[PATCH V4 7/7] cxl: Add psl9 specific code

christophe lombard clombard at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 12 18:30:32 AEST 2017


Le 12/04/2017 à 04:11, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
> Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> Le 07/04/2017 à 16:11, Christophe Lombard a écrit :
>>> The new Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture, level 2, for the
>>> IBM POWER9 brings new content and features:
>>> - POWER9 Service Layer
>>> - Registers
>>> - Radix mode
>>> - Process element entry
>>> - Dedicated-Shared Process Programming Model
>>> - Translation Fault Handling
>>> - CAPP
>>> - Memory Context ID
>>>      If a valid mm_struct is found the memory context id is used for each
>>>      transaction associated with the process handle. The PSL uses the
>>>      context ID to find the corresponding process element.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> I'm ok with the code. However checkpatch is complaining about a
>> tab/space error in native.c
> I already fixed it up when I applied them (and a bunch of other things).
>
>> If you have a quick respin, I also have a comment below about the
>> documentation.
> So please send me an incremental patch to update the doco and I'll
> squash it before merging the series.
>
> cheers
>
Hi,

Here is a new patch which updates the documentation based
on the complet PATCH V4 7/7.
Let me know if it suits you.
Thanks


Index: capi2_linux_prepare_patch_V4/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt
===================================================================
--- capi2_linux_prepare_patch_V4.orig/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt
+++ capi2_linux_prepare_patch_V4/Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Hardware overview
      POWER8 <-----> PSL Version 8 is compliant to the CAIA Version 1.0.
      POWER9 <-----> PSL Version 9 is compliant to the CAIA Version 2.0.
      This PSL Version 9 provides new features as:
+    * Interaction with the nest MMU which resides within each P9 chip.
      * Native DMA support.
      * Supports sending ASB_Notify messages for host thread wakeup.
      * Supports Atomic operations.



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