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Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:56:05 -0700
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
To:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
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        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>,
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        Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net/mlx5: fix calling mlx5_cmd_init() before DMA
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On 11 Oct 11:20, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>On 11 Oct 09:57, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
>>Since commit 06cd555f73ca ("net/mlx5: split mlx5_cmd_init() to probe and
>>reload routines") mlx5_cmd_init() is called in mlx5_mdev_init() which is
>>called in probe_one() before mlx5_pci_init(). This is a problem because
>>mlx5_pci_init() is where the DMA and coherent mask is set but
>>mlx5_cmd_init() already does a dma_alloc_coherent(). Thus a DMA
>>allocation is done during probe before the correct mask is set. This
>>causes probe to fail initialization of the cmdif SW structs on s390x
>>after that is converted to the common dma-iommu code. This is because on
>>s390x DMA addresses below 4 GiB are reserved on current machines and
>>unlike the old s390x specific DMA API implementation common code
>>enforces DMA masks.
>>
>>Fix this by moving set_dma_caps() out of mlx5_pci_init() and into
>>probe_one() before mlx5_mdev_init(). To match the overall naming scheme
>>rename it to mlx5_dma_init().
>
>How about we just call mlx5_pci_init() before mlx5_mdev_init(), instead of
>breaking it apart ?

I just posted this RFC patch [1]:

I am working in very limited conditions these days, and I don't have strong
opinion on which approach to take, Leon, Niklas, please advise.

The three possible solutions:

1) mlx5_pci_init() before mlx5_mdev_init(), I don't think enabling pci
before initializing cmd dma would be a problem.

2) This patch.

3) Shay's patch from the link below:
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20231011184511.19818-1-saeed@kernel.org/

Thanks,
Saeed.