Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 2 authors, 2016-07-12

Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] PCI: Ignore enforced alignment to VF BARs

From: Gavin Shan <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-01 00:40:11
Also in: linux-pci, lkml

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 06:53:08PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
VF BARs are read-only zeroes according to SRIOV spec,
the normal way(writing BARs) of allocating resources wouldn't
be applied to VFs. The VFs' resources would be allocated
when we enable SR-IOV capability. So we should not try to
reassign alignment after we enable VFs. It's meaningless
and will release the allocated resources which leads to a bug.

Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <redacted>
---
drivers/pci/pci.c |    4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
index be8f72c..6ae02de 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
@@ -4822,6 +4822,10 @@ void pci_reassigndev_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev)
	resource_size_t align, size;
	u16 command;

+	/* We should never try to reassign VF's alignment */
+	if (dev->is_virtfn)
+		return;
+
Yongji, I think it's correct to ignore VF's BARs. Another concern is:
it's safe to apply alignment to PF's IOV BARs? Lets have an extreme
example here: one PF has 16 VFs; each VF has only one 1KB. It means
the only PF IOV BAR is 16KB. I don't see how it works after expanding
it to 64KB which is the page size. It might be not a problem on PowerNV
platform, but potentially a issue on x86?
	/* check if specified PCI is target device to reassign */
	align = pci_specified_resource_alignment(dev);
	if (!align)
Thanks,
Gavin
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