[PATCH v3 00/10] ARM: tegra: Add PCIe device tree support

Tue Aug 14 20:08:33 EDT 2012

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/14/2012 03:55 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Thierry Reding
>> <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:39:23PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>> On 08/13/2012 05:18 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>> whereas for a device tree boot:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (same):
>>>>>>> [    2.112217] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 10: [io  0x0000-0x00ff]
>>>>>>> [    2.117635] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 18: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff 64bit pref]
>>>>>>> [    2.124690] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 20: [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff 64bit pref]
>>>>>>> [    2.131731] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 30: [mem 0x00000000-0x0001ffff pref]
>>>>>> ... (request region happens early)
>>>>>>> [    2.179838] r8169 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: requesting [io  0x0000-0x00ff]
>>>>>>> [    2.193312] r8169 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: requesting [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff 64bit pref]
>>>>>>> [    2.201397] r8169 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: can't reserve [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff 64bit pref]
>>>>>>> [    2.209742] r8169 0000:01:00.0: (unregistered net_device): could not request regions
>>>>>> ... (same, just happens too late)
>>>>>>> [    2.236818] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0xa0000000-0xa001ffff pref]
>>>>>>> [    2.244027] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 4: assigned [mem 0xa0020000-0xa0023fff 64bit pref]
>>>>>>> [    2.251794] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0xa0024000-0xa0024fff 64bit pref]
>>>>>>> [    2.259542] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [io  0x1000-0x10ff]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suspect this is all still related to the PCI devices themselves being
>>>>>> probed much earlier in the overall PCI initialization sequence when the
>>>>>> PCI controller is probed later in the boot sequence, whereas PCI device
>>>>>> probe is deferred until the overall PCI initialization sequence is
>>>>>> complete if the PCI controller is probed very early in the boot sequence.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know what to apply your patches to (they don't apply cleanly
>>>>> to v3.6-rc2), so I can't see exactly what you're doing.  But it looks
>>>>> like you might be calling pci_bus_add_devices() before
>>>>> pci_bus_assign_resource(), which isn't going to work.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that's exactly what is happening.
>>>>
>>>> PCIe initialization starts in arch/arm/mach-tegra/pci.e
>>>> tegra_pcie_init() which calls arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c
>>>> pci_common_init(). That function first calls pcibios_init_hw() (in the
>>>> same file, more about this later) and then loops over PCI buses, calling
>>>> amongst other things pci_bus_assign_resources() then pci_bus_add_devices().
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that ARM's pcibios_init_hw() calls pci_scan_root_bus()
>>>> (or a host-driver-specific function which that also calls
>>>> pci_scan_root_bus() in Tegra's case) which in turn calls
>>>> pci_bus_add_devices() right at the end, before control has returned to
>>>> pci_common_init() and hence before pci_bus_assign_resources() has been
>>>> called.
>>>>
>>>> If I modify pci_scan_root_bus() and remove the call to
>>>> pci_bus_add_devices(), everything works as expected.
>>>>
>>>> So, I guess the question is: Should ARM's pcibios_init_hw() not be
>>>> calling pci_scan_root_bus(), or at least presumably the ARM PCI code
>>>> needs to do things in a slightly different order?
>>
>> I think you need to do something like this instead of using pci_scan_root_bus():
>>
>>     pci_create_root_bus()
>>     pci_scan_child_bus()
>>     pci_bus_assign_resources()
>>     pci_bus_add_devices()
>>
>> This is the effective order used by most of the pci_create_root_bus() callers.
>
> That would pretty much duplicate everything in pci_scan_root_bus(). That
> might cause divergence down the road.

That's true, but it is what most other architectures do, and if you do
it the same way, we'll be able to converge things more easily later.

> Can't we make the call to pci_bus_add_devices() optional in
> pci_scan_root_bus() somehow; one of:
>
> * Add a parameter to pci_scan_root_bus() controlling this.
>
> (rather a large patch)
>
> * Split pci_scan_root_bus() into pci_scan_root_bus() and
> pci_scan_root_bus_no_add(), such that pci_scan_root_bus() is just a
> wrapper that calls pci_scan_root_bus_no_add() then pci_bus_add_devices().
>
> (very simple patch, and the new function can easily be used as/when it's
> needed, e.g. enabled just for Tegra in 3.6 to reduce risk of regressions)
>
> * Add a flag to struct pci_bus that requests pci_scan_root_bus() skip
> the call to pci_bus_add_devices().
>
> (a flag in the bus struct just for one function seems a little
> circuitous, but perhaps OK)
>
> * ifdef out the call to pci_bus_add_devices(), if building for ARM.
>
> (very simple, and probably correct)

I'd rather not add more variants of pci_scan_root_bus().  We already
have several very similar things in drivers/pci/probe.c:

  pci_scan_bus()
  pci_scan_bus_parented()
  pci_scan_root_bus()

And in addition, we have many callers of pci_create_root_bus() that
look very much like one of these.  I'm trying to consolidate all this,
but there's a fair amount of work, and I think the simplest thing is
to just use pci_create_root_bus() for now.

> Actually, I'm not totally convinced some other archs shouldn't skip this
> too; while I couldn't find any other arch that explicitly calls
> pci_bus_assign_resources() and pci_bus_add_devices() after
> pci_scan_root_bus(), I did see some that call
> pci_assign_unassigned_resources() which seems like it might be due to a
> similar situation?

Yes, that does sound like a similar problem.  In the past, resource
assignment has been pretty much separate from enumeration, with the
arch having the responsibility to enumerate, assign, then add devices.
 But that is error-prone and needlessly arch-specific, and I'd like to
pull it into generic code.  It's just not done yet :)

> * Add another pcibios_*() callback that pci_scan_root_bus() calls to
> determine whether to call pci_bus_add_devices(), with default
> implementation.