From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Sent: 15 July 2020 23:49
> On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 17:12 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > I've 'played' with PCIe error handling - without much success.
> > > What might be useful is for a driver that has just read ~0u to
> > > be able to ask 'has there been an error
On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 17:12 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > I've 'played' with PCIe error handling - without much success.
> > What might be useful is for a driver that has just read ~0u to
> > be able to ask 'has there been an error signalled for this device?'.
>
> In many cases a driver will
On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 08:47 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> drivers/misc/cardreader/rts5261.c: retval =
> rtsx_pci_write_config_dword(pcr, PCR_SETTING_REG2, lval);
>
> That last one is interesting because I think this is a case in which
> we
> actually want to check for errors, as the driver
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 02:38:29PM +, David Laight wrote:
> From: Oliver O'Halloran
> > Sent: 15 July 2020 05:19
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:03 AM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> ...
> > > - config space accesses are very rare compared to memory
> > > space access and on the hardware side the
From: Oliver O'Halloran
> Sent: 15 July 2020 05:19
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:03 AM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
...
> > - config space accesses are very rare compared to memory
> > space access and on the hardware side the error handling
> > would be similar, but readl/writel don't return
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:46 AM Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
So something like:
>
> void pci_read_config_word(struct pci_dev *dev, int where, u16 *val)
>
> and where we used to return anything non-zero, we just set *val = ~0
> instead? I think we do that already in most, maybe all, cases.
Right,
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:03 AM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> - Most error checking is static: PCIBIOS_BAD_REGISTER_NUMBER
> only happens if you pass an invalid register number, but most
> callers pass a compile-time constant register number that is
> known to be correct, or the driver would
On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 18:46 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Yes. I have no problem with that. There are a few cases where it's
> important to check for errors, e.g., we read a status register and do
> something based on a bit being set. A failure will return all bits
> set, and we may do the
On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 23:02 +0200, Kjetil Oftedal wrote:
> >
> > > For b), it might be nice to also change other aspects of the
> > > interface, e.g. passing a pci_host_bridge pointer plus bus number
> > > instead of a pci_bus pointer, or having the callback in the
> > > pci_host_bridge
On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 13:45 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> > fail for valid arguments on a valid pci_device* ?
>
> I really like this idea.
>
> pci_write_config_*() has one return value, and only 100ish of 2500
> callers check for errors. It's sometimes possible for config
> accessors to
[+cc Kjetil]
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 12:01:56AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:45 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 05:08:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:22 PM Saheed O. Bolarinwa
> > > Starting with a), my first
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:45 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> [trimmed the cc list; it's still too large but maybe arch folks care]
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 05:08:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:22 PM Saheed O. Bolarinwa
> > wrote:
> > > This goal of these series is
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:45 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 05:08:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:22 PM Saheed O. Bolarinwa
> > Starting with a), my first question is whether any high-level
> > drivers even need to care about errors from these
On 14/07/2020, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>
>> a) callers of the high-level config space accessors
>>pci_{write,read}_config_{byte,word,dword}, mostly in device
>>drivers.
>> b) low-level implementation of the config space accessors
>> through struct pci_ops
>> c) all other occurrences of
[trimmed the cc list; it's still too large but maybe arch folks care]
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 05:08:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:22 PM Saheed O. Bolarinwa
> wrote:
> > This goal of these series is to move the definition of *all*
> > PCIBIOS* from
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