[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc/eeh: Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jun 9 14:34:59 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc/eeh: Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4fbaa8174c4a1b361f128fb9704662eea69064e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:14:50 +1000
Subject: powerpc/eeh: Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()

commit affeb0f2d3a9af419ad7ef4ac782e1540b2f7b28 upstream.

The function eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() is used to recover EEH
error when the passthrough device are transferred to guest and
backwards, meaning the device's driver is vfio-pci or none.
When the driver is vfio-pci that provides error_detected() error
handler only, the handler simply stops the guest and it's not
expected behaviour. On the other hand, no error handlers will
be called if we don't have a bound driver.

This ignores the error handler in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()
that reports the error to device driver to avoid the exceptional
behaviour.

Fixes: 5cfb20b9 ("powerpc/eeh: Emulate EEH recovery for VFIO devices")
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c
index afeb2bd..e5f488c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c
@@ -502,9 +502,6 @@ int eeh_pe_reset_and_recover(struct eeh_pe *pe)
 	/* Save states */
 	eeh_pe_dev_traverse(pe, eeh_dev_save_state, NULL);

-	/* Report error */
-	eeh_pe_dev_traverse(pe, eeh_report_error, &result);
-
 	/* Issue reset */
 	ret = eeh_reset_pe(pe);
 	if (ret) {
--
2.7.4





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