Re: [PATCH] CXL: Fix PSL error due to duplicate segment table entries

From: Ian Munsie
Date: Mon Oct 27 2014 - 20:20:26 EST


Excerpts from Aneesh Kumar K.V's message of 2014-10-28 01:38:41 +1100:
> I guess you are missing too many fixes in one patch.
>
> 1) One cleanup
> 2) Fix for masking ea correctly
> 3) And fix for not erroring out when a slb is already in the slb cache.

ok, I'll split it up

> > +/* This finds a free SSTE and checks to see if it's already in table */
> > +static struct cxl_sste* find_free_sste(struct cxl_context *ctx,
> > + struct copro_slb *slb)
>
> the name is confusing. If you want to keep the name, can you also
> specify that it return NULL, if it finds a matching entry. IIUC that
> is the real part of the fix for the problem mentioned ?

Good point.

> > - sr = CXL_PSL_SR_An_SC;
> > + sr = 0;
>
> What is this change about ?

That tells the PSL not to use the secondary hash since we are no longer
filling out any entries using it. I'll clarify that in the commit
message when I split this out.

Cheers,
-Ian

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