Re: PCI card not accessible; I/O ports at <ignored>

[Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de>]

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Martin Burnicki
> <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de>  wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm maintaining the driver software for the PCI cards manufactured by our
>> company, Meinberg Funkuhren in Germany. Basically our Linux driver supports
>> all our PCI cards on all Linux kernels 2.6.x and 3.x. The PCI cards are e.g.
>> GPS receivers, radio clocks, or IRIG time code receivers.
>>
>> Recently I've run into a problem with our PCI Express cards in a certain
>> server PC: There are 8 PCI Express slots on the mainboard, and in some of
>> the slots the cards work properly, but in some other slots on the same
>> machine they don't work since the cards are not accessible by the kernel
>> driver.
>>
>> In cases where the cards are not accessible lspci -v reports
>> for the I/O base address 0:
>>
>>   Region 0: I/O ports at<ignored>
>
>  From the lspci source (http://mj.ucw.cz/sw/pciutils/), it looks like
> this happens when the BAR contains zero.
>
>> Finally I tried different Linux distributions with different kernel versions
>> and found that the same card in the same slot with the same driver works
>> properly under kernel 2.6.32 and earlier, but doesn't work anymore under
>> kernel 2.6.36 and later, including kernel 3.1.4. So there must have been
>> some code changes in the newer kernel versions which prevent the card from
>> being accessed via I/O, and let lspci say "I/O ports at<ignored>".
>
> Please open a bug report at http://bugzilla.kernel.org, category
> Drivers/PCI, mark it as a regression, add me to the CC: list, and
> attach complete dmesg logs from 2.6.32 and 3.1.4 with the card in the
> slot that no longer works.
>
> Bjorn

Thanks for your reply. I've just sent a lengthy explanation to this list ;-)

I'll care about the bug report tomorrow.


Martin
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Martin Burnicki

Meinberg Funkuhren
Bad Pyrmont
Germany