Re: [PATCH] PCI: Work around Stratus ftServer broken PCIe hierarchy

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Thu Dec 20 2012 - 16:46:20 EST


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recently, another report surfaced indicating Stratus ftServer platforms
> were exhibiting similar failures as has occurred in the past [1].
>
> In late 2011 we started seeing issues with Stratus ftServer systems.
> The typical failure was that USB and network devices were not being
> seen. Research uncovered that the failure was due to the platform's PCI
> Express hierarchy not conforming to the PCI Express specification [2]
> which commit f07852d exposed.
>
> The following are known Stratus ftServer platforms whose PCI hierarchies
> are broken:
>
> Stratus ftServer ????
> +-07.0-[01-76]--+-00.0-[02-76]--+-00.0-[03-3c]--+-00.0-[04-09]..
> \-01.0-[0a-0d]--+-[USB]
> +-[NIC]
> +-..
>
> Stratus ftServer 6400
> [0000:00]-+-...-00.0-[03]-00.0-[04]-+-00.0-[05]---00.0-[06]..
> | | |
> | | \-01.0-[2c]-+-00.0 [USB]
> | | +-00.1 [USB]
> | | \-1f.0 [ISA]
>
> Stratus ftServer 4500
> Stratus ftServer 6310
>
> As a solution, commit 284f5f9 was introduced.
>
> Looking into this again it looks as if the quirk introduced in 284f5f9 is
> not making the correct DMI based check. This patch fixes the DMI 'vendor'
> based check to match "Stratus", not "ftServer". It also augments the
> checking to include matching the DMI based 'product name' to "ftServer".
> This quirk should now trigger for all Stratus ftServer platforms which I
> was able to confirm by testing on a Stratus ftServer 6400 system with the
> following 'dmidecode' output:
> System Information
> Manufacturer: Stratus
> Product Name: ftServer 6400
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51331
> [2] PCI Express specification, r3.0, Section 7.3.1
>
> Reported-by: Fadeeva Marina <astarta@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arch/x86/pci/common.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/common.c b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
> index 720e973..487d9f3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/pci/common.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
> @@ -433,7 +433,8 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __devinitconst pciprobe_dmi_table[] = {
> .callback = set_scan_all,
> .ident = "Stratus/NEC ftServer",
> .matches = {
> - DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "ftServer"),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Stratus"),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "ftServer"),
> },
> },
> {}
>

I added this to my pci/for-3.8 branch, which I'll ask Linus to pull
soon after v3.8-rc1. Thanks!

Bjorn
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