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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt | 31 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt index e75d7474322c..67a11a36270c 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Current PPC64 Linux EEH Implementation At this time, a generic EEH recovery mechanism has been implemented, so that individual device drivers do not need to be modified to support EEH recovery. This generic mechanism piggy-backs on the PCI hotplug -infrastructure, and percolates events up through the hotplug/udev +infrastructure, and percolates events up through the userspace/udev infrastructure. Followiing is a detailed description of how this is accomplished. @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ A handler for the EEH notifier_block events is implemented in drivers/pci/hotplug/pSeries_pci.c, called handle_eeh_events(). It saves the device BAR's and then calls rpaphp_unconfig_pci_adapter(). This last call causes the device driver for the card to be stopped, -which causes hotplug events to go out to user space. This triggers +which causes uevents to go out to user space. This triggers user-space scripts that might issue commands such as "ifdown eth0" for ethernet cards, and so on. This handler then sleeps for 5 seconds, hoping to give the user-space scripts enough time to complete. @@ -258,29 +258,30 @@ rpa_php_unconfig_pci_adapter() { // in rpaphp_pci.c calls pci_destroy_dev (struct pci_dev *) { calls - device_unregister (&dev->dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c + device_unregister (&dev->dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c calls - device_del(struct device * dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c + device_del(struct device * dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c calls - kobject_del() { //in /libs/kobject.c + kobject_del() { //in /libs/kobject.c calls - kobject_hotplug() { // in /libs/kobject.c + kobject_uevent() { // in /libs/kobject.c calls - kset_hotplug() { // in /lib/kobject.c + kset_uevent() { // in /lib/kobject.c calls - kset->hotplug_ops->hotplug() which is really just + kset->uevent_ops->uevent() // which is really just a call to - dev_hotplug() { // in /drivers/base/core.c + dev_uevent() { // in /drivers/base/core.c calls - dev->bus->hotplug() which is really just a call to - pci_hotplug () { // in drivers/pci/hotplug.c + dev->bus->uevent() which is really just a call to + pci_uevent () { // in drivers/pci/hotplug.c which prints device name, etc.... } } - then kset_hotplug() calls - call_usermodehelper () with - argv[0]=hotplug_path[] which is "/sbin/hotplug" - --> event to userspace, + then kobject_uevent() sends a netlink uevent to userspace + --> userspace uevent + (during early boot, nobody listens to netlink events and + kobject_uevent() executes uevent_helper[], which runs the + event process /sbin/hotplug) } } kobject_del() then calls sysfs_remove_dir(), which would |