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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] xen-pciback: return proper values during BAR sizing
>>> On 07.06.16 at 16:06, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 06/07/2016 02:30 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Reads following writes with all address bits set to 1 should return all
>> changeable address bits as one, not the BAR size (nor, as was the case
>> for the upper half of 64-bit BARs, the high half of the region's end
>> address). Presumably this didn't cause any problems so far because
>> consumers use the value to calculate the size (usually via val & -val),
>> and do nothing else with it.
>>
>> But also consider the exception here: Unimplemented BARs should always
>> return all zeroes.
>>
>> And finally, the check for whether to return the sizing address on read
>> for the ROM BAR should ignore all non-address bits, not just the ROM
>> Enable one.
>
>
> Should this go to stable trees as well?

Not sure - we had no active reports of problems. The context this
was found in did not really have an issue because it was broken.
I guess I'll leave this to you maintainers...

Jan

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