[PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3-its: BUG_ON if stall bit is set
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Wed Dec 6 23:43:04 PST 2023
On Thu, 07 Dec 2023 06:12:39 +0000,
Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha at quicinc.com> wrote:
>
> There could be various reason that stall bit could
> be set due to software errors while processing
> commands in command queue is being processed and
Such as?
> waiting for 1s is not going to help in debugging
> as command processing anyways going to be timed
> out and system will continue to run and may crash
> after some time due to this.
>
> So, to debug such issues what command caused the
> stall bit to set, BUG_ON right away.
How on Earth will killing the system allow *anything* to be further
debugged?
If you need debug information, add the correct debug statements using
pr_debug(). Even better, try to gracefully recover from it if the ITS
command queue supports restarting.
Crashing the system is not an option.
M.
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