Re: [PATCH v8 05/10] powerpc/perf: IMC pmu cpumask and cpuhotplug support

From: Madhavan Srinivasan
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 23:43:05 EST




On Friday 12 May 2017 07:48 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
* in patch 9 should opal_imc_counters_init return something other
than OPAL_SUCCESS in the case on invalid arguments? Maybe
OPAL_PARAMETER? (I think you fix this in a later patch anyway?)
So, init call will return OPAL_PARAMETER for the unsupported
domains (core and nest are supported). And if the init operation
fails for any reason, it would return OPAL_HARDWARE. And this is
documented.
(I'll comment on the skiboot one too), but I think that if the class
exists but init is a no-op, then OPAL_IMC_COUNTERS_INIT should return
OPAL_SUCCESS and just do nothing. This future proofs everything, and the
API is that one *must* call _INIT before start.
Hi stewart,

Yes. mpe did mention this in his review. And i have made the same in the v11
of the opal patchset. Currently we return OPAL_SUCCESS from _INIT
incase of type "Nest". Additionally i have also added a message to be printed
but i guess we can get away with that.

Maddy