Re: [PATCH] pci: fix nit in ROM BAR size probing

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Wed Nov 04 2009 - 12:10:56 EST


On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:24:59 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When probing for ROM BAR size, we should not
> change bits 1:10 in this BAR, because these
> bits are marked as "reserved for future use" in PCI spec,
> so changing them might have side effects.
>
> No such issue for I/O or memory, as there is
> an implementation note in PCI spec which explicitly allows
> writing 0xfffffffff there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/probe.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index 8105e32..d65aae4 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -163,12 +163,12 @@ int __pci_read_base(struct pci_dev *dev, enum
> pci_bar_type type, {
> u32 l, sz, mask;
>
> - mask = type ? ~PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE : ~0;
> + mask = type ? PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK : ~0;
>
> res->name = pci_name(dev);
>
> pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos, &l);
> - pci_write_config_dword(dev, pos, mask);
> + pci_write_config_dword(dev, pos, l | mask);
> pci_read_config_dword(dev, pos, &sz);
> pci_write_config_dword(dev, pos, l);

Applied to linux-next, thanks. Another possible enhancement here would
be to make the mask into a switch based on the type, since mem32 and
mem64 "BARs" (added by willy for doing BAR-like stuff) could probably
use ~0 as well.

Jesse
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