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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Oliver <oohall@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/eeh: Add eeh_force_recover to debugfs
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:24:56 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftsvhxjb.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOSf1CFJqFaAwE34GFU4cwWkhGd-jwUPGANadAcNNwp3H2mvqg@mail.gmail.com>

Oliver <oohall@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 11:32 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > This patch adds a debugfs interface to force scheduling a recovery event.
>> > This can be used to recover a specific PE or schedule a "special" recovery
>> > even that checks for errors at the PHB level.
>> > To force a recovery of a normal PE, use:
>> >
>> >  echo '<#pe>:<#phb>' > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/eeh_force_recover
>> >
>> > To force a scan broken PHBs:
>> >
>> >  echo 'null' > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/eeh_force_recover
>>
>> Why 'null', that seems like an odd choice. Why not "all" or "scan" or
>> something?
>
> When an EEH event occurs the bit that is sent to the event handler is
> just a pointer the the struct eeh_pe. If the pointer is null it's then
> treated as a special event which indicates a PHB failure. I agree it's
> a bit dumb, but I don't really expect anyone except me or samb to use
> this interface so I went with what would make sense to someone
> familiar with the internals.

Yeah, nah. Let's use something that's at least vaguely self documenting
so people like me can have some clue what it's doing.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-11  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08  3:07 [PATCH 1/7] powerpc/eeh: Use debugfs_create_u32 for eeh_max_freezes Oliver O'Halloran
2019-02-08  3:07 ` [PATCH 2/7] powerpc/eeh_cache: Add pr_debug() prints for insert/remove Oliver O'Halloran
2019-02-08  3:07 ` [PATCH 3/7] powerpc/eeh_cache: Add a way to dump the EEH address cache Oliver O'Halloran
2019-02-08  9:00   ` kbuild test robot
2019-02-08  9:47   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-02-08 13:14     ` Oliver
2019-02-11  2:16       ` Michael Ellerman
2019-02-08  3:07 ` [PATCH 4/7] powerpc/eeh_cache: Bump log level of eeh_addr_cache_print() Oliver O'Halloran
2019-02-08  3:08 ` [PATCH 5/7] powerpc/pci: Add pci_find_hose_for_domain() Oliver O'Halloran
2019-02-08  9:57   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-02-08 12:53     ` Oliver
2019-02-08  3:08 ` [PATCH 6/7] powerpc/eeh: Allow disabling recovery Oliver O'Halloran
2019-02-08  9:58   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-02-08 12:52     ` Oliver
2019-02-08  3:08 ` [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/eeh: Add eeh_force_recover to debugfs Oliver O'Halloran
2019-02-08 12:31   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-02-08 12:50     ` Oliver
2019-02-11  2:24       ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2019-02-13  4:37   ` Sam Bobroff
2019-02-13  5:18     ` Oliver
2019-02-08  9:38 ` [PATCH 1/7] powerpc/eeh: Use debugfs_create_u32 for eeh_max_freezes Michael Ellerman

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