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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MSI: Use correct data offset for 32-bit MSI in read_msi_msg()
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:55:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17im4c6sh.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ph8ovtm.fsf@shaolin.home.digitalvampire.org> (Roland Dreier's message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:13:41 -0700")

Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org> writes:

>  > > While reading the MSI code trying to find a reason why MSI wouldn't
>  > > work for devices that have a 32-bit MSI address capability, I noticed
>  > > that read_msi_msg() seems to read the message data from the wrong
>  > > offset in this case.
>  > 
>  > Doh!  Sorry about that.
>
> Doesn't matter, it wasn't the bug hitting me anyway :) the IRQ never
> got affinity changed so read_msi_msg() never even got called.
>
> I'm starting to think that Intel 945GM graphics just has a busted MSI
> implementation, although there may be a bug hiding in the Linux code
> that I'm not seeing.

Well it is a bug worth fixing.  Who knows it may have something
to do with the disable_irq problems the forcedeth driver was seeing.

Right now MSI is still sufficiently new that everyone is still getting
the bugs out of their implementations.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87abr0oyj4.fsf@shaolin.home.digitalvampire.org>
2007-10-03 18:25 ` MSI: Use correct data offset for 32-bit MSI in read_msi_msg() Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-03 19:13   ` Roland Dreier
2007-10-03 19:55     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-10-03 20:03       ` Roland Dreier
2007-10-03 20:34         ` Eric W. Biederman

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