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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:12:31 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Bisected Problem with LSI PCI FC Adapter

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:07:16PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I want to fix this regression before v3.17.  Dirk, can you test the
> following patch on top of v3.17-rc2?  I'm hoping you can try this on your
> test machine in conjunction with your acpi_pci_root_add() and
> pci_scan_device() patches.  If I understand correctly,  you were able to
> reproduce the FC adapter not showing up, and if you can verify that it does
> show with those patches + this revert, I think that's good enough for now.
> 
> I'm not committed to applying this yet, but I'd like to have a working fix
> in my back pocket in case we don't come up with a better solution soon.

Since Dirk confirmed that the revert below avoids the problem for now, I
applied it to my for-linus branch for v3.17.

I don't think this is the right fix, but it will buy us some time to figure
out a better fix after v3.17.

Bjorn

> commit 5945a8d28c416fc390a94c8e7fb8fd0a76f5d710
> Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> Date:   Fri Sep 12 21:58:19 2014 -0600
> 
>     Revert "PCI: Make sure bus number resources stay within their parents bounds"
>     
>     This reverts commit 1820ffdccb9b ("PCI: Make sure bus number resources stay
>     within their parents bounds") because it breaks some systems with LSI Logic
>     FC949ES Fibre Channel Adapters, apparently by exposing a defect in those
>     adapters.
>     
>     Dirk tested a Tyan VX50 (B4985) with this device that worked like this
>     prior to 1820ffdccb9b:
>     
>         bus: [bus 00-7f] on node 0 link 1
>         ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-07])
>         pci 0000:00:0e.0: PCI bridge to [bus 0a]
>         pci_bus 0000:0a: busn_res: can not insert [bus 0a] under [bus 00-07] (conflicts with (null) [bus 00-07])
>         pci 0000:0a:00.0: [1000:0646] type 00 class 0x0c0400 (FC adapter)
>     
>     Note that the root bridge [bus 00-07] aperture is wrong; this is a BIOS
>     defect in the PCI0 _CRS method.  But prior to 1820ffdccb9b, we didn't
>     enforce that aperture, and the FC adapter worked fine at 0a:00.0.
>     
>     After 1820ffdccb9b, we notice that 00:0e.0's aperture is not contained in
>     the root bridge's aperture, so we reconfigure it so it *is* contained:
>     
>         pci 0000:00:0e.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 0a-0a]), reconfiguring
>         pci 0000:00:0e.0: PCI bridge to [bus 06-07]
>     
>     This effectively moves the FC device from 0a:00.0 to 07:00.0, which should
>     be legal.  But when we enumerate bus 06, the FC device doesn't respond, so
>     we don't find anything.  This is probably a defect in the FC device.
>     
>     Possible fixes (due to Yinghai):
>     
>         1) Add a quirk to fix the _CRS information based on what amd_bus.c read
>            from the hardware
>     
>         2) Reset the FC device after we change its bus number
>     
>         3) Revert 1820ffdccb9b
>     
>     Fix 1 would be relatively easy, but it does sweep the LSI FC issue under
>     the rug.  We might want to reconfigure bus numbers in the future for some
>     other reason, e.g., hotplug, and then we could trip over this again.
>     
>     For that reason, I like fix 2, but we don't know whether it actually works,
>     and we don't have a patch for it yet.
>     
>     This revert is fix 3, which also sweeps the LSI FC issue under the rug.
>     
>     Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84281
>     Reported-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
>     CC: stable@...r.kernel.org	# v3.15+
>     CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index e3cf8a2e6292..f0badff77cff 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ int pci_scan_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus, struct pci_dev *dev, int max, int pass)
>  	/* Check if setup is sensible at all */
>  	if (!pass &&
>  	    (primary != bus->number || secondary <= bus->number ||
> -	     secondary > subordinate || subordinate > bus->busn_res.end)) {
> +	     secondary > subordinate)) {
>  		dev_info(&dev->dev, "bridge configuration invalid ([bus %02x-%02x]), reconfiguring\n",
>  			 secondary, subordinate);
>  		broken = 1;
> @@ -853,8 +853,7 @@ int pci_scan_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus, struct pci_dev *dev, int max, int pass)
>  			child = pci_add_new_bus(bus, dev, max+1);
>  			if (!child)
>  				goto out;
> -			pci_bus_insert_busn_res(child, max+1,
> -						bus->busn_res.end);
> +			pci_bus_insert_busn_res(child, max+1, 0xff);
>  		}
>  		max++;
>  		buses = (buses & 0xff000000)
> @@ -913,11 +912,6 @@ int pci_scan_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus, struct pci_dev *dev, int max, int pass)
>  		/*
>  		 * Set the subordinate bus number to its real value.
>  		 */
> -		if (max > bus->busn_res.end) {
> -			dev_warn(&dev->dev, "max busn %02x is outside %pR\n",
> -				 max, &bus->busn_res);
> -			max = bus->busn_res.end;
> -		}
>  		pci_bus_update_busn_res_end(child, max);
>  		pci_write_config_byte(dev, PCI_SUBORDINATE_BUS, max);
>  	}
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