Patch "powerpc/eeh: Fix partial hotplug criterion" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

powerpc/eeh: Fix partial hotplug criterion

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-eeh-fix-partial-hotplug-criterion.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:03:05 +1100
Subject: powerpc/eeh: Fix partial hotplug criterion

From: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>

commit f6bf0fa14cf848ae770e0b7842c9b11ce2f01645 upstream.

During error recovery, the device could be removed as part of the partial hotplug. The criterion used to come with partial hotplug
is: if the device driver provides error_detected(), slot_reset() and resume() callbacks, it's immune from hotplug. Otherwise, it's going to experience partial hotplug during EEH recovery. But the criterion isn't correct enough: mlx4_core driver for Mellanox adapters provides error_detected(), slot_reset() callbacks, but resume() isn't there. Those Mellanox adapters won't be to involved in the partial hotplug.

This fixes the criterion to a practical one: adpater with driver that provides error_detected(), slot_reset() will be immune from partial hotplug. resume() isn't mandatory.

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -418,8 +418,7 @@ static void *eeh_rmv_device(void *data,
 		eeh_pcid_put(dev);
 		if (driver->err_handler &&
 		    driver->err_handler->error_detected &&
-		    driver->err_handler->slot_reset &&
-		    driver->err_handler->resume)
+		    driver->err_handler->slot_reset)
 			return NULL;
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/powerpc-eeh-fix-partial-hotplug-criterion.patch