[Skiboot] [PATCH v2 2/2] npu2: hw-procedures: Add check_credits procedure

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 22 14:37:32 AEDT 2017


Reza Arbab <arbab at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> As an immediate mitigator for a current hardware glitch, add a procedure
> that can be used to validate NTL credit values. This will be called as a
> safeguard to check that link training succeeded.
>
> Assert that things are exactly as we expect, because if they aren't, the
> system will experience a catastrophic failure shortly after the start of
> link traffic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  doc/nvlink.rst          |  1 +
>  hw/npu2-hw-procedures.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Series merged to master as of a752f2d908d1fd3d95cedf2b952729995ce53234
and to 5.9.x as of be3687004a8f36476bfdcbc5d2ed08844333d0be

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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