Re: ACPI regression? Was Re: Ethernet chip disappeared from lspci

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

2015-06-21 16:03 keltezÃssel, Bjorn Helgaas Ãrta:
> [+cc linux-pci]
>
> Hi Boszormenyi,
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zboszor@xxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> please, cc me, I am not subscribed to lkml.
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> [lkml.org still broken --> no accurate mail header info possible...]
>>>
>>> Just to ask the obvious:
>>> I assume using /sys/bus/pci/rescan does not help once it's broken?
>>> (since the machine comes up empty at initial-boot scan, too)
>> I will try it, too, but I am not sure it would work.
>>
>> Currently I can't test it because the last time I completely discharged
>> the battery. I also disconnected it to be able to get the realtek chip back
>> immediately for faster testing. Now, that I have reconnected the battery,
>> I need to wait for it to be charged somewhat to be able to reproduce
>> losing the network chip.
>>
>>> Also, you could try diffing lspci -vvxxx -s.... output
>>> of working vs. "distorting" kernel version - perhaps some register setup
>>> has been changed (e.g. due to power management improvements or some such),
>>> which may encourage the card
>>> to get a problematic/corrupt state.
>> I attached a tarball that contains lspci -vvxxx for
>> - all devices / only the network chip
>> - before / after "modprobe r8169"
>> - for all 3 kernel versions tested.
>>
>> I figured out that if I type the modprobe and lspci in the same command line,
>> I can get diagnostics out of the machine, after all.
>>
>> It's not just the Realtek chip that has changed parameters.
>>
>> (Vague idea) I noticed that some devices have changed like this:
>>
>> -       Memory behind bridge: 80000000-801fffff
>> -       Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000080200000-00000000803fffff
>> +       Memory behind bridge: ff000000-ff1fffff
>> +       Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000ff200000-00000000ff3fffff
>>
>> Can't this cause a problem? E.g. programming the bridge with an address range
>> that the bridge doesn't actually support?
> This worked in v3.18.16, but not in v4.0.5 or v4.1.0-rc8.  You
> attached a v4.1.0-rc8 dmesg log earlier.  Would you mind collecting a
> v3.18.16 dmesg log, so we can compare them?

I collected all 3 for you to compare them, compressed, attached.

BTW, I browsed git log and found 2ea3d266bab3b497238113b20136f7c3f69ad9c0
as suspicious. I will try the 4.0/4.1 kernels with this one reverted.

>
> These (from the v4.1.0-rc8 dmesg) look wrong, but I'll have to look at
> the code to see what might be going on:
>
>   acpi PNP0A08:00: host bridge window expanded to [mem
> 0x00000000-0xffffffff window]; [mem 0x00000000-0xffffffff window]
> ignored
>   pci 0000:00:1c.1: can't claim BAR 15 [mem 0xfdf00000-0xfdffffff
> 64bit pref]: address conflict with PCI Bus 0000:00 [mem
> 0xf0000000-0xfed8ffff window]
>
> Bjorn
>

Thanks,
ZoltÃn BÃszÃrmÃnyi

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