Re: [PATCH] PCI: Only enable IO window if supported

[Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 05:24:13PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 07:01:03PM +0100, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 07:41:12AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > I'd like res->flags to reflect the capabilities of the hardware, not
> > > > > whether the window is currently enabled.
> > > > > 
> > > > Flag bits seem to be all taken. Could we use IORESOURCE_DISABLED for that
> > > > purpose, or could that cause conflicts elsewhere ?
> > > 
> > > Yes, I think IORESOURCE_DISABLED would be appropriate for any I/O windows
> > > below a host bridge that doesn't support I/O space.
> > > 
> > I integrated Lorenzo's patch and tried to get this working.
> 
> Thanks. How do you want to proceed with this ? Are you taking my patch
> and post it along with your updated series ? We need to extend test
> coverage to platforms we could not test on, as you know my series
> affects all archs but SPARC (I mean it should *not* affect them, this
> has to be tested though, I do not have the HW needed, your coverage
> for x86 and PowerPC is great but I do not think it can be deemed
> sufficient).
> 
> Please let me know, thanks !

Any comment on this ? I will have to remove the bridge resource claiming
from my patch according to Ben's concerns for PowerPC, which requires
a v3.

How do you want me to go on with this ?

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> > Problem is that the use of a resource is widely checked with "!res->flags"
> > throughout the code. That would have to be changed to something like
> > "(!res->flags || (res->flags & IORESOURCE_DISABLED))" whereever it is used.
> > 
> > I tried going with "!res->flags" instead, but have not been able to get it
> > to work realiably; it is just very difficult to distinguish if "!res->flags"
> > means that the resource has not yet been assigned or if it means that it is not
> > supported.
> > 
> > The correct approach, in my opinion, would be to go with IORESOURCE_DISABLED
> > and make the necessary changes whereever needed. Effectively this means to
> > replace the "!res->flags" check with something like pci_res_used() [ pick
> > your preferred name ] and define it as
> > 
> > #define pci_res_used(res) ((res)->flags && !((res)->flags & IORESOURCE_DISABLED))
> > 
> > Is that the right direction ?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Guenter
> >