Re: [PATCH 0/2] sriov enablement on s390

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 02:55:07PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> Hello Bjorn,
> 
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 02:34:09PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> > > On s390 we currently handle SRIOV within firmware. Which means
> > > that the PF is under firmware control and not visible to operating
> > > systems. SRIOV enablement happens within firmware and VFs are
> > > passed through to logical partitions.
> > > 
> > > I'm working on a new mode were the PF is under operating system
> > > control (including SRIOV enablement). However we still need
> > > firmware support to access the VFs. The way this is supposed
> > > to work is that when firmware traps the SRIOV enablement it
> > > will present machine checks to the logical partition that
> > > triggered the SRIOV enablement and provide the VFs via hotplug
> > > events.
> > > 
> > > The problem I'm faced with is that the VF detection code in
> > > sriov_enable leads to unusable functions in s390.
> > 
> > We're moving away from the weak function implementation style.  Can
> > you take a look at Arnd's work here, which uses pci_host_bridge
> > callbacks instead?
> > 
> >   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180817102645.3839621-1-arnd@xxxxxxxx
> 
> What's the status of Arnd's patches - will they go upstream in the next
> couple of versions?

I hope so [1].  IIRC Arnd mentioned doing some minor updates, so I'm
waiting on that.

> What about my patches that I rebased on Arnd's branch
> will they be considered?

Definitely.  From my point of view they're just lined up behind Arnd's
patches.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20181002205903.GD120535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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