Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761155AbYHEAmA (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757446AbYHEAll (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:41:41 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34521 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754133AbYHEAlk (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:41:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:41:28 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Yang, Bo" Cc: "'James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com'" , "'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" , "'akpm@osdl.org'" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "Patro, Sumant" , "Austria, Winston" , "poswald@novell.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] scsi: megaraid_sas - Add the dumy readl to force PCI flush Message-Id: <20080804174128.a0877c27.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4B6A08C587958942AA3002690DD4F8C31B08093F@cosmail02.lsi.com> References: <4B6A08C587958942AA3002690DD4F8C31B08093F@cosmail02.lsi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1830 Lines: 48 On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:19:07 -0600 "Yang, Bo" wrote: > MegaRAID SAS Driver get unexpected Interrupt. Add the dumy readl to force PCI flush will fix this issue. > > Signed-off-by Bo Yang > > --- > drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff -rupN linux-2.6.28_orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c linux-2.6.28_new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c > --- linux-2.6.28_orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c 2008-07-31 12:00:58.000000000 -0400 > +++ linux-2.6.28_new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c 2008-07-31 12:30:35.000000000 -0400 > @@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ megasas_clear_intr_xscale(struct megasas > */ > writel(status, ®s->outbound_intr_status); > > + /* Dummy readl to force pci flush */ > + readl(®s->outbound_intr_status); > + > return 0; > } > > @@ -293,6 +296,9 @@ megasas_clear_intr_ppc(struct megasas_re > */ > writel(status, ®s->outbound_doorbell_clear); > > + /* Dummy readl to force pci flush */ > + readl(®s->outbound_doorbell_clear); > + > return 0; > } > /** These patches all had their tabs replaced with spaces. I fixed them up. Please always run checkpatch on all patches. checkpatch found this: ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis #182: FILE: drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h:586: +#define MFI_GEN2_ENABLE_INTERRUPT_MASK 0x00000001 | 0x00000004 which is a potential source of bugs. I queued a patch to fix that also. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/