[PATCH] powerpc/pci: Add config option for using OF 'reg' for PCI domain

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Fri Jun 10 02:22:55 AEST 2022 

[+cc Guilherme, Michael, Ben (author of 63a72284b159 and PPC folks), thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220504175718.29011-1-pali@kernel.org]

On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 12:33:02AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Thursday 05 May 2022 15:10:01 Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
> > On 5/5/22 02:31, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 May 2022 07:16:40 Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > >> Le 04/05/2022 à 19:57, Pali Rohár a écrit :
> > >>> Since commit 63a72284b159 ("powerpc/pci: Assign fixed PHB
> > >>> number based on device-tree properties"), powerpc kernel
> > >>> always fallback to PCI domain assignment from OF / Device Tree
> > >>> 'reg' property of the PCI controller.
> > >>>
> > >>> PCI code for other Linux architectures use increasing
> > >>> assignment of the PCI domain for individual controllers
> > >>> (assign the first free number), like it was also for powerpc
> > >>> prior mentioned commit.
> > >>>
> > >>> Upgrading powerpc kernels from LTS 4.4 version (which does not
> > >>> contain mentioned commit) to new LTS versions brings a
> > >>> regression in domain assignment.
> > >>
> > >> Can you elaborate why it is a regression ?
> > >> 63a72284b159 That commit says 'no functionnal changes', I'm
> > >> having hard time understanding how a nochange can be a
> > >> regression.
> > > 
> > > It is not 'no functional change'. That commit completely changed
> > > PCI domain assignment in a way that is incompatible with other
> > > architectures and also incompatible with the way how it was done
> > > prior that commit.
> > 
> > I agree that the "no functional change" statement is incorrect.
> > However, for most powerpc platforms it ended up being simply a
> > cosmetic behavior change. As far as I can tell there is nothing
> > requiring domain ids to increase montonically from zero or that
> > each architecture is required to use the same domain numbering
> > scheme.
> 
> That is truth. But it looks really suspicious why domains are not
> assigned monotonically. Some scripts / applications are using PCI
> location (domain:bus:dev:func) for remembering PCI device and domain
> change can cause issue for config files. And some (older) applications
> expects existence of domain zero. In systems without hot plug support
> with small number of domains (e.g. 3) it means that there are always
> domains 0, 1 and 2.
> 
> > Its hard to call this a true regression unless it actually broke
> > something. The commit in question has been in the kernel since 4.8
> > which was released over 5 1/2 years ago.
> 
> I agree, it really depends on how you look at it.
> 
> The important is that lot of people are using LTS versions and are
> doing upgrades when LTS support is dropped. Which for 4.4 now
> happened. So not all smaller or "cosmetic" changes could be detected
> until longer LTS period pass.
> 
> > With all that said looking closer at the code in question I think
> > it is fair to assume that the author only intended this change for
> > powernv and pseries platforms and not every powerpc platform. That
> > change was done to make persistent naming easier to manage in
> > userspace.
> 
> I agree that this behavior change may be useful in some situations
> and I do not object this need.
> 
> > Your change defaults back to the old behavior which will now break
> > both powernv and pseries platforms with regard to hotplugging and
> > persistent naming.
> 
> I was aware of it, that change could cause issues. And that is why I
> added config option for choosing behavior. So users would be able to
> choose what they need.
> 
> > We could properly limit it to powernv and pseries by using
> > ibm,fw-phb-id instead of reg property in the look up that follows
> > a failed ibm,opal-phbid lookup. I think this is acceptable as long
> > as no other powerpc platforms have started using this behavior for
> > persistent naming.
> 
> And what about setting that new config option to enabled by default
> for those series?
> 
> Or is there issue with introduction of the new config option?
> 
> One of the point is that it is really a good idea to have
> similar/same behavior for all linux platforms. And if it cannot be
> enabled by default (for backward compatibility) add at least some
> option, so new platforms can start using it or users can decide to
> switch behavior.

This is a powerpc thing so I'm just kibbitzing a little.

This basically looks like a new config option to selectively revert
63a72284b159.  That seems hard to maintain and doesn't seem like
something that needs to be baked into the kernel at compile-time.

The 63a72284b159 commit log says persistent NIC names are tied to PCI
domain/bus/dev/fn addresses, which seems like something we should
discourage because we can't predict PCI addresses in general.  I
assume other platforms typically use udev with MAC addresses or
something?

> > > For example, prior that commit on P2020 RDB board were PCI
> > > domains 0, 1 and 2.
> > > 
> > > $ lspci
> > > 0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Freescale Semiconductor Inc P2020E (rev 21)
> > > 0000:01:00.0 USB controller: Texas Instruments TUSB73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller (rev 02)
> > > 0001:02:00.0 PCI bridge: Freescale Semiconductor Inc P2020E (rev 21)
> > > 0001:03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
> > > 0002:04:00.0 PCI bridge: Freescale Semiconductor Inc P2020E (rev 21)
> > > 0002:05:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
> > > 
> > > After that commit on P2020 RDB board are PCI domains 0x8000,
> > > 0x9000 and 0xa000.
> > > 
> > > $ lspci
> > > 8000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Freescale Semiconductor Inc P2020E (rev 21)
> > > 8000:01:00.0 USB controller: Texas Instruments TUSB73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller (rev 02)
> > > 9000:02:00.0 PCI bridge: Freescale Semiconductor Inc P2020E (rev 21)
> > > 9000:03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
> > > a000:04:00.0 PCI bridge: Freescale Semiconductor Inc P2020E (rev 21)
> > > a000:05:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
> > > 
> > > It is somehow strange that PCI domains are not indexed one by one and
> > > also that there is no domain 0
> > > 
> > > With my patch when CONFIG_PPC_PCI_DOMAIN_FROM_OF_REG is not set, then
> > > previous behavior used and PCI domains are again 0, 1 and 2.
> > > 
> > >> Usually we don't commit regressions to mainline ...
> > >>
> > >>> Fix this issue by introducing a new option
> > >>> CONFIG_PPC_PCI_DOMAIN_FROM_OF_REG When this options is
> > >>> disabled then powerpc kernel would assign PCI domains in the
> > >>> similar way like it is doing kernel for other architectures
> > >>> and also how it was done prior that commit.
> > >>
> > >> You don't define CONFIG_PPC_PCI_DOMAIN_FROM_OF_REG on by
> > >> default, it means this commit will change the behaviour. Is
> > >> that expected ?
> > >>
> > >> Is that really worth a user selectable option ? Is the user
> > >> able to decide what he needs ?
> > > 
> > > Well, I hope that maintainers of that code answer to these
> > > questions.
> > > 
> > > In any case, I think that it could be a user selectable option
> > > as in that commit is explained that in some situation is makes
> > > sense to do PCI domain numbering based on DT reg.
> > > 
> > > But as I pointed above, upgrading from 4.4 TLS kernel to some
> > > new TLS kernel brings above regression, so I think that there
> > > should be a way to disable this behavior.
> > > 
> > > In my opinion, for people who are upgrading from 4.4 TLS kernel,
> > > this option should be turned off by default (= do not change
> > > behavior). For people who want same behaviour on powerpc as on
> > > other platforms, also it should be turned off by default.
> > > 
> > >>>
> > >>> Fixes: 63a72284b159 ("powerpc/pci: Assign fixed PHB number based on device-tree properties")
> > >>
> > >> Is that really a fix ? What is the problem really ?
> > > 
> > > Problem is that PCI domains were changed in a way that is not
> > > compatible neither with version prior that commit and neither
> > > with how other linux platforms assign PCI domains for
> > > controllers.
> > > 
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> > >>> ---
> > >>>   arch/powerpc/Kconfig             | 10 ++++++++++
> > >>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c |  4 ++--
> > >>>   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > >>> index 174edabb74fa..4dd3e3acddda 100644
> > >>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > >>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > >>> @@ -375,6 +375,16 @@ config PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI
> > >>>   	depends on PCI
> > >>>   	depends on PPC64 # not supported on 32 bits yet
> > >>>   
> > >>> +config PPC_PCI_DOMAIN_FROM_OF_REG
> > >>> +	bool "Use OF reg property for PCI domain"
> > >>> +	depends on PCI
> > >>
> > >> Should it depend on PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI instead ?
> > > 
> > > No, PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI has line "depends on PPC64 # not supported on 32
> > > bits yet". But it is already used also for e.g. P2020 which is 32-bit
> > > platform.
> > > 
> > >>> +	help
> > >>> +	  By default PCI domain for host bridge during its registration is
> > >>> +	  chosen as the lowest unused PCI domain number.
> > >>> +
> > >>> +	  When this option is enabled then PCI domain is determined from
> > >>> +	  the OF / Device Tree 'reg' property.
> > >>> +
> > >>>   config ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
> > >>>   	def_bool y
> > >>>   
> > >>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
> > >>> index 8bc9cf62cd93..8cb6fc5302ae 100644
> > >>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
> > >>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
> > >>> @@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ void __init set_pci_dma_ops(const struct dma_map_ops *dma_ops)
> > >>>   static int get_phb_number(struct device_node *dn)
> > >>>   {
> > >>>   	int ret, phb_id = -1;
> > >>> -	u32 prop_32;
> > >>>   	u64 prop;
> > >>>   
> > >>>   	/*
> > >>> @@ -83,7 +82,8 @@ static int get_phb_number(struct device_node *dn)
> > >>>   	 * reading "ibm,opal-phbid", only present in OPAL environment.
> > >>>   	 */
> > >>>   	ret = of_property_read_u64(dn, "ibm,opal-phbid", &prop);
> > >>
> > >> This looks like very specific, it is not reflected in the commit log.
> > > 
> > > I have not changed nor touched this "ibm,opal-phbid" setting. And it was
> > > not also touched in that mentioned patch. I see that no DTS file in
> > > kernel use this option (so probably only DTS files supplied by
> > > bootloader use it). So I thought that there is not reason to mention in
> > > commit message.
> > > 
> > > But if you think so, I can add some info to commit message about it.
> > > 
> > >>> -	if (ret) {
> > >>> +	if (ret && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_PCI_DOMAIN_FROM_OF_REG)) {
> > >>> +		u32 prop_32;
> > >>>   		ret = of_property_read_u32_index(dn, "reg", 1, &prop_32);
> > >>>   		prop = prop_32;
> > >>>   	}
> >

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