PCI: aardvark: Update comment about link going down after link-up
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068174 Upstream Status: 92f4ffecc4170ce29e67a1f8d51c168c3de95fb2 commit 92f4ffecc4170ce29e67a1f8d51c168c3de95fb2 Author: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> Date: Mon Jan 10 02:50:17 2022 +0100 PCI: aardvark: Update comment about link going down after link-up 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: Myron Stowe <mstowe@redhat.com>
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@ -998,8 +998,12 @@ static bool advk_pcie_valid_device(struct advk_pcie *pcie, struct pci_bus *bus,
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return false;
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/*
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* If the link goes down after we check for link-up, nothing bad
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* happens but the config access times out.
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* If the link goes down after we check for link-up, we have a problem:
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* if a PIO request is executed while link-down, the whole controller
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* gets stuck in a non-functional state, and even after link comes up
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* again, PIO requests won't work anymore, and a reset of the whole PCIe
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* controller is needed. Therefore we need to prevent sending PIO
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* requests while the link is down.
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*/
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if (!pci_is_root_bus(bus) && !advk_pcie_link_up(pcie))
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return false;
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