From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Andrew Banman <abanman@hpe.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: justin.ernst@hpe.com, rja@hpe.com, frank.ramsay@hpe.com,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] IPMI state machine regression
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:14:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a72a169e-ce1b-500c-7910-b400c7842033@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180821221443.hhgcnzw6xttaih3i@linux-tqvx.americas.hpqcorp.net>
On 08/21/2018 05:14 PM, Andrew Banman wrote:
> Dear IPMI supporters,
>
> We observe a window in IPMI BT's opportunistic get capabilities request,
> wherein GET_DEVICE_GUID and GET_DEVICE_ID requests may start while the BT state
> machine is in WR_CONSUME. Following this, the 0xD5 error code is forced in
> bt_start_transaction, IPMI fails to initialize, and the interface is torn down.
> There is no mechanism to retry bringing up the interface in open() /dev/ipmi.
> This leaves IPMI hosed until you reload modules. Looks to happen after we call
> schedule().
When was the latest kernel where this worked properly? Also, what
hardware is this?
BTW, you can use the "hotmod" capability of the IPMI driver to add the
device
dynamically.
-corey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-22 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-21 22:14 Andrew Banman
2018-08-22 16:14 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2018-08-22 16:23 ` Andrew Banman
2018-08-23 16:22 ` Corey Minyard
2018-08-23 16:52 ` Andrew Banman
2018-08-23 19:06 ` Corey Minyard
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