Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: Use MMCONFIG by default for KVM guests

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 22:59:17 EST


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:15:13AM +0200, Julia Suvorova wrote:
> @@ -264,6 +265,10 @@ void __init pci_direct_init(int type)
> {
> if (type == 0)
> return;
> +
> + if (raw_pci_ext_ops && kvm_para_available())
> + return;

This is a bit of a subtle way of saying "If mmconfig exists, don't use
the cf8 mechanism". There's probably a better way of doing this, but
the x86 pci init sequence is already byzantine and I don't understand it
well enough to offer you an alternative.