linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] PCI/MSI: Don't disable MSI/MSI-X at shutdown

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Date:	Thu, 14 May 2015 02:58:59 -0500
From:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Fam Zheng <famz@...hat.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@...il.com>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] PCI/MSI: Don't disable MSI/MSI-X at shutdown



On May 14, 2015 1:06:00 AM CDT, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
>On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:41:55AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> > This also sounds like a case for implementing a shutdown callback
>and
>> > disabling things properly.  A properly shutdown driver should have
>> > already disabled MSI's.  A driver is responsible for enabling MSIs
>so it
>> > should be responsible for disabling it.  The core disabling MSIs is
>> > mostly to catch the handful of lazy drivers that forget.
>> 
>> 
>> Okay! And I am saying that if the driver did forget,
>> we are better off not disabling it - leave it enabled
>> until kexec starts and disables it.
>> 
>> 
>> > The bottom line is that there are a few things that are standard
>> > behavior that we can do in the generic code, but at the end of the
>day
>> > it is the responsibility of the driver to shut things down and
>whatever
>> > driver you are dealing with clearly has a bunch of bugs and you
>aren't
>> > fixing it. 
>> 
>> So please let us get on with fixing it in driver and stop
>> playing with device in core.
>
>Eric, does this argument make sense?  Drivers should do the right thing
>in their shutdown callback, let's not try to work around their bugs in
>core.

Not in context of this patch, as this change appears to
be to avoid fixing the driver.

Further this behavior in the core has existed for the
better part of a decade.  Who knows what weird
behavior (called regressions) this will trigger with
other drivers in other situations.

I do not see any reason to change the existing behavior here.

Especially as if you try and boot a non-linux kernel with
kexec you are almost certainly going to subject it to a
screaming MSI interrupt and there almost certainly will
not be code to disable MSIs as they are disabled by at
boot up by default.

Eric

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