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At the moment if the PUT_TCE{_INDIRECT} handlers fail to update
the hardware tables, we print a warning once, clear the entry and
continue. This is so as at the time the assumption was that if
a VFIO device is hotplugged into the guest, and the userspace replays
virtual DMA mappings (i.e. TCEs) to the hardware tables and if this fails,
then there is nothing useful we can do about it.
However the assumption is not valid as these handlers are not called for
TCE replay (VFIO ioctl interface is used for that) and these handlers
are for new TCEs.
This returns an error to the guest if there is a request which cannot be
processed. By now the only possible failure must be H_TOO_HARD.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.