From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Amey Narkhede <ameynarkhede03@gmail.com>
Cc: alex.williamson@redhat.com, raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alay.shah@nutanix.com,
suresh.gumpula@nutanix.com, shyam.rajendran@nutanix.com,
felipe@nutanix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] PCI/sysfs: Allow userspace to query and set device reset mechanism
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:35:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFOPYs3IGaemTLMj@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210318170143.ustrbjaqdl644ozj@archlinux>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:31:43PM +0530, Amey Narkhede wrote:
> On 21/03/18 04:57PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 07:52:52PM +0530, Amey Narkhede wrote:
> > > On 21/03/18 11:09AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:31:40AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:58:40 +0200
> > > > > Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
<...>
> > > > I'm lost here, does vfio-pci use sysfs interface or internal to the kernel API?
> > > >
> > > > If it is latter then we don't really need sysfs, if not, we still need
> > > > some sort of DB to create second policy, because "supported != working".
> > > > What am I missing?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > Can you explain bit more about why supported != working?
> >
> > It is written in the commit message of this patch.
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210312173452.3855-1-ameynarkhede03@gmail.com/
> > "This feature aims to allow greater control of a device for use cases
> > as device assignment, where specific device or platform issues may
> > interact poorly with a given reset method, and for which device specific
> > quirks have not been developed."
> >
> > You wrote it and also repeated it a couple of times during the discussion.
> >
> > If device can understand that specific reset doesn't work, it won't
> > perform it in first place.
> >
> > Thanks
> Is it possible for device to understand whether or not specific reset
> will work or not prior to performing reset and after it indicates
> support for that reset method? Maybe theres problem with that particular
> piece of hardware in that machine.
> How can database be maintained if a particular machines have
> particular piece of faulty HW?
It was exactly the reason why I think that VM usecase presented by
you is not viable.
> If for some reason reset doesn't work it will just give -ENOTTY.
> This isn't any different from existing behavior.Actually it informs user
> that the reset method didn't reset the device and user can use different
> reset method instead of implicitly using different reset method.
> If user doesn't explicitly set preferred reset method then
> we go ahead with existing implicit fall through behavior which will try all
> available reset methods until any one of them works.
> If you have device that doesn't support reset at all then you have
> option to completely disable it unlike existing reset attribute where
> you cannot disable reset. So it gives greater control where you can
> disable the reset altogether when quirk isn't developed yet.
I explicitly asked to hear usecase, right now, I got an explanation from
Alex for policy decision (which doesn't need sysfs) and from you about
overcoming HW bugs with expectation that user will be guru of PCI reset
methods.
>
> We can't expect to develop quirk for every device in existence.
It doesn't give us an excuse do not try.
> For example on my laptop elantech touchpad still doesn't work in 2021
> with vanilla kernel, arch linux applies the patch which was reverted in
> mainline kernel for some reason.
I see it as a good example of cheap solution. Vendor won't fix your
touchpad because distros provide workaround. The same will be with reset.
Thanks
>
> Thanks,
> Amey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-18 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-12 17:34 [PATCH 0/4] Expose and manage PCI device reset ameynarkhede03
2021-03-12 17:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] PCI: Refactor pcie_flr to follow calling convention of other reset methods ameynarkhede03
2021-03-12 17:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] PCI: Add new bitmap for keeping track of supported reset mechanisms ameynarkhede03
2021-03-14 23:51 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-12 17:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] PCI: Remove reset_fn field from pci_dev ameynarkhede03
2021-03-14 23:52 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-12 17:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] PCI/sysfs: Allow userspace to query and set device reset mechanism ameynarkhede03
2021-03-14 23:55 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-15 13:43 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-15 13:52 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-15 14:34 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-15 14:52 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-15 15:03 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-17 19:02 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-17 19:15 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-17 19:24 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-17 19:32 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-17 19:40 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-17 20:00 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-17 20:13 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-18 14:31 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-23 14:34 ` Pali Rohár
2021-03-23 14:44 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-23 15:32 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-23 16:06 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-23 16:15 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-15 15:07 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-15 15:33 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-15 16:29 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-15 18:32 ` Raphael Norwitz
2021-03-17 4:20 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-17 10:24 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-17 11:02 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-17 11:23 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-17 11:47 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-17 13:17 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-17 13:58 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-17 17:31 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-18 9:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-18 14:22 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-18 14:57 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-18 17:01 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-18 17:35 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2021-03-18 17:43 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-18 18:14 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-19 13:05 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-19 15:23 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-19 15:37 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-19 15:53 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-18 17:58 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-19 13:07 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-18 16:39 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-18 17:22 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-18 17:38 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-18 18:34 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-19 12:59 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-19 13:48 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-03-19 15:51 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-19 15:57 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-03-19 16:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-19 16:23 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-20 9:10 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-20 14:59 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-21 8:40 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-21 14:57 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-22 17:10 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-24 10:03 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-24 14:37 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-24 15:13 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-24 17:17 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-25 8:37 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-25 14:55 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-25 16:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-25 17:22 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-25 17:36 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-25 17:53 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-26 6:40 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-26 9:18 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2021-03-26 12:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-26 14:20 ` Alex Williamson
2021-03-27 6:02 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-25 16:26 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-25 16:46 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-18 17:51 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
[not found] ` <20210312112043.3f2954e3@omen.home.shazbot.org>
2021-03-12 18:40 ` [PATCH 0/4] Expose and manage PCI device reset Amey Narkhede
2021-03-12 18:58 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2021-03-12 19:06 ` Amey Narkhede
2021-03-12 19:20 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2021-03-13 2:02 ` Raphael Norwitz
2021-03-14 12:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
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