Re: sym scsi driver problem with 2.6.26 or newer debian kernel on p610 (fwd)
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 19:46 +0200, Laszlo Fekete wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thank you very much, this patch works me too.
>
> Maybe this patch will be in the debian kernel someday?
The patch isn't actually correct just yet :-) Michael will
be posting a proper one next week. It should be possible to
request its inclusion into debian separately, we'll probably
send it to stable@kernel.org as well.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Thank you: blackluck
>
> Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:56 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:53 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Doesn't fix my machine :/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > That doesn't make sense ... What if you remove the bit inside the ifdef
> > > CONFIG_MPIC_BROKEN_REGREAD in _mpic_read() ?
> > >
> > > If that makes a difference, then it would be interesting to add a printk
> > > in there that prints what the original value "val" is and what we have
> > > in the shadow...
> > >
> >
> > With this patch it boots:
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
> > index 2353adc..fc17289 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c
> > @@ -231,13 +231,16 @@ static inline u32 _mpic_irq_read(struct mpic *mpic, unsign
> > unsigned int isu = src_no >> mpic->isu_shift;
> > unsigned int idx = src_no & mpic->isu_mask;
> > unsigned int val;
> > + unsigned int shadow;
> >
> > val = _mpic_read(mpic->reg_type, &mpic->isus[isu],
> > reg + (idx * MPIC_INFO(IRQ_STRIDE)));
> > #ifdef CONFIG_MPIC_BROKEN_REGREAD
> > - if (reg == 0)
> > - val = (val & (MPIC_VECPRI_MASK | MPIC_VECPRI_ACTIVITY)) |
> > + if (reg == 0) {
> > + shadow = (val & (MPIC_VECPRI_MASK | MPIC_VECPRI_ACTIVITY)) |
> > mpic->isu_reg0_shadow[idx];
> > + printk("%s: val 0x%x shadow 0x%x\n", __func__, val, shadow);
> > + }
> > #endif
> > return val;
> > }
> >
> >
> > And I see:
> >
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:0c.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0143)
> > sym0: <896> rev 0x7 at pci 0000:00:0c.0 irq 17
> > sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, SE, parity checking
> > _mpic_irq_read: val 0x80480004 shadow 0x80080014
> > _mpic_irq_read: val 0x480004 shadow 0x480004
> >
> >
> >
> > cheers
> >
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