From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: brking@us.ibm.com
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:10:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1106777405.5235.78.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F7C6A1.9070102@us.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:34 -0600, Brian King wrote:
> Here is the last one. I've looked at making userspace sleep until BIST
> is finished. The downside I see to this is that is complicates the patch
> due to the following reasons:
>
> 1. In order to also make this work for Ben's PPC power management usage
> would require an additional flag and additional APIs to set and clear
> the flag.
> 2. Since BIST can be run at interrupt context, the interfaces to block
> and unblock userspace accesses across BIST must be callable from
> interrupt context. This prevents the usage of semaphores or simple
> wait_event macros and requires new macros that carefully check the new
> pci device flag and manage the spinlock.
>
Well, I honestly think that this is unnecessary burden. I think that
just dropping writes & returning data from the cache on reads is enough,
blocking userspace isn't necessary, but then, I may be wrong ;)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-27 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-10 14:49 [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend) brking
2005-01-10 16:10 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-10 16:25 ` Brian King
2005-01-10 16:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-10 22:57 ` Brian King
2005-01-11 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 17:33 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-11 22:17 ` Brian King
2005-01-13 15:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 15:35 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 18:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-13 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 20:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-13 19:44 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 21:50 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 0:33 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-15 1:44 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 1:01 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-15 6:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 0:58 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 4:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 4:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-16 20:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 22:07 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-16 22:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-18 15:14 ` Brian King
2005-01-18 23:31 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-18 23:36 ` Brian King
2005-01-19 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-26 16:34 ` Brian King
2005-01-26 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-01-27 15:53 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-27 18:44 ` Brian King
2005-01-27 23:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-28 14:35 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 7:27 ` Greg KH
2005-02-01 15:12 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 15:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-02-01 17:35 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 17:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-02-01 19:01 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-02 15:33 ` Brian King
2005-02-08 20:08 ` Greg KH
2005-06-21 16:08 ` Brian King
2005-08-23 15:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Brian King
2005-08-23 15:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipr: " Brian King
2005-09-01 23:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] pci: " Andrew Morton
2005-09-02 23:56 ` Brian King
2005-09-02 22:43 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-02 23:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-03 0:08 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-03 23:37 ` Brian King
2005-09-03 19:39 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-05 18:31 ` Brian King
2005-09-06 4:48 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-06 14:28 ` Brian King
2005-09-07 5:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-07 14:58 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-07 22:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-08 1:21 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-08 3:05 ` Brian King
2005-09-08 4:08 ` Grant Grundler
2005-02-01 18:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Greg KH
2005-02-01 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-01 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-10 19:23 ` Alan Cox
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2004-12-14 19:41 brking
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