Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] Fix handling of compat_siginfo_t

2015-11-09 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 11/07, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Amanieu d'Antras wrote: > > One issue that isn't resolved in this series is sending signals between a > > 32-bit > > process and 64-bit process. Sending a si_int will work correctly, but a > > si_ptr > >

Re: [PATCH v2] of: Check for overlap in reserved memory regions

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 18:30 -0700, Mitchel Humpherys wrote: > Any overlap in the reserved memory regions (those specified in the > reserved-memory DT node) is a bug. These bugs might go undetected as > long as the contested region isn't used simultaneously by multiple > software agents, which

Re: [PATCH v2] of: Check for overlap in reserved memory regions

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 22:41 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 18:30 -0700, Mitchel Humpherys wrote: > > > Any overlap in the reserved memory regions (those specified in the > > > reserved-memory DT

Re: [PATCH v2] of: Check for overlap in reserved memory regions

2015-11-09 Thread Rob Herring
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 18:30 -0700, Mitchel Humpherys wrote: > >> Any overlap in the reserved memory regions (those specified in the >> reserved-memory DT node) is a bug. These bugs might go undetected as >> long as

Re: [PATCH v2] memory-hotplug: Fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64

2015-11-09 Thread Nathan Fontenot
On 11/03/2015 11:21 AM, John Allen wrote: > This patch fixes a bug where a kernel warning is triggered when performing > a memory hotplug on ppc64. This warning may also occur on any architecture > that has multiple sections per memory block. > > [ 78.300767] [ cut here

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: allow cross-compilation of ppc64 kernel

2015-11-09 Thread Laurent Vivier
Le 10/11/2015 01:29, Michael Ellerman a écrit : > On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 12:35 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: >> Le 07/11/2015 00:24, Scott Wood a écrit : >>> On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 23:22 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: Le 06/11/2015 22:09, Scott Wood a écrit : > On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 12:47

[PATCH v2] platforms/powernv: Add support for Nvlink NPUs

2015-11-09 Thread Alistair Popple
NV-Link is a high speed interconnect that is used in conjunction with a PCI-E connection to create an interface between CPU and GPU that provides very high data bandwidth. A PCI-E connection to a GPU is used as the control path to initiate and report status of large data transfers sent via the

[PATCH] of: Print rather than WARN'ing when overlap check fails

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
__rmem_check_for_overlap() is called very early in boot, and on some powerpc systems it's not safe to call WARN that early in boot. If the overlap check fails the system will oops instead of printing a warning. Furthermore because it's so early in boot the console is not up and the user doesn't

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3]perf/core: extend perf_reg and perf_sample_regs_intr

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 11:25 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:04:00PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > It's a perrenial request from our hardware PMU folks to be able to see the > > raw > > values of the PMU registers. > > > > I think partly it's so that they can

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: allow cross-compilation of ppc64 kernel

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 12:35 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > Le 07/11/2015 00:24, Scott Wood a écrit : > > On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 23:22 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > Le 06/11/2015 22:09, Scott Wood a écrit : > > > > On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 12:47 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > > > When I try to

Re: [PATCH v2] memory-hotplug: Fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Ellerman
Hi John, On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 11:21 -0600, John Allen wrote: > This patch fixes a bug where a kernel warning is triggered when performing > a memory hotplug on ppc64. This warning may also occur on any architecture > that has multiple sections per memory block. So it looks like the only arches