[PATCH 5.15 135/135] PCI: aardvark: Update comment about link going down after link-up

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-05-10T14:16:15Z

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From: "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>

commit 92f4ffecc4170ce29e67a1f8d51c168c3de95fb2 upstream.

Update the comment about what happens when link goes down after we have
checked for link-up. If a PIO request is done while link-down, we have
a serious problem.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220110015018.26359-23-kabel@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
@@ -998,8 +998,12 @@ static bool advk_pcie_valid_device(struc
return false;

/*
- * If the link goes down after we check for link-up, nothing bad
- * happens but the config access times out.
+ * If the link goes down after we check for link-up, we have a problem:
+ * if a PIO request is executed while link-down, the whole controller
+ * gets stuck in a non-functional state, and even after link comes up
+ * again, PIO requests won't work anymore, and a reset of the whole PCIe
+ * controller is needed. Therefore we need to prevent sending PIO
+ * requests while the link is down.
*/
if (!pci_is_root_bus(bus) && !advk_pcie_link_up(pcie))
return false;