From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ppc/crash: Reset spinlocks during crash
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 10:27:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200409002726.GA5135@blackberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9majhh2.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 10:21:29PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> We should be able to just allocate the rtas_args on the stack, it's only
> ~80 odd bytes. And then we can use rtas_call_unlocked() which doesn't
> take the global lock.
Do we instantiate a 64-bit RTAS these days, or is it still 32-bit?
In the old days we had to make sure the RTAS argument buffer was
below the 4GB point. If that's still necessary then perhaps putting
rtas_args inside the PACA would be the way to go.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-09 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-01 0:00 [PATCH v3 1/1] ppc/crash: Reset spinlocks during crash Leonardo Bras
2020-04-01 3:07 ` kbuild test robot
2020-04-01 9:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-01 23:53 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-04-02 11:28 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-04-03 0:37 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-04-03 6:41 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-08 2:36 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-04-08 12:21 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-04-08 16:48 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-04-08 18:00 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-04-08 22:55 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-04-09 0:27 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2020-05-12 3:48 ` Leonardo Bras
2020-05-12 10:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-04-06 18:46 ` Leonardo Bras
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