Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Add VF reset notification to PF's VFIO user mode driver

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 15:15:37 +0800
Emily Deng <Emily.Deng@amd.com> wrote:

> VF doesn't have the ability to reset itself completely which will cause the
> hardware in unstable state. So notify PF driver when the VF has been reset
> to let the PF resets the VF completely, and remove the VF out of schedule.
> 
> How to implement this?
> Add the reset callback function in pci_driver
> 
> Implement the callback functin in VFIO_PCI driver.
> 
> Add the VF RESET IRQ for user mode driver to let the user mode driver
> know the VF has been reset.

The solution that already exists for this sort of issue is a vfio-pci
variant driver for the VF which communicates with an in-kernel PF
driver to coordinate the VF FLR with the PF driver.  This can be done
by intercepting the userspace access to the VF FLR config space region.

This solution of involving PCI-core and extending the vfio-pci interface
only exists for userspace PF drivers.  I don't see that facilitating
vendors to implement their PF drivers in userspace to avoid upstreaming
is a compelling reason to extend the vfio-pci interface.  Thanks,

Alex
 
> Signed-off-by: Emily Deng <Emily.Deng@amd.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/pci.c   | 8 ++++++++
>  include/linux/pci.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> index 60230da957e0..aca937b05531 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
> @@ -4780,6 +4780,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pcie_flr);
>   */
>  int pcie_reset_flr(struct pci_dev *dev, bool probe)
>  {
> +	struct pci_dev *pf_dev;
> +
> +	if (dev->is_virtfn) {
> +		pf_dev = dev->physfn;
> +		if (pf_dev->driver->sriov_vf_reset_notification)
> +			pf_dev->driver->sriov_vf_reset_notification(pf_dev, dev);
> +	}
> +
>  	if (dev->dev_flags & PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_FLR_RESET)
>  		return -ENOTTY;
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/pci.h b/include/linux/pci.h
> index c69a2cc1f412..4fa31d9b0aa7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pci.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pci.h
> @@ -926,6 +926,7 @@ struct pci_driver {
>  	int  (*sriov_configure)(struct pci_dev *dev, int num_vfs); /* On PF */
>  	int  (*sriov_set_msix_vec_count)(struct pci_dev *vf, int msix_vec_count); /* On PF */
>  	u32  (*sriov_get_vf_total_msix)(struct pci_dev *pf);
> +	void  (*sriov_vf_reset_notification)(struct pci_dev *pf, struct pci_dev *vf);
>  	const struct pci_error_handlers *err_handler;
>  	const struct attribute_group **groups;
>  	const struct attribute_group **dev_groups;