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SubjectRe: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Add early memory allocation errata
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On 05/10/18 13:33, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>
>
> On 05/10/2018 12:55, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> On 04/10/18 23:11, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>> Friendly reminder, if anyone has any comment on the patch :)
>>>
>>> On 9/12/18 11:52 AM, matthias.bgg@kernel.org wrote:
>>>> From: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
>>>>
>>>> Some hardware does not implement two-level page tables so that
>>>> the amount of contigious memory needed by the baser is bigger
>>>> then the zone order. This is a known problem on Cavium Thunderx
>>>> with 4K page size.
>>>>
>>>> We fix this by adding an errata which allocates the memory early
>>>> in the boot cycle, using the memblock allocator.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   arch/arm64/Kconfig               | 12 ++++++++
>>>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h |  3 +-
>>>>   arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c   | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>>>   4 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> My only comment would be to state how much I dislike both the HW and the
>> patch... ;-) The idea that we have some erratum that depends on the page size
>> doesn't feel good at all.
>>
>
> Well ugly HW needs ugly patches ;-)
>
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> index 1b1a0e95c751..dfd9fe08f0b2 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -597,6 +597,18 @@ config QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_E1041
>>>>           If unsure, say Y.
>>>>   +config CAVIUM_ALLOC_ITS_TABLE_EARLY
>>>> +    bool "Cavium Thunderx: Allocate the its table early"
>>>> +    default y
>>>> +    depends on ARM64_4K_PAGES && FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER < 13
>>
>> Here's a though: Why don't we ensure that FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER is such as we
>> could always allocate the same amount of memory, no matter what the page size
>> is? That, or bump FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER to 13 if the kernel includes support for TX1.
>>
>
> Bumping FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER when TX1 is supported was proposed here:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6322281/
>
> To bring in some more history, the CMA approach ended with this discussion:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9888041/
>
>> Any of this of course requires buy-in from the arm64 maintainers, as this is
>> quite a departure from the way things work so far.
>>
>
> With my distribution head on, I would prefer a solution that does not change
> FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER. That's how I came to the idea providing a third solution to
> the same problem :)

Why is that a problem? What impact does this have on your favourite distro?

Thanks,

M.
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