Re: [PATCH v8 11/12] PCI: liveupdate: Do not disable bus mastering on preserved devices during kexec

On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 10:10:05PM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
>Do not disable bus mastering on outgoing preserved devices during
>pci_device_shutdown() for kexec.
>
>Preserved devices must be allowed to perform memory transactions during
>a Live Update to ensure continuous operation.  Clearing the bus
>mastering bit would prevent these devices from issuing any memory
>requests while the new kernel boots.
>
>Because bridges upstream of preserved endpoint devices are also
>automatically preserved, this change also avoids clearing bus mastering
>on them. This is critical because clearing bus mastering on an upstream
>bridge prevents the bridge from forwarding memory requests upstream (i.e.
>it would prevent the endpoint device from accessing system RAM and doing
>peer-to-peer transactions with devices not downstream of the bridge).
>
>Reviewed-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <[email protected]>
>Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <[email protected]>
>Signed-off-by: David Matlack <[email protected]>
>---
> drivers/pci/liveupdate.c | 11 +++++++++++
> drivers/pci/liveupdate.h |  6 ++++++
> drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |  7 +++++--
> 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Samiullah Khawaja <[email protected]>