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authorJiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>2012-08-22 23:16:45 +0800
committerBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>2012-09-24 15:48:37 -0600
commit5ba113f7c4fb06cfdd6cba92353ac55ad5b81b75 (patch)
treedb348ed48ef708f2abc7ba4daa9ac116f18974f0 /MAINTAINERS
parent479e0d485eaab452cf248cd1a9520015023b35b2 (diff)
PCI: acpiphp: Handle PCIe ports without native hotplug capability
Commit 0d52f54e2ef64c189dedc332e680b2eb4a34590a (PCI / ACPI: Make acpiphp ignore root bridges using PCIe native hotplug) added code that made the acpiphp driver completely ignore PCIe root complexes for which the kernel had been granted control of the native PCIe hotplug feature by the BIOS through _OSC. Later commit 619a5182d1f38a3d629ee48e04fa182ef9170052 "PCI hotplug: Always allow acpiphp to handle non-PCIe bridges" relaxed the constraints to allow acpiphp driver handle non-PCIe bridges under such a complex. The constraint needs to be relaxed further to allow acpiphp driver to handle PCIe ports without native PCIe hotplug capability. Some MR-IOV switch chipsets, such PLX8696, support multiple virtual PCIe switches and may migrate downstream ports among virtual switches. To migrate a downstream port from the source virtual switch to the target, the port needs to be hot-removed from the source and hot-added into the target. The pciehp driver can't be used here because there are no slots within the virtual PCIe switch. So acpiphp driver is used to support downstream port migration. A typical configuration is as below: [Root without native PCIe HP] [Upstream port of vswitch without native PCIe HP] [Downstream port of vswitch with native PCIe HP] [PCIe endpoint] Here acpiphp driver will be used to handle root ports and upstream port in the virtual switch, and pciehp driver will be used to handle downstream ports in the virtual switch. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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