On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:32:48 +0100
David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 23.01.19 11:26, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 2019-01-22 13:51, David Hildenbrand wrote:  
> >> The primary bus number corresponds always to the bus number of the
> >> bus the bridge is attached to.
> >>
> >> Right now, if we have two bridges attached to the same bus (e.g. root
> >> bus) this is however not the case. Fix assignment.
> >>
> >> While at it
> >> - Add a comment why we have to reassign durign every reset (which I  
> > 
> > s/durign/during/
> >   
> >>   found to be supprising)  
> > 
> > s/supprising/surprising/
> >   
> >> - Drop setting the PCI_SUBORDINATE_BUS temporarily to 0xff. As we are
> >>   setting it via a DFS and not via a BFS (as discussed e.g. in [1]), this
> >>   is not necessary. The last number when we return is the highest
> >>   number.  
> > 
> > I think that explanation is slightly wrong / misleading. It's not about
> > DFS vs. BFS, it's about guest code vs. QEMU code. If you do a bridge
> > setup from the guest side, you've got to set the subordinate bus number
> > to 0xff to make sure that the bridge forwards all config space accesses
> > to the attached devices while you're scanning the devices that are
> > attached to the bridge.
> > But this code is not running in the guest, it is running in QEMU, and so
> > it can access the config space of the attached devices directly via
> > pci_default_write_config() - the write do not need to pass the parent
> > bridge in this case, and thus the subordinate bus number in the bridge
> > is ignored for the config space write access.  
> 
> Indeed, I phrased that better in the spapr/pci patch I sent, What about
> this:
> 
> "
> The primary bus number corresponds always to the bus number of the
> bus the bridge is attached to.
> 
> Right now, if we have two bridges attached to the same bus (e.g. root
> bus) this is however not the case. The first bridge will have primary
> bus 0, the second bridge primary bus 1, which is wrong. Fix the assignment.
> 
> While at it, drop setting the PCI_SUBORDINATE_BUS temporarily to 0xff.
> Setting it temporarily to that value (as discussed e.g. in [1]), is
> only relevant for a running system that probes the buses. The value is
> effectively unused for us just doing a DFS.
> 
> Also add a comment why we have to reassign during every reset (which I
> found to be surprising.
> 
> Please note that hotplugging of bridges is in general still broken, will
> be fixed next.
> "
> 
> >   
> >> Please note that hotplugging of bridges is in general still broken, will
> >> be fixed next.
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/tlk/node76.html
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  hw/s390x/s390-pci-bus.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)  
> > 
> > With the commit message fixed:  
> 
> @Conny can you fix up when applying if there are no other comments?

Sure, can do. Waiting for zpci maintainer ack :)

> 
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
> >   
> 
> Thanks Thomas!
> 
> 


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