From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libacpi: report PCI slots as enabled only for hotpluggable devices
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 09:30:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5CE6BCA70200007800231C92@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190523152007.GH2373@zion.uk.xensource.com>
>>> On 23.05.19 at 17:20, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 02:57:49AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 22.05.19 at 20:10, <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com> wrote:
>> > DSDT for qemu-xen lacks _STA method of PCI slot object. If _STA method
>> > doesn't exist then the slot is assumed to be always present and active
>> > which in conjunction with _EJ0 method makes every device ejectable for
>> > an OS even if it's not the case.
>> >
>> > qemu-kvm is able to dynamically add _EJ0 method only to those slots
>> > that either have hotpluggable devices or free for PCI passthrough.
>> > As Xen lacks this capability we cannot use their way.
>> >
>> > qemu-xen-traditional DSDT has _STA method which only reports that
>> > the slot is present if there is a PCI devices hotplugged there.
>> > This is done through querying of its PCI hotplug controller.
>> > qemu-xen has similar capability that reports if device is "hotpluggable
>> > or absent" which we can use to achieve the same result.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>>
>
> Jan, FAOD since you're the maintainer I'm expecting you to push this
> patch yourself.
Sure, I have it on my list of things to push.
Jan
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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: "Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libacpi: report PCI slots as enabled only for hotpluggable devices
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 09:30:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5CE6BCA70200007800231C92@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190523153047.yIRV4qw6oPQxa03qEYg2S2XDBxPbhAWNA7GGFIFvYYU@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190523152007.GH2373@zion.uk.xensource.com>
>>> On 23.05.19 at 17:20, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 02:57:49AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 22.05.19 at 20:10, <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com> wrote:
>> > DSDT for qemu-xen lacks _STA method of PCI slot object. If _STA method
>> > doesn't exist then the slot is assumed to be always present and active
>> > which in conjunction with _EJ0 method makes every device ejectable for
>> > an OS even if it's not the case.
>> >
>> > qemu-kvm is able to dynamically add _EJ0 method only to those slots
>> > that either have hotpluggable devices or free for PCI passthrough.
>> > As Xen lacks this capability we cannot use their way.
>> >
>> > qemu-xen-traditional DSDT has _STA method which only reports that
>> > the slot is present if there is a PCI devices hotplugged there.
>> > This is done through querying of its PCI hotplug controller.
>> > qemu-xen has similar capability that reports if device is "hotpluggable
>> > or absent" which we can use to achieve the same result.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>>
>
> Jan, FAOD since you're the maintainer I'm expecting you to push this
> patch yourself.
Sure, I have it on my list of things to push.
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-23 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-22 18:10 [PATCH] libacpi: report PCI slots as enabled only for hotpluggable devices Igor Druzhinin
2019-05-22 18:10 ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Druzhinin
2019-05-23 8:57 ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-23 8:57 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-23 15:20 ` Wei Liu
2019-05-23 15:20 ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-23 15:30 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2019-05-23 15:30 ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-05 14:50 ` Ian Jackson
2019-08-05 15:51 ` Jan Beulich
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