Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI, kdump: Clear bus master bit upon shutdown in kdump kernel

[Baoquan He]

+Joerg to CC.

On 03/03/20 at 01:01pm, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> I looked at this some more. Looks like we do not clear irqs when we do
> a kexec reboot. And, the bootup code maintains the same table for the
> kexec-ed kernel. I'm looking at the following code in

I guess you are talking about kdump reboot here, right? Kexec and kdump
boot take the similar mechanism, but differ a little.

> intel_irq_remapping.c:
> 
>         if (ir_pre_enabled(iommu)) {
>                 if (!is_kdump_kernel()) {
>                         pr_warn("IRQ remapping was enabled on %s but
> we are not in kdump mode\n",
>                                 iommu->name);
>                         clear_ir_pre_enabled(iommu);
>                         iommu_disable_irq_remapping(iommu);
>                 } else if (iommu_load_old_irte(iommu))

Here, it's for kdump kernel to copy old ir table from 1st kernel.

>                         pr_err("Failed to copy IR table for %s from
> previous kernel\n",
>                                iommu->name);
>                 else
>                         pr_info("Copied IR table for %s from previous kernel\n",
>                                 iommu->name);
>         }
> 
> Would cleaning the interrupts(like in the non kdump path above) just
> before shutdown help here? This should clear the interrupts enabled
> for all the devices in the current kernel. So when kdump kernel
> starts, it starts clean. This should probably help block out the
> interrupts from a device that does not have a driver.

I think stopping those devices out of control from continue sending
interrupts is a good idea. While not sure if only clearing the interrupt 
will be enough. Those devices which will be initialized by their driver
will brake, but devices which drivers are not loaded into kdump kernel
may continue acting. Even though interrupts are cleaning at this time,
the on-flight DMA could continue triggerring interrupt since the ir
table and iopage table are rebuilt.