skiboot-5.10.4

skiboot 5.10.4 was released on Wednesday April 4th, 2018. It replaces skiboot-5.10.3 as the current stable release in the 5.10.x series.

It is recommended that 5.10.3 be used instead of any previous 5.10.x version due to the bug fixes and debugging enhancements in it.

Over skiboot-5.10.3, we have one bug fix:

• xive: disable store EOI support

  Hardware has limitations which would require to put a sync after each store EOI to make sure the MMIO operations that change the ESB state are ordered. This is a killer for performance and the PHBs do not support the sync. So remove the store EOI for the moment, until hardware is improved.

  Also, while we are at changing the XIVE source flags, let’s fix the settings for the PHB4s which should follow these rules :

  • SHIFT_BUG for DD10

  • STORE_EOI for DD20 and if enabled

  • TRIGGER_PAGE for DDx0 and if not STORE_EOI