[PATCH 4/4] powerpc/eeh: Avoid event on passed PE

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 3 17:52:19 EST 2014


On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 09:45 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> For EEH it could as well be a dumb eventfd - really just a side
> channel that can tell user space that something happened
> asynchronously :).

Which the host kernel may have no way to detect without actively poking
at the device (fences in powernv or anything in PAPR host) and the only
user of this for now has no use for.

I insist don't bother.

Cheers,
Ben.




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