From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thor Thayer Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/7] EDAC, altera: Add panic flag check to A10 IRQ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:11:21 -0500 Message-ID: <57642F39.7020600@opensource.altera.com> References: <1465852752-11018-1-git-send-email-tthayer@opensource.altera.com> <1465852752-11018-3-git-send-email-tthayer@opensource.altera.com> <20160617165131.GE3912@pd.tnic> <57642DE5.6060903@opensource.altera.com> <20160617170253.GH3912@pd.tnic> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160617170253.GH3912@pd.tnic> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Borislav Petkov Cc: dougthompson@xmission.com, m.chehab@samsung.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, dinguyen@opensource.altera.com, grant.likely@linaro.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, tthayer.linux@gmail.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 06/17/2016 12:02 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:05:41PM -0500, Thor Thayer wrote: >> That is a good question. We have 2 important uses for OCRAM 1) to hold our >> power-down/sleep and resume functions and 2) to hold our FPGA contents >> during sleep. If either of these is corrupted, it is better to panic than to >> load something that would cause incorrect. >> >> In the cases of the FIFOs such as Ethernet and USB, the plan is to add code >> to drop the packet so that we'll get a re-transmission. In that case, it is >> sort of recoverable. > > Much better. Now put that explanation in the code please! > > :-) > I'll add that in the next revision. Thanks for reviewing.