linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] jsm: Fixed EEH recovery error

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Date:	Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:43:46 -0200
From:	Lucas Kannebley Tavares <lucaskt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Breno Leitao <leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jsm: Fixed EEH recovery error


On 09/12/2011 12:35 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:36:05AM -0300, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote:
>> There was an error on the jsm driver that would cause it to be unable to
>> recover after a second error is detected.
>>
>> At the first error, the device recovers properly:
>>
>> [72521.485691] EEH: Detected PCI bus error on device 0003:02:00.0
>> [72521.485695] EEH: This PCI device has failed 1 times in the last hour:
>> ...
>> [72532.035693] ttyn3 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 49) is a jsm
>> [72532.105689] jsm: Port 3 added
>>
>> However, at the second error, it cascades until EEH disables the device:
>>
>> [72631.229549] Call Trace:
>> ...
>> [72641.725687] jsm: Port 3 added
>> [72641.725695] EEH: Detected PCI bus error on device 0003:02:00.0
>> [72641.725698] EEH: This PCI device has failed 3 times in the last hour:
>>
>> It was caused because the PCI state was not being saved after the first
>> restore. Therefore, at the second recovery the PCI state would not be
>> restored.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lucas Kannebley Tavares<lucaskt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <brenohl@...ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo<cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Adding Greg to the CC list. It wasn't added earlier because 
get_maintainers.pl only listed Alan's name. I apologize for the delay.

This is a bugfix to EEH handling on jsm.

>
>> ---
>>   drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.c |    1 +
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.c b/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.c
>> index 96da178..8941b15 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_driver.c
>> @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ static void jsm_io_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>>   	struct jsm_board *brd = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
>>
>>   	pci_restore_state(pdev);
>> +	pci_save_state(pdev);
>>
>>   	jsm_uart_port_init(brd);
>>   }
>> --
>> 1.7.4.4
>>

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