Re: PCI: Fix boot-time hang on G31/G33 PC

[Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>]

On the 28 September 2007 03:13 Greg KH, wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:36:32AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> > Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:20:40PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > >> Ivan, your concern is about disabling things like interrupt
> > >> controllers and power management chips during probe right?  You're
> > >> right that doing that could cause problems if we get and interrupt or
> > >> PMU event at just the wrong time, but that could just as easily happen
> > >> if decode was still enabled but the BAR had a bogus address programmed
> > >> (as it would during probing).
> > >
> > > Yes, nobody is arguing that moving the BAR around is unsafe, but
> > > generally it's the less of two evils.
> > >
> > > The major problem here is that with IO and MEM bits cleared in the
> > > command register you disable *all* address decoders on the device, not
> > > just ranges that have respective BARs. At least this behaviour is
> > > required by PCI spec. Examples:
> > > - legacy VGA IO and memory (no corresponding BARs);
> > > - base/limit registers of P2P bridge;
> > > - PMU and SMBus registers (sort of normal BARs, but hidden elsewhere
> > >   in the config space);
> > > - IDE legacy mode registers;
> > > - IO-APIC registers (typically sort of read-only BAR).
> > >
> > > For all of these address ranges our current BAR probe is effectively
> > > a no-op, but disable/re-enable clearly isn't.
> > >
> > >> Ultimately, I don't care much one way or another as long as we can get
> > >> the desktop platforms fixed somehow.  I think disabling decode is the
> > >> most correct way of doing this, but I'm open to other solutions (this
> > >> is the only patch I've seen though that's been tested to solve the
> > >> problem).
> > >
> > > There are two other solutions: one is to disable decode selectively,
> > > only on devices or systems where it's necessary and known to be safe.
> > > I've posted a patch which introduces "disable_while_probe" pci_dev
> > > field for that purpose.
> > > Another one is to delay mmconfig probe until after the PCI probe is
> > > done, as Matthew suggested, and Robert confirmed that it's feasible.
> >
> > for everyone who's using this quirk or has the same boot issue: I just
> > confirmed that the new dg33tl bios update v0287 (released 9/20) fixes the
> > boot issue for my systems. I encourage everyone to update their BIOS
> > image and see if this works.
>

No, it still doesn't work even with a latest BIOS verstion. I have a computer 
with Intel DQ35MP motherboard. I upgraded BIOS to rev. 0696, released 
Oct 1. But kernel (2.6.22.5) still hangs up. Kernel with this fix patch boots 
and works fine.

> Thanks for letting us know.  So, another reason to drop this patch :)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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Thanks,
Vitaliy Gusev