Re: [PATCH 11/13] PCI: Add has_mem64 for struct host_bridge

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:54:55AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> Am 05.05.2017 um 01:04 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> >I *think* this will be broken by the current implementation of
> >Christian's patch to enable a 64-bit host bridge window:
> >
> >   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493890270-1188-5-git-send-email-deathsimple@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >because pci_register_host_bridge() runs before we scan the bus, and
> >Christian's patch adds a quirk that runs when we enumerate the AMD
> >host bridge device.
> >
> >If we apply this and Christian's patch, I think we could end up with
> >a host bridge window above 4G, but with bridge->has_mem64 not set.
> Yes, indeed. I can adjust my patch, but I would prefer not to do so.
> 
> I don't completely understand the background of this change, but
> from what I know how the BIOS (at least on X86) allocates resources
> it doesn't sounds correct to me.
> 
> Maybe we just need a Sparc specific quirk here instead of changing
> the common logic?

There's nothing in Yinghai's patch that's conceptually Sparc-specific,
so I would prefer not to artificially tie it to Sparc.

One possibility would be to compute has_mem64 when we need it instead
of caching it.