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From: ddaney@caviumnetworks•com (David Daney)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] PCI: Add quirks for devices found on Cavium ThunderX SoCs.
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:00:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FCB3AC.8080709@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2512701.zkjk3n3AQS@wuerfel>

On 09/18/2015 12:45 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 18 September 2015 10:00:32 David Daney wrote:
>> On 09/18/2015 12:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Thursday 17 September 2015 15:41:33 David Daney wrote:
>>>> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium•com>
>>>>
>>>> The on-chip devices all have fixed bars.  So, fix them up.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium•com>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You should be able to just mark the BARs as fixed in DT

I think we can switch to PCI_PROBE_ONLY, and have all non-fixed BAR 
devices configured by firmware.  This may significantly simplify any 
quirks required in the kernel.


>>
>> In the case of ACPI, there is no DT.  So we would need a different
>> solution for ACPI.  What would you recommend for ACPI?
>
> I would expect that this does not matter at all on ACPI, because
> the devices that need it are not hot-plugged, and all boot-time
> devices are probed by the firmware: the ACPI PCI implementation
> does not reassign any BARs, except for the hotplug case.
>
>> Also, can you point me to the OF device tree specification where it
>> tells how to specify PCI BAR addresses, I would especially be interested
>> in knowing how to specify fixed SRIOV BAR addresses in the device tree.
>
> This is the 'n' bit mentioned sections 2.1.3 and 2.2.1.1 of the
> PCI binding. When it is set, the OS is not supposed to try to
> reassign the BAR even on machines that otherwise do a complete
> rescan.
>
> The PCI binding traditionally requires you to list all PCI devices
> in DT, Linux as an extension (for the flattened DT format) allows
> leaving out the devices, but in this case you probably need to
> list every device that has a fixed BAR.
>
>> Yes, it is a bit of a hack.  That is why I put it in its own file, and
>> only try to hack up PCI devices that exactly match the vendor and device
>> ids that need fixing.
>>
>> IMHO, putting infrastructure into drivers/pci/probe.c, et al. to handle
>> this would be much more intrusive.
>
> My guess is that it's already there, but even if it's not, this is a
> generic well-defined case that has a standardized binding, and we should
> implement that.
>
>> For the record:  The PCI Enhanced Allocation (EA) capability (approved
>> by PCI SIG on 23 October 2014) is the proper way to handle this going
>> forward.  However, this is not yet implemented in the SoCs that this
>> patch addresses.  Our plan is to implement the EA capability in the core
>> PCI code, so that we do not need to keep adding devices to this fixup code.
>
> Good, but still this should only be required for the embedded case where
> you don't have a firmware to probe the bus.
>
> 	Arnd
>

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-19  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17 22:41 [PATCH 0/3] PCI: Add support for Cavium ThunderX RC and on-SoC devices David Daney
2015-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] PCI: Allow quirks to override SRIOV BARs David Daney
2015-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] PCI: Add quirks for devices found on Cavium ThunderX SoCs David Daney
2015-09-18  7:19   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-18 17:00     ` David Daney
2015-09-18 19:45       ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-19  1:00         ` David Daney [this message]
2015-09-22 13:19           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-09-23 16:24             ` David Daney
2015-09-22 15:39         ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2015-09-22 19:33           ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] PCI: generic: Add support for Cavium ThunderX PCIe root complexes David Daney
2015-09-22 16:05   ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2015-09-22 16:13     ` David Daney
2015-09-22 16:40       ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2015-09-22 16:56         ` David Daney
2015-09-22 18:52   ` Will Deacon
2015-09-22 19:02     ` David Daney

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