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    [POWERPC] pSeries: EEH improperly enabled for some Power4 systems · 25c4a46f
    Linas Vepstas authored
    It appears that EEH is improperly enabled for some Power4 systems.
    On these systems, the ibm,set-eeh-option returns a value of success
    even when EEH is not supported on the given node. Thus, an explicit
    check for support is required.
    
    During boot, on power4, without this patch, one sees messages
    similar to:
    
    EEH: event on unsupported device, rc=0 dn=/pci@400000000110/IBM,sp@1
    EEH: event on unsupported device, rc=0 dn=/pci@400000000110/pci@2
    EEH: event on unsupported device, rc=0 dn=/pci@400000000110/pci@2,2
    etc.
    
    The patch makes these go away.
    
    Without this patch, EEH recovery does seem to work correctly for
    at least some devices (I tested ethernet e1000), but fails to
    recover others (the Emulex LightPulse LPFC, most notably).
    Off the top of my head, I don't remember why some devices are
    affected, but not others.
    
    The PAPR indicates that the correct way to test for EEH is as
    done in this patch; its not clear to me if this was in the PAPR
    all along, or recently added; if it was there all along, its not
    clear to me why this hadn't been fixed long ago. I suspect only
    certain firmware levels are affected.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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