[PATCH] PCI: Add Broadcom 4331 reset quirk to prevent IRQ storm

Lukas Wunner lukas at wunner.de
Tue Mar 29 10:41:30 PDT 2016


Broadcom 4331 wireless cards built into Apple Macs unleash an IRQ storm
on boot until they are reset, causing spurious interrupts if the IRQ is
shared. Apparently the EFI bootloader enables the device and does not
disable it before passing control to the OS. The bootloader contains a
driver for the wireless card which allows it to phone home to Cupertino.
This is used for Internet Recovery (download and install OS X images)
and probably also for Back to My Mac (remote access, RFC 6281) and to
discover stolen hardware.

The issue is most pronounced on 2011 and 2012 MacBook Pros where the IRQ
is shared with 3 other devices (Light Ridge Thunderbolt controller, SDXC
reader, HDA card on discrete GPU). As soon as an interrupt handler is
installed for one of these devices, the ensuing storm of spurious IRQs
causes the kernel to disable the IRQ and switch to polling. This lasts
until the b43 driver loads and resets the device.

Loading the b43 driver first is not always an option, in particular with
the Light Ridge Thunderbolt controller: The PCI hotplug IRQ handler gets
installed early on because it is built in, unlike b43 which is usually
a module.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79301
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895951
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009819
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149632
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de> [MacBookPro9,1]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de>
---
 drivers/bcma/bcma_private.h |  2 --
 drivers/pci/quirks.c        | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/bcma/bcma.h   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bcma/bcma_private.h b/drivers/bcma/bcma_private.h
index eda0909..f642c42 100644
--- a/drivers/bcma/bcma_private.h
+++ b/drivers/bcma/bcma_private.h
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
 #include <linux/bcma/bcma.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 
-#define BCMA_CORE_SIZE		0x1000
-
 #define bcma_err(bus, fmt, ...) \
 	pr_err("bus%d: " fmt, (bus)->num, ##__VA_ARGS__)
 #define bcma_warn(bus, fmt, ...) \
diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
index 8e67802..d4fb5ee 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/ktime.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/bcma/bcma.h>
+#include <linux/bcma/bcma_regs.h>
 #include <asm/dma.h>	/* isa_dma_bridge_buggy */
 #include "pci.h"
 
@@ -3282,6 +3284,31 @@ DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_RESUME_EARLY(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, 0x156d,
 			       quirk_apple_wait_for_thunderbolt);
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Broadcom 4331 wireless cards built into Apple Macs unleash an IRQ storm
+ * on boot until they are reset, causing spurious interrupts if the IRQ is
+ * shared. Apparently the EFI bootloader enables the device to phone home
+ * to Cupertino and does not disable it before passing control to the OS.
+ */
+static void quirk_apple_b43_reset(struct pci_dev *dev)
+{
+	void __iomem *mmio;
+
+	if (!dmi_match(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Apple Inc.") || !dev->bus->self ||
+	    pci_pcie_type(dev->bus->self) != PCI_EXP_TYPE_ROOT_PORT)
+		return;
+
+	mmio = pci_iomap(dev, 0, 0);
+	if (!mmio) {
+		pr_err("b43 quirk: Cannot iomap device, IRQ storm ahead\n");
+		return;
+	}
+	iowrite32(BCMA_RESET_CTL_RESET,
+		  mmio + (1 * BCMA_CORE_SIZE) + BCMA_RESET_CTL);
+	pci_iounmap(dev, mmio);
+}
+DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4331, quirk_apple_b43_reset);
+
 static void pci_do_fixups(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pci_fixup *f,
 			  struct pci_fixup *end)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/bcma/bcma.h b/include/linux/bcma/bcma.h
index 0367c63..5c37b58 100644
--- a/include/linux/bcma/bcma.h
+++ b/include/linux/bcma/bcma.h
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct bcma_host_ops {
 #define BCMA_CORE_DEFAULT		0xFFF
 
 #define BCMA_MAX_NR_CORES		16
+#define BCMA_CORE_SIZE			0x1000
 
 /* Chip IDs of PCIe devices */
 #define BCMA_CHIP_ID_BCM4313	0x4313
-- 
2.8.0.rc3




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