[PATCH 1/2] pci-phb: check for the 32-bit overflow

Nikunj A Dadhania nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Apr 27 15:41:49 AEST 2015


Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:56:57 +0200
> Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:22:33 +0530
>> Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > Hi Thomas,
>> > 
>> > Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> writes:
>> > > Am Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:27:19 +0530
>> > > schrieb Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
>> > >
>> > >> With the addition of 64-bit BARS and increase in the mmio address
>> > >> space, the code was hitting this limit. The memory of pci devices
>> > >> across the bridges were not accessible due to which the drivers
>> > >> failed.
>> > >> 
>> > >> Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> > >> ---
>> > >>  board-qemu/slof/pci-phb.fs | 3 ++-
>> > >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > >> 
>> > >> diff --git a/board-qemu/slof/pci-phb.fs b/board-qemu/slof/pci-phb.fs
>> > >> index 529772f..e307d95 100644
>> > >> --- a/board-qemu/slof/pci-phb.fs
>> > >> +++ b/board-qemu/slof/pci-phb.fs
>> > >> @@ -258,7 +258,8 @@ setup-puid
>> > >>              decode-64 2 / dup >r                \ Decode and calc size/2
>> > >>              pci-next-mem @ + dup pci-max-mem !  \ and calc max mem address
>> > >
>> > > Could pci-max-mem overflow, too?
>> > 
>> > Should not, its only the boundary that was an issue.
>> > 
>> > Qemu sends base and size, base + size can be till uint32 max. So for
>> > example base was 0xC000.0000 and size was 0x4000.0000, we add up base +
>> > size and put pci-max-mmio as 0x1.0000.0000, which would get programmend
>> > in the bridge bars: lower limit as 0xC000 and 0x0000 as upper
>> > limit. And no mmio access were going across the bridge.
>> > 
>> > In my testing, I have found one more issue with translate-my-address,
>> > it does not take care of 64-bit addresses. I have a patch working for
>> > SLOF, but its breaking the guest kernel booting.
>> > 
>> > >
>> > >>              dup pci-next-mmio !                 \ which is the same as MMIO base
>> > >> -            r> + pci-max-mmio !                 \ calc max MMIO address
>> > >> +            r> + FFFFFFFF min pci-max-mmio !    \ calc max MMIO address and
>> > >> +                                                \ check the 32-bit boundary
>> 
>> Ok, thanks a lot for the example! I think your patch likely works in
>> practice, but after staring at the code for a while, I think the real
>> bug is slightly different. If I get the code above right, pci-max-mmio
>> is normally set to the first address that is _not_ part of the mmio
>> window anymore, right. Now have a look at pci-bridge-set-mmio-base in
>> pci-scan.fs:
>> 
>> : pci-bridge-set-mmio-base ( addr -- )
>>         pci-next-mmio @ 100000 #aligned         \ read the current Value and align to 1MB boundary
>>         dup 100000 + pci-next-mmio !            \ and write back with 1MB for bridge
>>         10 rshift                               \ mmio-base reg is only the upper 16 bits
>>         pci-max-mmio @ FFFF0000 and or          \ and Insert mmio Limit (set it to max)
>>         swap 20 + rtas-config-l!                \ and write it into the bridge
>> ;
>> 
>> Seems like the pci-max-mmio, i.e. the first address that is not in the
>> window anymore, is programmed into the memory limit register here - but
>> according to the pci-to-pci bridge specification, it should be the last
>> address of the window instead.
>> 
>> So I think the correct fix would be to decrease the pci-max-mmio
>> value in pci-bridge-set-mmio-base by 1- before programming it into the
>> limit register (note: in pci-bridge-set-mmio-limit you can find a "1-"
>> already, so I think this also should be done in
>> pci-bridge-set-mmio-base, too)
>> 
>> So if you've got some spare minutes, could you please check whether that
>> would fix the issue, too?
>
> By the way, if I'm right, pci-bridge-set-mem-base seems to suffer from
> the same problem, too.

And pci-bridge-set-io-base as well.

Regards
Nikunj



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