linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 928bea964827d7824b548c1f8e06eccbbc4d0d7d

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Date:	Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:15:18 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert 928bea964827d7824b548c1f8e06eccbbc4d0d7d

On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 10:44 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> |        /* Get and check PCI Express port services */
> |        capabilities = get_port_device_capability(dev);
> |        if (!capabilities)
> |                return 0;
> |
> |        pci_set_master(dev);
> 
> so how come that pci_set_master is not called for powerpc?
> 
> Can you send out lspci -vvxxx with current linus-tree and v3.11?

Ah good point. It should have ... except that there are a number of ways
for get_port_device_capability() to fail and that should *not* leave the
bridge without the bus master capability set.

However I don't think that's what's happening here. I'll have to dig
more, will get back to you.

Cheers,
Ben.


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