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authorMarek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>2022-05-04 18:57:55 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-05-12 12:30:34 +0200
commit4b4f9f172af402d4d4c01cc63d77d115af637d32 (patch)
tree4771152aa06f10dbb021e9f942fb55e7afdc9a2f
parent0dde2c7e6afbee833d7f355702c43b91007b9784 (diff)
PCI: aardvark: Update comment about link going down after link-up
commit 92f4ffecc4170ce29e67a1f8d51c168c3de95fb2 upstream. Update the comment about what happens when link goes down after we have checked for link-up. If a PIO request is done while link-down, we have a serious problem. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220110015018.26359-23-kabel@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
index 669663fb982e..ff45052cf48d 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-aardvark.c
@@ -998,8 +998,12 @@ static bool advk_pcie_valid_device(struct advk_pcie *pcie, struct pci_bus *bus,
return false;
/*
- * If the link goes down after we check for link-up, nothing bad
- * happens but the config access times out.
+ * If the link goes down after we check for link-up, we have a problem:
+ * if a PIO request is executed while link-down, the whole controller
+ * gets stuck in a non-functional state, and even after link comes up
+ * again, PIO requests won't work anymore, and a reset of the whole PCIe
+ * controller is needed. Therefore we need to prevent sending PIO
+ * requests while the link is down.
*/
if (!pci_is_root_bus(bus) && !advk_pcie_link_up(pcie))
return false;