[PATCH] Add EDAC peripheral init functions & Ethernet EDAC.

Thor Thayer tthayer at opensource.altera.com
Mon Apr 18 13:25:56 PDT 2016



On 04/18/2016 03:06 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:02:27PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>>   the number of uncorrectable errors is useful from a system point of
>>> view.
>
> I forgot: so altr_edac_a10_ecc_irq() panics on uncorrectable errors. Do we want
> to do that even for UEs coming from the network...?
>
> Seems a bit overboard to me...
>

Yes, as currently submitted, it is overboard and I'll fix this in the 
next patch submission. In the uncorrectable error case, I plan to just 
count the error. I'll add a constant flag in the Ethernet module's 
edac_device_prv_data to determine if the panic should be bypassed.



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