From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
greg@kroah.com, tom.l.nguyen@intel.com, rajesh.shah@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC]disable msi mode in pci_disable_device
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:00:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060531210053.GE6364@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44776491.1080506@myri.com>
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:26:57PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> In
> >> his usage, pci_save_state will be called at runtime, and later (after
> >> the device operates for some time and has an error) pci_restore_state
> >> will be called.
> >
> > Is that a sane thing for a driver to be doing? (Not relevant to this issue
> > though).
>
> The aim is to be able to recover from a memory parity error in the NIC.
> Such errors happen sometimes, especially when a cosmic ray comes by. To
> recover, we restore the state that we saved at the end of the
> initialization. As saving currently disables MSI, we currently have to
> restore the state right after saving it at the end of the initialization
> (see the end of
> myri10ge_probe in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/23/24).
My experience dealing with a similar thing suggests that its usually
easier to restore the state to where it was after a cold boot, but
before the device driver touched the h/w.
--linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-31 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-26 2:58 [RFC]disable msi mode in pci_disable_device Shaohua Li
2006-05-26 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-26 20:26 ` Brice Goglin
2006-05-26 23:10 ` Rajesh Shah
2006-05-27 8:06 ` Brice Goglin
2006-05-29 2:12 ` Shaohua Li
2006-05-31 21:00 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2006-06-03 23:43 ` Brice Goglin
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