Re: Handling Machine check

2016-06-30 Thread Vineet Gupta
On Friday 01 July 2016 09:29 AM, Noam Camus wrote: > > Hi Vineet, > > > I wish to ask about how kernel should handle machine check. > > Why it is a dead end unlike other exceptions e.g. " mem error", "inst err"? > > > What will happen if I do call ret_from_exception? > > Where I going to find my se

[GIT PULL] ARC fixes for 4.7-rc6

2016-06-30 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Linus, A couple of fixes for ARC. Please pull ! Thx, -Vineet > The following changes since commit 5edb56491d4812c42175980759da53388e5d86f5: Linux 4.7-rc3 (2016-06-12 07:20:35 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta

[PATCH v5 43/44] dma-mapping: Remove dma_get_attr

2016-06-30 Thread Krzysztof Kozlowski
After switching DMA attributes to unsigned long it is easier to just compare the bits. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski [for avr32] Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt [for arc] Acked-by: Vineet Gupta [for arm64 and dma-iommu] Acked-by: Robin Murphy --- Documentation/DMA-API.txt

[PATCH v5 03/44] arc: dma-mapping: Use unsigned long for dma_attrs

2016-06-30 Thread Krzysztof Kozlowski
Split out subsystem specific changes for easier reviews. This will be squashed with main commit. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski [for arc] Acked-by: Vineet Gupta --- arch/arc/mm/dma.c | 8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arc/mm/dma.c b/arch/arc/mm/

[PATCH v5 00/44] dma-mapping: Use unsigned long for dma_attrs

2016-06-30 Thread Krzysztof Kozlowski
Hi, This is fifth approach for replacing struct dma_attrs with unsigned long. The main patch (1/44) doing the change is split into many subpatches for easier review (2-42). They should be squashed together when applying. Rebased on v4.7-rc5. For easier testing the patchset is available here: