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Message-ID: <CAOSf1CE2UgF7-BtQj2SfQSUUsctg2boS_kSL-Cs-ugZe4=6N7Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:40:23 +1000
From:   "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        sukadev@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/powernv: remove the unused vas_win_paste_addr
 and vas_win_id functions

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 5:56 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> These two function have never been used since they were added to the
> kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h              | 10 ----------
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c | 19 -------------------
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas.h        | 20 --------------------
>  3 files changed, 49 deletions(-)

Sukadev (+cc), what's the reason this is not being used?

IIRC the VAS hardware on P9 had some issues, but I don't know any of
the details.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h
> index 771456227496..9b5b7261df7b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h
> @@ -167,14 +167,4 @@ int vas_copy_crb(void *crb, int offset);
>   */
>  int vas_paste_crb(struct vas_window *win, int offset, bool re);
>
> -/*
> - * Return a system-wide unique id for the VAS window @win.
> - */
> -extern u32 vas_win_id(struct vas_window *win);
> -
> -/*
> - * Return the power bus paste address associated with @win so the caller
> - * can map that address into their address space.
> - */
> -extern u64 vas_win_paste_addr(struct vas_window *win);
>  #endif /* __ASM_POWERPC_VAS_H */
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c
> index e59e0e60e5b5..e48c44cb3a16 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c
> @@ -44,16 +44,6 @@ static void compute_paste_address(struct vas_window *window, u64 *addr, int *len
>         pr_debug("Txwin #%d: Paste addr 0x%llx\n", winid, *addr);
>  }
>
> -u64 vas_win_paste_addr(struct vas_window *win)
> -{
> -       u64 addr;
> -
> -       compute_paste_address(win, &addr, NULL);
> -
> -       return addr;
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(vas_win_paste_addr);
> -
>  static inline void get_hvwc_mmio_bar(struct vas_window *window,
>                         u64 *start, int *len)
>  {
> @@ -1268,12 +1258,3 @@ int vas_win_close(struct vas_window *window)
>         return 0;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vas_win_close);
> -
> -/*
> - * Return a system-wide unique window id for the window @win.
> - */
> -u32 vas_win_id(struct vas_window *win)
> -{
> -       return encode_pswid(win->vinst->vas_id, win->winid);
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vas_win_id);
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas.h b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas.h
> index f5493dbdd7ff..551affaddd59 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas.h
> @@ -448,26 +448,6 @@ static inline u64 read_hvwc_reg(struct vas_window *win,
>         return in_be64(win->hvwc_map+reg);
>  }
>
> -/*
> - * Encode/decode the Partition Send Window ID (PSWID) for a window in
> - * a way that we can uniquely identify any window in the system. i.e.
> - * we should be able to locate the 'struct vas_window' given the PSWID.
> - *
> - *     Bits    Usage
> - *     0:7     VAS id (8 bits)
> - *     8:15    Unused, 0 (3 bits)
> - *     16:31   Window id (16 bits)
> - */
> -static inline u32 encode_pswid(int vasid, int winid)
> -{
> -       u32 pswid = 0;
> -
> -       pswid |= vasid << (31 - 7);
> -       pswid |= winid;
> -
> -       return pswid;
> -}
> -
>  static inline void decode_pswid(u32 pswid, int *vasid, int *winid)
>  {
>         if (vasid)
> --
> 2.20.1
>