Re: [PATCH] IPMI driver update part 1, add per-channel IPMB addresses

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
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>>ipmi-per-channel-slave-address.patch  unknown/unknown (13533 bytes)]
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>Could you fix up the mimetype, please?  It makes it hard for various email
>clients.
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Dang, you switch to a new mail client and everything is screwed up.  Sorry.

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>>IPMI allows multiple IPMB channels on a single interface, and
>>each channel might have a different IPMB address.  However, the
>>driver has only one IPMB address that it uses for everything.
>>This patch adds new IOCTLS and a new internal interface for
>>setting per-channel IPMB addresses and LUNs.  New systems are
>>coming out with support for multiple IPMB channels, and they
>>are broken without this patch.
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>>...
>>+	for (i=0; i<IPMI_MAX_CHANNELS; i++)
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>Preferred coding style is actually
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>	for (i = 0; i < IPMI_MAX_CHANNELS; i++)
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>but we've kinda lost that fight in drivers :(
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Ok, I'll see what I can do.  It's the wrong way all over the driver 
right now.

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>>+#define IPMICTL_SET_MY_CHANNEL_ADDRESS_CMD _IOR(IPMI_IOC_MAGIC, 24, struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set)
>>+#define IPMICTL_GET_MY_CHANNEL_ADDRESS_CMD _IOR(IPMI_IOC_MAGIC, 25, struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set)
>>+#define IPMICTL_SET_MY_CHANNEL_LUN_CMD	   _IOR(IPMI_IOC_MAGIC, 26, struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set)
>>+#define IPMICTL_GET_MY_CHANNEL_LUN_CMD	   _IOR(IPMI_IOC_MAGIC, 27, struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set)
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>Are these all OK wrt compat handling?
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Yes, it is a structure of an unsigned short and an unsigned char, so it 
should be ok.

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>> 	case IPMICTL_SET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD:
>> 	{
>> 		unsigned int val;
>>...
>> 	case IPMICTL_GET_MY_ADDRESS_CMD:
>> 	{
>>-		unsigned int val;
>>+		unsigned int  val;
>>+		unsigned char rval;
>>...
>> 	case IPMICTL_GET_MY_LUN_CMD:
>> 	{
>>-		unsigned int val;
>>+		unsigned int  val;
>>+		unsigned char rval;
>>+
>>...
>>+	case IPMICTL_SET_MY_CHANNEL_ADDRESS_CMD:
>>+	{
>>+		struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set val;
>>...
>>+	case IPMICTL_GET_MY_CHANNEL_ADDRESS_CMD:
>>+	{
>>+		struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set val;
>>...
>>+	case IPMICTL_SET_MY_CHANNEL_LUN_CMD:
>>+	{
>>+		struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set val;
>>...
>>+	case IPMICTL_GET_MY_CHANNEL_LUN_CMD:
>>+	{
>>+		struct ipmi_channel_lun_address_set val;
>>...
>> 	case IPMICTL_SET_TIMING_PARMS_CMD:
>> 	{
>> 		struct ipmi_timing_parms parms;
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>Be aware that this function will use more stack space than it needs to: gcc
>will create a separate stack slot for all the above locals.
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>Hence it would be better to declare them all at the start of the function. 
>Faster, too - less dcache footprint.
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>Maybe not as nice from a purist point of view, but it does allow you to
>lose those braces in the switch statement...
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Hmm, I assumed that gcc would optimize and allocate the stack as it 
needed it without waste.  Ok, easy enough to fix.

Thanks,

-Corey