linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 369/496] parisc/pci: Switch LBA PCI bus from Hard Fail to Soft Fail mode

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 12:02:34 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Carlo Pisani <carlojpisani@...il.com>,
        Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
        Grant Grundler <grantgrundler@...il.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 369/496] parisc/pci: Switch LBA PCI bus from Hard Fail to Soft Fail mode

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>

[ Upstream commit b845f66f78bf42a4ce98e5cfe0e94fab41dd0742 ]

Carlo Pisani noticed that his C3600 workstation behaved unstable during heavy
I/O on the PCI bus with a VIA VT6421 IDE/SATA PCI card.

To avoid such instability, this patch switches the LBA PCI bus from Hard Fail
mode into Soft Fail mode. In this mode the bus will return -1UL for timed out
MMIO transactions, which is exactly how the x86 (and most other architectures)
PCI busses behave.

This patch is based on a proposal by Grant Grundler and Kyle McMartin 10
years ago:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-parisc/msg01027.html

Cc: Carlo Pisani <carlojpisani@...il.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grantgrundler@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c
@@ -1403,9 +1403,27 @@ lba_hw_init(struct lba_device *d)
 		WRITE_REG32(stat, d->hba.base_addr + LBA_ERROR_CONFIG);
 	}
 
-	/* Set HF mode as the default (vs. -1 mode). */
+
+	/*
+	 * Hard Fail vs. Soft Fail on PCI "Master Abort".
+	 *
+	 * "Master Abort" means the MMIO transaction timed out - usually due to
+	 * the device not responding to an MMIO read. We would like HF to be
+	 * enabled to find driver problems, though it means the system will
+	 * crash with a HPMC.
+	 *
+	 * In SoftFail mode "~0L" is returned as a result of a timeout on the
+	 * pci bus. This is like how PCI busses on x86 and most other
+	 * architectures behave.  In order to increase compatibility with
+	 * existing (x86) PCI hardware and existing Linux drivers we enable
+	 * Soft Faul mode on PA-RISC now too.
+	 */
         stat = READ_REG32(d->hba.base_addr + LBA_STAT_CTL);
+#if defined(ENABLE_HARDFAIL)
 	WRITE_REG32(stat | HF_ENABLE, d->hba.base_addr + LBA_STAT_CTL);
+#else
+	WRITE_REG32(stat & ~HF_ENABLE, d->hba.base_addr + LBA_STAT_CTL);
+#endif
 
 	/*
 	** Writing a zero to STAT_CTL.rf (bit 0) will clear reset signal