Re: Please test my alpha tree

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/01/11 18:29, Matt Turner wrote:
>>
>> After a few weeks of no work on the kernel, I've vacuumed up the
>> outstanding patches.
>
> Nice to see.
>
>> They include the removal of __do_IRQ, so please give it a test on your
>> hardware.
>>
>> On boot-up of my UP1500, I see
>>
>> HWRPB cycle frequency bogus.  Estimated 796423805 Hz
>> Trying to install interrupt handler for IRQ8
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:138 __local_bh_enable+0xa8/0xc0()
>
> I don't think that's related to the __do_IRQ removal.  It occurs in the
> 2.6.37 kernel just released.  Was discussed on linux-alpha with no
> resolution; see
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-alpha&m=128859282018188&w=2 and following messages
> in thread.
>
>> Ivan, the last patch in my tree is a breakage fix that you proposed.
>> It seems fine to me; can you please give your sign-off?
>
> The commit message should give more information.  How about the following?
>
> Commit df9ee29270 made arch_local_irq_save and arch_local_irq_restore static
> inline which with -Werror trips up on __set_hae() and _set_hae() which are
> extern inline.  The naive solution is to make __set_hae() and set_hae()
> static inline but for reasons described in commit d559d4a24a3fe this breaks
> the generic kernel build.  Instead, since this is architecture specific
> code, this patch hard wires in the architecture specific method of disabling
> and enabling interrupts.
>
> You can also add my Tested-by (I tested on generic, miata and dp264 kernel
> builds).
>
> The author information is mucked up on commits 0c9e7396d8d and 3cf2323f0b74
> and should be repaired.
>
> The message on commit 3cf2323f0b74 is not very informative.  What "flag
> variables"?  Might be fixed by saying "Makefile flag variables".
>
> Cheers
> Michael.
>

All updated. Thanks for testing and providing a better description. :)

Matt
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