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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
To: Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Komali Katari <komali@chelsio.com>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"Bryant G. Ly" <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Juan Alvarez <jjalvare@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 4.14.0-rc3 is auto-reloading PCIe SR-IOV Virtual Function device drivers when VFs are attached to VMs ...
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:12:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAErSpo76LN8sMS6G0oFJuo_vWUeATt6TKT3SBEJVT+mAvxe1xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR12MB1600C4F1693E88236CA8F78EC84C0@MWHPR12MB1600.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

[+cc Alex, Bryant, Steven, Juan]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>   I hope this is the right Linux list for this issue.  One of our QA staff
> has noticed a new behavior starting about 4.14.0-rc3.  We instantiate PCIe
> SR-IOV Virtual Functions and the corresponding driver (cxgb4vf in this case)
> is automatically loaded.  That's fine and has been the case for some time.
> But, we remove the driver module (rmmod cxgb4vf) and then attach one of the
> VFs to a KVM Virtual Machine and the cxgb4vf driver module gets reloaded in
> the KVM Hypervisor.  This is new behavior.  I see that there was a pretty
> big change done by Luis R. Rodriguez in kernel.org commit revision 2355869
> but we haven't yet isolated the new behavior to that commit.  That'll be our
> next test but I wanted to get this out there for comment.

This is a good list.  I don't know what commit revision 2355869 refers
to.  It would be helpful if you could cite the git SHA1 for the
commit.

We're also having a conversation about the question of binding drivers
to VFs on powerpc here:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170922140608.47665-3-bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com

It's not exactly the same issue, but you might have useful input there.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-17 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-17 18:36 4.14.0-rc3 is auto-reloading PCIe SR-IOV Virtual Function device drivers when VFs are attached to VMs Casey Leedom
2017-10-17 19:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2017-10-17 19:37 ` Alex Williamson
2017-10-17 20:54   ` Casey Leedom
     [not found]     ` <CAB=NE6U-1ytEbL9A2FeVjcOfN3VSNAJUa9JbsQH9UfjRfANKxw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-10-18 17:09       ` Casey Leedom
2017-10-18 17:18         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-10-18 17:23           ` Casey Leedom
2017-12-13 21:33             ` Casey Leedom
2017-12-13 21:47               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-12-13 21:54                 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-13 22:04                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-12-13 22:06                     ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-13 22:12                       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-13 22:18                 ` Casey Leedom
2017-10-18 18:02         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-10-18 18:26           ` Casey Leedom

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