[PATCHv3 2/2] radeon: use max_bus_speed to activate gen2 speeds

Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas at google.com
Thu Apr 18 06:30:00 EST 2013


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Lucas Kannebley Tavares
>>> <lucaskt at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>> On 04/12/2013 01:38 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Lucas Kannebley Tavares
>>>>> <lucaskt at linux.vnet.ibm.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> radeon currently uses a drm function to get the speed capabilities for
>>>>>> the bus. However, this is a non-standard method of performing this
>>>>>> detection and this patch changes it to use the max_bus_speed attribute.
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c |    9 ++-------
>>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c      |    8 +-------
>>>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rv770.c     |    8 +-------
>>>>>>   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
>>>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
>>>>>> index 305a657..3291f62 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c
>>>>>> @@ -3855,8 +3855,7 @@ void evergreen_fini(struct radeon_device *rdev)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   void evergreen_pcie_gen2_enable(struct radeon_device *rdev)
>>>>>>   {
>>>>>> -       u32 link_width_cntl, speed_cntl, mask;
>>>>>> -       int ret;
>>>>>> +       u32 link_width_cntl, speed_cntl;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>          if (radeon_pcie_gen2 == 0)
>>>>>>                  return;
>>>>>> @@ -3871,11 +3870,7 @@ void evergreen_pcie_gen2_enable(struct
>>>>>> radeon_device *rdev)
>>>>>>          if (ASIC_IS_X2(rdev))
>>>>>>                  return;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -       ret = drm_pcie_get_speed_cap_mask(rdev->ddev,&mask);
>>>>>> -       if (ret != 0)
>>>>>> -               return;
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> -       if (!(mask&  DRM_PCIE_SPEED_50))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +       if (rdev->pdev->bus->max_bus_speed<  PCIE_SPEED_5_0GT)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For devices on a root bus, we previously dereferenced a NULL pointer
>>>>> in drm_pcie_get_speed_cap_mask() because pdev->bus->self is NULL on a
>>>>> root bus.  (I think this is the original problem you tripped over,
>>>>> Lucas.)
>>>>>
>>>>> These patches fix that problem.  On pseries, where the device *is* on
>>>>> a root bus, your patches set max_bus_speed so this will work as
>>>>> expected.  On most other systems, max_bus_speed for root buses will be
>>>>> PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN (set in pci_alloc_bus() and never updated because
>>>>> most arches don't have code like the pseries code you're adding).
>>>>>
>>>>> PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN = 0xff, so if we see another machine with a GPU on
>>>>> the root bus, we'll attempt to enable Gen2 on the device even though
>>>>> we have no idea what the bus will support.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's why I originally suggested skipping the Gen2 stuff if
>>>>> "max_bus_speed == PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN".  I was just being conservative,
>>>>> thinking that it's better to have a functional but slow GPU rather
>>>>> than the unknown (to me) effects of enabling Gen2 on a link that might
>>>>> not support it.  But I'm fine with this being either way.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You're right here, of course. I'll test for it being different from 5_0GT
>>>> and 8_0GT instead. Though at some point I suppose someone will want to
>>>> tackle Gen3 speeds.
>>>
>>> drm_pcie_get_speed_cap_mask() actually checked the pci bridge to see
>>> what speeds it supported.  If the new code doesn't actually check the
>>> bridge caps then the new code does not seem like a valid replacement
>>> unless I'm missing something.
>>
>> The max_bus_speed in struct pci_bus is set in pci_set_bus_speed()
>> based on the PCIe, PCI-X, or AGP capabilities.  This happens when we
>> enumerate the bridge device.  Or, in this case, Lucas added
>> powerpc-specific code to set max_bus_speed for the root bus based on
>> platform-specific host bridge knowledge.
>>
>> So it still does check the PCI bridge capabilities, just not as
>> directly as it did before.
>
> Ah, ok.  Thanks.  The previous comments about PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN being
> set in pci_alloc_bus() and never updated confused me.

Yeah, that's just for root buses where we don't have the host bridge
knowledge to figure it out.  The root bus case was broken in
drm_pcie_get_speed_cap_mask() anyway, because there is no upstream P2P
bridge to look at.  (That's why Lucas tripped over the null pointer
dereference in the first place.)


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