[PATCH 3/5] EDAC, altera: Addition of Arria10 L2 Cache ECC
Borislav Petkov
bp at alien8.de
Fri Mar 4 02:38:44 PST 2016
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:38:19AM -0600, tthayer at opensource.altera.com wrote:
> From: Thor Thayer <tthayer at opensource.altera.com>
>
> Addition of the Arria10 L2 Cache ECC handling. The major
> changes affect the L2 ECC registers not being grouped
> together. The Arria10 IRQ status needs to be mapped into
> a different region. The mapping occurs in the L2 specific
> function.
> Important changes include:
> 1) Move private data structure definition to altera_edac.h
> 2) Move Cyclone5 device defines to altera_edac.h
This should be a separate patch.
> 3) Split IRQ status and ECC enable/control into separate
> memory areas.
Ditto.
> 4) Add IRQ status mapping in L2 ECC dependency checks
> function.
Ditto...
> 5) Addition of register offsets in private data structure.
> 6) Changes to code to use register offset define.
> 7) Addition of Arria10 L2 cache private data.
> 8) Add IRQ flags to indicate Exclusive/Shared.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
Each patch should countain one logical change: add defines and move
struct, change functionality A, change functionality B, ...
The fact that you have to make a list of 8 important changes should
already give you a hint that it needs to be split.
As always, I'm going to need ACKs for the ARM stuff.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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