From: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:43:48 -0800
> From: Bruce Allan <[email protected]> > > In rare instances, memory errors have been detected in the internal packet > buffer memory on I217/I218 when stressed under certain environmental > conditions. Enable Error Correcting Code (ECC) in hardware to catch both > correctable and uncorrectable errors. Correctable errors will be handled > by the hardware. Uncorrectable errors in the packet buffer will cause the > packet to be received with an error indication in the buffer descriptor > causing the packet to be discarded. If the uncorrectable error is in the > descriptor itself, the hardware will stop and interrupt the driver > indicating the error. The driver will then reset the hardware in order to > clear the error and restart. > > Both types of errors will be accounted for in statistics counters. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.5.x & 3.6.x > Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> > --- Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
