[PATCH 0/2] sriov enablement on s390

[Sebastian Ott]

Hello Bjorn,

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 02:34:09PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> > On s390 we currently handle SRIOV within firmware. Which means
> > that the PF is under firmware control and not visible to operating
> > systems. SRIOV enablement happens within firmware and VFs are
> > passed through to logical partitions.
> > 
> > I'm working on a new mode were the PF is under operating system
> > control (including SRIOV enablement). However we still need
> > firmware support to access the VFs. The way this is supposed
> > to work is that when firmware traps the SRIOV enablement it
> > will present machine checks to the logical partition that
> > triggered the SRIOV enablement and provide the VFs via hotplug
> > events.
> > 
> > The problem I'm faced with is that the VF detection code in
> > sriov_enable leads to unusable functions in s390.
> 
> We're moving away from the weak function implementation style.  Can
> you take a look at Arnd's work here, which uses pci_host_bridge
> callbacks instead?
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180817102645.3839621-1-arnd@arndb.de

What's the status of Arnd's patches - will they go upstream in the next
couple of versions? What about my patches that I rebased on Arnd's branch
will they be considered?

Regards,
Sebastian