[PATCH V3 00/21] MMCONFIG refactoring and support for ARM64 PCI hostbridge init based on ACPI

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:12:31PM +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:24:41AM -0500, Mark Salter wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 14:15 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:01:40AM -0500, Mark Salter wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 13:44 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:20:46PM +0100, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> > > > > > From the functionality point of view this series might be split into the
> > > > > > following logic parts:
> > > > > > 1. Make MMCONFIG code arch-agnostic which allows all architectures to collect
> > > > > >    PCI config regions and used when necessary.
> > > > > > 2. Move non-arch specific bits to the core code.
> > > > > > 3. Use MMCONFIG code and implement generic ACPI based PCI host controller driver.
> > > > > > 4. Enable above driver on ARM64
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Patches has been built on top of 4.4 and can be found here:
> > > > > > git at github.com:semihalf-nowicki-tomasz/linux.git (pci-acpi-v3)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > NOTE, this patch set depends on Matthew's patches:
> > > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg45950.html
> > > > > > https://github.com/Vality/linux/tree/pci-fixes
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This has been tested on Cavium ThunderX server and QEMU.
> > > > > > Any help in reviewing and testing is very appreciated.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have tested this on my AMD Overdrive so
> > > > > 
> > > > > Tested-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory at linaro.org>
> > > > > 
> > > > > But to actually get my r8169 network card working I also need the
> > > > > following patch.
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> > > > > index 2fbf840..40e24e2 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> > > > > @@ -1717,7 +1717,7 @@ void pci_device_add(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pci_bus *bus)
> > > > >         set_dev_node(&dev->dev, pcibus_to_node(bus));
> > > > >         dev->dev.dma_mask = &dev->dma_mask;
> > > > >         dev->dev.dma_parms = &dev->dma_parms;
> > > > > -       dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = 0xffffffffull;
> > > > > +       dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(64);
> > > > >         pci_dma_configure(dev);
> > > > > 
> > > > >         pci_set_dma_max_seg_size(dev, 65536);
> > > > > 
> > > > > I suspect we need to set coherent_dma_mask somewhere in the platform but I do
> > > > > not know where this should happen. Hopefully an ARM64 expert can help.
> > > > 
> > > > I've run into a number of cards which don't work on some arm64 machines where there are
> > > > no DMA address below 4G. For the realtek card you can use r8169.use_dac=1 on the cmdline
> > > > to get it to work.
> > > > 
> > > I need r8169.use_dac=1 and this patch to get card to work.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm. I didn't need a patch in the past but I don't think I've used that card with
> > this patch series. I will try that when I get a chance...
> > 
> 
> From my previous debugging on this issue I was getting an address bigger
> than 32bits. As r8169 is a whole range of chips are guess they are not
> all equal?
> 
> I can stick debug stuff in if someone tells me where to put them.
> 

After some private debugging with Mark it turned out that the difference
between our configurations was I did not have.

CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y

With this enabled then the card works without coherent mask hack.

Thanks

Graeme