[PATCH] powerpc: Fix IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET value
Thomas Huth
thuth at redhat.com
Wed Jun 8 21:03:29 AEST 2016
On 08.06.2016 00:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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,
Yes, that should be the right offset now!
Please also add "Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.0+" to the patch since
the commit 7cc851039d64 did have that as well.
And sorry for breaking this!
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
More information about the Linuxppc-dev
mailing list