Re: [PATCH 2/2]: PCI Error Recovery: Symbios SCSI First Failure

Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-27T22:10:33Z

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:00:22PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:02:16AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I'm a little concerned by the mention of MMIO. It's entirely possible
> > for the sym2 driver to be using ioports to access the card rather than
> > MMIO. Is it simply that it can't on the platform you test on?
>
> The comment is misleading. I've been in the bad habit of calling
> it "mmio" whenever its not DMA.

OK, cool, thanks. I'll update the comment for you.

One last thing (sorry, I only just noticed):
In the error handler, we wait_for_completion(io_reset_wait).
In sym2_io_error_detected, we init_completion(io_reset_wait).
Isn't it possible that we hit the error handler before we hit the
io_error_detected path, and thus the completion wait is lost?
Since the completion is already initialised in sym_attach(), I don't
think we need to initialise it in sym2_io_error_detected().
Makes sense to just delete it?

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