Re: [PATCH v13 0/6] Address error and recovery for AER and DPC

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Sun Apr 15 2018 - 23:16:21 EST


On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 10:41:48AM -0400, Oza Pawandeep wrote:
> This patch set brings in error handling support for DPC
>
> The current implementation of AER and error message broadcasting to the
> EP driver is tightly coupled and limited to AER service driver.
> It is important to factor out broadcasting and other link handling
> callbacks. So that not only when AER gets triggered, but also when DPC get
> triggered (for e.g. ERR_FATAL), callbacks are handled appropriately.
>
> DPC should behave identical to AER as far as error handling is concerned.
> DPC should remove the devices and not to do recovery for hotplug enabled system.

Is there a specific bug that's fixed by these patches? I didn't see
one mentioned in the changelogs.