linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] occ: fsi and hwmon: Extract and provide the SBEFIFO FFDC

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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:25:29 +0000
From:   Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To:     Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-fsi@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] occ: fsi and hwmon: Extract and provide the
 SBEFIFO FFDC

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 20:53, Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, users have no way to obtain the FFDC (First Failure Data
> Capture) provided by the SBEFIFO when an operation fails. To remedy this,
> add code in the FSI OCC driver to store this FFDC in the user's response
> buffer and set the response length accordingly.
> On the hwmon side, there is a need at the application level to perform
> side-band operations in response to SBE errors. Therefore, add a new
> binary sysfs file that provides the FFDC (or lack thereof) when there is
> an SBEFIFO error. Now applications can take action when an SBE error is
> detected.

Thanks, I've merged these. I took the chance to add some of your
responses to the commit messages as they were useful.

>
> Changes since v3:
>  - Rebase
>  - Add a check for valid FFDC length
>  - Add comments about SBE words being four bytes
>
> Changes since v2:
>  - Add documentation
>
> Changes since v1:
>  - Remove the magic value that indicated an SBE/SBEFIFO error with no
>    FFDC.
>  - Remove binary sysfs state management and intead just clear the error
>    flag when the whole FFDC has been read.
>
> Eddie James (4):
>   fsi: occ: Use a large buffer for responses
>   fsi: occ: Store the SBEFIFO FFDC in the user response buffer
>   docs: ABI: testing: Document the OCC hwmon FFDC binary interface
>   hwmon: (occ) Provide the SBEFIFO FFDC in binary sysfs
>
>  .../sysfs-bus-platform-devices-occ-hwmon      |  13 ++
>  drivers/fsi/fsi-occ.c                         | 164 +++++++++---------
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c                    |  86 ++++++++-
>  include/linux/fsi-occ.h                       |   2 +
>  4 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-platform-devices-occ-hwmon
>
> --
> 2.27.0
>