On 2016/1/5 5:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 14:07 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 16:50 +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
Current vfio-pci implementation disallows to mmap MSI-X
table in case that user get to touch this directly.
However, EEH mechanism can ensure that a given pci device
can only shoot the MSIs assigned for its PE. So we think
it's safe to expose the MSI-X table to userspace because
the exposed MSI-X table can't be used to do harm to other
memory space.
And with MSI-X table mmapped, some performance issues which
are caused when PCI adapters have critical registers in the
same page as the MSI-X table also can be resolved.
So this patch adds a Kconfig option, VFIO_PCI_MMAP_MSIX,
to support for mmapping MSI-X table.
Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig | 4 ++++
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig b/drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig
index 02912f1..67b0a2c 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/Kconfig
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ config VFIO_PCI_MMAP
depends on VFIO_PCI
def_bool y if !S390
+config VFIO_PCI_MMAP_MSIX
+ depends on VFIO_PCI_MMAP
+ def_bool y if EEH
Does CONFIG_EEH necessarily mean the EEH is enabled? Could the
system
not support EEH or could EEH be disabled via kernel commandline
options?
EEH is definitely the wrong thing to test here anyway. What needs to be
tested is that the PCI Host bridge supports filtering of MSIs, so
ideally this should be some kind of host bridge attribute set by the
architecture backend.
So do you mean this attribute can be added in pci_host_bridge like this:
--- a/include/linux/pci.h
+++ b/include/linux/pci.h
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ struct pci_host_bridge {
void (*release_fn)(struct pci_host_bridge *);
void *release_data;
unsigned int ignore_reset_delay:1; /* for entire hierarchy */
+ unsigned int msix_filtered:1; /* support filtering of MSIs */
/* Resource alignment requirements */
resource_size_t (*align_resource)(struct pci_dev *dev,
const struct resource *res,
I can surely do it if there is no objection from PCI folks. Thanks.
Regards,
Yongji Xie
This can happen with or without CONFIG_EEH and you are right,
CONFIG_EEH can be enabled and the machine not support it.
Any IODA bridge will support this.
Cheers,
Ben.
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