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authorBryan Boatright <b1@omega71.com>2008-02-07 00:14:58 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-07 08:42:23 -0800
commit6b09ff9d787911b0b46a4d286e68f1f84e8b0b94 (patch)
tree933ef684e8881d7d9b5dbbcc60694b8f36815fea /drivers/edac
parent4f4aeeabc061826376c9a72b4714d062664999ea (diff)
drivers/edac: pci: broken parity regression
Using the EDAC code in kernel.org kernel version 2.6.23.8 I am seeing the following problem: In the kernel there is a pci device attribute located in sysfs that is checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set, PCI parity/error scannining is skipped for that device. The attribute is: broken_parity_status as is located in /sys/devices/pci<XXX>/0000:XX:YY.Z directorys for PCI devices. I don't think this check was actually implemented. I have a misbehaved card that reports a parity error every 1000 ms: Nov 25 07:28:43 beta kernel: EDAC PCI: Master Data Parity Error on 0000:05:01.0 Nov 25 07:28:44 beta kernel: EDAC PCI: Master Data Parity Error on 0000:05:01.0 Nov 25 07:28:45 beta kernel: EDAC PCI: Master Data Parity Error on 0000:05:01.0 Setting that card's broken_parity_status bit did not mask the error: echo "1" > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:05:01.0/broken_parity_status I looked through the EDAC code and did not readily see any reference to broken_parity_status at all (which makes sense based on the behavior I am seeing). I applied the following patch as a proof-of-concept and now EDAC's PCI parity error reporting behaves as documented: bryan Good regression find, bryan. It used to work. sigh. I added more logic to your patch, for more coverage of the error. Doug T Signed-off-by: Bryan Boatright <b1@omega71.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmisson.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/edac')
-rw-r--r--drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
index 5b075da9914..71c3195d370 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
@@ -558,8 +558,10 @@ static void edac_pci_dev_parity_test(struct pci_dev *dev)
debugf4("PCI STATUS= 0x%04x %s\n", status, dev->dev.bus_id);
- /* check the status reg for errors */
- if (status) {
+ /* check the status reg for errors on boards NOT marked as broken
+ * if broken, we cannot trust any of the status bits
+ */
+ if (status && !dev->broken_parity_status) {
if (status & (PCI_STATUS_SIG_SYSTEM_ERROR)) {
edac_printk(KERN_CRIT, EDAC_PCI,
"Signaled System Error on %s\n",
@@ -593,8 +595,10 @@ static void edac_pci_dev_parity_test(struct pci_dev *dev)
debugf4("PCI SEC_STATUS= 0x%04x %s\n", status, dev->dev.bus_id);
- /* check the secondary status reg for errors */
- if (status) {
+ /* check the secondary status reg for errors,
+ * on NOT broken boards
+ */
+ if (status && !dev->broken_parity_status) {
if (status & (PCI_STATUS_SIG_SYSTEM_ERROR)) {
edac_printk(KERN_CRIT, EDAC_PCI, "Bridge "
"Signaled System Error on %s\n",