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From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Cc: Zhiqiang Hou <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>,
	PCI <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Minghuan Lian <minghuan.Lian@nxp.com>,
	Roy Zang <roy.zang@nxp.com>, Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>,
	Yang-Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: layerscape: Change back to the default error response behavior
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:07:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL_Jsq+rH6-NMb0=jbdYA5mzP_2VphW4TXvKJdKr3cnsPQp1RA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e6d021b-bc46-63b4-7e84-6ca2c8e631f9@ti.com>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 8:29 AM Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Hou,
>
> On 29/09/20 6:43 pm, Zhiqiang Hou wrote:
> > From: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>
> >
> > In the current error response behavior, it will send a SLVERR response
> > to device's internal AXI slave system interface when the PCIe controller
> > experiences an erroneous completion (UR, CA and CT) from an external
> > completer for its outbound non-posted request, which will result in
> > SError and crash the kernel directly.
> > This patch change back it to the default behavior to increase the
> > robustness of the kernel. In the default behavior, it always sends an
> > OKAY response to the internal AXI slave interface when the controller
> > gets these erroneous completions. And the AER driver will report and
> > try to recover these errors.
>
> I don't think not forwarding any error interrupts is a good idea.

Interrupts would be fine. Abort/SError is not. I think it is pretty
clear what the correct behavior is for config accesses.

> Maybe
> you could disable it while reading configuration space registers
> (vendorID and deviceID) and then enable error forwarding back?

To add to the locking (or lack of) problems in config accesses?

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-30 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-29 13:13 [PATCH] PCI: layerscape: Change back to the default error response behavior Zhiqiang Hou
2020-09-29 15:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-09-30  5:37   ` Z.q. Hou
2020-09-30 13:29 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2020-09-30 15:07   ` Rob Herring [this message]
2020-09-30 15:42     ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2020-10-12  4:33     ` Z.q. Hou

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