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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Jay Fang <f.fangjian@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linuxarm@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI/AER: Fix AER/sysfs sriov_numvfs deadlock in pcie_do_recovery()
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:52:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119195205.GA210735@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bdfaaa34-3d3d-ad9a-4e24-4be97e85d216@huawei.com>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 04:57:30PM +0800, Jay Fang wrote:
> On 2019/11/15 6:39, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:33:58AM +0800, Jay Fang wrote:
> >> A deadlock triggered by a NONFATAL AER event during a sysfs "sriov_numvfs"
> >> operation:
> > 
> > How often does this happen?  Always?  Only when an AER event races
> > with the sysfs write?
> Although not very frequent,the impact is fatal. This bug is very
> necessary to be fixed.

Absolutely; I didn't mean to suggest that we shouldn't fix it.  I only
wanted to know how to prioritize it against other issues.

Bjorn

      reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-06  2:33 [PATCH] PCI/AER: Fix AER/sysfs sriov_numvfs deadlock in pcie_do_recovery() Jay Fang
2019-09-17  2:23 ` Jay Fang
2019-11-14 22:39 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-11-19  8:57   ` Jay Fang
2019-11-19 19:52     ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]

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