[Skiboot] [PATCH] phb4: Avoid complete reset without finishing slot polling

Russell Currey ruscur at russell.cc
Fri Sep 15 17:15:14 AEST 2017


On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 17:02 +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:
> Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc> writes:
> > In rare circumstances, a complete reset can be requested on a slot while
> > it is still going through the link polling process.  This results in the
> > link never coming up.  In complete reset, check to see if the link needs
> > to complete its state transitions, and if so poll to completion.
> 
> I was having a bit of a problem with this on my (DD1) zz. I naturally
> saved all the logs and spent a whole bunch of time debugging. No,
> wait, that would have been all useful or something.
> 
> Instead, I went "err... stopped in PCI in kernel, let's randomly pull this
> patch out to see if it fixes it"... and then it booted.
> 
> Any ideas? Want to borrow the system to tell me I just saw something
> random and rather that your code is perfect?
> 

Sounds good.  This patch has been tested quite a bit and seems to be doing more
fixing than breaking, maybe there's some weird case on DD1


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