[PATCH v2 0/5] powerpc/rtas: miscellaneous cleanups

Nathan Lynch nathanl at linux.ibm.com
Thu Apr 15 10:23:26 AEST 2021


Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:

> Le 08/04/2021 à 16:06, Nathan Lynch a écrit :
>> This is a reroll of the series posted here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20210114220004.1138993-1-nathanl@linux.ibm.com/
>> 
>> Originally this work was prompted by failures on radix MMU PowerVM
>> guests when passing buffers to RTAS that lay outside of its idea of
>> the RMA. In v1 I approached this as a problem to be solved in Linux,
>> but RTAS development has since decided to change their code so that
>> the RMA restriction does not apply with radix.
>> 
>> So in v2 I retain the cleanups and discard the more significant change
>> which accommodated the misbehaving RTAS versions.
>
> Is there a link with https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/252 ?
>

No, not really.


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