Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] powerpc/powernv/eeh: Map VFIO EEH error injection to OPAL

Sourabh Jain <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 00:01:27 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded
Message-ID <09563f43-9514-4fc2-9e90-f9ad9f528bea__46258.9013668307$1785868326$gmane$org@linux.ibm.com>

As per the title this series is about RTAS-based error injection on pSeries.

Then why do we have powernv/opal patch part of this series?

- Sourabh Jain


On 21/07/26 09:08, Narayana Murty N wrote:
> The EEH error-injection interface passes the generic userspace ABI
> values EEH_ERR_TYPE_32 and EEH_ERR_TYPE_64 to the platform backend.
>
> The PowerNV backend currently compares those generic values directly
> with OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR and
> OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR64. Although the corresponding values
> are currently numerically identical, this implicitly couples the
> generic EEH ABI to the OPAL firmware encoding.
>
> Explicitly translate the generic EEH error types to their OPAL
> equivalents in pnv_eeh_err_inject(). Keep the platform-specific
> encoding within the PowerNV backend and reject unsupported generic
> types with -EINVAL.
>
> No userspace ABI values are changed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Narayana Murty N <[email protected]>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c
> index db3370d1673c..b0bcd014a133 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/eeh-powernv.c
> @@ -1169,11 +1169,39 @@ static int pnv_eeh_err_inject(struct eeh_pe *pe, int type, int func,
>   	struct pnv_phb *phb = hose->private_data;
>   	s64 rc;
>   
> -	if (type != OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR &&
> -	    type != OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR64) {
> -		pr_warn("%s: Invalid error type %d\n",
> +	/*
> +	 * Map generic EEH error-type ABI values to OPAL-specific type codes.
> +	 * EEH_ERR_TYPE_32 and EEH_ERR_TYPE_64 are the only types supported by
> +	 * OPAL.  Additional generic types defined in the UAPI header are valid
> +	 * for pSeries RTAS but unsupported here; return -EOPNOTSUPP for those.
> +	 * Unknown or invalid values return -EINVAL.
> +	 *
> +	 * Note: currently OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR  == 0 ==
> +	 * EEH_ERR_TYPE_32 and OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR64 == 1 ==
> +	 * EEH_ERR_TYPE_64, but the explicit switch makes the coupling
> +	 * visible and allows the values to diverge independently.
> +	 */
> +	switch (type) {
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_32:
> +		type = OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR;
> +		break;
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_64:
> +		type = OPAL_ERR_INJECT_TYPE_IOA_BUS_ERR64;
> +		break;
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_RECOVERED_SPECIAL_EVENT:
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_CORRUPTED_PAGE:
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_CORRUPTED_DCACHE_START:
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_CORRUPTED_DCACHE_END:
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_CORRUPTED_ICACHE_START:
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_CORRUPTED_ICACHE_END:
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_CORRUPTED_TLB_START:
> +	case EEH_ERR_TYPE_CORRUPTED_TLB_END:
> +		pr_warn("%s: EEH error type %d not supported by OPAL\n",
>   			__func__, type);
> -		return -ERANGE;
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +	default:
> +		pr_warn("%s: unsupported EEH error type %d\n", __func__, type);
> +		return -EINVAL;
>   	}
>   
>   	if (func < OPAL_ERR_INJECT_FUNC_IOA_LD_MEM_ADDR ||