Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] PCI: Add tango PCIe host bridge support

Ard Biesheuvel
2017-07-04T08:02:10Z

On 4 July 2017 at 07:58, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 08:27:04 -0500 wrote:
>
>> [+cc Jingoo, Joao]
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:35:50AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> > On 3 July 2017 at 00:18, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
>> > >> This driver is required to work around several hardware bugs
>> > >> in the PCIe controller.
>> > >>
>> > >> NB: Revision 1 does not support legacy interrupts, or IO space.
>> > >
>> > > I had to apply these manually because of conflicts in Kconfig and
>> > > Makefile. What are these based on? Easiest for me is if you base
>> > > them on the current -rc1 tag.
>> > >
>> > >> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com>
>> > >> ---
>> > >> drivers/pci/host/Kconfig | 8 +++
>> > >> drivers/pci/host/Makefile | 1 +
>> > >> drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> > >> include/linux/pci_ids.h | 2 +
>> > >> 4 files changed, 175 insertions(+)
>> > >> create mode 100644 drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.c
>> > >>
>> > [..]
>> > >> + /*
>> > >> + * QUIRK #2
>> > >> + * Unfortunately, config and mem spaces are muxed.
>> > >> + * Linux does not support such a setting, since drivers are free
>> > >> + * to access mem space directly, at any time.
>> > >> + * Therefore, we can only PRAY that config and mem space accesses
>> > >> + * NEVER occur concurrently.
>> > >> + */
>> > >> + writel_relaxed(1, pcie->mux);
>> > >> + ret = pci_generic_config_read(bus, devfn, where, size, val);
>> > >> + writel_relaxed(0, pcie->mux);
>> > >
>> > > I'm very hesitant about this. When people stress this, we're going to
>> > > get reports of data corruption. Even with the disclaimer below, I
>> > > don't feel good about this. Adding the driver is an implicit claim
>> > > that we support the device, but we know it can't be made reliable.
>> >
>> > I noticed that the Synopsys driver suffers from a similar issue: in
>> > dw_pcie_rd_other_conf(), it happily reprograms the outbound I/O window
>> > to perform a config space access, and switches it back to I/O space
>> > afterwards (unless it has more than 2 viewports, in which case it uses
>> > dedicated windows for I/O space and config space)
>>
>> That doesn't sound good. Jingoo, Joao? I remember some discussion
>> about this, but not the details.
>>
>> I/O accesses use wrappers (inb(), etc), so there's at least the
>> possibility of a mutex to serialize them with respect to config
>> accesses.
>>
>
> IIRC, for 2 viewports, we don't need to worry about the config space
> access, because config space access is serialized by pci_lock; We
> do have race between config space and io space. But the accessing config
> space and io space at the same time is rare.

Being 'rare' is not sufficient, unfortunately. In the current
situation, I/O space accesses may occur when the outbound window is
directed to the config space of a potentially completely unrelated
device. This is bad.

> And the PCIe EPs which
> has io space are rare too, supporting these EPs are not the potential
> target of those platforms with 2 viewports.
>

I am not sure EP mode is relevant here. What I do know is that boards
like the Marvell 8040 based MacchiatoBin uses this IP in RC mode, and
exposes config, MMIO and IO space windows using only 2 viewports. Note
that this is essentially a bug in the DT description, given that its
version of the IP supports 8 viewports. But the driver needs to be
fixed as well.