Re: PCI enumeration without a BIOS

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On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 13:37 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Michal, Ley Foon]
> 
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 04:00:49PM -0700, Wesley Terpstra wrote:
> > 
> > Thank you very much for your detailed analysis of the log!
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > In particular, these are the lines that seem wrong to me:
> > > > [    5.920000] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge configuration invalid
> > > > ([bus
> > > > 00-00]), reconfiguring
> > > > [    5.930000] pci 0000:01:00.0: bridge configuration invalid
> > > > ([bus
> > > > 00-00]), reconfiguring
> > > This is normal but possibly worded more alarmingly than
> > > necessary.
> > > Bridges power up with secondary/subordinate bus numbers as zero,
> > > so
> > > this just means nothing has changed their configuration from the
> > > power-up default.
> > Right. If the firmware had enumerated the bridge already, though,
> > you
> > would not see this message because it would have been assigned a
> > bus
> > number already. Right?
> Yes.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > [    6.000000] pci 0000:04:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: reg 0x10:
> > > > invalid BAR
> > > > (can't size)
> > > > [    6.010000] pci 0000:06:00.0: [Firmware Bug]: reg 0x10:
> > > > invalid BAR
> > > > (can't size)
> > > These are more worrisome.  We discover the size of a BAR by
> > > writing
> > > all ones to it and reading it back, which tells us how many bits
> > > of
> > > the BAR are hard-wired to zero.  This behavior is prescribed by
> > > the
> > > PCI specs, so it's likely a hardware defect.
> > So, you would say it's a hardware problem of the PCIe cards in
> > question and I can safely ignore it?
> Yes.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > This is because the xilinx host bridge doesn't support I/O space
> > Yeah. I knew this, but thanks for confirming.
> > 
> > FYI, there is a bug in the pcie-xilinx bridge wrt legacy
> > interrupts.
> > I've seen several people discussing the same problem for the altera
> > bridge and the "NW" xilinx bridge, but somehow this bridge still
> > has
> > the issue. I've attached a patch that solved the problem for me.
> This sounds familiar to me, too.  Copying Michal & Ley Foon in case
> they
> know something about it.
We have fixed this in last year.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/comm
it/drivers/pci/host/pcie-
altera.c?id=99496bd2971fc378226ad4413e5b72c4545714bd

> 
> > 
> > Without it I see:
> > 
> > [    6.230000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [    6.230000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at
> > /scratch/terpstra/freedom-u-sdk/linux/kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:365
> > irq_domain_associate+0x190/0x200
> > [    6.240000] error: hwirq 0x4 is too large for dummy
> > [    6.250000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted
> > 4.11.0-rc1-661305-g4f97179 #12
> > [    6.250000] Call Trace:
> > [    6.260000] [<ffffffff80288660>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0x104
> > [    6.260000] [<ffffffff80288800>] show_stack+0x38/0x50
> > [    6.270000] [<ffffffff803c6e30>] dump_stack+0x2c/0x40
> > [    6.270000] [<ffffffff8028c600>] __warn+0x118/0x130
> > [    6.280000] [<ffffffff8028c658>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x40/0x54
> > [    6.280000] [<ffffffff802c02a8>]
> > irq_domain_associate+0x18c/0x200
> > [    6.290000] [<ffffffff802c0a3c>] irq_create_mapping+0x90/0xe4
> > [    6.300000] [<ffffffff802c0be4>]
> > irq_create_fwspec_mapping+0x154/0x288
> > [    6.300000] [<ffffffff802c0d7c>] irq_create_of_mapping+0x64/0x84
> > [    6.310000] [<ffffffff804f9cb8>]
> > of_irq_parse_and_map_pci+0x38/0x50
> > [    6.310000] [<ffffffff80407e00>] pci_fixup_irqs+0x6c/0x114
> > [    6.320000] [<ffffffff80408e64>] xilinx_pcie_probe+0x308/0x3f0
> > [    6.330000] [<ffffffff8042cba4>] platform_drv_probe+0x3c/0x88
> > [    6.330000] [<ffffffff8042aec0>] really_probe+0xbc/0x260
> > [    6.340000] [<ffffffff8042b138>] __driver_attach+0xd4/0xdc
> > [    6.340000] [<ffffffff80429200>] bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0xb8
> > [    6.350000] [<ffffffff8042b640>] driver_attach+0x24/0x38
> > [    6.350000] [<ffffffff80429db8>] bus_add_driver+0x1b4/0x22c
> > [    6.360000] [<ffffffff8042bdc0>] driver_register+0x68/0x12c
> > [    6.360000] [<ffffffff8042da78>]
> > __platform_driver_register+0x48/0x5c
> > [    6.370000] [<ffffffff8000db38>]
> > xilinx_pcie_driver_init+0x20/0x34
> > [    6.380000] [<ffffffff80000d48>] do_one_initcall+0x98/0x140
> > [    6.380000] [<ffffffff80000f38>]
> > kernel_init_freeable+0x148/0x218
> > [    6.390000] [<ffffffff805ad19c>] kernel_init+0x18/0x114
> > [    6.390000] [<ffffffff80286cac>] ret_from_syscall+0xc/0x10
> > [    6.400000] ---[ end trace 8023adf5befc91e0 ]---
> > 
> > ... that said, I am not confident my patch is the right fix. So
> > consider this a bug report + work-around only. :)
> > 
> > > 
> > > Yeah, everything seems mostly working.  The "invalid BAR" things
> > > *could* be an issue -- those registers are not what the PCI spec
> > > says
> > > they should be.
> > The devices in question are:
> > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> > RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
> > 06:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230
> > PCIe
> > SATA 6Gb/s Controller (rev 11)
> > 
> > I am going to plug them in to an Intel machine with 4.11 and see if
> > I
> > get the same warnings.
> 

Regards
Ley Foon




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