[RFC] Resizable BARs vs bridges with BARs

[Alex Williamson]

Hi,

I'm trying to get resizable BARs working in a configuration where my
root bus resources provide plenty of aperture for the BAR:

pci_bus 0000:5d: root bus resource [io  0x8000-0x9fff window]
pci_bus 0000:5d: root bus resource [mem 0xb8800000-0xc5ffffff window]
pci_bus 0000:5d: root bus resource [mem 0xb000000000-0xbfffffffff window] <<<
pci_bus 0000:5d: root bus resource [bus 5d-7f]

But resizing fails with -ENOSPC.  The topology looks like this:

 +-[0000:5d]-+-00.0-[5e-61]----00.0-[5f-61]--+-01.0-[60]----00.0  Intel Corporation DG2 [Arc A380]
                                             \-04.0-[61]----00.0  Intel Corporation Device 4f92

The BIOS is not fluent in resizable BARs and only programs the root
port with a small aperture:

5d:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E PCI Express Root Port A (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Bus: primary=5d, secondary=5e, subordinate=61, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff [disabled]
        Memory behind bridge: b9000000-ba0fffff [size=17M]
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000bfe0000000-000000bff07fffff [size=264M]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport

The trouble comes on the upstream PCIe switch port:

5e:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4fa1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
   >>>  Region 0: Memory at b010000000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
        Bus: primary=5e, secondary=5f, subordinate=61, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff [disabled]
        Memory behind bridge: b9000000-ba0fffff [size=17M]
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000bfe0000000-000000bfefffffff [size=256M]
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport

Note region 0 of this bridge, which is 64-bit, prefetchable and
therefore conflicts with the same type for the resizable BAR on the GPU:

60:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation DG2 [Arc A380] (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Region 0: Memory at b9000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=16M]
        Region 2: Memory at bfe0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256M]
        Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [420 v1] Physical Resizable BAR
                BAR 2: current size: 256MB, supported: 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 4GB 8GB

It's a shame that the hardware designers didn't mark the upstream port
BAR as non-prefetchable to avoid it living in the same resource
aperture as the resizable BAR on the downstream device.  In any case,
it's my understanding that our bridge drivers don't generally make use
of bridge BARs.  I think we can test whether a driver has done a
pci_request_region() or equivalent by looking for the IORESOURCE_BUSY
flag, but I also suspect this is potentially racy.

The patch below works for me, allowing the new resourceN_resize sysfs
attribute to resize the root port window within the provided bus
window.  Is this the right answer?  How can we make it feel less
sketchy?  Thanks,

Alex

diff --git a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
index b4096598dbcb..8c332a08174d 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
@@ -2137,13 +2137,19 @@ int pci_reassign_bridge_resources(struct pci_dev *bridge, unsigned long type)
 	next = bridge;
 	do {
 		bridge = next;
-		for (i = PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCES; i < PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCE_END;
+		for (i = PCI_STD_RESOURCES; i < PCI_BRIDGE_RESOURCE_END;
 		     i++) {
 			struct resource *res = &bridge->resource[i];
 
 			if ((res->flags ^ type) & PCI_RES_TYPE_MASK)
 				continue;
 
+			if (i < PCI_STD_NUM_BARS) {
+				if (!(res->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY))
+					pci_release_resource(bridge, i);
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			/* Ignore BARs which are still in use */
 			if (res->child)
 				continue;