Neophyte questions about PCIe

[Mason]

On 13/03/2017 22:40, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:57:56AM +0100, Mason wrote:
>
>> On 10/03/2017 18:49, Mason wrote:
>> 
>>> static void tango_pcie_bar_quirk(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>> {
>>> 	struct pci_bus *bus = dev->bus;
>>>
>>> 	printk("%s: bus=%d devfn=%d\n", __func__, bus->number, dev->devfn);
>>>
>>>         pci_write_config_dword(dev, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0, 0x80000004);
>>> }
>>> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL(0x1105, PCI_ANY_ID, tango_pcie_bar_quirk);
>>
>> And this is where the elusive "black magic" happens.
>>
>> Is it "safe" to configure a BAR behind Linux's back?
> 
> No.  Linux maintains a struct resource for every BAR.  This quirk
> makes the BAR out of sync with the resource, so Linux no longer has an
> accurate idea of what bus address space is consumed and what is
> available.

Even when Linux is not able to map the BAR, since it's too
large to fit in the mem window?

> Normally a BAR is for mapping device registers into PCI bus address
> space.  If this BAR controls how the RC forwards PCI DMA transactions
> to RAM, then it's not really a BAR and you should prevent Linux from
> seeing it as a BAR.  You could do this by special-casing it in the
> config accessor so reads return 0 and writes are dropped.  Then you
> could write the register in your host bridge driver safely because the
> PCI core would think the BAR is not implemented.

In fact, that's what I used to do in a previous version :-)

I'd like to push support for this PCIe controller upstream.

Is the code I posted on the right track?
Maybe I can post a RFC patch tomorrow?

Regards.