[PATCH 3/3] powerpc/eeh: Synchronize recovery in host/guest

[Gavin Shan]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:03:20PM +1100, Russell Currey wrote:
>On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 11:04 +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> When passing through SRIOV VFs to guest, we possibly encounter EEH
>> error on PF. In this case, the VF PEs are put into frozen state.
>> The error could be reported to guest before it's captured by the
>> host. That means the guest could attempt to recover errors on VFs
>> before host gets chance to recover errors on PFs. The VFs won't be
>> recovered successfully.
>> 
>> This enforces the recovery order for above case: the recovery on
>> child PE in guest is hold until the recovery on parent PE in host
>> is completed.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c
>> index fd9c782..42bd546 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c
>> @@ -1541,6 +1541,17 @@ int eeh_pe_get_state(struct eeh_pe *pe)
>>  	if (!eeh_ops || !eeh_ops->get_state)
>>  		return -ENOENT;
>>  
>> +	/*
>> +	 * If the parent PE, which is owned by host kernel, is
>> experiencing
>> +	 * error recovery. We should return temporarily unavailable PE
>> state
>> +	 * so that the recovery on guest side is suspended until the
>> error
>> +	 * recovery is completed on host side.
>> +	 */
>
>Hi Gavin,
>
>I think this could be worded a little better.  For example:
>
>/*
> * If the parent PE is owned by the host kernel and is undergoing
> * error recovery, we should return the PE state as temporarily
> * unavailable so that the error recovery on the guest is suspended
> * until the recovery completes on the host.
> */
>

Yes, it will be integrated to v2. Thanks for review.

>> +	if (pe->parent &&
>> +	    !(pe->state & EEH_PE_REMOVED) &&
>> +	    (pe->parent->state & (EEH_PE_ISOLATED | EEH_PE_RECOVERING)))
>> +		return EEH_PE_STATE_UNAVAIL;
>> +
>>  	result = eeh_ops->get_state(pe, NULL);
>>  	rst_active = !!(result & EEH_STATE_RESET_ACTIVE);
>>  	dma_en = !!(result & EEH_STATE_DMA_ENABLED);
>

Thanks,
Gavin