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* ioatdma: add ioat_raid_enabled module parameter
@ 2013-07-31 22:05 Brice Goglin
  2013-07-31 22:14 ` Jiang, Dave
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Brice Goglin @ 2013-07-31 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Williams; +Cc: Vinod Koul, Dave Jiang, LKML

ioatdma: add ioat_raid_enabled module parameter

Commit f26df1a1 added a 64-byte alignment requirement for legacy
operations to work around a silicon errata when mixing legacy and
RAID descriptors.
Passing ioat_raid_enabled=0 now disables RAID offload entirely in
the ioatdma driver so that legacy operations (memcpy, etc.) can
work without alignment restrictions anymore.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
---
 drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c	2013-07-31 23:06:24.163810000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c	2013-07-31 23:47:54.246719841 +0200
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@
 #include "dma.h"
 #include "dma_v2.h"
 
+static int ioat_raid_enabled = 1;
+module_param(ioat_raid_enabled, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ioat_raid_enabled,
+		 "control support of RAID offload (default: 1)");
+
 /* ioat hardware assumes at least two sources for raid operations */
 #define src_cnt_to_sw(x) ((x) + 2)
 #define src_cnt_to_hw(x) ((x) - 2)
@@ -1775,7 +1780,7 @@ int ioat3_dma_probe(struct ioatdma_devic
 	dma->device_alloc_chan_resources = ioat2_alloc_chan_resources;
 	dma->device_free_chan_resources = ioat2_free_chan_resources;
 
-	if (is_xeon_cb32(pdev))
+	if (is_xeon_cb32(pdev) && ioat_raid_enabled)
 		dma->copy_align = 6;
 
 	dma_cap_set(DMA_INTERRUPT, dma->cap_mask);
@@ -1783,7 +1788,7 @@ int ioat3_dma_probe(struct ioatdma_devic
 
 	device->cap = readl(device->reg_base + IOAT_DMA_CAP_OFFSET);
 
-	if (is_bwd_noraid(pdev))
+	if (!ioat_raid_enabled || is_bwd_noraid(pdev))
 		device->cap &= ~(IOAT_CAP_XOR | IOAT_CAP_PQ | IOAT_CAP_RAID16SS);
 
 	/* dca is incompatible with raid operations */


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2013-08-01 17:11   ` Jon Mason
2013-08-01 17:15     ` Jiang, Dave
2013-08-02  7:34       ` Brice Goglin
2013-08-02 16:14         ` Jiang, Dave
2013-08-02 16:57         ` Dan Williams
2013-08-02 17:08           ` Jiang, Dave
2013-08-02 17:26           ` Brice Goglin
2013-08-02 17:47             ` Dan Williams
2013-08-02 19:18               ` Brice Goglin
2013-08-12 18:10                 ` Jon Mason
2013-08-12 18:13                   ` Dan Williams
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