From: Michal Pecio <michal.pecio@gmail.com>
To: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: USB controller broken by zero cacheline size in PCIe to PCI bridge
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:54:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260315015406.533684d1.michal.pecio@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I have here a PCIe card with PEX8112 PCIe to PCI bridge and uPD720101
PCI USB controller (OHCI+EHCI) behind the bridge.
The card works in one machine and gets sluggish and barely functional
in another one. Hoping for some PCI misconfiguration, I ran lspci -vv
on both machines for comparison (diff pasted below).
There are surprisingly many differences, so I started to tweak with
setpci on live system until I got it to work after setting
CACHE_LINE_SIZE=10 on the bridge. The original value was zero.
I rebooted and confirmed that this alone is sufficient, and changing
back to zero immediately breaks the controller again.
I know nothing about PCI, so I wonder if this result makes sense and
what may be causing the "bad" system to end up in such sorry state?
Thanks,
Michal
--- bad
+++ good
-07:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
- Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
+02:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
+ Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
- Latency: 0
- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 28
- IOMMU group: 2
- Bus: primary=07, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
+ Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
+ Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: [disabled] [16-bit]
- Memory behind bridge: d0b00000-d0bfffff [size=1M] [32-bit]
+ Memory behind bridge: fe900000-fe9fffff [size=1M] [32-bit]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] [32-bit]
Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- VGA16- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
+ BridgeCtl: Parity+ SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- VGA16- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [60] Express (v1) PCI-Express to PCI/PCI-X Bridge, IntMsgNum 0
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0
- ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- SlotPowerLimit 0W TEE-IO-
+ ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- SlotPowerLimit 25W TEE-IO-
DevCtl: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq-
RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- BrConfRtry-
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- NonFatalErr+ FatalErr- UnsupReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <1us, L1 <16us
ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, LnkDisable- CommClk-
+ LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, LnkDisable- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1
TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [100 v1] Power Budgeting <?>
-08:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
+03:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation USB Controller
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
- Latency: 64 (250ns min, 10500ns max)
- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 28
- IOMMU group: 2
- Region 0: Memory at d0b02000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
+ Latency: 64 (250ns min, 10500ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
+ Region 0: Memory at fe9ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
Kernel modules: ohci_pci
-08:00.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
+03:00.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation USB Controller
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
- Latency: 64 (250ns min, 10500ns max)
- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 55
- IOMMU group: 2
- Region 0: Memory at d0b01000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
+ Latency: 64 (250ns min, 10500ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
+ Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
+ Region 0: Memory at fe9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
Kernel modules: ohci_pci
-08:00.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
+03:00.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
- Latency: 68 (4000ns min, 8500ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
- Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 44
- IOMMU group: 2
- Region 0: Memory at d0b00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
+ Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 8500ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
+ Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 16
+ Region 0: Memory at fe9fdc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME+
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
Kernel modules: ehci_pci
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-15 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-15 0:54 Michal Pecio [this message]
2026-03-16 20:06 ` USB controller broken by zero cacheline size in PCIe to PCI bridge Bjorn Helgaas
2026-03-17 20:37 ` Michal Pecio
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