Re: [PATCH 03/15] PCI: mvebu: Check that PCI bridge specified in DT has function number zero

Pali Rohár
2022-01-07T18:18:28Z

On Friday 07 January 2022 12:15:12 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 01:45:53PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Driver cannot handle PCI bridges at non-zero function address. So add
> > appropriate check. Currently all in-tree kernel DTS files set PCI bridge
> > function to zero.
>
> Why can the driver not handle bridges at non-zero function addresses?
> The PCI spec allows that, doesn't it? Is this a hardware limitation?

It is software / kernel limitation.

Because this bridge is virtual, emulated by pci-bridge-emul.c driver and
this driver can emulate only single function PCI-to-PCI bridge device.

> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> > drivers/pci/controller/pci-mvebu.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-mvebu.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-mvebu.c
> > index 6197f7e7c317..08274132cdfb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-mvebu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-mvebu.c
> > @@ -864,6 +864,11 @@ static int mvebu_pcie_parse_port(struct mvebu_pcie *pcie,
> > port->devfn = of_pci_get_devfn(child);
> > if (port->devfn < 0)
> > goto skip;
> > + if (PCI_FUNC(port->devfn) != 0) {
> > + dev_err(dev, "%s: invalid function number, must be zero\n",
> > + port->name);
> > + goto skip;
> > + }
> >
> > ret = mvebu_get_tgt_attr(dev->of_node, port->devfn, IORESOURCE_MEM,
> > &port->mem_target, &port->mem_attr);
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >