Re: [RFC/PATCH]reconfigure MSI registers after resume

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"Nguyen, Tom L" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:44 PM Greg KH wrote:
> >>On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:35:46PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> It appears pci_enable_msi doesn't reconfigure msi registers if it
> >> successfully look up a msi for a device. It assumes the data and
> address
> >> registers unchanged after calling pci_disable_msi. But this isn't
> always
> >> true, such as in a suspend/resume circle. In my test system, the
> >> registers unsurprised become zero after a S3 resume. This patch fixes
> my
> >> problem, please look at it. MSIX might have the same issue, but I
> >> haven't taken a close look.
> 
> > Tom, any comments on this?
> 
> In the cases of suspend/resume, a device driver needs to restore its PCI
> configuration space registers, which include the MSI/MSI-X capability
> structures if a device uses MSI/MSI-X. I think reconfiguring MSI
> data/address each time a driver calls pci_enable_msi may not be
> necessary.
> 

So what is the alternative to Shaohua's fix?  Restore all the msi registers
on resume?
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