Re: [PATCH] parport_pc: Also enable driver for PCI systems

[Niklas Schnelle]

On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 09:16 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > > The only PCI platforms that actually can't make use of PC-style parallel
> > > port hardware are those newer PCIe systems that have no support for I/O
> > > cycles in the host bridge, required by such parallel ports.  An example
> > > of such a host bridge is the POWER9 PHB4 device, but it is an exception
> > > rather than the norm.  Also it is not clear whether the serial port side
> > 
> > Note that this hardware dependency is being addressed in
> > "[RFC 00/32] Kconfig: Introduce HAS_IOPORT and LEGACY_PCI options"
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211227164317.4146918-1-schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
>  Thanks for the pointer, I have missed the series in the LKML flood!
> 
>  The idea sounds good, although it's not clear to me if a config option is 
> enough to get it properly covered as I don't know offhand if a single say 
> ppc64le kernel can't run on systems that do and do not have support for 
> port I/O over PCIe.  I got hit with that the hard way with a distribution 
> kernel where a driver tried to do port I/O and poked at a random location 
> in the address space causing weird errors to be reported by the system 
> firmware.
> 
>  Also I have skimmed over the series and there appears to be confusion 
> between legacy PCI and conventional PCI, which are obviously not the same.  
> For example this piece:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig b/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig
> index 846bf41c2717..1753c08d6423 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  
>  config FDDI
>  	tristate "FDDI driver support"
> -	depends on PCI || EISA || TC
> +	depends on LEGACY_PCI || EISA || TC
>  	help
>  	  Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a high speed local area network
>  	  design; essentially a replacement for high speed Ethernet. FDDI can
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ config DEFZA
>  
>  config DEFXX
>  	tristate "Digital DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapter support"
> -	depends on FDDI && (PCI || EISA || TC)
> +	depends on FDDI && (LEGACY_PCI || EISA || TC)
>  	help
>  	  This is support for the DIGITAL series of TURBOchannel (DEFTA),
>  	  EISA (DEFEA) and PCI (DEFPA) controllers which can connect you
> 
> is clearly wrong.  While the DEFPA card is a conventional PCI option it 
> does support MMIO and does run with my legacy-free POWER9 system just 
> fine (with a suitable PCIe-to-PCI bridge installed at 0031:01:00.0):
> 
> # lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0001:01:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OXPCIe952 Dual Native 950 UART
> 0002:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0002:01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Adaptec Series 8 12G SAS/PCIe 3 (rev 01)
> 0003:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0003:01:00.0 USB controller: Texas Instruments TUSB73x0 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller (rev 02)
> 0004:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0004:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
> 0004:01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
> 0005:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0005:01:00.0 PCI bridge: ASPEED Technology, Inc. AST1150 PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 04)
> 0005:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 41)
> 0030:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0030:01:00.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
> 0030:02:00.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
> 0030:02:01.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
> 0030:02:02.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
> 0030:02:03.0 PCI bridge: PMC-Sierra Inc. PM8562 Switchtec PFX-L 32xG3 Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen3 Switch
> 0030:03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
> 0030:04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
> 0030:05:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
> 0030:06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983
> 0031:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0031:01:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200A PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
> 0031:02:04.0 FDDI network controller: Digital Equipment Corporation PCI-to-PDQ Interface Chip [PFI] FDDI (DEFPA) (rev 02)
> 0031:02:05.0 ATM network controller: Microsemi / PMC / IDT IDT77201/77211 155Mbps ATM SAR Controller [NICStAR] (rev 03)
> 0032:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> 0033:00:00.0 PCI bridge: IBM POWER9 Host Bridge (PHB4)
> # dmesg | grep 0031:02:04.0 | cut -c16-
> pci 0031:02:04.0: [1011:000f] type 00 class 0x020200
> pci 0031:02:04.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x620c080020000-0x620c08002007f]
> pci 0031:02:04.0: reg 0x14: [io  0x0000-0x007f]
> pci 0031:02:04.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x620c080030000-0x620c08003ffff]
> pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR0 [mem size 0x00000080]: requesting alignment to 0x10000
> pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x620c080020000-0x620c08002007f]
> pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 2: assigned [mem 0x620c080030000-0x620c08003ffff]
> pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 1: no space for [io  size 0x0080]
> pci 0031:02:04.0: BAR 1: failed to assign [io  size 0x0080]
> pci 0031:02:04.0: Configured PE#fc
> pci 0031:02:04.0: Adding to iommu group 9
> defxx 0031:02:04.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
> 0031:02:04.0: DEFPA at MMIO addr = 0x620c080020000, IRQ = 57, Hardware addr = 00-60-6d-93-91-98
> 0031:02:04.0: registered as fddi0
> $ ip link show dev fddi0
> 4: fddi0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 4470 qdisc pfifo_fast 
> state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 100
>     link/fddi 00:60:6d:93:91:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> $
> 
> While older versions of the driver did have to be explicitly configured 
> for MMIO rather than port I/O, a feature added with commit e89a2cfb7d7b 
> ("[TC] defxx: TURBOchannel support"), the driver has been improved with 
> commit 795e272e5474 ("FDDI: defxx: Implement dynamic CSR I/O address space 
> selection") and the selection of the I/O space to use now fully automatic.

Very interesting and thanks for the input! On s390 we really only have
very few different PCI devices and I can only test another hand full
with my private x86 and ARM systems.

> 
>  Then what about the other FDDI driver there, SKFP?  It's not marked as
> LEGACY_PCI, although it's not selectable anyway due to the dependency of 
> FDDI on LEGACY_PCI.
> 
>  Niklas, what was the criterion for placing the LEGACY_PCI dependency?

Hmm, honestly I haven't really worked on this recently. There were some
open questions from Bjorn towards Arnd and I was waiting for his reply
but I guess he missed those. I think what you noticed was the main
problem, there wasn't really a clear set of criteria for LEGACY_PCI and
even for HAS_IOPORT we missed some uses if they were not compiled on
s390's allyesconfig due to other dependencies.

> 
>  Also do you plan to post an updated series anytime soon?  I'm asking 
> because like with the m68k port also the MIPS one needs a more finegrained 
> approach and I suspect there may be other corner cases and I'd rather look 
> at the most recent version of your series.  Otherwise I'll have a look 
> through your original submission, but it may have to wait until the next 
> weekend due to my other commitments.
> 
>   Maciej

That sounds like you do see a need for something like HAS_IOPORT too,
correct? Maybe with some input what you need and possibly stripping the
LEGACY_PCI option it might make sense to do a new version. Rather than
possibly getting in your way could directly work in your input.