Re: [PATCH] PCI: iproc: Remove redundant function number check for PAXC

From: Ray Jui
Date: Fri Jan 29 2016 - 12:53:18 EST


Hi Bjorn,

On 1/29/2016 9:30 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
Hi Ray,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 03:37:20PM -0800, Ray Jui wrote:
This patch removes the conditional check that limits the number of
functions to be supported by the internally emulated endpoint device
connected to PAXC. Investigation shows that the emulated PAXC endpoint
device can properly reject request for unsupported functions, which
makes this conditional check redundant

Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
index 9ae43ed..b65185d 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-iproc.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static void __iomem *iproc_pcie_map_cfg_bus(struct pci_bus *bus,
* allows only one device and supports a limited number of functions.
*/
if (pcie->type == IPROC_PCIE_PAXC)
- if (slot > 0 || fn >= MAX_NUM_PAXC_PF)
+ if (slot > 0)
return NULL;

/* EP device access */

Thanks for checking this out. I removed the now-unused
MAX_NUM_PAXC_PF and folded this into the first patch, resulting in
the combined patch below.

I'm sorry to say that I have yet one more question.

You don't need to feel sorry for asking these questions, :) It's your previous question that initiates the investigation and as a result, one more redundant check (and potential limitation for future iProc based SoCs) is removed from the driver. I really appreciate these questions from you.

It looks somewhat
hacky to have the PAXC-specific "slot > 0" test, and I'm not sure it
should be necessary (again, unless there's some implementation
deficiency in that PAXC embedded endpoint). I'm looking at section
7.3 in the spec, and it seems like that endpoint *should* handle
a config transaction with a non-zero Device Number, i.e., "slot", as
an Unsupported Request. This should be standard behavior for all PCIe
endpoints -- we can generate config transactions like that on all root
complexes on all systems, so all endpoints should be able to handle
it.

Unfortunately, it looks like the integrated endpoint connected to PAXC is not fully compliant to the above described behavior.

I tested by removing the "slot > 0" test in the driver and added some debug prints, it appears that attempted access to slot 1, 2, 3 cannot be rejected properly and results an kernel crash.

Debugging prints are in the format of <bus>:<slot>:<func> offset:0x<where>

[ 3.871332] 1:1:0 offset:0x0
[ 3.874552] 1:2:0 offset:0x0
[ 3.877759] 1:3:0 offset:0x0
[ 3.881454] Bad mode in Error handler detected, code 0xbf000002 -- SError
[ 3.888996] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.0+ #117
[ 3.895801] Hardware name: Broadcom NS2 SVK (DT)
[ 3.900967] task: ffffffc0fb088000 ti: ffffffc0fb090000 task.ti: ffffffc0fb090000
[ 3.909271] PC is at pci_generic_config_read32+0x74/0xa0
[ 3.915190] LR is at pci_generic_config_read32+0x28/0xa0
[ 3.921081] pc : [<ffffffc000374684>] lr : [<ffffffc000374638>] pstate: 200000c5
[ 3.929309] sp : ffffffc0fb093900
[ 3.932969] x29: ffffffc0fb093900 x28: ffffffc0fa9d2400
[ 3.938864] x27: ffffffc07a93c090 x26: 0000000000000000
[ 3.944838] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffffffc0fa9d2800
[ 3.950776] x23: 0000000000000040 x22: ffffffc000883318
[ 3.956678] x21: 0000000000000018 x20: ffffffc0fb093a0c
[ 3.962589] x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 000000000000073f
[ 3.968491] x17: ffffffffffffffff x16: 0000000000000011
[ 3.974356] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: ffffffffffffffff
[ 3.980311] x13: ffffffffffffffff x12: 0000000000000000
[ 3.986258] x11: 00000000000002eb x10: 0000000000000006
[ 3.992177] x9 : 00000000000002ec x8 : 3078303a74657366
[ 3.998106] x7 : ffffffc000812a70 x6 : ffffffc0007d4dc4
[ 4.004026] x5 : 000000000000000f x4 : ffffffc0fb09398c
[ 4.009937] x3 : 0000000000000004 x2 : ffffff80000d41f8
[ 4.015865] x1 : ffffff80000d4000 x0 : 0000000000000000

Therefore, we need to keep this 'hacky check' in the iProc host driver.

Thanks,

Ray