Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] IB/qib: add acounting for MTRR

From: Doug Ledford
Date: Wed Apr 22 2015 - 09:45:58 EST


On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 14:50 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
>
> There is no good reason not to, we eventually delete it as well.
>
> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_wc_x86_64.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_wc_x86_64.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_wc_x86_64.c
> index 81b225f..fe0850a 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_wc_x86_64.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_wc_x86_64.c
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ int qib_enable_wc(struct qib_devdata *dd)
> if (!ret) {
> int cookie;
>
> - cookie = mtrr_add(pioaddr, piolen, MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 0);
> + cookie = mtrr_add(pioaddr, piolen, MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 1);
> if (cookie < 0) {
> {
> qib_devinfo(dd->pcidev,

Skip this patch please. You remove this line entirely in your next
patch, so this becomes a single kernel out of all possible bisectable
kernels with this accounting enabled, and then the very next kernel does
away with it. It makes no sense to have a single outlying bisectable
kernel like that.

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Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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