[PATCH v2] cxl: Prevent IRQ storm

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Apr 27 21:29:20 AEST 2017


Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com> writes:

> 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"
        ^
        M

:D

cheers


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