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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: paulus@samba•org, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
	gwshan@linux•vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: Validate arch in eeh_add_device_early()
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:37:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452814633.19265.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5697FE17.4070605@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 17:59 -0200, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> On 01/13/2016 07:25 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> > But for example what happens if the user boots with eeh=off on the command
> > line, and then hotplugs a device. It looks like because you're not using
> > eeh_enabled() you will incorrectly initialise EEH anyway?
>
> Thanks very much for this catch Michael! I didn't think in this
> possibility; I just tested and it fails with the kernel oops.

OK, that's a pity.

> So, since my patch does not cover this case, I think would be more
> interesting "unlink" the DDW mechanism from the EEH. It seems easy, I'll
> try to send you a patch soon.
>
> Do you think it is a good approach?

It sounds good, but I don't know off hand whether it will work. See how it goes
and send us the patch.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-14 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-10  3:08 [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: Validate arch in eeh_add_device_early() Guilherme G. Piccoli
2016-01-13  6:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-01-13 11:56   ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2016-01-13 10:38 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-01-13 12:08   ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2016-01-13 21:25     ` Michael Ellerman
2016-01-14 19:59       ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2016-01-14 23:37         ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2016-01-19 20:11           ` Guilherme G. Piccoli

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