pci_pcie_cap invalid on AER/EEH enabled PPC?

Richard A Lary rlary at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 6 03:22:52 EST 2011


On 7/5/2011 9:18 AM, Jon Mason wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Richard A Lary
> <rlary at linux.vnet.ibm.com>  wrote:
>> On 7/1/2011 1:00 PM, Richard A Lary wrote:
>>>
>>> On 7/1/2011 12:02 PM, Jon Mason wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Richard A Lary<rlary at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/1/2011 8:24 AM, Jon Mason wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently sent out a number of patches to migrate drivers calling
>>>>>> `pci_find_capability(pdef, PCI_CAP_ID_EXP)` to pci_pcie_cap. This
>>>>>> function takes uses a PCI-E capability offset that was determined by
>>>>>> calling pci_find_capability during the PCI bus walking. In response
>>>>>> to one of the patches, James Smart posted:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The reason is due to an issue on PPC platforms whereby use of
>>>>>> "pdev->is_pcie" and pci_is_pcie() will erroneously fail under some
>>>>>> conditions, but explicit search for the capability struct via
>>>>>> pci_find_capability() is always successful. I expect this to be due
>>>>>> a shadowing of pci config space in the hal/platform that isn't
>>>>>> sufficiently built up. We detected this issue while testing AER/EEH,
>>>>>> and are functional only if the pci_find_capability() option is used."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=130946649427828&w=2 for the whole
>>>>>> post.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Based on his description above pci_pcie_cap
>>>>>> andpci_find_capability(pdef, PCI_CAP_ID_EXP) should be functionally
>>>>>> equivalent. If this is not safe, then the PCI bus walking code is
>>>>>> most likely busted on EEH enabled PPC systems (and that is a BIG
>>>>>> problem). Can anyone confirm this is still an issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon,
>>>>>
>>>>> I applied the following debug patch to lpfc driver in a 2.6.32 distro
>>>>> kernel ( I had this one handy, I can try with mainline later today )
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 10 10 + 0 - 0 !
>>>>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> Index: b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
>>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>> --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c
>>>>> @@ -3958,6 +3958,16 @@ lpfc_enable_pci_dev(struct lpfc_hba *phb
>>>>> pci_try_set_mwi(pdev);
>>>>> pci_save_state(pdev);
>>>>>
>>>>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "pcicap: is_pcie=%x pci_cap=%x pcie_type=%x\n",
>>>>> + pdev->is_pcie,
>>>>> + pdev->pcie_cap,
>>>>> + pdev->pcie_type);
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (pci_is_pcie(pdev))
>>>>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "pcicap: true\n");
>>>>> + else
>>>>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "pcicap: false\n");
>>>>> +
>>>>> /* PCIe EEH recovery on powerpc platforms needs fundamental reset */
>>>>> if (pci_find_capability(pdev, PCI_CAP_ID_EXP))
>>>>> pdev->needs_freset = 1;
>>>>>
>>>>> This is output upon driver load on an IBM Power 7 model 8233-E8B server.
>>>>>
>>>>> dmesg | grep pcicap
>>>>> Linux version 2.6.32.42-pcicap-ppc64 (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version
>>>>> 4.3.4
>>>>> [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Fri Jul 1
>>>>> 09:31:27
>>>>> PDT 2011
>>>>> pcicap: is_pcie=0 pci_cap=0 pcie_type=0
>>>>> pcicap: false
>>>>> pcicap: is_pcie=0 pci_cap=0 pcie_type=0
>>>>> pcicap: false
>>>>> pcicap: is_pcie=0 pci_cap=0 pcie_type=0
>>>>> pcicap: false
>>>>> pcicap: is_pcie=0 pci_cap=0 pcie_type=0
>>>>> pcicap: false
>>>>>
>>>>> It would appear that the pcie information is not set in pci_dev
>>>>> structure
>>>>> for
>>>>> this device at the time the driver is being initialized during boot.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for trying this. Can you confirm that the other devices in the
>>>> system have this issue as well (or show that it is isolated to the lpr
>>>> device)? You can add printks in set_pcie_port_type() to verify what
>>>> is being set on bus walking and to see when it is being called with
>>>> respect to when it is being populated by firmware.
>>>
>>> Jon,
>>>
>>> I will give this suggestion a try and post results
>>
>> On Power PC platforms, set_pcie_port_type() is not called.  On Power PC,
>> pci_dev structure is initialized by of_create_pci_dev().  However, the
>> structure member pcie_cap is NOT computed nor set in this function.
>
> Yes, it is.  of_create_pci_dev() calls set_pcie_port_type()
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.39/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_of_scan.c#L144
>
> That function sets pdev->pcie_cap
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.39/drivers/pci/probe.c#L896
>
> So, it should be set.  It looks like there is a bug in
> of_create_pci_dev, as set_pcie_port_type is being called BEFORE the
> BARs are setup.  If you move set_pcie_port_type prior to
> pci_device_add (perhaps even after), then I bet the issue is resolved.
>

The claim above was based upon observation that with this patch applied
to a 2.6.32 kernel, the printk output did not appear in dmesg upon boot.

  static void set_pcie_hotplug_bridge(struct pci_dev *pdev)
@@ -774,6 +780,8 @@ int pci_setup_device(struct pci_dev *dev
         u8 hdr_type;
         struct pci_slot *slot;

+       printk(KERN_WARNING "pcicap: setup_device %p\n", dev);
+
         if (pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_HEADER_TYPE, &hdr_type))
                 return -EIO;

I can make no claim about my understanding of pci device initialization
on Power PC, so I have added Anton Blanchard to the cc list.

Perhaps Anton can explain why pcie_cap is always 0 on Power PC.

-rich

>
>> The information used to populate pci_dev comes from the Power PC
>> device_tree passed to the OS by Open Firmware.
>>
>> Based upon standing Power PC design, we cannot support patches
>> which replace pci_find_capability(pdef, PCI_CAP_ID_EXP) with
>> pci_is_pcie(pdev) on Power PC platforms.
>>
>> -rich
>>
>>
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