Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:34 -0600, Brian King wrote:

> Here is the last one. I've looked at making userspace sleep until BIST 
> is finished. The downside I see to this is that is complicates the patch 
> due to the following reasons:
> 
> 1. In order to also make this work for Ben's PPC power management usage 
> would require an additional flag and additional APIs to set and clear 
> the flag.
> 2. Since BIST can be run at interrupt context, the interfaces to block 
> and unblock userspace accesses across BIST must be callable from 
> interrupt context. This prevents the usage of semaphores or simple 
> wait_event macros and requires new macros that carefully check the new 
> pci device flag and manage the spinlock.
> 

Well, I honestly think that this is unnecessary burden. I think that
just dropping writes & returning data from the cache on reads is enough,
blocking userspace isn't necessary, but then, I may be wrong ;)

Ben.