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Subject: Re: [12/15] cxl: Workaround PE=0 hardware limitation in Mellanox CX4
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On Wed, 2016-13-07 at 21:17:11 UTC, Ian Munsie wrote:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
> 
> The CX4 card cannot cope with a context with PE=0 due to a hardware
> limitation, resulting in:
> 
> [   34.166577] command failed, status limits exceeded(0x8), syndrome 0x5a7939
> [   34.166580] mlx5_core 0000:01:00.1: Failed allocating uar, aborting
> 
> Since the kernel API allocates a default context very early during
> device init that will almost certainly get Process Element ID 0 there is
> no easy way for us to extend the API to allow the Mellanox to inform us
> of this limitation ahead of time.
> 
> Instead, work around the issue by extending the XSL structure to include
> a minimum PE to allocate. Although the bug is not in the XSL, it is the
> easiest place to work around this limitation given that the CX4 is
> currently the only card that uses an XSL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f67a6722d650b864b020b19b39

cheers