From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752003AbcGAF2E (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2016 01:28:04 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:33073 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751674AbcGAF2B (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2016 01:28:01 -0400 X-IBM-Helo: d23dlp03.au.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] PCI: Ignore enforced alignment to VF BARs To: Gavin Shan References: <1467283993-3185-1-git-send-email-xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1467283993-3185-3-git-send-email-xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160701003959.GB15147@gwshan> Cc: nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, aik@ozlabs.ru, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org, bhelgaas@google.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org From: Yongji Xie Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 13:27:17 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160701003959.GB15147@gwshan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 16070105-0040-0000-0000-000001BBE157 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 16070105-0041-0000-0000-000009FECB00 Message-Id: <21112bd7-d343-46b6-1df1-b20cc1c1b24e@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2016-07-01_01:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1604210000 definitions=main-1607010052 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Gavin, On 2016/7/1 8:39, Gavin Shan 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 >> --- >> 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(). Thanks, Yongji