[PATCH 0/9] Fixes and Enablement of ibm,drc-info property

Thomas Falcon tlfalcon at linux.ibm.com
Wed Nov 6 04:03:42 AEDT 2019


On 11/5/19 9:24 AM, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:

Hi, just pointing out a few typos...
> There was a previous effort to add support for the PAPR
> architected ibm,drc-info property. This property provides a more
> memory compact representation of a paritions Dynamic Reconfig
s/paritions/partition's
> Connectors (DRC). These can otherwise be thought of as currently
> partitioned, or available but yet to be partitioned system resources
> such as cpus, memory, and physical/logical IOA devices.
>
> The initial implementation proved buggy and was fully turned of by

s/turned of/turned off

> disabling the bit in the appropriate CAS support vector. We now have
> PowerVM firmware in the field that supports this new property, and
> further to suppport partitions with 24TB+ of possible memory this
s/suppport/support
> property is required to perform platform migration.
>
> This serious fixs the short comings of the previous submission

Either "seriously fixes the shortcomings", or "fixes the serious 
shortcomings?"

Thanks,

Tom

> in the areas of general implementation, cpu hotplug, and IOA hotplug.
>
> Tyrel Datwyler (9):
>    powerpc/pseries: Fix bad drc_index_start value parsing of drc-info
>      entry
>    powerpc/pseries: Fix drc-info mappings of logical cpus to drc-index
>    powerpc/pseries: Add cpu DLPAR support for drc-info property
>    PCI: rpaphp: Fix up pointer to first drc-info entry
>    PCI: rpaphp: Don't rely on firmware feature to imply drc-info support
>    PCI: rpaphp: Add drc-info support for hotplug slot registration
>    PCI: rpaphp: annotate and correctly byte swap DRC properties
>    PCI: rpaphp: Correctly match ibm,my-drc-index to drc-name when using
>      drc-info
>    powerpc/pseries: Enable support for ibm,drc-info property
>
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c                 |   2 +-
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c    | 101 ++++++++++++++++---
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/of_helpers.c     |   8 +-
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c |  23 ++---
>   drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c               | 124 +++++++++++++++++-------
>   5 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
>


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