An application has come up that has a device sitting right on the IPMB
that would like to communicate with the BMC on the IPMB using normal
IPMI commands.
Sending these commands and handling the responses is easy enough, no
modifications are needed to the IPMI infrastructure. But if this is an
application that also needs to receive IPMB commands and respond, some
way is needed to handle these incoming commands and send the responses.
Currently, the IPMI message handler only sends commands to the interface
and only receives responses from interface. This change extends the
interface to receive commands/responses and send commands/responses.
These are formatted differently in support of receiving/sending IPMB
messages directly.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Tested-by: Andrew Manley <andrew.manley@sealingtech.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Manley <andrew.manley@sealingtech.com>
If something has the IPMI driver open, don't allow the device
module to be unloaded. Before it would unload and the user would
get errors on use.
This change is made on user request, and it makes it consistent
with the I2C driver, which has the same behavior.
It does change things a little bit with respect to kernel users.
If the ACPI or IPMI watchdog (or any other kernel user) has
created a user, then the device module cannot be unloaded. Before
it could be unloaded,
This does not affect hot-plug. If the device goes away (it's on
something removable that is removed or is hot-removed via sysfs)
then it still behaves as it did before.
Reported-by: tony camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Tested-by: tony camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
The code to tell the lower layer to enable or disable watching for
certain things was lazy in disabling, it waited until a timer tick
to see if a disable was necessary. Not a really big deal, but it
could be improved.
Modify the code to enable and disable watching immediately and don't
do it from the background timer any more.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Tested-by: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel@cavium.com>
The IPMI driver has a mechanism to tell the lower layers it needs
to watch for messages, commands, and watchdogs (so it doesn't
needlessly poll). However, it needed some extensions, it needed
a way to tell what is being waited for so it could set the timeout
appropriately.
The update to the lower layer was also being done once a second
at best because it was done in the main timeout handler. However,
if a command is sent and a response message is coming back,
it needed to be started immediately. So modify the code to
update immediately if it needs to be enabled. Disable is still
lazy.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Tested-by: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel@cavium.com>
Since things that IPMI uses can be hot-swapped, the users and
interfaces really need to be able to handle this.
Add the functions so the users and interfaces can implement
them, the actual function will be added after everything is
ready.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Currently, ipmi_demagle_device_id requires a full response buffer in its
data argument. This means we can't use it to parse a response in a
struct ipmi_recv_msg, which has the netfn and cmd as separate bytes.
This change alters the definition and users of ipmi_demangle_device_id
to use a split netfn, cmd and data buffer, so it can be used with
non-sequential responses.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Fixed the ipmi_ssif.c and ipmi_si_intf.c changes to use data from the
response, not the data from the message, when passing info to the
ipmi_demangle_device_id() function.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
When flushing queued messages in run-to-completion mode,
smi_event_handler() is recursively called.
flush_messages()
smi_event_handler()
handle_transaction_done()
deliver_recv_msg()
ipmi_smi_msg_received()
smi_recv_tasklet()
sender()
flush_messages()
smi_event_handler()
...
The depth of the recursive call depends on the number of queued
messages, so it can cause a stack overflow if many messages have
been queued.
To solve this problem, this patch removes flush_messages()
from sender()@ipmi_si_intf.c. Instead, add flush_messages() to
caller side of sender() if needed. Additionally, to implement this,
add new handler flush_messages to struct ipmi_smi_handlers.
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Fixed up a comment and some spacing issues.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
The IPMI driver would wake up periodically looking for events and
watchdog pretimeouts. If there is nothing waiting for these events,
it's really kind of pointless to be checking for them. So modify the
driver so the message handler can pass down if it needs the lower layer
to be waiting for these. Modify the system interface lower layer to
turn off all timer and thread activity if the upper layer doesn't need
anything and it is not currently handling messages. And modify the
message handler to not restart the timer if its timer is not needed.
The timers and kthread will still be enabled if:
- the SI interface is handling a message.
- a user has enabled watching for events.
- the IPMI watchdog timer is in use (since it uses pretimeouts).
- the message handler is waiting on a remote response.
- a user has registered to receive commands.
This mostly affects interfaces without interrupts. Interfaces with
interrupts already don't use CPU in the system interface when the
interface is idle.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"Asynchronous" is misspelled in some comments. No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The <linux/device.h> header includes a lot of stuff, and
it in turn gets a lot of use just for the basic "struct device"
which appears so often.
Clean up the users as follows:
1) For those headers only needing "struct device" as a pointer
in fcn args, replace the include with exactly that.
2) For headers not really using anything from device.h, simply
delete the include altogether.
3) For headers relying on getting device.h implicitly before
being included themselves, now explicitly include device.h
4) For files in which doing #1 or #2 uncovers an implicit
dependency on some other header, fix by explicitly adding
the required header(s).
Any C files that were implicitly relying on device.h to be
present have already been dealt with in advance.
Total removals from #1 and #2: 51. Total additions coming
from #3: 9. Total other implicit dependencies from #4: 7.
As of 3.3-rc1, there were 110, so a net removal of 42 gives
about a 38% reduction in device.h presence in include/*
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The <linux/module.h> pretty much brings in the kitchen sink along
with it, so it should be avoided wherever reasonably possible in
terms of being included from other commonly used <linux/something.h>
files, as it results in a measureable increase on compile times.
The worst culprit was probably device.h since it is used everywhere.
This file also had an implicit dependency/usage of mutex.h which was
masked by module.h, and is also fixed here at the same time.
There are over a dozen other headers that simply declare the
struct instead of pulling in the whole file, so follow their lead
and simply make it a few more.
Most of the implicit dependencies on module.h being present by
these headers pulling it in have been now weeded out, so we can
finally make this change with hopefully minimal breakage.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
