Re: [PATCH] 2.6 SGI Altix I/O code reorganization

From: Colin Ngam
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 15:45:21 EST


Jesse Barnes wrote:

Hi Jesse/Grant,

May be my response to Grant got lost .. anyway, here it is again.

> On Wednesday, October 6, 2004 12:54 pm, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > Colin,
> > thanks for ACKing the feedback.
> > I think there is still some confusion...
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:09:54PM -0500, Colin Ngam wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > > Mathew explained replacing the raw_pci_ops pointer is the Right Thing
> > > > and I suspect it's easier to properly implement.
> > >
> > > I believe we did just that. We did not touch pci_root_ops.
> >
> > Correct. The patch ignores/overides pci_root_ops with sn_pci_root_ops
> > (which is what I originally suggested).
> >
> > Mathew's point was only raw_pci_ops needs to point at a different
> > set of struct pci_raw_ops (see include/linux/pci.h).
>
> Though now what's there seems awfully redundant, wouldn't you say? Just
> allowing direct access to pci_root_ops is a much simpler approach and gets
> rid of a bunch of extra, unneeded code (i.e. closer to Pat's original
> version).

The original mod, we took out the static from pci_root_ops() so that we can use
it in io_init.c. We thought that would be the cleanest.

We do not want to change pci_raw_ops(). It is doing exactly what we need, now
that sn platform has the support for SAL pci reads and writes support.

>
>
> > > Yes, would anybody allow us to make a platform specific callout
> > > from within generic pcibios_fixup_bus()???
> >
> > If it can be avoided, preferably not. But that's up to Jesse/Tony I think.
>
> If it was made a machine vector that's a no-op on everything but sn2, I think
> it would be fine. Doing it for the general sn_pci_init routine would let us
> get rid of the check for ia64_platform_is("sn2") in one of the routines, I
> think (which is nice if only for the consistency).
>
> > Can you quote the bit of the patch which implements "if the bus does not
> > exist" check?
> > I can't find it.
>
> In the current code it's:
>
> for (i = 0; i < PCI_BUSES_TO_SCAN; i++)
> if (pci_bus_to_vertex(i))
> pci_scan_bus(i, &sn_pci_ops, controller);
>
> which causes the next loop to only fixup existing busses. But I don't see it
> in the new code.

Probably not clear to all:

+/*
+ * sn_pci_fixup_bus() - This routine sets up a bus's resources
+ * consistent with the Linux PCI abstraction layer.
+ */
+static void sn_pci_fixup_bus(int segment, int busnum)
+{
+ int status = 0;
+ int nasid, cnode;
+ struct pci_bus *bus;
+ struct pci_controller *controller;
+ struct pcibus_bussoft *prom_bussoft_ptr;
+ struct hubdev_info *hubdev_info;
+ void *provider_soft;
+
+ status =
+ sal_get_pcibus_info((u64) segment, (u64) busnum,
+ (u64) ia64_tpa(&prom_bussoft_ptr));
+ if (status > 0) {
+ return; /* bus # does not exist */
+ }
+
+ prom_bussoft_ptr = __va(prom_bussoft_ptr);
+ controller = sn_alloc_pci_sysdata();
+ if (!controller) {
+ BUG();
+ }
+
+ bus = pci_scan_bus(busnum, &sn_pci_root_ops, controller);
+ if (bus == NULL) {
+ return; /* error, or bus already scanned */
+ }

The sal_get_pcibus_info() will fail if we do not find that bus number. If it
fails, we do not call pci_scan_bus()


Thanks.

colin

>
>
> > > One favour. Would you agree to letting this patch be included by Tony
> > > and we will come up with another patch to fix the 2 obvious items listed
> > > above? It will be great to avoid spinning this big patch.
>
> The patch is ok with me, I think it's a big improvement over what's there in
> terms of readability.
>
> I just checked out sn_set_affinity_irq() and it's a bit hard to see what's
> going on. Why does a new interrupt have to be allocated? Also, it looks
> like the kfree() is one line too high, if sn_intr_alloc fails, we'll leak
> new_sn_irq_info.
>
> Jesse

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