linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fsi: scom: Don't abort operations for minor errors

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Date:   Wed, 21 Aug 2019 06:05:58 +0000
From:   Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsi: scom: Don't abort operations for minor errors

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 05:26, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 14:08 -0500, Eddie James wrote:
> > The scom driver currently fails out of operations if certain system
> > errors are flagged in the status register; system checkstop, special
> > attention, or recoverable error. These errors won't impact the ability
> > of the scom engine to perform operations, so the driver should continue
> > under these conditions.
> > Also, don't do a PIB reset for these conditions, since it won't help.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

Thanks Ben.  We also have one from jk which was sent to the openbmc list:

Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>

And we can add:

Fixes: 6b293258cded ("fsi: scom: Major overhaul")

I'll stick this in the FSI tree.

Cheers,

Joel

>
> > ---
> >  drivers/fsi/fsi-scom.c | 8 +-------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/fsi/fsi-scom.c b/drivers/fsi/fsi-scom.c
> > index 343153d..004dc03 100644
> > --- a/drivers/fsi/fsi-scom.c
> > +++ b/drivers/fsi/fsi-scom.c
> > @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@
> >  #define SCOM_STATUS_PIB_RESP_MASK    0x00007000
> >  #define SCOM_STATUS_PIB_RESP_SHIFT   12
> >
> > -#define SCOM_STATUS_ANY_ERR          (SCOM_STATUS_ERR_SUMMARY | \
> > -                                      SCOM_STATUS_PROTECTION | \
> > +#define SCOM_STATUS_ANY_ERR          (SCOM_STATUS_PROTECTION | \
> >                                        SCOM_STATUS_PARITY |     \
> >                                        SCOM_STATUS_PIB_ABORT | \
> >                                        SCOM_STATUS_PIB_RESP_MASK)
> > @@ -251,11 +250,6 @@ static int handle_fsi2pib_status(struct scom_device *scom, uint32_t status)
> >       /* Return -EBUSY on PIB abort to force a retry */
> >       if (status & SCOM_STATUS_PIB_ABORT)
> >               return -EBUSY;
> > -     if (status & SCOM_STATUS_ERR_SUMMARY) {
> > -             fsi_device_write(scom->fsi_dev, SCOM_FSI2PIB_RESET_REG, &dummy,
> > -                              sizeof(uint32_t));
> > -             return -EIO;
> > -     }
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> >
>