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Message-ID: <CA+G9fYsLjKov93zsZfPovVmfEus6QzaVd_QvCYtmqMn+kY+6ng@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 14:16:08 +0530
From: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux.dev, 
	Pavankumar Kondeti <quic_pkondeti@...cinc.com>, Xingang Wang <wangxingang5@...wei.com>, 
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, 
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] PCI: Fix ACS enablement for Root Ports in OF platforms

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 19:53, Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This series fixes the long standing issue with ACS in OF platforms. There are
> two fixes in this series, both fixing independent issues on their own, but both
> are needed to properly enable ACS on OF platforms.
>
> Issue(s) background
> ===================
>
> Back in 2021, Xingang Wang first noted a failure in attaching the HiSilicon SEC
> device to QEMU ARM64 pci-root-port device [1]. He then tracked down the issue to
> ACS not being enabled for the QEMU Root Port device and he proposed a patch to
> fix it [2].
>
> Once the patch got applied, people reported PCIe issues with linux-next on the
> ARM Juno Development boards, where they saw failure in enumerating the endpoint
> devices [3][4]. So soon, the patch got dropped, but the actual issue with the
> ARM Juno boards was left behind.
>
> Fast forward to 2024, Pavan resubmitted the same fix [5] for his own usecase,
> hoping that someone in the community would fix the issue with ARM Juno boards.
> But the patch was rightly rejected, as a patch that was known to cause issues
> should not be merged to the kernel. But again, no one investigated the Juno
> issue and it was left behind again.
>
> Now it ended up in my plate and I managed to track down the issue with the help
> of Naresh who got access to the Juno boards in LKFT. The Juno issue was with the
> PCIe switch from Microsemi/IDT, which triggers ACS Source Validation error on
> Completions received for the Configuration Read Request from a device connected
> to the downstream port that has not yet captured the PCIe bus number. As per the
> PCIe spec r6.0 sec 2.2.6.2, "Functions must capture the Bus and Device Numbers
> supplied with all Type 0 Configuration Write Requests completed by the Function
> and supply these numbers in the Bus and Device Number fields of the Requester ID
> for all Requests". So during the first Configuration Read Request issued by the
> switch downstream port during enumeration (for reading Vendor ID), Bus and
> Device numbers will be unknown to the device. So it responds to the Read Request
> with Completion having Bus and Device number as 0. The switch interprets the
> Completion as an ACS Source Validation error and drops the completion, leading
> to the failure in detecting the endpoint device. Though the PCIe spec r6.0, sec
> 6.12.1.1, states that "Completions are never affected by ACS Source Validation".
> This behavior is in violation of the spec.
>
> Solution
> ========
>
> In September, I submitted a series [6] to fix both issues. For the IDT issue,
> I reused the existing quirk in the PCI core which does a dummy config write
> before issuing the first config read to the device. And for the ACS enablement
> issue, I just resubmitted the original patch from Xingang which called
> pci_request_acs() from devm_of_pci_bridge_init().
>
> But during the review of the series, several comments were received and they
> required the series to be reworked completely. Hence, in this version, I've
> incorported the comments as below:
>
> 1. For the ACS enablement issue, I've moved the pci_enable_acs() call from
> pci_acs_init() to pci_dma_configure().
>
> 2. For the IDT issue, I've cached the ACS capabilities (RO) in 'pci_dev',
> collected the broken capability for the IDT switches in the quirk and used it to
> disable the capability in the cache. This also allowed me to get rid of the
> earlier workaround for the switch.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/038397a6-57e2-b6fc-6e1c-7c03b7be9d96@huawei.com
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1621566204-37456-1-git-send-email-wangxingang5@huawei.com
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/01314d70-41e6-70f9-e496-84091948701a@samsung.com
> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CADYN=9JWU3CMLzMEcD5MSQGnaLyDRSKc5SofBFHUax6YuTRaJA@mail.gmail.com
> [5] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20241107-pci_acs_fix-v1-1-185a2462a571@quicinc.com
> [6] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20250910-pci-acs-v1-0-fe9adb65ad7d@oss.qualcomm.com
>
> Changes in v2:
>
> * Reworked the patches completely as mentioned above.
> * Rebased on top of v6.18-rc7
>
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com>

Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>


> ---
> Manivannan Sadhasivam (4):
>       PCI: Enable ACS only after configuring IOMMU for OF platforms
>       PCI: Cache ACS capabilities
>       PCI: Disable ACS SV capability for the broken IDT switches
>       PCI: Extend the pci_disable_acs_sv quirk for one more IDT switch
>
>  drivers/pci/pci-driver.c |  8 +++++++
>  drivers/pci/pci.c        | 33 ++++++++++++--------------
>  drivers/pci/pci.h        |  2 +-
>  drivers/pci/probe.c      | 12 ----------
>  drivers/pci/quirks.c     | 62 ++++++++++++------------------------------------
>  include/linux/pci.h      |  2 ++
>  6 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: ac3fd01e4c1efce8f2c054cdeb2ddd2fc0fb150d
> change-id: 20251201-pci_acs-b15aa3947289
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com>
>

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