RE: [PATCH V3 2/2] scsi: hpsa: drop shutdown callback

[Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Finnie [mailto:ryan@finnie.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 8:50 PM
> To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>; linux-pci@vger.kernel.org;
> timur@codeaurora.org
> Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org;
> stable@vger.kernel.org; Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>; James E.J.
> Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Martin K. Petersen
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> <esc.storagedev@microsemi.com>; open list:HEWLETT-PACKARD SMART ARRAY
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] scsi: hpsa: drop shutdown callback
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> On 05/28/2018 02:21 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > 'Commit cc27b735ad3a ("PCI/portdrv: Turn off PCIe services during
> > shutdown")' has been added to kernel to shutdown pending PCIe port
> > service interrupts during reboot so that a newly started kexec kernel
> > wouldn't observe pending interrupts.
> >
> > pcie_port_device_remove() is disabling the root port and switches by
> > calling pci_disable_device() after all PCIe service drivers are shutdown.
> >
> > This has been found to cause crashes on HP DL360 Gen9 machines during
> > reboot due to hpsa driver not clearing the bus master bit during the
> > shutdown procedure by calling pci_disable_device().
> >
> > Drop the shutdown API and do an orderly clean up by using the remove.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199779
> > Fixes: cc27b735ad3a ("PCI/portdrv: Turn off PCIe services during shutdown")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Reported-by: Ryan Finnie <ryan@finnie.org>
> 
> Tested successfully on DL360 Gen9 and DL380 Gen9.
> 
> Tested-by: Ryan Finnie <ryan@finnie.org>

The shutdown path issues a cache flush to the controller.
Without this flush, you will see "Dirty Cache" messages at POST.
It is best to keep the shutdown path.

Thanks,
Don Brace
ESC - Smart Storage
Microsemi Corporation