[PATCHv5 0/2] Speed Cap fixes for ppc64

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza]

On 05/15/2013 09:58 AM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza
> <klebers at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On 05/06/2013 11:32 AM, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>>> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 19:43 -0300, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This patch series does:
>>>>>     1. max_bus_speed is used to set the device to gen2 speeds
>>>>>     2. on power there's no longer a conflict between the pseries call and
>>>>> other
>>>>> architectures, because the overwrite is done via a ppc_md hook
>>>>>     3. radeon is using bus->max_bus_speed instead of
>>>>> drm_pcie_get_speed_cap_mask
>>>>> for gen2 capability detection
>>>>>
>>>>> The first patch consists of some architecture changes, such as adding a
>>>>> hook on
>>>>> powerpc for pci_root_bridge_prepare, so that pseries will initialize it
>>>>> to a
>>>>> function, while all other architectures get a NULL pointer. So that
>>>>> whenever
>>>>> pci_create_root_bus is called, we'll get max_bus_speed properly setup
>>>>> from
>>>>> OpenFirmware.
>>>>>
>>>>> The second patch consists of simple radeon changes not to call
>>>>> drm_get_pcie_speed_cap_mask anymore. I assume that on x86 machines,
>>>>> the max_bus_speed property will be properly set already.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So I'm ok with the approach now and I might even put the powerpc patch
>>>> in for 3.10 since arguably we are fixing a nasty bug (uninitialized
>>>> max_bus_speed).
>>>>
>>>> David, what's your feeling about the radeon change ? It would be nice if
>>>> that could go in soon for various distro targets :-) On the other hand
>>>> I'm not going to be pushy if you are not comfortable with it.
>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW, the radeon change looks fine to me.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Are you planning to accept the radeon patch? If yes, can we still expect it
>> to make it for 3.10?
>>
>> As Ben mentioned, we have some distro targets to make and it would be nice
>> to have an outlook of the upstream acceptance to start the conversations
>> with those distros.
>
> Is the rest of this series already upstream?  I don't see a problem
> pulling it in if the rest of the patches are in Dave's tree.  Dave, do
> you want to grab this, or do you wan me to pull it in through my tree?
>
> Alex
>

The powerpc patch was applied by Ben and is already upstream.


Thanks,

-- 
Kleber Sacilotto de Souza
IBM Linux Technology Center