Re: [PATCH] PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-test: Limit PCIe BAR size for fixed BARs

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@mailbox.org>]

On 9/5/25 9:43 AM, Jerome Brunet wrote:

Hello Jerome,

>>> pci_epf_alloc_space() works like this:
>>> If the user requests a BAR size that is smaller than the fixed-size BAR,
>>> it will allocate space matching the fixed-size.
>>> As in most cases, having a BAR larger than needed by an EPF driver is
>>> still acceptable.
>>> However, if the user requests a size larger than the fixed-size BAR,
>>> as in your case, we will return an error, as we cannot fulfill the
>>> user's request.
>>> I don't see any alternative other than your/Damien's proposal above.
>>> Unfortunately, all EPF drivers would probably need this same change.
>>
>> It seems that pci-epf-ntb and pci-epf-vntb only use BAR0 (BAR_CONFIG) and
>> BAR0+BAR1 (BAR_CONFIG and BAR_DB) , so those should be OK on this
>> controller. NVMe EPF also seems to use only BAR0 and it specifically
>> handles fixed size BAR. It seems everything that is in the tree so far
>> managed to sidestep hitting fixed-size BAR4 problems on this hardware,
>> except for the test driver.
> 
> As it stands, a vNTB device needs 3 BARs minimum (CFG, DB and MW). The
> NTB one may get away with with 2 BARs, with DB and MW sharing one.

I clearly missed the MW, thanks for pointing this out.

> If you referring to Renesas about that BAR4, I did use it for vNTB.
> It is indeed not upstream ... yet [1]
> 
> I think it is possible to have vNTB on 2 BARs with some tweaks, putting
> CFG and DB on the same one.
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250702-ntb-rcar-support-v3-2-4268d9c85eb7@baylibre.com

Nitpick, commit message, "Renesas R-Car Gen4" (Gen3 has a different PCIe 
controller) . Please CC linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org on V3 , thank 
you !

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut