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    PCI SR-IOV: correct broken resource alignment calculations · 6faf17f6
    Chris Wright authored
    An SR-IOV capable device includes an SR-IOV PCIe capability which
    describes the Virtual Function (VF) BAR requirements.  A typical SR-IOV
    device can support multiple VFs whose BARs must be in a contiguous region,
    effectively an array of VF BARs.  The BAR reports the size requirement
    for a single VF.  We calculate the full range needed by simply multiplying
    the VF BAR size with the number of possible VFs and create a resource
    spanning the full range.
    
    This all seems sane enough except it artificially inflates the alignment
    requirement for the VF BAR.  The VF BAR need only be aligned to the size
    of a single BAR not the contiguous range of VF BARs.  This can cause us
    to fail to allocate resources for the BAR despite the fact that we
    actually have enough space.
    
    This patch adds a thin PCI specific layer over the generic
    resource_alignment() function which is aware of the special nature of
    VF BARs and does sorting and allocation based on the smaller alignment
    requirement.
    
    I recognize that while resource_alignment is generic, it's basically a
    PCI helper.  An alternative to this patch is to add PCI VF BAR specific
    information to struct resource.  I opted for the extra layer rather than
    adding such PCI specific information to struct resource.  This does
    have the slight downside that we don't cache the BAR size and re-read
    for each alignment query (happens a small handful of times during boot
    for each VF BAR).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
    Cc: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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