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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ixgb: add PCI Error recovery callbacks
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:50:59PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:01:35AM -0700, Auke Kok wrote:
> > Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > >
> > >Perhaps the right fix is to figure out what parts of the driver do i/o
> > >during shutdown, and then add a line "if(wedged) skip i/o;" to those
> > >places?
> >
> > that would be relatively simple if we can check a flag (?) somewhere that
> > signifies that we've encountered a pci error. We basically only need to
> > skip out after e1000_reset and bypass e1000_irq_disable in e1000_down()
> > then.
> >
> > Does the pci error recovery code give us such a flag?
>
> Yes,

[...]

> Unless I get distracted, I'll provide an e1000 patch shortly ?

I sat down to do this and realized it was a lame idea. If a given
platform cannot tolerate PCI I/O while a PCI channel is hung, then
the plaform should stub out readb()/read()/pci_read_config_word()/etc.
as needed to prevent I/O during the critical stage.

Otherwise, one is trying to chase down all the locations in the driver
that may or may not require I/O to be disabled, which is a hit-or-miss,
mistake-prone operation.

--linas

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