Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1414433 > unrolled thread

[PATCH 4.5 072/128] Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell"

Back to article view | Back to linux.kernel

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.

Contents

  [PATCH 4.5 072/128] Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-06-06 00:40 +0200

#1414433 — [PATCH 4.5 072/128] Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell"

4.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit c2078d9ef600bdbe568c89e5ddc2c6f15b7982c8 upstream.

This reverts commit 89a51df5ab1d38b257300b8ac940bbac3bb0eb9b.

The function eeh_add_device_early() is used to perform EEH
initialization in devices added later on the system, like in
hotplug/DLPAR scenarios. Since the commit 89a51df5ab1d ("powerpc/eeh:
Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell") a new check was introduced
in this function - Cell has no EEH capabilities which led to kernel oops
if hotplug was performed, so checking for eeh_enabled() was introduced
to avoid the issue.

However, in architectures that EEH is present like pSeries or PowerNV,
we might reach a case in which no PCI devices are present on boot time
and so EEH is not initialized. Then, if a device is added via DLPAR for
example, eeh_add_device_early() fails because eeh_enabled() is false,
and EEH end up not being enabled at all.

This reverts the aforementioned patch since a new verification was
introduced by the commit d91dafc02f42 ("powerpc/eeh: Delay probing EEH
device during hotplug") and so the original Cell issue does not happen
anymore.

Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ void eeh_add_device_early(struct pci_dn
 	struct pci_controller *phb;
 	struct eeh_dev *edev = pdn_to_eeh_dev(pdn);
 
-	if (!edev || !eeh_enabled())
+	if (!edev)
 		return;
 
 	if (!eeh_has_flag(EEH_PROBE_MODE_DEVTREE))

[toc] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | linux.kernel

csiph-web