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SubjectRe: [PATCH] pci: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_disable_msi
FromMichael Ellerman <>
DateWed, 23 Apr 2008 15:24:37 +1000
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 21:48 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> this change
> 
> | commit 23a274c8a5adafc74a66f16988776fc7dd6f6e51
> | Author: Prakash, Sathya <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
> | Date:   Fri Mar 7 15:53:21 2008 +0530
> |
> |     [SCSI] mpt fusion: Enable MSI by default for SAS controllers
> |
> |     This patch modifies the driver to enable MSI by default for all SAS chips.
> |
> |     Signed-off-by: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
> |     Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> |
> cause kexec RHEL 5.1 kernel fail.
> 
> root casue: the rhel 5.1 kernel still use INTx emulation.
> and mptscsih_shutdown doesn't call pci_disable_msi to reenable INTx on kexec path
> 
> so try to call pci_disable_msi in shutdown patch

How is kdump going to work? Your shutdown routine won't be called and
you'll have the same problem in the 2nd kernel, won't you?

cheers

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