On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 16:22 -0500, Robert Jennings wrote:
> This patch changes the architecture vector to advertise support for a
> lower minimum virtual processor entitled capacity. The default
> minimum without this patch is 10%, this patch specifies 5%. This will
> allow 20 LPARs per CPU rather than only 10.
Any reason why we don't just put 1% in there and thus don't have to
change again when pHyp decides to lower their minimum ? :-)
(Can you test that it works, ie, that pHyp doesn't barf if we put 1% and
properly uses 5% in that case ?)
Cheers,
Ben.
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <r...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> index eca626e..3d882ea 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> @@ -689,6 +689,9 @@ static void __init early_cmdline_parse(void)
> #define OV3_VMX 0x40 /* VMX/Altivec */
> #define OV3_DFP 0x20 /* decimal FP */
>
> +/* Option vector 4: IBM PAPR implementation */
> +#define OV4_MIN_ENT_CAP 0x05 /* minimum VP entitled capacity
> */
> +
> /* Option vector 5: PAPR/OF options supported */
> #define OV5_LPAR 0x80 /* logical partitioning supported */
> #define OV5_SPLPAR 0x40 /* shared-processor LPAR supported */
> @@ -753,8 +756,9 @@ static unsigned char ibm_architecture_vec[] = {
> OV3_FP | OV3_VMX | OV3_DFP,
>
> /* option vector 4: IBM PAPR implementation */
> - 2 - 2, /* length */
> + 3 - 2, /* length */
> 0, /* don't halt */
> + OV4_MIN_ENT_CAP, /* minimum VP entitled capacity */
>
> /* option vector 5: PAPR/OF options */
> 13 - 2, /* length */
> @@ -771,7 +775,7 @@ static unsigned char ibm_architecture_vec[] = {
> * must match by the macro below. Update the definition if
> * the structure layout changes.
> */
> -#define IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET 100
> +#define IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET 101
> W(NR_CPUS), /* number of cores supported */
>
> /* option vector 6: IBM PAPR hints */
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