[PATCH v3] PCI: aardvark: Don't touch PCIe registers if no card connected

[Pali Rohár]

On Wednesday 15 July 2020 17:21:08 Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 02:17:26PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 13 July 2020 12:23:25 Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:27:47AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > On Friday 10 July 2020 10:18:00 Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 05:09:59PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > > > > I understand that but the bridge bus resource can be trimmed to just
> > > > > > > contain the root bus because that's the only one where there is a
> > > > > > > chance you can enumerate a device.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > It is possible to register only root bridge without endpoint?
> > > > > 
> > > > > It is possible to register the root bridge with a trimmed IORESOURCE_BUS
> > > > > so that you don't enumerate anything other than the root port.
> > > > 
> > > > Hello Lorenzo! I really do not know how to achieve it. From code it
> > > > looks like that pci/probe.c scans child buses unconditionally.
> > > > 
> > > > pci-aardvark.c calls pci_host_probe() which calls functions
> > > > pci_scan_root_bus_bridge() which calls pci_scan_child_bus() which calls
> > > > pci_scan_child_bus_extend() which calls pci_scan_bridge_extend() (bridge
> > > > needs to be reconfigured) which then try to probe child bus via
> > > > pci_scan_child_bus_extend() because bridge is not card bus.
> > > > 
> > > > In function pci_scan_bridge_extend() I do not see a way how to skip
> > > > probing for child buses which would avoid enumerating aardvark root
> > > > bridge when PCIe device is not connected.
> > > > 
> > > > dmesg output contains:
> > > > 
> > > >   advk-pcie d0070000.pcie: link never came up
> > > >   advk-pcie d0070000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
> > > >   pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
> > > 
> > > This resource can be limited to the root bus number only before calling
> > > pci_host_probe() (ie see pci_parse_request_of_pci_ranges() and code in
> > > pci_scan_bridge_extend() that programs primary/secondary/subordinate
> > > busses) but I think that only papers over the issue, it does not fix it.
> > 
> > I looked at the code in pci/probe.c again and I do not think it is
> > possible to avoid scanning devices. pci_scan_child_bus_extend() is
> > unconditionally calling pci_scan_slot() for devfn=0 as the first thing.
> > And this function unconditionally calls pci_scan_device() which is
> > directly trying to read vendor id from config register.
> > 
> > So for me it looks like that kernel expects that can read vendor id and
> > device id from config register for device which is not connected.
> 
> Not if it is connected to a bus that the root port does not decode,
> that's what I am saying.
> 
> > And trying to read config register would cause those timeouts in
> > aardvark.
> 
> The root port (which effectively works as PCI bridge from this
> standpoint) does not issue config cycles for busses that aren't within
> its decoded bus range, which in turn is determined by the firmware
> IORESOURCE_BUS resource.
> 
> This issue is caused by devices that are connected downstream to
> the root port.
> 
> Anyway - patch merged

Could you send me a link to git commit? I have looked into
lpieralisi/pci.git repository, but I do not see it here.

> but I would be happy to keep this discussion going, somehow.

Ok, no problem. As I said if anybody has any idea or would like to see
some tests from me, I can do it and provide results.

> If the LPC20 VFIO/IOMMU/PCI microconference is approved it can be a
> good venue for this to happen.
> 
> Lorenzo