Hi Martyn, > On 06 Jul 2015, at 15:31, Martyn Welch <martyn.we...@ge.com> wrote: > > These are looking good to me. Thank you for finding time to look at this and the others. > > You mention error handling in relation to vme_master_mmap, am I right in > thinking patch 3 avoids errors being recorded when triggered by an mmap > access (so as not to appear as a spurious error on a later access)? Yes, this is covered as well. > > I think it would be worth at least logging errors to the kernel log should > they be generated and not be handled by a error handler, so someone using > mmap gets at least some form of notification that their accesses are > resulting on bus errors. What do you think? Yes. I agree with you. Bus error handler could print a message when an error doesn’t trigger any of the registered handlers. What would be really useful, is if we could dispatch such errors to the userspace in a more direct way. Not sure how, though.
Cheers, Dmitry > > > On 02/07/15 15:11, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote: >> This moves tsi148 error handling into VME subsystem so it can be shared with >> the other bridge driver. Then there is a change to close a fixme on >> separating >> errors by address space. And finally a fix for memory leak problem that was >> introduced with support of mmap's. >> >> The next logical step in this direction would be to add error handling >> support >> to ca91cx42 and make it unconditional for tsi148. It also makes much sense to >> add synchronization to error-related list operations (spinlocks, rcu). >> >> Dmitry Kalinkin (3): >> vme: move tsi148 error handling into VME subsystem >> vme: include address space in error filtering >> vme: change bus error handling scheme >> >> drivers/vme/bridges/vme_ca91cx42.c | 3 +- >> drivers/vme/bridges/vme_tsi148.c | 170 >> ++++++++++--------------------------- >> drivers/vme/vme.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++ >> drivers/vme/vme_bridge.h | 21 +++-- >> 4 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-) >> > > -- > Martyn Welch (Lead Software Engineer) | Registered in England and Wales > GE Intelligent Platforms | (3828642) at 100 Barbirolli Square > T +44(0)1327322748 | Manchester, M2 3AB > E martyn.we...@ge.com | VAT:GB 927559189 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
