Re: [PATCH] PCI: allow pci_resize_resource() to be used on devices on the root bus

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Am 26.04.20 um 12:46 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 11:58, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 11:08, Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 25.04.20 um 19:32 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 19:07, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 18:43, Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 21.04.20 um 18:22 schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
When resizing a BAR, pci_reassign_bridge_resources() is invoked to
bring the bridge windows of parent bridges in line with the new BAR
assignment.

This assumes that the device whose BAR is being resized lives on a
subordinate bus, but this is not necessarily the case. A device may
live on the root bus, in which case dev->bus->self is NULL, and
passing a NULL pci_dev pointer to pci_reassign_bridge_resources()
will cause it to crash.

So let's make the call to pci_reassign_bridge_resources() conditional
on whether dev->bus->self is non-NULL in the first place.

Fixes: 8bb705e3e79d84e7 ("PCI: Add pci_resize_resource() for resizing BARs")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sounds like it makes sense, patch is
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>.
Thanks Christian.

May I ask where you found that condition?

In this particular case, it was on an ARM board with funky PCIe IP
that does not expose a root port in its bus hierarchy.

But in the general case, PCIe endpoints can be integrated into the
root complex, in which case they appear on the root bus, and there is
no reason such endpoints shouldn't be allowed to have resizable BARs.
Actually, looking at this more carefully, I think
pci_reassign_bridge_resources() needs to do /something/ to ensure that
the resources are reshuffled if needed when the resized BAR overlaps
with another one.
The resized BAR never overlaps with an existing one since to resize a
BAR it needs to be deallocated and disabled. This is done as a
precaution to avoid potential incorrect routing and decode of memory access.

The call to pci_reassign_bridge_resources() is only there to change the
resources of the upstream bridge to the device which is resized and not
to adjust the resources of the device itself.

So does that mean that BAR resizing is only possible if no other BARs,
either on the same device or on other ones, need to be moved?
OK, so obviously, the current code already releases and reassigns
resources on the same device.

What I am not getting is how this works with more complex topologies, e.g.,

RP 1
multi function device (e.g., GPU + HDMI)
GPU BAR 0 256M
GPU BAR 1 16 M
HDMI BAR 0 16 KB

RP 2
some other endpoint using MMIO64 BARs

So in this case, RP1 will get a prefetchable bridge BAR window of 512
M, and RP2 may get one that is directly adjacent to that. When
resizing GPU BAR 0 to 4 GB, the whole hierarchy needs to be
reshuffled, right?

Correct, yes. Because you not only need to configure the BARs of the device(s), but also the bridges in between to get the routing right.

Just wrote another mail with an example how this works on amdgpu. What aids us in amdgpu is that the devices only has two 64bit BARs, the FB/VRAM which we want to resize and the doorbell.

I can easily disable access to the doorbell BAR temporary in amdgpu, otherwise the whole resize wouldn't work at all.

Regards,
Christian.




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