> On Mar 4, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In order to support cxlflash in the PowerVM environment, underlying > hypervisor APIs have imposed a kernel API ordering change. > > For the superpipe access to LUN, user applications need a context. > The cxlflash module creates this context by making a sequence of > cxl calls. In the current code, a context is initialized via > cxl_dev_context_init() followed by cxl_process_element(), a function > that obtains the process element id. Finally, cxl_start_work() > is called to attach the process element. > > In the PowerVM environment, a process element id cannot be obtained > from the hypervisor until the process element is attached. The > cxlflash module is unable to create contexts without a valid > process element id. > > To fix this problem, cxl_start_work() is called before obtaining > the process element id. > > Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
