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authorVaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-10-14 11:38:36 +0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-10-19 11:35:39 +0200
commit70b565bbdb911023373e035225ab10077e4ab937 (patch)
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parentpowerpc/boot: Fix boot on systems with uncompressed kernel image (diff)
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cxl: Prevent adapter reset if an active context exists
This patch prevents resetting the cxl adapter via sysfs in presence of one or more active cxl_context on it. This protects against an unrecoverable error caused by PSL owning a dirty cache line even after reset and host tries to touch the same cache line. In case a force reset of the card is required irrespective of any active contexts, the int value -1 can be stored in the 'reset' sysfs attribute of the card. The patch introduces a new atomic_t member named contexts_num inside struct cxl that holds the number of active context attached to the card , which is checked against '0' before proceeding with the reset. To prevent against a race condition where a context is activated just after reset check is performed, the contexts_num is atomically set to '-1' after reset-check to indicate that no more contexts can be activated on the card anymore. Before activating a context we atomically test if contexts_num is non-negative and if so, increment its value by one. In case the value of contexts_num is negative then it indicates that the card is about to be reset and context activation is error-ed out at that point. Fixes: 62fa19d4b4fd ("cxl: Add ability to reset the card") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+ Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
index 4ba0a2a61926..640f65e79ef1 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
@@ -220,8 +220,11 @@ What: /sys/class/cxl/<card>/reset
Date: October 2014
Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Description: write only
- Writing 1 will issue a PERST to card which may cause the card
- to reload the FPGA depending on load_image_on_perst.
+ Writing 1 will issue a PERST to card provided there are no
+ contexts active on any one of the card AFUs. This may cause
+ the card to reload the FPGA depending on load_image_on_perst.
+ Writing -1 will do a force PERST irrespective of any active
+ contexts on the card AFUs.
Users: https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl
What: /sys/class/cxl/<card>/perst_reloads_same_image (not in a guest)