Re: PCI reset problem

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Johannes Thumshirn
<johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:50:58AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> [+cc Yinghai]
...
>> > I have a rather odd problem with a PCIe swicht/bridge which does not get
>> > enumerated correctly. If I issue _two_ manual rescans of the PCI bus via sysfs,
>> > everything get setup correctly. To work around the problem I decided to make a
...
>> A rescan doesn't really do anything differently from the initial
>> boot-time scan.  Maybe there's an issue with the switch taking a long
>> time to respond after reset?  But that doesn't seem likely, because if
>> you do manual rescans via sysfs, that should give plenty of time and
>> you wouldn't have to do it *twice*.

Can you confirm that? If you wait long enough, and you only need issue
one rescan?

>>
>> Maybe there's some resource or bus number allocation issue such that
>> we don't even get down to the problem switch the first couple of
>> times?
>>
>> > Example:
>> > root@generic-powerpc:~# lspci -tv
>> > -[0000:00]---00.0-[01]--
>> > root@generic-powerpc:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
>> > [...]
>> > root@generic-powerpc:~# lspci -tv
>> > -[0000:00]---00.0-[01-05]----00.0-[02-05]--+-01.0-[03]--
>> >                                            +-02.0-[04]--
>> >                                            \-03.0-[05]--
>> > root@generic-powerpc:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
>> > [...]
>> > root@generic-powerpc:~# lspci -tv
>> > -[0000:00]---00.0-[01-05]----00.0-[02-05]--+-01.0-[03]----00.0  Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller
>> >                                            +-02.0-[04]--
>> >                                            \-03.0-[05]--+-00.0  Pericom Semiconductor Device 400e
>> >                                                         +-00.1  Pericom Semiconductor Device 400e
>> >                                                         \-00.2  Pericom Semiconductor Device 400f
>>
>> I bet that's what's happening: the first lspci shows the 00:00.0
>> bridge leading only to bus 01.  The second lspci shows 00:00.0 leading
>> to [bus 01-05], so its bus number aperture has been reconfigured.
>>
>> On x86 the BIOS typically configures all the bridges so we can see all
>> the devices.  But it looks like your platform doesn't, and the Linux
>> paths that do similar configuration are not as well exercised.
>>
>
> I'll have a look into my U-Boot again as well, maybe I can resolve it there.
>
>> Can you collect a complete dmesg log including initial boot and your
>> manual sysfs rescansand attach it to a new bugzilla report at
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?component=PCI&product=Drivers
>> ?  There might be some generic way we can fix this.
>>
>
> I can do, though I have to say, it's a 3.8 Kernel from Freescale's SDK. I
> don't really know if mainline wants to care about it.

let us know if you can test other kernel. If so, i would rebase pci-busn-alloc
branch, so you could test on it.

Yinghai
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