Re: [PATCH] PCI: Clear Bus Master bit only on kexec reboot

[Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>]

On 11/27/2013 12:38 PM, ebiederm@xmission.com wrote:
> Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> Add a flag to tell the PCI subsystem that kernel is shutting down
>> in prepapration to kexec a kernel. Add code in PCI subsystem to use
>> this flag to clear Bus Master bit on PCI devices only in case of
>> kexec reboot. This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63861
>> and avoids any other issues caused by clearing Bus Master bit on PCI
>> devices in normal shutdown path. This patch is based on discussion at
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=138425645204355&w=2
>
> Scratches head.
>
> Given that most devices already call pci_disable_device which clears the
> bus master bit how does this change anything meaningful?
>
> Is is the problem here that most drivers are lazy and have a noop
> shutdown method?

Yes, that is exactly the problem.

--
Khalid

>
> Eric
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
>> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> ---
>>   drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 9 ++++++---
>>   drivers/pci/pci.h        | 3 +++
>>   kernel/kexec.c           | 4 ++++
>>   3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
>> index 9042fdb..e920195 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
>> @@ -400,10 +400,13 @@ static void pci_device_shutdown(struct device *dev)
>>   	pci_msix_shutdown(pci_dev);
>>
>>   	/*
>> -	 * Turn off Bus Master bit on the device to tell it to not
>> -	 * continue to do DMA. Don't touch devices in D3cold or unknown states.
>> +	 * If this is a kexec reboot, turn off Bus Master bit on the
>> +	 * device to tell it to not continue to do DMA. Don't touch
>> +	 * devices in D3cold or unknown states.
>> +	 * If it is not a kexec reboot, firmware will hit the PCI
>> +	 * devices with big hammer and stop their DMA any way.
>>   	 */
>> -	if (pci_dev->current_state <= PCI_D3hot)
>> +	if (kexec_in_progress && (pci_dev->current_state <= PCI_D3hot))
>>   		pci_clear_master(pci_dev);
>>   }
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.h b/drivers/pci/pci.h
>> index 9c91ecc..7d85733 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.h
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.h
>> @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
>>   extern const unsigned char pcix_bus_speed[];
>>   extern const unsigned char pcie_link_speed[];
>>
>> +/* flag to track if kexec reboot is in progress */
>> +extern unsigned long kexec_in_progress;
>> +
>>   /* Functions internal to the PCI core code */
>>
>>   int pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(struct pci_dev *pdev);
>> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
>> index 490afc0..fd2d63e 100644
>> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
>> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
>> @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ u32 vmcoreinfo_note[VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE/4];
>>   size_t vmcoreinfo_size;
>>   size_t vmcoreinfo_max_size = sizeof(vmcoreinfo_data);
>>
>> +/* Flag to indicate we are going to kexec a new kernel */
>> +unsigned long kexec_in_progress = 0;
>> +
>>   /* Location of the reserved area for the crash kernel */
>>   struct resource crashk_res = {
>>   	.name  = "Crash kernel",
>> @@ -1675,6 +1678,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
>>   	} else
>>   #endif
>>   	{
>> +		kexec_in_progress = 1;
>>   		kernel_restart_prepare(NULL);
>>   		printk(KERN_EMERG "Starting new kernel\n");
>>   		machine_shutdown();


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