Re: Linux 5.15-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 16:15:58 EST


On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:11 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No. The timeout is not the issue, otherwise you would see the message
> "VPD access failed.." over and over again.

Ahh, I did check that that error did exist, but you're right, it's not
there all the time.

> The issue here seems to be
> that this call in PCI config space access to adress
> vpd->cap + PCI_VPD_ADDR stalls.

Ok. Regardless, we shouldn't do this since the boot code shouldn't
need any of the VPD information.

Linus