On 10/25/2017 01:27 PM, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> During a kdump kernel boot in PowerPC, we request a reset of the PHBs
> to the FW. It makes sense, since if we are booting a kdump kernel it
> means we had some trouble before and we cannot rely in the adapters'
> health; they could be in a bad state, hence the reset is needed.
>
> But this reset is useful not only in kdump - there are situations,
> specially when debugging drivers, that we could break an adapter in
> a way it requires such reset. One can tell to just go ahead and
> reboot the machine, but happens that many times doing kexec is much
> faster, and so preferable than a full power cycle.
>
> This patch adds the pci_reset_phbs parameter to perform such reset
> when desired by the user.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpicc...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> v2: changed name of the parameter [ben/mpe suggestion].
>
> The patch was implemented against powerpc/next.
Hi Michael/Ben...any thoughts about this one?
Thanks in advance!
>
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> index fb5cd7511189..6070e0d4a7f3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ void pe_level_printk(const struct pnv_ioda_pe *pe, const
> char *level,
> }
>
> static bool pnv_iommu_bypass_disabled __read_mostly;
> +static bool pci_reset_phbs __read_mostly;
>
> static int __init iommu_setup(char *str)
> {
> @@ -110,6 +111,14 @@ static int __init iommu_setup(char *str)
> }
> early_param("iommu", iommu_setup);
>
> +static int __init pci_reset_phbs_setup(char *str)
> +{
> + pci_reset_phbs = true;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +early_param("pci_reset_phbs", pci_reset_phbs_setup);
> +
> static inline bool pnv_pci_is_m64(struct pnv_phb *phb, struct resource *r)
> {
> /*
> @@ -4014,9 +4023,10 @@ static void __init pnv_pci_init_ioda_phb(struct
> device_node *np,
> * If we're running in kdump kernel, the previous kernel never
> * shutdown PCI devices correctly. We already got IODA table
> * cleaned out. So we have to issue PHB reset to stop all PCI
> - * transactions from previous kernel.
> + * transactions from previous kernel. The pci_reset_phbs
> + * kernel parameter will force this reset too.
> */
> - if (is_kdump_kernel()) {
> + if (is_kdump_kernel() || pci_reset_phbs) {
> pr_info(" Issue PHB reset ...\n");
> pnv_eeh_phb_reset(hose, EEH_RESET_FUNDAMENTAL);
> pnv_eeh_phb_reset(hose, EEH_RESET_DEACTIVATE);
>
