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authorChristophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-04-22 15:39:22 +0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-05-11 21:54:11 +1000
commit266eab8f32cc43b688c2e9aaab63c2565a3998c2 (patch)
tree3170b67c1bdd3484fa934695beb50fcea4dc3921 /kernel/kexec.c
parent7a0d85d313c2066712e530e668bc02bb741a685c (diff)
cxl: Check periodically the coherent platform function's state
In the PowerVM environment, the PHYP CoherentAccel component manages the state of the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface adapter and virtualizes CAPI resources, handles CAPP, PSL, PSL Slice errors - and interrupts - and provides a new set of hcalls for the OS APIs to utilize Accelerator Function Unit (AFU). During the course of operation, a coherent platform function can encounter errors. Some possible reason for errors are: • Hardware recoverable and unrecoverable errors • Transient and over-threshold correctable errors PHYP implements its own state model for the coherent platform function. The state of the AFU is available through a hcall. The current implementation of the cxl driver, for the PowerVM environment, checks this state of the AFU only when an action is requested - open a device, ioctl command, memory map, attach/detach a process - from an external driver - cxlflash, libcxl. If an error is detected the cxl driver handles the error according the content of the Power Architecture Platform Requirements document. But in case of low-level troubles (or error injection), the PHYP component may reset the card and change the AFU state. The PHYP interface doesn't provide any way to be notified when that happens thus implies that the cxl driver: • cannot handle immediatly the state change of the AFU. • cannot notify other drivers (cxlflash, ...) The purpose of this patch is to wake up the cpu periodically to check the current state of each AFU and to see if we need to enter an error recovery path. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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