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Kanohi, could somebody add the new r8169 firmware for .39?00:04
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jj-afkrunning errands back in a bit00:07
ogasawaraslangasek: hi, I plan to do another kernel upload on this friday.  I suspect we'll have at least 1-2 more uploads past that up until kernel freeze on april 14th.00:29
slangasekogasawara: ok, thanks - I'll pass that on to wookey who's working on linux-libc-dev00:29
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skaetJFo, ogasawara - interesting one from tonights scan through the beta bugs... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/74594706:14
ubot2Launchpad bug 745947 in debian-installer "Fails to display video after grub (kernel lacks video output)" [High,New]06:14
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smbcking, Good morning. Has the noise and dust ceased? :)08:46
ckingsmb, not quite - windows being fitted as we speak 08:48
smbcking, Oh no, you got Windows into the house! (quite lame I know)08:49
ckingde da08:51
ckingAt least I don't need any service packs08:51
smbThat is what you think now. :-P08:52
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_rubenunless you about painting and stuff yourslef, you'd need a service pack ;)09:08
_ruben(typing over a high latency connection sucks)09:09
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tgardnerugh! speaking of patch bombs. 2.6.35.12 has 275 patches.14:44
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tgardnerogra_, how is ti-omap4 going? did you get your image constructed with the new kernel?15:22
ogra_tgardner, yep, all fine, the beta is already being pre-published15:23
ogra_tgardner, thanks for the quick fix15:23
tgardnerogra_, did it solve many of the bugs that are outstanding? or do you know yet?15:23
ogra_well, the highest outstanding one is still the highmem issue, thats not solved, but it adds a proper HDMI driver again15:24
ogra_we are still waiting for userspace fixes for sound, kernel wise it should be fine though15:25
ogra_beyond that i think all hardware kind of works now with that kernel15:25
tgardnerogra_, ok. pgraner was just mentioning to me that there are a number of outstanding bugs that we should follow up on15:25
ogra_oh, i dont know which ones he refers to then15:26
ogra_do you have a list ?15:26
ogra_and is that natty or maverick =15:26
ogra_?15:26
tgardnerogra_, he mentioned something about iso tracker.15:26
tgardnernatty (AFAIK)15:26
pgranerogra_, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74613315:29
ubot2Launchpad bug 746133 in linux-ti-omap4 "Video loses sync on omap4" [Undecided,New]15:29
pgranerhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74613715:29
ubot2Launchpad bug 746137 in linux-ti-omap4 "Page allocation failure on omap4" [Undecided,New]15:29
pgranerhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/65130215:30
ubot2Launchpad bug 651302 in alsa-lib "No sound in omap (beagle, beagleXM)." [Low,New]15:30
ogra_746133 ... heh, the .38 kernel uses the .35 driver now, so the bug was forward ported alongside i think15:30
pgranerogra_, they were reported against beta115:30
ogra_pgraner, trhe alsa-lib one is the bit i mentioned above, no kernel bits involved anymore15:30
ogra_we're waiting for alsa-lib and pulse fixes from TI for that15:31
JFoI iz back15:49
JFoskaet, that is an interesting bug15:49
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* skaet glad Jfo finds it interesting.... and glad pgraners forward on the other interesting ones too. :)15:54
JFoskaet, well, 'interesting' in a "I have no idea what to do with it." way ;-)15:55
skaet:)16:01
tgardnerogasawara, the archive has thawed. you could fire up a kernel today (just to keep the mirrors busy)16:46
ogasawaratgardner: cool, I'll get it goin16:47
tgardnerppisati, do you have the right HW to help debug natty ti-omap4 issues?16:48
tgardnerGrueMaster, isn't there an ARM enablement team to which you ought to subscribe the omap4 bugs you're filing?16:51
tgardnerah, ubuntu armel porters16:51
GrueMastertgardner: I usually do when I go through and triage.  I hardly ever triage when filing bugs during release testing.16:51
tgardnerGrueMaster, thats a fine distinction that is lost on me16:52
GrueMasterUbuntu-armel-porters is usually added to the subscribed list.16:52
GrueMasterTry testing 8 images on 2 different very slow platforms in one day and you will understand why I didn't add them16:53
tgardnerogra_, since you administer Ubuntu-armel-porters, how about adding Paolo Pisati and Bryan Wu ?16:54
ogra_i do ?16:54
ogra_hmm, sure, np16:54
tgardnerogra_, you are listed as an admin16:54
* ogra_ wonders why cooloney isnt in that team 16:57
* tgardner does as well16:57
ogra_not that it has any use though apart from bugmail subscriptions 16:57
ogra_added both16:57
tgardnerI'm convinced that they don't get enough bug mail16:57
ogra_haha16:57
ogra_i could subscribe them to unity-2d, that generates about 50-100 per day16:58
tgardnerogra_, thats probably not necessary :)16:58
tgardnerogasawara, I'm also working on getting linux-backports-modules-2.6.38 NEWed17:04
tgardnerI wonder if Clint can do that now?17:05
ppisatitgardner: yep, panda is ti-omap417:06
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tgardnerppisati, I've gotten you subscribed to a couple of omap4 natty bugs17:07
ppisatitgardner: k17:07
ppisatiGrueMaster: any tickets in particular?17:07
tgardnerppisati, bug #74613717:08
ubot2Launchpad bug 746137 in linux-ti-omap4 "Page allocation failure on omap4" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/74613717:08
tgardnerbug #74613317:08
ubot2Launchpad bug 746133 in linux-ti-omap4 "Video loses sync on omap4" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/74613317:08
GrueMastertgardner: Those are the most recent bugs.17:14
GrueMasterI'll have to dig a little to see if there are others.  We just had this kernel dumped in last minute for release testing, so I haven't had a chance to do thorough testing yet.17:15
ppisatilp653002 and lp746133 look very similar17:25
rsalvetippisati: it's probably the same one, but the newer happens with 3817:34
rsalvetiand the new hdmi driver 17:35
rsalvetiat that time we closed for natty because we were still using 3517:35
ppisatirsalveti: how to reproduce it? because with xperf -copywin i don't get the "omapdss DISPC error: GFX_FIFO_UNDERFLOW, disabling GFX"17:43
rsalvetippisati: from current discussion at linaro it seems to be related with pm17:44
rsalvetiand cpu frequency scaling17:44
rsalvetippisati: bug 73291217:44
ubot2Launchpad bug 732912 in linux-linaro-omap "omapdss DISPC error: GFX_FIFO_UNDERFLOW" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/73291217:44
rsalvetialso happens with omap 317:44
rsalvetippisati: interesting that you're unable to reproduce with xperf -copywin17:49
rsalvetithat didn't happen even with 3517:49
ppisatirsalveti: FWIW i can't even do cpu scaling :)17:50
ppisatiflag@flag-desktop:~$ uname -a17:50
ppisatiLinux flag-desktop 2.6.38-1207-omap4 #10 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 31 18:12:49 CEST 2011 armv7l GNU/Linux17:50
rsalvetippisati: yeah, just noticed it's not activated at our kernel17:50
rsalvetiso the omap 3 bug is probably not related with this17:50
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rsalvetippisati: were you able to hit this issue at least once?17:50
rsalvetiI'm not, and I'm using my panda for days17:51
ppisatirsalveti: just booted this kernel17:51
ppisatirsalveti: tried with xcopywin but no blank17:52
rsalvetiGrueMaster: what did you do to hit this bug?17:52
ppisatirsalveti: letf it there, idle, screensaver kicked in, but i can resume it17:52
tgardnerogasawara, Natty LBM is NEWed. do you suppose the dep-wait gizmo will work if you just upload LBM before the kernel headers are built?17:52
GrueMasterrsalveti: I was hitting it while filing a bug report on it.17:53
ppisatirsalveti: i'll leave it there a bit, let's see17:53
ppisatiperhaps it's really connect to pm and cpu scaling17:53
GrueMasterMonitor directly plugged in.17:53
ppisatisince we don't have it17:53
ogasawaratgardner: no idea17:55
kamalwhen might we expect the ubuntu-oneiric.git repo to be created?  (I can haz 2.6.39 now? ;-)17:55
ogasawaratgardner: I can give it a try though17:55
tgardnerkamal, patience lad, she's working on it.17:56
ogasawarakamal: I'm half way through getting it created17:56
tgardnerkamal, but I keep bugging her to do other stuff.17:57
kamalogasawara: thanks very much :-)17:57
kamaltgardner: well quit it!17:57
tgardnerkamal, can;t help it. I'm just naturally annoying.17:57
ogasawarawasted the better have of yesterday and this morning figuring out that some of the reverts didn't completely revert the original patch, but have that fixed up and am on track again now.17:58
rsalvetippisati: but the omap 3 one is related with the ondemand governor 17:58
rsalvetiand we're probably already using full speed17:58
rsalvetibut something we should check, I'm not that sure17:58
ogra_rsalveti, heh, define full speed18:01
ogra_we wanted to push XM to 1GHz and i dont think we did 18:01
rsalvetiogra_: not xm, panda18:01
ogra_ah, you mentioned omap3 above18:01
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ogra_omap4 runs at full speed 18:02
rsalvetiyeah, but was also talking about the omap 4 issue18:02
rsalvetithat's something I'm not yet sure 18:02
rsalvetiI mean, the cpu seems to be running at full speed18:02
rsalvetibut don't know about the rest, like the bus that could affect the video18:02
ogra_ah18:03
ogra_yeah, that makes sense18:04
ogasawaratgardner: lbm uploaded, we'll see what happens18:05
tgardnerogasawara, indeed, I see 2.6.38.2 has a bunch of ath9k goodness, so I think I'll update compat-wireless for Lucid/Maverick.18:07
tgardnerplus some mac80211 stuff18:07
ogasawaratgardner: cool, I was also going to strip natty lbm of the older cruft like compat-wireless-2.6.37 etc.18:07
tgardnerogasawara, ack18:07
ogasawaratgardner: hrmph, "Rejected:18:12
ogasawaraThe signer of this package is lacking the upload rights for the source package, component or package set in question."18:12
tgardnerogasawara, bummer. guess I can do it, or you can annoy cjwatson about it.18:12
ogasawaratgardner: I suspect it needs to be added to the right ACL's before I can pull the trigger, I'll ping cjwatson18:13
tgardnerogasawara, k, lemme know18:13
ogasawaratgardner: upload issue is fixed18:24
tgardnerogasawara, cool18:24
slangasektgardner: hi, I just noticed that the change for bug #663090 has the effect of raising not only the hard limit for NOFILE, but also the soft limit, and the latter isn't wanted; for the moment the impact is minimal because pam has to shadow these defaults anyway so I can selectively fix up for purposes of user sessions, but how can we fix the kernel default too?18:30
ubot2Launchpad bug 663090 in linux "Please raise file descriptor hard limit to 4096 (but keep soft limit at 1024)" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/66309018:30
slangasektechnically this bug is not fixed because both hard and soft limits are now at 4096 :)18:30
tgardnerslangasek, um, I though that was just the hard limit.18:30
slangasektgardner: asm-generic/resource.h:18:30
slangasek        [RLIMIT_NOFILE]         = {       INR_OPEN,       INR_OPEN },   \18:30
tgardneroops.18:31
tgardnerlemme look closer18:31
slangasekok 18:31
tgardnerslangasek, how are these numbers used in practice? In the kernel the limits really have no impact as far as initial memory allocation.18:34
slangasektgardner: if your process is at the limit, you cannot open another fd18:34
tgardnerI guess I'm wondering the difference between soft and hard18:34
slangasekthe process itself can adjust the soft limit18:34
slangasekthe hard limit is a hard limit that only root can adjust18:35
slangasekwell, that only root can /raise/ - you can lower your own hard limit18:35
slangasekso we want these limits to be different because 1024 is a safe default for all processes, but some processes need to opt in to using more fds18:35
slangasekin this case the soft limit is a safeguard to protect processes from themselves when they don't know what to do with that many fds, rather than a resource limit18:36
tgardnerslangasek, ok, makes sense. I suspect the 2 entries in that structure imply hard and soft limits. do you think the soft limit should be proportional to hard, e.g., INR_OPEN/2 ?18:37
slangasekI dimly recall that there are some old userspace paradigms that assume 1024 is the max number of fds they ever need to care about, so a hard-coded value of 1024 is probably best18:38
slangasekheh, when I say "I dimly recall", it's written in the first line of the bug description :)18:40
tgardnerslangasek, ok, I'll fix it as soon as I can drill into the bizarre macro depths used to init this struct18:41
tgardnerok, found it18:41
tgardnerogasawara, so, I'm gonna squash 0ad40e118007ff770e2479f5afcdb9103782b4ba and the update to INR_OPEN into one patch so that we're not carrying 2 SAUCE patches for the same fix. you cool with that? you'll just have to remember the next time you rebase master-next.18:45
bdmurrayI ran across bug 745511 and did a quick search of oops reports and found ~40 similar ones.  Would it help and be correct to consolidate them?18:48
ubot2Launchpad bug 745511 in linux "WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c:248 radeon_fence_wait 0x36f/0x3e0 radeon " [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/74551118:48
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ogasawaratgardner: cool, works for me18:54
tgardnerogasawara, k, just pushd +master-next18:55
tgardnermust have food18:58
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bjfSURGEN GENERAL WARNING19:08
bjfThe following reports can induce depression:19:08
bjf   http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/regressions-update-report.html19:08
bjf   http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/regressions-release-report.html19:08
bjf   http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/regressions-potential-report.html19:08
bjf.19:08
bjfthe last column "C" is time from last update the last comment was added19:08
bjfthe age column is time from last update the bug was created19:08
bjfthe date text in those columns is: days.hours.minutes   so 5.1.13  is 5 days, 1 hour, 13 minutes ago19:08
bjfnote: if you hold down the shift you can sort using multiple columns19:08
bjf.19:09
bjfThese are in addition to:19:09
bjf   http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/sru-report.html19:09
bjf   http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/versions.html19:09
bdmurraybjf: just an fyi I have a script that retags bugs tagged natty and regression-update to regression-release19:11
bjfbdmurray, good to know, right now i'm just trying to formulate my attack plan19:12
bdmurraybjf: I was thinking the apport hook could use an SRU removing regression-potential as an option for Maverick and earlier19:14
bjfbdmurray, agreed, we should not be creating any more of those19:14
bdmurrayalso I'm not really sure it makes sense to tag apport-package bugs a regression19:15
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mdzI just resumed from suspend, and it was very slow, lots of disk activity, and I noticed a whole bunch of kworker kernel threads running20:07
mdzany guesses what this means?20:07
tgardner-lunchmdz, natty? I was just reading an LKML discussion from Dave Jones complaining about something similar.20:11
mdztgardner-lunch, yes, natty20:11
mdztgardner-lunch, I saw a thread on lkml about worker threads with dave jones in it, but they were talking about them consuming a lot of CPU20:11
mdzmine are all idle, but there are 92 of them20:12
mdzhmm, looks like they've started to die, it's down to 1020:12
mdzdmesg is quiet, no indication of what they were doing20:13
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tgardnermdz, hard to say what was going on. how many worker threads? should only be one per hyper-thread.20:17
tgardner92, nm20:17
tgardnerI'm also thinking of kswapd20:17
mdzI seem to be using a lot of swap (1G)20:18
tgardnermdz, does slabtop show anything interesting?20:19
mdztgardner, hmm, I've never used slabtop before. I wonder what's interesting20:19
mdzbiggest thing is ext4_inode_cache at nearly 200M20:20
tgardnermdz, excessive consumption of memory indicating a possible application leak20:20
mdzhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/587937/20:20
tgardnermdz, mine is about 54M20:21
tgardnermdz, how about 'top' with meminfo20:22
mdzshutting down chromium freed 500M of the swap20:23
tgardnerah, kind of a hog20:23
mdztop (now) says:20:23
mdzMem:   3065212k total,  1923540k used,  1141672k free,    55888k buffers20:23
mdzSwap:  2955924k total,   567932k used,  2387992k free,   695928k cached20:24
mdzwow, it actually freed 1G of memory too20:24
tgardnerseems like it might have a leak20:24
mdzmaybe time to give firefox 4 a chance20:24
tgardnermdz, how many tabs did you have open?20:24
mdztgardner, maybe 25?20:25
mdzthere were 31 chromium processes running20:25
tgardnermdz, it just seems like 92 kworker treads is a lot20:25
tgardnerthread*20:25
mdztgardner, could a memory shortage account for the kworker threads somehow20:26
mdz?20:26
tgardnermdz, not the number of threads, just the activity under low mem pressure (I think)20:26
tgardnerI'd think the number of threads is proportional to the number of tabs20:27
mdztgardner, closing chromium didn't cause any kworkers to go away (once things were calmed down to 10 of them)20:48
tgardnermdz, confused. you said there were 92, now there are 10, right?20:49
mdztgardner, shortly after resume, there were 92. after I came on here and started talking about it, I went back to count them, and there were only 10 running (I used scrollback to count the 92)20:50
mdzso most of them exited on their own apparently20:50
tgardnermdz, dunno, maybe chromium was firing up worker threads to refresh pages or something.20:50
JFojjohansen, are you around?22:42
jjohansenJFo: yep22:42
JFodo you have a moment to take a look at a bug for me?22:42
JFoit is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/74675122:42
ubot2Launchpad bug 746751 in linux "kernel: [Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 38d is 30)" [Critical,New]22:42
JFohggdh just pinged me about it22:43
jjohansenewww, just the discription is ugly22:43
JFoif not, it can wait until tomorrow22:43
JFoheh, yeah :-/22:43
JFothought maybe you would have some insight on it, or at least more than I have :)22:44
jjohansenJFo: nothing off of the top of my head but it certainly looks to be a regression that we should be able to bisect22:45
JFook, thank you for looking. I'll see about getting more eyes on it tomorrow22:46
JFowell, I am off to grab some food... and perhaps a beer :)22:46
jjohansenJFo: I'll poke a little, but I expect it won't be too hard to track down22:46
jjohansenJFo: enjoy22:47
JFocool, thanks jjohansen :)22:47
JFoI will try :-D22:47
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