[PATCH 0/2] sriov enablement on s390

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Sep 13 00:40:28 AEST 2018


On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 08:02 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Arnd, powerpc folks]

[+Oliver]

> 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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