Re: [PATCH] pci-hyperv: Use only 16 bit integer for PCI domain

[John Hubbard]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> please fix your quoting of the previous mails, thanks!

Shoot, sorry about any quoting issues. I'm sufficiently new to conversing 
on these lists that I'm not even sure which mistake I made.

> 
> 
> What ACPI defines does not matter at all.  Linux uses 32-bit domains
> IDs, and on x86 specifily uses those for non-ACPI enumarated domains
> (e.g. VMD).
> 
> You've also not demontrated any issue with any Linux driver yet.

The NVIDIA out-of-tree driver has historically treated domains as 16-bit. 
So this showed up when people tried to run that driver in a hyper-v VM.

> 
> > Also...it would be nice if we could use Haiyang's patch as at least a
> > temporary fix, because distros are just today releasing the previous code,
> > and HyperV will start breaking "occasionally", depending on whether the
> > 32-bit virtual (fake) PCI domain fits within 16 bits. (If not, then we can
> > rush out a driver update to fix it, but there will be a window of time with
> > some breakage there.)
> 
> Just send the fix to whatever driver is broken to the driver maintainer.

Done: that would be us. :)

> But I can't find a single broken driver in the tree, and as you know
> nothing else matters for Linux anyway.
> 

Yes, I looked at Nouveau, and I see that they allow for a 32-bit domain, 
so I agree that we haven't found any in-tree drivers that have a problem.

Anyway, thanks for the answers and explanations.

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thanks,
john h