Re: [PATCH v8 19/30] powerpc/pci: Use pci_scan_host_bridge() for simplicity

From: Daniel Axtens
Date: Wed Mar 25 2015 - 18:14:21 EST


Hi Yijing,

I wasn't quite sure I understood your comments, so I was trying to apply
your patch series and test it, but patch 3 doesn't apply cleanly to
4.0-rc5 or master. Can you respin the series?

Thanks,
Daniel


> Hi Daniel, thanks for your review and comments. We want to make a generic pci_host_bridge,
> which would hold the common host information, for example, pci domain is common info for
> pci host bridge, this series saved domain in pci_host_bridge, then we no need to
> extract out domain by pci_bus->sysdata by platform specific pci_domain_nr().
> Also we store the sysdata in pci_host_bridge, and pci_bus_to_host() is the platform
> interface, I think use the common interface would be better.
>
> >> +
> >> + /* Get probe mode and perform scan */
> >> + if (hose->dn && ppc_md.pci_probe_mode)
> >> + mode = ppc_md.pci_probe_mode(bus);
> >> +
> >> + pr_debug(" probe mode: %d\n", mode);
> >> + if (mode == PCI_PROBE_DEVTREE)
> >> + of_scan_bus(hose->dn, bus);
> >> +
> >> + if (mode == PCI_PROBE_NORMAL) {
> >> + pci_bus_update_busn_res_end(bus, 255);
> >> + hose->last_busno = pci_scan_child_bus(bus);
> >> + pci_bus_update_busn_res_end(bus, hose->last_busno);
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + return pci_bus_child_max_busnr(bus);
> >> +}
> >> +
> > I'm having trouble convincing myself that this patch covers every
> > variation within our PCI implementations. In particular, there's a
> > stanza in of_scan_pci_bridge in kernel/pci_of_scan.c that's almost
> > identical to this function. Does that implementation need to be cleaned
> > up and replaced with this function too?
> >
>
> This is a pci_host_bridge_ops hook function, which would be called in
> PCI core, and after applied this series, we only need to call pci_scan_host_bridge()
> to scan pci devices, and this function is also extracted from the pcibios_scan_phb(),
> it's not the redundant code.
>
> >
> >> @@ -1641,9 +1655,9 @@ void pcibios_scan_phb(struct pci_controller *hose)
> >> ppc_md.pcibios_fixup_phb(hose);
> >>
> >> /* Configure PCI Express settings */
> >> - if (bus && !pci_has_flag(PCI_PROBE_ONLY)) {
> >> + if (host->bus && !pci_has_flag(PCI_PROBE_ONLY)) {
> >> struct pci_bus *child;
> >> - list_for_each_entry(child, &bus->children, node)
> >> + list_for_each_entry(child, &host->bus->children, node)
> >> pcie_bus_configure_settings(child);
> >> }
> >> }
> > Two things: Firstly, the function uses hose throughout, not host.
> > Secondly, you're not deleting the bus variable: what's the purpose of
> > this change?
>
> host is the common pci_host_bridge which is created by PCI core for pci host bridge driver,
> the hose is the platform data used in powerpc. The purpose of the patch/series is to simplify
> pci enumeration interface, and try to reduce the weak functions which were used to setup pci bus/devices
> during PCI enumeration.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> >
>
>

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