iProc bus scanning regression (after "PCI: iproc: Add PAXC interface support")

[Ray Jui]

Hi Rafal,

On 1/20/2016 8:43 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 20 January 2016 at 09:13, Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com> wrote:
>> On 1/19/2016 11:02 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>
>>> On 20 January 2016 at 07:53, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In OpenWrt trunk code we use iProc driver for PCIe controllers on bcma
>>>> bus (PCIE_IPROC_BCMA). Right now we use 4.1 kernel but we backported
>>>> all iProc changes. Unfortunately backporting set queued for 4.5 broke
>>>> bus scanning on some routers.
>>>>
>>>> Most BCM4708 / BCM4709 chipsets have 3 PCIe controllers. All known
>>>> routers use only first 2 of them. Even if router has 3 PCIe cards, the
>>>> last two cards are connected to the 2nd PCIe controller.
>>>>
>>>> So that PAXC patch broke support for routers with 3 cards, 2 of them
>>>> at the 2nd controller. It doesn't affect routers with just 2 cards.
>>>> This problem was tracked down in:
>>>> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/21393
>>>>
>>>> I'm attaching two OpenWrt boot logs.
>>>> 1) r48381
>>>> It contains all backported iProc changes. The log looks "nice", but
>>>> only one card (0000:01:00.0) was detected.
>>>> 2) r48382
>>>> It contains "Revert "PCI: iproc: Add PAXC interface support"" patch.
>>>> It contains many "[Firmware Bug]: reg 0x??: invalid BAR (can't size)"
>>>> messages but there are all 3 cards detected: 0000:01:00.0,
>>>> 0001:03:00.0 and 0001:04:00.0 (see brcmfmac messages).
>>>>
>>>> Can you take a look at this problem, please?
>>>
>>>
>>> linux-arm-kernel@ stopped my e-mail due to its size. Sending
>>> compressed attachments.
>>>
>>
>> I'm a bit confused by these logs that you provided. Based on the log, there
>> seems to be 3 PCIe root complexes populated on the platform, domain
>> 0000:00:00.0, 0001:00:00:0, 0002:00:00:0 are the 3 root complexes. Root
>> complex 0002 seems to have nothing connected since it does not detect any
>> EP.
>>
>> Is the first card installed on root complex 0 (domain 0000), but the second
>> card and 3rd card are both installed on root complex 1 (domain 0001) on
>> different slots or something?
>>
>> I suspect a potential issue is in this function:
>>
>> 173 static inline bool iproc_pcie_device_is_valid(struct iproc_pcie *pcie,
>> 174                                               unsigned int slot,
>> 175                                               unsigned int fn)
>> 176 {
>> 177         if (slot > 0)
>> 178                 return false;
>> 179
>> 180         /* PAXC can only support limited number of functions */
>> 181         if (pcie->type == IPROC_PCIE_PAXC && fn >= MAX_NUM_PAXC_PF)
>> 182                 return false;
>> 183
>> 184         return true;
>> 185 }
>>
>> Compared to the original code, it's different. Can you try passing bus
>> number into the function as another argument and do the following check on
>> line 177:
>>
>> if (busnum == 0 && slot > 0)
>>      return false;
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> if (slot > 0)
>>      return false;
>
> This did work, thanks! I can see again all these scary
> [Firmware Bug]: reg 0x??: invalid BAR (can't size)
> messages but also all 3 cards were detected!
>
> Will you submit a patch for this, please?
>

Thanks for helping to test.

Let me run a few tests on my platforms today and after that I'll submit 
a fix.

Thanks,

Ray