Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] minimal alignment for p2p bars

From: Bjorn Helgaas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:12:07 -0600

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:30:23PM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> v1 -> v2:
> 	* Shorten the varaible names so that they looks more short.
> 	* Changelog adjustment so that they looks more meaningful.
> 
> v2 -> v3:
> 	* Rebase to 3.5.RC4
> 
> v3 -> v4:
> 	* Merge Yinghai's patches.
> 
> v3 -> v4:
> 	* Split patch for easy review.
> 	* Add function to retrieve the minimal alignment of p2p bridge. 
> 
> v4 -> v5:
> 	* Rebase to 3.5.RC7
> 	* Introduce weak function pcibios_window_alignment() to retrieve
> 	  I/O and memory alignment for P2P bridges.
> 	* Introduce pcibios_window_alignment() for ppc to override the
> 	  PCI function.
> 	* Add ppc_md.pcibios_window_alignment() for specific platform like
> 	  powernv can override ppc's pcibios_window_alignment().

You don't have to rebase your patches -- I can take care of merging
them with previous patches I've applied -- but if you *do* rebase,
the most convenient target would be my "next" branch, since it
already contains the things I would have to merge with.

> Lu Yinghai(3):
>   pci: change variable name for find_pci_host_bridge
>   pci: argument pci_bus for find_pci_host_bridge
>   pci: fiddle with conversion of pci and CPU address

I think the above patches are not needed for the ones below, are they?

> Gavin Shan(4)
>   pci: weak function returns alignment
>   pci: resource assignment based on p2p alignment
>   ppc/pci: override pcibios_window_alignment
>   ppc/pnv: I/O and memory alignment for p2p bridges
> 
> 
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h        |    3 ++
> arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c          |   20 +++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/pci/host-bridge.c                 |   52 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> drivers/pci/setup-bus.c                   |   22 ++++++++----
> include/linux/pci.h                       |    7 +++-
> 6 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>