From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86/pci/mrst: force all pci config toward 0:0:0, 0:2:0 and 0:3:0 to type 1
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 12:02:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5187FE55.8080601@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo66x7eHOy3nqH5kgKjOd-176zgNs3EGpJxYrk1dcKPQPg@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/06/2013 10:38 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:17:10AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>> Is there any possibility of multi-function devices at bus 0, device 0, 2, or 3?
>>>
>>> What about bridges -- can any of these be a bridge?
>>>
>>> If either of those could happen, these checks could be too specific.
>> 0:2:0 and 0:3:0 are the only 2 devices behind the bridge 0:0:0.
>
> Please use the conventional Linux PCI address formatting
> (DDDD:BB:dd.f, where DDDD = domain (optional, often omitted if DDDD ==
> 0), BB = bus, dd = device, f = function), because this is quite
> confusing.
>
> You say "0:2:0 and 0:3:0" are behind the bridge "0:0:0", but the patch
> you sent clearly applies only to devices on bus 0. The patch applies
> to devices 00:00.0, 00:02.0, and 00:03.0. These are all on the same
> bus, so none of them can be behind a bridge.
>
> If the 00:00.0 device is in fact a bridge, its secondary bus will be
> something other than 0, so any devices behind the bridge will be on a
> non-zero bus number. And I assume you would want to use config
> mechanism #1 to reach those devices, too. Your current patch doesn't
> do that -- it only applies to devices on bus 0.
>
0000:00:00.0 is presumably the *host bridge*, which is unique in PCI
space in that it is a type 0 header and sits on what normally would be
the client bus.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-06 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-30 7:21 x86/pci/mrst: force all pci config toward 0:0:0, 0:2:0 and 0:3:0 to type 1 Bin Gao
2013-04-30 17:32 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-05-01 17:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-05-02 6:53 ` Bin Gao
2013-05-06 17:38 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-05-06 18:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-05-06 22:42 ` Bin Gao
2013-05-06 22:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-05-06 19:02 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-05-06 22:20 ` Bin Gao
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