From: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:03:18 +0530
> From: Casey Leedom <leedom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We've run into a problem where our device is attached
> to a Virtual Machine and the use of the new pci_set_vpd_size()
> API doesn't help. The VM kernel has been informed that
> the accesses are okay, but all of the actual VPD Capability
> Accesses are trapped down into the KVM Hypervisor where it
> goes ahead and imposes the silent denials.
>
> The right idea is to follow the kernel.org
> commit 1c7de2b4ff88 ("PCI: Enable access to non-standard VPD for
> Chelsio devices (cxgb3)") which Alexey Kardashevskiy authored
> to establish a PCI Quirk for our T3-based adapters. This commit
> extends that PCI Quirk to cover Chelsio T4 devices and later.
>
> The advantage of this approach is that the VPD Size gets set early
> in the Base OS/Hypervisor Boot and doesn't require that the cxgb4
> driver even be available in the Base OS/Hypervisor. Thus PF4 can
> be exported to a Virtual Machine and everything should work.
>
> Fixes: 67e658794ca1 ("cxgb4: Set VPD size so we can read both VPD structures")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.9+
> Signed-off-by: Casey Leedom <leedom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arjun Vynipadath <arjun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, thanks.
