Re: [PATCH 1/2, pci] pci: Addition of PCI_DEV_FLAGS_QUIET_PCI_REALIGN attribute to the PCI subsystem

["Desnes Augusto Nunes do Rosário" <desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Hello Andy,

On 03/14/2018 02:41 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:34 PM, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario
> <desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Add PCI_DEV_FLAGS_QUIET_PCI_REALIGN to pci_dev_flags and use it to
>> silent PCI realignment messages if the flag is turned on by a driver.
> 
> It doesn't explain "Why?"
> Why the driver needs that?

I have written down the reason on the cover letter, but I concur on 
creating a second version of the patch's comment. Basically, all PCI 
resources on powerpc are printing out expected realignment messages 
which are flooding the systems logs.

Perhaps this would be better?
---
"Some architectures such as powerpc has aligned all of its PCI resources 
to its PAGE_SIZE during boot, thus the system logs will be flooded by 
expected realignment messages, which can be interpreted as a false 
positive for total PCI failure on the system.

[root@system user]# dmesg | grep -i disabling
[    0.692270] pci 0000:00:00.0: Disabling memory decoding and releasing 
memory resources
[    0.692324] pci 0000:00:00.0: disabling bridge mem windows
[    0.729134] pci 0001:00:00.0: Disabling memory decoding and releasing 
memory resources
[    0.737352] pci 0001:00:00.0: disabling bridge mem windows
[    0.776295] pci 0002:00:00.0: Disabling memory decoding and releasing 
memory resources
[    0.784509] pci 0002:00:00.0: disabling bridge mem windows
... and goes on for all PCI devices ...

Thus, this patch adds PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_REALIGN_MSG to pci_dev_flags and 
uses it to silent PCI realignment messages if the flag is turned on by a 
driver.
"
---

> 
> Another approach is to increase level of the message. Would it be
> accepted by you (in case Bjorn agrees)?
> 
>> --- a/include/linux/pci.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/pci.h
>> @@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ enum pci_dev_flags {
>>          PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_FLR_RESET = (__force pci_dev_flags_t) (1 << 10),
>>          /* Don't use Relaxed Ordering for TLPs directed at this device */
>>          PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING = (__force pci_dev_flags_t) (1 << 11),
>> +       /* Silent PCI resource realignment messages */
>> +       PCI_DEV_FLAGS_QUIET_PCI_REALIGN = (__force pci_dev_flags_t) (1 << 12),
> 
> I would rather name it _NO_PCI_REALIGN_MSG

I concur on changing it to PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_REALIGN_MSG in a second 
version of the patchset.

> 
>>   };
> 

Thank you very much for your review,

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Desnes A. Nunes do Rosário