Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754555Ab2JOTTd (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:19:33 -0400 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:53280 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753960Ab2JOTTb (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:19:31 -0400 Message-ID: <507C61B2.9060503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:19:14 -0500 From: Seth Jennings Reply-To: cover.1349621096.git.markus@oberhumer.co User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121011 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" CC: Robert Jennings , Andrew Morton , LKML , Andi Kleen , Johannes Stezenbach , Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Update LZO compression Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12101519-9360-0000-0000-00000BB8CBE8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1312 Lines: 33 > As requested by akpm I am sending my "lzo-update" branch at > > git://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux.git lzo-update > > to lkml as a patch series created by "git format-patch -M v3.5..lzo-update". > > You can also browse the branch at > > https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/compare/lzo-update > > and review the three patches at > > https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/7c979cebc0f93dc692b734c12665a6824d219c20 > https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/10f6781c8591fe5fe4c8c733131915e5ae057826 > https://github.com/markus-oberhumer/linux/commit/5f702781f158cb59075cfa97e5c21f52275057f1 As this relates to my work on zcache, I just tested these patches on PPC64 and they cause the LZO crypto module to fail its self-test: [ 0.521137] alg: comp: Compression test 1 failed for lzo-generic: output len = 62 I built the exact same kernel for x86_64 and all is fine. I suspect an endianness related bug, but I haven't looked at the code that closely yet. Any ideas? I'd be happy to test any potential fixes. Seth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/