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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] PCI prepare/activate instead of enable to avoid IRQ storm and rogue DMA access
FromAndi Kleen <>
Date14 Mar 2007 22:46:47 +0100
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Let's assume there's a device which shares its INTX IRQ line with
> another device and the other one is already initialized. During boot,
> due to BIOS's fault, bad hardware design or sheer bad luck, the device
> has got a pending IRQ.

This seems to be also common after kexec during kexec crashdumps
where the device just continues doing what it did before the crash.

> This patch expands the pci_set_master() approach. Instead of enabling
> the device in one go, it's done in two steps - prepare and activate.
> 'prepare' enables access to PCI configuration,

I hope there aren't any new erratas triggered by this. Perhaps it would
make sense to add some paranoia sleeps at least before touching other
state?

-Andi
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