Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 0/5] spapr_pci: various cleanups and improvements

[David Gibson]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 05:05:46PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Before resuming the huge work on PHB hotplug, here are some patches
> that maybe worth to apply.
> 
> Patches 1 to 3 are basic improvements.

I've applied these to ppc-for-2.11.

> Patch 4 and 5 may be a bit controversial. Everywhere in the spapr
> code where we build an FDT portion, libfdt failures cause QEMU to
> exit, even on hotplug paths. Only spapr_pci doesn't do that and
> propagates the error instead. My understanding is that a failure
> when building the FDT is likely to happen because of a bug in QEMU.

Still looking at these.

> 
> Hence the choice to convert spapr_pci to do like the others. We may
> even consider changing _FDT() to abort() instead of exit().
> 
> Alternatively, if libfdt failures shouldn't be necessarily fatal,
> especially on post-realize paths, then we should probably introduce
> an _FDT_ERR() helper to propagate errors. And use it in may places
> where we currently terminate QEMU: memory hotplug, CPU hotplug, CAS,
> machine reset...
> 

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