Re: [RFC PATCH] Revert "arm64: PCI: Exclude ACPI "consumer" resources from host bridge windows"

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 01:40:20AM +0200, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> The Microsoft Surface Pro X has host bridges defined as
> 
>     Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0A08") /* PCI Express Bus */)  // _HID: Hardware ID
>     Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0A03") /* PCI Bus */)  // _CID: Compatible ID
> 
>     Method (_CRS, 0, NotSerialized)  // _CRS: Current Resource Settings
>     {
>         Name (RBUF, ResourceTemplate ()
>         {
>             Memory32Fixed (ReadWrite,
>                 0x60200000,         // Address Base
>                 0x01DF0000,         // Address Length
>                 )
>             WordBusNumber (ResourceProducer, MinFixed, MaxFixed, PosDecode,
>                 0x0000,             // Granularity
>                 0x0000,             // Range Minimum
>                 0x0001,             // Range Maximum
>                 0x0000,             // Translation Offset
>                 0x0002,             // Length
>                 ,, )
>         })
>         Return (RBUF) /* \_SB_.PCI0._CRS.RBUF */
>     }
> 
> meaning that the memory resources aren't (explicitly) defined as
> "producers", i.e. host bridge windows.
> 
> Commit 8fd4391ee717 ("arm64: PCI: Exclude ACPI "consumer" resources from
> host bridge windows") introduced a check that removes such resources,
> causing BAR allocation failures later on:
> 
>     [ 0.150731] pci 0002:00:00.0: BAR 14: no space for [mem size 0x00100000]
>     [ 0.150744] pci 0002:00:00.0: BAR 14: failed to assign [mem size 0x00100000]
>     [ 0.150758] pci 0002:01:00.0: BAR 0: no space for [mem size 0x00004000 64bit]
>     [ 0.150769] pci 0002:01:00.0: BAR 0: failed to assign [mem size 0x00004000 64bit]
> 
> This eventually prevents the PCIe NVME drive from being accessible.
> 
> On x86 we already skip the check for producer/window due to some history
> with negligent firmware. It seems that Microsoft is intent on continuing
> that history on their ARM devices, so let's drop that check here too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Please note: I am not sure if this is the right way to fix that, e.g. I
> don't know if any additional checks like on IA64 or x86 might be
> required instead, or if this might break things on other devices. So
> please consider this more as a bug report rather than a fix.
> 
> Apologies for the re-send, I seem to have unintentionally added a blank
> line before the subject.
> 
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/pci.c | 14 --------------
>  1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)

Adding Lorenzo to cc, as he'll have a much better idea about this than me.

This is:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210510234020.1330087-1-luzmaximilian@xxxxxxxxx

Will