[PATCH v4 4/4] drivers/vfio: Remove duplicated PE states

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:59:03AM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 06:46:28PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:20 +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
> >> The set of constants for PE states defined in uapi/linux/vfio.h is
> >> duplicated to uapi/asm/eeh.h. The patch removes the set from the
> >> former.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> ---
> >>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 5 -----
> >>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> >> index d81c17f..3fd1e86 100644
> >> --- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> >> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> >> @@ -492,11 +492,6 @@ struct vfio_eeh_pe_op {
> >>  #define VFIO_EEH_PE_UNFREEZE_IO		2	/* Enable IO for frozen PE   */
> >>  #define VFIO_EEH_PE_UNFREEZE_DMA	3	/* Enable DMA for frozen PE  */
> >>  #define VFIO_EEH_PE_GET_STATE		4	/* PE state retrieval        */
> >> -#define  VFIO_EEH_PE_STATE_NORMAL	0	/* PE in functional state    */
> >> -#define  VFIO_EEH_PE_STATE_RESET	1	/* PE reset in progress      */
> >> -#define  VFIO_EEH_PE_STATE_STOPPED	2	/* Stopped DMA and IO        */
> >> -#define  VFIO_EEH_PE_STATE_STOPPED_DMA	4	/* Stopped DMA only          */
> >> -#define  VFIO_EEH_PE_STATE_UNAVAIL	5	/* State unavailable         */
> >>  #define VFIO_EEH_PE_RESET_DEACTIVATE	5	/* Deassert PE reset         */
> >>  #define VFIO_EEH_PE_RESET_HOT		6	/* Assert hot reset          */
> >>  #define VFIO_EEH_PE_RESET_FUNDAMENTAL	7	/* Assert fundamental reset  */
> >
> >How do you know that nobody depends on these defines?  I thought the
> >suggestion was to use the EEH_* defines for error injection, not to
> >remove existing VFIO_EEH_* defines.  You could certainly redefine these
> >in terms of EEH_* defines instead.  Thanks,
> >
> 
> QEMU should be the first user to utilize the EEH capability exposed by
> the host kernel, and I believe QEMU doesn't use those constants yet.
> So it's right time to move those constants to uapi/asm/eeh.h. Once some
> one starts to use them, it's impossible to do so.

That's a good point, actually.  This seems like a reasonable risk
under the cirucmstances to me.

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