[PATCH] PCI: imx6: fix imprecise abort handler

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Sun Oct 20 20:56:14 EDT 2013


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 03:33:52AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Tim Harvey,
> 
> > An imprecise abort is triggered when a port behind a switch is accessed
> > and no device is present.  At enumeration, imprecise aborts are not enabled
> > thus this ends up getting deferred until the kernel has completed init.  At
> > that point we must not adjust PC - the handler must do nothing, but a
> > handler must exist.
> > 
> > This fixes random crashes that occur right after freeing init.
> > This is against linux-pci/host-imx6.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > Tested-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com>
> 
> Expanding CC a bit, let's have more eyes on this.
> 

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>




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