Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2019-01-07

Re: [PATCH] arm: cns3xxx: fix writing to wrong PCI registers after alignment

From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Date: 2018-12-31 15:29:28
Also in: linux-pci, stable

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:14:28AM +0100, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote:
Bjorn Helgaas [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
802b7c06adc7 replaced cns3xxx_pci_write_config(), which always used
__raw_writel() so it only did 32-bit accesses, with
pci_generic_config_write(), which uses writeb/writew/writel()
depending on the size.

802b7c06adc7 also converted cns3xxx_pci_read_config() from always
using __raw_readl() (a 32-bit access) to using
pci_generic_config_read32(), which also always does a 32-bit access.

This makes me think the cnx3xxx hardware is only capable of 32-bit
accesses, and this patch should change the driver to use
pci_generic_config_write32() instead of pci_generic_config_write() in
addition to the mapping fix above.
Hasn't it already been verified that the CNS3xxx can do 8-bit accesses
(and probably 16-bit ones as well), and that the docs don't mention any
such limitation?
Quite possibly.  I'm not familiar with the hardware or docs so can't
comment personally.

802b7c06adc7 reimplemented cns3xxx_pci_read_config() using
pci_generic_config_read32(), which preserved the property of only
doing 32-bit reads.  It replaced cns3xxx_pci_write_config() with
pci_generic_config_write(), so it changed writes from always being 32
bits to being the actual size.  I think this was an error in the
original commit, since the changelog doesn't mention this change; in
fact, the changelog says it changes __raw_writel to writel.

The change from 32-bit to actual size accesses would logically be a
separate commit from changing to use the generic accessors.

Assuming the hardware does support smaller accesses, I'd propose two
patches:

  1) The current one that corrects the address alignment error, and
  2) A new one that converts cns3xxx_pci_read_config() to use
     pci_generic_config_read() instead of pci_generic_config_read32().

Ideally the changelog for the second patch would refer to the
verification that the hardware is capable of 8- and 16-bit accesses.

Bjorn

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