Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] PCI: Add tango PCIe host bridge support

[Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 09:02:06 +0100 Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> On 4 July 2017 at 07:58, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 08:27:04 -0500 wrote:
> >  
> >> [+cc Jingoo, Joao]
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:35:50AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:  
> >> > On 3 July 2017 at 00:18, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:  
> >> > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Marc Gonzalez wrote:  
> >> > >> This driver is required to work around several hardware bugs
> >> > >> in the PCIe controller.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> NB: Revision 1 does not support legacy interrupts, or IO space.  
> >> > >
> >> > > I had to apply these manually because of conflicts in Kconfig and
> >> > > Makefile.  What are these based on?  Easiest for me is if you base
> >> > > them on the current -rc1 tag.
> >> > >  
> >> > >> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com>
> >> > >> ---
> >> > >>  drivers/pci/host/Kconfig      |   8 +++
> >> > >>  drivers/pci/host/Makefile     |   1 +
> >> > >>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> > >>  include/linux/pci_ids.h       |   2 +
> >> > >>  4 files changed, 175 insertions(+)
> >> > >>  create mode 100644 drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.c
> >> > >>  
> >> > [..]  
> >> > >> +     /*
> >> > >> +      * QUIRK #2
> >> > >> +      * Unfortunately, config and mem spaces are muxed.
> >> > >> +      * Linux does not support such a setting, since drivers are free
> >> > >> +      * to access mem space directly, at any time.
> >> > >> +      * Therefore, we can only PRAY that config and mem space accesses
> >> > >> +      * NEVER occur concurrently.
> >> > >> +      */
> >> > >> +     writel_relaxed(1, pcie->mux);
> >> > >> +     ret = pci_generic_config_read(bus, devfn, where, size, val);
> >> > >> +     writel_relaxed(0, pcie->mux);  
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm very hesitant about this.  When people stress this, we're going to
> >> > > get reports of data corruption.  Even with the disclaimer below, I
> >> > > don't feel good about this.  Adding the driver is an implicit claim
> >> > > that we support the device, but we know it can't be made reliable.  
> >> >
> >> > I noticed that the Synopsys driver suffers from a similar issue: in
> >> > dw_pcie_rd_other_conf(), it happily reprograms the outbound I/O window
> >> > to perform a config space access, and switches it back to I/O space
> >> > afterwards (unless it has more than 2 viewports, in which case it uses
> >> > dedicated windows for I/O space and config space)  
> >>
> >> That doesn't sound good.  Jingoo, Joao?  I remember some discussion
> >> about this, but not the details.
> >>
> >> I/O accesses use wrappers (inb(), etc), so there's at least the
> >> possibility of a mutex to serialize them with respect to config
> >> accesses.
> >>  
> >
> > IIRC, for 2 viewports, we don't need to worry about the config space
> > access, because config space access is serialized by pci_lock; We
> > do have race between config space and io space. But the accessing config
> > space and io space at the same time is rare.  
> 
> Being 'rare' is not sufficient, unfortunately. In the current
> situation, I/O space accesses may occur when the outbound window is
> directed to the config space of a potentially completely unrelated
> device. This is bad.

Yep, I agree with you.

> 
> > And the PCIe EPs which
> > has io space are rare too, supporting these EPs are not the potential
> > target of those platforms with 2 viewports.
> >  
> 
> I am not sure EP mode is relevant here. What I do know is that boards

I mean those PCIe EP cards which have IO space, but that doesn't matter.

> like the Marvell 8040 based MacchiatoBin uses this IP in RC mode, and
> exposes config, MMIO and IO space windows using only 2 viewports. Note
> that this is essentially a bug in the DT description, given that its
> version of the IP supports 8 viewports. But the driver needs to be
> fixed as well.

To fix for 2 viewports situation, we need to serialize access of the io
and config space. In internal repo, we can achieve it by modifying the
io access helper functions such as inl/outl, but this won't be accepted
by the mainline IMHO. Except fixing the HW, any elegant solution?

Suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Jisheng