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Message-ID: <86802c440804231032j53874853p9c0beee956d10f91@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:32:16 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
"Sathya Prakash" <sathya.prakash@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_disable_msi
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@...il.com> writes:
>
> > this change
> >
> > | commit 23a274c8a5adafc74a66f16988776fc7dd6f6e51
> > | Author: Prakash, Sathya <sathya.prakash@....com>
> > | Date: Fri Mar 7 15:53:21 2008 +0530
> > |
> > | [SCSI] mpt fusion: Enable MSI by default for SAS controllers
> > |
> > | This patch modifies the driver to enable MSI by default for all SAS chips.
> > |
> > | Signed-off-by: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@....com>
> > | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
> > |
> > cause kexec RHEL 5.1 kernel fail.
> >
> > root casue: the rhel 5.1 kernel still use INTx emulation.
> > and mptscsih_shutdown doesn't call pci_disable_msi to reenable INTx on kexec
> > path
> >
> > so try to call pci_disable_msi in shutdown patch
>
> Ok this looks like a reasonable approach.
>
> Could you please change how this is factored.
> And implement a pci_shutdown_msi and a pci_shutdown_msix that
> just performs the hardware state change.
>
> Then have pci_disable_msi and pci_disable_msix call them?
>
> That should be much easier to maintain then a adding a function
> that takes a magic flag.
>
> That is the design of the shutdown interface and it seems to
> work well.
will check that.
YH
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