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From: thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [BUG] MVPP2 driver exploding in presence of a tap interface
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:00:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181030140056.2fc69efc@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPv3WKfn6QFPnNjpY2dU5-OHftObzdcrHopX8Y9w5h37Zd4BNw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Marcin,

Thanks for the feedback.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:37:37 +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:

> You use _really_ archaic firmware, the bug you see is 99% caused by a
> bug already fixed long time ago (cleanup all PP2 BM pools correctly
> during exit boot services). Please grab the latest release:
> https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/edk2-open-platform/wiki/files/flash-image-18.09.4.bin
> and let know if you observe any further issues with vanilla kernel.

Even if this was a bug in the UEFI firmware, shouldn't the kernel be
independent from that, by doing a proper reset/reinit of the HW ?

I.e, isn't the firmware fix papering over a bug that should be fixed in
Linux mvpp2 driver anyway ?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@semihalf.com>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] MVPP2 driver exploding in presence of a tap interface
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:00:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181030140056.2fc69efc@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPv3WKfn6QFPnNjpY2dU5-OHftObzdcrHopX8Y9w5h37Zd4BNw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Marcin,

Thanks for the feedback.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:37:37 +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:

> You use _really_ archaic firmware, the bug you see is 99% caused by a
> bug already fixed long time ago (cleanup all PP2 BM pools correctly
> during exit boot services). Please grab the latest release:
> https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/edk2-open-platform/wiki/files/flash-image-18.09.4.bin
> and let know if you observe any further issues with vanilla kernel.

Even if this was a bug in the UEFI firmware, shouldn't the kernel be
independent from that, by doing a proper reset/reinit of the HW ?

I.e, isn't the firmware fix papering over a bug that should be fixed in
Linux mvpp2 driver anyway ?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-30 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-29 15:05 [BUG] MVPP2 driver exploding in presence of a tap interface Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 10:50 ` Antoine Tenart
2018-10-30 10:50   ` Antoine Tenart
2018-10-30 12:16   ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 12:16     ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 12:37     ` Marcin Wojtas
2018-10-30 12:37       ` Marcin Wojtas
2018-10-30 12:59       ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 12:59         ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 13:00       ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-10-30 13:00         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-10-30 14:55         ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 14:55           ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 15:10           ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-10-30 15:10             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-10-30 15:22             ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 15:22               ` Marc Zyngier

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