Re: [PATCH v7 09/10] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Add support for VFIO live migration

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 12:57:29PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgg@nvidia.com]
> > Sent: 03 March 2022 00:22
> > To: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
> > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org; linux-pci@vger.kernel.org;
> > alex.williamson@redhat.com; cohuck@redhat.com; mgurtovoy@nvidia.com;
> > yishaih@nvidia.com; Linuxarm <linuxarm@huawei.com>; liulongfang
> > <liulongfang@huawei.com>; Zengtao (B) <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>;
> > Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>; Wangzhou (B)
> > <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 09/10] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Add support for VFIO live
> > migration
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 05:29:02PM +0000, Shameer Kolothum wrote:
> > > +static long hisi_acc_vf_save_unl_ioctl(struct file *filp,
> > > +				       unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct hisi_acc_vf_migration_file *migf = filp->private_data;
> > > +	struct hisi_acc_vf_core_device *hisi_acc_vdev = container_of(migf,
> > > +			struct hisi_acc_vf_core_device, saving_migf);
> > > +	loff_t *pos = &filp->f_pos;
> > > +	struct vfio_precopy_info info;
> > > +	unsigned long minsz;
> > > +	int ret;
> > > +
> > > +	if (cmd != VFIO_MIG_GET_PRECOPY_INFO)
> > > +		return -ENOTTY;
> > > +
> > > +	minsz = offsetofend(struct vfio_precopy_info, dirty_bytes);
> > > +
> > > +	if (copy_from_user(&info, (void __user *)arg, minsz))
> > > +		return -EFAULT;
> > > +	if (info.argsz < minsz)
> > > +		return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > > +	mutex_lock(&hisi_acc_vdev->state_mutex);
> > > +	if (hisi_acc_vdev->mig_state != VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_PRE_COPY) {
> > > +		mutex_unlock(&hisi_acc_vdev->state_mutex);
> > > +		return -EINVAL;
> > > +	}
> > 
> > IMHO it is easier just to check the total_length and not grab this
> > other lock
> 
> The problem with checking the total_length here is that it is possible that
> in STOP_COPY the dev is not ready and there are no more data to be transferred 
> and the total_length remains at QM_MATCH_SIZE.

Tthere is a scenario that transfers only QM_MATCH_SIZE in stop_copy?
This doesn't seem like a good idea, I think you should transfer a
positive indication 'this device is not ready' instead of truncating
the stream. A truncated stream should not be a valid stream.

ie always transfer the whole struct.

> Looks like setting the total_length = 0 in STOP_COPY is a better solution(If there are
> no other issues with that) as it will avoid grabbing the state_mutex as you
> mentioned above.

That seems really weird, I wouldn't recommend doing that..
 
Kaspm