Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] VFIO: Clear stale MSIx table during EEH reset

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 08/20/2014 07:52 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The PCI device MSIx table is cleaned out in hardware after EEH PE
> reset. However, we still hold the stale MSIx entries in QEMU, which
> should be cleared accordingly. Otherwise, we will run into another
> (recursive) EEH error and the PCI devices contained in the PE have
> to be offlined exceptionally.
> 
> The patch clears stale MSIx table before EEH PE reset so that MSIx
> table could be restored properly after EEH PE reset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/misc/vfio.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/misc/vfio.c b/hw/misc/vfio.c
> index 1a3e7eb..3cf7f02 100644
> --- a/hw/misc/vfio.c
> +++ b/hw/misc/vfio.c
> @@ -4424,6 +4424,8 @@ int vfio_container_ioctl(AddressSpace *as, int32_t 
> groupid,
>  {
>      VFIOGroup *group;
>      VFIOContainer *container;
> +    VFIODevice *vdev;
> +    struct vfio_eeh_pe_op *arg;
>      int ret = -1;
>  
>      group = vfio_get_group(groupid, as);
> @@ -4442,7 +4444,29 @@ int vfio_container_ioctl(AddressSpace *as, int32_t 
> groupid,
>      switch (req) {
>      case VFIO_CHECK_EXTENSION:
>      case VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_GET_INFO:
> +        break;
>      case VFIO_EEH_PE_OP:
> +        arg = (struct vfio_eeh_pe_op *)param;
> +        switch (arg->op) {
> +        case VFIO_EEH_PE_RESET_HOT:
> +        case VFIO_EEH_PE_RESET_FUNDAMENTAL:
> +            /*
> +             * The MSIx table will be cleaned out by reset. We need
> +             * disable it so that it can be reenabled properly. Also,
> +             * the cached MSIx table should be cleared as it's not
> +             * reflecting the contents in hardware.
> +             */
> +            QLIST_FOREACH(vdev, &group->device_list, next) {
> +                if (msix_enabled(&vdev->pdev)) {
> +                    vfio_disable_msix(vdev);
> +                }
> +
> +                msix_reset(&vdev->pdev);
> +            }
> +
> +            break;
> +        }


This has to be done in spapr_pci_vfio (but we do not have there access to
vfio_disable_msix) or in the way that x86 would benefit from too but in
this case yes, we need an opinion from Alex (Williamson)...


> +
>          break;
>      default:
>          /* Return an error on unknown requests */
> 


-- 
Alexey