[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: clear PCI failure counter if no new failures

The current PCI error recovery system keeps track of the number of PCI card
resets, and refuses to bring a card back up if this number is too large.
The goal of doing this was to avoid an infinite loop of resets if a card is
obviously dead.  However, if the failures are rare, but the machine has a
high uptime, this mechanism might still be triggered; this is too harsh.

This patch will avoids this problem by decrementing the fail count after an
hour.  Thus, as long as a pci card BSOD's less than 6 times an hour, it
will continue to be reset indefinitely.  If it's failure rate is greater
than that, it will be taken off-line permanently.

This patch is larger than it might otherwise be because it changes
indentation by removing a pointless while-loop.  The while loop is not
needed, as the handler is invoked once fo each event (by schedule_work());
the loop is leftover cruft from an earlier implementation.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/eeh_event.h b/include/asm-powerpc/eeh_event.h
index 93d55a2bebfd..dc6bf0ffb796 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/eeh_event.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/eeh_event.h
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2005 Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
  */
 
-#ifndef ASM_PPC64_EEH_EVENT_H
-#define ASM_PPC64_EEH_EVENT_H
+#ifndef ASM_POWERPC_EEH_EVENT_H
+#define ASM_POWERPC_EEH_EVENT_H
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 /** EEH event -- structure holding pci controller data that describes
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct eeh_event {
  * @dev pci device
  *
  * This routine builds a PCI error event which will be delivered
- * to all listeners on the peh_notifier_chain.
+ * to all listeners on the eeh_notifier_chain.
  *
  * This routine can be called within an interrupt context;
  * the actual event will be delivered in a normal context
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ int eeh_send_failure_event (struct device_node *dn,
                             int time_unavail);
 
 /* Main recovery function */
-void handle_eeh_events (struct eeh_event *);
+struct pci_dn * handle_eeh_events (struct eeh_event *);
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-#endif /* ASM_PPC64_EEH_EVENT_H */
+#endif /* ASM_POWERPC_EEH_EVENT_H */