Re: [PATCH] ia64 sn xpc: Convert to use kthread API.

2007-04-23 Thread Russ Anderson
Jes Sorensen wrote: Russ/Dean/Robin - could one of you provide some feedback to this one please. Dean's on vacation for a couple days and will test it when he gets back. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED

[patch] __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set

2007-10-30 Thread Russ Anderson
-off-by: Russ Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- kernel/irq/handle.c |8 +--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linus/kernel/irq/handle.c

Re: [patch] __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set

2007-10-31 Thread Russ Anderson
the interrupt in the chipset. If, for some reason, the interrupt cannot be disabled in the hardware, the IRQ_DISABLED would prevent the interrupt handler from being called. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from

Re: [patch] Remove limit on MCA recoveries

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Anderson
Matthias Fouquet-Lapar wrote: Keith Owens wrote: Russ Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MCA recovery driver saves the addresses of memory errors in an array. The array has 32 entries. The effect is that after 32 recoveries, the driver stops recovering. This patch removes

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-08 Thread Russ Anderson
. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt h...@sgi.com To: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org Cc: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner t...@linutronix.de Cc: Ingo Molnar mi...@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Cc: Shawn Guo shawn@linaro.org Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
discussion. Linus -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:29:12AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:10:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Yeah, we've had issues with ACPI in the past, so I do think we should always reboot using the BP. Even if it almost certainly works on 99+% of all machines

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:59:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com wrote: Yes, I have a test patch that replaces for_each_online_cpu(cpu) with a cpu bitmask in disable_nonboot_cpus(). The lower level routines already take a bitmask. It allows __stop_machine

Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)

2013-04-11 Thread Russ Anderson
, is error handling - if a notifier fails, it would be troublesome to rollback I guess. But if we forget that for a moment, we can give this idea a try! Yes. Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com

Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)

2013-04-11 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:15:27PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: On 04/11/2013 07:53 PM, Russ Anderson wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:15:18PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: One more thing we have to note is that, there are 4 notifiers for taking a CPU offline: CPU_DOWN_PREPARE

[bugfix] mm: zone_end_pfn is too small

2013-03-18 Thread Russ Anderson
: Attempted to kill the idle task! Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com Reported-by: George Beshers gbesh...@sgi.com Acked-by: Hedi Berriche h...@sgi.com --- include/linux/mmzone.h |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/include/linux/mmzone.h

[patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-18 Thread Russ Anderson
the time by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds, a 112.9 second (53%) reduction. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com --- mm/page_alloc.c | 11 ++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/mm

Re: [patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-23 Thread Russ Anderson
(single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds, a 112.9 second (53%) reduction. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com --- arch/ia64/mm/numa.c | 15 ++- mm/page_alloc.c | 15 ++- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/mm

Re: [patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-25 Thread Russ Anderson
. This performance optimization reduces the time by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds, a 112.9 second (53%) reduction. (quote) thanks, linfeng -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics

Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

2012-11-19 Thread Russ Anderson
) | + ((unsigned long)phys_apicid UVH_IPI_INT_APIC_ID_SHFT) | ((start_rip UVH_IPI_INT_VECTOR_SHFT) 12) | APIC_DM_STARTUP; uv_write_global_mmr64(pnode, UVH_IPI_INT, val); -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com

Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

2012-11-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:10:55AM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:28:56 +0300 Dan Carpenter dan.carpen...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:48:34PM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: This is a static

Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

2012-11-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:28:56AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:48:34PM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: This is a static checker fix. The problem is that we store the bits from uv_apicid_hibits

[regression] cpuidle_get_cpu_driver livelocks idle system

2012-12-17 Thread Russ Anderson
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Re: [PATCH] cpuidle - fix lock contention in the idle path

2012-12-31 Thread Russ Anderson
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Re: [PATCH] cpuidle - fix lock contention in the idle path

2013-01-02 Thread Russ Anderson
by removing the lock when getting the driver. The patch fixes the problem. Verified on a system with 1024 cpus. Thanks. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezc...@linaro.org Reported-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com Acked-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com --- drivers/cpuidle/driver.c |8 +--- 1

linux-ia64 build warning messages

2007-06-05 Thread Russ Anderson
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Re: [PATCH] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable section count

2013-08-22 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:10:45PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:38:38PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/removable crashed the system. On what kernels? linux-next or Linus's tree, or 3.10.y? Linus 3.11-rc6 -- Russ Anderson

Re: [PATCH] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable section count

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
that change and resubmit the patch. Thanks. Thanks, Yasuaki Ishimatsu -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord

[PATCH v2] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable to handle missing sections

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
, PAGES_PER_SECTION); } -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
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Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86, acpi: Move acpi_initrd_override() earlier.

2013-08-23 Thread Russ Anderson
root 124 Aug 23 21:23 xsdt.dat --- -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord

Re: [PATCH v2] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable to handle missing sections

2013-08-27 Thread Russ Anderson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:49:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:23:17 -0500 Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com wrote: cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/removable crashed the system. The problem is that show_mem_removable() is passing a bad pfn

[PATCH] [BUGFIX] drivers/base: fix show_mem_removable section count

2013-08-22 Thread Russ Anderson
of sections_per_block will also need to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com The failing output: --- harp5-sys:~ # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/removable 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 [ 372.78] BUG: unable

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-15 Thread Russ Anderson
would test on his 256 nodes system, but looks he never got chance. I reserved time tonight on a couple big systems to measure the performance difference. Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-16 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:15:21PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:43:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:46:29 -0700 Yinghai Lu ying...@kernel.org wrote: Current early_pfn_to_nid

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-16 Thread Russ Anderson
-2.90 (0.25%) UV2: 64 nodes 2TB: 128.15 126.53 -1.62 (1.26%) UV2: 32 nodes 2TB: 121.87 121.07 -0.80 (0.66%) Time in seconds. Acked-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com ... --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/memblock.h

[PATCH] x86: Update UV3 hub revision ID

2013-10-14 Thread Russ Anderson
The UV3 hub revision ID is different than expected. The first revision was supposed to start at 1 but instead will start at 0. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel

Re: [PATCH] efi: Quirk out SGI UV

2014-03-04 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: From: Borislav Petkov b...@suse.de Getting this thing to work with the new mapping scheme would need more work. Thanks Boris. Allows SGI UV to boot (without the extra bootline). Acked-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com Signed

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
driver. The distro that added this change created all sorts of support problems. Problems include kipmi0 spinning at 100% of cpu (creating a performance hit) and long boot delays (as the kernel tries to talk to a BMC that will never respond). It has been a big mess. Nacked-by: Russ Anderson r

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:16:22PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:14 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: The distro that added this change created all sorts of support problems. Problems include kipmi0 spinning at 100% of cpu (creating a performance hit) and long boot

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs. Our large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through a system controller back door. We do

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:00:48PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:59 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: This is also a problem for systems

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: There are any number of reasons why a BMC may not respond. BMCs are notorious for being flakey, with different types of BMCs that may or may not be reliable. You do

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:39:23PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: For some customers _any_ amount is significant, especially on large clustered systems where the amount is multiplied by tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes. You

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:26:45PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:06 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:39:23PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: For some customers _any_ amount

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
in order to encourage distributions and users to configure kernels to avoid awkward surprises. What are the awkward surprises? Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:09:42PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:45 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:26:45PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Because I'm trying to ensure that the default behaviour of the kernel is to *work*. Defaulting

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-21 Thread Russ Anderson
the fight, either. I have not looked at your code changes but the description looks like the right direction. From: linux-acpi-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-acpi-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Russ Anderson Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 7:59 AM On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:09

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to default y

2014-02-21 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:13:13AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 17:59 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:09:42PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:45 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: The ACPI spec requires IPMI functionality

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-10 Thread Russ Anderson
+ */ + if (remaining_size - size EFI_MIN_RESERVE) + return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES; + } return EFI_SUCCESS; } -- 1.8.1.4 -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r

[PATCH] cpu: Speedup disable_nonboot_cpus()

2013-05-03 Thread Russ Anderson
but one cpu from 16 minutes down to 4 minutes. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com To: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Cc: Ingo Molnar mi...@redhat.com Cc: Robin Holt h...@sgi.com Cc: Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com --- kernel/cpu.c | 104

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-06 Thread Russ Anderson
+ */ + if (remaining_size - size EFI_MIN_RESERVE) + return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES; + } return EFI_SUCCESS; } -- 1.8.1.4 -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-06 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:00:39PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun, at 09:48:46AM, Russ Anderson wrote: This looks like it will try to allocate more than the remaining size. Is that intended? Yes, the intention is to trigger garbage collection. OK, if that's what it takes

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:45:44AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: On Thu, 23 May, at 05:23:21PM, Russ Anderson wrote: Interesting data point. The failure is on a rhel7/grub2 root. The identical kernel on a rhel6/grub root boots. So maybe grub2 brings out the failure? I suspect Fedora19/grub2

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:43:31AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: On Thu, 23 May, at 03:32:34PM, Russ Anderson wrote: efi: mem127: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x6bb22000-0x7ca9c000) (271MB) EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE efi: mem133: type=5, attr=0x800f, range

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote: What appears to be happening is that your the EFI runtime services code is calling into the EFI boot services code, which is definitely a bug in your firmware because we're at runtime

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:16:12AM +0800, joeyli wrote: 於 四,2013-05-30 於 00:53 +0200,Jiri Kosina 提到: On Wed, 29 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote: Yes, but this call is clearly happening way before ExitBootServices() -- see the surrounding code, see for example this in efi_main

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:21:53PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:17 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: That's a great idea. This patch moves the QueryVariableInfo() call from bootime to runtime, in efi_late_init(). The attached patch is consistent with the UEFI spec

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:30:43AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote: That's a great idea. This patch moves the QueryVariableInfo() call from bootime to runtime, in efi_late_init(). The attached patch is consistent with the UEFI spec and avoids

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:32:09PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:28 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:21:53PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 17:17 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: That's a great idea. This patch moves

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Anderson
means the previous patch(es) that caused the bricking should get pulled, too. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:43:49AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: When did writing EFI variables to nvram become necessary to boot on UEFI? And if it is necessary, why is it that only linux boot loaders that use EFI stubs

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:03:11AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: If nvram becaomes full, some systems crash during

Re: [PATCH] Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-02 Thread Russ Anderson
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Re: [PATCH] cpu: Speedup disable_nonboot_cpus()

2013-05-21 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:17:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2013 17:35:44 -0500 Russ Anderson r...@sgi.com wrote: The routine disable_nonboot_cpus() shuts down cpus sequentially using for_each_online_cpu(cpu) to call cpu_down() one cpu at a time. cpu_down() calls

[regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-22 Thread Russ Anderson
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Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: On Wed, 22 May, at 11:27:47AM, Russ Anderson wrote: [6.062157] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 [6.067731] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 7ca95b10 [6.075519] IP: [88007dbf2140

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-23 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: On Wed, 22 May, at 11:27:47AM, Russ Anderson wrote: [6.062157] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 [6.067731] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 7ca95b10 [6.075519] IP: [88007dbf2140

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-24 Thread Russ Anderson
it a kernel bug. I'm still digging to better understand the root problem. Robin On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:43:31AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: On Thu, 23 May, at 03:32:34PM, Russ Anderson wrote: efi: mem127: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x6bb22000-0x7ca9c000) (271MB

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-24 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:43:31AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: On Thu, 23 May, at 03:32:34PM, Russ Anderson wrote: efi: mem127: type=4, attr=0xf, range=[0x6bb22000-0x7ca9c000) (271MB) EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE efi: mem133: type=5, attr=0x800f, range

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-24 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:11:01PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 15:05 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: One other data point is if the query_variable_info call is hacked to remove one of the EFI flags (ie comment out EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS) the efi_call_phys4

Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code

2013-05-27 Thread Russ Anderson
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:27:12PM +0800, joeyli wrote: Hi Dave, 於 五,2013-05-24 於 17:05 -0400,Dave Jones 提到: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:02:15PM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:11AM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: Russ, Can we open a bug for the BIOS

Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow NR_CPUS=1024

2013-11-03 Thread Russ Anderson
. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow NR_CPUS=1024

2013-11-04 Thread Russ Anderson
a separate patch. josh -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
. The 3.13 community kernel was boots fine. The current problem is a regression introduced in this merge window which needs to be fixed. -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
to do that during boot? I'm not sure what you are asking for. We had a reliable way to boot before the recent patch broke it. (commit d2f7cbe7b26a74dbbbf8f325b2a6fd01bc34032c) -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com

Re: [Patch Part2 v6 22/27] x86, uv: Use hierarchy irqdomain to manage UV interrupts

2014-12-17 Thread Russ Anderson
the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: Correct ident mapping of efi old_map when kalsr enabled

2017-05-07 Thread Russ Anderson
latforms, both old and new mapping, with new mapping being the default. Thanks. -- Russ Anderson, Hawks 2 Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com (r...@sgi.com)

Re: [PATCH] Raise maximum number of memory controllers

2018-09-26 Thread Russ Anderson
sockets? > Normally, the number "1" in the above string "Skylake Socekt#1 IMC#1" > should be 7 (that was 15/2), but it was 1 here. Yes, that is from a 32 socket system. Thanks. -- Russ Anderson, SuperDome Flex Linux Kernel Group Manager HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly SGI) r...@hpe.com

Re: [PATCH] Raise maximum number of memory controllers

2018-09-26 Thread Russ Anderson
> ../../../devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow0 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 26 11:08 dimm0 -> > ../../../devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/dimm0 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 26 11:08 dimm3 -> > ../../../devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/dimm3 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 26 11:08 dimm6

Re: [patch] Remove limit on MCA recoveries

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Anderson
Matthias Fouquet-Lapar wrote: > Keith Owens wrote: > > Russ Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The MCA recovery driver saves the addresses of memory errors > > >in an array. The array has 32 entries. The effect is > > >that after

Re: [PATCH] ia64 sn xpc: Convert to use kthread API.

2007-04-23 Thread Russ Anderson
Jes Sorensen wrote: > > Russ/Dean/Robin - could one of you provide some feedback to this one > please. Dean's on vacation for a couple days and will test it when he gets back. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc [EMAIL

linux-ia64 build warning messages

2007-06-05 Thread Russ Anderson
offset 0x8c0) and 'fc_dev_loss_tmo' OBJCOPY arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/vmlinux.bin ------ -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[patch] __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set

2007-10-30 Thread Russ Anderson
ned-off-by: Russ Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- kernel/irq/handle.c |8 +--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linus/kernel/irq/handl

Re: [patch] __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set

2007-10-31 Thread Russ Anderson
ary (and misleading). I think the intended behavior is for chip->disable() to disable the interrupt in the chipset. If, for some reason, the interrupt cannot be disabled in the hardware, the IRQ_DISABLED would prevent the interrupt handler from being called. -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitionin

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-08 Thread Russ Anderson
gt; selected by the x86 arch. I don't know which other arch's would also > > benefit, if any. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robin Holt > > To: Andrew Morton > > Cc: Russ Anderson > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > > Cc: Ingo Molnar > > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
code. I will post a patch shortly with the cpu bitmask change. Changing __cpu_notify() will take more discussion. > Linus -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc r...@sgi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:29:12AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:10:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Yeah, we've had issues with ACPI in the past, so I do think we should > > always reboot using the BP. Even if it almost certainly wor

Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

2013-04-10 Thread Russ Anderson
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:59:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Russ Anderson wrote: > > > Yes, I have a test patch that replaces for_each_online_cpu(cpu) with a cpu > > bitmask in disable_nonboot_cpus(). The lower level routines already take a > > bitmask.

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-16 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:15:21PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:43:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:46:29 -0700 Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> > >>

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-16 Thread Russ Anderson
2.23%) UV2: 255 nodes 16TB:1141.02 1138.12 -2.90 (0.25%) UV2: 64 nodes 2TB: 128.15 126.53 -1.62 (1.26%) UV2: 32 nodes 2TB: 121.87 121.07 -0.80 (0.66%) Time in seconds. Acked-by: Russ Anderson > > ... >

Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

2013-08-15 Thread Russ Anderson
t; > > Looks nice. I wonder how much difference it makes. > > Russ said he would test on his 256 nodes system, but looks he never > got chance. I reserved time tonight on a couple big systems to measure the performance difference. Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning

Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow NR_CPUS=1024

2013-11-04 Thread Russ Anderson
hardware with > more than 4096 CPUs? Yes. We have a system in the lab with 254 12-core IVB sockets for a total of 3048 cores. With HT is it 6096 cpus. > If so, I can actually make a bump to the MAXSMP count a separate patch. > > josh -- Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead

Re: [PATCH] x86: Allow NR_CPUS=1024

2013-11-03 Thread Russ Anderson
CPUS=4096 wasn't working very well and you had to select MAXSMP > > deliberately and keep all the pieces. > > > > But today it's all pretty robust so I see no reason why not to allow up to > > 4096 CPUs. > > Adding Russ from SGI as they are one of the consumers of a large C

[bugfix] mm: zone_end_pfn is too small

2013-03-18 Thread Russ Anderson
RIP [] free_one_page+0x382/0x430 RSP ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson Reported-by: George Beshers Acked-by: Hedi Berriche --- include/linux/mmzone.h |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 inserti

[patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-18 Thread Russ Anderson
the time by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds, a 112.9 second (53%) reduction. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson --- mm/page_alloc.c | 11 ++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/mm/page_alloc.c

[PATCH] cpu: Speedup disable_nonboot_cpus()

2013-05-03 Thread Russ Anderson
but one cpu from 16 minutes down to 4 minutes. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson To: Andrew Morton Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Russ Anderson --- kernel/cpu.c | 104 ++- 1 file changed, 61 inserti

Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)

2013-04-11 Thread Russ Anderson
of the stop-machine phase). > > The only downside to this whole idea of running the notifiers of a given > priority in parallel, is error handling - if a notifier fails, it would be > troublesome to rollback I guess. But if we forget that for a moment, we can > give this idea a try!

Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)

2013-04-11 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:15:27PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 04/11/2013 07:53 PM, Russ Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 06:15:18PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > >> > >> One more thing we have to note is that, there are 4 notifiers fo

Re: [patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-23 Thread Russ Anderson
that range first. If it is in the same range, return that nid. If not, scan the list as before. A 4 TB (single rack) UV1 system takes 512 seconds to get through the zone code. This performance optimization reduces the time by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system

Re: [patch] mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid

2013-03-25 Thread Russ Anderson
gle rack) UV1 system takes 512 seconds to get through > > the zone code. This performance optimization reduces the time > > by 189 seconds, a 36% improvement. > > > > A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds, > > a 112.9 second (53%) reduct

Re: [PATCH] efi: Quirk out SGI UV

2014-03-04 Thread Russ Anderson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Borislav Petkov > > Getting this thing to work with the new mapping scheme would need more > work. Thanks Boris. Allows SGI UV to boot (without the extra bootline). Acked-by: Russ Anderson > Signed-o

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
for System Interfaces (KCS, SMIC, BT). >Currently, only KCS and SMIC are supported. If > -- > 1.8.5.3 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordo

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:16:22PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:14 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > The distro that added this change created all sorts of support > > problems. Problems include kipmi0 spinning at 100% of cpu > > (creating a p

Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

2014-02-20 Thread Russ Anderson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs. Our > > large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through > > a system c

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