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| author | Thomas Falcon | 2017-06-12 12:35:04 -0500 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2017-06-13 12:53:35 -0400 |
| commit | 40c9db8ad8b4b7f87e2f4a5e80cf1732f2825e6b (patch) | |
| tree | a3bfcc05ba728599f0406bef396169daebfe23d2 /arch | |
| parent | 725757aee05e51914b72f25ba2a89c43c3779574 (diff) | |
ibmvnic: Client-initiated failover
The IBM vNIC protocol provides support for the user to initiate
a failover from the client LPAR in case the current backing infrastructure
is deemed inadequate or in an error state.
Support for two H_VIOCTL sub-commands for vNIC devices are required
to implement this function. These commands are H_GET_SESSION_TOKEN
and H_SESSION_ERR_DETECTED.
"[H_GET_SESSION_TOKEN] is used to obtain a session token from a VNIC client
adapter. This token is opaque to the caller and is intended to be used in
tandem with the SESSION_ERROR_DETECTED vioctl subfunction."
"[H_SESSION_ERR_DETECTED] is used to report that the currently active
backing device for a VNIC client adapter is behaving poorly, and that
the hypervisor should attempt to fail over to a different backing device,
if one is available."
To provide tools access to this functionality the vNIC driver creates a
sysfs file that, when written to, will send a request to pHyp to failover
to a different backing device.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h index d73755fafbb0..57d38b504ff7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h @@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ #define H_DISABLE_ALL_VIO_INTS 0x0A #define H_DISABLE_VIO_INTERRUPT 0x0B #define H_ENABLE_VIO_INTERRUPT 0x0C +#define H_GET_SESSION_TOKEN 0x19 +#define H_SESSION_ERR_DETECTED 0x1A /* Platform specific hcalls, used by KVM */ |