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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
To: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] PCI: fix the io resource alignment calculation in pbus_size_io()
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 07:42:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130806134251.GC31970@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130806062624.GC10876@weiyang.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:26:24PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:22:27AM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:21:35PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >>On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:09:27PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
> >>> >> then, we should drop that 4k capping.
> >>> >> I was thinking there could be strange or wild res with bigger than 4k.
> >>> >
> >>> > If there *were* an I/O BAR larger than 4KB, how should it be handled?
> >>> > I don't think capping the alignment to 4KB sounds like the best way.
> >>> > For example, a 16KB I/O BAR would still need to be aligned on 16KB.
> >>> >
> >>> > And I think capping to 4KB as you did above will break the powerpc
> >>> > pcibios_window_alignment() implementation.  For example, if
> >>> > pcibios_window_alignment() returned 16KB, and we later capped it to
> >>> > 4KB, we're going to allocate space for the bridge window with the
> >>> > wrong alignment.
> >>> 
> >>> Agree.
> >>
> >>OK.  Can you guys try this out and see whether it fixes the problem?
> >>I don't know what the actual problem *is*, so I can't tell whether
> >>this is a possible fix.
> >>
> >
> >The code looks simpler, but it potentially breaks PowerNV platforms.
> >Lets have inline description if I understand everything here.
> >
> >>diff --git a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
> >>index d4f1ad9..8333c92 100644
> >>--- a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
> >>+++ b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
> >>@@ -749,12 +749,12 @@ static void pbus_size_io(struct pci_bus *bus, resource_size_t min_size,
> >> 	struct resource *b_res = find_free_bus_resource(bus, IORESOURCE_IO);
> >> 	resource_size_t size = 0, size0 = 0, size1 = 0;
> >> 	resource_size_t children_add_size = 0;
> >>-	resource_size_t min_align, io_align, align;
> >>+	resource_size_t min_align, align;
> >>
> >> 	if (!b_res)
> >>  		return;
> >>
> >>-	io_align = min_align = window_alignment(bus, IORESOURCE_IO);
> >>+	min_align = window_alignment(bus, IORESOURCE_IO);
> >> 	list_for_each_entry(dev, &bus->devices, bus_list) {
> >> 		int i;
> >>
> >
> >"min_align" here indicates the IO segment size on PowerNV platform.
> >On PowerNV platform, the IO range of specific PHB (PCI controller)
> >is divided evenly and each piece of that is called IO segment. For
> >example, the IO segment size ("min_align") is 64K initially. If one
> >of specific IO BAR has size of 96K (it's possible?), "min_align"
> >becomes 96K eventually, which isn't IO segment aligned.
> 
> I think this caes will not happen. 
> 
> As I analysised in previous letter. During the list_for_each_entry loop, the
> resources could be in two cased: 1. bridge I/O window(IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN);
> 2. device I/O BAR(IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN).
> 
>     Bridge I/O window is 64k aligned, as the platform required.
>     Device I/O BAR is less than 256 bytes according to the specification.
> 
> So the 96k size is not possible. 

It's not possible because of the power-of-2 size requirement.  The spec
does say I/O BARs should be 256 bytes or smaller, but one could imagine
a BAR that violated that requirement.  But the power-of-2 requirement is
more fundamental because of the way BARs are sized (low-order bits are
hardwired to zero, and the number of hardwired bits determines the size)
and PCI really cannot support a non-power-of-2 sized BAR at all.

> Please fix me, if I am not correct.
> 
> >
> >>@@ -781,9 +781,6 @@ static void pbus_size_io(struct pci_bus *bus, resource_size_t min_size,
> >> 		}
> >> 	}
> >>
> >>-	if (min_align > io_align)
> >>-		min_align = io_align;
> >>-
> >> 	size0 = calculate_iosize(size, min_size, size1,
> >> 			resource_size(b_res), min_align);
> >> 	if (children_add_size > add_size)
> >>
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Gavin
> 
> -- 
> Richard Yang
> Help you, Help me
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-06 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-02  9:31 [PATCH 0/4] optimization/fix/cleanup in pci_assign_unassigned_resources Wei Yang
2013-08-02  9:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] PCI: optimize pci_bus_get_depth() by enumerating on pci bus hierachy Wei Yang
2013-08-02  9:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] PCI: add comment for pbus_size_mem() parameter Wei Yang
2013-08-02  9:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] PCI: trivial cleanup in pbus_size_io() Wei Yang
2013-08-02  9:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] PCI: fix the io resource alignment calculation " Wei Yang
2013-08-02 22:51   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-05 17:58   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-05 19:05     ` Yinghai Lu
2013-08-05 19:51       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-05 20:52         ` Yinghai Lu
2013-08-05 20:59           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-05 21:09             ` Yinghai Lu
2013-08-05 22:21               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-06  6:15                 ` Wei Yang
2013-08-06 13:39                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-06 15:34                     ` Wei Yang
2013-08-06 17:58                       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-07  2:01                         ` Wei Yang
     [not found]                 ` <20130806032227.GA7736@shangw.(null)>
2013-08-06  6:26                   ` Wei Yang
2013-08-06 13:42                     ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <52006bfc.6a5d3c0a.2753.ffffa6b7SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-08-06 13:35                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-06  6:19     ` Wei Yang
2013-08-06 13:44       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-06 15:47         ` Wei Yang
2013-08-06 18:01           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-06 20:56             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-07  2:01               ` Wei Yang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-01 15:10 [PATCH 0/4] optimization/fix/cleanup in pci_assign_unassigned_resources Wei Yang
2013-07-01 15:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] PCI: fix the io resource alignment calculation in pbus_size_io() Wei Yang
2013-07-08 21:15   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-07-09  3:20     ` Wei Yang
2013-07-09 17:38       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-07-10  1:34         ` Wei Yang
2013-07-19  3:10           ` Wei Yang
2013-07-25 21:22           ` Bjorn Helgaas

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