Re: vfio-pci rejects binding to devices having same pcie vendor id and device id

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[+cc VFIO folks and Zhenzhong (author of the commit you mention)]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:24:31PM +0530, Major Saheb wrote:
> I have a linux system running in kvm, with 6 qemu emulated NVMe
> drives, as expected all of them have the same PCIe Vendor ID and
> Device ID(VID: 0x1b36 DID: 0x0010).
>
> When I try to unbind them from the kernel NVMe driver and bind it to
> vfio-pci one by one, I am getting "write error: File exists" when I
> try to bind the 2nd(and other) drive to vfio-pci.
> 
> Kernel version
> 
> 5.15.0-56-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 22 19:54:14 UTC 2022 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec  8 11:32 /sys/block/nvme0n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec  8 11:32 /sys/block/nvme1n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/nvme/nvme1/nvme1n1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec  8 11:32 /sys/block/nvme2n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/nvme/nvme2/nvme2n1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec  8 11:32 /sys/block/nvme3n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/nvme/nvme3/nvme3n1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec  8 11:32 /sys/block/nvme4n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/nvme/nvme4/nvme4n1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec  8 11:32 /sys/block/nvme5n1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/nvme/nvme5/nvme5n1
> 
> Steps for repro
> ubind nvme2 from kernel NVMe driver and bind it to vfio
> $ ls -l /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec  8 13:04 0000:00:05.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0
> --w------- 1 root root 4096 Dec  8 13:07 bind
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec  8 13:07 module -> ../../../../module/vfio_pci
> --w------- 1 root root 4096 Dec  8 13:04 new_id
> --w------- 1 root root 4096 Dec  8 13:07 remove_id
> --w------- 1 root root 4096 Dec  8 11:32 uevent
> --w------- 1 root root 4096 Dec  8 13:07 unbind
> 
> Unbind nvme3 from  kernel NVMe driver
> Try binding to vfio-pci
> # echo "0x1b36  0x0010" >  /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_id
> -bash: echo: write error: File exists
> 
> Not sure but this seems interesting
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3853f9123c185eb4018f5ccd3cdda5968efb5e10#diff-625d2827bff96bb3a019fa705d99f0b89ec32f281c38a844457b3413d9172007
> 
> Can some help ?



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