[PATCH v2] nvmet: pci-epf: Always configure BAR0 as 64-bit

Chaitanya Kulkarni chaitanyak at nvidia.com
Mon Mar 17 10:57:30 PDT 2025


On 3/17/25 02:57, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> NVMe PCIe Transport Specification 1.1, section 2.1.10, claims that the
> BAR0 type is Implementation Specific.
>
> However, in NVMe 1.1, the type is required to be 64-bit.
>
> Thus, to make our PCI EPF work on as many host systems as possible,
> always configure the BAR0 type to be 64-bit.
>
> In the rare case that the underlying PCI EPC does not support configuring
> BAR0 as 64-bit, the call to pci_epc_set_bar() will fail, and we will
> return a failure back to the user.
>
> This should not be a problem, as most PCI EPCs support configuring a BAR
> as 64-bit (and those EPCs with .only_64bit set to true in epc_features
> only support configuring the BAR as 64-bit).
>
> Tested-by: Damien Le Moal<dlemoal at kernel.org>
> Fixes: 0faa0fe6f90e ("nvmet: New NVMe PCI endpoint function target driver")
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel<cassel at kernel.org>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch at nvidia.com>

-ck




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