PCI: Add comments about ROM BAR updating
authorSumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:18:07 +0000 (21:48 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:35:19 +0000 (09:35 +0200)
commit1278c9f87f1127b806a7733d3091df3ed2ab31c6
tree9265b4de4f0243adc24df70c25dead30bfdd6b82
parentcef498a2c75adca3b4e3fc348e47498496eec809
PCI: Add comments about ROM BAR updating

From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 0b457dde3cf8b7c76a60f8e960f21bbd4abdc416 ]

pci_update_resource() updates a hardware BAR so its address matches the
kernel's struct resource UNLESS it's a disabled ROM BAR.  We only update
those when we enable the ROM.

It's not obvious from the code why ROM BARs should be handled specially.
Apparently there are Matrox devices with defective ROM BARs that read as
zero when disabled.  That means that if pci_enable_rom() reads the disabled
BAR, sets PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_ENABLE (without re-inserting the address), and
writes it back, it would enable the ROM at address zero.

Add comments and references to explain why we can't make the code look more
rational.

The code changes are from 755528c860b0 ("Ignore disabled ROM resources at
setup") and 8085ce084c0f ("[PATCH] Fix PCI ROM mapping").

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/30/138
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 [sumits: minor fixup in rom.c for 4.4.y]
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/pci/rom.c
drivers/pci/setup-res.c