Re: [ARM] CNS3xxx: 3 regressions identified in v3.14-rc4+

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Feb 28 2014 - 06:32:04 EST


On Friday 28 February 2014 12:00:12 Krzysztof HaÅasa wrote:
>
> PCI hangs system completely while trying to access any PCI MMIO region
> (plain IO not tested).
>
> The guilty commit is 928bea964827d7824b548c1f8e06eccbbc4d0d7d:
>
> PCI: Delay enabling bridges until they're needed
>
> We currently enable PCI bridges after scanning a bus and assigning
> resources. This is often done in arch code.
>
> This patch changes this so we don't enable a bridge until necessary, i.e.,
> until we enable a PCI device behind the bridge. We do this in the generic
> pci_enable_device() path, so this also removes the arch-specific code to
> enable bridges.
>
> Reverting changes in arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c, drivers/pci/bus.c and
> include/linux/pci.h (= essentially adding pci_enable_bridges(bus) in
> ARM's pci_common_init_dev()) makes it work again.
>
> Options?

Hmm, this was in 3.12 already, right?

Can you try adding the code in a host specific callback such as
hw->add_bus?

> Issue #3 ###################################################
>
> NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:96 96
>
> WARNING: at drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c:952 gic_init_bases+0xe4/0x2b8()
> Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ16, assuming pre-allocated
> Backtrace:
> gic_init_bases from cns3xxx_init_irq+0x24/0x34
> cns3xxx_init_irq from init_IRQ+0x24/0x2c
> init_IRQ from start_kernel+0x1a8/0x338
> start_kernel from 0x2000806c
>
> I'm having problems understanding how is machine_desc->nr_irqs supposed
> to work with CONFIG_ARM_GIC and CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ set.
>
> machine_desc->nr_irqs is set to NR_IRQS_CNS3XXX =
> IRQ_TC11MP_GIC_START + 64 = 32 + 64 = 96.
>
> At start, machine_desc->nr_irqs are pre-allocated via
> start_kernel() -> early_irq_init().
>
> Then, gic_init(0, 29, ...) -> gic_init_bases(0, 29, ...) tries this
> (and fails):
>
> /*
> * For primary GICs, skip over SGIs.
> * For secondary GICs, skip over PPIs, too.
> */
> irq_start = (effectively) 16;
>
> irq_base = irq_alloc_descs(irq_start, 16, gic_irqs, numa_node_id());
> if (IS_ERR_VALUE(irq_base)) {
> WARN(1, "Cannot allocate irq_descs @ IRQ%d, assuming pre-allocated\n",
> irq_start);
>
> Does this mean machine_desc->nr_irqs is to be kept at 16
> (NR_IRQS_LEGACY) or less, so it doesn't conflict with gic_init()?
>
> Or perhaps gic_init() shouldn't warn about this?

I think the problem is that both the board file and the gic code try to
set up legacy interrupts. Try just removing the 'nr_irqs=' line.

Arnd
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