Re: [PATCH] Fix MSI-X with NIU cards

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Sun May 10 2009 - 21:23:09 EST


On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 07:13 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> The NIU device refuses to allow accesses to MSI-X registers before MSI-X
> is enabled. This patch fixes the problem by moving the read of the mask
> register to after MSI-X is enabled.
>
> Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> index 6f2e629..3627732 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> @@ -455,8 +455,6 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev,
> entry->msi_attrib.default_irq = dev->irq;
> entry->msi_attrib.pos = pos;
> entry->mask_base = base;
> - entry->masked = readl(base + j * PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_SIZE +
> - PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL_OFFSET);
> msix_mask_irq(entry, 1);

158 static void msix_mask_irq(struct msi_desc *desc, u32 flag)
159 {
160 u32 mask_bits = desc->masked;
...
165 writel(mask_bits, desc->mask_base + offset);


So I guess this device is just silently ignoring that write?

And aren't we violating the spec by writing 0x1 into the device there
(assuming desc->masked is 0x0 from the kzalloc), ie. we're supposed to
read and write back the reserved bits unchanged. (Â 6.8.2.9?)


> @@ -493,6 +491,12 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev,
> msix_set_enable(dev, 1);
> dev->msix_enabled = 1;

Are we safe if we take an interrupt here?

> + list_for_each_entry(entry, &dev->msi_list, list) {
> + int vector = entry->msi_attrib.entry_nr;
> + entry->masked = readl(base + vector * PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_SIZE +
> + PCI_MSIX_ENTRY_VECTOR_CTRL_OFFSET);
> + }
> +
> return 0;
> }
>

cheers

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