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Message-ID: <3902129.1HNpjbDdb7@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 02:59:57 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>,
	rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression due to "device property: Make it possible to use secondary firmware nodes" Re: Xen-unstable + linux 4.1-mergewindow: problems with PV guest  pci passthrough:  pcifront pci-0: pciback not responding!!!

On Monday, May 11, 2015 11:20:29 AM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 12:18:49AM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> > Hello Sander,
> > 
> > Monday, April 27, 2015, 5:48:00 PM, you wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi David / Konrad,
> > 
> > > Here the other problem i found, which is introduced somewhere in the 
> > > 4.1 mergewindow:
> > 
> > > on 4.1.0-rc1 (with the one revert to get things booting) i get this in
> > > the PV Guest console:
> > 
> > > [    0.517392] crc32c_combine: 8373 self tests passed
> > > [    0.517608] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> > > [    0.517655] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
> > > [    0.517677] cpcihp_generic: Generic port I/O CompactPCI Hot Plug Driver version: 0.1
> > > [    0.517684] cpcihp_generic: not configured, disabling.
> > > [    0.517700] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
> > > [    0.517713] acpiphp_ibm: ibm_acpiphp_init: acpi_walk_namespace failed
> > > [    0.519849] usbcore: registered new interface driver udlfb
> > > [    0.613289] xen:xen_evtchn: Event-channel device installed
> > > [    0.613436] pcifront pci-0: Installing PCI frontend
> > > [    0.613578] pcifront pci-0: Creating PCI Frontend Bus 0000:00
> > > [    0.613616] pcifront pci-0: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
> > > [    0.613624] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000-0xffff]
> > > [    0.613631] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x00000000-0xffffffffffff]
> > > [    0.613638] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
> > > [    0.616672] pcifront pci-0: pciback not responding!!!
> > > [    2.613762] clocksource tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x2e20fd6f2ba, max_idle_ns: 440795302556 ns
> > > [    2.614275] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> > > [    2.614682] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
> > > [    2.614731] Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.9.1 (tick is 180 seconds, margin is 60 seconds).
> > > [    2.614762] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> > > [    2.614789] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> > > [    2.616529] brd: module loaded
> > > [    2.617844] loop: module loaded
> > > [    2.620008] pcifront pci-0: pciback not responding!!!
> > > [    4.621490] pcifront pci-0: pciback not responding!!!
> > > [    6.621866] pcifront pci-0: pciback not responding!!!
> > > [    8.622421] pcifront pci-0: pciback not responding!!!
> > > etc. etc. etc.
> > 
> > 
> > > Where on 4.0.0 it get:
> > 
> > > [    0.442554] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
> > > [    0.442583] acpiphp_ibm: ibm_acpiphp_init: acpi_walk_namespace failed
> > > [    0.443293] pcifront pci-0: Allocated pdev @ 0xffff88001ab23c00 pdev->sh_info @ 0xffff88001937f000
> > > [    0.444885] pcifront pci-0: publishing successful!
> > > [    0.445302] usbcore: registered new interface driver udlfb
> > > [    0.445829] xen:xen_evtchn: Event-channel device installed
> > > [    0.446499] pcifront pci-0: Installing PCI frontend
> > > [    0.446715] pcifront pci-0: Creating PCI Frontend Bus 0000:00
> > > [    0.446951] pcifront pci-0: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
> > > [    0.446960] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000-0xffff]
> > > [    0.446968] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x00000000-0xffffffffffff]
> > > [    0.446988] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
> > > [    0.447002] pci_bus 0000:00: scanning bus
> > > [    0.447140] pci 0000:00:00.0: [13f6:0111] type 00 class 0x040100
> > > [    0.447520] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x10: [io  0x7800-0x78ff]
> > > [    0.449148] pci 0000:00:00.0: supports D1 D2
> > > [    0.449791] pci_bus 0000:00: fixups for bus
> > > [    0.449794] pci_bus 0000:00: bus scan returning with max=00
> > > [    0.450604] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> > > [    0.451991] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
> > > [    0.452160] Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.9.1 (tick is 180 seconds, margin is 60 seconds).
> > > [    0.452222] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> > > [    0.452300] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> > > [    0.462384] pcifront pci-0: claiming resource 0000:00:00.0/0
> > 
> > > But i thought the patches that would change pci bus scanning were destined for 
> > > 4.2 though ...
> > 
> > > --
> > > Sander
> > 
> > Hi David / Konrad,
> > 
> > I have bisected this one .. it leads to:
> > 
> > commit 97badf873ab60e841243b66133ff9eff2a46ef29
> > Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > Date:   Fri Apr 3 23:23:37 2015 +0200
> > 
> > device property: Make it possible to use secondary firmware nodes
> > 
> > Since i didn't see it directly related to pci-front, i double checked by 
> > reverting this commit(and 9b73262ccbf2fb0060303f047863214269e64f9a since it 
> > build depends on the other) on 4.1-rc2.
> > 
> > Reverting in the guest kernel indeed makes pci-front work correct again.
> 
> That is quite odd.

Yes, that's weird.

> And sadly I am due for vacation at the end of this week
> so own't be able to look at this (and prepare an debug patch for the MSI
> addendum debug patch either).
> 
> 
> Rafael,
> 
> Were there any other bug reports about this particular commit?

Not that I'm aware of.

I'll look at that tomorrow when I'm a bit less tired.


-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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