Re: [PATCH v3 21/27] powerpc/powernv/pmem: Add an IOCTL to request controller health & perf data

From: Alastair D'Silva
Date: Mon Mar 02 2020 - 00:41:12 EST


On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 17:12 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 21/2/20 2:27 pm, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When health & performance data is requested from the controller,
> > it responds with an error log containing the requested information.
> >
> > This patch allows the request to me issued via an IOCTL.
>
> A better explanation would be good - this IOCTL triggers a request
> to
> the controller to collect controller health/perf data, and the
> controller will later respond with an error log that can be picked
> up
> via the error log IOCTL that you've defined earlier.
>
>

Ok

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Alastair D'Silva
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