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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Reset PCIe devices to address DMA problem on kdump
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To: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hbabu@us.ibm.com, ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com, bhelgaas@google.com

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:32:35PM +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:

[..]
> I'll post new patch which clears bus master bit and resets devices in
> second kernel.
> 
> As to the boot parameter to enable this function, you suggested using
> reset_devices. I found that on a certain platform resetting devices
> caused PCIe error due to a hardware bug. Therefore I think we need
> new parameter apart from reset_devices to disable this function on
> such a machine.

Can you explain a bit more how the error happens. I still don't think
that because of a bug in a platform somewhere we should be introducing
a separate command line parameter and not reuse the exisiting one. Also
you have not explained what's the bug and how a new parameter will 
avoid the bug.

Thanks
Vivek

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