Re: [PATCH 6/6] PCI: align small (<4k) BARs

[Stewart Hildebrand]

On 7/9/24 12:21, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 09:36:03AM -0400, Stewart Hildebrand wrote:
>> Issues observed when small (<4k) BARs are not 4k aligned are:
>>
>> 1. Devices to be passed through (to e.g. a Xen HVM guest) with small
>> (<4k) BARs require each memory BAR to be page aligned. Currently, the
>> only way to guarantee this alignment from a user perspective is to fake
>> the size of the BARs using the pci=resource_alignment= option. This is a
>> bad user experience, and faking the BAR size is not always desirable.
>> See the comment in drivers/pci/pci.c:pci_request_resource_alignment()
>> for further discussion.
> 
> Include the relevant part of this discussion directly here so this log
> is self-contained.  Someday that function will change, which will make
> this commit log less useful.

Will do

>> 2. Devices with multiple small (<4k) BARs could have the MSI-X tables
>> located in one of its small (<4k) BARs. This may lead to the MSI-X
>> tables being mapped in the same 4k region as other data. The PCIe 6.1
>> specification (section 7.7.2 MSI-X Capability and Table Structure) says
>> we probably shouldn't do that.
>>
>> To improve the user experience, and increase conformance to PCIe spec,
>> set the default minimum resource alignment of memory BARs to 4k. Choose
>> 4k (rather than PAGE_SIZE) for the alignment value in the common code,
>> since that is the value called out in the PCIe 6.1 spec, section 7.7.2.
>> The new default alignment may be overridden by arches by implementing
>> pcibios_default_alignment(), or by the user with the
>> pci=resource_alignment= option.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stewart Hildebrand <stewart.hildebrand@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Preparatory patches in this series are prerequisites to this patch.
>> ---
>>  drivers/pci/pci.c | 7 ++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> index 9f7894538334..e7b648304383 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
>> @@ -6453,7 +6453,12 @@ struct pci_dev __weak *pci_real_dma_dev(struct pci_dev *dev)
>>  
>>  resource_size_t __weak pcibios_default_alignment(void)
>>  {
>> -	return 0;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Avoid MSI-X tables being mapped in the same 4k region as other data
>> +	 * according to PCIe 6.1 specification section 7.7.2 MSI-X Capability
>> +	 * and Table Structure.
>> +	 */
>> +	return 4 * 1024;
>>  }
>>  
>>  /*
>> -- 
>> 2.45.2
>>