Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] VME bus error handling overhaul | From | Dmitry Kalinkin <> | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:20:20 +0300 |
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Hi Martyn,
> On 06 Jul 2015, at 15:31, Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com> wrote: > > These are looking good to me. Thank you for finding time to look at this and the others. > > You mention error handling in relation to vme_master_mmap, am I right in thinking patch 3 avoids errors being recorded when triggered by an mmap access (so as not to appear as a spurious error on a later access)? Yes, this is covered as well. > > I think it would be worth at least logging errors to the kernel log should they be generated and not be handled by a error handler, so someone using mmap gets at least some form of notification that their accesses are resulting on bus errors. What do you think? Yes. I agree with you. Bus error handler could print a message when an error doesn’t trigger any of the registered handlers. What would be really useful, is if we could dispatch such errors to the userspace in a more direct way. Not sure how, though.
Cheers, Dmitry
> > > On 02/07/15 15:11, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote: >> This moves tsi148 error handling into VME subsystem so it can be shared with >> the other bridge driver. Then there is a change to close a fixme on separating >> errors by address space. And finally a fix for memory leak problem that was >> introduced with support of mmap's. >> >> The next logical step in this direction would be to add error handling support >> to ca91cx42 and make it unconditional for tsi148. It also makes much sense to >> add synchronization to error-related list operations (spinlocks, rcu). >> >> Dmitry Kalinkin (3): >> vme: move tsi148 error handling into VME subsystem >> vme: include address space in error filtering >> vme: change bus error handling scheme >> >> drivers/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.c | 3 +- >> drivers/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.c | 170 ++++++++++--------------------------- >> drivers/vme/vme.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++ >> drivers/vme/vme_bridge.h | 21 +++-- >> 4 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-) >> > > -- > Martyn Welch (Lead Software Engineer) | Registered in England and Wales > GE Intelligent Platforms | (3828642) at 100 Barbirolli Square > T +44(0)1327322748 | Manchester, M2 3AB > E martyn.welch@ge.com | VAT:GB 927559189
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