[PATCH v10 3/8] PCI: dwc: Advertise dynamic inbound mapping support

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 04:59:26PM +0100, Christian Bruel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While testing after this series, I encountered regressions on the STM32MP2,
> which I am unsure how to fix. The failures depend on the order in which the
> tests are run.

c0f1506f6354 ("PCI: dwc: Advertise dynamic inbound mapping support")
appeared in v7.0-rc1, so apparently we added a regression in v7.0?  Do
we need to revert this?

> The STM32 ATU has 4 inbound entries. After enumeration, the first 4 ATU
> entries are allocated within ib_window_map.
> 
> On the first run of ./pci_endpoint_test -v BAR3(for example),
> SUBRRANGE_SETUP calls dw_pcie_ep_ib_atu_addr(), which frees only one ATU
> entry (BAR3), because we were in the bar_to_atu case, for the first submap
> but fails to allocate the second submap. So the test FAILs.
> 
> On the second run with a different BAR, SUBRRANGE_SETUP test calls
> dw_pcie_ep_ib_atu_addr() again, freeing the required ATU entry (BAR1) and
> successfully using the second ATU entry (3), which was left unallocated by
> the first test. then now the test PASSes
> 
> Therefore, the first invocation of ./pci_endpoint_test on any BAR always
> fails. Other invocations are fine because the first one has left the missing
> necessary ATU entry free. Whatever initial BAR number is used
> 
> I am unsure how to fix this. Always freeing all BARs before calling
> set_bar() in the epf-test seems overkill, but safe.
> I am also considering modifying dw_pcie_ep_clear_ib_maps() to clear N
> num_submap entries even if ib_atu_indexes was not used yet, since only the
> full BAR is used during the first invocation from bar_to_atu. But the
> question is which ATU entry to select ? BAR+1 ?. This seems empirical.
> 
> I am not bothered by test failures due to an insufficient number of BARs
> (this is already the case for BAR5,6), but the fact that the failures depend
> on the test order is frustrating and show a regression.
> 
> But I'm not satisfied with either of the 2 possible fixes mentioned above.
> 
> Do you have any other thought ?
> 
> thank you
> 
> Christian