linux-kernel - Re: [1/3] powerpc/vfio: Enable on POWERNV platform

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Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:02:30 -0600
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
CC:	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@...escale.com>,
	Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [1/3] powerpc/vfio: Enable on POWERNV platform

On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 14:02 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 12/13/2013 10:35 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:33:09PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >> +static int iommu_add_device(struct device *dev)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct iommu_table *tbl;
> >> +	int ret = 0;
> >> +
> >> +	if (WARN_ON(dev->iommu_group)) {
> >> +		pr_warn("iommu_tce: device %s is already in iommu group %d, skipping\n",
> >> +				dev_name(dev),
> >> +				iommu_group_id(dev->iommu_group));
> >> +		return -EBUSY;
> >> +	}
> > [snip]
> >> +static int __init tce_iommu_init(void)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct pci_dev *pdev = NULL;
> >> +
> >> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(PAGE_SIZE < IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE);
> >> +
> >> +	for_each_pci_dev(pdev)
> >> +		iommu_add_device(&pdev->dev);
> >> +
> >> +	bus_register_notifier(&pci_bus_type, &tce_iommu_bus_nb);
> >> +	return 0;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +subsys_initcall_sync(tce_iommu_init);
> > 
> > This is missing a check to see whether the appropriate hardware is
> > present.  This file should also be renamed to something less generic, and
> > depend on a kconfig symbol more specific than CONFIG_PPC64.
> > 
> > When this is combined with CONFIG_FSL_PAMU on hardware with a PAMU, I get
> > a bunch of those "WARN_ON(dev->iommu_group)" dumps because PAMU already
> > got to them.  Presumably without PAMU it silently (or with just pr_debug)
> > bails out at some other point.
> 
> 
> I posted (yet again) yesterday "[PATCH v11] PPC: POWERNV: move
> iommu_add_device earlier" which should fix this. And Bharat asked many
> times for this to get accepted :)

I still get the WARN_ONs even with that patch.  You're still registering
the bus notifier unconditionally.

-Scott


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