aha/include/asm-powerpc/eeh_event.h
Linas Vepstas ac325acd50 [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: clear PCI failure counter if no new failures
The current PCI error recovery system keeps track of the number of PCI card
resets, and refuses to bring a card back up if this number is too large.
The goal of doing this was to avoid an infinite loop of resets if a card is
obviously dead.  However, if the failures are rare, but the machine has a
high uptime, this mechanism might still be triggered; this is too harsh.

This patch will avoids this problem by decrementing the fail count after an
hour.  Thus, as long as a pci card BSOD's less than 6 times an hour, it
will continue to be reset indefinitely.  If it's failure rate is greater
than that, it will be taken off-line permanently.

This patch is larger than it might otherwise be because it changes
indentation by removing a pointless while-loop.  The while loop is not
needed, as the handler is invoked once fo each event (by schedule_work());
the loop is leftover cruft from an earlier implementation.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-22 18:46:13 +10:00

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/*
* eeh_event.h
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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*
* Copyright (c) 2005 Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
*/
#ifndef ASM_POWERPC_EEH_EVENT_H
#define ASM_POWERPC_EEH_EVENT_H
#ifdef __KERNEL__
/** EEH event -- structure holding pci controller data that describes
* a change in the isolation status of a PCI slot. A pointer
* to this struct is passed as the data pointer in a notify callback.
*/
struct eeh_event {
struct list_head list;
struct device_node *dn; /* struct device node */
struct pci_dev *dev; /* affected device */
enum pci_channel_state state; /* PCI bus state for the affected device */
int time_unavail; /* milliseconds until device might be available */
};
/**
* eeh_send_failure_event - generate a PCI error event
* @dev pci device
*
* This routine builds a PCI error event which will be delivered
* to all listeners on the eeh_notifier_chain.
*
* This routine can be called within an interrupt context;
* the actual event will be delivered in a normal context
* (from a workqueue).
*/
int eeh_send_failure_event (struct device_node *dn,
struct pci_dev *dev,
enum pci_channel_state state,
int time_unavail);
/* Main recovery function */
struct pci_dn * handle_eeh_events (struct eeh_event *);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* ASM_POWERPC_EEH_EVENT_H */