Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmd: disable MSI remapping bypass under Xen

From: Jonathan Derrick
Date: Sat Jan 11 2025 - 00:02:31 EST


Hi Bjorn,

On 1/10/25 3:25 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
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PCI: vmd: Set devices to D0 before enabling PM L1 Substates
PCI: vmd: Add DID 8086:B06F and 8086:B60B for Intel client SKUs
PCI: vmd: Fix indentation issue in vmd_shutdown()

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 03:01:49PM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
MSI remapping bypass (directly configuring MSI entries for devices on the VMD
bus) won't work under Xen, as Xen is not aware of devices in such bus, and
hence cannot configure the entries using the pIRQ interface in the PV case, and
in the PVH case traps won't be setup for MSI entries for such devices.

Until Xen is aware of devices in the VMD bus prevent the
VMD_FEAT_CAN_BYPASS_MSI_REMAP capability from being used when running as any
kind of Xen guest.

Wrap to fit in 75 columns.

Can you include a hint about *why* Xen is not aware of devices below
VMD? That will help to know whether it's a permanent unfixable
situation or something that could be done eventually.

I wasn't aware of the Xen issue with VMD but if I had to guess it's probably due to the special handling of the downstream device into the dmar table.

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[2] 9b4a824b889e1


Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c b/drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c
index 264a180403a0..d9b7510ace29 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c
@@ -965,6 +965,15 @@ static int vmd_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
struct vmd_dev *vmd;
int err;
+ if (xen_domain())
+ /*
+ * Xen doesn't have knowledge about devices in the VMD bus.

Also here.

+ * Bypass of MSI remapping won't work in that case as direct
+ * write to the MSI entries won't result in functional
+ * interrupts.
+ */
+ features &= ~VMD_FEAT_CAN_BYPASS_MSI_REMAP;
+
if (resource_size(&dev->resource[VMD_CFGBAR]) < (1 << 20))
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.46.0