Re: [PATCH 0/2] bnx2: Hard reset bnx2 chip at probe stage

[Baoquan He]

On 11/11/16 at 09:46pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> Hi bnx2 experts,
> 
> In commit 3e1be7a ("bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"),
> firmware requesting code was moved from open stage to probe stage.
> The reason is in kdump kernel hardware iommu need device be reset in
> driver probe stage, otherwise those in-flight DMA from 1st kernel
> will continue going and look up into the newly created io-page tables.
> So we need reset device to stop in-flight DMA as early as possibe.
> 
> But with commit 3e1be7a merged, people reported their bnx2 driver init
> failed because of failed firmware loading. After discussion, it's found
> that they built bnx2 driver into kernel, and that makes probe function
> bnx2_init_one be called in do_initcalls(). But at this time the initramfs
> has not been uncompressed yet and mounted, kernel can't detect firmware.
> 
> So there's only one way to cover both. Try to hard reset the bnx2 device
> at probe stage, without involving firmware issues. I tried to add function
> bnx2_hard_reset_chip() to do this and it's only called in kdump kernel.
> The thing is I am not quite familiar with bnx2 chip spec, just abstract
> code from bnx2_reset_chip, the testing result is good.

Here I changed to send BNX2_MISC_COMMAND_HD_RESET in BNX2_CHIP_5709
case.

> 
> Any suggestions are welcomed and much appreciated!
> 
> Baoquan He (2):
>   Revert "bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"
>   bnx2: Hard reset bnx2 chip at probe stage
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
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