Re: Config space access to Mediatek MT7922 doesn't work after device reset in Xen PV dom0 (regression, Linux 6.12)

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Wed Jan 29 2025 - 04:17:32 EST


On 29.01.2025 04:22, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 09:03:15PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> The report claims the problem only happens with Xen. I'm not a Xen
>> person, and I don't know how to find the relevant config accessors.
>> The snippets of kernel messages I see at [1] all mention pciback, so
>> that's my only clue of where to look. Bottom line, I have no idea
>> what the config accessor path is, and maybe we could learn something
>> by looking at whatever it is.
>
> AFAIK there are no separate config accessors under Xen dom0, the default
> ones are used. xen-pcifront takes over PCI config space access (and few
> more) only in a domU (and only for PV), when PCI passthrough is used.
> Here, it didn't went that far...
>
> But then, Xen may intercept such access [2]. If I read it right, it
> should allow all access (is_hardware_domain(dom0)==true, and also the
> device is not on ro_map - otherwise reset wouldn't work at all).

The other day you mentioned (on Matrix I think) that you observe mmcfg
not being used on that system. Am I misremembering? (Since the capability
where the control bit lives is an extended one, that capability would
neither be read nor modified when mmcfg is unavailable.)

Jan