Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pci: Enable PCI domains in /proc when PCI bus numbers are not unique

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 13:53 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > 
> > I sent two patches which do another steps to achieve it:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20220817163927.24453-1-pali@xxxxxxxxxx/t/#u
> > 
> > Main blocker is pci-OF-bus-map which is in direct conflict with
> > CONFIG_PPC_PCI_BUS_NUM_DOMAIN_DEPENDENT and which used on chrp and pmac.
> > And I have no idea if pci-OF-bus-map is still needed or not.
> 
> Yeah thanks, I saw those patches.
> 
> I can't find any code that refers to pci-OF-bus-map, so I'm inclined to
> remove it entirely.
> 
> But I'll do some more searching to see if I can find any references to
> it in old code.

Trying to remember ... :-)

So this is what I recall at this point:

 - Ancient X11 didn't understand domains in /proc and thus would barf,
which was the primary reason for not enabling them always iirc...

 - There might be something else with early PowerMacs (Grand Central
chipset) where we have effectively two domains (gc and chaos) but
overlapping bus numbers. There might still be pre-historical code in
there that assumes it's that way though I can't see anything obvious.
Paul might still have one of these :-) (PowerMac 7200/7500/8500/9500
afaik).

 - pci-OF-bus-map predates the PCI layer keeping track of the PCI/OF
relationship. I don't believe it's still used anywhere in the kernel,
though it's possible (unlikely ?) that some garbage remains in
userspace that does.

At this point, I wouldn't object to tearing this all out and just
having domains always (and see what the fallout is).

Cheers,
Ben.