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From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bg-linux@lists.anl-external.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] [RFC] enable L1_WRITETHROUGH mode for BG/P
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 07:53:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinyhUiEfE4R7a4WyXSy6ZYNSimZcA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110519104330.GA25179@zod.rchland.ibm.com>

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wr=
ote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:24:52PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
>>
>>+config L1_WRITETHROUGH
>>+ =A0 =A0 =A0bool "Blue Gene/P enabled writethrough mode"
>>+ =A0 =A0 =A0depends on BGP
>>+ =A0 =A0 =A0default y
>
> You add this config option here, named generically, but then make it
> depend on BGP. =A0It sees it should be named BGP_L1_WRITETHROUGH, and the=
n
> just selected by the BGP platform. =A0But then....
>
>> endmenu
>>diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platfo=
rms/Kconfig.cputype
>>index 111138c..3a3c711 100644
>>--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
>>+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
>>@@ -329,9 +329,13 @@ config NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 bool
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 depends on 4xx || 8xx || E200 || PPC_MPC512x || GAMECUBE_COM=
MON
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 default n if PPC_47x
>>+ =A0 =A0 =A0default n if BGP
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 default y
>>
>> config CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 bool
>>
>>+config L1_WRITETHROUGH
>>+ =A0 =A0 =A0bool
>
> You add an identical option down here. =A0Confused.
>

Yeah, this was copied from the original patches and it confused me as
well, but I had never
modified Kconfig.cputype before so I wasn't sure if there were some
weird rules.  I'm happy
to remove the vestigial one and make the changes you suggest to make
the naming BGP
specific.

         -eric

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 21:24 [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] Mainline BG/P platform support Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] [RFC] add bluegene entry to cputable Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  0:35   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  1:08     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  1:50       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] [RFC] add support for BlueGene/P FPU Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19  5:58   ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-19 13:53     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 15:22       ` [bg-linux] " Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-19 21:36       ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-19 21:55         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 23:16           ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-20  0:30             ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  0:43               ` Michael Neuling
2011-05-20  0:53       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  0:52     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-19 21:41   ` [PATCH 3/7] [RFC][V2] add support for BlueGene/P Double FPU Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] [RFC] enable L1_WRITETHROUGH mode for BG/P Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-19 10:43   ` Josh Boyer
2011-05-19 12:53     ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2011-05-19 21:42   ` [PATCH 4/7] [RFC][V2] enable BGP_L1_WRITETHROUGH " Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  1:01   ` [PATCH 4/7] [RFC] enable L1_WRITETHROUGH " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] [RFC] force 32-byte aligned kmallocs Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  0:36   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  0:47     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  1:50       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  1:32     ` [bg-linux] " Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-20  2:08       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  2:13         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  3:02           ` Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-20  3:13             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] [RFC] enable early TLBs for BG/P Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  0:39   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  1:21     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  1:54       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20  3:38         ` [bg-linux] " Kazutomo Yoshii
2011-05-20  3:52           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-20 13:01             ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20 22:20               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 21:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] [RFC] SMP support code Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-20  1:05   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-19 11:01 ` [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] Mainline BG/P platform support Josh Boyer
2011-05-19 12:35   ` Eric Van Hensbergen

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