linux-kernel - Re: driver skip pci_set

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Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:18:55 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <mlord@...ox.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: driver skip pci_set_master, fix it? No.

On 14-04-09 10:12 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 14-04-09 09:08 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
>> On 14-04-08 10:51 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 17:18 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>>>>> I assume you're talking about the one added by cf3e1feba7f9 ("PCI:
>>>>> Workaround missing pci_set_master in pci drivers"), but as far as I
>>>>> can tell, it only calls pci_set_master() for *bridge* devices.  What
>>>>> am I missing?  Is pci_set_master() being called for your endpoint?
>>>>> What path is that?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it is being called during execution of the _probe() function in my driver,
>>>> as evidenced by the annoying (and wrong) message it produces.
>>>>
>>>> Next time I've got the hardware at hand, I'll put a "dump_stack()" into there
>>>> to see the exact calling path.
>>>
>>> Note that one of the reason we want to do it early on bridges is that without it,
>>> we may also not get the PCIe error messages.
>>
>> Sure, for bridges.
>>
>> I'll get a stack trace later today, but what I suspect is happening
>> is that this multi-function card is being treated by the PCI layers
>> as a "bridge" for purposes of the multiple virtual functions it implements.
>>
>> We will probably need to distinguish this kind of device from real bridges here.
> 
> Here's the call trace, all the way back to k7_probe(),
> the driver's PCI "probe" function, and beyond:
> 
> [   30.481454] k7: loading driver version 0.80
> [   30.485561] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: driver skip pci_set_master, fix it!
> [   30.485580] CPU: 2 PID: 4401 Comm: insmod Tainted: G           O 3.12.14 #3
> [   30.485583] Hardware name: Supermicro X9SCI/X9SCA/X9SCI/X9SCA, BIOS 2.0b 09/17/2012
> [   30.485590]  0000000000000300 ffff88041c11b9b8 ffffffff8156c40b 0000000000000000
> [   30.485598]  ffff88041d2b7000 ffff88041c11b9d8 ffffffff812dc493 0000000000000300
> [   30.485603]  ffff88041d399000 ffff88041c11ba08 ffffffff812dc50d 0000000000001000
> [   30.485607] Call Trace:
> [   30.485616]  [<ffffffff8156c40b>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x84
> [   30.485622]  [<ffffffff812dc493>] pci_enable_bridge+0x93/0xa0
> [   30.485627]  [<ffffffff812dc50d>] pci_enable_device_flags+0x6d/0xe0
> [   30.485631]  [<ffffffff812dc58e>] pci_enable_device+0xe/0x10
> [   30.485641]  [<ffffffffa0469c0d>] k7_enable_device+0x3d/0xa30 [k7]
> [   30.485649]  [<ffffffffa0462d72>] ? k7_devmem_alloc+0x32/0x140 [k7]
> [   30.485654]  [<ffffffff81572ab6>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x16/0x40
> [   30.485658]  [<ffffffff81572721>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x11/0x40
> [   30.485666]  [<ffffffffa046aee8>] k7_probe+0x458/0x630 [k7]
> 
> [   30.485682]  [<ffffffff812de3d6>] local_pci_probe+0x46/0x80
> [   30.485696]  [<ffffffff812de6f1>] pci_device_probe+0x101/0x110
> [   30.485702]  [<ffffffff813941d6>] driver_probe_device+0x76/0x240
> [   30.485705]  [<ffffffff8139443b>] __driver_attach+0x9b/0xa0
> [   30.485709]  [<ffffffff813943a0>] ? driver_probe_device+0x240/0x240
> [   30.485713]  [<ffffffff81392385>] bus_for_each_dev+0x55/0x90
> [   30.485717]  [<ffffffff81393ce9>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20
> [   30.485720]  [<ffffffff81393814>] bus_add_driver+0x104/0x290
> [   30.485724]  [<ffffffff81394abf>] driver_register+0x5f/0xf0
> [   30.485728]  [<ffffffff812dd3f6>] __pci_register_driver+0x46/0x50
> [   30.485736]  [<ffffffffa024c16e>] k7_init+0x16e/0x1000 [k7]
> [   30.485746]  [<ffffffffa024c000>] ? 0xffffffffa024bfff
> [   30.485765]  [<ffffffff81000302>] do_one_initcall+0x112/0x160
> [   30.485779]  [<ffffffff81038143>] ? set_memory_nx+0x43/0x50
> [   30.485785]  [<ffffffff810abbe1>] load_module+0x1e51/0x2480
> [   30.485789]  [<ffffffff810a8b10>] ? show_initstate+0x50/0x50
> [   30.485794]  [<ffffffff810ac2ae>] SyS_init_module+0x9e/0xc0
> [   30.485799]  [<ffffffff8157389b>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe
> 

The e1000e network driver is suffering from this as well in 3.12.14.

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