[PATCH v2] cxl: Prevent IRQ storm

Alastair D'Silva alastair at au1.ibm.com
Thu Apr 27 14:47:43 AEST 2017


On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 14:41 +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
On 27/04/17 11:37, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair at d-silva.org>
> > 
> > In some situations, a faulty AFU slice may create an interrupt
> > storm,
> > rendering the machine unusable. Since these interrupts are
> > informational
> > only, present the interrupt once, then mask it off to prevent it
> > from
> > being retriggered until the card is reset.
> > 
> > Changelog:
> > v2
> > 	Rebase against linux-next
> 
> The patch changelog shouldn't be part of the commit message - it
> should 
> go under a "---" line after the sign-off so it doesn't get included
> in 
> the final commit.
> 
> Also now that I've taken a second look, I think the summary line of
> the 
> commit message could be more descriptive, something like:
> 
> "cxl: mask slice error interrupt after first occurrence"
> 
> or something to that effect?
> 

Ok

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Alastair D'Silva
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Linux Technology Centre, IBM Australia
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