From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Banman <abanman@hpe.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com,
mike.travis@hpe.com, rja@hpe.com, sivanich@hpe.com,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Add payload descriptor qualifier
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:42:07 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702161930120.3543@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1487123931-56809-7-git-send-email-abanman@hpe.com>
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Andrew Banman wrote:
> On UV4, the destination agent verifies each message by checking the
> descriptor qualifier field of the message payload. Messages without this
> field set to 0x534749 will cause a hub error to assert.
Ok.
What's missing here is:
Seperate the message structs for uv123 and uv4.
> Make this the default action for future architectures, anticipating they
> will have the same requirement.
That's a guarantee to cause issues when uv5 comes around. The way better
solution for this is to do:
enum uv_bau_version {
UV_BAU_V1 = 1,
UV_BAU_V2,
UV_BAU_V3,
UV_BAU_V4,
};
Make bau->uvhub_version type uv_bau_version and use the enum constants in
the switch case. That way the compiler will catch you when you add
UV_BAU_V5 and forgot to update that switch case. That's probably handy to
have that in a few other places which switch on the bau version.
> -struct bau_msg_payload {
> +struct uv1_2_3_bau_msg_payload {
> unsigned long address; /* signifies a page or all
> TLB's of the cpu */
> /* 64 bits */
> @@ -236,6 +238,20 @@ struct bau_msg_payload {
> unsigned int reserved1:32; /* not usable */
> };
>
> +struct uv4_bau_msg_payload {
> + unsigned long address; /* signifies a page or all
> + * TLB's of the cpu
> + */
Please get rid of these tail comments. Either document the struct members
with a comment above the member or even better use the KernelDoc comment
format above the struct to document it.
> + /* 64 bits */
And these are horrible. I had to look twice where this belongs to. I know
you copied existing crap, but that does not make it any better. And really,
if you want to express the size of a member here because you have to talk
to hardware then use the proper types we have for this: u64, u32, u16 ....
> + unsigned short sending_cpu; /* filled in by sender */
> + /* 16 bits */
> + unsigned short acknowledge_count; /* filled in by destination */
> + /* 16 bits */
> + unsigned int reserved1:8; /* not usable */
> + unsigned int qualifier:24; /* descriptor qualifier filled
> + * in by sender
> @@ -1200,6 +1200,7 @@ const struct cpumask *uv_flush_tlb_other
> struct bau_control *bcp;
> unsigned long descriptor_status;
> unsigned long status;
> + unsigned long address;
Same types can go into a single line. No value in wasting lines.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-16 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-15 1:58 [PATCH 0/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: UV4 message completion and initialization updates Andrew Banman
2017-02-15 1:58 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Declare bau_operations struct after other BAU structs Andrew Banman
2017-02-16 18:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-15 1:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Add status_mmr_loc to locate message status bits Andrew Banman
2017-02-16 18:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-16 21:53 ` Andrew Banman
2017-02-15 1:58 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Add wait_completion to bau_operations Andrew Banman
2017-02-16 18:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-15 1:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Implement uv4_wait_completion with read_status Andrew Banman
2017-02-16 18:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-15 1:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Remove initial write to swack register Andrew Banman
2017-02-16 18:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-15 1:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86/platform/uv/BAU: Add payload descriptor qualifier Andrew Banman
2017-02-16 18:42 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-02-16 21:12 ` Andrew Banman
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