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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
	Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@intel.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] PCI/AER: Option to leave System Error Interrupts as-is
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 17:26:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181102162623.GH14602@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181102161730.GA26392@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 10:17:30AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> VMD acts a bit like a host-bus adapter. The firmware knows about the
> adapter, but not about anything on the bus that it attaches to.
> 
> This "hybrid" approach is basically saying that the firmware knows about
> the HBA, and it wants a chance to be notified of errors on the bus it
> attaches to, but the firmware can't do anything about such errors.
> 
> The bus in this case is PCIe, where we have capable error handling in the
> kernel driver, so we ultimately want the AER driver handling the errors.

Not a problem - GHES already knows about AER and calls into it for
CPER_SEC_PCIE errors:

ghes_do_proc
-> ghes_handle_aer
  |-> aer_recover_queue

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-02 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1540585146-31876-1-git-send-email-jonathan.derrick@intel.com>
2018-10-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] PCI/AER: Option to leave System Error Interrupts as-is Bjorn Helgaas
2018-11-02  9:53   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-02 16:17     ` Keith Busch
2018-11-02 16:26       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-11-02 16:34         ` Keith Busch

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