linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: Mark INTx masking support of Chelsio T310 10GbE NIC as broken

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Date:	Mon, 28 May 2012 16:21:10 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
Cc:	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Mark INTx masking support of Chelsio T310 10GbE NIC
 as broken

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 02:51:25PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-05-28 14:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:02:13AM -0300, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> According to Alexey, the T310 does not properly support INTx masking as
> >> it fails to keep the PCI_STATUS_INTERRUPT bit updated once the interrupt
> >> is masked. Mark this adapter as broken so that pci_intx_mask_supported
> >> won't report it as compatible.
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
> > 
> > 
> > Just a thought: would be nice to have a way to discover
> > the quirk was activated. Add an attribute so that
> > userspace can detect and report this properly to users?
> > Or just log a warning message ...
> 
> pr_notice_once?

OK IMO.

> A flag for userspace would be significantly more
> complicated (and not PCI layer hands).

Why not? I meant e.g. an attribute in pci-sysfs.

> Jan
> 
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