RE: [PATCH v5 03/23] PCI: hotplug: Add a flag for the movable BARs feature

From: Bjorn Helgaas

Sent: 27 September 2019 23:02
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 07:50:41PM +0300, Sergey Miroshnichenko wrote:

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When hot-adding a device, the bridge may have windows not big enough (or
fragmented too much) for newly requested BARs to fit in. And expanding
these bridge windows may be impossible because blocked by "neighboring"
BARs and bridge windows.

Still, it may be possible to allocate a memory region for new BARs with the
following procedure:

1) notify all the drivers which support movable BARs to pause and release
   the BARs; the rest of the drivers are guaranteed that their devices will
   not get BARs moved;

2) release all the bridge windows except of root bridges;

3) try to recalculate new bridge windows that will fit all the BAR types:
   - fixed;
   - immovable;
   - movable;
   - newly requested by hot-added devices;

4) if the previous step fails, disable BARs for one of the hot-added
   devices and retry from step 3;

5) notify the drivers, so they remap BARs and resume.

You don't do the actual recalculation in *this* patch, but since you
mention the procedure here, are we confident that we never make things
worse?

It's possible that a hot-add will trigger this attempt to move things
around, and it's possible that we won't find space for the new device
even if we move things around.  But are we certain that every device
that worked *before* the hot-add will still work *afterwards*?

Much of the assignment was probably done by the BIOS using different
algorithms than Linux has, so I think there's some chance that the
BIOS did a better job and if we lose that BIOS assignment, we might
not be able to recreate it.

Yep, removing everything and starting again is probably OTT and most of the churn won't help.

I think you need to work out what can be moved in order to make the required resources available
to each bus and then make the required changes.

In the simplest case you are trying to add resource below a bridge so need to 'shuffle'
everything allocated after that bridge to later addresses (etc).

Many devices that support address reassignment might not need to be moved - so there is
no point remmapping them.

There is also the case when a device that is present but not currently is use could be taken
through a remove+insert sequence in order to change its resources.
Much easier to implement than 'remap while active'.
This would require a call into the driver (than can sleep) to request whether it is idle.
(and probably one at the end if the remove wasn't done).

	David

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