[Skiboot] [PATCH 0/6] npu2: Add support for relaxed-ordering mode

Reza Arbab arbab at linux.ibm.com
Sat Aug 11 00:47:43 AEST 2018


On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:59:21PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:
>I'm a little concerned about the state of relaxed ordering over kexec
>boundary, and perhaps we should be resetting something? Or just leave 
>it up to the driver to ask for the right thing?
>
>I don't think that's an explicit blocker though,
>series merged to master as of 1c62f56b33511f4208ae289afb68f3d1f24f3924

Good point. As it stands, the driver shouldn't assume the initial state 
of relaxed ordering. As long as it does an initial get/set instead, 
kexec won't cause a problem. I think that's reasonable.

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Reza Arbab



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