[Skiboot] [PATCH 02/11] hw/sbe-p9: Check SBE health on each chip

Reza Arbab arbab at linux.ibm.com
Sat Jan 11 07:29:27 AEDT 2025


On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 02:07:18PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>Add a SBE health check when initialising the SBEs, which sends a timer
>message and checks for the ack and timer expiry responses. This is
>better than eventually finding a timer is not firing and shutting down
>the SBE timer, it also tests SBEs on all chips in the system, not just
>the primary.

Seems reasonable. Just for my own curiosity, is this purely 
precautionary or have you actually come across hardware that fails the 
health check?

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Reza Arbab


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