Re: [PATCH] xen-pciback: notify hypervisor about devicesintended to be assigned to guests

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Feb 07 2013 - 04:00:55 EST


>>> On 06.02.13 at 18:12, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> + if (pci_find_capability(dev, PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX)) {
>> + struct physdev_pci_device ppdev = {
>> + .seg = pci_domain_nr(dev->bus),
>> + .bus = dev->bus->number,
>> + .devfn = dev->devfn
>> + };
>> + int err = HYPERVISOR_physdev_op(PHYSDEVOP_release_msix,
>> + &ppdev);
>> +
>> + if (err)
>> + dev_warn(&dev->dev, "MSI-X release failed (%d)\n",
>> + err);
>> + }
>
> Perhaps it should be more off:
>
> if (err) {
> if (err == -ENOSYS)
> dev_info(&dev->dev,"MSI-X release
> hypercall not supported.");
> else
> dev_warn(&dev->dev, "MSI-X release failed (%d)\n",
> err);
>

Why would you want to special case this? The more that _really_
old hypervisors returned -EINVAL instead of -ENOSYS here?

Jan

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