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Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:13:42 -0700
From:	Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@...com>
To:	"Youquan,Song" <youquan.song@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, andi@...stfloor.org,
	ying.huang@...el.com, youquan.song@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]PCIE AER: PCI access remove spinlock protection in
 aer_inject

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:34 -0500, Youquan,Song wrote:
> Move the PCI configuration access code out of the spin_lock protection because
> pci_read_aer already includes spin_lock protection which will replace the PCI
> access method if have aer error injected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Youquan, Song <youquan.song@...el.com>
> ---
> 

I posted a similar patch on the linux-pci mailing list -- details at:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg07609.html

This version has already been accepted in the linux-pci tree.  I should
have cc'd lkml.

Andrew

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aer_inject.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aer_inject.c
> index 8c30a95..953a0b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aer_inject.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aer_inject.c
> @@ -357,6 +357,22 @@ static int aer_inject(struct aer_error_inj *einj)
>  		goto out_put;
>  	}
>  
> +	pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos_cap_err + PCI_ERR_COR_MASK, &mask);
> +	if (einj->cor_status && !(einj->cor_status & ~mask)) {
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "The correctable error(s) is masked "
> +				"by device\n");
> +		goto out_put;
> +	}
> +
> +	pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos_cap_err + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, &mask);
> +	if (einj->uncor_status && !(einj->uncor_status & ~mask)) {
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "The uncorrectable error(s) is masked "
> +				"by device\n");
> +		goto out_put;
> +	}
> +
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&inject_lock, flags);
>  
>  	err = __find_aer_error_by_dev(dev);
> @@ -374,24 +390,6 @@ static int aer_inject(struct aer_error_inj *einj)
>  	err->header_log2 = einj->header_log2;
>  	err->header_log3 = einj->header_log3;
>  
> -	pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos_cap_err + PCI_ERR_COR_MASK, &mask);
> -	if (einj->cor_status && !(einj->cor_status & ~mask)) {
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "The correctable error(s) is masked "
> -				"by device\n");
> -		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&inject_lock, flags);
> -		goto out_put;
> -	}
> -
> -	pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos_cap_err + PCI_ERR_UNCOR_MASK, &mask);
> -	if (einj->uncor_status && !(einj->uncor_status & ~mask)) {
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "The uncorrectable error(s) is masked "
> -				"by device\n");
> -		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&inject_lock, flags);
> -		goto out_put;
> -	}
> -
>  	rperr = __find_aer_error_by_dev(rpdev);
>  	if (!rperr) {
>  		rperr = rperr_alloc;
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-- 
Andrew Patterson
Hewlett-Packard

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