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    PCI/IOV: Reset total_VFs limit after detaching PF driver · 38972375
    Jakub Kicinski authored
    The TotalVFs register in the SR-IOV capability is the hardware limit on the
    number of VFs.  A PF driver can limit the number of VFs further with
    pci_sriov_set_totalvfs().  When the PF driver is removed, reset any VF
    limit that was imposed by the driver because that limit may not apply to
    other drivers.
    
    Before 8d85a7a4 ("PCI/IOV: Allow PF drivers to limit total_VFs to 0"),
    pci_sriov_set_totalvfs(pdev, 0) meant "we can enable TotalVFs virtual
    functions", and the nfp driver used that to remove the VF limit when the
    driver unloads.
    
    8d85a7a4 broke that because instead of removing the VF limit,
    pci_sriov_set_totalvfs(pdev, 0) actually sets the limit to zero, and that
    limit persists even if another driver is loaded.
    
    We could fix that by making the nfp driver reset the limit when it unloads,
    but it seems more robust to do it in the PCI core instead of relying on the
    driver.
    
    The regression scenario is:
    
      nfp_pci_probe (driver 1)
      ...
      nfp_pci_remove
        pci_sriov_set_totalvfs(pf->pdev, 0)   # limits VFs to 0
    
      ...
      nfp_pci_probe (driver 2)
        nfp_rtsym_read_le("nfd_vf_cfg_max_vfs")
        # no VF limit from firmware
    
    Now driver 2 is broken because the VF limit is still 0 from driver 1.
    
    Fixes: 8d85a7a4
    
     ("PCI/IOV: Allow PF drivers to limit total_VFs to 0")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
    [bhelgaas: changelog, rename functions]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
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