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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: Marvell 88E8040 (sky2) fails after hibernation
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:09:44 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> Octavio,
>
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
> > If I reboot with sky2.disable_msi=1, then I get IO-APIC and the bug does not
> > occur:
> >
> > 19: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC 19-fasteoi eth0
> >
> > However, if I reboot without sky2.disable_msi=1 it properly starts as PCI-MSI
> > and then, after re-modprobing it it goes to IO-APIC, but the bug occurs
> > anyway:
> >
> > $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth
> > 27: 0 1 0 0 PCI-MSI 3145728-edge
> > eth0
> >
> > $ sudo modprobe -r sky2
> > [sudo] password for alvarezp:
> >
> > $ sudo modprobe sky2 disable_msi=1
> >
> > $ # hibernating and coming back hibernation
> >
> > $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth
> > 19: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC 19-fasteoi eth0
> >
> >
> > > Also please check Linus suspicion about the module being reloaded after
> > > hibernation through some distro magic.
> >
> > This is not happening. Each time the driver is loaded the message "sky2:
> > driver version 1.30" is shown.
> >
> > I confirm only 1 line for the sky2.disable_msi=1 from kernel boot and only 2
> > lines for re-modprobing.
>
> Odd. I still fail to make a connection to that commit you identified
> which merily restores the behaviour before the big changes.
>
> As we cannot revert that commit by any means and as the hardware is known
> to have issues with MSI, the only option we have is to avoid MSI on that
> particular machine. I suspect that the fact that it is 'working' on some
> older kernel version does not necessarily mean that it works by design. It
> might as well be a works by chance thing.
>
> Thanks for all the detective work you put into that and sorry that I can't
> come up with the magic cure for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx

In the past, I had one ASUS motherboard with broken MSI and updating the
BIOS did fix it.

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