[RFC, v0, 1/2] powerpc, drmem: Fix unexpected flag value in ibm, dynamic-memory-v2
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Mon Feb 26 16:35:16 AEDT 2018
On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 10:36:26 UTC, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2f7d03e0511991f124455682cc9409
cheers
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