linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 21/27] powerpc/powernv/pmem: Add an IOCTL to request controller health & perf data

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Message-Id: <3ecb49e3-8828-ab7b-4391-5dd6127e76e0@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Mar 2020 12:06:32 +0100
From:   Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@....ibm.com>, alastair@...ilva.org
Cc:     "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@...abs.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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        Cédric Le Goater <clg@...d.org>,
        Anju T Sudhakar <anju@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kurz <groug@...d.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 21/27] powerpc/powernv/pmem: Add an IOCTL to request
 controller health & perf data



Le 28/02/2020 à 07:12, Andrew Donnellan a écrit :
> On 21/2/20 2:27 pm, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
>> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>
>>
>> When health & performance data is requested from the controller,
>> it responds with an error log containing the requested information.
>>
>> This patch allows the request to me issued via an IOCTL.
> 
> A better explanation would be good - this IOCTL triggers a request to 
> the controller to collect controller health/perf data, and the 
> controller will later respond with an error log that can be picked up 
> via the error log IOCTL that you've defined earlier.

And even more precisely (to also check my understanding):

 > this IOCTL triggers a request to
 > the controller to collect controller health/perf data, and the
 > controller will later respond

by raising an interrupt to let the user app know that

 > an error log that can be picked up
 > via the error log IOCTL that you've defined earlier.


The rest of the patch looks ok to me.

   Fred