From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
Vasilis Liaskovitis <vasilis.liaskovitis@profitbricks.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com,
wency@cn.fujitsu.com, lenb@kernel.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Huxinwei <huxinwei@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] acpi: Introduce prepare_remove device operation
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:19:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355534397.18964.304.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C9F0F5.40307@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 23:15 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 10:42 PM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 22:34 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> >> On 12/08/2012 09:08 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 13:57 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> >>>> On 2012-12-7 10:57, Toshi Kani wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 00:40 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
:
> >>>
> >>>> 2) an ACPI based hotplug manager driver, which is a platform independent
> >>>> driver and manages all hotplug slot created by the slot driver.
> >>>
> >>> It is surely impressive work, but I think is is a bit overdoing. I
> >>> expect hot-pluggable servers come with management console and/or GUI
> >>> where a user can manage hardware units and initiate hot-plug operations.
> >>> I do not think the kernel needs to step into such area since it tends to
> >>> be platform-specific.
> >> One of the major usages of this feature is for testing.
> >> It will be hard for OSVs and OEMs to verify hotplug functionalities if it could
> >> only be tested by physical hotplug or through management console. So to pave the
> >> way for hotplug, we need to provide a mechanism for OEMs and OSVs to execute
> >> auto stress tests for hotplug functionalities.
> >
> > Yes, but such OS->FW interface is platform-specific. Some platforms use
> > IPMI for the OS to communicate with the management console. In this
> > case, an OEM-specific command can be used to request a hotplug through
> > IPMI. Some platforms may also support test programs to run on the
> > management console for validations.
> >
> > For early development testing, Yinghai's SCI emulation patch can be used
> > to emulate hotplug events from the OS. It would be part of the kernel
> > debugging features once this patch is accepted.
> Hi Toshi,
> ACPI 5.0 has provided some mechanism to normalize the way to issue
> RAS related requests to firmware. I hope ACPI 5.x will define some standardized
> ways based on the PCC defined in 5.0. If needed, we may provide platform
> specific methods for them too.
Thanks for the pointer! Yeah, the spec purposely does not define the
command. When we support PCC, we will need to provide a way for user
app or oem module to supply a payload.
Thanks,
-Toshi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-15 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-23 17:50 [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] acpi: Introduce prepare_remove device operation Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-23 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] acpi: Introduce prepare_remove operation in acpi_device_ops Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-27 0:10 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-27 18:36 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-27 23:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-23 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] acpi_memhotplug: Add prepare_remove operation Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-24 16:23 ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-23 17:50 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] acpi_memhotplug: Allow eject to proceed on rebind scenario Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-24 16:20 ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-26 8:36 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-26 9:11 ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-27 0:19 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-27 18:32 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-27 22:03 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-27 23:41 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 16:01 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-28 18:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 21:02 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-28 21:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 21:40 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-28 22:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 22:04 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-28 22:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 22:16 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-28 22:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 22:46 ` Greg KH
2012-11-28 23:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 23:10 ` Greg KH
2012-11-28 23:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 23:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 1:02 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 1:15 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 10:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 11:30 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-29 16:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 17:56 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 20:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 20:38 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 21:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 21:46 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 22:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 23:17 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-30 0:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-30 1:09 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 16:43 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 11:04 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-11-29 17:44 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-06 9:30 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-12-06 12:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-12-06 15:41 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-06 20:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 11:05 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] acpi: Introduce prepare_remove device operation Hanjun Guo
2012-11-28 18:41 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 4:48 ` Hanjun Guo
2012-11-29 22:27 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-03 4:25 ` Hanjun Guo
2012-12-04 0:10 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-04 9:16 ` Hanjun Guo
2012-12-04 23:23 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-05 12:10 ` Hanjun Guo
2012-12-05 22:31 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-06 16:47 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-07 2:25 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-06 16:40 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 20:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-12-07 2:57 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-07 5:57 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-08 1:08 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-11 14:34 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-13 14:42 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-13 15:15 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-15 1:19 ` Toshi Kani [this message]
2012-11-29 10:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 11:36 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-12-06 16:59 ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-29 17:03 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 20:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-29 20:39 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 20:56 ` Toshi Kani
2012-11-29 21:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-12-06 17:10 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 17:07 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 17:01 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 16:56 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 16:00 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 16:03 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-06 16:25 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 16:31 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-06 16:52 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 17:09 ` Toshi Kani
2012-12-06 17:30 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 17:28 ` Toshi Kani
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