Re: [PATCH V9 7/8] powerpc: Check arch.vec earlier during boot for memory features

[Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 12/07/2016 01:15 AM, Michael Bringmann wrote:
> architecture.vec5 features: The boot-time memory management needs to
> know the form of the "ibm,dynamic-memory-v2" property early during
> scanning of the flattened device tree.  This patch moves execution of
> the function pseries_probe_fw_features() early enough to be before
> the scanning of the memory properties in the device tree to allow
> recognition of the supported properties.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> index 2d49887..bd07157 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> @@ -759,6 +759,9 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
>  	 */
>  	of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_chosen_ppc, boot_command_line);
> 
> +	/* Now try to figure out if we are running on LPAR and so on */
> +	pseries_probe_fw_features();
> +
>  	/* Scan memory nodes and rebuild MEMBLOCKs */
>  	of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_root, NULL);
>  	of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_memory_ppc, NULL);
> @@ -826,9 +829,6 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
>  #endif
>  	epapr_paravirt_early_init();
> 
> -	/* Now try to figure out if we are running on LPAR and so on */
> -	pseries_probe_fw_features();
> -
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PS3
>  	/* Identify PS3 firmware */
>  	if (of_flat_dt_is_compatible(of_get_flat_dt_root(), "sony,ps3"))
>