From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Saheed Bolarinwa <refactormyself@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] Drop uses of pci_read_config_*() return value
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 22:18:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200802201806.GA24437@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200802191406.GA248232@bjorn-Precision-5520>
On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 02:14:06PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Wait, I'm not convinced yet. I know that if a PCI read fails, you
> normally get ~0 data because the host bridge fabricates it to complete
> the CPU load.
>
> But what guarantees that a PCI config register cannot contain ~0?
Well, I don't think you can differentiate that case, right?
I guess this is where the driver knowledge comes into play: if the read
returns ~0, the pci_read_config* should probably return in that case
something like:
PCIBIOS_READ_MAYBE_FAILED
to denote it is all 1s and then the caller should be able to determine,
based on any of domain:bus:slot.func and whatever else the driver knows
about its hardware, whether the 1s are a valid value or an error.
Hopefully.
Or something better of which I cannot think of right now...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-02 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-01 11:24 [RFC PATCH 00/17] Drop uses of pci_read_config_*() return value Saheed O. Bolarinwa
2020-08-01 11:24 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] edac: " Saheed O. Bolarinwa
2020-08-01 12:56 ` [RFC PATCH 00/17] " Borislav Petkov
2020-08-02 14:53 ` Tom Rix
2020-08-02 17:28 ` Saheed Bolarinwa
2020-08-02 18:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-08-02 19:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-08-02 20:18 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-08-03 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
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