linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Fix module loading

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:49:34 -0500
From: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>
To: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 shravankr@...dia.com
Cc: davthompson@...dia.com, ndalvi@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, hdegoede@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Fix module loading

On 2024-02-26 08:27, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:57:28 -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> 
>> The mlxbf-pmc driver fails to load when the firmware reports a new but not
>> yet implemented performance block. I can reproduce this today with a
>> Bluefield-3 card and UEFI version 4.6.0-18-g7d063bb-BId13035, since this
>> reports the new clock_measure performance block.
>>
>> This[1] patch from Shravan implements the clock_measure support and will
>> solve the issue. But this series avoids the situation by ignoring and
>> logging unsupported performance blocks.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> 
> Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
> review-ilpo branch. Note it will show up in the public
> platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo branch only once I've pushed my
> local branch there, which might take a while.

Thank you Ilpo and thanks Hans for the review.

The only detail is that we probably want this merged for 6.8 since
the driver doesn't currently load with the configuration mentioned above.

- Luiz

> 
> The list of commits applied:
> [1/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: mlxbf_pmc_event_list(): make size ptr optional
>        commit: c5b649996ac63d43f1d4185de177c90d664b2230
> [2/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Ignore unsupported performance blocks
>        commit: 4e39d7be4123f65adf78b0a466cbaf1169d7cedb
> 
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>   i.
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