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From: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, hbabu@us.ibm.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	vgoyal@redhat.com, ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	bhelgaas@google.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Reset PCIe devices to address DMA problem on kdump with iommu
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:57:31 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506B8D7B.8090004@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mx04wtpz.fsf@firstfloor.org>

(2012/10/03 4:37), Andi Kleen wrote:
> Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
>
>> These patches reset PCIe devices at boot time to address DMA problem on
>> kdump with iommu. When "reset_devices" is specified, a hot reset is
>> triggered on each PCIe root port and downstream port to reset its
>> downstream endpoint.
>
> Great. I've been pondering this for a long time, but you did finally
> implement it. I hope this will make kdump a lot more reliable at least
> on the systems that support per port reset.

Actually I got the idea of this patch from your comment below;-)
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/162414

>
> Now the only question is: why make it a option and not default?

Except kdump I don't know the situation where this reset is useful, so I
introduced it as option so that it works only during kdump.

Thanks,
Takao Indoh


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02  7:49 [PATCH v2 0/2] Reset PCIe devices to address DMA problem on kdump with iommu Takao Indoh
2012-10-02  7:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86, pci: Reset PCIe devices at boot time Takao Indoh
2012-10-02  7:50 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86, pci: Enable PCI INTx when MSI is disabled Takao Indoh
2012-10-02 19:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Reset PCIe devices to address DMA problem on kdump with iommu Andi Kleen
2012-10-02 19:44   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-03  0:57   ` Takao Indoh [this message]
2012-10-03 13:23 ` Don Dutile
2012-10-09  9:03   ` Takao Indoh
2012-10-09 16:05     ` Don Dutile
2012-10-10  4:22       ` Takao Indoh

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