[PATCH 1/2] drivers: pci: do not disregard parent resources starting at 0x0

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 08:39:12AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 12 April 2017 at 14:24, Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> wrote:
> > [+Yinghai, Bjorn]
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> Commit f44116ae8818 ("PCI: Remove pci_find_parent_resource() use for
> >> allocation") updated the logic that iterates over all bus resources
> >> and compares them to a given resource, in order to decide whether one
> >> is the parent of the latter.
> >>
> >> This change inadvertently causes pci_find_parent_resource() to disregard
> >> resources starting at address 0x0, resulting in an error such as the one
> >> below on ARM systems whose I/O window starts at 0x0.
> >>
> >> pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x10000000-0x3efeffff window]
> >> pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000-0xffff window]
> >> pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x8000000000-0xffffffffff window]
> >> pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-0f]
> >> pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
> >> pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI bridge to [bus 02]
> >> pci 0000:00:03.0: PCI bridge to [bus 03]
> >> pci 0000:00:03.0: can't claim BAR 13 [io  0x0000-0x0fff]: no compatible bridge window
> >> pci 0000:03:01.0: can't claim BAR 0 [io  0x0000-0x001f]: no compatible bridge window
> >>
> >> While this never happens on x86, it is perfectly legal in general for a
> >> PCI MMIO or IO window to start at address 0x0, and it was supported in
> >> the code before commit f44116ae8818.
> >>
> >> So let's drop the test for res->start != 0; resource_contains() already
> >> checks whether [start, end) completely covers the resource, and so it
> >> should be redundant.
> >>
> >> Fixes: f44116ae8818 ("PCI: Remove pci_find_parent_resource() use for allocation")
> >
> > I know this code fixes IO claiming on ARM/ARM64 (well, it fixes nothing
> > because we never claim resources on ARM/ARM64 apart from kvmtool and
> > generic host bridge), my _big_ worry is that it can cause endless
> > regressions on other arches, in any case I would be really really
> > careful about adding a Fixes: tag to it.
> >
> 
> The patch is only 3 years old, and is obviously a regression given
> that the change in behavior described here occurs as a side effect.

I agree with you that res->start usage changed with f44116ae8818 but
I am not sure you can call that a regression unless we prove there
was some code relying on the previous behaviour (and it is not just
x86).

Anyway, I am happy to put these two patches (with some tweaks on patch
2) on a branch for testing on ARM64 ACPI platforms to see the best
way forward.

Thanks,
Lorenzo