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From: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: alistair@popple.id.au, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, mpe@ellerman.id.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/eeh: Restore config from edev in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:37:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1461307072.2646.4.camel@russell.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461239595-5627-2-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 21:53 +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The function eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() is used to recover EEH
> error when the passthrou device are transferred to guest and
> backwords. The content in the device's config space will be lost

Spelling, as before :)

> on PE reset issued in the middle of the recovery. The function
> saves/restores it before/after the reset. However, config access
> to some adapters like Broadcom BCM5719 at this point will causes
> fended PHB. The config space is always blocked and we save 0xFF's

"fended" should be "fenced"

> that are restored at late point. The memory BARs are totally
> corrupted, causing another EEH error upon access to one of the
> memory BARs.
> 
> This restores the config space from the content saved to the
> EEH device when it's populated, to resolve above issue.
> 
> Fixes: 5cfb20b9 ("powerpc/eeh: Emulate EEH recovery for VFIO devices")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v3.18+
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-22  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21 11:53 [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/eeh: Ignore error handlers in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() Gavin Shan
2016-04-21 11:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/eeh: Restore config from edev " Gavin Shan
2016-04-22  6:37   ` Russell Currey [this message]
2016-04-22 13:17     ` Gavin Shan
2016-04-21 11:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/eeh: Drop unnecessary label in eeh_pe_change_owner() Gavin Shan
2016-04-22  5:15   ` David Gibson
2016-04-22  6:38   ` Russell Currey
2016-04-22 13:17     ` Gavin Shan
2016-04-22  6:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/eeh: Ignore error handlers in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() Russell Currey

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