Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] remoteproc: introduce rproc recovery

From: Ohad Ben-Cohen
Date: Tue Sep 18 2012 - 05:59:58 EST


Hi Fernando,

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Fernando Guzman Lugo
<fernando.lugo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> These set of patches make possible the remoteproc recover after a crash.
> This is a hard recovery, that means the remoteproc is reset and it will
> start from the beginning. When a crash happen all the virtio devices are
> destroyed. Therefore, both rpmsg drivers and devices are gracefully
> removed which also cause rproc users become 0 and the remoteproc is turned
> off. After the virtio devices are destroyed the crash handler function
> will read the virtio information from the firmware in order to recreate
> the virtio devices that will boot the remoteproc and everything will be
> functional again.

Applied to remoteproc's for-next branch with a few changes (so we
don't miss the merge window).

The changes are detailed in the commit logs of the patches, please let
me know if there's any issue.

Thanks!
Ohad.
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