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From: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
	Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bsingharora@gmail.com, anton@samba.org,
	sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mikey@neuling.org,
	eranian@google.com, hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/10] powerpc/perf: IMC pmu cpumask and cpuhotplug support
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 09:11:51 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42effb3a-e747-97bf-2f78-255e94bbcf47@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a86iizre.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>



On Friday 12 May 2017 07:48 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>>       * in patch 9 should opal_imc_counters_init return something other
>>>         than OPAL_SUCCESS in the case on invalid arguments? Maybe
>>>         OPAL_PARAMETER? (I think you fix this in a later patch anyway?)
>> So, init call will return OPAL_PARAMETER for the unsupported
>> domains (core and nest are supported). And if the init operation
>> fails for any reason, it would return OPAL_HARDWARE. And this is
>> documented.
> (I'll comment on the skiboot one too), but I think that if the class
> exists but init is a no-op, then OPAL_IMC_COUNTERS_INIT should return
> OPAL_SUCCESS and just do nothing. This future proofs everything, and the
> API is that one *must* call _INIT before start.
Hi stewart,

Yes. mpe did mention this in his review. And i have made the same in the v11
of the opal patchset. Currently we return OPAL_SUCCESS from _INIT
incase of type "Nest". Additionally i have also added a message to be 
printed
  but i guess we can get away with that.

Maddy

>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-12  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-04 14:19 [PATCH v8 00/10] IMC Instrumentation Support Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 01/10] powerpc/powernv: Data structure and macros definitions for IMC Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 02/10] powerpc/powernv: Autoload IMC device driver module Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-11  7:49   ` Stewart Smith
2017-05-12  4:36     ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 03/10] powerpc/powernv: Detect supported IMC units and its events Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 04/10] powerpc/perf: Add generic IMC pmu groupand event functions Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 05/10] powerpc/perf: IMC pmu cpumask and cpuhotplug support Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-08 14:12   ` Daniel Axtens
2017-05-09  6:10     ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2017-05-12  2:18       ` Stewart Smith
2017-05-12  3:33         ` Michael Ellerman
2017-05-12  3:50           ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2017-05-12  3:41         ` Madhavan Srinivasan [this message]
2017-05-09 10:54     ` Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-10 12:09   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-10 23:40     ` Stephen Rothwell
2017-05-11  8:39       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-15 10:12     ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2017-05-15 11:06       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 06/10] powerpc/powernv: Core IMC events detection Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 07/10] powerpc/perf: PMU functions for Core IMC and hotplugging Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-17  7:57   ` Stewart Smith
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 08/10] powerpc/powernv: Thread IMC events detection Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 09/10] powerpc/perf: Thread IMC PMU functions Anju T Sudhakar
2017-05-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v8 10/10] powerpc/perf: Thread imc cpuhotplug support Anju T Sudhakar

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