From: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
To: gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ogabbay@habana.ai
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] habanalabs: add skeleton driver
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:49:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCwf10nWdWdHT9m8xbdXDtP0y3FRk5PV09kepG46ZS8F1KvxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190127083217.GB4561@kroah.com>
On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:32 AM gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:48:02PM +0200, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:14 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:25 PM Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 6:06 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:01 AM Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/habanalabs_device_if.h b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/habanalabs_device_if.h
> > > > > > new file mode 100644
> > > > > > index 000000000000..9dbb7077eabd
> > > > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > > > +++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/habanalabs_device_if.h
> > > > >
> > > > > Since this is a apparently a user space ABI, the file should be in
> > > > > include/uapi/linux/,
> > > > > not in the driver directory.
> > > >
> > > > This is not a user space ABI. This is the ABI between the driver and the F/W.
> > >
> > > Ah, I see. In that case, you should get rid of all the bitfields and make the
> > > struct members all __le32/__le64/... to make it work on big-endian kernels.
> > >
> > I really don't want to start converting bitfields and structures to
> > use __le32/64.
> > As I wrote in one of the previous reviews, we don't support big-endian
> > architecture (what's left after POWER moved to support little endian
> > ?). We actually do run on POWER9 but with ppc64le architecture
> > In any case, our software stack is so big that this minor change in
> > the driver won't have any impact on the overall ability to run
> > something on our H/W
>
> You don't have to do anything at the moment to "convert" to use a
> specific endian, but you do have to always mark such variables that are
> in a specific endian that this is the format they are expected in.
>
> Then, when you run a tool like sparse, you will be notified if you
> happen to be making any assumptions that might not be correct about
> those variables, and it's trivial to usually fix it up at that time.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> greg k-h
ok, understood, fixed.
Thanks,
Oded
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-29 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 0:00 [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 01/15] habanalabs: add skeleton driver Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:49 ` Joe Perches
2019-01-25 19:18 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 12:40 ` Greg KH
2019-01-23 12:55 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 20:09 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 20:05 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-26 16:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-26 16:24 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-26 21:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-26 21:48 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 8:32 ` gregkh
2019-01-29 22:49 ` Oded Gabbay [this message]
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 03/15] habanalabs: add basic Goya support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 20:32 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 6:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 7:44 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 04/15] habanalabs: add context and ASID modules Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 21:07 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 05/15] habanalabs: add command buffer module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 21:47 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 6:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 7:55 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-28 8:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 06/15] habanalabs: add basic Goya h/w initialization Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:46 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 10:35 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 07/15] habanalabs: add h/w queues module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:50 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 10:50 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 08/15] habanalabs: add event queue and interrupts Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:51 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 11:14 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 09/15] habanalabs: add sysfs and hwmon support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 11:26 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 10/15] habanalabs: add device reset support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 7:51 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 12:53 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 11/15] habanalabs: add command submission module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 15:11 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 13:51 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 12/15] habanalabs: add virtual memory and MMU modules Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 16:13 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-30 10:34 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 13/15] habanalabs: implement INFO IOCTL Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 14/15] habanalabs: add debugfs support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 15/15] Update MAINTAINERS and CREDITS with habanalabs info Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 22:43 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 21:52 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 22:40 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 23:16 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-24 1:03 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-01-24 11:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-01-25 17:13 ` Olof Johansson
2019-02-24 22:23 ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-23 21:57 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 22:02 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 22:31 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 22:45 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 23:04 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:20 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-23 23:35 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 23:41 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:40 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:48 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-24 7:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-24 9:50 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-24 10:22 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-25 0:13 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 7:43 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-25 15:02 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 16:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-24 23:51 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:23 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-25 15:33 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 16:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-25 17:12 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivers/accel: Introduce subsystem Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 " Olof Johansson
2019-01-26 17:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-01-27 4:31 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-01-28 19:36 ` Frederic Barrat
2019-01-25 22:23 ` [PATCH " Daniel Vetter
2019-01-27 16:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] cxl: Move to drivers/accel Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] drivers/accel: cxl: Move non-uapi include files Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] ocxl: Move to drivers/accel Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] drivers/accel: ocxl: Move non-uapi include files Olof Johansson
2019-01-26 13:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-26 21:11 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-01 9:10 ` Kenneth Lee
2019-02-01 10:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-01 12:09 ` Kenneth Lee
2019-01-26 13:52 ` [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
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