Quoting r. Brice Goglin <[email protected]>:
> Subject: Re: AMD 8131 MSI quirk called too late, bus_flags not inherited ?
>
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > MSI is an optional feature so things are supposed to work even without MSI -
> > are you getting that great a benefit from MSI?
> >
>
> Not great, I would say small.
Me too.
> > All mellanox PCI-X devices have a bridge inside them, so ...
> >
>
> Ok so you really need something for 2.6.17. What about the attached
> patch to fix the fact that bus flags are not inherited ?
>
> Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>
Seems to work for MSI but not for MSI-X. With MSI-X, I still see:
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: NOP command failed to generate interrupt (IRQ 217),
aborting.
ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: Try again with MSI/MSI-X disabled.
> > Doesn't seem to work for me:
> >
> > ib_mthca: Initializing 0000:04:00.0
> > GSI 18 sharing vector 0xB9 and IRQ 18
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 29 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
> > ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: NOP command failed to generate interrupt (IRQ 217),
> > aborting.
> > ib_mthca 0000:04:00.0: Try again with MSI/MSI-X disabled.
> > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
> > ib_mthca: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -16
> >
>
> Ok. Do you at least see the quirk message ?
Yes.
> Thanks,
> Brice
>
>
> Index: linux-mm/drivers/pci/msi.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-mm.orig/drivers/pci/msi.c 2006-05-21 14:25:53.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-mm/drivers/pci/msi.c 2006-05-21 14:26:56.000000000 +0200
> @@ -916,6 +916,7 @@
> **/
> int pci_enable_msi(struct pci_dev* dev)
> {
> + struct pci_bus *bus;
> int pos, temp, status = -EINVAL;
> u16 control;
>
> @@ -925,8 +926,9 @@
> if (dev->no_msi)
> return status;
>
> - if (dev->bus->bus_flags & PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI)
> - return -EINVAL;
> + for (bus = dev->bus; bus; bus = bus->parent)
> + if (bus->bus_flags & PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI)
> + return -EINVAL;
>
> temp = dev->irq;
>
>
>
It seems we must add this loop to pci_enable_msix as well.
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