From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>, Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>,
<ralf@linux-mips.org>, <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
<rabinv@axis.com>, <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>,
<james.hogan@imgtec.com>, <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
<frowand.list@gmail.com>, <Sergey.Semin@t-platforms.ru>,
<linux-mips@linux-mips.org>, <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 15:20:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f14c7a41-ae2d-b19d-fb86-d6e9c9c53949@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170522130348.GA20910@mobilestation>
Hello Serge,
On 22/05/17 15:03, Serge Semin wrote:
>> I have an SGI Onyx2 and just recently acquired a working SGI Origin 200. The
>> Onyx2 has NUMA issues yet to be hunted down, but I got ~3 days uptime out of
>> the Origin 200 running compiles before powering it down. Mainline needs 2-3
>> small patches to make IP27 workable, last I tested.
>>
>> I'd have to look at the IP27 code again and see if I can make sense of what
>> it's doing. I think it dealt with either setting up memory for an initrd
>> (which I haven't used in over a decade), or it's for the NUMA stuff to discover
>> all memory on each node.
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Kinard
>> Gentoo/MIPS
>> kumba@gentoo.org
>> 6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27
>> 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943
>>
>> "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our
>> lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."
>>
>> --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
> It's great to hear of your willingness to help. Since both Loonson64 and SGI IP27
> problematic architecture-specific code will be appropriately altered, I'll publish
> the fixed general MIPS-memblock patchset within two months. I'll also try to
> involve Ralf in it when I'm ready, so to make sure all my alterations are made
> within kernel arch-code coding style. While I'm working on it, you can still use
> the current patchset for some limited tests.
Please Cc me in this case, I should be able to test on Octeon MIPS64 platform.
--
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-19 2:07 Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 01/21] MIPS memblock: Unpin dts memblock sanity check method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 4:21 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-19 4:28 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-22 20:57 ` Rob Herring
2016-12-22 21:57 ` Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 02/21] MIPS memblock: Add dts mem and reserved-mem callbacks Serge Semin
2016-12-19 4:13 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 03/21] MIPS memblock: Alter traditional add_memory_region() method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 04/21] MIPS memblock: Alter user-defined memory parameter parser Serge Semin
2017-01-23 7:55 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 05/21] MIPS memblock: Alter initrd memory reservation method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 5:08 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 06/21] MIPS memblock: Alter kexec-crashkernel parameters parser Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 07/21] MIPS memblock: Alter elfcorehdr " Serge Semin
2016-12-19 4:09 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 08/21] MIPS memblock: Move kernel parameters parser into individual method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 09/21] MIPS memblock: Move kernel memory reservation to " Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 10/21] MIPS memblock: Discard bootmem allocator initialization Serge Semin
2016-12-19 4:28 ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-23 7:55 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 11/21] MIPS memblock: Add memblock sanity check method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 12/21] MIPS memblock: Add memblock print outs in debug Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 13/21] MIPS memblock: Add memblock allocator initialization Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 14/21] MIPS memblock: Alter IO resources initialization method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 15/21] MIPS memblock: Alter weakened MAAR " Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 16/21] MIPS memblock: Alter paging " Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 17/21] MIPS memblock: Alter high memory freeing method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 18/21] MIPS memblock: Slightly improve buddy allocator init method Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 19/21] MIPS memblock: Add print out method of kernel virtual memory layout Serge Semin
2016-12-19 3:52 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-19 12:04 ` Matt Redfearn
2016-12-19 12:09 ` Serge Semin
2016-12-19 13:02 ` James Hogan
2016-12-19 13:15 ` Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 20/21] MIPS memblock: Add free low memory test method call Serge Semin
2016-12-19 2:07 ` [PATCH 21/21] MIPS memblock: Deactivate old bootmem allocator Serge Semin
2017-01-23 7:55 ` [PATCH 00/21] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM Marcin Nowakowski
2017-03-02 3:06 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-22 9:48 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2017-05-22 10:26 ` Serge Semin
2017-05-22 12:19 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2017-05-22 12:47 ` Joshua Kinard
2017-05-22 13:03 ` Serge Semin
2017-05-22 13:20 ` Alexander Sverdlin [this message]
2017-05-22 13:29 ` Serge Semin
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