[PATCH v1 0/5] powerpc/pci: PCI slot unified reset

[Gavin Shan]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 09:54:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 09:38 +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> The patchset corresponds to skiboot changes, which manages PCI slots
>> in a unified way: OPAL APIs used to do slot reset, power management,
>> presence status retrival. The patchset shouldn't be merged before
>> the OPAL firmware counterpart is merged.
>
>This doesn't work. We need to have both backward and forward
>compatibility.
>
>IE. New kernels must work with old OPAL and vice-versa.
>

Yes, it's known issue as you remind me yesterday. I'll fix it in next
revision, from skiboot (I guess it would be official name to be used
now) side.

>> The kernel changes have been split into 2 parts: (A) Use the unified
>> PCI slot reset OPAL API - this patchset; (B) Changes to rpaphp.ko to
>> support PCI slot hotplug via sysfs entries for PowerPC PowerNV platform.
>
>I don't think we should be using rpaphp... we should be creating our new
>backend, there is almost no commonalities between RPA/PAPR and OPAL.
>

Ok. I'll create powernv-php as you suggested in another thread. Thank you
for your time on this.

Thanks,
Gavin

>> This patchset affects EEH, PCI reset logics, which is used mainly by
>> VFIO. A couple of cases have been tested out on P7/P8 boxes and looks
>> good: EEH on PowerNV, EEH support for guest, PCI passthrou.
>> 
>> Gavin Shan (5):
>>   powerpc/powernv: Use PCI slot reset infrastructure
>>   powerpc/powernv: Refactor ioda_eeh_reset()
>>   powerpc/powernv: Avoid do complete reset for twice
>>   powerpc/powernv: Issue fundamental reset if required
>>   powerpc/powernv: Drop opal_pci_reinit()
>> 
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/eeh.h                 |   2 +-
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h                |  31 +---
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_pe.c                   |   3 -
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-ioda.c      | 230 ++++++++++++++-----------
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c   |  24 +--
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-wrappers.S |   1 -
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c      |   5 +-
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_pseries.c   |   3 +-
>>  8 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Gavin
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