Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] acpi/gpex: Inform os to keep firmware resource map

[Igor Mammedov]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:53:49 +0800
Jiahui Cen <cenjiahui@huawei.com> wrote:

> On 2021/1/5 8:35, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:22:08 -0500
> > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 02:41:42PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> >>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:08:31 +0800
> >>> Jiahui Cen <cenjiahui@huawei.com> wrote:
> >>>     
> >>>> There may be some differences in pci resource assignment between guest os
> >>>> and firmware.
> >>>>
> >>>> Eg. A Bridge with Bus [d2]
> >>>>     -+-[0000:d2]---01.0-[d3]----01.0
> >>>>
> >>>>     where [d2:01.00] is a pcie-pci-bridge with BAR0 (mem, 64-bit, 
> >>>> non-pref) [size=256]
> >>>>           [d3:01.00] is a PCI Device with BAR0 (mem, 64-bit, pref) 
> >>>> [size=128K]
> >>>>                                           BAR4 (mem, 64-bit, pref) 
> >>>> [size=64M]
> >>>>
> >>>>     In EDK2, the Resource Map would be:
> >>>>         PciBus: Resource Map for Bridge [D2|01|00]
> >>>>         Type = PMem64; Base = 0x8004000000;     Length = 0x4100000;     
> >>>> Alignment = 0x3FFFFFF
> >>>>            Base = 0x8004000000; Length = 0x4000000;     Alignment = 
> >>>> 0x3FFFFFF;  Owner = PCI [D3|01|00:20]
> >>>>            Base = 0x8008000000; Length = 0x20000;       Alignment = 
> >>>> 0x1FFFF;    Owner = PCI [D3|01|00:10]
> >>>>         Type =  Mem64; Base = 0x8008100000;     Length = 0x100; 
> >>>> Alignment = 0xFFF
> >>>>     It would use 0x4100000 to calculate the root bus's PMem64 resource 
> >>>> window.
> >>>>
> >>>>     While in Linux, kernel will use 0x1FFFFFF as the alignment to 
> >>>> calculate
> >>>>     the PMem64 size, which would be 0x6000000. So kernel would try to
> >>>>     allocate 0x6000000 from the PMem64 resource window, but since the 
> >>>> window
> >>>>     size is 0x4100000 as assigned by EDK2, the allocation would fail.
> >>>>
> >>>> The diffences could result in resource assignment failure.
> >>>>
> >>>> Using _DSM #5 method to inform guest os not to ignore the PCI 
> >>>> configuration
> >>>> that firmware has done at boot time could handle the differences.    
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure about this one, 
> >>> OS should able to reconfigure PCI resources according to what and where 
> >>> is plugged
> >>> (and it even more true is hotplug is taken into account)    
> >>
> >> spec says this:
> >>
> >> 0: No (The operating system must not ignore the PCI configuration that 
> >> firmware has done
> >> at boot time. However, the operating system is free to configure the 
> >> devices in this hierarchy
> >> that have not been configured by the firmware. There may be a reduced 
> >> level of hot plug
> >> capability support in this hierarchy due to resource constraints. This 
> >> situation is the same as
> >> the legacy situation where this _DSM is not provided.)
> >> 1: Yes (The operating system may ignore the PCI configuration that the 
> >> firmware has done
> >> at boot time, and reconfigure/rebalance the resources in the hierarchy.)  
> > I sort of convinced my self that's is just hotplug work might need to 
> > implement reconfiguration
> > in guest kernel and maybe QEMU
> > 
> > Though I have a question,
> > 
> >  1. does it work for PC machine with current kernel, if so why?
> >  2. what it would take to make it work for arm/virt?
> >   
> 
> 1. For x86, it generally keeps the configuration by firmware,
> so there is nothing wrong for PC machine.
> 
> 2. We add DSM method in DSDT to inform guest to keep
> firmware's configuration, just like x86.
> 
> >> and
> >>
> >> IMPLEMENTATION NOTE
> >> This _DSM function provides backwards compatibility on platforms that can 
> >> run legacy operating
> >> systems.
> >> Operating systems for two different architectures (e.g., x86 and x64) can 
> >> be installed on a platform.
> >> The firmware cannot distinguish the operating system in time to change the 
> >> boot configuration of
> >> devices. Say for instance, an x86 operating system in non-PAE mode is 
> >> installed on a system. The
> >> x86 operating system cannot access device resource space above 4 GiB. So 
> >> the firmware is required
> >> to configure devices at boot time using addresses below 4 GiB. On the 
> >> other hand, if an x64
> >> operating system is installed on this system, it can access device 
> >> resources above the 4 GiB so it does
> >> not want the firmware to constrain the resource assignment below 4 GiB 
> >> that the firmware
> >> configures at boot time. It is not possible for the firmware to change 
> >> this by the time it boots the
> >> operating system. Ignoring the configurations done by firmware at boot 
> >> time will allow the
> >> operating system to push resource assignment using addresses above 4 GiB 
> >> for an x64 operating
> >> system while constrain it to addresses below 4 GiB for an x86 operating 
> >> system.
> >>
> >> so fundamentally, saying "1" here just means "you can ignore what
> >> firmware configured if you like".
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a different question though: our CRS etc is based on what
> >> firmware configured. Is that ok? Or is ACPI expected to somehow
> >> reconfigure itself when OS reconfigures devices?
> >> Think it's ok but could not find documentation either way.  
> > 
> > guest consume DSDT only at boot time,
> > reconfiguration can done later by PCI subsystem without
> > ACPI (at least it used to be so).
> > 
> > However DSM is dynamic,
> > and maybe evaluated at runtime,
> > though I don't know if kernel would re-evaluate this feature bit after boot
> >   
> 
> Seems kernel evaluates DSM only at boot time.

Ok, lets respin this series without 5/8
to avoid mixing unrelated changes in one series.

We can think about 5/8 some more and return to it later if it proves hard to 
merge.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jiahui
> 
> >   
> >>
> >>  
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jiahui Cen <cenjiahui@huawei.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  hw/pci-host/gpex-acpi.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> >>>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/hw/pci-host/gpex-acpi.c b/hw/pci-host/gpex-acpi.c
> >>>> index 11b3db8f71..c189306599 100644
> >>>> --- a/hw/pci-host/gpex-acpi.c
> >>>> +++ b/hw/pci-host/gpex-acpi.c
> >>>> @@ -112,10 +112,24 @@ static void acpi_dsdt_add_pci_osc(Aml *dev)
> >>>>      UUID = aml_touuid("E5C937D0-3553-4D7A-9117-EA4D19C3434D");
> >>>>      ifctx = aml_if(aml_equal(aml_arg(0), UUID));
> >>>>      ifctx1 = aml_if(aml_equal(aml_arg(2), aml_int(0)));
> >>>> -    uint8_t byte_list[1] = {1};
> >>>> -    buf = aml_buffer(1, byte_list);
> >>>> +    uint8_t byte_list[] = {
> >>>> +                0x1 << 0 /* support for functions other than function 0 
> >>>> */ |
> >>>> +                0x1 << 5 /* support for function 5 */
> >>>> +                };
> >>>> +    buf = aml_buffer(ARRAY_SIZE(byte_list), byte_list);
> >>>>      aml_append(ifctx1, aml_return(buf));
> >>>>      aml_append(ifctx, ifctx1);
> >>>> +
> >>>> +    /* PCI Firmware Specification 3.1
> >>>> +     * 4.6.5. _DSM for Ignoring PCI Boot Configurations
> >>>> +     */
> >>>> +    /* Arg2: Function Index: 5 */
> >>>> +    ifctx1 = aml_if(aml_equal(aml_arg(2), aml_int(5)));
> >>>> +    /* 0 - The operating system must not ignore the PCI configuration 
> >>>> that
> >>>> +     *     firmware has done at boot time.
> >>>> +     */
> >>>> +    aml_append(ifctx1, aml_return(aml_int(0)));
> >>>> +    aml_append(ifctx, ifctx1);
> >>>>      aml_append(method, ifctx);
> >>>>  
> >>>>      byte_list[0] = 0;    
> >>
> >>  
> > 
> > .
> >   
>