netdev - Re: [PATCH] igb: fix kexec with igb

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Date:	Sun, 8 Mar 2009 22:08:42 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: fix kexec with igb

On Sunday 08 March 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 March 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Jesse Brandeburg
> >> <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>>> Impact: could probe igb
> >>>>
> >>>> Found one system with 82575EB, in the kernel that is kexeced, probe igb
> >>>> failed with -2.
> >>>>
> >>>> it looks like the same behavior happened on forcedeth.
> >>>>
> >>>> try to check system_state to make sure if put it on D3
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> >>>>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
> >>>>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>> I see the point of the patch, but I know for a fact that ixgbe when
> >>> enabled for MSI-X also doesn't work with kexec.
> >>>
> >>> so my questions are:
> >>> are you going to change every driver?
> >> i tend to only change driver that i have related HW.
> >>
> >>> why can't this be fixed in core kernel code instead?
> >> will check it.
> >>
> >>> Shouldn't pci_enable_device take it out of D3?
> >>> Or maybe it should be taken out of D3 immediately if someone tries to
> >>> ioremap any of the BARx registers?
> >>
> >> looks like second kernel can not detect the state any more.
> > 
> > In fact pci_enable_device() calls pci_set_power_state(dev, PCI_D0) as the first
> > thing.  The question is why it doesn't work as expected.
> 
> not sure... please check the version for forcedeth that you made.
> 
> commit 3cb5599a84c557c0dd9a19feb63a3788268cf249
> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> Date:   Fri Sep 5 14:00:19 2008 -0700
> 
>     forcedeth: fix kexec regression
>     
>     Fix regression tracked as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11361
>     and caused by commit f735a2a1a4f2a0f5cd823ce323e82675990469e2 ("[netdrvr]
>     forcedeth: setup wake-on-lan before shutting down") that makes network
>     adapters integrated into the NVidia MCP55 chipsets fail to work in kexeced
>     kernels.  The problem appears to be that if the adapter is put into D3_hot
>     during ->shutdown(), it cannot be brought back into D0 after kexec (ref.
>     http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121900062814967&w=4).  Therefore, only
>     put forcedeth into D3 during ->shutdown() if the system is to be powered
>     off.

Thanks, I remember now.

This appears to be quirky hardware, doesn't it?

Rafael
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