[PATCH 3/4] x86/PCI: Enable a 64bit BAR on AMD Family 15h (Models 30h-3fh) Processors

[Christian König]

Am 12.04.2017 um 18:55 schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> [SNIP]
>>> I think the specs would envision this being done via an ACPI _SRS
>>> method on the PNP0A03 host bridge device.  That would be a more
>>> generic path that would work on any host bridge.  Did you explore that
>>> possibility?  I would prefer to avoid adding device-specific code if
>>> that's possible.
>> I've checked quite a few boards, but none of them actually
>> implements it this way.
>>
>> M$ is working on a new ACPI table to enable this vendor neutral, but
>> I guess that will still take a while.
>>
>> I want to support this for all AMD CPU released in the past 5 years
>> or so, so we are going to deal with a bunch of older boards as well.
> I've never seen _SRS for host bridges either.  I'm curious about what
> sort of new table will be proposed.  It seems like the existing ACPI
> resource framework could manage it, but I certainly don't know all the
> issues.

No idea either since I'm not involved into that. My job is to get it 
working on the existing hw generations and that alone is enough work :)

My best guess is that MS is going to either make _SRS on the host bridge 
or a pre-configured 64bit window mandatory for the BIOS.

>>>> +	pci_bus_add_resource(dev->bus, res, 0);
>>> We would need some sort of printk here to explain how this new window
>>> magically appeared.
>> Good point, consider this done.
>>
>> But is this actually the right place of doing it? Or would you
>> prefer something to be added to the probing code?
>>
>> I think those fixups are applied a bit later, aren't they?
> Logically, this should be done before we enumerate the PCI devices
> below the host bridge, so a PCI device fixup is not the ideal place
> for it, but it might be the most practical.

Since the modification must be done on a device connected to the root 
bus I run into quite a chicken and egg problem if I try to do it before 
the enumeration.

> I could imagine some sort of quirk like the ones in
> drivers/pnp/quirks.c that could add the window to the host bridge _CRS
> and program the bridge to open it.  But the PCI host bridges aren't
> handled through the path that applies those fixups, and it would be
> messy to identify your bridges (you currently use PCI vendor/device
> IDs, which are only available after enumerating the device).  So this
> doesn't seem like a viable strategy.

I've tried that, but gave up rather quickly. Looks like the current 
approach indeed work find even with "pci=realloc", so I'm going to stick 
with that.

Regards,
Christian.