[RFC PATCH v0 1/2] powerpc, drmem: Fix unexpected flag value in ibm, dynamic-memory-v2

Bharata B Rao bharata at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Feb 22 00:36:07 AEDT 2018


On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:48:18PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > Memory addtion and removal by count and indexed-count methods
> > temporarily mark the LMBs that are being added/removed by a special
> > flag value DRMEM_LMB_RESERVED. Accessing flags value directly at
> > a few places without proper accessor method is causing two unexpected
> > side-effects:
> >
> > - DRMEM_LMB_RESERVED bit is becoming part of the flags word of
> >   drconf_cell_v2 entries in ibm,dynamic-memory-v2 DT property.
> > - This results in extra drconf_cell entries in ibm,dynamic-memory-v2.
> >   For example if 1G memory is added, it leads to one entry for 3 LMBs
> >   and 1 separate entry for the last LMB. All the 4 LMBs should be
> >   defined by one entry here.
> >
> > Fix this by always accessing the flags by its accessor method
> > drmem_lmb_flags().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Presumably:
> 
>   Fixes: 2b31e3aec1db ("powerpc/drmem: Add support for ibm, dynamic-memory-v2 property")

Yes.

Regards,
Bharata.



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