Subject: Re: [PATCH V9 9/9] virtio: Intel IFC VF driver for VDPA

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 16:25:15 -0400

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 12:41:13PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:08 PM Jason Wang <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Zhu Lingshan <[email-masked]>
> >
> > This commit introduced two layers to drive IFC VF:
> >
> > (1) ifcvf_base layer, which handles IFC VF NIC hardware operations and
> >     configurations.
> >
> > (2) ifcvf_main layer, which complies to VDPA bus framework,
> >     implemented device operations for VDPA bus, handles device probe,
> >     bus attaching, vring operations, etc.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Bie Tiwei <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Wang Xiao <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <[email-masked]>
> 
> > +
> > +#define IFCVF_QUEUE_ALIGNMENT  PAGE_SIZE
> > +#define IFCVF_QUEUE_MAX                32768
> > +static u16 ifcvf_vdpa_get_vq_align(struct vdpa_device *vdpa_dev)
> > +{
> > +       return IFCVF_QUEUE_ALIGNMENT;
> > +}
> 
> This fails to build on arm64 with 64kb page size (found in linux-next):
> 
> /drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c: In function 'ifcvf_vdpa_get_vq_align':
> arch/arm64/include/asm/page-def.h:17:20: error: conversion from 'long
> unsigned int' to 'u16' {aka 'short unsigned int'} changes value from
> '65536' to '0' [-Werror=overflow]
>    17 | #define PAGE_SIZE  (_AC(1, UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
>       |                    ^
> drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_base.h:37:31: note: in expansion of macro 'PAGE_SIZE'
>    37 | #define IFCVF_QUEUE_ALIGNMENT PAGE_SIZE
>       |                               ^~~~~~~~~
> drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c:231:9: note: in expansion of macro
> 'IFCVF_QUEUE_ALIGNMENT'
>   231 |  return IFCVF_QUEUE_ALIGNMENT;
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> It's probably good enough to just not allow the driver to be built in that
> configuration as it's fairly rare but unfortunately there is no simple Kconfig
> symbol for it.
> 
> In a similar driver, we did
> 
> config VMXNET3
>         tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
>         depends on PCI && INET
>         depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \
>                      IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \
>                      PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES)
> 
> I think we should probably make PAGE_SIZE_64KB a global symbol
> in arch/Kconfig and have it selected by the other symbols so drivers
> like yours can add a dependency for it.
> 
>          Arnd

It's probably easier to make the alignment u32 - I don't really know why it's
u16, all callers seem to assign the result to a u32 value.