[PATCH 5/6] powerpc/eeh: Make early EEH init pseries specific

Oliver O'Halloran oohall at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 14:35:45 AEDT 2020


On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 1:24 PM Sam Bobroff <sbobroff at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:35:20PM +1100, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
> > The eeh_ops->probe() function is called from two different contexts:
> >
> > 1. On pseries, where set set EEH_PROBE_MODE_DEVTREE, it's called in
> "set set" -> "we set"
> >    eeh_add_device_early() which is supposed to run before we create
> >    a pci_dev.
> >
> > 2. On PowerNV, where we set EEH_PROBE_MODE_DEV, it's called in
> >    eeh_device_add_late() which is supposed to run *after* the
> >    pci_dev is created.
> >
> > The "early" probe is required because PAPR requires that we perform an RTAS
> > call to enable EEH support on a device before we start interacting with it
> > via config space or MMIO. This requirement doesn't exist on PowerNV and
> > shoehorning two completely separate initialisation paths into a common
> > interface just results in a convoluted code everywhere.
> >
> > Additionally the early probe requires the probe function to take an pci_dn
> > rather than a pci_dev argument. We'd like to make pci_dn a pseries specific
> > data structure since there's no real requirement for them on PowerNV. To
> > help both goals move the early probe into the pseries containment zone
> > so the platform depedence is more explicit.
> >
> I had a look around near your comment:
> > +                     // XXX: uh, do we have the rescan lock held here?
> And we definitely don't have the lock when it gets called via the module
> init path (as rpaphp is loaded) -- I tried it and there was no deadlock.
> I don't think we have the lock in other situations but I haven't
> unravelled it all enough yet to tell, either.

The other hotplug drivers seem to be taking the lock manually in their
enable_slot() callback. So I guess we need to be doing it there too.
I'll fix it in another patch since this one is a bit big.


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