[PATCH V7 04/10] powerpc/eeh: Trace first 7 BARs in address cache

Gavin Shan gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 2 14:11:24 AEST 2015


On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:51:15AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 06:32:33PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>The subject says "Trace first 7 BARs..."  I think maybe you meant "Track
>>first 7 BARs" or maybe "Cache only BARs, not windows or IOV BARs"
>>
>
>Agree, Track is more accurate.
>
>Gavin,
>
>Which subject you prefer?
>

"Cache only BARs, not windows or IOV BARs" is better.

>>On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 06:50:06PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>>> EEH address cache, which helps to locate the PCI device according to
>>> the given (physical) MMIO address, didn't cover PCI bridges. 
>>
>>"doesn't contain PCI bridge windows"?
>>
>>I see that eeh_addr_cache_insert_dev() ignores bridges because it never
>>calls __eeh_addr_cache_insert_dev() when "(dev->class >> 16) ==
>>PCI_BASE_CLASS_BRIDGE".  I think it would be more technically correct if
>>you removed that test and relied on the "i <= PCI_ROM_RESOURCE" test in
>>this patch, because it is legal (though rare) for bridge devices to have
>>two BARs, and I assume you would want to put those in your cache if they
>>exist.
>>
>
>I think this is fine to remove the test "(dev->class >> 16) ==
>PCI_BASE_CLASS_BRIDGE" for a bridge and rely on the "i <= PCI_ROM_RESOURCE"
>
>Gavin,
>
>Do you thinks this is fine?
>

Fine to me.

>>> Also, it
>>> shouldn't return PF with address in PF's IOV BARs. Instead, the VFs
>>> should be returned.
>>> The patch restricts the address cache to cover first 7 BARs for the
>>> above purposes.
>>> 
>>> [gwshan: changelog]
>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_cache.c |    2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_cache.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_cache.c
>>> index eeabeab..f6c5f05 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_cache.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_cache.c
>>> @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static void __eeh_addr_cache_insert_dev(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>>  	/* Walk resources on this device, poke them into the tree */
>>> -	for (i = 0; i < DEVICE_COUNT_RESOURCE; i++) {
>>> +	for (i = 0; i <= PCI_ROM_RESOURCE; i++) {
>>>  		unsigned long start = pci_resource_start(dev,i);
>>>  		unsigned long end = pci_resource_end(dev,i);
>>>  		unsigned int flags = pci_resource_flags(dev,i);
>>> -- 
>>> 1.7.9.5
>>> 
>
>-- 
>Richard Yang
>Help you, Help me



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