[PATCH V6] cxl: Fix timebase synchronization status on P9

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Feb 21 13:43:25 AEDT 2018


Christophe Lombard <clombard at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> The PSL Timebase register is updated by the PSL to maintain the
> timebase.
> On P9, the Timebase value is only provided by the CAPP as received
> the last time a timebase request was performed.
> The timebase requests are initiated through the adapter configuration or
> application registers.
> The specific sysfs entry "/sys/class/cxl/cardxx/psl_timebase_synced" is
> now dynamically updated according the content of the PSL Timebase
> register.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

Can you give me a Fixes: tag for this?

Does it need to go to stable? I can't tell from the change log how bad
the bug this fixes is.

cheers

> ---
> This patch applies on top of this patch:
>  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/873663/
>
> Changelog[v6]
>  - Rebased to latest upstream.
>  - Recompute the status only in native mode.
>
> Changelog[v5]
>  - Rebased to latest upstream.
>  - Changed the type of 'delta'
>
> Changelog[v4]
>  - Rebased to latest upstream.
>  - Added log message.
>
> Changelog[v3]
>  - Rebased to latest upstream.
>  - Dynamic update is now applied to P8.
>
> Changelog[v2]
>  - Missing Signed-off-by.
>  - Spaces required around the ':'.
> ---
>  drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c   | 17 -----------------
>  drivers/misc/cxl/sysfs.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
> index 66eed6a..3247eaf 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
> @@ -606,9 +606,6 @@ static u64 timebase_read_xsl(struct cxl *adapter)
>  
>  static void cxl_setup_psl_timebase(struct cxl *adapter, struct pci_dev *dev)
>  {
> -	u64 psl_tb;
> -	int delta;
> -	unsigned int retry = 0;
>  	struct device_node *np;
>  
>  	adapter->psl_timebase_synced = false;
> @@ -636,20 +633,6 @@ static void cxl_setup_psl_timebase(struct cxl *adapter, struct pci_dev *dev)
>  	cxl_p1_write(adapter, CXL_PSL_Control, 0x0000000000000000);
>  	cxl_p1_write(adapter, CXL_PSL_Control, CXL_PSL_Control_tb);
>  
> -	/* Wait until CORE TB and PSL TB difference <= 16usecs */
> -	do {
> -		msleep(1);
> -		if (retry++ > 5) {
> -			dev_info(&dev->dev, "PSL timebase can't synchronize\n");
> -			return;
> -		}
> -		psl_tb = adapter->native->sl_ops->timebase_read(adapter);
> -		delta = mftb() - psl_tb;
> -		if (delta < 0)
> -			delta = -delta;
> -	} while (tb_to_ns(delta) > 16000);
> -
> -	adapter->psl_timebase_synced = true;
>  	return;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/sysfs.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/sysfs.c
> index a8b6d6a..95285b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/sysfs.c
> @@ -62,7 +62,19 @@ static ssize_t psl_timebase_synced_show(struct device *device,
>  					char *buf)
>  {
>  	struct cxl *adapter = to_cxl_adapter(device);
> +	u64 psl_tb, delta;
>  
> +	/* Recompute the status only in native mode */
> +	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_HVMODE)) {
> +		psl_tb = adapter->native->sl_ops->timebase_read(adapter);
> +		delta = abs(mftb() - psl_tb);
> +
> +		/* CORE TB and PSL TB difference <= 16usecs ? */
> +		adapter->psl_timebase_synced = (tb_to_ns(delta) < 16000) ? true : false;
> +		pr_devel("PSL timebase %s - delta: 0x%016llx\n",
> +			 (tb_to_ns(delta) < 16000) ? "synchronized" :
> +			 "not synchronized", tb_to_ns(delta));
> +	}
>  	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%i\n", adapter->psl_timebase_synced);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4


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