[RFC][TRUSTY] X-Gene platform support

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Thu Mar 13 20:13:48 UTC 2014


On 03/13/2014 10:07 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 03/11/2014 12:15 PM, Dann Frazier wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>    I've assembled a git tree with support for the X-Gene platform:
>>>
>>> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/dannf/trusty-xgene.git for-ubuntu-20140310
>>>
>>> The PCI changes in the above are fairly significant and still under
>>> upstream review. I've therefore provided a separate branch with these
>>> changes backed out and replaced with an earlier version of the host
>>> controller driver, with fewer dependencies:
>>>
>>> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/dannf/trusty-xgene.git for-ubuntu-20140310-oldpci
>>>
>>
>> Ugh! Even with the PCI reverts there are some questionable patches wrt to
>> maintenance and stability.
>>
>> I could _probably_ accept the ahci_platform patches since they are already
>> in linux-next and will likely make it into 3.15 (though I'll remind you that
>> I _really_ like to just cherry-pick the final patch from Linus' repo). Are
>> the "Library-ise" patches necessary ?
>
> Yes, the latest ahci-xgene patches depends on the library-ise patches
> too, and the 'library-ise' patches have been in -next tree already.
>
>>
>> My knee jerk reaction is a NAK to all of the KVM patches. They appear to be
>> a work in progress and likely won't even make the 3.15 merge window.
>
> Without these KVM patches, qemu can't boot a kernel on APM
> mustang, also I just found these patches have been merged
> to -next tree already, see below:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?id=refs%2Ftags%2Fnext-20140312&qt=author&q=Marc+Zyngier+
>
> So they should land 3.15 if everything is OK.
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Ming Lei
>

How about this patch set ? Is it sufficient ? I've left out the reverts, 
rtc, QMTM, and PCIe support.

The following changes since commit 76d1f103727cd09f8f5b37c2fcb1bf187d89eb47:

   UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_AHCI_XGENE=m (2014-03-13 12:58:23 -0600)

are available in the git repository at:

   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-trusty.git xgene

for you to fetch changes up to da455837afe2da91ce0f236886cddaaf4378bd43:

   UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: Add APM X-Gene SoC AHCI SATA host controller 
DTS entries (2014-03-13 12:59:03 -0600)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Anup Patel (2):
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: KVM: Documentation: Fix typo for KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT 
ioctl
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: KVM: Force undefined exception for Guest 
SMC intructions

Hans de Goede (7):
       phy-core: Don't propagate -ENOSUPP from phy_pm_runtime_get_sync 
to caller
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: libahci: Allow drivers to override start_engine
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ahci-platform: Add support for devices with more 
then 1 clock
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ahci-platform: Add support for an optional 
regulator for sata-target power
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ahci-platform: Add enable_ / disable_resources 
helper functions
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ahci-platform: "Library-ise" ahci_probe functionality
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ahci-platform: "Library-ise" suspend / resume 
functionality

Loc Ho (7):
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: Documentation: Add APM X-Gene SoC 15Gbps 
Multi-purpose PHY driver binding documentation
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: PHY: add APM X-Gene SoC 15Gbps Multi-purpose PHY 
driver
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: Add APM X-Gene SoC 15Gbps Multi-purpose PHY 
DTS entries
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: clk: arm64: Fix the clock-names property for 
pcppll, socpll, and socplldiv2
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: Documentation: Add documentation for the APM 
X-Gene SoC SATA host controller DTS binding
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ata: Add APM X-Gene SoC AHCI SATA host controller 
driver
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: Add APM X-Gene SoC AHCI SATA host 
controller DTS entries

Marc Zyngier (5):
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: KVM: force cache clean on page fault when 
caches are off
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: KVM: allows discrimination of AArch32 
sysreg access
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: KVM: trap VM system registers until MMU and 
caches are ON
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ARM: KVM: introduce kvm_p*d_addr_end
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arm64: KVM: flush VM pages before letting the 
guest enable caches

Ravi Patel (2):
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: Documentation: misc-devices: APM X-Gene SoC QMTM
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: Documentation: devicetree: bindings for APM X-Gene 
SoC QMTM

Roger Quadros (2):
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ata: ahci_platform: Manage SATA PHY
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: ata: ahci_platform: runtime resume the device 
before use

Tim Gardner (1):
       UBUNTU: SAUCE: arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c: Added include

  .../devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt      |    2 +
  .../devicetree/bindings/ata/apm-xgene.txt          |   70 +
  .../devicetree/bindings/misc/apm-xgene-qmtm.txt    |   51 +
  .../devicetree/bindings/phy/apm-xgene-phy.txt      |   79 +
  Documentation/misc-devices/apm-xgene-qmtm          |  149 ++
  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt                  |    2 +-
  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h                     |   19 +-
  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c                                 |  107 +-
  arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-storm.dtsi                 |  156 +-
  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h                   |    3 +-
  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h                   |    3 +-
  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h                   |   23 +-
  arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c                       |    3 -
  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c                          |   99 +-
  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.h                          |    2 +
  drivers/ata/Kconfig                                |    7 +
  drivers/ata/Makefile                               |    1 +
  drivers/ata/ahci.c                                 |    6 +-
  drivers/ata/ahci.h                                 |   14 +-
  drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c                        |  498 ++++--
  drivers/ata/ahci_xgene.c                           |  490 ++++++
  drivers/ata/libahci.c                              |   26 +-
  drivers/ata/sata_highbank.c                        |    3 +-
  drivers/phy/Kconfig                                |    7 +
  drivers/phy/Makefile                               |    1 +
  drivers/phy/phy-core.c                             |    4 +
  drivers/phy/phy-xgene.c                            | 1750 
++++++++++++++++++++
  include/linux/ahci_platform.h                      |   25 +
  28 files changed, 3459 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/apm-xgene.txt
  create mode 100644 
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/apm-xgene-qmtm.txt
  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/apm-xgene-phy.txt
  create mode 100644 Documentation/misc-devices/apm-xgene-qmtm
  create mode 100644 drivers/ata/ahci_xgene.c
  create mode 100644 drivers/phy/phy-xgene.c

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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