SCSI: megaraid_sas: megaraid_sas driver init fails in kdump kernel
authorSumit.Saxena@lsi.com <Sumit.Saxena@lsi.com>
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:56:05 +0000 (02:26 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:59:04 +0000 (22:59 -0700)
commite842dbeb5777ce9494ed838a4ba0c9af9fa7bd9e
treed4ccb04f76a3dadf4b8f70f0c7fbc20608324b84
parent0ac10bd036f0f3b8ce7ac2390446eab9531c72eb
SCSI: megaraid_sas: megaraid_sas driver init fails in kdump kernel

commit 6431f5d7c6025f8b007af06ea090de308f7e6881 upstream.

Problem: When Hardware IOMMU is on, megaraid_sas driver initialization fails
in kdump kernel with LSI MegaRAID controller(device id-0x73).

Actually this issue needs fix in firmware, but for firmware running in field,
this driver fix is proposed to resolve the issue.  At firmware initialization
time, if firmware does not come to ready state, driver will reset the adapter
and retry for firmware transition to ready state unconditionally(not only
executed for kdump kernel).

Signed-off-by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c