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-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt31
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
index e75d7474322..67a11a36270 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Current PPC64 Linux EEH Implementation
At this time, a generic EEH recovery mechanism has been implemented,
so that individual device drivers do not need to be modified to support
EEH recovery. This generic mechanism piggy-backs on the PCI hotplug
-infrastructure, and percolates events up through the hotplug/udev
+infrastructure, and percolates events up through the userspace/udev
infrastructure. Followiing is a detailed description of how this is
accomplished.
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ A handler for the EEH notifier_block events is implemented in
drivers/pci/hotplug/pSeries_pci.c, called handle_eeh_events().
It saves the device BAR's and then calls rpaphp_unconfig_pci_adapter().
This last call causes the device driver for the card to be stopped,
-which causes hotplug events to go out to user space. This triggers
+which causes uevents to go out to user space. This triggers
user-space scripts that might issue commands such as "ifdown eth0"
for ethernet cards, and so on. This handler then sleeps for 5 seconds,
hoping to give the user-space scripts enough time to complete.
@@ -258,29 +258,30 @@ rpa_php_unconfig_pci_adapter() { // in rpaphp_pci.c
calls
pci_destroy_dev (struct pci_dev *) {
calls
- device_unregister (&dev->dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c
+ device_unregister (&dev->dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c
calls
- device_del(struct device * dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c
+ device_del(struct device * dev) { // in /drivers/base/core.c
calls
- kobject_del() { //in /libs/kobject.c
+ kobject_del() { //in /libs/kobject.c
calls
- kobject_hotplug() { // in /libs/kobject.c
+ kobject_uevent() { // in /libs/kobject.c
calls
- kset_hotplug() { // in /lib/kobject.c
+ kset_uevent() { // in /lib/kobject.c
calls
- kset->hotplug_ops->hotplug() which is really just
+ kset->uevent_ops->uevent() // which is really just
a call to
- dev_hotplug() { // in /drivers/base/core.c
+ dev_uevent() { // in /drivers/base/core.c
calls
- dev->bus->hotplug() which is really just a call to
- pci_hotplug () { // in drivers/pci/hotplug.c
+ dev->bus->uevent() which is really just a call to
+ pci_uevent () { // in drivers/pci/hotplug.c
which prints device name, etc....
}
}
- then kset_hotplug() calls
- call_usermodehelper () with
- argv[0]=hotplug_path[] which is "/sbin/hotplug"
- --> event to userspace,
+ then kobject_uevent() sends a netlink uevent to userspace
+ --> userspace uevent
+ (during early boot, nobody listens to netlink events and
+ kobject_uevent() executes uevent_helper[], which runs the
+ event process /sbin/hotplug)
}
}
kobject_del() then calls sysfs_remove_dir(), which would