netdev - RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: mvpp2: clear BM pool before initialization

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:55:13 +0000
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Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: mvpp2: clear BM pool before
 initialization


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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 8:41 PM
To: Jenishkumar Patel [C] <jpatel2@...vell.com>
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Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: mvpp2: clear BM pool before initialization

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On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:57:54 -0800 Jenishkumar Maheshbhai Patel wrote:
> Register value persisted after booting the kernel using kexec which 
> resulted in kernel panic. Thus cleared the BM pool registers before 
> initialisation to fix the issue.

s/persisted/persist/
s/resulted/results/
s/cleared/clear/

When you post v2 please add a Fixes tag -- it may be the first commit that added this driver if the issue has always been there.

I will make corrections and post it in v2.