[PATCH] radeon: Test for PCI root bus before assuming bus->self
Dave Airlie
airlied at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 18:32:58 PDT 2014
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Alex Williamson
> <alex.williamson at redhat.com> wrote:
>> If we assign a Radeon device to a virtual machine, we can no longer
>> assume a fixed hardware topology, like the GPU having a parent device.
>> This patch simply adds a few pci_is_root_bus() tests to avoid passing
>> a NULL pointer to PCI access functions, allowing the radeon driver to
>> work in a QEMU 440FX machine with an assigned HD8570 on the emulated
>> PCI root bus.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
>
Does this mean inside a VM we can't enable pcie 2 speeds?
This could lead to a quite disappointing speed decrease for DMA transfers.
Dave.
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