LS1043A : "synchronous abort" at boot due to PCI config read
Bjorn Helgaas
helgaas at kernel.org
Fri Apr 27 09:56:27 PDT 2018
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:29:32PM +0000, Gilles Buloz wrote:
> Le 27/04/2018 10:43, Ard Biesheuvel a écrit :
> > (add Bjorn and linux-pci)
> >
> > On 13 April 2018 at 19:32, Gilles Buloz <Gilles.Buloz at kontron.com> wrote:
> >> Dear developers,
> >>
> >> I currently have two functional workarounds for this issue but
> >> would like to know which one you would recommend, if any :-) I'm
> >> using a LS1043A CPU (NXP QorIQ Layerscape) and get a "synchronous
> >> external abort" when booting because of a PCI config read during
> >> PCI scan.
> >>
> >> I'm using a custom hardware (based on LS1043ARDB) having a
> >> PEX8112 PCIe-to-PCI bridge connected to the LS1043A to have a PCI
> >> slot for legacy devices. This bridge only supports PCI-Compatible
> >> config accesses (offset 0x00-0xFF).
I would guess the PEX8112 itself has 4K of config space, but it only
forwards 256 bytes of config space to the conventional PCI secondary
bus.
> >> On this PCI slot I connect a PCI module made of a PCI-to-PCIe
> >> bridge plus PCIe devices behind.
> >>
> >> The problem occurs when the kernel probes the PCIe devices : as
> >> they are PCIe devices, the kernel does a PCI config read access
> >> at offset 0x100 to check if "PCIe extended capability registers"
> >> are accessible (see drivers/pci/probe.c, function
> >> pci_cfg_space_size_ext()). Unfortunately the PEX8112 PCIe-to-PCI
> >> bridge that is in the path reports an error to the CPU for this
> >> access, and it seems there's no way to disable that on this
> >> bridge.
> >>
> >> The first workaround I found was to patch
> >> drivers/pci/host/pci-layerscape.c to have PCIE_ABSERR_SETTING set
> >> to 0x9400 instead of 0x9401 (for PCIE_ABSERR register) to disable
> >> error reporting. This only impacts an NXP part of the Linux
> >> kernel code, but I'm not sure this is a good idea (however it
> >> seems to be like that on Intel platforms where even MEM accesses
> >> to a no-device address return FF without any error).
> >>
> >> I've also tried another workaround that works : patch
> >> drivers/pci/probe.c to use bus_flags to remember if a bus is
> >> behind a bridge without extended address capability, to avoid PCi
> >> config read accesses at offset 0x100 in pci_cfg_space_size() /
> >> pci_cfg_space_size_ext(). But this patch impacts the generic PCI
> >> probe method of Linux.
> >>
> >> Any Idea to properly handle that issue ?
> >>
> > This seems like a rather unusual configuration, but I guess that
> > if the first bridge/switch advertises its inability to support
> > extended config space accesses, we should not be performing them
> > on any of its subordinate buses. How does the PEX8112 advertise
> > this limitation?
> >
> > That said, I wonder if it is reasonable in the first place to
> > expect that a PCIe device works as expected passing through a
> > legacy PCI layer like that.
> >
> The PEX8112 PCIe-to-PCI bridge has capability PCI_CAP_ID_EXP, but
> has no PCI_CAP_ID_PCIX capability. As I understand the lack of
> PCI_CAP_ID_PCIX is advertising this limitation on the PCI side (no
> support for PCI config offset >=0x100).
Sounds right to me.
> Also I guess in the case of a bridge having PCI_CAP_ID_PCIX, this
> limitation would be advertised by the lack of PCI_X_STATUS_266MHZ
> and PCI_X_STATUS_533MHZ (as done in drivers/pci/probe.c at
> pci_cfg_space_size())
Also sounds right. Per the PCI-X spec, checking for PCI_X_STATUS_266MHZ
should be enough, but it shouldn't hurt to check for either
PCI_X_STATUS_266MHZ or PCI_X_STATUS_533MHZ.
> I'm currently using the attached patch (for kernel 4.1.35-rt41 from
> NXP Yocto BSP). It uses bus_flags to remember if a bus is behind a
> bridge without extended address capability to avoid PCi config
> accesses at offset >= 0x100. Thanks to this patch I now have a
> functional system with functional PCI/PCIe devices.
The patch seems like it's looking at the right things, but I don't
want to build it into pci_scan_bridge_extend() because that function
is much too complicated already.
I'd rather build it into pci_cfg_space_size() or
pci_cfg_space_size_ext() somehow. Maybe something along these lines?
This doesn't account for the case of a PCIe-to-PCI-X Mode 2 bridge; in
that case, I think all 4K would be accessible on the PCI-X side.
diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
index ac91b6fd0bcd..d8b091f0bcd1 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ static bool pci_ext_cfg_is_aliased(struct pci_dev *dev)
* pci_cfg_space_size - Get the configuration space size of the PCI device
* @dev: PCI device
*
- * Regular PCI devices have 256 bytes, but PCI-X 2 and PCI Express devices
+ * Regular PCI devices have 256 bytes, but PCI-X Mode 2 and PCI Express devices
* have 4096 bytes. Even if the device is capable, that doesn't mean we can
* access it. Maybe we don't have a way to generate extended config space
* accesses, or the device is behind a reverse Express bridge. So we try
@@ -1376,9 +1376,14 @@ static bool pci_ext_cfg_is_aliased(struct pci_dev *dev)
*/
static int pci_cfg_space_size_ext(struct pci_dev *dev)
{
+ struct pci_dev *bridge = pci_upstream_bridge(dev);
u32 status;
int pos = PCI_CFG_SPACE_SIZE;
+ if (bridge && pci_is_pcie(bridge) &&
+ pci_pcie_type(bridge) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCI_BRIDGE)
+ return PCI_CFG_SPACE_SIZE;
+
if (pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos, &status) != PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL)
return PCI_CFG_SPACE_SIZE;
if (status == 0xffffffff || pci_ext_cfg_is_aliased(dev))
> --- include/linux/pci.h.orig 2018-03-26 16:51:18.050000000 +0000
> +++ include/linux/pci.h 2018-03-26 16:51:27.660000000 +0000
> @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@
> enum pci_bus_flags {
> PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI = (__force pci_bus_flags_t) 1,
> PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MMRBC = (__force pci_bus_flags_t) 2,
> + PCI_BUS_FLAGS_COMPAT_CFG_SPACE = (__force pci_bus_flags_t) 4,
> };
>
> /* These values come from the PCI Express Spec */
> --- drivers/pci/probe.c.orig 2018-01-22 09:29:52.000000000 +0000
> +++ drivers/pci/probe.c 2018-03-26 16:54:30.830000000 +0000
> @@ -827,6 +827,28 @@
> child->primary = primary;
> pci_bus_insert_busn_res(child, secondary, subordinate);
> child->bridge_ctl = bctl;
> +
> + {
> + int pos;
> + u32 status;
> + bool pci_compat_cfg_space = false;
> +
> + if (!pci_is_pcie(dev) || (pci_pcie_type(dev) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCIE_BRIDGE) || (pci_pcie_type(dev) == PCI_EXP_TYPE_PCI_BRIDGE)) {
> + /* for PCI/PCI bridges, or PCIe/PCI bridge in forward or reverse mode, we have to check for PCI-X capabilities */
> + pos = pci_find_capability(dev, PCI_CAP_ID_PCIX);
> + if (pos) {
> + pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos + PCI_X_STATUS, &status);
> + if (!(status & (PCI_X_STATUS_266MHZ | PCI_X_STATUS_533MHZ)))
> + pci_compat_cfg_space = true;
> + } else {
> + pci_compat_cfg_space = true;
> + }
> + if (pci_compat_cfg_space) {
> + dev_info(&dev->dev, "[%04x:%04x] Child bus limited to PCI-Compatible config space\n", dev->vendor, dev->device);
> + child->bus_flags |= PCI_BUS_FLAGS_COMPAT_CFG_SPACE;
> + }
> + }
> + }
> }
>
> cmax = pci_scan_child_bus(child);
> @@ -1098,6 +1120,11 @@
> goto fail;
> }
>
> + if (dev->bus->bus_flags & PCI_BUS_FLAGS_COMPAT_CFG_SPACE) {
> + dev_info(&dev->dev, "[%04x:%04x] PCI-Compatible config space only due to parent bus(es)\n", dev->vendor, dev->device);
> + return PCI_CFG_SPACE_SIZE;
> + }
> +
> return pci_cfg_space_size_ext(dev);
>
> fail:
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