Hi Bjorn et al.
this series addresses a few issues that have come up with the helper
function that enables Atomic Op Requests to be initiated by PCI
enpoints:
A. Most in-tree users of this helper use it incorrectly [0].
B. On s390, Atomic Op Requests are enabled, although the helper
cannot know whether the root port is really supporting them.
C. Loop control in the helper function does not guarantee that a root
port's capabilities are ever checked against those requested by the
caller.
Address these issue with the following patches:
Patch 1: Make it harder to mis-use the enablement function,
Patch 2: Addresses issues B. and C.
I did test that issue B is fixed with these patches. Also, I verified
that Atomic Ops enablement on a Mellanox/Nvidia ConnectX-6 adapter
plugged straight into the root port of a x86 system still gets AtomicOp
Requests enabled. However, I did not test this with any PCIe switches
between root port and endpoint.
Ideally, both patches would be incorporated immediately, so we could
start correcting the mis-uses in the device drivers. I don't know of any
complaints when using Atomic Ops on devices where the driver is
mis-using the helper. Patch 2 however, is fixing an obseved issue.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fbe34de16f5c0bf25a16f9819a57fdd81e5bb08c.camel@linux.ibm.com/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251105-mlxatomics-v1-0-10c71649e08d@linux.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>
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Changes in v2:
- rebase to 6.19-rc1
- otherwise unchanged to v1
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251110-fix_pciatops-v1-0-edc58a57b62e@linux.ibm.com
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Gerd Bayer (2):
PCI: AtomicOps: Define valid root port capabilities
PCI: AtomicOps: Fix logic in enable function
drivers/pci/pci.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 40fbbd64bba6c6e7a72885d2f59b6a3be9991eeb
change-id: 20251106-fix_pciatops-7e8608eccb03
Best regards,
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Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>