Re: [PATCH 0/2] PCI: fix pci-mvebu after conversion to common bridge emul code

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:48:39AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This set of two patches aim at fixing some regression reported by two
> users (Luis and Leigh), that were introduced by the conversion of the
> pci-mvebu driver to the common PCI bridge emulation code shared
> between pci-aardvark and pci-mvebu.
> 
> Due to this conversion, some registers of the PCI configuration that
> used to be read-only are now read-write, making the Linux PCI core
> believe that some features are implemented by the PCI bridge. Namely
> in the case of pci-mvebu, the prefetchable memory base/limit registers
> were read-only, while they are now read-write. Due to this, the Linux
> PCI core now believes it can configure a prefetchable memory area, but
> this is not supported by pci-mvebu, which does not have the logic to
> create the appropriate MBUs windows.
> 
> This set of two commits allow PCI controller code to tell the PCI
> bridge emulation logic about their capabilities. Because we envision
> that other capabilities than prefetchable memory support might need to
> be communicated from the PCI controller code to the PCI bridge
> emulation code in the future, we introduce a "flags" argument, even if
> for now only one flag is supported.
> 
> Lorenzo, let me know what you think about this approach. I am open to
> suggestions if the proposed approach is not satisfying.
> 
> Both patches have been confirmed by Luis and Leigh to fix the
> regression, but I'll let them give a formal Tested-by.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas Petazzoni
> 
> Thomas Petazzoni (2):
>   PCI: pci-bridge-emul: Create per-bridge copy of register behavior
>   PCI: pci-bridge-emul: Extend pci_bridge_emul_init() with flags
> 
>  drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c |  2 +-
>  drivers/pci/controller/pci-mvebu.c    |  2 +-
>  drivers/pci/pci-bridge-emul.c         | 86 ++++++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/pci/pci-bridge-emul.h         | 13 +++-
>  4 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

I have applied the series to pci/misc for v5.1, thanks.

Lorenzo



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