linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] Bug in PCI core

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Date:	Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:13:52 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Adam Belay <abelay@....EDU>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Bug in PCI core

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:34 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 10:49 -0600, ysgrifennodd Matthew Wilcox:
> > No it didn't.  It's undefined behaviour to perform *any* PCI config
> > access to the device while it's doing a D-state transition.  It may have
> 
> I think you missed the earlier parts of the story - the kernel caches
> the base config register state.
> 
> > happened to work with the chips you tried it with, but more likely you
> > never hit that window because X simply didn't try to do that.
> 
> Which is why the kernel caches the register state. 

but... it didn't USE the cache in the case we're protecting here.
Instead the hardware would just go splat.


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