Hi Lv...
I was dead in the water before this patch, qemu-kvm would crash
right away, now everything seems to work great again, thanks! From
my perspective this fixes the c3bc26d problem.
Acked-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
-Mike
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Zheng, Lv <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Boris and Mike
>
> Please help to validate if this version can also fix your issues.
> After enumerating the possible cases, I realized that the address check might not be necessary.
> But we need a max_bit_width check in this function to make it prepared for a future usage in acpi_read()/acpi_write().
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards
> -Lv
>
>> From: Zheng, Lv
>> Subject: [RFC PATCH v2] ACPICA / Hardware: Fix old register check in
>> acpi_hw_get_access_bit_width()
>>
>> The address check in acpi_hw_get_access_bit_width() should be byte
>> width
>> based, not bit width based. This patch fixes this mistake.
>>
>> For those who want to review acpi_hw_access_bit_width(), here is the
>> concerns and the design details of the function:
>>
>> It is supposed that the GAS Address field should be aligned to the byte
>> width indicated by the GAS AccessSize field. Similarly, for the old non
>> GAS register, it is supposed that its Address should be aligned to its
>> Length.
>> For the "AccessSize = 0 (meaning ANY)" case, we try to return the
>> maximum
>> instruction width (64 for MMIO or 32 for PIO) or the user expected access
>> bit width (64 for acpi_read()/acpi_write() or 32 for acpi_hw_read()/
>> acpi_hw_write()) for futher operation and it is supposed that the GAS
>> Address field should always be aligned to the maximum expected access
>> bit
>> width (otherwise it can't be ANY).
>>
>> The problem is in acpi_tb_init_generic_address(), where the non GAS
>> register's Length is converted into the GAS BitWidth field, its Address is
>> converted into the GAS Address field, and the GAS AccessSize field is left
>> 0 but most of the register actually cannot be accessed using "ANY"
>> accesses.
>>
>> As a conclusion, when AccessSize = 0 (ANY), the Address should either be
>> aligned to the BitWidth (wrong conversion) or aligned to 32 (PIO) or 64
>> (MMIO). Since BitWidth for the wrong conversion is 8,16,32, the Address
>> of the real GAS should always be aligned to 8,16,32, the address alignment
>> check is not necessary. But we in fact could enhance the check for a future
>> case where max_bit_width could be 64 for a PIO access issued from
>> acpi_read()/acpi_write().
>>
>> Fixes: b314a172ee96 ("ACPICA: Hardware: Add optimized access bit width
>> support")
>> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c | 16 +++++++---------
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c
>> index 0f18dbc..0553c0b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/hwregs.c
>> @@ -86,24 +86,22 @@ acpi_hw_get_access_bit_width(struct
>> acpi_generic_address *reg, u8 max_bit_width)
>> u64 address;
>>
>> if (!reg->access_width) {
>> + if (reg->space_id == ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_IO) {
>> + max_bit_width = 32;
>> + }
>> /*
>> * Detect old register descriptors where only the bit_width
>> field
>> * makes senses. The target address is copied to handle
>> possible
>> * alignment issues.
>> */
>> ACPI_MOVE_64_TO_64(&address, ®->address);
>> - if (!reg->bit_offset && reg->bit_width &&
>> + if (reg->bit_width < max_bit_width &&
>> + !reg->bit_offset && reg->bit_width &&
>> ACPI_IS_POWER_OF_TWO(reg->bit_width) &&
>> - ACPI_IS_ALIGNED(reg->bit_width, 8) &&
>> - ACPI_IS_ALIGNED(address, reg->bit_width)) {
>> + ACPI_IS_ALIGNED(reg->bit_width, 8)) {
>> return (reg->bit_width);
>> - } else {
>> - if (reg->space_id == ACPI_ADR_SPACE_SYSTEM_IO)
>> {
>> - return (32);
>> - } else {
>> - return (max_bit_width);
>> - }
>> }
>> + return (max_bit_width);
>> } else {
>> return (1 << (reg->access_width + 2));
>> }
>> --
>> 1.7.10
>
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