Re: [PATCH] pseries/le: Fix another endiannes issue in RTAS call from xmon

[Laurent Dufour]

On 16/01/2015 04:02, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 15:41 -0800, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
>> On 01/15/2015 02:19 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> If this was on a powerkvm guest set-indicator should be present for
>> hotplug (DLPAR) support. However, the surveillance indicator would not
>> be implemented. I know sometimes I forget if I'm on a powervm or
>> powerkvm guest. Just a thought.
> 
> Right that does explain it. I went looking for the KVM kernel/qemu code that
> implements set-indicator but couldn't find it. Presumably it's in some branch
> other than the one I was looking at, or I was grepping for the wrong thing.
> 
> So I guess a printf there is probably not helpful, because it will fire always
> on PowerKVM (at least at the moment).

FWIW, the PAPR mentions that the surveillance indicator may not be
implemented. In that case -3 is returned.? I double checked that on my LPAR.

One option would be to warn only if the returned value is different from
0 and -3.

Cheers

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