[PATCH v2 06/10] ARM: tegra: pcie: Add MSI support

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Jun 12 11:40:22 EDT 2012


On 06/12/2012 12:10 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> * Thierry Reding wrote:
>> * Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 06/11/2012 09:05 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> [...]
>>>> +static int tegra_pcie_disable_msi(struct platform_device
>>>> *pdev)
>>> 
>>> Should this free pcie->msi->pages?
>> 
>> Yes it should. I actually mention making that change in the
>> changelog but in fact didn't.
> 
> This is really moot because the driver cannot be built as a module
> currently because arch_setup_msi_irq() and arch_teardown_msi_irq()
> need to be built-in so tegra_pcie_disable_msi() will be called only
> just before the machine is shut down.
> 
> Perhaps this is something that should be addressed? Or is it just
> not worth the effort?

Well, if the driver provides a shutdown/removal path at all, it seems
like it should be complete. I assume it's trivial to free those pages?



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