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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kw@linux.com>,
	"Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>,
	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 527139d738d7 ("PCI/sysfs: Convert "rom" to static attribute")
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:00:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220120150051.GA1015185@bhelgaas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8e57b75-bb60-f092-67f7-174b1b3372c4@leemhuis.info>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 02:19:05PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 17.12.21 23:49, Krzysztof Wilczyński wrote:
> > Hi Ville,
> > 
> > Thank you for letting us know, and sincere apologies for troubles!
> > 
> > [...]
> >>>> The pci sysfs "rom" file has disappeared for VGA devices.
> >>>> Looks to be a regression from commit 527139d738d7 ("PCI/sysfs:
> >>>> Convert "rom" to static attribute").
> >>>>
> >>>> Some kind of ordering issue between the sysfs file creation 
> >>>> vs. pci_fixup_video() perhaps?
> >>>
> >>> Can you attach your complete "lspci -vv" output?  Also, which is the
> >>> default device?  I think there's a "boot_vga" sysfs file that shows
> >>> this.  "find /sys -name boot_vga | xargs grep ."
> >>
> >> All I have is Intel iGPUs so it's always 00:02.0. 
> >>
> >> $ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:02.0/boot_vga 
> >> 1
> >> $ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:02.0/rom
> >> cat: '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/rom': No such file or directory
> >>
> >> I've attached the full lspci from my IVB laptop, but the problem
> >> happens on every machine (with an iGPU at least).
> >>
> >> I presume with a discrete GPU it might not happen since they
> >> actually have a real ROM.
> > 
> > Admittedly, the automated testing I was running before the patch was released
> > didn't catch this.  I primarily focused on trying to catch the race condition
> > related to the ROM attribute creation.
> > 
> > I need to look into how to properly address this problem as if we were to
> > revert the ROM attribute changes, then we would introduce the race condition
> > we've had back.
> > 
> > Again, apologies for troubles this caused!
> 
> What's the status of this regression and getting it fixed? It looks like
> there was no progress for quite a while. Could anyone please provide a
> status update?

What a coincidence.  Krzysztof and I chatted about this yesterday.  No
progress to report yet, but we are working on it.

Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-20 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-17 10:44 [REGRESSION] 527139d738d7 ("PCI/sysfs: Convert "rom" to static attribute") Ville Syrjälä
2021-12-17 17:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-12-17 17:45   ` Ville Syrjälä
2021-12-17 22:49     ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2022-01-20 13:19       ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-20 15:00         ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2022-01-20 15:05           ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-22  0:24     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-01-25 18:56       ` Ville Syrjälä
2021-12-18  6:10 ` Thorsten Leemhuis

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