> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-pci-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-pci- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Prarit Bhargava > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:05 PM > To: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Prarit Bhargava; Bjorn Helgaas > Subject: [PATCH] pci, Add AER_panic sysfs file > > Consider the following case > > [ RP ] > | > | > +---------+-----------+ > | | | > [H1] [H2] [X1] > > where RP is a PCIE Root Port, H1 and H2 are devices with drivers that > support > PCIE AER driver error handling (ie, they have pci_error_handlers > defined in > the driver), and X1 is a device with a driver that does not support > PCIE > AER driver error handling. > > If the Root Port takes an error what currently happens is that the > bus resets and H1 & H2 call their slot_reset functions. X1 does > nothing. > > In some cases a user may not wish the system to continue because X1 is > an unhardened driver. In these cases, the system should not do a bus > reset, > but rather the system should panic to avoid any further possible data > corruption. Do we neeed to panic for both correctable and uncorrectable errors.. ? I thought correctable errors could recover without a bus reset. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
