From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH2/11] Add PRRN Event Handler
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:51:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314085155.GB9841@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513AB3C9.6010302@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 10:00:09PM -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> From: Jesse Larrew <jlarrew@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> A PRRN event is signaled via the RTAS event-scan mechanism, which
> returns a Hot Plug Event message "fixed part" indicating "Platform
> Resource Reassignment". In response to the Hot Plug Event message,
> we must call ibm,update-nodes to determine which resources were
> reassigned and then ibm,update-properties to obtain the new affinity
> information about those resources.
>
> The PRRN event-scan RTAS message contains only the "fixed part" with
> the "Type" field set to the value 160 and no Extended Event Log. The
> four-byte Extended Event Log Length field is repurposed (since no
> Extended Event Log message is included) to pass the "scope" parameter
> that causes the ibm,update-nodes to return the nodes affected by the
> specific resource reassignment.
>
> This patch adds a handler in rtasd for PRRN RTAS events. The function
> pseries_devicetree_update() (from mobility.c) is used to make the
> ibm,update-nodes/ibm,update-properties RTAS calls. Updating the NUMA maps
> (handled by a subsequent patch) will require significant processing,
> so pseries_devicetree_update() is called from an asynchronous workqueue
> to allow rtasd to continue processing events.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[snip]
> +static s32 update_scope;
Do we have a guarantee that there can only be one of these events
outstanding at a time? If so it would be nice to document that in a
comment next to this declaration, so we know in future that this is
why this is safe.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-14 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-09 3:56 [PATCH 0/11] NUMA CPU Reconfiguration using PRRN Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09 3:59 ` [PATCH 1/11] Expose pseries devicetree_update() Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 8:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-09 4:00 ` [PATCH2/11] Add PRRN Event Handler Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 8:51 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2013-03-19 18:01 ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09 4:01 ` [PATCH 3/11] Move architecture vector definitions to prom.h Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 8:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-09 4:02 ` [PATCH 4/11] Add platform_has_feature() Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 8:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-19 18:03 ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 8:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-19 18:05 ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 13:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-03-19 18:15 ` Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-22 3:56 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-03-09 4:03 ` [PATCH 5/11] Update numa.c to use platform_has_feature() Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09 4:04 ` [PATCH 6/11] Update CPU maps Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 7/11] Use stop machine to update cpu maps Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09 4:07 ` [PATCH 8/11] Update numa cpu vdso info Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-14 9:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-09 4:08 ` [PATCH 9/11] Re-enable Virtual Private Home Node capabilities Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09 4:08 ` [PATCH 10/11] Enable PRRN Nathan Fontenot
2013-03-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 11/11] Add /proc interface to control topology updates Nathan Fontenot
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