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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse•de>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>, kvm-ppc@vger•kernel.org
Cc: aik@ozlabs•ru, alex.williamson@redhat•com,
	qiudayu@linux•vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] drivers/vfio: New IOCTL command VFIO_EEH_INFO
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:21:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537B3AA7.7040106@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400574612-19411-4-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


On 20.05.14 10:30, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The patch adds new IOCTL command VFIO_EEH_OP to VFIO PCI device
> to support EEH functionality for PCI devices, which have been
> passed from host to guest via VFIO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/Makefile   |   1 +
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-vfio.c | 445 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c               |  24 +-
>   drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h       |  16 ++
>   include/uapi/linux/vfio.h                 |  43 +++
>   5 files changed, 523 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-vfio.c

Why doesn't this code live inside the vfio module? If I don't load the 
vfio module, I don't need that code to waste memory in my kernel, no?


Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20 11:21 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 [this message]
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
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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