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

Niklas Schnelle
2020-08-13T12:34:34Z

On 8/13/20 12:40 PM, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
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> On 8/13/20 11:59 AM, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
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>>> 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;
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>>>> 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.
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>> if all you need is sysfs then pcibios_bus_add_device() or a bus
>> notifier should work
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> So this might go a bit off track but the problem is that
> on s390 a VF can be disabled and reenabled with disable_slot()/enable_slot().
> In this case pcibios_bus_add_device() is not called again but
> the PF/VF link needs to be reestablished.

Scratch that I must have made some stupid mistake last time I tried
this, with your suggestion I tried again and it works perfectly
moving the setup into pcibios_bus_add_device().
Thank you, this is actually much nicer!

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