Re: [PATCH] PCI: xgene: Revert "PCI: xgene: Use inbound resources for setup"

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 14.03.22 15:44, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Commit 6dce5aa59e0b ("PCI: xgene: Use inbound resources for setup")
> killed PCIe on my XGene-1 box (a Mustang board). The machine itself
> is still alive, but half of its storage (over NVMe) is gone, and the
> NVMe driver just times out.
> 
> Note that this machine boots with a device tree provided by the
> UEFI firmware (2016 vintage), which could well be non conformant
> with the spec, hence the breakage.
> 
> With the patch reverted, the box boots 5.17-rc8 with flying colors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Toan Le <toan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dann frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Feel free to drop me there. But could you please instead add a 'Link:'
tag pointing to the report for anyone wanting to look into the backstory
in the future, as explained in
'Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst' and
'Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst'? E.g. like this:

"Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yf2wTLjmcRj%2BAbDv@xps13.dannf/";

FWIW, I care for another reason: I'm tracking this regression with
regzbot, my regression tracking bot. Proper "Link:" tags allow the bot
to connect regression reports with fixes being posted or applied to
resolve the regression -- which makes regression tracking a whole lot
easier.

While at it, let me tell regzbot about this thread:
#regzbot ^backmonitor:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yf2wTLjmcRj%2BAbDv@xps13.dannf/

> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Typo, missing a "<"

Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)

P.S.: As the Linux kernel's regression tracker I'm getting a lot of
reports on my table. I can only look briefly into most of them and lack
knowledge about most of the areas they concern. I thus unfortunately
will sometimes get things wrong or miss something important. I hope
that's not the case here; if you think it is, don't hesitate to tell me
in a public reply, it's in everyone's interest to set the public record
straight.

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'Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst' and
'Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst'.