Re: [PATCH RFC v3 19/35] arm64: mte: Discover tag storage memory

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-01-26T08:51:35Z

On 25/01/2024 17:42, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> Allow the kernel to get the base address, size, block size and associated
> memory node for tag storage from the device tree blob.
>

Please use scripts/get_maintainers.pl to get a list of necessary people
and lists to CC. It might happen, that command when run on an older
kernel, gives you outdated entries. Therefore please be sure you base
your patches on recent Linux kernel.

Tools like b4 or scripts_getmaintainer.pl provide you proper list of
people, so fix your workflow. Tools might also fail if you work on some
ancient tree (don't, use mainline), work on fork of kernel (don't, use
mainline) or you ignore some maintainers (really don't). Just use b4 and
all the problems go away.

You missed at least devicetree list (maybe more), so this won't be
tested by automated tooling. Performing review on untested code might be
a waste of time, thus I will skip this patch entirely till you follow
the process allowing the patch to be tested.

Please kindly resend and include all necessary To/Cc entries.

> A tag storage region represents the smallest contiguous memory region that
> holds all the tags for the associated contiguous memory region which can be
> tagged. For example, for a 32GB contiguous tagged memory the corresponding
> tag storage region is exactly 1GB of contiguous memory, not two adjacent
> 512M of tag storage memory, nor one 2GB tag storage region.
>
> Tag storage is described as reserved memory; future patches will teach the
> kernel how to make use of it for data (non-tagged) allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
> ---
>
> Changes since rfc v2:
>
> * Reworked from rfc v2 patch #11 ("arm64: mte: Reserve tag storage memory").
> * Added device tree schema (Rob Herring)
> * Tag storage memory is now described in the "reserved-memory" node (Rob
> Herring).
>
> .../reserved-memory/arm,mte-tag-storage.yaml | 78 +++++++++

Please run scripts/checkpatch.pl and fix reported warnings. Some
warnings can be ignored, but the code here looks like it needs a fix.
Feel free to get in touch if the warning is not clear.

Best regards,
Krzysztof