Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] PCI: Workaround wrong flags completions for IDT switch | From | James Puthukattukaran <> | Date | Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:19:57 -0400 |
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> On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:14 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 02:30:55PM -0400, james puthukattukaran wrote: >>> On 6/13/2017 1:00 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 04:16:17PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>>> From: James Puthukattukaran <james.puthukattukaran@oracle.com> >>>>> >>>>> The IDT switch incorrectly flags an ACS source violation on a read config >>>>> request to an end point device on the completion (IDT 89H32H8G3-YC, >>>>> errata #36) even though the PCI Express spec states that completions are >>>>> never affected by ACS source violation (PCI Spec 3.1, Section 6.12.1.1). >>>> Can you include a URL where this erratum is published? If not, can >>>> you include the actual erratum text here? >>> Ok. >> >> Here's the errata text >> ------------------------------------ >> Item #36 - Downstream port applies ACS Source Validation to Completions >> “Section 6.12.1.1" of the PCI Express Base Specification 3.1 states >> that completions are never affected >> by ACS Source Validation. However, completions received by a >> downstream port of the PCIe switch from a device that has not yet >> captured a PCIe bus number are incorrectly dropped by ACS source >> validation by the switch downstream port. >> >> Workaround: Issue a CfgWr1 to the downstream device before issuing >> the first CfgRd1 to the device. >> This allows the downstream device to capture its bus number; ACS >> source validation no longer stops >> completions from being forwarded by the downstream port. It has been >> observed that Microsoft Windows implements this workaround already; >> however, some versions of Linux and other operating systems may not. > > This doesn't mention anything about disabling ACS. Issuing a config > write to devices downstream of an IDT bridge sounds simpler than what > this patch does. Why don't you do that?
The issue is how will we know is the config write succeeds if the device is not ready? I thought it was simpler to disable acs for the sake of the read and when we know that the device is ready ( returns vendor id from read), it's ready for subsequent config write.
> > This patch does write to PCI_VENDOR_ID, which purports to be part of > the workaround, but that happens *after* the first config read (which > happens inside __pci_bus_read_dev_vendor_id()). > > Bjorn
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