[ewg] OFED 1.5 beta status

Jon Mason jon at opengridcomputing.com
Thu Sep 10 09:18:43 PDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:11:48PM +0200, Alexander Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:41:10 +0300
> Tziporet Koren <tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> 
> > Alexander Schmidt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:47:14 +0300
> > > "Tziporet Koren" <tziporet at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >   
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I wish to update all that we plan to release OFED 1.5 beta tomorrow
> > >>
> > >> I know it's a week late then what we planned but we waited that all
> > >> modules will at least pass compilation on all supported OSes before we
> > >> publish the beta
> > >>     
> > >
> > > the mthca driver does not compile yet on SLES11 on powerpc. I've already
> > > reported this twice.
> > >
> > > -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/arch/powerpc/include \
> > >  -Iarch/powerpc  -I/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fwrapv -Os -msoft-float -pipe -I/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/arch/powerpc -Iarch/powerpc -mminimal-toc -mtraceback=none -mcall-aixdesc -mcpu=power4 -mtune=cell -mno-altivec -mno-spe -funit-at-a-time -mno-string -Wa,-maltivec -fno-stack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fwrapv -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(mthca_eq)"  -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(ib_mthca)" -D"DEBUG_HASH=48" -D"DEBUG_HASH2=63" -c -o /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/.tmp_mthca_eq.o /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c
> > > In file included from /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/kernel_addons/backport/2.6.27_sles11/include/linux/cpumask.h:6,
> > >                  from /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1/include/linux/interrupt.h:9,
> > >                  from /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c:35:
> > > include2/asm/topology.h:75: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘dump_numa_cpu_topology’
> > > make[6]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.o] Error 1
> > > make[5]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca] Error 2
> > > make[4]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5/drivers/infiniband] Error 2
> > > make[3]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5] Error 2
> > > make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> > > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.23-0.1-obj/ppc64/ppc64'
> > > make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> > > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.19962 (%build)
> > >
> > >   
> > 
> > Sorry we missed this
> > I will put this limitation in the release mail and Jack will fix it soon
> > 
> > Tziporet
> 
> The following change fixes the issue for me, and it did not break other parts of
> the stack, could someone review this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Index: ofa_kernel-1.5/kernel_addons/backport/2.6.27_sles11/include/linux/cpumask.h
> ===================================================================
> --- ofa_kernel-1.5.orig/kernel_addons/backport/2.6.27_sles11/include/linux/cpumask.h
> +++ ofa_kernel-1.5/kernel_addons/backport/2.6.27_sles11/include/linux/cpumask.h
> @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
>  
>  #include_next <linux/cpumask.h>
>  #include <asm/percpu.h>
> -#include <asm/topology.h>
>  
>  #define cpumask_of(cpu)		(get_cpu_mask(cpu))
>  #define cpumask_of_node(node) (_node_to_cpumask_ptr(node))

I believe this will break compilation on x86_64, but I will verify.

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