Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2017-01-27

Re: [RESEND] cxl: Force psl data-cache flush during device shutdown

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From: Andrew Donnellan <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-04 06:44:10

On 04/01/17 17:18, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
This change adds a force psl data cache flush during device shutdown
callback. This should reduce a possibility of psl holding a dirty
cache line while the CAPP is being reinitialized, which may result in
a UE [load/store] machine check error.

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <redacted>
Should this be cc: stable? (it does depend on aaa2245ed836 which only came in during 4.9)

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <redacted>


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---
Resend: Fixed the author ident.
---
 drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
index 80a87ab..73432e7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
@@ -1610,6 +1610,9 @@ static void cxl_pci_remove_adapter(struct cxl *adapter)
 	cxl_sysfs_adapter_remove(adapter);
 	cxl_debugfs_adapter_remove(adapter);

+	/* Flush adapter datacache as its about to be removed */
+	cxl_data_cache_flush(adapter);
+
 	cxl_deconfigure_adapter(adapter);

 	device_unregister(&adapter->dev);
-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited
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