On 07-Jun-19 3:28 AM, Takeshi Yoshimura wrote:
sPAPR allows only page_shift from VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_GET_INFO ioctl. However, Linux 4.17 or before returns incorrect page_shift for Power9. I added the code for retrying creation of sPAPR DMA window.Signed-off-by: Takeshi Yoshimura <[email protected]> --- lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c index 6892a2c14..f16c5c3c0 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c @@ -1448,9 +1448,29 @@ vfio_spapr_create_new_dma_window(int vfio_container_fd, /* create new DMA window */ ret = ioctl(vfio_container_fd, VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_CREATE, create); if (ret) { - RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, " cannot create new DMA window, " - "error %i (%s)\n", errno, strerror(errno)); - return -1; + /* try possible page_shift and levels for workaround */ + uint32_t levels; + + for (levels = 1; levels <= info.ddw.levels; levels++) { + uint32_t pgsizes = info.ddw.pgsizes;
+CC POWER maintainer from MAINTAINERS file. This is failing compilation on some older distros (Fedora 20, Ubuntu 14.04):/root/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c: In function ‘vfio_spapr_create_new_dma_window’: /root/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c:1451:34: error: ‘struct vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_info’ has no member named ‘ddw’
for (levels = 1; levels <= info.ddw.levels; levels++) {
^
/root/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c:1452:27: error: ‘struct
vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_info’ has no member named ‘ddw’
uint32_t pgsizes = info.ddw.pgsizes; ^ /root/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c: At top level:cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-address-of-packed-member" [-Werror]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[7]: *** [eal_vfio.o] Error 1 make[7]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[6]: *** [eal] Error 2 make[5]: *** [linux] Error 2 make[4]: *** [librte_eal] Error 2 make[3]: *** [lib] Error 2 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [pre_install] Error 2 make: *** [install] Error 2Looking at the eal_vfio.h we are handling case of missing sPAPR info/ddw structures, but this isn't simply a case of a missing struct; rather it is an issue of differing definitions between what recent kernels have, and what older kernels had.
@Thomas Do we still support these older distros? -- Thanks, Anatoly

