Re: [PATCH 2/6] PCI/VGA: Deal with PCI VGA compatible devices only

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Jul 19 2023 - 14:26:24 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 09:43:50PM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> From: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently, vgaarb only cares about PCI VGA-compatible class devices.
>
> While vga_arbiter_del_pci_device() gets called unbalanced when some PCI
> device is about to be removed. This happens even during the boot process.

The previous code calls vga_arbiter_add_pci_device() for every device
(every device present at boot and also every hot-added device). It
only allocates a vga_device if pdev->class is 0x0300XX.

It calls vga_arbiter_del_pci_device() for every device removal. It
does nothing unless it finds a vga_device.

This seems symmetric and reasonable to me. Did you observe a problem
with it?

> Another reason is that the vga_arb_device_init() function is not efficient.
> Since we only care about VGA-compatible devices (pdev->class == 0x030000),
> We could filter the unqualified devices out in the vga_arb_device_init()
> function. While the current implementation is to search all PCI devices
> in a system, this is not necessary.

Optimization is fine, but the most important thing here is to be clear
about what functional change this patch makes. As I mentioned at [1],
if this patch affects the class codes accepted, please make that clear
here.

> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I do not see Mario's Reviewed-by on the list. I do see Mario's
Reviewed-by [2] for a previous version, but that version added this in
pci_notify():

+ if (pdev->class != PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA << 8)
+ return 0;

while this version adds:

+ if ((pdev->class >> 8) != PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA)
+ return 0;

It's OK to carry a review to future versions if there are
insignificant changes, but this is a functional change that seems
significant to me. The first matches only 0x030000, while the second
discards the low eight bits so it matches 0x0300XX.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230718231400.GA496927@bhelgaas
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/5b6fdf65-b354-94a9-f883-be820157efad@xxxxxxx/

> ---
> drivers/pci/vgaarb.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c b/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c
> index c1bc6c983932..021116ed61cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/vgaarb.c
> @@ -754,10 +754,6 @@ static bool vga_arbiter_add_pci_device(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> struct pci_dev *bridge;
> u16 cmd;
>
> - /* Only deal with VGA class devices */
> - if ((pdev->class >> 8) != PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA)
> - return false;
> -
> /* Allocate structure */
> vgadev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vga_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (vgadev == NULL) {
> @@ -1502,6 +1498,10 @@ static int pci_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
>
> vgaarb_dbg(dev, "%s\n", __func__);
>
> + /* Deal with VGA compatible devices only */
> + if ((pdev->class >> 8) != PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA)
> + return 0;
> +
> /* For now we're only intereted in devices added and removed. I didn't
> * test this thing here, so someone needs to double check for the
> * cases of hotplugable vga cards. */
> @@ -1534,8 +1534,8 @@ static struct miscdevice vga_arb_device = {
>
> static int __init vga_arb_device_init(void)
> {
> + struct pci_dev *pdev = NULL;
> int rc;
> - struct pci_dev *pdev;
>
> rc = misc_register(&vga_arb_device);
> if (rc < 0)
> @@ -1543,13 +1543,14 @@ static int __init vga_arb_device_init(void)
>
> bus_register_notifier(&pci_bus_type, &pci_notifier);
>
> - /* We add all PCI devices satisfying VGA class in the arbiter by
> - * default */
> - pdev = NULL;
> - while ((pdev =
> - pci_get_subsys(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID,
> - PCI_ANY_ID, pdev)) != NULL)
> - vga_arbiter_add_pci_device(pdev);
> + /*
> + * We add all PCI VGA compatible devices in the arbiter by default
> + */
> + do {
> + pdev = pci_get_class(PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA << 8, pdev);
> + if (pdev)
> + vga_arbiter_add_pci_device(pdev);
> + } while (pdev);
>
> pr_info("loaded\n");
> return rc;
> --
> 2.25.1
>