[PATCH 0/5] s390/pci: automatic error recovery

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 4:49 AM Niklas Schnelle <schnelle at linux.ibm.com>
wrote:

>  I believe we might be the first
> implementation of PCI device recovery in a virtualized setting requiring
> us to
> coordinate the device reset with the hypervisor platform by issuing a
> disable
> and re-enable to the platform as well as starting the recovery following
> a platform event.
>

I recall none of the details, but SRIOV is a standardized system for
sharing a PCI device across multiple virtual machines. It has detailed info
on what the hypervisor must do, and what the local OS instance must do to
accomplish this.  It's part of the PCI standard, and its more than a decade
old now, maybe two. Being a part of the PCI standard, it was interoperable
with error recovery, to the best of my recollection. At the time it was
introduced, it got pushed very aggressively.  The x86 hypervisor vendors
were aiming at the heart of zseries, and were militant about it.

-- Linas

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