2009/2/10 Michael Ellerman <mich...@ellerman.id.au>: > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 11:14 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: >> On a somewhat-related note: there was an issue (I forget >> the details) where the kernel needed to shadow some sort >> of MSI state so that it could be correctly, um, kept-track-of, >> after an EEH reset (it didn't need to be restored, because >> firmware did this(?)). After some digging around and >> discussion, we concluded that some generic PPC MSI >> code needed to be altered to track this state, and/or >> the main kernel MSI code needed to be changed to >> (not?) track this state. Mike Ellerman seemed to best >> grasp this area ... was this ever fixed? >> >> Or perhaps this is an alternate fix for that bug? It may >> well have been that calling the MSI disable triggered >> the problem, I don't remember now. > > I'm pretty sure you're referring to this patch, which you acked :) > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1db3e890aed3ac39cded30d6e94618bda086f7ce > > I don't know of anything else that fits your description?
Yes, that's the one. I wasn't sure if it ever made it in or not, and I just wanted to make sure it wasn't what was biting you. --linas _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
