linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for-2.6.35] virtio-pci: disable msi at startup

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:34:32 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-2.6.35] virtio-pci: disable msi at startup

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:22:52 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:

> virtio-pci resets the device at startup by writing to the status
> register, but this does not clear the pci config space,
> specifically msi enable status which affects register
> layout.
> 
> This breaks things like kdump when they try to use e.g. virtio-blk.
> 
> Fix by forcing msi off at startup. Since pci.c already has
> a routine to do this, we export and use it instead of duplicating code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
> Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
> ---

Yeah, looks fine.

Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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