On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
[+cc LKML, Greg KH for driver core async shutdown question]
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:48:57AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
To provide context why I want to do this asynchronously, NVM-Express has
one PCI device per controller, of which there could be dozens in a system,
and each one may take many seconds (I've heard over ten in some cases)
to safely shutdown.
I don't see anything in device_shutdown() that would wait for this
sort of asynchronous shutdown to complete. So how do we know it's
finished before we turn off the power, reset, kexec, etc.?
If we need to do asynchronous shutdown, it seems like we need some
sort of driver core infrastructure to manage that.
Yes, good point! To address that, I did submit this patch:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2014-May/000827.html
I need to fix the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL usage for a v2, but before that, I
wan't to know the reason the driver can't use MSIx in an async shutdown
shutdown, and came to the patch mentioned above.
I'd originally had the async shutdown use legacy interrupts, but I
know some NVMe devices do not support legacy, so can't use my original
proposal. If I can't rely on MSI/MSI-x being enabled in an async shutdown,
then I have to add polling, which I suppose we can live with.
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