From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/papr_scm: Reduce error severity if nvdimm stats inaccessible
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:24:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210414212417.GC1904484@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf9kkfaj.fsf@vajain21.in.ibm.com>
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 09:51:40PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> Thanks for looking into this patch Ira,
>
> Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:10:26PM +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> >> Currently drc_pmem_qeury_stats() generates a dev_err in case
> >> "Enable Performance Information Collection" feature is disabled from
> >> HMC. The error is of the form below:
> >>
> >> papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44104001: Failed to query
> >> performance stats, Err:-10
> >>
> >> This error message confuses users as it implies a possible problem
> >> with the nvdimm even though its due to a disabled feature.
> >>
> >> So we fix this by explicitly handling the H_AUTHORITY error from the
> >> H_SCM_PERFORMANCE_STATS hcall and generating a warning instead of an
> >> error, saying that "Performance stats in-accessible".
> >>
> >> Fixes: 2d02bf835e57('powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP')
> >> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
> >> ---
> >> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 3 +++
> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
> >> index 835163f54244..9216424f8be3 100644
> >> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
> >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
> >> @@ -277,6 +277,9 @@ static ssize_t drc_pmem_query_stats(struct papr_scm_priv *p,
> >> dev_err(&p->pdev->dev,
> >> "Unknown performance stats, Err:0x%016lX\n", ret[0]);
> >> return -ENOENT;
> >> + } else if (rc == H_AUTHORITY) {
> >> + dev_warn(&p->pdev->dev, "Performance stats in-accessible");
> >> + return -EPERM;
> >
> > Is this because of a disabled feature or because of permissions?
>
> Its because of a disabled feature that revokes permission for a guest to
> retrieve performance statistics.
>
> The feature is called "Enable Performance Information Collection" and
> once disabled the hcall H_SCM_PERFORMANCE_STATS returns an error
> H_AUTHORITY indicating that the guest doesn't have permission to retrieve
> performance statistics.
In that case would it be appropriate to have the error message indicate a
permission issue?
Something like 'permission denied'?
Ira
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-14 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-14 12:40 [PATCH] powerpc/papr_scm: Reduce error severity if nvdimm stats inaccessible Vaibhav Jain
2021-04-14 15:36 ` Ira Weiny
2021-04-14 16:21 ` Vaibhav Jain
2021-04-14 21:24 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2021-04-15 11:48 ` Vaibhav Jain
2021-04-18 7:58 ` kajoljain
2021-04-14 21:32 ` Dan Williams
2021-04-15 11:43 ` Vaibhav Jain
2021-04-15 17:03 ` Dan Williams
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