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

Alexandru Elisei
2024-01-26T17:02:15Z

Hi Krzysztof,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 09:50:58AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 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 kernel, gives you outdated entries.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.

My mistake, the previous iteration of the series didn't include a
devicetree binding and I forgot to update the To/Cc list. Thank you for the
heads-up, hopefully you can have a look after I resend the series.

>
>
> > 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.

Thank you for pointing it out, I'll move the binding to a separate patch.

Alex