linux-kernel - Re: Hot plug issue on 2.6.38

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <201103212351.12696.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:51:12 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: Hot plug issue on 2.6.38

On Monday, March 21, 2011, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:22:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Thursday, March 17, 2011, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > > her .config does not define PCI_MMCONFIG
> > > > 
> > > > #
> > > > # Bus options (PCI etc.)
> > > > #
> > > > CONFIG_PCI=y
> > > > CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
> > > > # CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG is not set
> > > 
> > > Ah, good catch, thanks!
> > > 
> > > @Sarah: you need to set that for PCI Express to work in general.
> 
> I compiled 2.6.38 with CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y, and I'm no longer getting
> "irq nobody cared" messages.  However, PCI express hot plug seems to
> just not work for the xHCI PCI device.  Nothing appears in dmesg when I
> plug in the Express Card, and the device doesn't appear in lspci.
> However, I can get the card to show up if I run
> 
> 	echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan
> 
> PCI hot-remove doesn't seem to work either.  The xHCI driver notices the
> device got removed when the debugging polling loop runs, but the
> driver's PCI remove functions are never called.  A rescan of the bus
> doesn't help, and the device still shows up in lspci (although all the
> registers are read as 0xffff). dmesg and lspci after the device has been
> removed is attached.
> 
> I've tried turning on all the PCI config options that look relavant; my
> .config is attached.  I've turned on PCI debug too.  The only thing that
> looks PCI related that I don't have turned on is ACPI_PCI_SLOT.  Do I
> need that?
> 
> I'm not sure how to debug this hot plug issue further.

Well, we still don't seem to call the _OSC on this machine.  At least your
dmesg output doesn't indicate so.

Do you have the patch from:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/604371/

applied?

Rafael
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/