Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/12] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

2016-02-28 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:58:54AM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 02/26/2016 10:31 PM, David Gibson wrote: > >At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface > >on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with > >vfio_container_ioctl(). That's a p

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/12] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

2016-02-28 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 02/26/2016 10:31 PM, David Gibson wrote: At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with vfio_container_ioctl(). That's a poorly designed interface with unclear semantics about exactly what can be opera

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/12] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

2016-02-26 Thread David Gibson
At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with vfio_container_ioctl(). That's a poorly designed interface with unclear semantics about exactly what can be operated on. In particular it operates on a single