Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Hmm, before we go async way (nasty locking, no?) could driver simply
> > ask "did something bad happen while I was sleeping?" at begining of each
> > function?
> > 
> > For DMA problems, driver probably has its own, timer-based,
> > "something is wrong" timer, anyway, no?
> 
> No, there is no nasty locking, when the callback happens, pretty much
> all IOs have stopped anyway due to errors, and we aren't on a critical
> code path.

What prevents driver from being run on another CPU, maybe just doing
mdelay() between hardware accesses? 

								Pavel
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