Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...

[Jesse Barnes]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:50:32 +0100
Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 09:00:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the r8169 driver fails loading here with the following message:
> > 
> > [    0.353955] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> > [    0.354258] r8169 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low)
> > -> IRQ 17 [    0.354391] r8169 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> > [    0.354527] r8169: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -22
> > 
> > Machine is Acer Aspire One, Atom N270 CPU.
> > 
> > Actually, the breakage seems to have appeared a bit earlier,
> > sometime between .32 and .33-rc1 as the bisection result shows:
> > 
> > ac1aa47b131416a6ff37eb1005a0a1d2541aad6c is the first bad commit
> > commit ac1aa47b131416a6ff37eb1005a0a1d2541aad6c
> > Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Mon Oct 26 13:20:44 2009 -0700
> > 
> >     PCI: determine CLS more intelligently
> >     
> >     Till now, CLS has been determined either by arch code or as
> >     L1_CACHE_BYTES.  Only x86 and ia64 set CLS explicitly and x86
> > doesn't always get it right.  On most configurations, the chance is
> > that firmware configures the correct value during boot.
> >     
> >     This patch makes pci_init() determine CLS by looking at what
> > firmware has configured.  It scans all devices and if all non-zero
> > values agree, the value is used.  If none is configured or there is
> > a disagreement, pci_dfl_cache_line_size is used.  arch can set the
> > dfl value (via PCI_CACHE_LINE_BYTES or pci_dfl_cache_line_size) or
> >     override the actual one.
> >     
> >     ia64, x86 and sparc64 updated to set the default cls instead of
> > the actual one.
> >     
> >     While at it, declare pci_cache_line_size and
> > pci_dfl_cache_line_size in pci.h and drop private declarations from
> > arch code.
> 
> Ok here's what happens: 
> 
> pci_apply_final_quirks() dumps on the console
> 
> [    0.369252] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 64
> 
> which means that it hasn't fallen back to setting the default cache
> line size. Also, the call
> 
> pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, &tmp);
> 
> sets tmp = 0 and the following condition hits everytime
> 
> if (!cls)
>          cls = tmp;
> if (!tmp || cls == tmp)
>          continue;
> 
> Which means that we never get around the set the default CLS.
> 
> The following dirty fix solves the issue on my machine:
> 
> --
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/quirks.c b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> index 7cfa7c3..9854c26 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/quirks.c
> @@ -2629,7 +2629,10 @@ static int __init pci_apply_final_quirks(void)
>  	if (!pci_cache_line_size) {
>  		printk(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: CLS %u bytes, default %u\n",
>  		       cls << 2, pci_dfl_cache_line_size << 2);
> -		pci_cache_line_size = cls;
> +		if (!cls)
> +			pci_cache_line_size =
> pci_dfl_cache_line_size;
> +		else
> +			pci_cache_line_size = cls;
>  	}

There should be a fix queued in my for-linus branch (I've been out this
week so haven't sent the pull req yet), can you give it a try and make
sure?

Jesse
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