Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 May 2005 10:38:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability |
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On Wed, 11 May 2005, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > I looked into the possibility of having the PCI core disable interrupt > > generation and DMA on each new device as it is discovered. Unfortunately > > there is no dependable, universal way to do this for IRQs. (A notable gap > > in the original PCI specification, IMHO.) > > PCI specification 2.3 onwards, command register bit 10 can be used for > disabling the interrupts from respective device. And the very reason for > introducing this bit seems to be to not allow the device issue interrupts > until a suitable driver for the device has been loaded. Have a look at > following message. > > http://www.pcisig.com/reflector/msg05302.html > > Probably this feature can be used to disable the interrupts from the devices > and enable these back when respective driver is loaded. This will resolve > the problem of drivers not getting initialized in second kernel due to shared > interrupts in kdump and reliability of capturing dump can be increased.
That's good, and it's certainly a step in the right direction. It won't help with any pre-PCI-2.3 devices out there but it might be worth trying to implement.
Alan Stern
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