Re: [PATCH] PCI: Mark INTx masking support of Chelsio T310 10GbE NIC as broken

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-05-28 15:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 03:29:58PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-05-28 15:21, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 02:51:25PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> On 2012-05-28 14:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:02:13AM -0300, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>> According to Alexey, the T310 does not properly support INTx masking as
>>>>>> it fails to keep the PCI_STATUS_INTERRUPT bit updated once the interrupt
>>>>>> is masked. Mark this adapter as broken so that pci_intx_mask_supported
>>>>>> won't report it as compatible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a thought: would be nice to have a way to discover
>>>>> the quirk was activated. Add an attribute so that
>>>>> userspace can detect and report this properly to users?
>>>>> Or just log a warning message ...
>>>>
>>>> pr_notice_once?
>>>
>>> OK IMO.
>>>
>>>> A flag for userspace would be significantly more
>>>> complicated (and not PCI layer hands).
>>>
>>> Why not? I meant e.g. an attribute in pci-sysfs.
>>
>> Possible. But what is the preferred way of doing this? Are there any
>> precedences?
>>
>> Jan
>>
> 
> E.g. a reset attribute is there only if device reset is supported.
> I don't insist on this - merely asking how does userspace report
> an attempt to share IRQs and whether the reason is
> discoverable in some way.

Well, so far there is no attribute associated with INTx masking that we
could hide to express this.

Jan

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