Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] PCI: Enable PCIe Relaxed Ordering if supported

From: Ding Tianhong
Date: Thu Aug 03 2017 - 06:28:21 EST




On 2017/8/3 17:13, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> Hi Ding
>
> patch looks good, except would reword the patch description for clarity
>
> here is my crack at it, feel free to use.
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:21:31PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> The PCIe Device Control Register use the bit 4 to indicate that
>> whether the device is permitted to enable relaxed ordering or not.
>> But relaxed ordering is not safe for some platform which could only
>> use strong write ordering, so devices are allowed (but not required)
>> to enable relaxed ordering bit by default.
>>
>> If a PCIe device didn't enable the relaxed ordering attribute default,
>> we should not do anything in the PCIe configuration, otherwise we
>> should check if any of the devices above us do not support relaxed
>> ordering by the PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING flag, then base on
>> the result if we get a return that indicate that the relaxed ordering
>> is not supported we should update our device to disable relaxed ordering
>> in configuration space. If the device above us doesn't exist or isn't
>> the PCIe device, we shouldn't do anything and skip updating relaxed ordering
>> because we are probably running in a guest machine.
>
> When bit4 is set in the PCIe Device Control register, it indicates
> whether the device is permitted to use relaxed ordering.
> On some platforms using relaxed ordering can have performance issues or
> due to erratum can cause data-corruption. In such cases devices must avoid
> using relaxed ordering.
>
> This patch checks if there is any node in the hierarchy that indicates that
> using relaxed ordering is not safe. In such cases the patch turns off the
> relaxed ordering by clearing the eapability for this device.
>

Good, thanks for the commit, I will send v8 and update the patch description.

Ding

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/pci/pci.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/pci/probe.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/linux/pci.h | 2 ++
>> 3 files changed, 68 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> index d88edf5..7a6b32f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> @@ -4854,6 +4854,35 @@ int pcie_set_mps(struct pci_dev *dev, int mps)
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(pcie_set_mps);
>>
>> /**
>> + * pcie_clear_relaxed_ordering - clear PCI Express relaxed ordering bit
>> + * @dev: PCI device to query
>> + *
>> + * If possible clear relaxed ordering
>> + */
>> +int pcie_clear_relaxed_ordering(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> +{
>> + return pcie_capability_clear_word(dev, PCI_EXP_DEVCTL,
>> + PCI_EXP_DEVCTL_RELAX_EN);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pcie_clear_relaxed_ordering);
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * pcie_relaxed_ordering_supported - Probe for PCIe relexed ordering support
>> + * @dev: PCI device to query
>> + *
>> + * Returns true if the device support relaxed ordering attribute.
>> + */
>> +bool pcie_relaxed_ordering_supported(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> +{
>> + u16 v;
>> +
>> + pcie_capability_read_word(dev, PCI_EXP_DEVCTL, &v);
>> +
>> + return !!(v & PCI_EXP_DEVCTL_RELAX_EN);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pcie_relaxed_ordering_supported);
>> +
>> +/**
>> * pcie_get_minimum_link - determine minimum link settings of a PCI device
>> * @dev: PCI device to query
>> * @speed: storage for minimum speed
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
>> index c31310d..48df012 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
>> @@ -1762,6 +1762,42 @@ static void pci_configure_extended_tags(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> PCI_EXP_DEVCTL_EXT_TAG);
>> }
>>
>> +/**
>> + * pci_dev_should_disable_relaxed_ordering - check if the PCI device
>> + * should disable the relaxed ordering attribute.
>> + * @dev: PCI device
>> + *
>> + * Return true if any of the PCI devices above us do not support
>> + * relaxed ordering.
>> + */
>> +static bool pci_dev_should_disable_relaxed_ordering(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> +{
>> + while (dev) {
>> + if (dev->dev_flags & PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING)
>> + return true;
>> +
>> + dev = dev->bus->self;
>> + }
>> +
>> + return false;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void pci_configure_relaxed_ordering(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> +{
>> + /* We should not alter the relaxed ordering bit for the VF */
>> + if (dev->is_virtfn)
>> + return;
>> +
>> + /* If the releaxed ordering enable bit is not set, do nothing. */
>> + if (!pcie_relaxed_ordering_supported(dev))
>> + return;
>> +
>> + if (pci_dev_should_disable_relaxed_ordering(dev)) {
>> + pcie_clear_relaxed_ordering(dev);
>> + dev_info(&dev->dev, "Disable Relaxed Ordering\n");
>> + }
>> +}
>> +
>> static void pci_configure_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> {
>> struct hotplug_params hpp;
>> @@ -1769,6 +1805,7 @@ static void pci_configure_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>
>> pci_configure_mps(dev);
>> pci_configure_extended_tags(dev);
>> + pci_configure_relaxed_ordering(dev);
>>
>> memset(&hpp, 0, sizeof(hpp));
>> ret = pci_get_hp_params(dev, &hpp);
>> diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
>> index 412ec1c..3aa23a2 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/pci.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/pci.h
>> @@ -1127,6 +1127,8 @@ int pci_add_ext_cap_save_buffer(struct pci_dev *dev,
>> void pci_pme_wakeup_bus(struct pci_bus *bus);
>> void pci_d3cold_enable(struct pci_dev *dev);
>> void pci_d3cold_disable(struct pci_dev *dev);
>> +int pcie_clear_relaxed_ordering(struct pci_dev *dev);
>> +bool pcie_relaxed_ordering_supported(struct pci_dev *dev);
>>
>> /* PCI Virtual Channel */
>> int pci_save_vc_state(struct pci_dev *dev);
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
>>
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