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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Derrick, Jonathan" <jonathan.derrick@intel.com>,
	"linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Alex Gagniuc <alex_gagniuc@dellteam.com>,
	Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Prevent mmio reads if pci channel offline
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:59:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222215938.GG10237@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjmjHyovjtzaq=HSegEpiO2SXWaYfJ6qsJrZhXg_YSx5g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 01:28:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 5:07 PM Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some platforms don't seem to easily tolerate non-posted mmio reads on
> > lost (hot removed) devices. This has been noted in previous
> > modifications to other layers where an mmio read to a lost device could
> > cause an undesired firmware intervention [1][2].
> 
> This is broken, and whatever platform that requires this is broken.
> 
> This has absolutely nothing to do with nvme, and should not be handled
> by a driver.
> 
> The platform code should be fixed.

This is, of course, the correct answer. We just find platform firmware
uncooperative, so we see these attempts to avoid them.

I really don't like this driver piecemeal approach if we're going to
quirk around these platforms, though. I'd rather see the invalidated
address ranges remapped to a fault handler fixup exception once and be
done with it.

Or we can say you don't get to use this feature if you bought that
hardware.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22  1:05 [PATCH] nvme-pci: Prevent mmio reads if pci channel offline Jon Derrick
2019-02-22 21:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 21:59   ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-02-24 20:37   ` Alex_Gagniuc
2019-02-24 22:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-24 23:27       ` Alex_Gagniuc
2019-02-25  0:43         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-25 15:55         ` Keith Busch
2019-02-26 22:37           ` Alex_Gagniuc
2019-02-27  1:01             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-27 16:42               ` Alex_Gagniuc
2019-02-27 17:51                 ` Keith Busch
2019-02-27 18:07                   ` Alex_Gagniuc
2019-02-27 17:55                 ` Austin.Bolen
2019-02-27 20:04                   ` Austin.Bolen
2019-02-28 14:16                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-28 23:10                       ` Austin.Bolen
2019-02-28 23:20                         ` Keith Busch
2019-02-28 23:43                           ` Austin.Bolen
2019-03-01  0:30                             ` Keith Busch
2019-03-01  1:52                               ` Austin.Bolen

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