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From: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:00:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050829160014.GC12618@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125013056.14185.0.camel@gaston>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:37:36AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:18 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> > 
> > > Ok, so what is the problem then ? Why do we have to wait at all ? Why
> > > not just unplug/replug right away ?
> > 
> > We'd have to be absolutely certain that the driver could not possibly
> > take another interrupt or try to access the device on behalf of the
> > old instance of the device by the time it returned from the remove
> > function.  I'm not sure I'd trust most drivers that far...
> 
> Hrm... If a driver gets that wrong, then it will also blow up when
> unloaded as a module. 


:)  We've discovered two, so far, that blow up when unloaded: 
    lpfc and e1000. I beleive these are now fixed in mainline.

--linas

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-29 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050823231817.829359000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:35 ` [patch 0/8] PCI Error Recovery patchset Linas Vepstas
     [not found] ` <20050823232140.337320000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:39   ` [patch 2/8] PCI Error Recovery: header file patch Linas Vepstas
     [not found] ` <20050823232140.520090000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:41   ` [patch 3/8] PCI Error Recovery: IPR SCSI device driver Linas Vepstas
     [not found] ` <20050823232140.903067000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:43   ` [patch 4/8] PCI Error Recovery: Symbios " Linas Vepstas
     [not found] ` <20050823232141.286102000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:45   ` [patch 5/8] PCI Error Recovery: e100 network " Linas Vepstas
     [not found] ` <20050823232141.925586000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:46   ` [patch 6/8] PCI Error Recovery: e1000 " Linas Vepstas
     [not found] ` <20050823232142.651390000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:47   ` [patch 7/8] PCI Error Recovery: ixgb " Linas Vepstas
     [not found] ` <20050823232143.003048000@bilge>
2005-08-23 23:47   ` [patch 8/8] PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines Linas Vepstas
2005-08-24  0:43     ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-24  4:49       ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-24 15:45     ` John Rose
2005-08-24 16:29       ` Linas Vepstas
2005-08-25  0:10         ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-25  0:49           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-25 16:21             ` Linas Vepstas
2005-08-25 21:43               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-25 23:18                 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-25 23:37                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-29 16:00                     ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2005-08-29 15:57                 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-08-25 16:13           ` Linas Vepstas
2005-08-29  6:40             ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-29 16:09               ` Linas Vepstas
2005-08-30  4:44                 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-30 22:33                   ` John Rose
2005-08-29 20:26               ` John Rose
2005-08-29 20:31                 ` John Rose

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