Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] scsi: hpsa: drop shutdown callback

[okaya@codeaurora.org]

On 2018-05-30 15:25, Don Brace wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ryan Finnie [mailto:ryan@finnie.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 8:50 PM
>> To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>; linux-pci@vger.kernel.org;
>> timur@codeaurora.org
>> Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org; 
>> linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org;
>> stable@vger.kernel.org; Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>; James 
>> E.J.
>> Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Martin K. Petersen
>> <martin.petersen@oracle.com>; esc.storagedev
>> <esc.storagedev@microsemi.com>; open list:HEWLETT-PACKARD SMART ARRAY
>> RAID DRIVER (hpsa) <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>; open list <linux-
>> kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] scsi: hpsa: drop shutdown callback
>> 
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>> 
>> On 05/28/2018 02:21 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> > 'Commit cc27b735ad3a ("PCI/portdrv: Turn off PCIe services during
>> > shutdown")' has been added to kernel to shutdown pending PCIe port
>> > service interrupts during reboot so that a newly started kexec kernel
>> > wouldn't observe pending interrupts.
>> >
>> > pcie_port_device_remove() is disabling the root port and switches by
>> > calling pci_disable_device() after all PCIe service drivers are shutdown.
>> >
>> > This has been found to cause crashes on HP DL360 Gen9 machines during
>> > reboot due to hpsa driver not clearing the bus master bit during the
>> > shutdown procedure by calling pci_disable_device().
>> >
>> > Drop the shutdown API and do an orderly clean up by using the remove.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
>> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199779
>> > Fixes: cc27b735ad3a ("PCI/portdrv: Turn off PCIe services during shutdown")
>> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> > Reported-by: Ryan Finnie <ryan@finnie.org>
>> 
>> Tested successfully on DL360 Gen9 and DL380 Gen9.
>> 
>> Tested-by: Ryan Finnie <ryan@finnie.org>
> 
> The shutdown path issues a cache flush to the controller.
> Without this flush, you will see "Dirty Cache" messages at POST.
> It is best to keep the shutdown path.
> 

I have seen that shutdown() is also called from remove().

remove() is supposed to do a safe cleanup too. If it is leaving the hw 
in inconsistent state even though it is c lling shutdown , it is yet 
another bug.

> Thanks,
> Don Brace
> ESC - Smart Storage
> Microsemi Corporation