Re: [REGRESSION, bisect] pci: artpec-6: imprecise external abort

From: Joao Pinto
Date: Fri Oct 14 2016 - 12:18:47 EST


On 10/14/2016 4:24 PM, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> On 10/14/2016 03:02 PM, Joao Pinto wrote:
>> Hi Niklas,
>>
>>
>> On 10/14/2016 1:41 PM, Niklas Cassel wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>

(snip)

> }
> }
>
> - pp->iatu_unroll_enabled = dw_pcie_iatu_unroll_enabled(pp);
> -
> if (pp->ops->host_init)
> pp->ops->host_init(pp);
>
> @@ -809,6 +807,11 @@ void dw_pcie_setup_rc(struct pcie_port *pp)
> {
> u32 val;
>
> + /* get iATU unroll support */
> + pp->iatu_unroll_enabled = dw_pcie_iatu_unroll_enabled(pp);
> + dev_dbg(pp->dev, "iATU unroll: %s\n",
> + pp->iatu_unroll_enabled ? "enabled" : "disabled");
> +
> /* set the number of lanes */
> val = dw_pcie_readl_rc(pp, PCIE_PORT_LINK_CONTROL);
> val &= ~PORT_LINK_MODE_MASK;
>

Seems reasonable to me. Please make the an official patch and I get it tested
for you.

Thanks.

>
>
> With my patch I get:
>
> [ 0.976044] OF: PCI: host bridge /pcie@f8050000 ranges:
> [ 0.981307] OF: PCI: IO 0xc0002000..0xc0011fff -> 0x00000000
> [ 0.987240] OF: PCI: MEM 0xc0012000..0xdfffffff -> 0xc0012000
> [ 1.010590] artpec6-pcie f8050000.pcie: iATU unroll: disabled
> [ 1.116381] artpec6-pcie f8050000.pcie: link up
> [ 1.121044] artpec6-pcie f8050000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
>
> and no SIGBUS/imprecise external abort.
>
>
>
> The only users of dw_pcie_prog_outbound_atu is
> dw_pcie_rd_conf, dw_pcie_wr_conf and dw_pcie_setup_rc.
>
> As long as dw_pcie_setup_rc calls dw_pcie_iatu_unroll_enabled
> before calling dw_pcie_prog_outbound_atu,
> we should be fine (as done in my patch).
>
> dw_pcie_rd_conf and dw_pcie_wr_conf is only used by
> struct pci_ops dw_pcie_ops, which is only used as an argument
> for pci_scan_root_bus_msi and pci_scan_root_bus
> (both are called after pp->ops->host_init, i.e.,
> after dw_pcie_setup_rc). (My patch should be fine for
> this code path too.)
>
>
> The only other solution would be to break out some code
> from artpec6_pcie_establish_link and move that to
> artpec6_pcie_probe.
> But in that case I would highly recommend that all other
> dwc-based drivers verify that they are still working after
> a0601a470537 ("PCI: designware: Add iATU Unroll feature"),
> since they might also first enable their PCI Express interface
> module in pp->ops->host_init().
>
>
>>> From the ARTPEC-6 SoC manual:
>>> By default, the PCI Express interface shall be held in reset and clock-gated.
>>> Software is required to enable the relevant modules
>>> (turns on clocks and de-asserts reset) before these modules can be used.
>>>
>>> Turning on the clocks and de-asserting reset is done in pp->ops->host_init().
>>> We get an external abort when calling dw_pcie_iatu_unroll_enabled,
>>> since that function does a read from the IP before we are allowed to do
>>> AXI transfers (at least in the ARTPEC-6 case, might be the same for some
>>> other SoCs).
>>>
>>> It appears that dw_pcie_iatu_unroll_enabled was actually called _before_
>>> host_init() in v4 of Joao's patch, but was changed to after host_init() in v5,
>>> unfortunately the patch doesn't state a reason for the move.
>>>
>