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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Time out for possible dead loops during queued invalidation wait
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:48:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090527154816.23541b2a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A6AD88C3F2289247BE726C37303E1EB8AF9331CE@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, 27 May 2009 15:40:35 -0700
"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com> wrote:

> >> +			WARN(1, "No space in invalidation queue.\n");
> >> +			return -ENOSPC;
> >
> >ENOSPC means "your disk filled up".  I think it makes no sense to use
> >that error code in this context, even though it kinda sounds the same.
> >
> 
> Which error code is better? Is EAGAIN ok?

That depends on driver details - probably EIO would be suitable, dunno.

But all the callers of qi_submit_sync() seem to just drop the error
code on the floor:

	/* should never fail */
	qi_submit_sync(&desc, iommu);

and may well cause a kernel crash as a result.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090327212241.234500000@intel.com>
2009-03-28 14:24 ` [patch 0/4] Intel IOMMU Supspend/Resume Support Andrew Lutomirski
2009-03-30 23:01 ` David Woodhouse
     [not found] ` <20090327212321.520992000@intel.com>
2009-04-03 12:37   ` [patch 4/4] Intel IOMMU Suspend/Resume Support - Code Clean Up David Woodhouse
     [not found] ` <20090327212321.070229000@intel.com>
2009-04-16  0:19   ` [PATCH] Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support Fenghua Yu
2009-04-16  2:13     ` Han, Weidong
2009-04-19 10:05     ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-20 17:27       ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-05-13 23:13         ` [PATCH] Fix Intel IOMMU Compilation Warnings on IA64 Fenghua Yu
2009-05-14 15:17           ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-14 15:31             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-14 17:59             ` Fenghua Yu
2009-06-18 18:05               ` [PATCH 1/2] IOMMU Identity Mapping Support: iommu_identity_mapping definition Fenghua Yu
2009-06-18 18:08                 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2009-06-18 18:13                   ` Chris Wright
2009-06-18 18:14                   ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-06-18 18:25                     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2009-06-18 18:31                       ` Chris Wright
2009-06-18 18:41                         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2009-06-18 18:50                           ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-06-18 18:51                           ` Chris Wright
2009-06-18 19:09                             ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-06-25  0:38                     ` [PATCH] IA64 Compilation Error Fix for Intel IOMMU Identity Mapping Support Fenghua Yu
2009-06-25  1:00                       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-06-25  4:16                         ` [PATCH v2] " Fenghua Yu
2009-06-25  4:48                           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-06-25  7:11                             ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-25 21:52                               ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-25 21:56                                 ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-06-26 18:21                                   ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-25 22:00                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-25 22:46                                   ` Tony Luck
2009-06-25 23:43                                 ` Chris Wright
2009-06-26  1:35                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-26  1:52                                     ` Chris Wright
2009-06-26  2:00                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-26  2:08                                         ` Chris Wright
2009-06-26 11:15                                           ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-27  0:03                                             ` Chris Wright
2009-06-27 11:44                                         ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-18 18:13                 ` [PATCH 1/2] IOMMU Identity Mapping Support: iommu_identity_mapping definition Chris Wright
2009-06-18 18:28                   ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-06-18 18:34                     ` Chris Wright
2009-07-04 18:40                   ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-20 17:42         ` [PATCH] Time out for possible dead loops during queued invalidation wait Fenghua Yu
2009-05-27  5:51           ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-27 22:40             ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-05-27 22:48               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-05-27 23:25                 ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-05-27 23:51                   ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-28  0:47                     ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-06-18 18:05               ` [PATCH 2/2] IOMMU Identity Mapping Support: Intel IOMMU implementation Fenghua Yu
2009-06-18 19:15                 ` Chris Wright
2009-06-18 19:40                   ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-06-18 20:02                     ` Chris Wright
2009-06-19 20:47                     ` [PATCH v2] IOMMU Identity Mapping Support (drivers/pci/intel_iommu.c) Fenghua Yu
2009-04-30 23:29     ` [PATCH] Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support Andrew Morton
2009-04-30 23:37       ` Randy Dunlap
2009-05-01  0:00         ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01  0:57           ` Fenghua Yu
2009-05-01  0:05         ` Fenghua Yu
2009-05-01  0:14           ` Andrew Morton

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