linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/7] PCI: Provide Kconfig option for lockless config space accessors

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Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:31:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] PCI: Provide Kconfig option for lockless config
 space accessors

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:50:06PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Provide a kernel config option which can be selected by an architecture
> > when the low level PCI configuration space accessors in the architecture
> > use their own serialization or can operate completely lockless.
> 
> The arch/x86/pci/common.c comment:
> 
>   /*
>    * This interrupt-safe spinlock protects all accesses to PCI
>    * configuration space.
>    */
>   DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(pci_config_lock);
> 
> is no longer quite correct.

Yes. I updated it to:

 * This interrupt-safe spinlock protects all accesses to PCI configuration
 * space, except for the mmconfig (ECAM) based operations.

> I think the raw_pci_read() and raw_pci_write() implementations are
> such that we use the old locked accessors for the first 256 bytes,
> even when ECAM is available.  Not necessarily a problem, just an
> observation.

No, we actually don't after the next patch, which replaces the
pci_root_ops.read/write function pointers with the lockless ECAM accessors
after the end of the initialization, if none of the special quirks replaced
raw_pci_ext_ops and mmconfig/ECAM is available.

> I guess the uncore PMU registers are in the extended config space.

Yes.

Thanks,

	tglx