linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] PCI: QDF2432 32 bit config space accessors

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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2016 14:25:56 -0500
From:   Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>,
        Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>, will.deacon@....com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, rafael@...nel.org,
        Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com, arnd@...db.de, hanjun.guo@...aro.org,
        jchandra@...adcom.com, dhdang@....com, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
        robert.richter@...iumnetworks.com, mw@...ihalf.com,
        Liviu.Dudau@....com, ddaney@...iumnetworks.com,
        wangyijing@...wei.com, msalter@...hat.com,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org, jcm@...hat.com,
        andrea.gallo@...aro.org, jeremy.linton@....com,
        liudongdong3@...wei.com, gabriele.paoloni@...wei.com,
        jhugo@...eaurora.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] PCI: QDF2432 32 bit config space accessors

Hi Bjorn,

On 11/02/2016 12:08 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 07:06:31AM -0600, cov@...eaurora.org wrote:
>> Hi Bjorn,
>>
>> On 2016-10-31 15:48, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 06:38:05PM -0400, Christopher Covington wrote:
>>>> The Qualcomm Technologies QDF2432 SoC does not support accesses
>>>> smaller
>>>> than 32 bits to the PCI configuration space. Register the appropriate
>>>> quirk.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
>>>
>>> Hi Christopher,
>>>
>>> Can you rebase this against v4.9-rc1?  It no longer applies to my tree.
>>
>> I apologize for not being clearer. This patch depends on:
>>
>> PCI/ACPI: Extend pci_mcfg_lookup() responsibilities
>> PCI/ACPI: Check platform-specific ECAM quirks
>>
>> These patches from Tomasz Nowicki were previously in your pci/ecam-v6
>> branch, but that seems to have come and gone. How would you like to
>> proceed?
> 
> Oh yes, that's right, I forgot that connection.  I'm afraid I kind of
> dropped the ball on that thread, so I went back and read through it
> again.
> 
> I *think* the current state is:
> 
>   - I'm OK with the first two patches that add the quirk
>     infrastructure.
> 
>   - My issue with the last three patches that add ThunderX quirks is
>     that there's no generic description of the ECAM address space.
> 
> So if I understand correctly, your Qualcomm patch depends only on the
> first two patches.
> 
> Then the question is how the Qualcomm ECAM address space is described.
> Your quirk overrides the default pci_generic_ecam_ops with the
> &pci_32b_ops, but it doesn't touch the address space part, so I assume
> the bus ranges and corresponding address space in your MCFG is
> correct.  So far, so good.
> 
> Is there also an ACPI device that contains that space in _CRS?  I
> think we concluded that the standard solution is to describe this with
> a PNP0C02 device.
> 
> Would you mind opening a bugzilla at bugzilla.kernel.org and attaching
> the dmesg log, /proc/iomem, and maybe a DSDT dump?  I'd like to have
> something to point at to say "if you need an MCFG quirk, you need the
> MCFG bit and *also* these other related ACPI device bits, and here's
> how it should be done."

We're working to add the PNP0C02 resource to future firmware, but it's
not in the current firmware. Are dmesg and /proc/iomem from the
current firmware interesting or should we wait for the update to file?

Thanks,
Cov

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