From: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org,
geert@linux-m68k.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/le: enable RTAS events support
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:47:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5343632B.5040205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140404072750.20016.18969.stgit@bahia.local>
On 04/04/2014 02:35 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The current kernel code assumes big endian and parses RTAS events all
> wrong. The most visible effect is that we cannot honor EPOW events,
> meaning, for example, we cannot shut down a guest properly from the
> hypervisor.
>
> This new patch is largely inspired by Nathan's work: we get rid of all
> the bit fields in the RTAS event structures (even the unused ones, for
> consistency). We also introduce endian safe accessors for the fields used
> by the kernel (trivial rtas_error_type() accessor added for consistency).
>
> Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Looks good, thanks for getting this done Greg.
-Nathan
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From: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: tony@bakeyournoodle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
geert@linux-m68k.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/le: enable RTAS events support
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:47:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5343632B.5040205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140404072750.20016.18969.stgit@bahia.local>
On 04/04/2014 02:35 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The current kernel code assumes big endian and parses RTAS events all
> wrong. The most visible effect is that we cannot honor EPOW events,
> meaning, for example, we cannot shut down a guest properly from the
> hypervisor.
>
> This new patch is largely inspired by Nathan's work: we get rid of all
> the bit fields in the RTAS event structures (even the unused ones, for
> consistency). We also introduce endian safe accessors for the fields used
> by the kernel (trivial rtas_error_type() accessor added for consistency).
>
> Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Looks good, thanks for getting this done Greg.
-Nathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-08 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-04-04 7:35 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc/le: enable RTAS events support Greg Kurz
2014-04-04 7:35 ` Greg Kurz
2014-04-07 23:21 ` Stewart Smith
2014-04-07 23:21 ` Stewart Smith
2014-04-08 2:47 ` Nathan Fontenot [this message]
2014-04-08 2:47 ` Nathan Fontenot
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