On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 04:00:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:59:32PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > The runtime firmware activation capability of Intel NVDIMM devices > > requires memory transactions to be disabled for 100s of microseconds. > > This timeout is large enough to cause in-flight DMA to fail and other > > application detectable timeouts. Arrange for firmware activation to be > > executed while the system is "quiesced", all processes and device-DMA > > frozen. > > > > It is already required that invoking device ->freeze() callbacks is > > sufficient to cease DMA. A device that continues memory writes outside > > of user-direction violates expectations of the PM core to be to > > establish a coherent hibernation image. > > > > That said, RDMA devices are an example of a device that access memory > > outside of user process direction. Are you saying freeze doesn't work for some RDMA drivers? That would be a driver bug, I think. The consequences of doing freeze are pretty serious, but it should still stop DMA. Jason
