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

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Fri Sep 28 11:02:41 UTC 2018


Marcin,

I have added these patches to the new kernel that I am going to release
later today.

There seemed to be some new config entries (other than just the 3 you
specified).  I think I enabled everything and created modules for them
for aarch64.

Please take a look at the new kernel and make sure the config is like
you want it.

kernel-alt-4.14.0-49.13.1.el7a.src.rpm on target c7.1804.u.aarch64

(It should be signed and released in a couple hours, I am still going to
do a boot test on a real machine .. I already booted it in a VM)

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

On 09/11/2018 08:34 AM, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto:mw at semihalf.com>> napisał(a):
>     > >>>
>     > >>> Hi Jim,
>     > >>>
>     > >>> wt., 31 lip 2018 o 18:09 Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms%21kernel-alt.git>
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Johnny Hughes
>     >
> 


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