[PATCH v2 1/2] nvme-apple: Reset controller during shutdown

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Jan 17 21:24:50 PST 2023


On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 07:25:00PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> +		/*
> +		 * Always reset the NVMe controller on shutdown. The reset is
> +		 * required to shutdown the co-processor cleanly.
> +		 */

Hmm.  This comment doesn't seem to match the discussion we had last
week.  Which would be:

		/*
		 * NVMe requires a reset before setting up a controller to
		 * ensure it is in a clean state.  For NVMe PCIe this is
		 * done in the setup path to be able to deal with controllers
		 * in any kind of state.  For for Apple devices, the firmware
		 * will not be available at that time and the reset will
		 * time out.  Thus reset after shutting the NVMe controller
		 * down and before shutting the firmware down.
		 */



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