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

From: Gavin Shan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 10:31:24 +1000

On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 02:40:16PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
>Hi Gavin,
>
>On 2016/7/1 14:05, Gavin Shan wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 01:27:17PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
>>>>On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 06:53:08PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
>>>>>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 <[email-masked]>
>>>>>---
>>>>>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?
>>>Seems like the alignment would not be applied to IOV BARs because
>>>pci_reassigndev_resource_alignment() will be called before
>>>sriov_init().
>>>
>>Correct, thanks for the claim. I guess the alignment applied to PF IOV
>>BARs should be ignored as well? Anyway, the IOV BARs are retireved from
>>SRIOV capability. It deserves a comment if you plan to take the change.
>>Actually, the comment here (for ignoring alignment to VF BARs) can be
>>improved a bit as well, it'd better why the alignment cannot be applied.
>>
>
>Do you mean we should ignore PF IOV BARs like this:
>
>--- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>+++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>@@ -4833,7 +4833,7 @@ void pci_reassigndev_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev
>*dev)
>        command &= ~PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY;
>        pci_write_config_word(dev, PCI_COMMAND, command);
>
>-       for (i = 0; i < PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCES; i++) {
>+       for (i = 0; i <= PCI_ROM_RESOURCE; i++) {
>                r = &dev->resource[i];
>                if (!(r->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM))
>                        continue;
>

Yeah, I think it's what I expected. Please add a comment to explain
why PCI bridge windows and PF's IOV BARs are not involed.

Thanks,
Gavin