Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] PCI: pci-host-generic: Fix lookup of linux,pci-probe-only property

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:40:51PM +0100, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:19:17PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> > When pci-host-generic looks for the probe-only property, it seems
>> > to trust the DT to be correctly written, and assumes that there
>> > is a parameter to the property.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, this is not always the case, and some firmware expose
>> > this property naked. The driver ends up making a decision based on
>> > whatever the property pointer points to, which is likely to be junk.
>> >
>> > Switch to the common of_pci.c implementation that doesn't suffer
>> > from this problem.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c | 9 +--------
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c b/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c
>> > index 265dd25..545ff4e 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c
>> > @@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ static int gen_pci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> >     int err;
>> >     const char *type;
>> >     const struct of_device_id *of_id;
>> > -   const int *prop;
>> >     struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
>> >     struct device_node *np = dev->of_node;
>> >     struct gen_pci *pci = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pci), GFP_KERNEL);
>> > @@ -225,13 +224,7 @@ static int gen_pci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> >             return -EINVAL;
>> >     }
>> >
>> > -   prop = of_get_property(of_chosen, "linux,pci-probe-only", NULL);
>> > -   if (prop) {
>> > -           if (*prop)
>> > -                   pci_add_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
>> > -           else
>> > -                   pci_clear_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
>> > -   }
>> > +   of_pci_check_probe_only(of_chosen);
>>
>> Do we need support for pci-probe-only in pci-host-generic at all?
>> You're removing the use in amd-overdrive.dts, and there are no other
>> DTs in the kernel tree that mention it.
>>
>> If we can live without it, that would be nice.  It seems like a relic from
>> days when we couldn't reliably assign resources.  (I'm not saying we can do
>> that reliably even today, but I'd rather make it reliable than turn it
>> off.)
>
> Kvmtool certainly uses it (and generates its own DT, hence why you don't
> see it in mainline). Not sure about qemu, though.

Do you know why kvmtool wants probe-only?  Would something break if we
didn't support probe-only?  I guess we'd be looking for a case where
Linux assigns resources and that assignment doesn't work with kvmtool?

"pci-probe-only" doesn't appear in qemu
(git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git).  (I guess Alexander confirmed
that later.)

Alexander wrote:
> QEMU definitely doesn't do proble-only.
> Is this driver used on real PPC machines too?

I think you're asking about pci-host-generic.c, and the answer is
"no," because pci-host-generic.c currently depends on CONFIG_ARM.

Bjorn
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