Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752475AbdCNQ4k (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:56:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ot0-f172.google.com ([74.125.82.172]:34908 "EHLO mail-ot0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751062AbdCNQ4h (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:56:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1488793408-25592-1-git-send-email-anup.patel@broadcom.com> References: <1488793408-25592-1-git-send-email-anup.patel@broadcom.com> From: Dan Williams Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:56:35 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support To: Anup Patel Cc: Vinod Koul , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Herbert Xu , "David S . Miller" , Jassi Brar , Ray Jui , Scott Branden , Jon Mason , Rob Rice , BCM Kernel Feedback , "dmaengine@vger.kernel.org" , Device Tree , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid , Shaohua Li Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 35 On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Anup Patel wrote: > The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides > RAID5/6 offload. > > It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM > ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to > this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements > DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels > provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox > controller). > > The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead > of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog > table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ > disk position. > > This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset > "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support" > > It is also available at sba-raid-v6 branch of > https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git > [..] > > Anup Patel (4): > lib/raid6: Add log-of-2 table for RAID6 HW requiring disk position > async_tx: Fix DMA_PREP_FENCE usage in do_async_gen_syndrome() > dmaengine: Add Broadcom SBA RAID driver > dt-bindings: Add DT bindings document for Broadcom SBA RAID driver For the dmaengine and async_tx changes: Acked-by: Dan Williams The raid change should get an ack from Shaohua.