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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>,
	"sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI/ASPM: Fix a NULL pointer crash on sparc64
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:38:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440052702.9177.8.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo7JtRLWRAUPBdsoKauHNmftsb6fST317V9Sg4PkTV91pg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 23:01 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Easier said than done.  AFAIK, we won't crash after we add Yijing's
> patch.  But it's unreasonable to expect people writing to the spec to
> know the peculiarities of sparc64/powerpc, so there may be future
> things we discover the hard way.  We'll just have to deal with them as
> we find them.

I agree in general, you can't plan for all possible spec violations but
it's also pretty standard defensive coding to now blow up if stuff
doesn't look expected :)

Anyway, this one is sorted.

Cheers,
Ben.


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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>,
	"sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI/ASPM: Fix a NULL pointer crash on sparc64
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:38:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440052702.9177.8.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo7JtRLWRAUPBdsoKauHNmftsb6fST317V9Sg4PkTV91pg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 23:01 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Easier said than done.  AFAIK, we won't crash after we add Yijing's
> patch.  But it's unreasonable to expect people writing to the spec to
> know the peculiarities of sparc64/powerpc, so there may be future
> things we discover the hard way.  We'll just have to deal with them as
> we find them.

I agree in general, you can't plan for all possible spec violations but
it's also pretty standard defensive coding to now blow up if stuff
doesn't look expected :)

Anyway, this one is sorted.

Cheers,
Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-20  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-17 10:47 [PATCH] PCI/ASPM: Fix a NULL pointer crash on sparc64 Yijing Wang
2015-08-18 18:49 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-18 18:49   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-18 19:10   ` David Miller
2015-08-18 19:10     ` David Miller
2015-08-19 22:16     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-19 22:16       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-19 22:29       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-08-19 22:29         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-08-20  6:01         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20  6:01           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20  6:38           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-08-20  6:38             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-08-20  6:44           ` Kjetil Oftedal
2015-08-20  6:44             ` Kjetil Oftedal
2015-08-20 17:51             ` David Miller
2015-08-20 17:51               ` David Miller
2015-08-20 17:50           ` David Miller
2015-08-20 17:50             ` David Miller
2015-08-20  5:48 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20  5:48   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20 17:47   ` David Miller
2015-08-20 17:47     ` David Miller
2015-08-20 18:23     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20 18:23       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20 18:40       ` David Miller
2015-08-20 18:40         ` David Miller
2015-08-20 20:21         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20 20:21           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20 20:58           ` David Miller
2015-08-20 20:58             ` David Miller
2015-08-20 21:21             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20 21:21               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-08-20 21:38               ` David Miller
2015-08-20 21:38                 ` David Miller
2015-08-21  1:48               ` wangyijing
2015-08-21  1:48                 ` wangyijing

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