Re: [PATCH] pci-error-recover: doc cleanup

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 09/12/16 17:24, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> I suppose I'm confused, but I recall that link resets are non-fatal.
> Fatal errors typically require that the the pci adapter be completely
> reset, any adapter firmware to be reloaded from scratch, the device
> driver has to kill all device state and start from scratch. Its huge.

Is there a difference in terminology between an AER fatal error and what 
EEH/IBM people think of as a fatal error?

> If the fatal error is on pci device that is under a block device
> holding a file system, then (usually) there is no way to recover,
> because the block layer (and file system) cannot deal with a block
> device that disappeared and then reappeared some few seconds later.
> (maybe some future zfs or lvm or btrfs might be able to deal with
> this, but not today)

Is this still true? I'm not at all familiar with the block device side 
of it, but the cxlflash driver has reasonably full EEH support, 
including surviving a full PHB fence and complete reset.

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
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