On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 15:44 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > +void pci_unblock_user_cfg_access(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&pci_lock, flags);
> > + dev->block_ucfg_access = 0;
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pci_lock, flags);
> > +}
>
> If we've done a write to config space while the adapter was blocked,
> shouldn't we replay those accesses at this point?
I think no. In fact, I would be ok returning errors on writes from
userland. Need to do config space writes from userland is rare, must
more than reads, and if whatever does it can't properly arbitrate with
what's going on in the kernel, then it's broken.
Ben.
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