[PATCH] ppc64: provide notifier list for EEH slot isolations
When the EEH (enhanced i/o error handling) hardware on pSeries detects various kinds of PCI errors, it immediately freezes and isolates the slot of the offending PCI card. We get to know about that by noticing that reads from the device return all-1s, and then we have to do a firmware call to find out whether the all-1s value was due to a slot isolation. This patch adds a notifier so that other parts of the system (e.g. the RPA PCI hotplug driver) can know that a slot isolation event has occurred and take whatever recovery action is appropriate. The notifier is called in a workqueue function, although the read from the device that noticed the all-1s value may have been at interrupt level. As a precaution, if we keep trying to read from the device at interrupt level, and do 1000 reads without the workqueue getting a chance to run, we panic, on the grounds that we presumably have a badly-written driver which will spin forever in its interrupt routine, e.g. waiting for a bit in a device register to go to 0. This patch is based on an earlier patch by Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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