From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC&PATCH 1/2] PCI Error Recovery (readX_check)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:52:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040825155213.GB19447@cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408250015420.17766@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:20:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Because if you don't lock the bridge (or whatever the entity is that keeps
> track of errors), the whole exercise is kind of pointless. If two drivers
> try to do error checking at the same time, and will potentially clear the
> errors of each other, causing the errors to get lost, the whole recovery
> infrastructure is clearly worthless.
Do we only need to determine there was an error in the IO hierarchy
or do we also need to know which device/driver caused the error?
If the latter I agree with linus. If the former, then the error recovery
can support asyncronous errors (like the bad DMA address case) and tell
all affected (thanks willy) drivers.
grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-25 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-24 5:24 [RFC&PATCH 1/2] PCI Error Recovery (readX_check) Hidetoshi Seto
2004-08-24 5:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-24 8:06 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2004-08-25 7:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-25 7:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-25 15:52 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2004-08-25 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-25 23:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-25 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-25 15:42 ` Grant Grundler
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-28 1:23 Hidetoshi Seto
2004-09-17 12:00 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2004-09-17 12:06 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2004-09-18 4:36 ` Grant Grundler
2004-09-21 8:32 ` Hidetoshi Seto
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