From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757384AbcFAI1P (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2016 04:27:15 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:20193 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751718AbcFAI1M (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2016 04:27:12 -0400 Message-Id: <201606010827.u518O3vL023437@mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com> X-IBM-Helo: d28dlp02.in.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:56:42 +0530 From: Anshuman Khandual User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Ellerman , Laurent Dufour , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org CC: mikey@neuling.org, james.hogan@imgtec.com, avagin@openvz.org, Paul.Clothier@imgtec.com, cyrilbur@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org, palves@redhat.com, emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com, shuahkh@osg.samsung.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, oleg@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com, Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com, kirjanov@gmail.com, davej@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 00/28] Add new powerpc specific ELF core notes References: <1455613198-5113-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <57062722.5090706@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <5EA48413-85A1-4CB7-8843-CE22B2BB1F08@ellerman.id.au> <570B54EB.90507@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1460524468.30704.5.camel@ellerman.id.au> <5718F901.6010104@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <5748004F.7040408@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1464649951.16938.5.camel@ellerman.id.au> In-Reply-To: <1464649951.16938.5.camel@ellerman.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 16060108-0052-0000-0000-00000269FB40 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 16060108-0053-0000-0000-00000C9D1535 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2016-06-01_03:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=8 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1604210000 definitions=main-1606010100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/31/2016 04:42 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > Sorry no. My next branch closed for 4.7 about 3 weeks ago. > > This series has been blocked for a long time on the gdb support, but that is > now working. However it still doesn't pass its own selftests, and I had some This series was clearing all of the selftests at the time it was posted. But yes, it has some assumptions from timing and sync perspective which gets broken some times as the kernel changes. Its been bit difficult to perfect the sync requirements as we can do only some much inside the transaction once it gets started. There are scopes here to improve these selftests but not clearing them today does not really mean the patches are now functionally broken. > disagreements with the implementation - it duplicates a lot of code rather > than refactoring things. hmm, sorry, I dont remember the context here. Can you please point to the discussion in this regard ? > > I'm waiting on a patch from Cyril which will rework how the TM FP state is > handled, and that should make this series easier to implement. Can you please elaborate on this ? Has this patch been posted in the mailing list ? How does this make it easier for us to implement these ELF notes ? > > The plan is that both should go into 4.8.