Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:41 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: pciehp update the slot bridge res to get big range
 for pcie devices

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> writes:
> 
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>>> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
>>>>>>> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>>>> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I understand you need to touch I/O base/limit and Mem base/limit. But
>>>>>>>>>> I don't understand why you also need to update bridge's BARs. Could
>>>>>>>>>> you please explain a little more about it?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Just in case, my terminology "bridge's BARs" is Base Address Register
>>>>>>>>>> 0 (offset 0x10) and Base Address Register 1 (offset 0x14) in the
>>>>>>>>>> (type 1) configuration space header of the bridge.
>>>>>>>>> i mean 0x1c, 0x20, 0x28
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> did not notice that bridge device's 0x10, 0x14 are used...
>>>>>>>>> if port service need to use 0x10, 0x14, and the device is enabled, we
>>>>>>>>> should touch 0x10, and 0x14.
>>>>>>>> after check the code, if
>>>>>>>> pci_bridge_assign_resources ==> pdev_assign_resources_sorted ==> 
>>>>>>>> pdev_sort_resources
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> will not touch 0x10 and 0x14, if those resource is claimed by port
>>>>>>>> service.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /* Sort resources by alignment */
>>>>>>>> void pdev_sort_resources(struct pci_dev *dev, struct resource_list *head)
>>>>>>>> {               int i;
>>>>>>>>                         for (i = 0; i < PCI_NUM_RESOURCES; i++) {
>>>>>>>>                 struct resource *r;
>>>>>>>>                 struct resource_list *list, *tmp;
>>>>>>>>                 resource_size_t r_align;
>>>>>>>>                                 r = &dev->resource[i];
>>>>>>>>                                         if (r->flags &
>>>>>>>> IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED)
>>>>>>>>                         continue;
>>>>>>>>                         if (!(r->flags) || r->parent)
>>>>>>>>                         continue;
>>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>> r->parent != NULL, will make it skip those two.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So -v3 should be safe.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for the clarification.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But I still don't understand the whole picture of your set of
>>>>>>> changes. Let me ask some questions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my understanding of your set of changes, if there is a PCIe
>>>>>>> switch with some hot-plug slots and all of those slots are empty,
>>>>>>> I/O and Memory resources assigned by BIOS are all released at
>>>>>>> the boot time. For example, suppose the following case.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                bridge(A)
>>>>>>>                   |
>>>>>>>        -----------------------
>>>>>>>        |                     |
>>>>>>>     bridge(B)             bridge(C)
>>>>>>>        |                     |
>>>>>>>      slot(1)               slot(2)
>>>>>>>      (empty)               (empty)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   bridge(A): P2P bridge for switch upstream port
>>>>>>>   bridge(B): P2P bridge for switch downstream port
>>>>>>>   bridge(C): P2P bridge for switch downstream port
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the above example, I/O and Mem resource assigned to bridge(A),
>>>>>>> bridge(B) and bridge(C) are all released at the boot time. Correct?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then, when a adapter card is hot-added to slot(1), I/O and Mem
>>>>>>> resources enough for enabling the hot-added adapter card is assigned
>>>>>>> to bridge(A), bridge(B) and the adapter card. Correct?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then, when an another adpater card is hot-added to slot(2), we
>>>>>>> need to assign enough resource to bridge(C) and the new card.
>>>>>>> But bridge(A) doesn't have enough resource for bridge(C) and
>>>>>>> the new card. In addition, all bridge(A) and bridge(B) and the
>>>>>>> adapter card on slot(1) are already working. How do you assign
>>>>>>> resource to bridge(C) and the card on slot(2)?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks, will update the patches to only handle leaf bridge, and don't touch min_size etc.
>>>>> Tell me what is your expected behavior if I plug a bridge with hotplug
>>>>> slots into a leaf hotplug slot?  Will you assign me enough resources so
>>>>> that I can plug in additional devices?
>>>> no.
>>>>
>>>> you need to plug device in those slots and then insert it into a leaf hotplug slot.
>>> Scenario.
>>>
>>> I insert a bridge with pci hotplug slots into a leaf hotplug slot.
>>> Which adds more leave hotplug slots.
>>>
>>> Since the bridge itself is no longer a leaf slot it's resources will not
>>> get reassigned.
>>>
>>> Then I will have no resources to assign to the leaves?
>> so we still have your min_size code there.
>>
>> in your case: you need plug all card in your slots on that daughter
>> card at first, and then insert the daughter card to leaf slot in the
>> MB.
> 
> Operationally that is an impossibility.  I would not have multiple
> layers of hotplug if I only needed a single layer.
> 
> Which means your patch would cause a regression in my setup.

ok, may need to compare new range size and old range size before clear it.

> 
>> my setup is :
>>
>> system got 4 io chains. and will get slot: 
>> 00:03.0  00:05.0 00:07.0 00:09.0
>> 40:03.0  40:05.0 40:07.0 40:09.0
>> 80:03.0  80:05.0 80:07.0 80:09.0
>> c0:03.0  c0:05.0 c0:07.0 c0:09.0
>>
>> those are hanged on peer root buses directly. but bios assign to
>> them every one get 8M, if user plug one card need 256M, then it will
>> not work.
>>
>> with those two patches, could clear the resource assigned by BIOS,
>> and get resource as needed. ( with mmio 64 bit )
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Could you avoid reallocating resources until a pci device is plugged in
> that has problems?
> 
> A lot of root bridges have important configuration registers that are
> not in standard locations.  Which means in general we can not reprogram
> root bridges successfully from linux.  At least not without code that
> knows the root bridge magic.
no one change that 
> 
> You can almost solve your problem by simply saying: pci=hpmemsize=256M.
> Which works except that allocating 4G of pci memory isn't very likely
> to work.
> 
> One of the suggestions when I made my patch was to have a per port option
> instead of a global minimum.  That is an option for your case.  But it
> is not as elegant.
> 
> The truly elegant approach is to make certain the hibernate in the
> drivers can handle bars being changed under them, hibernate everything
> that needs renumbering and then bring them back.
> 
> Personally I think you should walk over to whomever did your firmware
> and tell them they goofed.

they said it IS Linux problem. because other os is ok.

YH
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