Re: [PATCH 01/12] pci-p2p: Support peer to peer memory

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Thanks for the speedy review!

On 04/01/18 02:40 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
Run "git log --oneline drivers/pci" and follow the convention.  I
think it would make sense to add a new tag like "PCI/P2P", although
"P2P" has historically also been used in the "PCI-to-PCI bridge"
context, so maybe there's something less ambiguous.  "P2PDMA"?

Ok, I'll fix this for v2. I'm fine with renaming things to p2pdma

When you add new files, I guess we're looking for the new SPDX
copyright stuff?

Will do.

It's more than "non-trivial" or "with good performance" (from Kconfig
help), isn't it?  AFAIK, there's no standard way at all to discover
whether P2P DMA is supported between root ports or RCs.

Yup, that's correct. This would have to be done with a white list.


s/bars/BARs/ (and similarly below, except in C code)
Similarly, s/dma/DMA/ and s/pci/PCI/ below.
And probably also s/p2p/peer-to-peer DMA/ in messages.

Will do.

Maybe clarify this domain bit.  Using "domain" suggests the common PCI
segment/domain usage, but I think you really mean something like the
part of the hierarchy where peer-to-peer DMA is guaranteed by the PCI
spec to work, i.e., anything below a single PCI bridge.

Ok, I like the wording you proposed.



Seems like there should be

   if (!(pci_resource_flags(pdev, bar) & IORESOURCE_MEM))
     return -EINVAL;

or similar here?

That sounds like a good idea. Will add.


+	if (WARN_ON(offset >= pci_resource_len(pdev, bar)))
+		return -EINVAL;

Are these WARN_ONs for debugging purposes, or do you think we need
them in production?  Granted, hitting it would probably be a kernel
driver bug, but still, not sure if the PCI core needs to coddle the
driver author that much.

Sure, I'll drop all the WARN_ONs.

I'm guessing Christoph's dev_pagemap revamp repo must change
pgmap->res from a pointer to a structure, but I don't see the actual
link in your cover letter.

Sorry, the patch set is here:

https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxx/msg07323.html

git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git hch/pgmap-cleanups.3

I think you should set pgmap->res.flags here, too.

Sure, I don't think it's used and not set by the NVDIMM code; but I agree that it'd be a good idea to set it anyway.

+	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "added %zdB of p2p memory\n", size);

Can we add %pR and print pgmap->res itself, too?

Yup.

You have a bit of a mix of PCI ("pci device", "bridge") and PCIe
("switch", "switch port") terminology.  I haven't read the rest of the
patches yet, so I don't know if you intend to restrict this to
PCIe-only, e.g., so you can use ACS, or if you want to make it
available on conventional PCI as well.

If the latter, I would use the generic PCI terminology, i.e., "bridge"
instead of "switch".

Ok, I'll change it to use the generic term bridge. There's no restriction in the code to limit it to PCIe only, though I don't expect anybody will ever be using this with legacy PCI.

+ * pci_virt_to_bus - return the pci bus address for a given virtual
+ *	address obtained with pci_alloc_p2pmem
+ * @pdev:	the device the memory was allocated from
+ * @addr:	address of the memory that was allocated
+ */
+pci_bus_addr_t pci_p2pmem_virt_to_bus(struct pci_dev *pdev, void *addr)
+{
+	if (!addr)
+		return 0;
+	if (!pdev->p2p)
+		return 0;
+
+	return gen_pool_virt_to_phys(pdev->p2p->pool, (unsigned long)addr);

This doesn't seem right.  A physical address is not the same as a PCI
bus address.  I expected something like pci_bus_address() or
pcibios_resource_to_bus() here.  Am I missing something?  If so, a
clarifying comment would be helpful.

What you're missing is that when we called gen_pool_add_virt we used the PCI bus address as the physical address and not the CPU physical address (which we don't care about). I'll add a comment explaining this.

I've been noticing that we're accumulating PCI-related files in
include/linux: pci.h, pci-aspm.h pci-ats.h, pci-dma.h, pcieport_if.h,
etc.  I'm not sure there's value in all those and am thinking maybe
they should just be folded into pci.h.  What do you think?

We started with that. Once we reached a certain amount of code, Christoph suggested we put it in its own header.

Logan



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