From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: anup.patel@broadcom.com (Anup Patel) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:32:05 +0530 Subject: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support In-Reply-To: References: <1488793408-25592-1-git-send-email-anup.patel@broadcom.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Anup Patel wrote: >> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides >> RAID5/6 offload. >> >> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM >> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to >> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements >> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels >> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox >> controller). >> >> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead >> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog >> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ >> disk position. >> >> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset >> "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support" >> >> It is also available at sba-raid-v6 branch of >> https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git >> > [..] >> >> Anup Patel (4): >> lib/raid6: Add log-of-2 table for RAID6 HW requiring disk position >> async_tx: Fix DMA_PREP_FENCE usage in do_async_gen_syndrome() >> dmaengine: Add Broadcom SBA RAID driver >> dt-bindings: Add DT bindings document for Broadcom SBA RAID driver > > For the dmaengine and async_tx changes: > > Acked-by: Dan Williams > Thanks Dan ... Regards, Anup