Re: Areca RAID driver remaining items?

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:02:47 -0700 Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:41:12PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > OK, updated patch for "pci=nomsi" is now at
> >   http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/pci_nomsi.patch
> 
> After sleeping on it, I realised this wouldn't work if CONFIG_PCI_MSI
> is disabled.  So how about this (not even compile-tested):

It's good.  Thanks for catching that.

> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>


> Index: ./Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,v
> retrieving revision 1.41.4.1
> diff -u -p -r1.41.4.1 kernel-parameters.txt
> --- ./Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	18 Feb 2006 05:26:01 -0000	1.41.4.1
> +++ ./Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	26 Feb 2006 15:58:40 -0000
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ restrictions referred to are that the re
>  	MCA	MCA bus support is enabled.
>  	MDA	MDA console support is enabled.
>  	MOUSE	Appropriate mouse support is enabled.
> +	MSI	Message Signaled Interrupts (PCI).
>  	MTD	MTD support is enabled.
>  	NET	Appropriate network support is enabled.
>  	NUMA	NUMA support is enabled.
> @@ -1135,6 +1136,9 @@ running once the system is up.
>  				Mechanism 2.
>  		nommconf	[IA-32,X86_64] Disable use of MMCONFIG for PCI
>  				Configuration
> +		nomsi		[MSI] If the PCI_MSI kernel config parameter is
> +				enabled, this kernel boot option can be used to
> +				disable the use of MSI interrupts system-wide.
>  		nosort		[IA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to
>  				order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is
>  				done to get a device order compatible with
> Index: ./drivers/pci/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/Kconfig,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -u -p -r1.8 Kconfig
> --- ./drivers/pci/Kconfig	14 Sep 2005 12:56:32 -0000	1.8
> +++ ./drivers/pci/Kconfig	26 Feb 2006 15:58:40 -0000
> @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ config PCI_MSI
>  	   generate an interrupt using an inbound Memory Write on its
>  	   PCI bus instead of asserting a device IRQ pin.
>  
> +	   Use of PCI MSI interrupts can be disabled at kernel boot time
> +	   by using the 'pci=nomsi' option.  This disables MSI for the
> +	   entire system.
> +
>  	   If you don't know what to do here, say N.
>  
>  config PCI_LEGACY_PROC
> Index: ./drivers/pci/msi.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/msi.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.17
> diff -u -p -r1.17 msi.c
> --- ./drivers/pci/msi.c	4 Feb 2006 04:51:55 -0000	1.17
> +++ ./drivers/pci/msi.c	26 Feb 2006 15:58:40 -0000
> @@ -755,6 +755,9 @@ void pci_disable_msi(struct pci_dev* dev
>  	u16 control;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> +	if (!pci_msi_enable)
> + 		return;
> +
>     	if (!dev || !(pos = pci_find_capability(dev, PCI_CAP_ID_MSI)))
>  		return;
>  
> @@ -1006,6 +1009,9 @@ void pci_disable_msix(struct pci_dev* de
>  	int pos, temp;
>  	u16 control;
>  
> +	if (!pci_msi_enable)
> + 		return;
> +
>     	if (!dev || !(pos = pci_find_capability(dev, PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX)))
>  		return;
>  
> @@ -1121,6 +1127,11 @@ void msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors(struct p
>  		}
>  		dev->irq = temp;		/* Restore IOAPIC IRQ */
>  	}
> +}
> +
> +void pci_no_msi(void)
> +{
> +	pci_msi_enable = 0;
>  }
>  
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_enable_msi);
> Index: ./drivers/pci/pci.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/pci.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.28
> diff -u -p -r1.28 pci.c
> --- ./drivers/pci/pci.c	4 Feb 2006 04:51:55 -0000	1.28
> +++ ./drivers/pci/pci.c	26 Feb 2006 15:58:40 -0000
> @@ -900,8 +900,12 @@ static int __devinit pci_setup(char *str
>  		if (k)
>  			*k++ = 0;
>  		if (*str && (str = pcibios_setup(str)) && *str) {
> -			/* PCI layer options should be handled here */
> -			printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n", str);
> +			if (!strcmp(str, "nomsi")) {
> +				pci_no_msi();
> +			} else {
> +				printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Unknown option `%s'\n",
> +						str);
> +			}
>  		}
>  		str = k;
>  	}
> Index: ./drivers/pci/pci.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/pci.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.13
> diff -u -p -r1.13 pci.h
> --- ./drivers/pci/pci.h	17 Jan 2006 14:51:41 -0000	1.13
> +++ ./drivers/pci/pci.h	26 Feb 2006 15:58:40 -0000
> @@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ extern int pci_msi_quirk;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_MSI
>  void disable_msi_mode(struct pci_dev *dev, int pos, int type);
> +void pci_no_msi(void);
>  #else
>  static inline void disable_msi_mode(struct pci_dev *dev, int pos, int type) { }
> +static inline void pci_no_msi(void) { }
>  #endif
>  
>  extern int pcie_mch_quirk;
> 


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