linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen-pciback: notify hypervisor about devices intended to be assigned to guests

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Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:00:42 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	"xen-devel" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-pciback: notify hypervisor about devices
 intended to be assigned to guests

>>> On 06.02.13 at 18:12, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
>> +	if (pci_find_capability(dev, PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX)) {
>> +		struct physdev_pci_device ppdev = {
>> +			.seg = pci_domain_nr(dev->bus),
>> +			.bus = dev->bus->number,
>> +			.devfn = dev->devfn
>> +		};
>> +		int err = HYPERVISOR_physdev_op(PHYSDEVOP_release_msix,
>> +						&ppdev);
>> +
>> +		if (err)
>> +			dev_warn(&dev->dev, "MSI-X release failed (%d)\n",
>> +				 err);
>> +	}
> 
> Perhaps it should be more off:
> 
> 		if (err) {
> 			if (err == -ENOSYS)
> 				dev_info(&dev->dev,"MSI-X release
> hypercall not supported.");
> 			else
> 				dev_warn(&dev->dev, "MSI-X release failed (%d)\n",
> 					 err);
> 				

Why would you want to special case this? The more that _really_
old hypervisors returned -EINVAL instead of -ENOSYS here?

Jan

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