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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy  <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev,
	joro@8bytes.org, bhelgaas@google.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
	will@kernel.org, jean-philippe@linaro.org,
	darren@os.amperecomputing.com, scott@os.amperecomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI/ATS: Add a helper function to configure ATS STU of a PF
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:42:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230313224225.GA1551878@bhelgaas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6339c50a-8dfe-f3a2-63d7-504abd4e62f0@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 03:30:30PM -0700, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
> On 3/13/23 2:12 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 08:21:36PM -0800, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> >> As per PCI specification (PCI Express Base Specification Revision
> >> 6.0, Section 10.5) both PF and VFs of a PCI EP are permitted to be enabled
> >> independently for ATS capability, however the STU(Smallest Translation
> >> Unit) is shared between PF and VFs. For VFs, it is hardwired to Zero and
> >> the associated PF's value applies to VFs.
> >>
> >> In the current code, the STU is being configured while enabling the PF ATS.
> >> Hence, it is not able to enable ATS for VFs, if it is not enabled on the
> >> associated PF already.
> >>
> >> Adding a function pci_ats_stu_configure(), which can be called to
> >> configure the STU during PF enumeration.
> >> Latter enumerations of VFs can successfully enable ATS independently.

> >> + * pci_ats_stu_configure - Configure STU of a PF.
> >> + * @dev: the PCI device
> >> + * @ps: the IOMMU page shift
> >> + *
> >> + * Returns 0 on success, or negative on failure.
> >> + */
> >> +int pci_ats_stu_configure(struct pci_dev *dev, int ps)
> >> +{
> >> +	u16 ctrl;
> >> +
> >> +	if (dev->ats_enabled || dev->is_virtfn)
> >> +		return 0;
> 
> We don't have any checks for the PF case here. That means you can
> re-configure the STU as many times as you want until ATS is enabled
> in PF. So, if there are active VFs which uses this STU, can PF
> re-configure the STU at will?

Really good question!  I withdraw my ack until this is resolved.

I don't think we want PFs changing STU behind the back of VFs.

Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-13 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-28  4:21 [PATCH v2 0/2] Add support to enable ATS on VFs independently Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-02-28  4:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI/ATS: Add a helper function to configure ATS STU of a PF Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-02-28 16:30   ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-08  8:54   ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-03-13 21:12   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-03-13 22:30     ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-13 22:42       ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2023-03-14 10:08       ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-03-14 12:52         ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-14 14:36           ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-03-14 16:02             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-03-14 16:50               ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-14 17:10                 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-03-14 18:01                   ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-03-14 18:12                   ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-14 21:17                     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-03-15  4:22                       ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-15 14:30                     ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-02-28  4:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Configure STU of a PF if ATS is not enabled Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-03-13 14:19   ` Ganapatrao Kulkarni
2023-03-02  4:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Add support to enable ATS on VFs independently Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy

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