Re: [PATCH] pci: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_disable_msi

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Michael Ellerman
<michael@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 06:08 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>  > Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> writes:
>  >
>  > > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 21:48 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  > >> this change
>  > >>
>  > >> | commit 23a274c8a5adafc74a66f16988776fc7dd6f6e51
>  > >> | Author: Prakash, Sathya <sathya.prakash@lsi.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@lsi.com>
>  > >> |     Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.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
>  > >
>  > > How is kdump going to work? Your shutdown routine won't be called and
>  > > you'll have the same problem in the 2nd kernel, won't you?
>  >
>  > Taking a quick look our current msi initialization appears robust in
>  > not assuming the state of the msi config bits.
>
>  But does that help us? What if the device driver in the 2nd kernel
>  assumes it's using INTX, when in fact MSI is enabled on the device. In
>  that case none of the MSI code will even be called AFAIK.

ok. for kdump case, if driver can not use msi (?), with pci=nomsi
we need to call pci_intx_for_msi(dev, 1) at beginning of second kernel.

will produce another patch about that case.

YH