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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:46:12 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109803572.5679.113.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050302200216.GM1220@austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:02 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:27:27AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark:

> That's a style issue.  Propose an API, I'll code it.   We can have
> the master recovery thread be a state machine, and so every device
> driver gets notified of state changes:
> 
> typedef enum pci_bus_state {
>      DEVICE_IO_FROZEN=1,
>      DEVICE_IO_THAWED,
>      DEVICE_PERM_FAILURE,
> };
> 
> struct pci_driver {
>    .... 
>    void (*io_state_change) (struct pci_dev *dev, pci_bus_state);
> };
> 
> would that work?

Too much ppc64-centric.

Also, we want to use the re-enable IOs facility of EEH to give the
driver a chance to extract diagnostic infos from the HW.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-02 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-01  8:33 [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-01 14:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-01 19:27   ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 19:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-02  6:13     ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-02 19:20       ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-04  2:03         ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-04 16:46           ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 16:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-01 16:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-01 16:59     ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-01 17:10       ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-01 18:33         ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:27           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 20:02             ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 22:46               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-02 23:37                 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:23         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02  3:13         ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-04 13:54         ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 17:50           ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-04 22:37           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 22:57             ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 23:03               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 23:18                 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-04 23:27                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02  2:28       ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-02 17:44         ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 18:03           ` linux-os
2005-03-02 22:40             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04  2:21           ` Hidetoshi Seto
2005-03-01 22:20     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 18:22     ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 18:41       ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-02 19:46         ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 22:43         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 22:41       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-02 23:30         ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-02 23:40           ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-01 19:17   ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:15   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 17:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 18:08   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-01 18:45     ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-01 18:59     ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-01 22:26     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-01 22:24   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-04 12:40 ` Hidetoshi Seto

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