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Simone 3cd1d6e0a6 i2c-imc-skylake: split the submission into a PCI patch and the driver
The driver reached the PCU function's config space by walking the ACPI MCFG
table and mapping the ECAM page itself. That is one leaf driver deciding
config-space policy, and no other driver in mainline does it, so it was the
single most likely reason for a NAK.

Move that decision where it belongs: the upstream series is now two patches,
a PCI/x86 accessor that forces the memory-mapped path with the core's
locking, and this driver on top of it. Reviewers on each side now get
something they can act on, and get_maintainer.pl selects the PCI and x86
people by itself.

Correctness work in the same pass:

  - the completion bits are latched, so a command the engine never accepted
    was indistinguishable from a completed one and returned the previous
    transaction's data as valid. Require a positive sign that the engine
    acted on the command;
  - compare the command registers after every transfer against what the
    driver left in them and fail with -EAGAIN on a mismatch. The original
    iMC driver had this check and it is what makes an unarbitrated system
    detectable instead of silently wrong;
  - use the i2c core's suspended-adapter mechanism rather than a private
    flag and -EHOSTDOWN;
  - use devm_mutex_init(), drop the unnecessary pci_enable_device(), and
    return -ENODEV rather than -EPERM from the default-off gate, which was
    printing a driver-core error on every boot;
  - mask GO when restoring a saved command word.

Stop attributing the dropped CF8/CFC write to System Management Mode. The
only evidence was a boot log line naming the access method, which says
nothing about who filters the write. tools/probe-cf8-write.sh is there to
settle it with an MSR_SMI_COUNT measurement.

Add Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-imc-skylake.rst, which every other PC SMBus
driver has and which was explicitly asked for on the 2020 iMC thread, the
tools/ scripts for the hardware measurements the submission still owes, and
compat/pci-mmcfg-compat.h so the driver still builds out-of-tree against a
kernel without the new accessor while the source stays byte-identical to the
submitted patch.
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config I2C_IMC_SKYLAKE
tristate "Intel Skylake-X iMC SMBus adapter"
depends on PCI && (PCI_MMCONFIG || COMPILE_TEST)
help
Say Y here if you want kernel support for the integrated memory
controller (iMC) SMBus engine found in Intel Skylake-X / Cascade
Lake-X processors (socket LGA 2066, platform X299, PCU function
8086:2085).
The engine is exposed through the PCI configuration space of the
PCU function. Those registers are unreachable through the config
accessors the platform selects for the first 256 bytes, so the
driver reaches them through the memory-mapped (ECAM) path. Two
I2C adapters are registered, one per hardware SMBus channel,
allowing access to DDR4 DIMM SPD EEPROMs (0x50-0x57) and thermal
sensors from userspace via standard i2c-tools and lm-sensors.
Firmware, SMM, a BMC or CLTT may drive the same engine and no
generic arbitration mechanism is known. The driver therefore
refuses to bind unless the allow_unsafe_access module parameter
is enabled. See Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-imc-skylake.rst.
If unsure, say N. This driver is only useful on Intel X299 desktop
/ HEDT systems with the Skylake-X or Cascade Lake-X CPU.
This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
will be called i2c-imc-skylake.