linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aerdrv: Move cper_print

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Message-ID: <20130508191019.GG30955@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 8 May 2013 21:10:19 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@...com>
Cc:	bhelgaas@...gle.com, lance_ortiz@...mail.com, jiang.liu@...wei.com,
	tony.luck@...el.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, mchehab@...hat.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aerdrv: Move cper_print_pcie() out of interrupt context

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:15:19AM -0600, Lance Ortiz wrote:
> The following warning was seen on 3.9 when a corrected PCIe error was being
> handled by the AER subsystem.
> 
> WARNING: at .../drivers/pci/search.c:214 pci_get_dev_by_id+0x8a/0x90()
> 
> This occurred because code was added to the function cper_print_pcie() that
> calls the pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() function.  cper_print_pcie() is called
> in an interrupt context and pci_get* functions are not supposed to be called
> in that context hence the warning.
> 
> The solution is to move the call to cper_print_aer() out of the interrupt
> context and into aer_recover_queue() to avoid any warnings when calling
> pci_get* functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@...com>

Looks good.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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