2015-02-16 19:42:28

by James Smart

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/lpfc: use remove handler as shutdown handler

Looks good.

Acked-By: James Smart <[email protected]>

-- james



On 1/26/2015 10:18 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> Without a shutdown handler, some cards behave very badly after a kexec.
> During probe, pending DMA writes will corrupt kernel memory, for
> example.
>
> Using the remove handler guarantees we will use a well tested path.
>
> With this patch I applied, I managed to use kexec multiple times and
> probe and SCSI scan worked every time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> index 0b2c53a..8aa804a 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
> @@ -11248,6 +11248,7 @@ static struct pci_driver lpfc_driver = {
> .id_table = lpfc_id_table,
> .probe = lpfc_pci_probe_one,
> .remove = lpfc_pci_remove_one,
> + .shutdown = lpfc_pci_remove_one,
> .suspend = lpfc_pci_suspend_one,
> .resume = lpfc_pci_resume_one,
> .err_handler = &lpfc_err_handler,