Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Setup bridge resources earlier

From: Ilpo Järvinen

Date: Mon Oct 27 2025 - 09:51:58 EST


On Mon, 27 Oct 2025, Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri wrote:
> On 21/10/25 00:16, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Oct 2025, Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri wrote:
> >
> >> On 18/10/25 00:22, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 11:52:58PM +0530, Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to report that this PATCH also break PCI RC port on TI-AM64-EVM.
> >>>>
> >>>> I did git bisect and it pointed to the a43ac325c7cb ("PCI: Set up bridge resources earlier")
> >>>>
> >>>> Happy to help if any testing or logs are required.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the report! Can you test this patch?
> >>>
> >>> https://patch.msgid.link/20251014163602.17138-1-ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>
> >>> That patch is queued up as
> >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci.git/commit/?id=469276c06aff
> >>> and should appear in v6.18-rc2 on Sunday if all goes well.
> >>>
> >>> If that doesn't work, let us know and we'll debug this further.
> >>
> >> I applied above patch on top of commit f406055cb18c ("Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux")
> >>
> >> Did pci rescan and run kselftest (pci_endpoint_test). It is working.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the patch.
> >
> > Thanks for testing the revert.
> >
> >> Happy to help if any testing or logs are required.
> >
> > I'd be interested to understand what goes wrong with the change I was
> > trying to make as I want to attempt the same change later, but with all
> > known issues solved by supporting changes, obviously :-).
> >
> > The log snippets you provided are unfortunately too short to contain all
> > the necessary information (missing e.g. root bus resources and possibly
> > other helpful details).
> >
> > So if you could provide dmesg and /proc/iomem contents from broken and
> > working (with the revert) cases to let me easily compare them, that would
> > help. Please take the dmesg with dyndbg="file drivers/pci/*.c +p" on
> > kernel's cmdline.
> >
> > No further actions needed beyond that until later if I need to test some
> > of those supporting changes before retrying all this in the mainline. It
> > may take some time, even more than one kernel cycle as there have been
> > quite many regressions.
> >
> >
> Hi
>
> I captured logs with dyndbg="file drivers/pci/*.c +p. See the links below.
>
> Working kernel logs
> https://github.com/bhanuseshukumar/kernel_logs/blob/main/working_log
>
> Non Working kernel logs
> https://github.com/bhanuseshukumar/kernel_logs/blob/main/not_working_log
>
> Happy to help if any testing or logs are required.

Could you try if booting with pci=realloc helps? (It might be that it is
ineffective like I saw in some other case.)

And also test if this old size removal patch helps:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/922b1f68-a6a2-269b-880c-d594f9ca6bde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/


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i.