[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OFED 1.1 status

[vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il]

Hello Nam Nguyen,
See my comments regarding OFED-1.1-rc3 below.
Please check also libehca compilation issue:
http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228

Regards,
Vladimir

> Hello Tziporet!
> First sorry for this late response regarding ehca build test in OFED 1.1
> rc3.
>
> 1) The userspace lib dir for libehca contains only a few c-files, but no
> header files.
> On svn dir branches/1.1/src/userspace/libehca/src/ I saw all files needed.
> Please correct
> this for rc4!
> Will you pick new version of libehca from that dir?
>

There was a missing EXTRA_DIST parameter in the libehca/Makefile.am.
I will fix it in the trunk and branches/1.1.

> 2) When I used the install.sh script to install the software packages or
> compile
> them on ppc64, kernel 2.6.18-rc5/6 I got the following error messages:
>
>   gcc -m64 -Wp,-MD,/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1
> /drivers/infiniband/core/.ib_addr.mod.o.d  -nos
> M/BUILD/openib-1.1/include  -I/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1
> /drivers/infiniband/include  -Iinclu
> oft-float -pipe -mminimal-toc -mtraceback=none  -mcall-aixdesc
> -mtune=power4 -mno-altivec -funit-at
> lude -I/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1/drivers/infiniband/include
> -I/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openi
> g   -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(ib_addr.mod)"
> -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(
> o /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1/drivers/infiniband/core/ib_addr.mod.c
> In file included from include/asm/system.h:9,
>                  from include/linux/spinlock.h:56,
>                  from include/linux/capability.h:45,
>                  from include/linux/sched.h:44,
>                  from include/linux/module.h:9,
>                  from /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1
> /drivers/infiniband/core/ib_addr.mod.c:1:
> include/asm/hw_irq.h: In function `local_irq_disable':
> include/asm/hw_irq.h:51: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `__mtmsrd'
> In file included from include/asm/current.h:15,
>                  from include/linux/capability.h:46,
>                  from include/linux/sched.h:44,
>                  from include/linux/module.h:9,
>                  from /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1
> /drivers/infiniband/core/ib_addr.mod.c:1:
> include/asm/paca.h: At top level:
> include/asm/paca.h:84: error: `SLB_CACHE_ENTRIES' undeclared here (not in
> a
> function)
> In file included from include/linux/sched.h:49,
>                  from include/linux/module.h:9,
>                  from /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1
> /drivers/infiniband/core/ib_addr.mod.c:1:
> include/linux/jiffies.h:18:5: warning: "CONFIG_HZ" is not defined
> include/linux/jiffies.h:20:7: warning: "CONFIG_HZ" is not defined
>
> If I use the kernel Makefile in /usr/src/linux-2.6.18-rc5 to compile e.g.
> make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.18-rc5
> SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1
> /drivers/infiniband/core
> then it works fine. We found out that the top-level kernel Makefile does
> the following settings
>
> LINUXINCLUDE    := -Iinclude \
>                    $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
>                    -include include/linux/autoconf.h
> CPPFLAGS        := -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUXINCLUDE)
>
> that include autoconf.h with all configured kernel configs like
> CONFIG_PPC64 etc. And obviously those
> config defines are lost if one uses
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.18-rc5/scripts/Makefile.build as OFED install.sh
> does. I'm wondering if anyone else also sees this problem on other
> architectures?
> Is there any reasons not to use the top-level kernel Makefile?
>
We are using top-level kernel Makefile.
It was an issue in the OFED-1.1-rc3 with 2.6.18 kernels.
It fixed in OFED-1.1-rc4.

> Thanks!
> Nam Nguyen
>
> openib-general-bounces at openib.org wrote on 07.09.2006 22:01:30:
>
>> Hi,
>> OFED 1.1 RC4 will be published on Monday 11-Sep.
>> We currently work on several showstoppers:
>> 1. 223: mthca.so not properly linked to libibverbs – Vlad & Jack
>> 2. 221: SRP on V40Z and Sun T4 gets Kernel BUG at spinlock:118  - Roland
>> 3. 219: OFED 1.1rc3 contains prerelease unstable libibverbs code –
>> Vlad &
> Jack
>>
>> Thus final release date will be delayed to end of next week
>>
>>
>> Tziporet Koren
>> Software Director
>> Mellanox Technologies
>> mailto: tziporet at mellanox.co.il
>> Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380
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