Re: [PATCH] parport_pc: Also enable driver for PCI systems

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > The only PCI platforms that actually can't make use of PC-style parallel
> > port hardware are those newer PCIe systems that have no support for I/O
> > cycles in the host bridge, required by such parallel ports.  An example
> > of such a host bridge is the POWER9 PHB4 device, but it is an exception
> > rather than the norm.  Also it is not clear whether the serial port side
> 
> Note that this hardware dependency is being addressed in
> "[RFC 00/32] Kconfig: Introduce HAS_IOPORT and LEGACY_PCI options"
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211227164317.4146918-1-schnelle@linux.ibm.com/

 Thanks for the pointer, I have missed the series in the LKML flood!

 The idea sounds good, although it's not clear to me if a config option is 
enough to get it properly covered as I don't know offhand if a single say 
ppc64le kernel can't run on systems that do and do not have support for 
port I/O over PCIe.  I got hit with that the hard way with a distribution 
kernel where a driver tried to do port I/O and poked at a random location 
in the address space causing weird errors to be reported by the system 
firmware.

 Also I have skimmed over the series and there appears to be confusion 
between legacy PCI and conventional PCI, which are obviously not the same.  
For example this piece:

diff --git a/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig b/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig
index 846bf41c2717..1753c08d6423 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 config FDDI
 	tristate "FDDI driver support"
-	depends on PCI || EISA || TC
+	depends on LEGACY_PCI || EISA || TC
 	help
 	  Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a high speed local area network
 	  design; essentially a replacement for high speed Ethernet. FDDI can
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ config DEFZA
 
 config DEFXX
 	tristate "Digital DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapter support"
-	depends on FDDI && (PCI || EISA || TC)
+	depends on FDDI && (LEGACY_PCI || EISA || TC)
 	help
 	  This is support for the DIGITAL series of TURBOchannel (DEFTA),
 	  EISA (DEFEA) and PCI (DEFPA) controllers which can connect you

is clearly wrong.  While the DEFPA card is a conventional PCI option it 
does support MMIO and does run with my legacy-free POWER9 system just 
fine (with a suitable PCIe-to-PCI bridge installed at 0031:01:00.0):

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0001:01:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OXPCIe952 Dual Native 950 UART
0002:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0002:01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Adaptec Series 8 12G SAS/PCIe 3 (rev 01)
0003:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0003:01:00.0 USB controller: Texas Instruments TUSB73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller (rev 02)
0004:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0004:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
0004:01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
0005:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0005:01:00.0 PCI bridge: ASPEED Technology, Inc. AST1150 PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 04)
0005:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 41)
0030:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0030:01:00.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
0030:02:00.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
0030:02:01.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
0030:02:02.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
0030:02:03.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
0030:03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
0030:04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
0030:05:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
0030:06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
0031:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0031:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200A PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
0031:02:04.0 FDDI network controller: Digital Equipment Corporation PCI-to-PDQ Interface Chip [PFI] FDDI (DEFPA) (rev 02)
0031:02:05.0 ATM network controller: Microsemi / PMC / IDT IDT77201/77211 155Mbps ATM SAR Controller [NICStAR] (rev 03)
0032:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
0033:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
# dmesg | grep 0031:02:04.0 | cut -c16-
pci 0031:02:04.0: [1011:000f] type 00 class 0x020200
pci 0031:02:04.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x620c080020000-0x620c08002007f]
pci 0031:02:04.0: reg 0x14: [io  0x0000-0x007f]
pci 0031:02:04.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x620c080030000-0x620c08003ffff]
pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR0 [mem size 0x00000080]: requesting alignment to 0x10000
pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x620c080020000-0x620c08002007f]
pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0x620c080030000-0x620c08003ffff]
pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 1: no space for [io  size 0x0080]
pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 1: failed to assign [io  size 0x0080]
pci 0031:02:04.0: Configured PE#fc
pci 0031:02:04.0: Adding to iommu group 9
defxx 0031:02:04.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
0031:02:04.0: DEFPA at MMIO addr = 0x620c080020000, IRQ = 57, Hardware addr = 00-60-6d-93-91-98
0031:02:04.0: registered as fddi0
$ ip link show dev fddi0
4: fddi0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 4470 qdisc pfifo_fast 
state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 100
    link/fddi 00:60:6d:93:91:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
$

While older versions of the driver did have to be explicitly configured 
for MMIO rather than port I/O, a feature added with commit e89a2cfb7d7b 
("[TC] defxx: TURBOchannel support"), the driver has been improved with 
commit 795e272e5474 ("FDDI: defxx: Implement dynamic CSR I/O address space 
selection") and the selection of the I/O space to use now fully automatic.

 Then what about the other FDDI driver there, SKFP?  It's not marked as
LEGACY_PCI, although it's not selectable anyway due to the dependency of 
FDDI on LEGACY_PCI.

 Niklas, what was the criterion for placing the LEGACY_PCI dependency?  

 Also do you plan to post an updated series anytime soon?  I'm asking 
because like with the m68k port also the MIPS one needs a more finegrained 
approach and I suspect there may be other corner cases and I'd rather look 
at the most recent version of your series.  Otherwise I'll have a look 
through your original submission, but it may have to wait until the next 
weekend due to my other commitments.

  Maciej