Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] genirq/msi: Move prepare() call to per-device allocation

[Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 02:09:50PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:35:51 +0100,
> Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 04:22:47PM +0800, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> > > > +	domain->dev = dev;
> > > > +	dev->msi.data->__domains[domid].domain = domain;
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (msi_domain_prepare_irqs(domain, dev, hwsize, &bundle->alloc_info)) {
> > > 
> > > Does it work for MSI?
> > 
> > This means that it does not work for MSI for you as it stands, right ?
> > 
> > If you spotted an issue, thanks for that, report it fully please.
> 
> Honestly, you're barking up the wrong tree. Zenghui points us to a
> glaring bug in the core code, with detailed information on what could
> go wrong, as well as what is wrong in the code. It doesn't get better
> than that.
> 
> The usual level of bug reports is "its b0rken", sometimes followed by
> a trace with lots of hex and no information. Spot the difference?

Agreed, thanks again Zenghui for reporting it and forgive me if the
message sounded a bit patronizing, I did not mean it.

Lorenzo

> > > hwsize is 1 in the MSI case, without taking pci_msi_vec_count() into account.
> > > 
> > > bool pci_setup_msi_device_domain(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> > > {
> > > 	[...]
> > > 
> > > 	return pci_create_device_domain(pdev, &pci_msi_template, 1);
> > 
> > I had a stab at it with GICv5 models and an MSI capable device and this indeed
> > calls the ITS msi_prepare() callback with 1 as vector count, so we size
> > the device tables wrongly.
> 
> Not wrongly. Exactly as instructed.
> 
> > 
> > The question is why pci_create_device_domain() is called here with
> > hwsize == 1. Probably, before this series, the ITS MSI parent code was
> > fixing the size up so we did not notice, I need to check.
> 
> The GICv3 ITS code would upgrade the vector count to the next power of
> two (one bit of EID space -> 2 MSIs), but with the device domain
> squarely set to 1, the endpoint driver would never get more. It is
> prepared to fail gracefully though, hence nothing really breaks.
> 
> I don't think this patch makes anything regress though. Commit
> 15c72f824b327 seems to be the offending one. If Zenghui confirms that
> the hack I posted separately works for him, I'll follow up with a
> "real" patch.
> 
> 	M.
> 
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