Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] PCI/MSI: Don't disable MSI/MSI-X at shutdown

[Fam Zheng]

On Tue, 05/19 09:58, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:03:32PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > d52877c7b1af ("pci/irq: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_msi_shutdown
> > v2") disabled MSI/MSI-X at device shutdown to address a kexec problem.
> > ... 

Hi Bjorn,
> 
> I know you're trying to put all the justification in the changelog, and
> that's great if it can be done.  But would you please just add the single
> link here to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96571 ?
> 
> And please attach the dmesg log and instructions for reproducing the
> problem to the bugzilla.  I've asked for this before, and it seems like a
> simple request, but maybe there's a reason it's more complicated than it
> seems to me.  It's obvious to you how all this fits together, but I'd like
> it to be more concrete to the rest of us, too.

I've updated what I could see with current master build as much as I can, the
softlockup is not observed in my tests, but the dmesg log already shows the
spurious IRQ.

> 
> The bugzilla says Ulrich Obergfell noticed this in RHEL7.  If there's a
> RHEL bugzilla, it'd be nice to have a link to it in the kernel.org
> bugzilla.  Informal hints are great right now, but they'll be useless after
> six months.

The original bug is not public accessible, so I didn't include the link.

Fam
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