[Arm-dev] Add Marvell Armada7k8k NIC (mvpp2) support patches

Tue Sep 11 13:34:25 UTC 2018

Hi Johny,

Were you able to take a look at the patches?

Best regards,
Marcin

wt., 4 wrz 2018 o 18:22 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):

> Hi Johnny,
>
> I attach all patches, they will easily apply (git am centos_mvpp2/*)
> onto v4.14.0 baseline. Also a kernel-alt-4.14.0-aarch64.config file
> must be updated with following additions:
> +CONFIG_ARCH_MVEBU=y
> +CONFIG_MVPP2=m
> +CONFIG_MARVELL_10G_PHY=m
>
> For reference I attach the config file as well (I took
> kernel-alt-4.14.0-aarch64.config from top of c7-alt branch to v4.14.0
> baseline, enabled 3 configs as above and saved).
>
> Please let know if you need any help. About testing, what would be the
> easiest way to try full centos image with the kernel?
> Install the latest available iso from:
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/aarch64/
> and run kernel update? Or a different way is recommended?
>
> Thanks,
> Marcin
>
> wt., 4 wrz 2018 o 15:00 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> napisał(a):
> >
> > On 09/03/2018 09:24 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > > Hi Jim,
> > >
> > > I've prepared list of mainline patches, that smoothely apply onto
> > > v4.14 baseline. The NIC is working with ACPI as expected.
> > > Because it's not clear to me, how patches should be submitted (please
> > > see my questions from previous emails), below you can find a full
> > > list.
> > >
> > > Please let know, how can we proceed from here and how possibly could I
> > > test real Centos image with patches applied.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Marcin
> > >
> > > ====== LIST of MVPP2 Patches ======
> > > 38c5eb93aca9 net: mvpp2: remove useless goto (v4.15-rc1)
> > > 2d1d7df8a365 net: mvpp2: set the Rx FIFO size depending on the port
> speeds for
> > > PPv2.2 (v4.15-rc1)
> > > 7c10f9742d76 net: mvpp2: initialize the Tx FIFO size (v4.15-rc1)
> > > 1d7d15d79fb4 net: mvpp2: initialize the RSS tables (v4.15-rc1)
> > > 1d17db08c056 net: mvpp2: limit TSO segments and use stop/wake
> thresholds
> > > (v4.15-rc1)
> > > 02856a3ba633 net: mvpp2: use the aggr txq size define everywhere
> (v4.15-rc1)
> > > 6eb5d375cefc net: mvpp2: simplify the Tx desc set DMA logic (v4.15-rc1)
> > > 118d6298f6f0 net: mvpp2: add ethtool GOP statistics (v4.15-rc1)
> > > e5c500eb298a net: mvpp2: fix GOP statistics loop start and stop
> conditions
> > > (v4.15-rc1)
> > > ba2d8d887d96 net: mvpp2: fix the txq_init error path (v4.15-rc2)
> > > 26146b0e6b68 net: mvpp2: cleanup probed ports in the probe error path
> > > (v4.15-rc2)
> > > e749aca84b10 net: mvpp2: do not disable GMAC padding (v4.15-rc2)
> > > 76e583c5f50e net: mvpp2: check ethtool sets the Tx ring size is to a
> valid min
> > > value (v4.15-rc2)
> > > a154f8e399a0 net: mvpp2: allocate zeroed tx descriptors (v4.15-rc3)
> > > 8a7b741e76cd net: mvpp2: fix the RSS table entry offset (v4.15-rc3)
> > > b70d4a5195c7 net: mvpp2: only free the TSO header buffers when it was
> allocated
> > > (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 7cf87e4a5c2b net: mvpp2: split the max ring size from the default one
> > > (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 385c284fee84 net: mvpp2: align values in ethtool get_coalesce
> (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 24b28ccb8575 net: mvpp2: report the tx-usec coalescing information to
> ethtool
> > > (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 86162281c25f net: mvpp2: adjust the coalescing parameters (v4.16-rc1)
> > > babe2dbb28e7 device property: Introduce fwnode_get_mac_address()
> (v4.16-rc1)
> > > b28f263b8670 device property: Introduce fwnode_get_phy_mode()
> (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 7c6c57f2ab2c device property: Introduce fwnode_irq_get() (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 3395de96ae59 device property: Allow iterating over available child
> fwnodes
> > > (v4.16-rc1)
> > > bf147153d7f4 net: mvpp2: simplify maintaining enabled ports' list
> (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 248122212f68 net: mvpp2: use device_*/fwnode_* APIs instead of of_*
> (v4.16-rc1)
> > > a75edc7c2eab net: mvpp2: enable ACPI support in the driver (v4.16-rc1)
> > > 7ac8ff95f48c mvpp2: fix multicast address filter (v4.16-rc3)
> > > 56beda3db602 net: mvpp2: Add hardware offloading for VLAN filtering
> (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 01d049366529 net: mvpp2: use the same buffer pool for all ports
> (v4.17-rc1)
> > > effbf5f58d64 net: mvpp2: update the BM buffer free/destroy logic
> (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 93ff130f1c2b net: mvpp2: use a data size of 10kB for Tx FIFO on port 0
> > > (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 381c56712db4 net: mvpp2: enable UDP/TCP checksum over IPv6 (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 576193f2d579 net: mvpp2: jumbo frames support (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 6e61e10a8a96 net: mvpp2: mvpp2_check_hw_buf_num() can be static
> (v4.17-rc1)
> > > ce2a27c761ac net: mvpp2: Simplify MAC filtering function parameters
> (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 10fea26ce2aa net: mvpp2: Add support for unicast filtering (v4.17-rc1)
> > > e2e031640b3a net: mvpp2: use correct index on array mvpp2_pools
> (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 47e0e14eb1a6 net: mvpp2: Make mvpp2_prs_hw_read a parser entry init
> function
> > > (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 0c6d9b44145d net: mvpp2: Don't use dynamic allocs for local variables
> > > (v4.17-rc1)
> > > cdcfeb0fb473 net: mvpp2: Use relaxed I/O in data path (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 3d92f0b58206 net: mvpp2: Fix parser entry init boundary check
> (v4.17-rc1)
> > > 982e05001c47 net: mvpp2: Fix TCAM filter reserved range (v4.17-rc2)
> > > da42bb271305 net: mvpp2: Fix DMA address mask size (v4.17-rc2)
> > > 45f972adb7f4 net: mvpp2: Fix clk error path in mvpp2_probe (v4.17-rc4)
> > > 9af771ced473 net: mvpp2: Fix clock resource by adding missing
> mg_core_clk
> > > (v4.17-rc4)
> > > ====== END OF LIST =============
> > >
> > >
> > > pon., 13 sie 2018 o 10:50 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
> > >>
> > >> Hi Jim,
> > >>
> > >> Would it be possible, that you take a look at my questions form the
> > >> previous email?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >> Marcin
> > >>
> > >> śr., 1 sie 2018 o 17:11 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com> napisał(a):
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi Jim,
> > >>>
> > >>> wt., 31 lip 2018 o 18:09 Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> napisał(a):
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 07/30/2018 07:00 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> > >>>>> Hi Jim,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> It's been a while, since I sent the patch. Any objections about
> merging?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Is v4.11 kernel still a valid baseline or for the next releases or
> we
> > >>>>> should use v4.14? When is that transition and next release
> supposed to
> > >>>>> happen?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The current version of the supported kernel is 4.14, so this would
> need
> > >>>> to be updated to support the 4.14 tree.
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> There is still a gap between vanilla v4.14 version of the driver and
> > >>> the upstream commits that allow to use it with ACPI (although much
> > >>> smaller than for v4.11). What is a procedure of providing you the
> > >>> patches?
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Best regards,
> > >>>>> Marcinsob., 23 cze 2018 o 08:18 Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>
> napisał(a):
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Hi,
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> I'm sending a patch that is applicable on top of the kernel
> > >>>>>> sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch. It enables ACPI support for the
> Marvell
> > >>>>>> Armada7k8k NIC - this required backporting very big amount of
> patches
> > >>>>>> (all merged upstream), hence I decided to attach the single
> commit,
> > >>>>>> instead of issueing 'git send-email' of it.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Once we got to 4.14, there didn't seem to be a demand for the
> > >>>> sig-altarch kernel to continue so I left it at the previous version.
> > >>>> From the sounds of things, you still need it for this to work?
> > >>>
> > >>> Is v4.14-based Centos an official version to support aarch64? If yes,
> > >>> I'd complement this version with the needed patches.
> > >>>
> > >>> Btw. if I google 'Centos aarch64' the links point to the altarch/7
> > >>> images. What is their kernel base then? In other words, where should
> > >>> one search
> > >>> for most recent image of aarch64 images? Is there any public release
> > >>> schedule available?
> > >>>
> > >>> About sig-altarch tree, I'd need to make sure internally. From your
> > >>> perspective, would it be recommended?
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>> Despite many attempts I wasn't able to build entire rpm package
> with
> > >>>>>> the mock build utility, however I managed to test the clean kernel
> > >>>>>> v4.11 with applied all patches and built with updated .config.
> Please
> > >>>>>> let know if this patch is sufficient and can be merged.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm guessing no unless it patches/builds against 4.14 as well. I'll
> see
> > >>>> about updating the sig-altarch tree so that we can test there.
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> For sure I need to send updated patch list for v4.14. Please see my
> > >>> question above.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> Marcin
> >
> >
> > You can send me the individual patches directly.  Make sure they apply
> > against the latest kernel-alt:
> >
> > https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!kernel-alt.git
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Johnny Hughes
> >
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20180911/6c39fddb/attachment.html>