Message-ID: <20220518115129.72beddcd.alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 May 2022 11:51:29 -0600
From:   Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:     Abhishek Sahu <abhsahu@...dia.com>
Cc:     Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>,
        Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@...dia.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] vfio/pci: power management changes

On Wed, 18 May 2022 16:46:08 +0530
Abhishek Sahu <abhsahu@...dia.com> wrote:

> Currently, there is very limited power management support available
> in the upstream vfio-pci driver. If there is no user of vfio-pci device,
> then it will be moved into D3Hot state. Similarly, if we enable the
> runtime power management for vfio-pci device in the guest OS, then the
> device is being runtime suspended (for linux guest OS) and the PCI
> device will be put into D3hot state (in function
> vfio_pm_config_write()). If the D3cold state can be used instead of
> D3hot, then it will help in saving maximum power. The D3cold state can't
> be possible with native PCI PM. It requires interaction with platform
> firmware which is system-specific. To go into low power states
> (including D3cold), the runtime PM framework can be used which
> internally interacts with PCI and platform firmware and puts the device
> into the lowest possible D-States.
> 
> This patch series registers the vfio-pci driver with runtime
> PM framework and uses the same for moving the physical PCI
> device to go into the low power state for unused idle devices.
> There will be separate patch series that will add the support
> for using runtime PM framework for used idle devices.
> 
> The current PM support was added with commit 6eb7018705de ("vfio-pci:
> Move idle devices to D3hot power state") where the following point was
> mentioned regarding D3cold state.
> 
>  "It's tempting to try to use D3cold, but we have no reason to inhibit
>   hotplug of idle devices and we might get into a loop of having the
>   device disappear before we have a chance to try to use it."
> 
> With the runtime PM, if the user want to prevent going into D3cold then
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../d3cold_allowed can be set to 0 for the
> devices where the above functionality is required instead of
> disallowing the D3cold state for all the cases.
> 
> The BAR access needs to be disabled if device is in D3hot state.
> Also, there should not be any config access if device is in D3cold
> state. For SR-IOV, the PF power state should be higher than VF's power
> state.
> 
> * Changes in v5
> 
> - Rebased over https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio/tree/next.
> - Renamed vfio_pci_lock_and_set_power_state() to
>   vfio_lock_and_set_power_state() and made it static.
> - Inside vfio_pci_core_sriov_configure(), protected setting of
>   power state and sriov enablement with 'memory_lock'.
> - Removed CONFIG_PM macro use since it is not needed with current
>   code.

Applied to vfio next branch for v5.19.  Thanks!

Alex

> * Changes in v4
>   (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220517100219.15146-1-abhsahu@nvidia.com)
> 
> - Rebased over https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio/tree/next.
> - Split the patch series into 2 parts. This part contains the patches
>   for using runtime PM for unused idle device.
> - Used the 'pdev->current_state' for checking if the device in D3 state.
> - Adds the check in __vfio_pci_memory_enabled() function itself instead
>   of adding power state check at each caller.
> - Make vfio_pci_lock_and_set_power_state() global since it is needed
>   in different files.
> - Used vfio_pci_lock_and_set_power_state() instead of
>   vfio_pci_set_power_state() before pci_enable_sriov().
> - Inside vfio_pci_core_sriov_configure(), handled both the cases
>   (the device is in low power state with and without user).
> - Used list_for_each_entry_continue_reverse() in
>   vfio_pci_dev_set_pm_runtime_get().
> 
> * Changes in v3
>   (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220425092615.10133-1-abhsahu@nvidia.com)
> 
> - Rebased patches on v5.18-rc3.
> - Marked this series as PATCH instead of RFC.
> - Addressed the review comments given in v2.
> - Removed the limitation to keep device in D0 state if there is any
>   access from host side. This is specific to NVIDIA use case and
>   will be handled separately.
> - Used the existing DEVICE_FEATURE IOCTL itself instead of adding new
>   IOCTL for power management.
> - Removed all custom code related with power management in runtime
>   suspend/resume callbacks and IOCTL handling. Now, the callbacks
>   contain code related with INTx handling and few other stuffs and
>   all the PCI state and platform PM handling will be done by PCI core
>   functions itself.
> - Add the support of wake-up in main vfio layer itself since now we have
>   more vfio/pci based drivers.
> - Instead of assigning the 'struct dev_pm_ops' in individual parent
>   driver, now the vfio_pci_core tself assigns the 'struct dev_pm_ops'. 
> - Added handling of power management around SR-IOV handling.
> - Moved the setting of drvdata in a separate patch.
> - Masked INTx before during runtime suspended state.
> - Changed the order of patches so that Fix related things are at beginning
>   of this patch series.
> - Removed storing the power state locally and used one new boolean to
>   track the d3 (D3cold and D3hot) power state 
> - Removed check for IO access in D3 power state.
> - Used another helper function vfio_lock_and_set_power_state() instead
>   of touching vfio_pci_set_power_state().
> - Considered the fixes made in
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220217122107.22434-1-abhsahu@nvidia.com
>   and updated the patches accordingly.
> 
> * Changes in v2
>   (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220124181726.19174-1-abhsahu@nvidia.com)
> 
> - Rebased patches on v5.17-rc1.
> - Included the patch to handle BAR access in D3cold.
> - Included the patch to fix memory leak.
> - Made a separate IOCTL that can be used to change the power state from
>   D3hot to D3cold and D3cold to D0.
> - Addressed the review comments given in v1.
> 
> * v1
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211115133640.2231-1-abhsahu@nvidia.com/
> 
> Abhishek Sahu (4):
>   vfio/pci: Invalidate mmaps and block the access in D3hot power state
>   vfio/pci: Change the PF power state to D0 before enabling VFs
>   vfio/pci: Virtualize PME related registers bits and initialize to zero
>   vfio/pci: Move the unused device into low power state with runtime PM
> 
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c |  56 ++++++++-
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c   | 178 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
> 

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