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diff --git a/doc/opal-api/opal-npu2-141-142-143.rst b/doc/opal-api/opal-npu2-141-142-143.rst index 541051c..1d4b33f 100644 --- a/doc/opal-api/opal-npu2-141-142-143.rst +++ b/doc/opal-api/opal-npu2-141-142-143.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _OPAL_NPU2: + OPAL NPU2 calls ================ @@ -21,6 +23,8 @@ the PID used on the processor. The OPAL calls documented here are used to setup/destroy the appropriate context for a given process on a given NVLink2 device. +.. _OPAL_NPU_INIT_CONTEXT: + OPAL_NPU_INIT_CONTEXT --------------------- @@ -40,6 +44,8 @@ Returns the context ID on success or ``OPAL_RESOURCE`` if no more contexts are available or ``OPAL_UNSUPPORTED`` in the case of unsupported MSR bits. +.. _OPAL_NPU_DESTROY_CONTEXT: + OPAL_NPU_DESTROY_CONTEXT ------------------------ @@ -51,6 +57,8 @@ Parameters: :: Destroys a previously allocated context ID. This may cause further translation requests from the GPU to fail. +.. _OPAL_NPU_MAP_LPAR: + OPAL_NPU_MAP_LPAR ----------------- diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.5.0-rc2.rst b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.5.0-rc2.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30cb79b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.5.0-rc2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ +.. _skiboot-5.5.0-rc2: + +skiboot-5.5.0-rc2 +================= + +skiboot-5.5.0-rc2 was released on Monday April 3rd 2017. It is the second +release candidate of skiboot 5.5, which will become the new stable release +of skiboot following the 5.4 release, first released November 11th 2016. + +skiboot-5.5.0-rc2 contains all bug fixes as of :ref:`skiboot-5.4.3` +and :ref:`skiboot-5.1.19` (the currently maintained stable releases). + +For how the skiboot stable releases work, see :ref:`stable-rules` for details. + +The current plan is to cut the final 5.5.0 by April 8th, with skiboot 5.5.0 +being for all POWER8 and POWER9 platforms in op-build v1.16 (Due April 12th). +This is a short cycle as this release is mainly targetted towards POWER9 +bringup efforts. + +Following skiboot-5.5.0, we will move to a regular six week release cycle, +similar to op-build, but slightly offset to allow for a short stabilisation +period. Expected release dates and contents are tracked using GitHub milestone +and issues: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/milestones + +Over :ref:`skiboot-5.5.0-rc1`, we have the following changes: + +NVLINK2 +------- + +- Introduce NPU2 support + + NVLink2 is a new feature introduced on POWER9 systems. It is an + evolution of of the NVLink1 feature included in POWER8+ systems but + adds several new features including support for GPU address + translation using the Nest MMU and cache coherence. + + Similar to NVLink1 the functionality is exposed to the OS as a series + of virtual PCIe devices. However the actual hardware interfaces are + significantly different which limits the amount of common code that + can be shared between implementations in the firmware. + + This patch adds basic hardware initialisation and exposure of the + virtual NVLink2 PCIe devices to the running OS. + +- npu2: Add OPAL calls for nvlink2 address translation services (see :ref:`OPAL_NPU2`) + + Adds three OPAL calls for interacting with NPU2 devices: + :ref:`OPAL_NPU_INIT_CONTEXT`, :ref:`OPAL_NPU_DESTROY_CONTEXT` and + :ref:`OPAL_NPU_MAP_LPAR`. + + These are used to setup and configure address translation services + (ATS) for a process/partition on a given NVLink2 device. + + +POWER9 +------ +- hdata/memory: ignore homer and occ reserved ranges + + We populate these from the HOMER BARs in the PBA directly. There's no + need to take the hostboot supplied values so just ignore the + corresponding reserved ranges. + +- hdata/vpd: Parse the OpenPOWER OPFR record + + Parse the OpenPOWER FRU VPD (OPFR) record on OpenPOWER instead + of the VINI records. + +- hdata/vpd: Parse additional VINI records + + These records provide hardware version details, CCIN extension information, + card type details and hardware characteristics of the FRU + +- hdata/cpu: account for p9 shared caches + + On P9 the L2 and L3 caches are shared between pairs of SMT=4 cores. + Currently this is not accounted for when creating caches nodes in + the device tree. This patch adds additional checking so that a + cache node is only created for the first core in the pair and + the second core will reference the cache correctly. + +- hdata: print backtraces on HDAT errors +- hdat: ignore zero length reserves + + Hostboot can export reserved regions with a length of zero and these + should be ignored rather than being turned into reserved range. While + we're here fix a memory leak by moving the "too large" region check + to before we allocate space for the label. + +- SLW: Add init for power9 power management + + This patch adds new function to init core for power9 power management. + SPECIAL_WKUP_* SCOM registers, if set, can hold the cores from going into + idle states. Hence, clear PPM_SPECIAL_WKUP_HYP_REG scom register for each + core during init. (This init are not required for MAMBO) + + +PCI +--- + +- hw/phb3: Adjust ECRC on root port dynamically + + The Samsung NVMe adapter is lost when it's connected to PMC 8546 PCIe + switch, until ECRC is disabled on the root port. We found similar issue + prevously when Broadcom adapter is connected to same part of PCIe switch + and it was fixed by commit 60ce59ccd0e9 ("hw/phb3: Disable ECRC on Broadcom + adapter behind PMC switch"). Unfortunately, the commit doesn't fix + the Samsung NVMe adapter lost issue. + + This fixes the issues by disable ECRC generation/check on root port + when PMC 8546 PCIe switch ports are found. This can be extended for + other PCIe switches or endpoints in future: Each PHB maintains the + count of PCI devices (PMC 8546 PCIe switch ports currently) which + require to disable ECRC on root port. The ECRC functionality is + enabled when first PMC 8546 switch port is probed and disabled when + last PMC 8546 switch port is destroyed (in PCI hot remove scenario). + Except PHB's reinitialization after complete reset, the ECRC on + root port is untouched. + +- core/pci: Fix lost NVMe adapter behind PMC 8546 switch + + The NVMe adapter in below PCI topology is lost. The root cause is + the presence bit on its PCI slot is missed, but the PCIe link has + been up. The PCI core doesn't probe the adapter behind the slot, + leading to lost NVMe adapter in the particular case. + + - PHB3 root port + - PLX switch 8748 (10b5:8748) + - PLX swich 9733 (10b5:9733) + - PMC 8546 swtich (11f8:8546) + - NVMe adapter (1c58:0023) + + This fixes the issue by overriding the PCI slot presence bit with + PCIe link state bit. +- hw/phb4: Locate AER capability position if necessary +- core/pci: Disable surprise hotplug on root port +- core/pci: Ignore PCI slot capability on root port + + We are creating PCI slot on root port, where the PCI slot isn't + supported from hardware. For this case, we shouldn't read the PCI + slot capability from hardware. When bogus data returned from the + hardware, we will attempt to the PCI slot's power state or enable + surprise hotplug functionality. All of them can't be accomplished + without hardware support. + + This leaves the PCI slot's capability list 0 if PCICAP_EXP_CAP_SLOT + isn't set in hardware (pcie_cap + 0x2). Otherwise, the PCI slot's + capability list is retrieved from hardware (pcie_cap + 0x14). + + +- phb4: Default to PCIe GEN2 on DD1 + + Default to PCIe GEN2 link speeds on DD1 for stability. + + Can be overridden using nvram pcie-max-link-speed=4 parameter. + +- phb3/4: Set max link speed via nvram + + This adds an nvram parameter pcie-max-link-speed to configure the max + speed of the pcie link. This can be set from the petitboot prompt + using: :: + + nvram -p ibm,skiboot --update-config pcie-max-link-speed=4 + + This takes preference over anything set in the device tree and is + global to all PHBs. + +Tests +----- + +- Mambo/Qemu boot tests: expect (and fail) on checkstop + + This allows us to fail a lot faster if we checkstop |