On Wednesday 21 January 2015 16:47:36 Gabriel Fernandez wrote:
> On 19 January 2015 at 14:49, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Monday 19 January 2015 13:37:33 Gabriel Fernandez wrote:
> >> On 17 December 2014 at 23:14, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday 17 December 2014 11:34:44 Gabriel FERNANDEZ wrote:
> >> > > +/*
> >> > > + * On ARM platforms, we actually get a bus error returned when the
> >> > > PCIe
> >> > IP
> >> > > + * returns a UR or CRS instead of an OK.
> >> > > + */
> >> > > +static int st_pcie_abort_
> >> >
> >> > handler(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
> >> > > + struct pt_regs *regs)
> >> > > +{
> >> > > + return 0;
> >> > > +}
> >> >
> >> > You should check that it's actually PCI that caused the abort. Don't
> >> > just ignore a hard error condition.
> >> >
> >> > Usually there are registers in the PCI core that let you identify what
> >> > happened.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> We return 0 because abort handler is not activated during boot.
> >>
> >
> > Can you just remove the handler then? We should never have exception
> > handlers that unconditionally return 0.
> >
>
> Ah sorry, we need the handler because we can received aborts from
> user-land after the boot.
>
> I have 2 solutions, the first to simplify we can only return 0.
> The second is to manage handler during boot. Then i need for that a
> new patch from Fabrice
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/7/631
I still don't get it. What is causing the abort? Is that something
user space does, or is it just a condition that gets stuck the pcie
device after probing that gets delivered once as soon as the aborts
are enabled?
> >>
> >> msi_data is a virtual address, it's obtained through a __get_free_pages()
> >> function in dw_pcie_msi_init() procedure.
> >
> > I guess you need dma_map_single() then, or use dma_alloc_coherent instead
> > of __get_free_pages(). There is no guarantee that the page you allocate
> > there is actually visible to the PCI host at the same address that the CPU
> > uses, so you need to map from a CPU address to a DMA address that the PCI
> > host bridge uses.
> >
> > Arnd
>
> This is only to check the msi magic address given to ip, we never read
> or write in this area.
> this code is only a check
But doesn't the hardware access the pointer?
Arnd
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