On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:08:37 +0800 Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In addition to native PCIe AER, now APEI (ACPI Platform Error > Interface) GHES (Generic Hardware Error Source) can be used to report > PCIe AER errors too. To add support to APEI GHES PCIe AER recovery, > aer_recover_queue is added to export the recovery function in native > PCIe AER driver. > > Recoverable PCIe AER errors are reported via NMI in APEI GHES. Then > APEI GHES uses irq_work to delay the error processing into an IRQ > handler. But PCIe AER recovery can be very time-consuming, so > aer_recover_queue, which can be used in IRQ handler, delays the real > recovery action into the process context, that is, work queue. Applied to linux-next, thanks. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
