From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:15:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151001120027-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560CF44A.60102@scylladb.com>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:52:26AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> I still don't understand your objection to the patch:
>
>
> MSI messages are memory writes so any generic device capable
> of MSI is capable of corrupting kernel memory.
> This means that a bug in userspace will lead to kernel memory corruption
> and crashes. This is something distributions can't support.
>
>
> If a distribution feels it can't support this configuration, it can disable the
> uio_pci_generic driver, or refuse to support tainted kernels. If it feels it
> can (and many distributions are starting to support dpdk), then you're just
> denying it the ability to serve its users.
I don't, and can't deny users anything. I merely think upstream should
avoid putting this driver in-tree. By doing this, driver writers will
be pushed to develop solutions that can't crash kernel.
I pointed out one way to build it, there are sure to be more.
As far as I could see, without this kind of motivation, people do not
even want to try.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-01 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-27 7:05 Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-27 9:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-27 10:50 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2015-09-29 16:41 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-29 20:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-29 21:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-29 21:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 10:37 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 10:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 11:26 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 11:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 11:53 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 12:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 12:16 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 12:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 12:50 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 15:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 18:15 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 18:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 19:06 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 19:10 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 19:11 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 19:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 20:09 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 21:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-30 21:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 22:20 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-01 8:00 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-01 14:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 15:03 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-09-30 13:05 ` Avi Kivity
2015-09-30 14:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 14:53 ` Avi Kivity
2015-09-30 15:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 15:36 ` Avi Kivity
2015-09-30 20:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 21:00 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 8:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 8:46 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-01 8:52 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 9:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-10-01 9:22 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 9:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 10:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 10:24 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 10:25 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 10:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 10:55 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 21:17 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-02 13:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 9:42 ` Vincent JARDIN
2015-10-01 9:43 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 9:48 ` Vincent JARDIN
2015-10-01 9:54 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 10:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 10:23 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 14:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 15:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 14:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 16:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 9:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 9:59 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 10:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 10:50 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 11:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 11:20 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 11:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 11:32 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 15:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-01 15:08 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 15:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 15:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 15:19 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 15:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 11:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 11:34 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 11:08 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-01 11:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 12:07 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-01 13:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 16:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 21:02 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-02 14:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-02 14:07 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-04 9:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-02 15:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2015-10-02 16:57 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-01 9:15 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 9:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 9:38 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 10:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 10:11 ` Avi Kivity
2015-10-01 9:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 17:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-30 17:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 17:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-30 18:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-09-30 20:00 ` Gleb Natapov
2015-09-30 20:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-01 5:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2015-09-30 17:44 ` Gleb Natapov
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