Re: AMD 8131 and MSI quirk

From: Kristen Accardi
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 16:59:49 EST


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 23:21 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > It turns out AMD 8131 quirk only affects MSI for devices behind the 8131
> > > bridge. Handle this by adding a flags field in pci_bus, inherited from
> > > parent to child.
> >
> > It seems like we have a way to turn of msi already (the no_msi bit in
> > the pci_dev structure). Does it make sense to just have the child bus
> > pci_dev structure inherit the no_msi bit from the parent's pci_dev
> > structure when doing an allocation, or does that unnecessarily remove
> > the msi capability for devices that may not need it?
> >
> > Kristen
>
> This bit is already used to mean that msi is disabled for a specific device,
> which appears to be a PCI Express to PCI bridge (PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_PXH). So
> it seems that disabling MSI for child devices as well might break things (i.e.
> disable msi unnecessarily).
> Working for Intel, I guess you would know about the PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_PXH
> best: what do you say?
>
> In my opinion, it is cleaner to separate the two concepts: suppress msi
> for child devices versus suppress it for the specific device.
>
> Right?
>

I was thinking something along these lines might work for you. I think
it does the same thing as the other patch, without needing to add extra
flags to pci_bus. I guess the assumption I made was that if msi is
turned off for a bridge, then all devices under the bridge may not use
msi.

---
drivers/pci/msi.c | 2 +-
drivers/pci/probe.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-dock-mm.orig/drivers/pci/msi.c
+++ linux-dock-mm/drivers/pci/msi.c
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ int pci_enable_msi(struct pci_dev* dev)
if (!pci_msi_enable || !dev)
return status;

- if (dev->no_msi)
+ if (dev->no_msi || dev->bus->self->no_msi)
return status;

temp = dev->irq;
--- linux-dock-mm.orig/drivers/pci/probe.c
+++ linux-dock-mm/drivers/pci/probe.c
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ pci_alloc_child_bus(struct pci_bus *pare
return NULL;

child->self = bridge;
+ child->self->no_msi = parent->self->no_msi;
child->parent = parent;
child->ops = parent->ops;
child->sysdata = parent->sysdata;

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