linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] PCI: hv: Detect and fix Hyper-V PCI domain number collision

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Date:   Wed, 22 May 2019 05:14:39 +0000
From:   Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "sashal@...nel.org" <sashal@...nel.org>,
        "bhelgaas@...gle.com" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "lorenzo.pieralisi@....com" <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        "olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>, vkuznets <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] PCI: hv: Detect and fix Hyper-V PCI domain number
 collision

> From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 9:40 PM
>
> Thanks for working this out with the host team.
> Now if we could just get some persistent slot information it would make udev in systemd happy.

The slot info comes from the serial number "hpdev->desc.ser", which may not guarantee
uniqueness: "...Hyper-V doesn't provide unique serial numbers": see the changelog of the below
commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=29927dfb7f69bcf2ae7fd1cda10997e646a5189c

And we can pass through multiple devices to a VM in any order (i.e. hot add/remove), so IMO
the "slot" info is not unique and persistent.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan