Provide support for PCI Enhanced Error Recovery. This was originally approved for 5.2 and an update to the driver was provided by issues found during testing prevented it's release during 5.2. In the meantime IBM contributed the work to provide fixes to the kernel and an updated patch for our driver. The original BZ was 253267. This patch has been tested at IBM before being provided here and it applies to kernel-2.6.18-110 and builds cleanly.
Created attachment 316804 [details] EEH for rhel5.3
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This patch provides EEH support for PPC platforms that was originally requested in RHEL5.2, but had to be removed due to issues found during testing. EEH provides the ability for QLogic adapter to transparently recover from PCIe protocol errors detected by IBM EEH hardware on Power Series platforms. Without this functionality, any protocol errors detected would cause I/O to fail and adapter to be shutdown immediately. IBM will conduct testing of this patch and update this bug with results.
Created attachment 318023 [details] V2 updated the patch to remove a line of code from upstream. The patch uncommented a line of code that released the firmware on module unload. It is now commented out again.
in kernel-2.6.18-118.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
(In reply to comment #5) > in kernel-2.6.18-118.el5 > You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 Thanks, will download, build and test today.
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IBM, QLogic, what is the current status of this bug fix? The fix should be present in the latest RHEL5.3 Snapshot. Please test and send feedback ASAP.
I believe the current status is as follows: Without this patch the system will panic when it encounters a PCI Bus Error. When this patch is applied, the system will recover from several PCI Bus Errors. On about the 6th error the system will panic. The current status seems to be a substantial improvement. It needs more work however. Work will continue and hopefully yield a solution before the actual availability of 5.3, as a KMOD, but there is higher priority work for FCoE, which is also desired for 5.3
The code for support of Enhanced Error Recovery is in current RHEL5.3 snapshots. This function is intended to allow qlogic adapters to recover on IBM Power platforms in the unexptected case where a PCI hardware error is detected. The current qla2xxx code has as yet unresolved issues which prevent a complete recovery. The issues with qla2xxx EEH code will not affect normal operation of IBM power platforms, it is only invoked in unxpected case where a PCI hardware error is detected. Reccomendation is to retarget this work to RHEL5.4.
If i read you right, the fix present in 5.3 is sufficient to call this bug VERIFIED. However, additional fixes are requested for a future release (ie, 5.4). If this is the case, please add the PartnerVerified keyword and move this bug to VERIFIED. Then CLONE this bug or open a fresh new bug and describe the issues you would like fixed in an upcoming RHEL release.
Added partnerverified to keywords, will open a new bugzilla for RHEL5.4 with information for specific outstanding issues.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html