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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: kexec reboot broken with ioatdma?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:42:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adapr6e7ag3.fsf@roland-alpha.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091216233613.GA22449@verge.net.au> (Simon Horman's message of "Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:36:13 +1100")


 > If its reset in a standard path, then yes that seems sensible to me.
 > I'm mainly concerned about avoiding something along the lines of:
 > 
 > 	if (is_booting_from_kexec)
 > 		reset_hw();

I think we all agree... the idea is to change from

	init_hw()
	{
		/* assume hw is in pristine state */
		do_init();
	}

to

	init_hw()
	{
		/* hw is in unknown state */
		reset_hw();
		do_init();
	}

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-16 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-16 21:32 kexec reboot broken with ioatdma? Roland Dreier
2009-12-16 22:49 ` Simon Horman
2009-12-16 23:04   ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-16 23:11     ` Dan Williams
2009-12-16 23:23       ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-18 22:10         ` Dan Williams
2009-12-18 22:20           ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-18 22:23             ` Dan Williams
2009-12-18 22:32               ` Roland Dreier
2009-12-19  7:34             ` Simon Horman
2009-12-16 23:36     ` Simon Horman
2009-12-16 23:42       ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-12-16 23:45         ` Simon Horman

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