On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:39:52AM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> I think this bug needs to be fixed, this way or another.
>
> The platform in question is Cavium CNS3xxx, ARMv6.
>
> A recent patch by Arnd Bergmann (498a92d42596 "ARM: cns3xxx: pci: avoid
> potential stack overflow") converted an explicit setting of
> PCI_EXP_DEVCTL_READRQ = 0 (i.e., max 128 bytes for bus-mastering PCIe DMA
> read request) to:
> + pcie_bus_config = PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER;
Any thoughts on this, Arnd? I can (and will) look at this, but it's
a complicated area and it will take me quite a while to dig into it.
> with the following commentary:
> "The second part is how the driver sets up the Max_Read_Request_Size
> value for the first device/function on bus 1, i.e. the device
> plugged directly into the PCIe root port.
> For all I can tell, this is in fact incomplete, as it does not
> perform the same setting on devices attached to a PCIe switch,
> or multi-function devices.
> The solution for this part fortunately is even easier: if we
> just set the global pcie_bus_config variable to PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER,
> all PCIe devices in the system are limited to 128 byte MPS, which
> in turn limits the MRRS to 128 bytes for all devices, and we
> no longer even need to touch any devices."
>
> The problem is the MRRS setting is never written to the hardware.
> I propose the following, though I'm not sure if we can do this safely,
> especially given the comments in probe.c. OTOH, this change may be
> required in other (all?) cases when the user requests
> PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER.
>
> On this Laguna GW-2388 the following patch fixes BM DMA with:
> 0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Cavium Networks Device 3400 (rev 01)
> 0000:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2001 PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge
> 0000:02:0e.0 (PCI devices behind the bridge, these are doing actual BM xfers)
> 0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Cavium Networks Device 3400 (rev 01 - this is
> the second lane from the CPU)
>
> pci 0000:00:00.0: Max Payload Size set to 128/ 128 (was 128), Max Read Rq 128
> pci 0000:01:00.0: Max Payload Size set to 128/ 512 (was 128), Max Read Rq 128
> pci 0001:00:00.0: Max Payload Size set to 128/ 128 (was 128), Max Read Rq 128
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@xxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 498a92d42596 ("ARM: cns3xxx: pci: avoid potential stack overflow")
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index 6d7ab9b..91713b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -1919,7 +1919,8 @@ static void pcie_write_mrrs(struct pci_dev *dev)
> /* In the "safe" case, do not configure the MRRS. There appear to be
> * issues with setting MRRS to 0 on a number of devices.
> */
> - if (pcie_bus_config != PCIE_BUS_PERFORMANCE)
> + if (pcie_bus_config != PCIE_BUS_PERFORMANCE &&
> + pcie_bus_config != PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER)
> return;
>
> /* For Max performance, the MRRS must be set to the largest supported
> diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
> index 2771625..6f5088a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pci.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pci.h
> @@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ enum pcie_bus_config_types {
> PCIE_BUS_DEFAULT, /* ensure MPS matches upstream bridge */
> PCIE_BUS_SAFE, /* use largest MPS boot-time devices support */
> PCIE_BUS_PERFORMANCE, /* use MPS and MRRS for best performance */
> - PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER, /* set MPS = 128 for all devices */
> + PCIE_BUS_PEER2PEER, /* set MPS and MRSS to 128 for all devices */
> };
>
> extern enum pcie_bus_config_types pcie_bus_config;
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