Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: Introduce flag for detached virtual functions

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On 8/12/20 4:32 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:21:11 -0400
Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

s390x has the notion of providing VFs to the kernel in a manner
where the associated PF is inaccessible other than via firmware.
These are not treated as typical VFs and access to them is emulated
by underlying firmware which can still access the PF.  After
abafbc55 however these detached VFs were no longer able to work
with vfio-pci as the firmware does not provide emulation of the
PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY bit.  In this case, let's explicitly recognize
these detached VFs so that vfio-pci can allow memory access to
them again.


Might as well include a fixes tag too.

Fixes: abafbc551fdd ("vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory")

You might also extend the sha1 in the log to 12 chars as well, or
replace it with a reference to the fixes tag.

Sure.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
..snip..
diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
index 8355306..23a6972 100644
--- a/include/linux/pci.h
+++ b/include/linux/pci.h
@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ struct pci_dev {
  	unsigned int	is_probed:1;		/* Device probing in progress */
  	unsigned int	link_active_reporting:1;/* Device capable of reporting link active */
  	unsigned int	no_vf_scan:1;		/* Don't scan for VFs after IOV enablement */
+	unsigned int	detached_vf:1;		/* VF without local PF access */

Is there too much implicit knowledge in defining a "detached VF"?  For
example, why do we know that we can skip the portion of
vfio_config_init() that copies the vendor and device IDs from the
struct pci_dev into the virtual config space?  It's true on s390x, but
I think that's because we know that firmware emulates those registers
for us.  We also skip the INTx pin register sanity checking.  Do we do
that because we haven't installed the broken device into an s390x
system?  Because we know firmware manages that for us too?  Or simply
because s390x doesn't support INTx anyway, and therefore it's another
architecture implicit decision?

That's a fair point. This was also discussed (overnight for me) in another thread that this patch is very s390-specific. It doesn't have to be, we could also emulate these additional pieces to make things more general-purpose here.


If detached_vf is really equivalent to is_virtfn for all cases that
don't care about referencing physfn on the pci_dev, then we should
probably have a macro to that effect.  Otherwise, if we're just trying
to describe that the memory bit of the command register is
unimplemented but always enabled, like a VF, should we specifically
describe that attribute instead?  If so, should we instead do that with
pci_dev_flags_t?  Thanks,

Well, that's the particular issue that got us looking at this but I'm not so sure we wouldn't find further oddities later, hence the desire for a more general-purpose bit.


Alex

  	pci_dev_flags_t dev_flags;
  	atomic_t	enable_cnt;	/* pci_enable_device has been called */





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