Monakov Cc: Paul Menzel Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit Cc: io...@lists

Re: OT: Processor recommendation for RAID6

2021-04-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Roger, Thank you for your response. Am 02.04.21 um 16:45 schrieb Roger Heflin: On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 4:13 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Are these values a good benchmark for comparing processors? After two years, yes they are. I created 16 10 GB files in `/dev/shm`, set them up as loop

Re: [regression 5.4.97 → 5.10.24]: raid6 avx2x4 speed drops from 18429 MB/s to 6155 MB/s

2021-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, Am 02.04.21 um 16:05 schrieb Borislav Petkov: On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:33:51AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On an two socket AMD EPYC 7601, we noticed a decrease in raid6 avx2x4 speed shown at the beginning of the boot. 5.4.955.10.24

Re: OT: Processor recommendation for RAID6

2021-04-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 08.04.19 um 18:34 schrieb Paul Menzel: On 04/08/19 12:33, Paul Menzel wrote: Can you share your experiences, which processors you choose for your RAID6 systems? I am particularly interested in Intel alternatives? Are AMD EPYC processors good alternatives for file

[regression 5.4.97 → 5.10.24]: raid6 avx2x4 speed drops from 18429 MB/s to 6155 MB/s

2021-04-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On an two socket AMD EPYC 7601, we noticed a decrease in raid6 avx2x4 speed shown at the beginning of the boot. 5.4.955.10.24 -- raid6: avx2x4 gen() 18429 MB/s 6155 MB/s raid6: avx2x4 xor()6

Re: Marvell: hw perfevents: unable to count PMU IRQs

2021-03-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Robin, Thank you for the quick reply. Am 26.03.21 um 13:29 schrieb Robin Murphy: On 2021-03-25 21:39, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Marvell Prestera switch, Linux 5.10.4 prints the error (with an additional info level message) below. [    0.00] Linux version 5.10.4 (robimarko

Marvell: hw perfevents: unable to count PMU IRQs

2021-03-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Marvell Prestera switch, Linux 5.10.4 prints the error (with an additional info level message) below. [0.00] Linux version 5.10.4 (robimarko@onlbuilder9) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.28) #1 S

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: scan: Turn off unused power resources during initialization

2021-03-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rafael, Am 17.03.21 um 17:49 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: From: Rafael J. Wysocki It is reported that on certain platforms unused ACPI power resources that have not been explicitly turned off prevent the platform from reaching the lowest power state in suspend-to-idle which leads to excess

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add kexec reboot string

2021-03-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Joe, Thank you for replying. Am 11.03.21 um 19:14 schrieb Joe LeVeque: Is this all your looking for? If not, please let me know. Signed-off-by: Joe LeVeque It’d be great if you answered Baoquan He’s question, how it’s actually used in SONiC. (I just sent the patch upstream to redu

Email from the future (was: [PATCH v2 RESEND 2/2] ARM: dts: Add board-specific compatible string to npcm750-evb devicetree)

2021-03-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tomer, Please note, your email date was around 11 minutes in the future. As it looks like you are using Google Mail, I am quite surprised by this. Kind regards, Paul

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH RESEND][next] ice: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang

2021-03-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Gustavo, Thank you for working on that. Am 05.03.21 um 09:52 schrieb Gustavo A. R. Silva: In preparation to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, fix a warning by explicitly adding a break statement instead of just letting the code fall through to the next case. It would be nice to h

[PATCH] kexec: Add kexec reboot string

2021-03-04 Thread Paul Menzel
From: Joe LeVeque The purpose is to notify the kernel module for fast reboot. Upstream a patch from the SONiC network operating system [1]. [1]: https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/46 Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-26 Thread Paul Menzel
[cc: +suravee, +jörg] Dear Alex, dear Shuah, dear Suravee, dear Jörg, Am 03.06.20 um 08:54 schrieb Alexander Monakov: On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Shuah Khan wrote: I changed the logic to read config to get max banks and counters before checking if counters are writable and tried writing to all. The

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Suravee, Thank you for your reply. Am 22.02.21 um 18:59 schrieb Suravee Suthikulpanit: This fix has been accepted in the upstream recently. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu.git/commit/?h=x86/amd Indeed. Linux pulled also pulled this [1]. Could you please g

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Suravee, Am 17.09.20 um 19:55 schrieb Alexander Monakov: On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote: Instead of blindly moving the code around to a spot that would just work, I am trying to understand what might be required here. In this case, the init_device_table_dma()should not

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2021-02-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Alexander, Am 01.06.20 um 04:48 schrieb Paul Menzel: […] Am 31.05.20 um 09:22 schrieb Alexander Monakov: Adding Shuah Khan to Cc: I've noticed you've seen this issue on Ryzen 2400GE; can you have a look at the patch? Would be nice to know if it fixes the problem for you too.

Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: nuvoton: Fix flash layout

2021-02-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Anton, Thank you for your patch. Am 18.02.21 um 13:25 schrieb gmo...@google.com: From: "Anton D. Kachalov" This change satisfy OpenBMC requirements for flash layout. Can you please list these requirements in the commit message? Maybe, also add OpenBMC to the commit message summary.

Re: smpboot: CPU numbers printed as warning

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Borislav, dear Petr, Am 16.02.21 um 11:14 schrieb Borislav Petkov: On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:49:04AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: Also you should add '\n' into the previous string to make the behavior clear. It will always be printed on a new line when pr_info() is used. This was made to

Re: smpboot: CPU numbers printed as warning

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Petr, Thank you for the quick reply. Am 16.02.21 um 10:49 schrieb Petr Mladek: On Mon 2021-02-15 20:22:34, Paul Menzel wrote: Using Linux 5.10.13 (and before), looking at the Linux kernel warnings, the CPU numbers show up. For example with 12 cpus/threads: ``` $ sudo dmesg --level

smpboot: CPU numbers printed as warning

2021-02-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using Linux 5.10.13 (and before), looking at the Linux kernel warnings, the CPU numbers show up. For example with 12 cpus/threads: ``` $ sudo dmesg --level=warn [0.216103] #2 [0.220105] #3 [0.224103] #4 [0.228104] #5 [0.232110] #6 [0.236101]

acpi PNP0A03:00: fail to add MMCONFIG information, can't access extended PCI configuration space under this bridge.

2021-02-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, All the way up to QEMU emulator version 5.2.0 (Debian 1:5.2+dfsg-5) and Linux 5.10.13, Linux logs the warning below: acpi PNP0A03:00: fail to add MMCONFIG information, can't access extended PCI configuration space under this bridge. One way to reproduce it: qemu-

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence

2021-01-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, dear Greg, Am 05.01.21 um 18:25 schrieb Greg KH: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 03.11.20 um 19:39 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:35:09 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: According to *Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1* [3], it

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence

2021-01-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, dear Greg, Am 03.11.20 um 19:39 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:35:09 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: According to *Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1* [3], it’s my understanding, that it is *not* required. The items (a), (b), and (c) are connected by a

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] net: ixgbe: Fix memleak in ixgbe_configure_clsu32

2021-01-03 Thread Paul Menzel
l_fdir_entry(adapter, input, input->sw_idx); spin_unlock(&adapter->fdir_perfect_lock); if ((uhtid != 0x800) && (adapter->jump_tables[uhtid])) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel I wonder, in the non-error case, how `input` and `jump`

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] PCI: add Intel i210 quirk

2020-12-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Michael, Thank you for the patch. Maybe the summary could be more specific: > PCI: Fix Intel i210 by avoiding overlapping of BARs Am 30.12.20 um 18:28 schrieb Michael Walle: The Intel i210 doesn't work if the Expansion ROM BAR overlaps with another BAR. Networking won't work at all and

120 s delay during boot with smaller initrd

2020-12-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using an initrd created by tiny-initramfs [1], the boot stalls for two minutes *after* the initrd has run and systemd has already started. An F2FS root partition is used. ``` [0.00] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xa0b, date = 2010-09-28 [0.

Re: Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Enrico, Am 08.12.20 um 10:38 schrieb Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult: On 08.12.20 10:24, Paul Menzel wrote: Similar to passing firmware and microcode update files to Linux or building these into the Linux kernel image, would it be possible to append the required modules to the Linux

Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Trying to reduce the boot time of standard distributions, I would like to get rid of the initrd. The initrd is for mounting the root file system and on most end user systems with standard distributions that means loading the bus driver for the drive and the file system drive

pci 0000:00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid

2020-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
[Bringing the issue up on the list in case the Linux Bugzilla is not monitored/used.] Dear Linux folks, On Intel Tiger Lake Dell laptop, Linux logs the error below [1]. [0.507307] pci :00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid [0.508835] pci :00:07.2: DPC: RP PIO log

Re: [SPECIFICATION RFC] The firmware and bootloader log specification

2020-12-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Wim, dear Daniel, First, thank you for including all parties in the discussion. Am 04.12.20 um 13:52 schrieb Wim Vervoorn: I agree with you. Using an existing standard is better than inventing a new one in this case. I think using the coreboot logging is a good idea as there is indeed a l

Re: [RFC PATCH] iwlwifi: yoyo: don't print failure if debug firmware is missing

2020-11-26 Thread Paul Menzel
[Sorry, I did not know where and how to import the thread, and only got the first message from Patchwork.] Dear Linux folks, Am 25.06.20 um 18:52 schrieb Wolfram Sang: Missing this firmware is not fatal, my wifi card still works. Even more, I couldn't find any documentation what it is or whe

What to do with `BERT: Error records from previous boot`?

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Intel Tiger Lake Dell XPS 13 9310 Linux 5.9.9 from Debian sid/unstable logged the messages below. Please find the whole log in the Linux bug tracker [1]. ``` kernel: BERT: Error records from previous boot: kernel: [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal kernel: [Hard

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Assign DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND and DPM_FLAG_MAY_SKIP_RESUME to speed up s2ram

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Chen, Thank you for the patch. Am 24.11.20 um 16:32 schrieb Chen Yu: The NIC is put in runtime suspend status when there is no wire connected. As a result, it is safe to keep this NIC in runtime suspended during s2ram because the system does not rely on the NIC plug event nor WOL to wake

[PATCH] ixgbe: Support external GBE SerDes PHY BCM54616s

2020-11-12 Thread Paul Menzel
: Guohan Lu Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c | 3 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c index

Re: [PATCH 1/3] md: improve variable names in md_flush_request()

2020-11-10 Thread Paul Menzel
*/ With the new variable name, the comment could even be removed. ;-) struct work_struct flush_work; struct work_struct event_work; /* used by dm to report failure event */ mempool_t *serial_info_pool; Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel Kind regards, Paul

Re: jitterentropy: `jent_mod_init()` takes 17 ms

2020-11-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stephan, Thank you for the quick reply. Am 10.11.20 um 10:25 schrieb Stephan Mueller: Am Montag, 9. November 2020, 20:31:02 CET schrieb Paul Menzel: By mistake I built `XFRM_ESP` into the Linux kernel, resulting in CONFIG_CRYPTO_SEQIV=y CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV=y and also

jitterentropy: `jent_mod_init()` takes 17 ms

2020-11-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, By mistake I built `XFRM_ESP` into the Linux kernel, resulting in CONFIG_CRYPTO_SEQIV=y CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV=y and also the Jitterentropy RNG to be built in. CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY=y So, on the Asus F2A85-M PRO starting Linux 4.10-rc3 with `initcall_debug`, the

Re: Linux 5.9: smartpqi: controller is offline: status code 0x6100c

2020-11-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Don, Am 17.10.20 um 00:31 schrieb don.br...@microchip.com: The 6100C lockup is the result of the controller running out of commands to process new incoming requests from the driver. We are actively looking into this issue. Unfortunately, there has not been any further reply by the Micro

[PATCH] netfilter: nf_nat: Support fullcone NAT

2020-11-06 Thread Paul Menzel
://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/100] Signed-off-by: Kiran Kella [forward port to Linux v4.19, https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/147] Signed-off-by: Akhilesh Samineni Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- Dear Linux folks, This is taken from switch network operating system

[PATCH] kexec: Add kexec reboot string

2020-11-03 Thread Paul Menzel
From: Joe LeVeque The purpose is to notify the kernel module for fast reboot. Upstream a patch from the SONiC network operating system [1]. [1]: https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/46 Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jakub, Am 03.11.20 um 01:19 schrieb Jakub Kicinski: On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 00:13:07 +0100 Paul Menzel wrote: From: Jeffrey Townsend The ops field might no be defined, so add a check. This change should be first, otherwise AFAIU if someone builds the kernel in between the commits (e.g

Re: [PATCH 1/2] ethernet: igb: Support PHY BCM5461S

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 03.11.20 um 00:13 schrieb Paul Menzel: From: Jeffrey Townsend The BCM5461S PHY is used in switches. The patch is taken from Open Network Linux, and it was added there as patch packages/base/any/kernels/3.16+deb8/patches/driver-support-intel-igb-bcm5461X-phy.patch

[PATCH 1/2] ethernet: igb: Support PHY BCM5461S

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
]. [1]: https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux/commit/f32316c63ce3a64de125b7429115c6d45e942bd1 [2]: https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux/commit/5ace6bcdb37cb8065dcd1d4404b3dcb6424f6331 Cc: Jeffrey Townsend Cc: John W Linville Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel

[PATCH 2/2] ethernet: igb: e1000_phy: Check for ops.force_speed_duplex existence

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c | 12 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_phy.c index 4e0b4ba09a00..4151e55a6d2a 100644 --- a/drivers/net

[PATCH 0/2] Upstream ONL patch for PHY BCM5461S

2020-11-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Looking a little bit at Open Network Linux, they carry some Linux patches, but have not upstreamed them yet. This upstreams support for the PHY BCM5461S. It’d be great, if you could help review it. Kind regards, Paul Jeffrey Townsend (2): ethernet: igb: Support PHY BCM546

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] init/Kconfig: Fix CPU number in LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT description

2020-10-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Petr, Am 11.08.20 um 11:29 schrieb Paul Menzel: Currently, LOG_BUF_SHIFT defaults to 17, which is 2 ^ 17 bytes = 128 KB, and LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT defaults to 12, which is 2 ^ 12 bytes = 4 KB. Half of 128 KB is 64 KB, so more than 16 CPUs are required for the value to be used, as then

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] init/Kconfig: Increase default log buffer size from 128 KB to 512 KB

2020-10-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Petr, Am 11.08.20 um 12:53 schrieb Petr Mladek: On Tue 2020-08-11 11:29:24, Paul Menzel wrote: Commit f17a32e97e (let LOG_BUF_SHIFT default to 17) from 2008 was the last time, the the default log buffer size bump was increased. Machines have evolved, and on current hardware, enough

Intel PMC driver on Broadwell system to gather C-State statistics

2020-10-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, The Intel Broadwell-U laptop Dell Latitude E7250 (BIOS A19 01/23/2018), according to PowerTOP, only reaches package C-State C7 and not C8, C9, C10, while the four CPUs itself do reach C-State C10 and CE. I was asked to look at: 1. `/sys/kernel/debug/pmc_core/package_cstat

Linux 5.9: smartpqi: controller is offline: status code 0x6100c

2020-10-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, With Linux 5.9 and $ lspci -nn -s 89: 89:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Adaptec Smart Storage PQI 12G SAS/PCIe 3 [9005:028f] (rev 01) $ more /sys/devices/pci:88/:88:00.0/:89:00.0/host15/scsi_host/host15/driver_version 1.2.8-026

Re: i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rafael, dear Dmitry, Am 12.10.20 um 13:00 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:50 PM Paul Menzel wrote: Am 12.10.20 um 12:39 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:08 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Am 08.10.20 um 00:16 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: On Wed, Oct 07

Re: i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rafael, Am 12.10.20 um 12:39 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 1:08 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Dmitry, dear Rafael, dear Len, Am 08.10.20 um 00:16 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Asus F2A85-M PRO Linux

Re: i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dmitry, dear Rafael, dear Len, Am 08.10.20 um 00:16 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Asus F2A85-M PRO Linux 5.9-rc8 (and previous versions) does not recognize a plugged in PS/2 mouse using the Plug & Play method. The

i8042_init: PS/2 mouse not detected with ACPIPnP/PnPBIOS

2020-10-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Asus F2A85-M PRO Linux 5.9-rc8 (and previous versions) does not recognize a plugged in PS/2 mouse using the Plug & Play method. The PS/2 keyboard is detected fine, and using `i8042.nopnp`, the PS/2 mouse also works. [1.035915] calling i8042_init+0x0/0x42d @ 1

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000: do not panic on malformed rx_desc

2020-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tong, Am 01.10.20 um 09:03 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 08.09.20 um 18:22 schrieb Tong Zhang: length may be corrupted in rx_desc How can that be? and lead to panic, so check the sanity before passing it to skb_put [  167.667701] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:b1e32cc1 len:60224

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000: do not panic on malformed rx_desc

2020-10-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tong, Thank you for your patch. Am 08.09.20 um 18:22 schrieb Tong Zhang: length may be corrupted in rx_desc How can that be? and lead to panic, so check the sanity before passing it to skb_put [ 167.667701] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:b1e32cc1 len:60224 put:60224 head:

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3] e1000e: Increase iteration on polling MDIC ready bit

2020-09-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kai-Heng, Thank you for patch version 3. Am 24.09.20 um 18:45 schrieb Kai-Heng Feng: We are seeing the following error after S3 resume: [ 704.746874] e1000e :00:1f.6 eno1: Setting page 0x6020 [ 704.844232] e1000e :00:1f.6 eno1: MDI Write did not complete [ 704.902817] e1000e 00

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2] e1000e: Increase iteration on polling MDIC ready bit

2020-09-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kai-Heng, Thank you for sending version 2. Am 24.09.20 um 17:09 schrieb Kai-Heng Feng: We are seeing the following error after S3 resume: I’d be great if you added the system and used hardware, you are seeing this with. [ 704.746874] e1000e :00:1f.6 eno1: Setting page 0x6020 [

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Power cycle phy on PM resume

2020-09-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Andrew, Am 23.09.20 um 21:28 schrieb Andrew Lunn: How much does this increase the resume time? Define resume time? Until you get the display manager unlock screen? Or do you need working networking? Until network is functional again. Currently, the speed negotiation alone takes three(

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Power cycle phy on PM resume

2020-09-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kai-Heng, Am 23.09.20 um 16:46 schrieb Kai-Heng Feng: On Sep 23, 2020, at 21:28, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 23.09.20 um 09:47 schrieb Kai-Heng Feng: We are seeing the following error after S3 resume: [ 704.746874] e1000e :00:1f.6 eno1: Setting page 0x6020 [ 704.844232] e1000e

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: Power cycle phy on PM resume

2020-09-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kai-Heng, Am 23.09.20 um 09:47 schrieb Kai-Heng Feng: We are seeing the following error after S3 resume: [ 704.746874] e1000e :00:1f.6 eno1: Setting page 0x6020 [ 704.844232] e1000e :00:1f.6 eno1: MDI Write did not complete [ 704.902817] e1000e :00:1f.6 eno1: Setting page 0x

General protection fault: RIP: 0010:free_block+0xdc/0x1f0

2020-09-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Andrew folks, dear Linux folks, With Linux 5.9-rc4 on a Dell OptiPlex 5080 with Intel Core i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz, and external 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM] [1002:6611] (rev 87) running gra

Warnings about filesystem timestamp support until 2038

2020-08-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Deepa, Commit v5.3-rc6-4-gf8b92ba67c5d3 (mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry) [1] results in a lot of warnings on our systems. xfs filesystem being mounted at /amd/salvadorthegunzerker/0 supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fff) Unfortunately, I am missing th

Re: Issue with iwd + Linux 5.8.3 + WPA Enterprise

2020-08-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Caleb, Thank you for the report. Linux has a no regression policy, so the correct forum to report this to is the Linux kernel folks. I am adding the crypto and stable folks to the receiver list. Am 26.08.20 um 07:51 schrieb caljor...@hotmail.com: I wanted to note an issue that I hav

[PATCH v2 2/2] init/Kconfig: Increase default log buffer size from 128 KB to 512 KB

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
a lot of lines. Therefore, increase the default from 128 KB to 512 KB. Anyone, with limited memory, can still lower it. Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- v2: New patch in series. Is sending it to linux-kernel enough? If not, who to send it also to? init/Kconfig

[PATCH v2 1/2] init/Kconfig: Fix CPU number in LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT description

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Add Reviewed-by tag init/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index d6a0b31b13dc..9dc607e3806f 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ config LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT

Re: Start messages in message buffer missing (dmesg)

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 11.08.20 um 00:13 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 21.07.20 um 17:20 schrieb Paul Menzel: On two identical Dell PowerEdge T440 with Linux 5.4.39 and systemd 242 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers [8086:2020] (rev 07) running `dmesg

[PATCH] init/Kconfig: Fix CPU number in LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT description

2020-08-11 Thread Paul Menzel
first time. My guess is, that the description was written with the configuration values used in the SUSE in mind. Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 23b2899f7f ("printk: allow increasing the ring buffer depending on the number of CPUs") Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel

Re: [PATCH] amdgpu_dm: fix nonblocking atomic commit use-after-free

2020-07-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Am 25.07.20 um 07:20 schrieb Mazin Rezk: On Saturday, July 25, 2020 12:59 AM, Duncan wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 03:03:52 + Mazin Rezk wrote: Am 24.07.20 um 19:33 schrieb Kees Cook: There was a fix to disable the async path for this driver that worked around the bug t

Delays in PCI/ACPI initialization

2020-07-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Trying to decrease the boot time on a Acer TravelMate 5735Z with Debian Sid/unstable and Linux 5.7.6, there are two delays of 100 ms. I created a separate issue for each of the delays. 1. [Bug 208703] PnP ACPI init has 100 ms delay until quirk message 2. [Bug 208705] New:

Re: [PATCH] amdgpu_dm: fix nonblocking atomic commit use-after-free

2020-07-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kees, Am 24.07.20 um 19:33 schrieb Kees Cook: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:45:18AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am 24.07.20 um 00:32 schrieb Kees Cook: On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:10:15PM +, Mazin Rezk wrote: As Linux 5.8-rc7 is going to be released this Sunday, I wonder, if commit

Re: [PATCH] amdgpu_dm: fix nonblocking atomic commit use-after-free

2020-07-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kees, Am 24.07.20 um 00:32 schrieb Kees Cook: On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:10:15PM +, Mazin Rezk wrote: When amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail is running in the workqueue, drm_atomic_state_put will get called while amdgpu_dm_atomic_commit_tail is running, causing a race condition where state

CPU pressure despite low load average

2020-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, I am wondering, how PSI shows some CPU pressure (on average), while the load average, on a four thread system, shows a value well below four. $ grep -R . /proc/pressure/ /proc/pressure/io:some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=941766173 /proc/pressure/io:full avg10=0.00

`psi_avgs_work` shows up in PowerTOP

2020-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, On the Dell Latitude E7250 with Debian Sid/unstable and Linux 5.6.7, running `powertop`, `psi_avgs_work` shows up there with 40 mW to 60 mW. The battery reports a discharge rate of 7.16 W The power consumed was 147 J The estimated remaining time is 1 hours, 31 minutes Summary

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hexint

2020-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linus, dear Christian, Am 03.07.20 um 17:29 schrieb Christian König: Am 03.07.20 um 16:29 schrieb Paul Menzel: The newly added hexint helper is more convenient for bitmasks. Before: $ more /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 4294950911 After: $ more /sys/module

[Regression] hangs caused by commit 3202fa62fb (slub: relocate freelist pointer to middle of object)

2020-07-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Kees, dear Andrew, No idea, if you are aware of it yet, but three people verified that commit 3202fa62fb (slub: relocate freelist pointer to middle of object) causes a regression on AMD hardware [1]. It’d be great, if you took a look, and advised if this commit (and follow-ups) should

Re: [PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO

2020-07-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Sami, Am 13.07.20 um 01:34 schrieb Sami Tolvanen: On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 9:32 AM Paul Menzel wrote: Thank you very much for sending these changes. Do you have a branch, where your current work can be pulled from? Your branch on GitHub [1] seems 15 months old. The clang-lto branch is

Re: [PATCH 00/22] add support for Clang LTO

2020-07-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Sami, Am 24.06.20 um 22:31 schrieb Sami Tolvanen: This patch series adds support for building x86_64 and arm64 kernels with Clang's Link Time Optimization (LTO). In addition to performance, the primary motivation for LTO is to allow Clang's Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) to be used in the k

Re: i8042 AUX port [serio1] suspend takes a second on Dell XPS 13 9360

2020-07-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dmitry, dear Mario, Am 21.02.18 um 10:22 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 15.02.2018 um 16:22 schrieb mario.limoncie...@dell.com: -Original Message- From: Paul Menzel [mailto:pmenzel+linux-in...@molgen.mpg.de] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 2:26 AM On 02/14/18 18:11, mario.limoncie

drm: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 17ec6000

2020-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Building Linux v5.8-rc4-25-gbfe91da29bfad with Clang/LLD 1:11~++20200701093119+ffee8040534-1~exp1 from Debian experimental for 32-bit (`ARCH=i386`), starting Weston (Wayland) or X.Org Server results in non-working screen, and Linux shows the trace below [1]. [ 502.044997

Re: Dell XPS 13 9360: PM: Device 0000:39:00.0 failed to resume async: error -19

2020-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Greg, Am 30.06.20 um 10:42 schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:30:59PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Dell XPS 13 9360 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Linux 5.4.0-39-generic, That is an old kernel (and a distro one), can you please try 5.7.6 from kernel.org? Trying Linux 5.8

Re: [PATCH v2] .gitignore: Do not track `defconfig` from `make savedefconfig`

2020-07-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Masahiro, Am 05.07.20 um 09:14 schrieb Masahiro Yamada: On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 8:12 PM Paul Menzel wrote: Running `make savedefconfig` creates by default `defconfig`, which is, currently, on git’s radar, for example, `git status` lists this file as untracked. So, add the file to

iwlwifi: TX on unused queue 5

2020-07-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Since at least Linux 5.2.9 a warning is thrown by *iwlwifi*. [ 21.211815] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 22.685490] rfkill: input handler disabled [ 26.529753] iwlwifi :02:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio. [ 26.529754] iwlwifi

[PATCH v3 1/3] kernel/params.c: Align last argument with a tab

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
The second and third arguments are aligned with tabs, so do the same for the fourth. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- kernel/params.c | 16 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index

[PATCH v3 3/3] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hexint

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
-off-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c index 126e74758a34..5c4263335cba 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu

[PATCH v3 2/3] moduleparams: Add hexint type parameter

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
: $ more /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 0xbfff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: amd-...@lists.freedesktop.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 7 ++- kernel/params.c | 17 + 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9

Re: [PATCH 1/2] moduleparams: Add hex type parameter

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linus, dear Christian, Am 02.07.20 um 21:42 schrieb Linus Torvalds: On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 7:42 AM Christian König wrote: I'm just not sure how well this is received upstream because it only covers u32 On the other hand that is probably also the most used. Not necessarily true. I'd a

[PATCH v2 2/2] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hexint

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Use new name hexint drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c index 126e74758a34..5c4263335cba 100644 --- a/drivers

[PATCH v2 1/2] moduleparams: Add hexint type parameter

2020-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
: $ more /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 0xbfff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: amd-...@lists.freedesktop.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- v2: Address review comments: Rename hex to hexint, and pad sizes include/linux/moduleparam.h | 7 ++- kernel/params.c

[PATCH 2/2] drm/amdgpu: Change type of module param `ppfeaturemask` to hex

2020-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
-by: Paul Menzel --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c index 126e74758a34..35a66b374e3a 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu

[PATCH 1/2] moduleparams: Add hex type parameter

2020-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask 0xbfff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: amd-...@lists.freedesktop.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 7 ++- kernel/params.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include

[PATCH v2] .gitignore: Do not track `defconfig` from `make savedefconfig`

2020-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Running `make savedefconfig` creates by default `defconfig`, which is, currently, on git’s radar, for example, `git status` lists this file as untracked. So, add the file to `.gitignore`, so it’s ignored by git. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- .gitignore | 3

[PATCH] .gitignore: Do not track `defconfig` from `make savedefconfig`

2020-06-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel --- .gitignore | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 87b9dd8a163b..5c1a5349852b 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ x509.genkey /allno.config /allrandom.config /allyes.config +/defconfig

Dell XPS 13 9360: PM: Device 0000:39:00.0 failed to resume async: error -19

2020-06-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, On the Dell XPS 13 9360 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Linux 5.4.0-39-generic, testing suspend/resume with `sudo ./sleepgraph.py -config config/suspend.cfg -multi 50 15` the failure below happened *once*. [ 535.034086] xhci_hcd :39:00.0: calling pci_pm_resume+0x0/0xa0 @ 25

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] e1000e: continue to init phy even when failed to disable ULP

2020-06-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Aaron, Thank you for your patch. (Rant: Some more fallout from the other patch, which nobody reverted.) Am 16.06.20 um 12:05 schrieb Aaron Ma: After commit "e1000e: disable s0ix entry and exit flows for ME systems", some ThinkPads always failed to disable ulp by ME. Please add the (sho

Re: close() on some Intel CNP-LP PCI devices takes up to 2.7 s

2020-06-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mika, Am 09.06.20 um 17:44 schrieb Mika Westerberg: On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:39:21PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: On the Intel Cannon Point-LP laptop Dell Precision 3540 with a dedicated AMD graphics card (both graphics devices can be used) with Debian Sid/unstable with Linux 5.6.14

Acer TravelMate 5735Z: atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x93 on isa0060/serio0)

2020-06-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Using Debian Sid/unstable with Linux 5.6.14 on an (old) Acer TravelMate 5735Z, pressing the WIFI enable/disable function key works, and GNOME even shows the OSD notification. But Linux still logs this key as unknown. [ 1595.795162] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (tr

Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix event counter availability check

2020-05-31 Thread Paul Menzel
caf310d16cc5e2f851c048cd597f5437013368 Thank you very much for fixing this issue, which is almost two years old for me. Tested-by: Paul Menzel MSI MSI MS-7A37/B350M MORTAR with AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20180727102710.ga6...@8bytes.org/ Kind regards, Paul [1

Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis_spi: Don't send anything during flow control

2020-05-29 Thread Paul Menzel
spi_xfer.rx_buf = NULL; memcpy(phy->iobuf, out, transfer_len); out += transfer_len; Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel Kind regards, Paul

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