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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Li Zhong <zhong@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	PowerPC email list <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 powerpc] perf/hv-24x7  fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:55:58 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428663358.21137.4.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428655351.16563.11.camel@TP420>

On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 16:42 +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
> As Michael pointed out, create_events_from_catalog() fails when 
> we either have:
>  - a kernel bug
>  - some sort of hypervisor misconfiguration
>  - ENOMEM
> 
> In all the above cases, we can also fail 24x7 initcall. 

Thanks.
 
> In the patch below, I used ENODEV for hypervisor errors, not sure 
> whether some other error values is more proper here. 

ENODEV is a special case, if an initcall returns ENODEV no error is reported to
dmesg.

In this case I think we would like an error to be reported, so EIO would be
better I think.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-10 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-15  9:42 [RFC PATCH powerpc] perf/hv-24x7 set the attr group to NULL if events failed to be initialized Li Zhong
2015-03-25  9:51 ` [RFC, " Michael Ellerman
2015-03-25 18:41   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2015-03-26  3:51     ` Michael Ellerman
2015-04-10  8:42       ` [RFC v2 powerpc] perf/hv-24x7 fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails Li Zhong
2015-04-10 10:55         ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2015-04-13  7:48           ` [PATCH v3 " Li Zhong

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