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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:39:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040805153929.GC6526@cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hdri2uw0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:14:55PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> VGA/serial console devices rarely need to do be bus masters so they
> should be fine.

yeah - you are right. I wasn't thinking.
Can anyone comment on UGA or other console devices?

> In the general case it appears to be overkill, incorrect and
> insufficient to disable bus mastering on all PCI devices.  Which is
> why device_shutdown() calls device specific code.

Is anyone else considering using kexec() to recover from a oops/panic?
What is the risk calling multiple device_shutdown() will expose another panic?

While calling a device specific cleanup is best, I worry about how
much code/data gets touched in this path. I was hoping something
simple like twiddling bus master bit would be sufficient.
If it's not, oh well.

thanks,
grant

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-05 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200407261524.40804.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
     [not found] ` <200407261536.05133.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
     [not found]   ` <20040730155504.2a51b1fa.rddunlap@osdl.org>
2004-08-04 13:07     ` [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64 Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-04 16:24       ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-04 23:33       ` Grant Grundler
2004-08-05  2:14         ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 15:39           ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2004-08-05 16:44             ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 16:45       ` Luck, Tony
2004-08-05 17:05         ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-08-05 19:18           ` Khalid Aziz
2004-08-05 19:44 [Fastboot] " Tolentino, Matthew E
2004-08-05 21:29 ` Eric W. Biederman

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