Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:29:16 -0500 | From | Jack Steiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] UV2 - Bug fix for GRU global addresses |
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 04:51:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > (cc x86 maintainers) > > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:24:13 -0500 > Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> wrote: > > > This patch is a workaround for a UV2 hub bug that affects the format > > of system global addresses. > > > > The GRU API for UV2 was inadvertently broken by a hardware change. The > > format of the physical address used for TLB dropins and for addresses used > > with instructions running in unmapped mode has changed. This change was not > > documented and became apparent only when diags failed running on system simulators. > > > > For UV1, TLB and GRU instruction physical addresses are identical to socket > > physical addresses (although high NASID bits must be OR'ed into the > > address). > > > > For UV2, socket physical addresses need to be converted. The NODE portion of > > the physical address needs to be shifted so that the low bit is in bit 39 or > > bit 40, depending on an MMR value. > > > > It is not yet clear if this bug will be fixed in a silicon respin. If it > > is fixed, the hub revision will be incremented & the workaround disabled. > > It's unclear to me whether this patch should be merged into 3.1 and/or > into 3.0.x and earlier?
3.1 is fine. I can push directly to the distros.
--- jack
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