From: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com, corbet@lwn.net,
aik@ozlabs.ru, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com, zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v5 1/7] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:56:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57047AF3.7070401@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160406004840.GA6187@gwshan>
On 2016/4/6 8:48, Gavin Shan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:43:29PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
>> The resource_alignment will releases memory
>> resources allocated by firmware so that kernel
>> can reassign new resources later on. But this
>> will cause the problem that no resources can be
>> allocated by kernel if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set,
>> e.g. on pSeries platform because PCI_PROBE_ONLY
>> force kernel to use firmware setup and not to
>> reassign any resources.
>>
>> To solve this problem, this patch ignores
>> resource_alignment if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yongji Xie <xyjxie@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/pci/pci.c | 6 ++++++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> index 602eb42..1db9267 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> @@ -4607,6 +4607,12 @@ static resource_size_t pci_specified_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> spin_lock(&resource_alignment_lock);
>> p = resource_alignment_param;
>> while (*p) {
>> + if (pci_has_flag(PCI_PROBE_ONLY)) {
>> + printk(KERN_ERR "PCI: Ignore resource_alignment parameter: %s with"
>> + " PCI_PROBE_ONLY set\n", p);
>> + *p = 0;
>> + break;
> It seems no "*p = 0" isn't required if I don't miss anything. If the check
> on flag PCI_PROBE_ONLY is moved before the spin_lock(), it would save a bit
> CPU cycles at least. Also, the logic looks more clear.
I used "*p = 0" in case that the warning is called
in every pci_device_add().
And the warning should be called only when users
use resource_alignment parameter. So we test
while(*p) before we call the warning.
Thanks,
Yongji
>> + }
>> count = 0;
>> if (sscanf(p, "%d%n", &align_order, &count) == 1 &&
>> p[count] == '@') {
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-06 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-05 13:43 [RFC v5 0/7] vfio-pci: Allow to mmap sub-page MMIO BARs and MSI-X table Yongji Xie
2016-04-05 13:43 ` [RFC v5 1/7] PCI: Ignore resource_alignment if PCI_PROBE_ONLY was set Yongji Xie
2016-04-06 0:48 ` Gavin Shan
2016-04-06 2:56 ` Yongji Xie [this message]
2016-04-05 13:43 ` [RFC v5 2/7] PCI: Do not Use IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN to identify bridge resources Yongji Xie
2016-04-06 0:55 ` Gavin Shan
2016-04-06 2:16 ` Yongji Xie
2016-04-05 13:43 ` [RFC v5 3/7] PCI: Add a new option for resource_alignment to reassign alignment Yongji Xie
2016-04-06 1:43 ` Gavin Shan
2016-04-06 2:43 ` Yongji Xie
2016-04-05 13:43 ` [RFC v5 4/7] PCI: Add support for enforcing all MMIO BARs to be page aligned Yongji Xie
2016-04-05 13:43 ` [RFC v5 5/7] vfio-pci: Allow to mmap sub-page MMIO BARs if the mmio page is exclusive Yongji Xie
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