Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] PCI: Add support for PCI Enhanced Allocation "BARs"

["Sean O. Stalley" <sean.stalley@intel.com>]

Signed-off-by: Sean O. Stalley <sean.stalley@intel.com>

I tested it out with the QEMU EA Patches here:
	[https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg00348.html]

Also, I found 1 trivial typo in the commit message of PATCH 1/4:
	"Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>"

-Sean

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 06:44:52AM -0700, Stalley, Sean wrote:
> [PATCH 3/4 & 4/4] Acked-by: Sean O. Stalley <sean.stalley@intel.com>
> 
> I won't be able to test it out until next week, but I like how it looks :)
> 
> Thanks Again,
> Sean
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Daney [mailto:ddaney.cavm@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 4:51 PM
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-pci@vger.kernel.org; Bjorn Helgaas;
> > Michael S. Tsirkin; Rafał Miłecki; linux-api@vger.kernel.org; Stalley, Sean;
> > yinghai@kernel.org; rajatxjain@gmail.com; gong.chen@linux.intel.com
> > Cc: David Daney
> > Subject: [PATCH v5 0/4] PCI: Add support for PCI Enhanced Allocation
> > "BARs"
> > 
> > From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> > 
> > The original patches are from Sean O. Stalley. I made a few tweaks, but feel
> > that it is substancially Sean's work, so I am keeping the patch set version
> > numbering scheme going.
> > 
> > Tested on Cavium ThunderX system with 4 Root Complexes containing 50
> > devices/bridges provisioned with EA.
> > 
> > Here is Sean's description of the patches:
> > 
> > PCI Enhanced Allocation is a new method of allocating MMIO & IO
> > resources for PCI devices & bridges. It can be used instead of the traditional
> > PCI method of using BARs.
> > 
> > EA entries are hardware-initialized to a fixed address.
> > Unlike BARs, regions described by EA are cannot be moved.
> > Because of this, only devices which are permanently connected to the PCI
> > bus can use EA. A removable PCI card must not use EA.
> > 
> > This patchset adds support for using EA entries instead of BARs on Root
> > Complex Integrated Endpoints.
> > 
> > The Enhanced Allocation ECN is publicly available here:
> > https://www.pcisig.com/specifications/conventional/ECN_Enhanced_Alloca
> > tion_23_Oct_2014_Final.pdf
> > 
> > 
> > Changes from V1:
> > 	- Use generic PCI resource claim functions (instead of EA-specific
> > functions)
> > 	- Only add support for RCiEPs (instead of all devices).
> > 	- Removed some debugging messages leftover from early testing.
> > 
> > Changes from V2 (By David Daney):
> > 	- Add ea_cap to struct pci_device, to aid in finding the EA capability.
> > 	- Factored EA entity decoding into a separate function.
> > 	- Add functions to find EA entities by BEI or Property.
> > 	- Add handling of EA provisioned bridges.
> > 	- Add handling of EA SRIOV BARs.
> > 	- Try to assign proper resource parent so that SRIOV device creation
> > can occur.
> > 
> > Changes from V3 (By David Daney):
> > 	- Discarded V3 changes and started over fresh based on Sean's V2.
> > 	- Add more support/checking for Entry Properties.
> > 	- Allow EA behind bridges.
> > 	- Rewrite some error messages.
> > 	- Add patch 3/5 to prevent resizing, and better handle
> >           assigning, of fixed EA resources.
> > 	- Add patch 4/5 to handle EA provisioned SRIOV devices.
> > 	- Add patch 5/5 to handle EA provisioned bridges.
> > 
> > Changes from V4 (By David Daney):
> > 	- Drop patch 5/5 to handle EA provisioned bridges.
> > 	- Drop cases for bridge resources in 2/5.
> > 	- Drop unnecessary fallback resource parent handling in 3/5
> > 	- Small code formatting improvements.
> > 
> > David Daney (2):
> >   PCI: Handle IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED when sizing and assigning resources.
> >   PCI: Handle Enhanced Allocation (EA) capability for SRIOV devices.
> > 
> > Sean O. Stalley (2):
> >   PCI: Add Enhanced Allocation register entries
> >   PCI: Add support for Enhanced Allocation devices
> > 
> >  drivers/pci/iov.c             |  11 ++-
> >  drivers/pci/pci.c             | 189
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/pci/pci.h             |   1 +
> >  drivers/pci/probe.c           |   3 +
> >  drivers/pci/setup-bus.c       |  50 ++++++++++-
> >  include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h |  44 +++++++++-
> >  6 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --
> > 1.9.1
>