[Skiboot] [PATCH] nvlink: Print error message when NPU is fenced

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 21 15:58:53 AEST 2016


Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc> writes:
> NPU fences aren't recoverable, and as such, would require user
> intervention to have a working system again.  The fence will be picked up
> by the kernel through EEH, but this doesn't happen until the NPU is used
> for something.  So, let's print a message so it's obvious when this
> happens.
>
> A helper function was added to reduce duplication.  This also enables code
> in skiboot to un-fence a NPU, which is useful to NPU developers but very
> stupid otherwise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>

Looks good, merged to master as of 0f23e5b.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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