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From: Abhishek Shah <abhishek.shah@broadcom.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 14:30:16 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Use PCI bus address for data/queues in CMB
To: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
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Hi Keith,

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:59:26AM +0530, Abhishek Shah wrote:
> > Currently, NVMe PCI host driver is programming CMB dma address as
> > I/O SQs addresses. This results in failures on systems where 1:1
> > outbound mapping is not used (example Broadcom iProc SOCs) because
> > CMB BAR will be progammed with PCI bus address but NVMe PCI EP will
> > try to access CMB using dma address.
> >
> > To have CMB working on systems without 1:1 outbound mapping, we
> > program PCI bus address for I/O SQs instead of dma address. This
> > approach will work on systems with/without 1:1 outbound mapping.
> >
> > The patch is tested on Broadcom Stingray platform(arm64), which
> > does not have 1:1 outbound mapping, as well as on x86 platform,
> > which has 1:1 outbound mapping.
> >
> > Fixes: 8ffaadf7 ("NVMe: Use CMB for the IO SQes if available")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Abhishek Shah <abhishek.shah@broadcom.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <ray.jui@broadcom.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> On a similar note, we also break CMB usage in virutalization with direct
> assigned devices: the guest doesn't know the host physical bus address,
> so it sets the CMB queue address incorrectly there, too. I don't know of
> a way to fix that other than disabling CMB.

I don't have much idea on CMB usage in virtualization... will let
someone else comment on this.
>
>
>
> >  static void __iomem *nvme_map_cmb(struct nvme_dev *dev)
> >  {
> > +     int rc;
> >       u64 szu, size, offset;
> >       resource_size_t bar_size;
> >       struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev->dev);
> > @@ -1553,6 +1574,13 @@ static void __iomem *nvme_map_cmb(struct nvme_dev *dev)
> >
> >       dev->cmb_dma_addr = dma_addr;
> >       dev->cmb_size = size;
> > +
> > +     rc = nvme_find_cmb_bus_addr(pdev, dma_addr, size, &dev->cmb_bus_addr);
> > +     if (rc) {
> > +             iounmap(cmb);
> > +             return NULL;
> > +     }
> > +
> >       return cmb;
> >  }
>
> Minor suggestion: it's a little simpler if you find the bus address
> before ioremap:
>
> ---
> @@ -1554,6 +1554,10 @@ static void __iomem *nvme_map_cmb(struct nvme_dev *dev)
>                 size = bar_size - offset;
>
>         dma_addr = pci_resource_start(pdev, NVME_CMB_BIR(dev->cmbloc)) + offset;
> +
> +       if (nvme_find_cmb_bus_addr(pdev, dma_addr, size, &dev->cmb_bus_addr))
> +               return NULL;
> +
>         cmb = ioremap_wc(dma_addr, size);
>         if (!cmb)
>                 return NULL;
> --

Thanks for the suggestion, will push patch with this change.


Regards,
Abhishek