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From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: aik@ozlabs•ru, Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	kvm-ppc@vger•kernel.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse•de>,
	alex.williamson@redhat•com, qiudayu@linux•vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/eeh: Avoid event on passed PE
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:41:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140521044134.GB1959@shangw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400631131.3986.144.camel@pasglop>

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:12:11AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 21:56 +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
>
> .../...
>
>> >I think what you want is an irqfd that the in-kernel eeh code
>> >notifies when it sees a failure. When such an fd exists, the kernel
>> >skips its own error handling.
>> >
>> 
>> Yeah, it's a good idea and something for me to improve in phase II. We
>> can discuss for more later. For now, what I have in my head is something
>> like this:
>
>However, this would be a deviation from (or extension of) PAPR. At the
>moment, the way things work in PAPR is that the guest is responsible for
>querying the EEH state when something "looks" like an error (ie, getting
>ff's back). This is also how it works in pHyp.
>
>We have an interrupt path in the host when doing "native" EEH, and it
>would be nice to extend PAPR to also be able to shoot an event to the
>guest possibly using RTAS events, but let's get the basics working and
>upstream first.
>

Got it. Thanks, Ben :-)

Thanks,
Gavin

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-21  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-20  8:30 [PATCH RFCv4 0/4] EEH Support for VFIO PCI device Gavin Shan
2014-05-20  8:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] drivers/vfio: Introduce CONFIG_VFIO_PCI_EEH Gavin Shan
2014-05-20  8:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/eeh: Flags for passed device and PE Gavin Shan
2014-05-20  8:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] drivers/vfio: New IOCTL command VFIO_EEH_INFO Gavin Shan
2014-05-20 11:21   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 11:28     ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 11:40       ` Gavin Shan
2014-05-20 11:44         ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 12:21           ` Gavin Shan
2014-05-20 12:25             ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 12:39               ` Gavin Shan
2014-05-21  0:23                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-21  4:39                   ` Gavin Shan
2014-05-21  6:23                   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-21  7:24                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-21 10:48                       ` Gavin Shan
2014-05-21  0:21               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-20  8:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/eeh: Avoid event on passed PE Gavin Shan
2014-05-20 11:25   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 11:56     ` Gavin Shan
2014-05-20 12:14       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-20 12:45         ` Gavin Shan
2014-05-20 13:49           ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-21  0:13             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-21  6:16               ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-21  0:19             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-21  6:20               ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-21  0:12       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-21  4:41         ` Gavin Shan [this message]
2014-06-03  5:54     ` Paul Mackerras
2014-06-03  7:45       ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-03  7:52         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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