Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

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Hi,

I tried the series of patches and I encountered some problems.
Since I don't have enough time to investigate them, I can only
report them at present. My environment was ia64 machine with 64
hotplug slots (shpc & pcie). Those slots can be handled by
acpiphp too, though I have not tried it yet.

- Problem(1)
 Two kind of Call Traces were displayed so many times at the
 boot time. Those are attached below. I guess it relate to
 the ACPI Namespace definition.

- Problem(2)
 Many of the shpc slot initializations failed with the
 following error messages. I guess the cause is Problem(1).

 shpchp: pci_hp_register failed with error -17
 shpchp: shpchp: slot initialization failed

- Problem(3)
 All of the pcie slot initializations failed with the
 following error messages. I guess the cause is Problem(1).

 pciehp: pci_hp_register failed with error -17
 pciehp: pciehp: slot initialization failed

BTW, I have some comments about the patches.

- I think your patches assume that all the hotplug slots have
 ACPI _SUN method regardless of the hotplug controller type,
 because pci_slot.c is the only place to call pci_slot_create().
 But I think there are hotplug slots without _SUN. If the
 hotplug slot doesn't have _SUN, slot initialization by the
 hotplug controller driver doesn't work (does it?), because
 there are no slot directory.

- I think pci_slot.o should be kernel module so that users can
 select to enable or disable this functionality.

Here is the Call Trace mentioned above:

Unable to register kobject 1024<3>pci_slot: pci_create_slot returned -22
ACPI: Invalid ACPI Bus context for device <NULL>
sysfs: duplicate filename '1024' can not be created
WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one()

Call Trace:
[<a000000100014b60>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0
                               sp=e000014101befaf0 bsp=e000014101be0f60
[<a000000100014bf0>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60
                               sp=e000014101befcc0 bsp=e000014101be0f48
[<a0000001001d6990>] sysfs_add_one+0xb0/0x240
                               sp=e000014101befcc0 bsp=e000014101be0f18
[<a0000001001d7900>] create_dir+0x80/0x100
                               sp=e000014101befcc0 bsp=e000014101be0ee0
[<a0000001001d7a30>] sysfs_create_dir+0xb0/0x100
                               sp=e000014101befce0 bsp=e000014101be0ec0
[<a0000001003b4f50>] kobject_add+0x250/0x460
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0e80
[<a0000001003b52d0>] kobject_register+0x50/0xa0
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0e58
[<a0000001003d6f40>] pci_create_slot+0x140/0x260
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0e10
[<a00000010043acd0>] register_slot+0x170/0x1c0
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0dc0
[<a000000100419ef0>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x2b0/0x300
                               sp=e000014101befd20 bsp=e000014101be0d50
[<a000000100415a50>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x90/0xc0
                               sp=e000014101befd20 bsp=e000014101be0d00
[<a00000010043ab20>] acpi_pci_slot_add+0x1c0/0x200
                               sp=e000014101befd20 bsp=e000014101be0cd8
[<a0000001004367e0>] acpi_pci_register_driver+0xe0/0x160
                               sp=e000014101befd30 bsp=e000014101be0ca8
[<a000000100920620>] acpi_pci_slot_init+0x20/0x40
                               sp=e000014101befd30 bsp=e000014101be0c90
[<a0000001008f06e0>] kernel_init+0x460/0x7e0
                               sp=e000014101befd30 bsp=e000014101be0c48
[<a000000100013110>] kernel_thread_helper+0x30/0x60
                               sp=e000014101befe30 bsp=e000014101be0c20
[<a0000001000089c0>] start_kernel_thread+0x20/0x40
                               sp=e000014101befe30 bsp=e000014101be0c20
kobject_add failed for 1024 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the
same name in the same directory.

Call Trace:
[<a000000100014b60>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0
                               sp=e000014101befb20 bsp=e000014101be0ed8
[<a000000100014bf0>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0ec0
[<a0000001003b50e0>] kobject_add+0x3e0/0x460
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0e80
[<a0000001003b52d0>] kobject_register+0x50/0xa0
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0e58
[<a0000001003d6f40>] pci_create_slot+0x140/0x260
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0e10
[<a00000010043acd0>] register_slot+0x170/0x1c0
                               sp=e000014101befcf0 bsp=e000014101be0dc0
[<a000000100419ef0>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x2b0/0x300
                               sp=e000014101befd20 bsp=e000014101be0d50
[<a000000100415a50>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x90/0xc0
                               sp=e000014101befd20 bsp=e000014101be0d00
[<a00000010043ab20>] acpi_pci_slot_add+0x1c0/0x200
                               sp=e000014101befd20 bsp=e000014101be0cd8
[<a0000001004367e0>] acpi_pci_register_driver+0xe0/0x160
                               sp=e000014101befd30 bsp=e000014101be0ca8
[<a000000100920620>] acpi_pci_slot_init+0x20/0x40
                               sp=e000014101befd30 bsp=e000014101be0c90
[<a0000001008f06e0>] kernel_init+0x460/0x7e0
                               sp=e000014101befd30 bsp=e000014101be0c48
[<a000000100013110>] kernel_thread_helper+0x30/0x60
                               sp=e000014101befe30 bsp=e000014101be0c20
[<a0000001000089c0>] start_kernel_thread+0x20/0x40
                               sp=e000014101befe30 bsp=e000014101be0c20
Unable to register kobject 1024<3>pci_slot: pci_create_slot returned -22


Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige


Alex Chiang ????????:
Hello,

[this patch series touches a few subsystems; hopefully I got all
the right maintainers]

Recently, Matthew Wilcox sent out the following mail about PCI
slots:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=119432330418980&w=2

The following patch series is a rough first cut at implementing
the ideas he outlined, namely, that PCI slots are physical
objects that we care about, independent of their hotplug
capabilities.

We introduce a struct pci_slot as a first-class citizen, and turn
hotplug_slot into a subsidiary structure. A brief glimpse at the
potential for cleanup is given, as we modify the existing hotplug
drivers and remove the multiple get_address() methods. Certainly
more cleanup can be done with this new structure.

Additionally, we introduce an ACPI PCI slot driver, which will
detect all physical PCI slots in the system (as described by
ACPI). De-coupling the notion of a physical slot from its hotplug
capability allows users to understand the physical geography of
their machines, whether their slots are hotpluggable or not.

This patch series builds heavily on Willy's prior work (with a
bit of the typical refresh needed when aiming at the moving
target of the kernel). The ACPI PCI slot driver is new.

I have tested this series on both ia64 (hp rx6600) and x86 (hp
dl380g). On ia64, system firmware provides _SUN methods for the
PCI slots and we get entries in /sys/bus/pci/slots/. On my x86
machine, firmware didn't seem to provide a _SUN, so we don't get
any entries in /sys/bus/pci/slots/, but nothing really bad
happens either. ;)

Comments/feedback are appreciated.

Thanks.

/ac





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