Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] hw/pci: handle unassigned pci addresses

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:52:11PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 September 2013 13:43, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The scenario is covered only for the primary bus and not for buses
> > behind the PCI bridge (the later being handled differently.)
> > In this case, isn't the Host Bridge always device 00.0?
> 
> No. For instance the host controller may pass a nonzero
> value of devfn_min to pci_bus_new/pci_register_bus (in
> which case the host bridge will end up there; example
> hw/pci-host/versatile.c) or it might just pass a nonzero
> devfn to pci_create_simple when it creates the host controller
> PCI device on the bus (I don't think we have anything that
> does it that way, though).
> 
> > If not, can we find a way to scan all bus devices and find
> > the host bridge so we will not have to manually add it to each
> > host bridge?
> 
> It would be conceptually nicer not to treat host bridges as
> a special case but instead to just report the abort back
> to whatever the PCI master was (which might be a device
> doing DMA). That might be a lot of effort though.
> 
> -- PMM

Yes. As a shortcut, what I suggest is registering the
device that wants to be notified of master aborts with
the bus.

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MST