Re: [PATCH v3 14/18] cxl: Support to flash a new image on the adapter from a guest

[Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>]

Excerpts from christophe lombard's message of 2016-02-16 07:53:54 +1100:
> >> +void cxl_guest_reload_module(struct cxl *adapter)
> >> +{
> >> +    struct platform_device *pdev;
> >> +    int afu;
> >> +
> >> +    for (afu = 0; afu < adapter->slices; afu++)
> >> +        cxl_guest_remove_afu(adapter->afu[afu]);
> > Should we possibly have done this part earlier?
> >
> > I'd think it should be done before any operation that might lead to us
> > resetting the card. Probably the safest thing is to do it when the first
> > chunk is handed to the kernel so we can make sure it's safe, and return
> > -EBUSY if any of the AFUs are still in use.
> Not necessary. PowerVM - phyp - refuses any type of action when an operation
> of download/validation is in progress. The reverse is true as well.

I was more thinking about what could happen in the short window between
when phyp resets the card and is potentially accepting new operations
and when we remove the old AFUs from Linux - could anything bad happen
if someone e.g. did an attach at that moment and Linux still had
outdated info left over from the previous AFU?

Cheers,
-Ian