Re: [PATCH kernel] PCI: Disable IOV before pcibios_sriov_disable()

From: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Date: Thu Aug 17 2017 - 18:12:55 EST


On 11/08/17 18:19, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The PowerNV platform is the only user of pcibios_sriov_disable().
> The IOV BAR could be shifted by pci_iov_update_resource(). The
> warning message in the function is printed if the IOV capability
> is in enabled (PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_VFE && PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_MSE) state.
>
> This is the backtrace of what is happening:
> pci_disable_sriov
> sriov_disable
> pnv_pci_sriov_disable
> pnv_pci_vf_resource_shift
> pci_update_resource
> pci_iov_update_resource
>
> This fixes the issue by disabling IOV capability before calling
> pcibios_sriov_disable(). With it, the disabling path matches
> the enabling path: pcibios_sriov_enable() is called before the
> IOV capability is enabled.
>
> Cc: shan.gavin@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Carol L Soto <clsoto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Carol L Soto <clsoto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This is repost. Since Gavin left the team, I am trying to push it out.
> The previos converstion is here: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/732653/
>
> Two questions were raised then. I'll try to comment on this below.

Bjorn, ping? Thanks.

>
>> 1) "res" is already in the resource tree, so we shouldn't be changing
>> its start address, because that may make the tree inconsistent,
>> e.g., the resource may no longer be completely contained in its
>> parent, it may conflict with a sibling, etc.
>
> We should not, yes. But...
>
> At the boot time IOV BAR gets as much MMIO space as it can possibly use.
> (Embarassingly I cannot trace where this is coming from, 8GB is selected
> via pci_assign_unassigned_root_bus_resources() path somehow).
> For example, it is 256*32MB=8GB where 256 is maximum PEs number and 32MB
> is a PF/VF BAR size. Whatever shifting we do afterwards, the boudaries of
> that 8GB area do not change and we test it in pnv_pci_vf_resource_shift():
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c#n987
>
>> 2) If we update "res->start", shouldn't we update "res->end"
>> correspondingly?
>
> We have to update the PF's IOV BAR address as we allocate PEs dynamically
> and we do not know in advance where our VF numbers start in that
> 8GB window. So we change IOV BASR start. Changing the end may make it
> look more like there is a free area to use but in reality it won't be
> usable as well as the area we "release" by shifting the start address.
>
> We could probably move that M64 MMIO window by the same delta in
> opposite direction so the IOV BAR start address would remain the same
> but its VF#0 would be mapped to let's say PF#5. I am just afraid there
> is an alignment requirement for these M64 window start address; and this
> would be even more tricky to manage.
>
> We could also create reserved areas for the amount of space "release" by
> moving the start address, not sure how though.
>
> So how do we proceed with this particular patch now? Thanks.
> ---
> drivers/pci/iov.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c
> index 120485d6f352..ac41c8be9200 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/iov.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/iov.c
> @@ -331,7 +331,6 @@ static int sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *dev, int nr_virtfn)
> while (i--)
> pci_iov_remove_virtfn(dev, i, 0);
>
> - pcibios_sriov_disable(dev);
> err_pcibios:
> iov->ctrl &= ~(PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_VFE | PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_MSE);
> pci_cfg_access_lock(dev);
> @@ -339,6 +338,8 @@ static int sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *dev, int nr_virtfn)
> ssleep(1);
> pci_cfg_access_unlock(dev);
>
> + pcibios_sriov_disable(dev);
> +
> if (iov->link != dev->devfn)
> sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev.kobj, "dep_link");
>
> @@ -357,14 +358,14 @@ static void sriov_disable(struct pci_dev *dev)
> for (i = 0; i < iov->num_VFs; i++)
> pci_iov_remove_virtfn(dev, i, 0);
>
> - pcibios_sriov_disable(dev);
> -
> iov->ctrl &= ~(PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_VFE | PCI_SRIOV_CTRL_MSE);
> pci_cfg_access_lock(dev);
> pci_write_config_word(dev, iov->pos + PCI_SRIOV_CTRL, iov->ctrl);
> ssleep(1);
> pci_cfg_access_unlock(dev);
>
> + pcibios_sriov_disable(dev);
> +
> if (iov->link != dev->devfn)
> sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev.kobj, "dep_link");
>
>


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Alexey