Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pci: fix PCI-e devices rescan issue on powerpc platform

[Chen Yuanquan-B41889 <B41889@freescale.com>]

On 04/10/2013 05:08 PM, Chen Yuanquan-B41889 wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 12:08 PM, Chen Yuanquan-B41889 wrote:
>> On 04/02/2013 11:10 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 19:26 +0800, Yuanquan Chen wrote:
>>>> So we move the DMA & IRQ initialization code from 
>>>> pcibios_setup_devices() and
>>>> construct a new function pcibios_enable_device. We call this 
>>>> function in
>>>> pcibios_enable_device, which will be called by PCI-e rescan code. 
>>>> At the
>>>> meanwhile, we avoid the the impact on cardbus. I also validate this 
>>>> patch with
>>>> silicon's PCIe-sata which encounters the IRQ issue.
>>> My worry is that this delays the setup of the IRQ and DMA to very 
>>> late in
>>> the process, possibly after the quirks have been run, which can be
>>> problematic. We have platform hooks that might try to "fixup" specific
>>> IRQ issues on some platforms (especially macs) which I worry might fail
>>> if delayed that way (I may be wrong, I don't have a specific case in 
>>> mind,
>>> but I would feel better if we kept setting up these things earlier).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben.
>>>
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>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I have checked all the quirk functions which are declared in kernel 
>> arch/powerpc
>> with command :
>> grep DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_ `find arch/powerpc/ *.[hc]`
>>
>> All the quirk function are defined as DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY , 
>> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER
>> and DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL, except quirk_uli5229() in 
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/fsl_uli1575.c, which is
>> defined both as DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER and 
>> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_RESUME. So the quirk_uli5229()
>> will also be called with PCI pm module. The quirk functions defined 
>> as xxx_FINAL, HEADER and EARLY,
>> will be called in the path:
>>
>> pci_scan_child_bus()->pci_scan_slot()->pci_scan_single_device()->pci_scan_device()->pci_setup_device() 
>>
>> ->pci_device_add()
>>
>> the pci_scan_slot() is called earlier than pcibios_fixup_bus() even 
>> for the first scan of PCI-e bus, so the quirk
>> functions on powerpc platform is called before the DMA & IRQ fixup. 
>> So in reality, the delay of DMA & IRQ fixup
>> won't affect anything.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yuanquan
>>
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> How do you think about this? Do you have any comment?
>
> Thanks,
> Yuanquan
>

Hi Bjorn,

There's no response from Ben. How do you think about this patch? What's 
your advice?

Thanks,
Yuanquan

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