PCIe: SLT attribute mismatch: 0xFF020100 instead of 0x20100

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

I am working on aarch64/sbsa-ref machine so people can have virtual
machine to test their OS against something reminding standards compliant
system.

One of tools I use is BSA ACS (Base System Architecture - Architecture
Compliance Suite) [1] written by Arm. It runs set of tests to check does
system conforms to BSA specification.

1. https://github.com/ARM-software/bsa-acs


SBSA-ref goes better and better, yet still we have some issues. One of
them is test 822 ("Check Type 1 config header rules") which fails on
each PCIe root port device:

BDF 0x400 : SLT attribute mismatch: 0xFF020100 instead of 0x20100
BDF 0x500 : SLT attribute mismatch: 0xFF030300 instead of 0x30300
BDF 0x600 : SLT attribute mismatch: 0xFF040400 instead of 0x40400

I reported it as an issue [2] and got response that it may be QEMU
fault. My pcie knowledge is not good enough to know where the problem is.

2. https://github.com/ARM-software/bsa-acs/issues/193


In the comment Gowtham Siddarth wrote:

> Regarding the SLT (Secondary Latency Timer) register, the expected 
> values align with the ACS specifications, registering as 0. However, 
> a discrepancy arises in the register's attribute, intended to be set 
> as Read-Only. Contrary to this intent, the bit field seems to 
> function as> Read-Write. Ordinarily, when attempting to write to the 
> register by configuring all bits to 1, the anticipated behaviour 
> should involve rejecting the write operation, maintaining the value 
> at 0 to uphold the register's designated Read-Only nature. However, 
> in this scenario, the write action takes effect, leading to a 
> transformation of the register's value to FFs. This anomaly could 
> potentially stem from an issue within the emulator.

Does someone know where the problem may be? And how to fix it?