On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:26:13AM -0600, Sonny Rao wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:28:29PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Sonny Rao writes:
> >
> > > Fix the BSR driver to allow small BSR devices, which are limited to a
> > > single 4k space, on a 64k page kernel. Previously the driver would
> > > reject the mmap since the size was smaller than PAGESIZE (or because
> > > the size was greater than the size of the device). Now, we check for
> > > this case use remap_4k_pfn(). Also, take out code to set vm_flags,
> > > as the remap_pfn functions will do this for us.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Do we know that the BSR size will always be 4k if it's not a multiple
> > of 64k? Is it possible that we could get 8k, 16k or 32k or BSRs?
> > If it is possible, what does the user need to be able to do? Do they
> > just want to map 4k, or might then want to map the whole thing?
>
>
> Hi Paul, I took a look at changing the driver to reject a request for
> mapping more than a single 4k page, however the only indication we get
> of the requested size in the mmap function is the vma size, and this
> is always one page at minimum. So, it's not possible to determine if
> the user wants one 4k page or more. As I noted in my first response,
> there is only one case where this is even possible and I don't think
> it is a significant concern.
>
> I did notice that I left out the check to see if the user is trying to
> map more than the device length, so I fixed that. Here's the revised
> patch.
Alright, I've reworked this now so that if we get one of these cases
where there's a bsr that's > 4k and < 64k on a 64k kernel we'll only
advertise that it is a 4k BSR to userspace. I think this is the best
solution since user programs are only supposed to look at sysfs to
determine how much can be mapped, and libbsr does this as well.
Please consider for 2.6.31 as a fix, thanks.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add a 4096 byte BSR size which will be used on new machines. Also, remove
the warning when we run into an unknown size, as this can spam the kernel
log excessively.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:
The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the
beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an
obsolescent feature.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This is a powerpc specific driver.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This adds support for multiple BSR nodes in the OF device tree.
Previously, the BSR driver only supported a single OF node describing
a BSR. Apparently when an LPAR is set to use "all system resources"
the BSR appears as a single node, but when it is handed out in pieces,
each 8 byte piece gets its own node. So, this keeps a list of BSR
devices instead of the array and includes all nodes.
Also, this makes the code be more inclusive of what BSR devices we
accept by only checking compatibility and not the device name property
(which might change in the future versions of BSR).
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Adds a character driver for BSR support on IBM POWER systems including
Power5 and Power6. The BSR is an optional processor facility not currently
implemented by any other processors. It's primary purpose is fast large SMP
synchronization. More details on the BSR are in comments to the code which
follows. This patch adds BSR driver to pseries_defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
