linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/8] [Intel IOMMU] Some generic search functions required to lookup device relationships.

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Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:11:38 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org, ak@...e.de, muli@...ibm.com,
	asit.k.mallick@...el.com, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com, arjan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] [Intel IOMMU] Some generic search functions
	required to lookup device relationships.

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:55:54PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * find the upstream PCIE-to-PCI bridge of a PCI device
> > + * if the device is PCIE, return NULL
> > + * if the device isn't connected to a PCIE bridge (that is its parent is a
> > + * legacy PCI bridge and the bridge is directly connected to bus 0), return its
> > + * parent
> > + */
> > +struct pci_dev *
> > +pci_find_upstream_pcie_bridge(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> > +{
> > +	struct pci_dev *tmp = NULL;
> > +
> > +	if (pdev->is_pcie)
> > +		return NULL;
> > +	while (1) {
> > +		if (!pdev->bus->self)
> > +			break;
> > +		pdev = pdev->bus->self;
> > +		/* a p2p bridge */
> > +		if (!pdev->is_pcie) {
> > +			tmp = pdev;
> > +			continue;
> > +		}
> > +		/* PCI device should connect to a PCIE bridge */
> > +		BUG_ON(pdev->pcie_type != PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCI_BRIDGE);
> > +		return pdev;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return tmp;
> > +}
> 
> No locking while you walk up the bus list?
hmm, iommu driver didn't support pci hotplug in current stage. But we can add lock here.

> > --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/include/linux/pci.h	2007-04-03 04:30:51.000000000 -0700
> > +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/include/linux/pci.h	2007-04-03 06:58:58.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
> >  	unsigned short	subsystem_device;
> >  	unsigned int	class;		/* 3 bytes: (base,sub,prog-if) */
> >  	u8		hdr_type;	/* PCI header type (`multi' flag masked out) */
> > +	u8		pcie_type;	/* PCI-E device/port type */
> >  	u8		rom_base_reg;	/* which config register controls the ROM */
> >  	u8		pin;  		/* which interrupt pin this device uses */
> >  
> > @@ -168,6 +169,7 @@
> >  	unsigned int 	msi_enabled:1;
> >  	unsigned int	msix_enabled:1;
> >  	unsigned int	is_managed:1;
> > +	unsigned int	is_pcie:1;
> 
> Do you really need both fields?  Wouldn't just the pcie_type one work
> (with some NOT_PCIE type being set for it if it isn't I suppose.)
There are some encodings are reserved for future. Just don't want to use
reserved bits, as we don't know which one is proper for NOT_PCIE.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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