Re: ohci1394 problem (MMIO broken) (was 2.6.25-rc6-git6: Reportedregressions from 2.6.24)

From: Ivan Kokshaysky
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 06:15:06 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:47:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> >
> > and compare lspci -vv from 2.6.25 and 2.6.24:
> >
> > 2.6.25:
> >
> > Region 0: [virtual] Memory at 100000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> >
> > 2.6.24:
> >
> > Region 0: Memory at 8c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>
> Ok, so it didn't use to be at the 4GB mark.

Note that 'Memory at 100000000' is totally bogus as this is 32-bit BAR
and respective PCI bridge is 32-bit either.

Most interesting thing is that under 2.6.24 Tomas had

PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 8c000000-8c0fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.

but with 2.6.25

PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 0x00000000-0x000fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.

I'm sure that MEM window was actually 0x100000000-0x1000fffff as that
printk shows only 8 hex digits.

> This seems to be a PCI and resource alloc issue. It would be really
> interesting to see where the 4GB allocation started. Ie ignore anything
> else (warnings, driver loadings etc), and _just_ look at lspci -vv output
> for where the memory got allocated.

Yeah, it's resource issue for sure. The 00:1e.0 is a transparent bridge,
so I blame commit 8fa5913d54f3b1e09948e6a0db34da887e05ff1f
(PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing). It's wrong for two reasons:
- we cannot ignore standard windows of a transparent bridge as they
always positive decode, so they are potential source of address conflicts;
- that patch just broke whole bridge setup logic in unpredictable way.

What confused me a lot initially is that the patch was already there
in 2.6.24. But I think that issue was somehow masked by 'unsigned
longs' used in setup-bus.c all over the place instead of resource_size_t,
which has been fixed by Ben in 2.6.25...
I think that's why Thomas has everything working again without
CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT.

Thomas, can you put CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT=y back and either
revert commit 8fa5913d54f3b1e09948e6a0db34da887e05ff1f, or
just comment out these two lines in drivers/pci/setup-bus.c:

if (bus->self->transparent)
break;

and check if it helps?

Ivan.
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