Re: PCIe issue with NIC card that has 64bit BARs

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On Mon, 9 May 2016 17:38:27 -0400
Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/09/2016 05:23 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 May 2016 17:02:23 -0400
> > Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Bjorn,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your quick response!
> >> See below for some follow up question.
> >>
> >> On 05/09/2016 04:34 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:  
> >>> Hi Murali,
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 03:32:42PM -0400, Murali Karicheri wrote:    
> >>>> Bjorn,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am running into an issue with using a rtk8168 GiB NIC card with Keystone PCIe.
> >>>> It works for 32bit BARs such as the Marvel SATA controller on K2E. On another
> >>>> recent SoC (K2G) that re-uses the same driver and hardware, I have issues
> >>>> bringing up PCIe.
> >>>>
> >>>> The rtk8168 NIC gets detected, but all read values are zeros. Based on the boot
> >>>> log, it appears to be getting assigned 64bit BARs. See the log on K2E with Marvell
> >>>> controller and that on K2G with rtk8168. Is there way we can get it assigned
> >>>> 32Bit BAR and get it functional? Keystone is a 32bit ARM A15 SoC.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here are the logs.
> >>>>
> >>>> K2E log with Marvel controller (Good working case).
> >>>> ===================================================
> >>>> [    0.236353] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x60000000-0x600fffff]
> >>>> [    0.236364] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 9: assigned [mem 0x60100000-0x601fffff pref]
> >>>> [    0.236373] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 7: assigned [io  0x1000-0x1fff]
> >>>> [    0.236385] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x60100000-0x6010ffff pref]
> >>>> [    0.236394] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 5: assigned [mem 0x60000000-0x600001ff]
> >>>> [    0.236406] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 4: assigned [io  0x1000-0x100f]
> >>>> [    0.236418] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [io  0x1010-0x1017]
> >>>> [    0.236429] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [io  0x1018-0x101f]
> >>>> [    0.236441] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 1: assigned [io  0x1020-0x1023]
> >>>> [    0.236452] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 3: assigned [io  0x1024-0x1027]
> >>>> [    0.236464] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
> >>>> [    0.236472] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [io  0x1000-0x1fff]
> >>>> [    0.236481] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [mem 0x60000000-0x600fffff]
> >>>> [    0.236490] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [mem 0x60100000-0x601fffff pref]
> >>>>
> >>>> K2G log with Tealtek NIC card
> >>>> =============================
> >>>> [    2.311572] keystone-pcie 21801000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
> >>>> [    2.318188] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
> >>>> [    2.323844] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000-0x3fff]
> >>>> [    2.330023] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x50000000-0x5fffffff]    
> >>>
> >>> There's no "(bus address ...)" annotation here, which means these
> >>> windows map CPU addresses to identical bus addresses.  The
> >>> "[mem 0x50000000-0x5fffffff]" window is a 32-bit window.
> >>>     
> >>>> [    2.337567] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
> >>>> [    2.361159] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers disabled
> >>>> [    2.366889] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x50000000-0x500fffff]
> >>>> [    2.373841] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 9: assigned [mem 0x50100000-0x501fffff pref]
> >>>> [    2.381061] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 7: assigned [io  0x1000-0x1fff]
> >>>> [    2.387225] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x50100000-0x5011ffff pref]
> >>>> [    2.394505] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 4: assigned [mem 0x50120000-0x5012ffff 64bit pref]
> >>>> [    2.402288] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0x50000000-0x50000fff 64bit]    
> >>>
> >>> I assume these BARs (2 and 4) are the ones in question.  They are
> >>> 64-bit BARs, but the addresses currently assigned to them fit in 32
> >>> bits, so the space is already all below 4GB.
> >>>
> >>> The BAR type (32-bit or 64-bit) is built into the device; Linux
> >>> doesn't have any influence on that.  The type is encoded in the
> >>> low-order four bits of the BAR, which are read-only.
> >>>     
> >>>> [    2.409610] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [io  0x1000-0x10ff]
> >>>> [    2.415729] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
> >>>> [    2.420693] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [io  0x1000-0x1fff]
> >>>> [    2.426806] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [mem 0x50000000-0x500fffff]
> >>>> [    2.433610] pci 0000:00:00.0:   bridge window [mem 0x50100000-0x501fffff pref]
> >>>> [    2.441365] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
> >>>> [    2.448323] pci 0000:01:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
> >>>> [    2.455567] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> >>>> [    2.461332] r8169 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0143)
> >>>> [    2.468789] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf0d6a000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 00000000 IRQ 286    
> >>>
> >>> Looks like this is printed by rtl_init_one().  I see that we read
> >>> zeroes from MAC0 and TxConfig, but I don't see any PCI problem here.    
> >> So if device specific configuration registers for this device are mapped
> >> to the window to have 64bit access, they are to be accessed with proper
> >> address to get the lower 32 bits of the data, right? So is there a chance
> >> it is making access to upper 4 bytes and hence reading all zeros?
> >>    
> >>> Could it be that some EEPROM on the card hasn't been programmed yet?
> >>> Does the card work if you put it in a different machine?
> >>>     
> >> Probably. I will ask this to the owner of r8169 driver. He seems to think
> >> the access is not right.  I need to find a PC that has PCIe slot to do this
> >> test. Meanwhile do you know of any 1GiB NIC card that has 32bit BARs and
> >> driver in Linux?   
> > 
> > I happen to have an Intel 82571EB (PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server
> > Adapter) that only has 32bit BARs:
> > 
> > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:105e] (rev 06)
> > 	Region 0: Memory at fe7e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> > 	Region 1: Memory at fe7c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> > 	Region 2: I/O ports at e800 [size=32]
> > 02:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:105e] (rev 06)
> > 	Region 0: Memory at fe7a0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> > 	Region 1: Memory at fe780000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> > 	Region 2: I/O ports at e400 [size=32]  
> Alex,
> 
> Thanks for the response. I see following mini pci card which match with your
> description.
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Intel-1000-Dual-Server-Adapter/dp/B000BMZHX2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462829688&sr=8-1&keywords=intel+expi9402pt
> 
> Is this same thing? I assume e1000e/82571.c is the driver for this.
> Could you please confirm so that I can procure the same?

I would venture to say yes, but I offer no guarantees ;)

Ark seems to indicate all 1000 PT dual port cards use that chip:
http://ark.intel.com/products/50494/Intel-PRO1000-PT-Dual-Port-Server-Adapter

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