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From: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Shanker R Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>, Vikram Sethi <vsethi@nvidia.com>,
	Amey Narkhede <ameynarkhede03@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] PCI: Enable NO_BUS_RESET quirk for Nvidia GPUs
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 13:56:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOSf1CFACC5V1OdA9i9APipTUE3GmXu487vt-btXWk5rP97UAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210505021236.GA1244944@bjorn-Precision-5520>

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 12:50 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:07:11PM -0500, Shanker R Donthineni wrote:
> > On 5/3/21 5:42 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > Obviously _RST only works for built-in devices, since there's no AML
> > > for plug-in devices, right?  So if there's a plug-in card with this
> > > GPU, neither SBR nor _RST will work?
> > These are not plug-in PCIe GPU cards, will exist on upcoming server
> > baseboards. ACPI-reset should wok for plug-in devices as well as long
> > as firmware has _RST method defined in ACPI-device associated with
> > the PCIe hot-plug slot.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how _RST can work for
> plug-in devices.  _RST is part of the system firmware, and that
> firmware knows nothing about what will be plugged into the slot.  So
> if system firmware supplies _RST that knows how to reset the Nvidia
> GPU, it's not going to do the right thing if you plug in an NVMe
> device instead.
>
> Can you elaborate on how _RST would work for plug-in devices?

Power cycling the slot or just re-asserting #PERST probably. IBM has
been doing that on Power boxes since forever and it mostly works.
Mostly.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-05  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-29  0:49 [PATCH v4 1/2] PCI: Add support for a function level reset based on _RST method Shanker Donthineni
2021-04-29  0:49 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] PCI: Enable NO_BUS_RESET quirk for Nvidia GPUs Shanker Donthineni
2021-04-30 17:01   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-04-30 22:11     ` Shanker R Donthineni
2021-05-03 22:42       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-05-04  2:07         ` Shanker R Donthineni
2021-05-05  2:12           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-05-05  3:51             ` Shanker R Donthineni
2021-05-05  3:56             ` Oliver O'Halloran [this message]
2021-05-05 17:40               ` Amey Narkhede
2021-05-05 19:13                 ` Alex Williamson
2021-05-05 20:04                   ` Shanker R Donthineni
2021-05-05 20:40                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-05-05 12:15       ` Pali Rohár
2021-05-05 15:35         ` Shanker R Donthineni
2021-04-30 18:39 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] PCI: Add support for a function level reset based on _RST method Alex Williamson
2021-04-30 19:05   ` Shanker R Donthineni

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