Re: [PATCH 2/2] PCI: imx6: limit DBI register length

[Stefan Agner]

On 20.11.2018 14:03, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> From: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
>> On 20.11.2018 11:22, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 10:41 +0100, Stefan Agner wrote:
>> >> Define the length of the DBI registers. This makes sure that
>> >> the kernel does not access registers beyond that point, avoiding
>> >> the following abort on a i.MX 6Quad:
>> >>   # cat
>> /sys/devices/soc0/soc/1ffc000.pcie/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:00.0/config
>> >>   [  100.021433] Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406) at
>> 0xb6ea7000
>> >>   ...
>> >>   [  100.056423] PC is at dw_pcie_read+0x50/0x84
>> >>   [  100.060790] LR is at dw_pcie_rd_own_conf+0x44/0x48
>> >>   ...
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c
>> >
>> >> +struct imx6_pcie_drvdata {
>> >> +	enum imx6_pcie_variants variant;
>> >> +	int			dbi_length;
>> >> +};
>> >
>> > Turning imx6_pcie drvdata into a struct is very nice, maybe in the
>> > future some of the long case statements in this driver could be split
>> > into per-soc functions called via drvdata.
>>
>> Yeah I thought that too. At a quick glance I did not saw an obvious
>> contender. Should certainly help for similar cases in the future.
> 
> Yes, there are other cases in which it would be useful.
> 
> But I think it makes more sense to split introducing drvdata to a
> separate patch.
> It's nice to separate functional and code cleanup changes.
> 
> For example maybe dbi_length causes issues and has to be reverted?

Ok, makes sense, will split drvdata introduction in its own patch.

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Stefan