Re: [PATCH v5] irqchip, gicv3-its, numa: Enable workaround for Cavium thunderx erratum 23144

From: Robert Richter
Date: Thu Apr 21 2016 - 13:41:13 EST


On 15.04.16 21:30:05, Robert Richter wrote:
> From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The erratum fixes the hang of ITS SYNC command by avoiding inter node
> io and collections/cpu mapping on thunderx dual-socket platform.
>
> This fix is only applicable for Cavium's ThunderX dual-socket platform.
>
> This is based on NUMA v16 series.
> Message-Id: <1460155828-8690-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx>

Will, Catalin,

after NUMA base patches went into linux-next (many thanks), please
consider this pass 1.x errata workaround for inclusion too.

Thanks,

-Robert

>
> v5 (by Robert Richter):
> fixed use of cpumask_of_node() only for (node >= 0)
> minor style fixes
>
> v4:
> updated silicon-errata.txt
> updated as per Robert Richter review comment.
>
> v3:
> updatated as per Marc Zyngier's review comments.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg443462.html
>
> v2:
> updatated as per Marc Zyngier's review comments.
>
> Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 9 +++++++
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)