Hi Michael, On Wednesday 10 June 2009 02:02:36 Michael Ellerman wrote: > For those of us who haven't read the HEA spec lately, can you give us > some more detail on that? :) first of all, please note that this patch is actually for the ehca infiniband driver. The ehca driver uses an internal memory region, which is supposed to contain all physical memory. A memory region maps a virtually contiguous adapter address space to the physical or better absolute address space. The limitation is that the memory region cannot map non-contiguous virtual adapter address space. However, on ppc64 machines there is a feature to dynamically add or remove memory to logical partitions during runtime. These operations scatter the absolute memory so that the kernel memory has a non-contiguous layout. This layout cannot be represented in a memory region. The purpose of this code is to detect the memory layout so that the memory region can be made up of the existing memory chunks. It also translates the kernel addresses to the memory region address, which is needed for interaction with the HCA. > How does it interact with kexec/kdump? We never tested the ehca driver with kexec/kdump. This patch also doesn't improve anything in this context.
> phys_to_abs() ? As below, or does it come from somewhere else? You're right, actually that isn't needed on System p. On the other hand I needed to choose an address type, which is the base of all mapping. The "busmap" holds all addresses as absolute addresses. The absolute addresses can then be converted in any other type (virt, phys). Regards Hannes _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg