On 2011-05-20 04:53 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Jan Zwiegers<jan@radicalsystems.co.za>  wrote:
>> On 2011-05-19 10:50 PM, Xianghua Xiao wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Jan Zwiegers<jan@radicalsystems.co.za>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-05-19 08:50 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Jan Zwiegers<jan@radicalsystems.co.za>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have the problem below where my PCI card's second BAR does not get
>>>>>> assigned.
>>>>>> What can be the cause of this problem?
>>>>>> The last kernel I tested on which worked OK was 2.6.27.
>>>>>> My current problematic kernel 2.6.35.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 05:01.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Eagle Technology PCI-703 Analog I/O
>>>>>> Card
>>>>>> (rev 5c)
>>>>>>     Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
>>>>>>     Memory at 93b00000 (type 3, prefetchable) [size=2K]
>>>>>>     Memory at<unassigned>      (type 3, prefetchable)
>>>>>>     Capabilities: [80] #00 [0600]
>>>>>>     Kernel modules: pci703drv
>>>>>
>>>>> Could be resource exhaustion or, more likely, we ran out because we
>>>>> now assign resource to things that don't need them, leaving none for
>>>>> things that *do* need them.  This sounds like a regression, so we
>>>>> should open a bugzilla for it and attach dmesg logs from 2.6.27 and
>>>>> 2.6.35.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this problem keep the driver from working?  (Sometimes drivers
>>>>> don't actually use all the BARs a device supports.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Bjorn
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm the maintainer of the driver and was involved in the development of
>>>> the
>>>> board as well in 2003. The board uses two BARS and the second BAR is the
>>>> most important. The board worked fine since the 2.4 days and only
>>>> recently
>>>> became problematic. I suspect it works on even later kernels than 27,
>>>> maybe
>>>> 2.6.32.
>>>>
>>>> My knowledge is too little to actually determine if the problem is
>>>> because
>>>> the FPGA based PCI interface is not within spec or something that changed
>>>> in
>>>> the kernel, because of the post .30 releases becoming more strict to PCI
>>>> specification, i.e. BIOS / Kernel interaction.
>>>>
>>>> Jan
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>>>
>>> What's the size for BAR1? one reason is that no more space to
>>> align/allocate BAR1.
>>>
>>> If the board stays the same then your FPGA might be the cause, I have
>>> seen similar issues and they ended up in FPGA implementation.
>>>
>>
>> I have submitted the difference in iomem, lspci and dmesg of 2.6.27&  2.6.35
>> kernels from the same machine. The BAR size is 2K. As above BAR0 is at
>> 93b0000 and BAR1 should be at 93b00800.
>
> Thanks for the data.
>
> I think your FPGA is "unusual" after all.  lspci says this:
>
>    05:01.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Eagle Technology PCI-703 Analog I/O
> Card (rev 5c)
>         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
>         Memory at 93b00000 (type 3, prefetchable) [size=2K]
>         Memory at<unassigned>  (type 3, prefetchable)
>
> The "type 3" means the BAR has both type bits set (bits 1 and 2).  The
> spec (PCI 3.0 sec 6.2.5.1) says the type field means:
>
>    00 - Locate anywhere in 32-bit access space
>    01 - Reserved
>    10 - Locate anywhere in 64-bit access space
>    11 - Reserved
>
> I think your BARs are using the "11 - Reserved" setting when they
> should be "00".  The way Linux handles this did change between 2.6.27
> and 2.6.35, and I think the change was unintentional, so we might
> consider changing it back.
>
> Commit e354597cce8d219d made this change to decode_bar():
>
>            res->flags = bar&  ~PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_MASK;
>
>    -       if (res->flags == PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64)
>    +       if (res->flags&  PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64)
>                    return pci_bar_mem64;
>            return pci_bar_mem32;
>
> In 2.6.27, we treated the BAR as 64-bit only if the low four bits were
> 0100 (non-prefetchable, 64-bit type, memory).  That was incorrect,
> because we should ignore the prefetchable bit.  The fix was to look
> *only* at bit 2, so now we decide the BAR is 64-bit if the low four
> bits are x1xx.
>
> Your BARs contain 1110 in the low four bits.  This is invalid but was
> treated as 32-bit by 2.6.27 and as 64-bit by 2.6.35.
>
> Here's an untested Linux change I think we might consider making to
> restore the previous behavior.  Can you try it (gmail will probably
> mangle it, so you'll have to apply it by hand)?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index 44cbbba..33894ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -138,15 +138,20 @@ static u64 pci_size(u64 base, u64 maxbase, u64 mask)
>
>   static inline enum pci_bar_type decode_bar(struct resource *res, u32 bar)
>   {
> +       u32 mem_type;
> +
>          if ((bar&  PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_SPACE) == PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_SPACE_IO) {
>                  res->flags = bar&  ~PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_IO_MASK;
>                  return pci_bar_io;
>          }
>
> -       res->flags = bar&  ~PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_MASK;
> +       res->flags = bar&  PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_PREFETCH;
>
> -       if (res->flags&  PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64)
> +       mem_type = bar&  PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_MASK;
> +       if (mem_type == PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64) {
> +               res->flags |= PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_TYPE_64;
>                  return pci_bar_mem64;
> +       }
>          return pci_bar_mem32;
>   }
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Hi Bjorn

I will tested it next week and let you know. I'll also get the FPGA code 
fixed up to conform to the PCI 3.0 spec. I know back in 2003 the board 
only conformed to PCI spec 2.1. Has this maybe changed since then or was 
it the same for 2.1?

Thanks
Jan