Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:19 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > int sample_read_with_iochk(struct pci_dev *dev, u32 *buf, int words)
> > {
> > 	unsigned long ofs = pci_resource_start(dev, 0) + DATA_OFFSET;
> > 	int i;
> >
> > 	/* Create magical cookie on the stack */
> > 	iocookie cookie;
> >
> > 	/* Critical section start */
> > 	iochk_clear(&dev, &cookie);
> > 	{
> > 		/* Get the whole packet of data */
> > 		for (i = 0; i < words; i++)
> > 			*buf++ = ioread32(dev, ofs);
> > 	}
> > 	/* Critical section end. Did we have any trouble? */
> > 	if ( iochk_read(&cookie) ) return -1;
> 
> Looks good for handling PCI-Express errors.
> 
> But what would the default handling be? It would be nice if there
> was a simple way for a driver to say "just shut me down on an error"
> without adding iochk_* to each function. Ideally this would be just
> a standard callback that knows how to clean up the driver.

I think that would be the lack of a callback, see other messages.

> > +void iochk_clear(iocookie *cookie, struct pci_dev *dev)
> > +{
> > +       local_irq_save(*cookie);
> > +}
> > +
> > +int iochk_read(iocookie *cookie)
> > +{
> > +       local_irq_restore(*cookie);
> > +       return 0;
> > +}
> 
> These should be inlined.
> 
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(iochk_init);
> 
> This doesn't need to be exported.
> 
> -Andi
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>