On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:54:31AM -0600, Myron Stowe wrote:
> While non-conformant, PCI devices having read-only (r/o) BARs - registers
> that when read return fixed, non-zero, values regardless of whether or
> not their being sized - occasionally turn up. Pre-git commit 1307ef662199
> [1] was the initial attempt to detect such BARs. The detection mechanism
> used however ended up exposing further unexpected behaviors on enough
> devices that it had to be reverted [2].
>
> A subsequent solution, which is still currently in use, was put in place
> with pre-git commit 2c79a80ab7b7 ("[PCI] Correctly size hardwired empty
> BARs"). This solution's logic detects r/o BARs via the following (see
> 'pci_size()'):
> /* base == maxbase can be valid only if the BAR has
> already been programmed with all 1s. */
> if (base == maxbase && ((base | size) & mask) != mask)
> return 0;
>
> Later, commit 6ac665c63dca ("PCI: rewrite PCI BAR reading code") was
> introduced, re-factoring PCI's core BAR sizing logic. The commit altered
> __pci_read_base's local variable 'l', stripping off its lower,
> non-addressing related bits, prior to being passed in as the 'base'
> parameter to pci_size(). This masking broke the r/o BAR detection logic's
> first comparison check for r/o BARs that have any of their lower order
> bits, bits that are not part of a BARs "base address" field, set. For
> such cases, the 'base == maxbase' comparison check will no longer ever be
> "true".
>
> This series restores the r/o BAR detection logic so that it will once
> again catch, and ignore, such occurrences as have been encountered to
> date:
> - AGP aperture BAR of AMD-7xx host bridges; if the AGP window
> disabled, this BAR is read-only and read as 0x00000008 [1]
> - BAR0-4 of ALi IDE controllers can be non-zero and read-only [1]
> - Intel Sandy Bridge - Thermal Management Controller [8086:0103];
> BAR 0 returning 0xfed98004 [3]
> - Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core i7 Power Control Unit [8086:2fc0];
> Bar 0 returning 0x00001a [4]
>
>
> [1] From Thomas Gleixner's "Linux kernel history" repository:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/drivers/pci/probe.c?id=1307ef6621991f1c4bc3cec1b5a4ebd6fd3d66b9
> pre-git commit 1307ef662199 "PCI: probing read-only Bars"
> [2] Pre-git commit 182d090b9dfe "Undo due to weird behaviour on various
> boxes"
> [3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43331
> [4] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85991
>
>
> Myron Stowe (3):
> PCI: Restore detection of read-only BARs
> PCI: Re-factor __pci_read_base
> PCI: Add a informational printk for invalid BARs
I applied all three of these to pci/enumeration for v3.19. It's great to
get this long-standing problem fixed and the code cleaned up a bit.
Bjorn
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