[PATCH 0/2] sriov enablement on s390

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Wed Sep 12 23:02:05 AEST 2018


[+cc Arnd, powerpc folks]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 02:34:09PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> Hello Bjorn,
> 
> On s390 we currently handle SRIOV within firmware. Which means
> that the PF is under firmware control and not visible to operating
> systems. SRIOV enablement happens within firmware and VFs are
> passed through to logical partitions.
> 
> I'm working on a new mode were the PF is under operating system
> control (including SRIOV enablement). However we still need
> firmware support to access the VFs. The way this is supposed
> to work is that when firmware traps the SRIOV enablement it
> will present machine checks to the logical partition that
> triggered the SRIOV enablement and provide the VFs via hotplug
> events.
> 
> The problem I'm faced with is that the VF detection code in
> sriov_enable leads to unusable functions in s390.

We're moving away from the weak function implementation style.  Can
you take a look at Arnd's work here, which uses pci_host_bridge
callbacks instead?

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180817102645.3839621-1-arnd@arndb.de

I cc'd some powerpc folks because they also have a fair amount of
arch-specific SR-IOV code that might one day move in this direction.

> Sebastian Ott (2):
>   pci: provide pcibios_sriov_add_vfs
>   s390/pci: handle function enumeration after sriov enablement
> 
>  arch/s390/pci/pci.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  drivers/pci/iov.c   | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  include/linux/pci.h |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.13.4
> 


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