[PATCH] powerpc: Fix IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET value

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 8 08:51:01 AEST 2016


Commit 7cc851039d643a2ee7df4d18177150f2c3a484f5
"powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call"
introduced a regression by adding fields to the beginning of the
ibm_architecture_vec structure without updating IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET.

This causes the kernel to print a warning at boot and to fail to adjust
the number of cores based on the number of threads before doing the CAS
call to firmware.

This is quite a fragile piece of code sadly, we should try to find a way
to avoid that hard coded offset at some point, but for now this fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index ccd2037..6ee4b72 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ unsigned char ibm_architecture_vec[] = {
 	 * must match by the macro below. Update the definition if
 	 * the structure layout changes.
 	 */
-#define IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET	125
+#define IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET	133
 	W(NR_CPUS),			/* number of cores supported */
 	0,
 	0,


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