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From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: cl91tp@gmail.com, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, f.otti@gmx.at, khlebnikov@openvz.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	jility09@gmail.com, bhelgaas@google.com, tianyu.lan@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Clear Bus Master bit only on kexec reboot
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:18:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52966FA1.3020606@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131127220704.GA15609@srcf.ucam.org>

On 11/27/2013 03:07 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:01:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> Anyway, I really don't care either way, but this seems like something
>> that the drivers should be doing.  What suddenly changed that caused
>> this problem to occur that hasn't happened in the years prior to now
>> that drives this to be a stable-kernel issue?
>
> We started clearing the busmaster bit on all devices on shutdown in
> 3.something in order to ensure that DMA wasn't occuring while we were
> in the process of performing a kexec. Some machines freeze on shutdown
> as a result. This patch reverts back to the original behaviour on real
> shutdown, while still avoiding the "This PCI device scribbled over my
> new kernel" kexec case.
>

Thanks for explaining this, Matthew. That was my reasoning exactly for 
why this patch should apply to stable. It fixes a real problem some 
users are experiencing. Commit log contains the URL to bugzilla entry 
for the problem.

--
Khalid

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From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	bhelgaas@google.com, cl91tp@gmail.com, tianyu.lan@intel.com,
	khlebnikov@openvz.org, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com, jility09@gmail.com, f.otti@gmx.at,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Clear Bus Master bit only on kexec reboot
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:18:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52966FA1.3020606@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131127220704.GA15609@srcf.ucam.org>

On 11/27/2013 03:07 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:01:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> Anyway, I really don't care either way, but this seems like something
>> that the drivers should be doing.  What suddenly changed that caused
>> this problem to occur that hasn't happened in the years prior to now
>> that drives this to be a stable-kernel issue?
>
> We started clearing the busmaster bit on all devices on shutdown in
> 3.something in order to ensure that DMA wasn't occuring while we were
> in the process of performing a kexec. Some machines freeze on shutdown
> as a result. This patch reverts back to the original behaviour on real
> shutdown, while still avoiding the "This PCI device scribbled over my
> new kernel" kexec case.
>

Thanks for explaining this, Matthew. That was my reasoning exactly for 
why this patch should apply to stable. It fixes a real problem some 
users are experiencing. Commit log contains the URL to bugzilla entry 
for the problem.

--
Khalid

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-27 19:18 [PATCH] PCI: Clear Bus Master bit only on kexec reboot Khalid Aziz
2013-11-27 19:18 ` Khalid Aziz
2013-11-27 19:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 19:24   ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 19:48   ` Khalid Aziz
2013-11-27 19:48     ` Khalid Aziz
2013-11-27 19:53     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 19:53       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 19:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-11-27 19:38   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-11-27 19:59   ` Khalid Aziz
2013-11-27 19:59     ` Khalid Aziz
2013-11-27 21:22     ` Greg KH
2013-11-27 21:22       ` Greg KH
2013-11-27 21:53       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 21:53         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 22:01         ` Greg KH
2013-11-27 22:01           ` Greg KH
2013-11-27 22:07           ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 22:07             ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-27 22:18             ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
2013-11-27 22:18               ` Khalid Aziz
2013-11-28 14:15           ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-11-28 14:15             ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-11-27 19:39 ` Greg KH
2013-11-27 19:39   ` Greg KH

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