From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
To: 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,
alexander.sverdlin@nokia.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 16:03:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170522130348.GA20910@mobilestation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef3d7a8c-2a73-2082-0d64-bdb4f95df204@gentoo.org>
Hello folks,
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 08:47:20AM -0400, Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 05/22/2017 06:26, Serge Semin wrote:
> > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:48:36AM +0200, Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Marcin,
> >
> >> Hi Serge,
> >>
> >> On 19.12.2016 03:07, Serge Semin wrote:
> >>> Most of the modern platforms supported by linux kernel have already
> >>> been cleaned up of old bootmem allocator by moving to nobootmem
> >>> interface wrapping up the memblock. This patchset is the first
> >>> attempt to do the similar improvement for MIPS for UMA systems
> >>> only.
> >>>
> >>> Even though the porting was performed as much careful as possible
> >>> there still might be problem with support of some platforms,
> >>> especially Loonson3 or SGI IP27, which perform early memory manager
> >>> initialization by their self.
> >>>
> >>> The patchset is split so individual patch being consistent in
> >>> functional and buildable ways. But the MIPS early memory manager
> >>> will work correctly only either with or without the whole set being
> >>> applied. For the same reason a reviewer should not pay much attention
> >>> to methods bootmem_init(), arch_mem_init(), paging_init() and
> >>> mem_init() until they are fully refactored.
> >>>
> >>> The patchset is applied on top of kernel v4.9.
> >>
> >> Have you progressed any further with these patches?
> >> They would definitely be useful to include for MIPS arch, so can you let us
> >> know if you are planning to send any updated version?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Marcin
> >
> > Sorry for such a long delay with response. I have been really busy
> > during last three months. Alas I'll still be busy for next 1-2
> > months as well. You know how it usually works with urgent projects.
> > One needs to do this thing, then that thing, and at some point I just
> > forgot about this thread.
> >
> > Regarding the patchset. I'm still pretty much eager to make it being
> > part of kernel MIPS arch. But there was a problem I outlined
> > in the patchset header message, which I can't fix by myself.
> > Particulary It's connected with Loonson3 or SGI IP27 code alteration,
> > so to make it free of ancient boot_mem_map dependencies (see the
> > patchset header message). Without a help from someone, who has
> > Loonson64 and SGI IP27 hardware and strong desire to make it free of
> > old bootmem allocator, it is useless to make any progress from my
> > side. That's why Ralf moved this email-thread into RFC actually.
> > Anyway If either you or someone else has got such hardware and is
> > interested in the cooperation, I'll be more than happy to push
> > my efforts forward with this patchset contribution. But only after
> > I got a bit less busy with my work. As I said it will happen within
> > next 1-2 months. So do you have the hardware and desire to be part
> > of this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Sergey
>
> 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.
Regards,
-Sergey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-19 2:07 [PATCH 00/21] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM 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 4:21 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-19 4:28 ` 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 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
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 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 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
2016-12-19 4:28 ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-23 7:55 ` Marcin Nowakowski
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 12:04 ` Matt Redfearn
2016-12-19 12:04 ` Matt Redfearn
2016-12-19 12:09 ` Serge Semin
2016-12-19 13:02 ` James Hogan
2016-12-19 13:02 ` 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
2017-01-23 7:55 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2017-03-02 3:06 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-23 14:51 ` Joshua Kinard
2017-05-22 9:48 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2017-05-22 9:48 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2017-05-22 10:26 ` Serge Semin
2017-05-22 12:19 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2017-05-22 12:19 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2017-05-22 12:47 ` Joshua Kinard
2017-05-22 13:03 ` Serge Semin [this message]
2017-05-22 13:20 ` Alexander Sverdlin
2017-05-22 13:20 ` Alexander Sverdlin
2017-05-22 13:29 ` Serge Semin
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