Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: Introduce flag for detached virtual functions

Oliver O'Halloran
2020-08-13T10:00:08Z

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 8/13/20 3:55 AM, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 5:21 AM Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> *snip*
> >> diff --git a/arch/s390/pci/pci.c b/arch/s390/pci/pci.c
> >> index 3902c9f..04ac76d 100644
> >> --- a/arch/s390/pci/pci.c
> >> +++ b/arch/s390/pci/pci.c
> >> @@ -581,6 +581,14 @@ int pcibios_enable_device(struct pci_dev *pdev, int mask)
> >> {
> >> struct zpci_dev *zdev = to_zpci(pdev);
> >>
> >> + /*
> >> + * If we have a VF on a non-multifunction bus, it must be a VF that is
> >> + * detached from its parent PF. We rely on firmware emulation to
> >> + * provide underlying PF details.
> >> + */
> >> + if (zdev->vfn && !zdev->zbus->multifunction)
> >> + pdev->detached_vf = 1;
> >
> > The enable hook seems like it's a bit too late for this sort of
> > screwing around with the pci_dev. Anything in the setup path that
> > looks at ->detached_vf would see it cleared while anything that looks
> > after the device is enabled will see it set. Can this go into
> > pcibios_add_device() or a fixup instead?
> >
>
> This particular check could go into pcibios_add_device() yes.
> We're also currently working on a slight rework of how
> we establish the VF to parent PF linking including the sysfs
> part of that. The latter sadly can only go after the sysfs
> for the virtfn has been created and that only happens
> after all fixups. We would like to do both together because
> the latter sets pdev->is_virtfn which I think is closely related.
>
> I was thinking of starting another discussion
> about adding a hook that is executed just after the sysfs entries
> for the PCI device are created but haven't yet.

if all you need is sysfs then pcibios_bus_add_device() or a bus
notifier should work

> That said pcibios_enable_device() is called before drivers
> like vfio-pci are enabled

Hmm, is that an s390 thing? I was under the impression that drivers
handled enabling the device rather than assuming the platform did it
for them. Granted it's usually one of the first things a driver does,
but there's still scope for surprising behaviour.

> and so as long as all uses of pdev->detached_vf
> are in drivers it should be early enough. AFAIK almost everything
> dealing with VFs before that is already skipped with pdev->no_vf_scan
> though.

I'm sure it works fine in your particular case. My main gripe is that
you're adding a flag in a generic structure so people reading the code
without that context may make assumptions about when it's valid to
use. The number of pcibios_* hooks we have means that working out when
and where something happens in the pci setup path usually involves
going on a ~magical journey~ through generic and arch specific code.
It's not *that* bad once you've worked out how it all fits together,
but it's still a pain. If we can initialise stuff before the pci_dev
is added to the bus it's usually for the better.

Oliver