From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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alvaro.karsz@solid-run.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: [GIT PULL] virtio: fatures, fixes
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:42:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220812114250-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
The following changes since commit 3d7cb6b04c3f3115719235cc6866b10326de34cd:
Linux 5.19 (2022-07-31 14:03:01 -0700)
are available in the Git repository at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git tags/for_linus
for you to fetch changes up to 93e530d2a1c4c0fcce45e01ae6c5c6287a08d3e3:
vdpa/mlx5: Fix possible uninitialized return value (2022-08-11 10:00:36 -0400)
----------------------------------------------------------------
virtio: fatures, fixes
A huge patchset supporting vq resize using the
new vq reset capability.
Features, fixes, cleanups all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
----------------------------------------------------------------
Alvaro Karsz (1):
net: virtio_net: notifications coalescing support
Bo Liu (3):
virtio: Check dev_set_name() return value
vhost-vdpa: Call ida_simple_remove() when failed
virtio_vdpa: support the arg sizes of find_vqs()
Colin Ian King (1):
vDPA/ifcvf: remove duplicated assignment to pointer cfg
David Hildenbrand (1):
drivers/virtio: Clarify CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM for unsupported architectures
Eli Cohen (3):
vdpa/mlx5: Implement susupend virtqueue callback
vdpa/mlx5: Support different address spaces for control and data
vdpa/mlx5: Fix possible uninitialized return value
Eugenio Pérez (4):
vdpa: Add suspend operation
vhost-vdpa: introduce SUSPEND backend feature bit
vhost-vdpa: uAPI to suspend the device
vdpa_sim: Implement suspend vdpa op
Jason Wang (2):
virtio_pmem: initialize provider_data through nd_region_desc
virtio_pmem: set device ready in probe()
Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
virtio: VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION is broken
Mike Christie (2):
vhost-scsi: Fix max number of virtqueues
vhost scsi: Allow user to control num virtqueues
Minghao Xue (2):
dt-bindings: virtio: mmio: add optional wakeup-source property
virtio_mmio: add support to set IRQ of a virtio device as wakeup source
Robin Murphy (1):
vdpa: Use device_iommu_capable()
Shigeru Yoshida (1):
virtio-blk: Avoid use-after-free on suspend/resume
Stefano Garzarella (11):
vringh: iterate on iotlb_translate to handle large translations
vdpa_sim_blk: use dev_dbg() to print errors
vdpa_sim_blk: limit the number of request handled per batch
vdpa_sim_blk: call vringh_complete_iotlb() also in the error path
vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups
vdpa_sim: use max_iotlb_entries as a limit in vhost_iotlb_init
tools/virtio: fix build
vdpa_sim_blk: check if sector is 0 for commands other than read or write
vdpa_sim_blk: make vdpasim_blk_check_range usable by other requests
vdpa_sim_blk: add support for VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH
vdpa_sim_blk: add support for discard and write-zeroes
Xie Yongji (5):
vduse: Remove unnecessary spin lock protection
vduse: Use memcpy_{to,from}_page() in do_bounce()
vduse: Support using userspace pages as bounce buffer
vduse: Support registering userspace memory for IOVA regions
vduse: Support querying information of IOVA regions
Xu Qiang (1):
vdpa/mlx5: Use eth_broadcast_addr() to assign broadcast address
Xuan Zhuo (44):
remoteproc: rename len of rpoc_vring to num
virtio_ring: remove the arg vq of vring_alloc_desc_extra()
virtio: record the maximum queue num supported by the device.
virtio: struct virtio_config_ops add callbacks for queue_reset
virtio_ring: update the document of the virtqueue_detach_unused_buf for queue reset
virtio_ring: extract the logic of freeing vring
virtio_ring: split vring_virtqueue
virtio_ring: introduce virtqueue_init()
virtio_ring: split: stop __vring_new_virtqueue as export symbol
virtio_ring: split: __vring_new_virtqueue() accept struct vring_virtqueue_split
virtio_ring: split: introduce vring_free_split()
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of alloc queue
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of alloc state and extra
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of vring init
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of attach vring
virtio_ring: split: introduce virtqueue_reinit_split()
virtio_ring: split: reserve vring_align, may_reduce_num
virtio_ring: split: introduce virtqueue_resize_split()
virtio_ring: packed: introduce vring_free_packed
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of alloc queue
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of alloc state and extra
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of vring init
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of attach vring
virtio_ring: packed: introduce virtqueue_reinit_packed()
virtio_ring: packed: introduce virtqueue_resize_packed()
virtio_ring: introduce virtqueue_resize()
virtio_pci: struct virtio_pci_common_cfg add queue_notify_data
virtio: allow to unbreak/break virtqueue individually
virtio: queue_reset: add VIRTIO_F_RING_RESET
virtio_ring: struct virtqueue introduce reset
virtio_pci: struct virtio_pci_common_cfg add queue_reset
virtio_pci: introduce helper to get/set queue reset
virtio_pci: extract the logic of active vq for modern pci
virtio_pci: support VIRTIO_F_RING_RESET
virtio: find_vqs() add arg sizes
virtio_pci: support the arg sizes of find_vqs()
virtio_mmio: support the arg sizes of find_vqs()
virtio: add helper virtio_find_vqs_ctx_size()
virtio_net: set the default max ring size by find_vqs()
virtio_net: get ringparam by virtqueue_get_vring_max_size()
virtio_net: split free_unused_bufs()
virtio_net: support rx queue resize
virtio_net: support tx queue resize
virtio_net: support set_ringparam
Zhang Jiaming (1):
vdpa: ifcvf: Fix spelling mistake in comments
Zhu Lingshan (4):
vDPA/ifcvf: get_config_size should return a value no greater than dev implementation
vDPA/ifcvf: support userspace to query features and MQ of a management device
vDPA: !FEATURES_OK should not block querying device config space
vDPA: fix 'cast to restricted le16' warnings in vdpa.c
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/virtio/mmio.yaml | 4 +
arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c | 3 +-
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 24 +-
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 325 +++++++-
drivers/nvdimm/virtio_pmem.c | 9 +-
drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 3 +
drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 4 +-
drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c | 13 +-
drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 4 +
drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_base.c | 14 +-
drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_base.h | 2 +
drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c | 144 ++--
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h | 11 +
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 175 ++++-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 14 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 18 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h | 1 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c | 176 ++++-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.c | 3 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c | 102 ++-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h | 8 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 180 +++++
drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 85 ++-
drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 38 +-
drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 78 +-
drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 11 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 4 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 14 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 32 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h | 3 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c | 8 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 153 +++-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c | 39 +
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 814 +++++++++++++++------
drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c | 18 +-
include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc_vdpa.h | 8 +
include/linux/remoteproc.h | 4 +-
include/linux/vdpa.h | 4 +
include/linux/virtio.h | 10 +
include/linux/virtio_config.h | 40 +-
include/linux/virtio_pci_modern.h | 9 +
include/linux/virtio_ring.h | 10 -
include/uapi/linux/vduse.h | 47 ++
include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 9 +
include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h | 2 +
include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h | 7 +-
include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 34 +-
include/uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h | 2 +
tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h | 2 +-
tools/virtio/linux/vringh.h | 1 +
tools/virtio/virtio_test.c | 4 +-
51 files changed, 2171 insertions(+), 556 deletions(-)
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
alvaro.karsz@solid-run.com, colin.i.king@gmail.com,
colin.king@intel.com, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, david@redhat.com,
elic@nvidia.com, eperezma@redhat.com, gautam.dawar@xilinx.com,
gshan@redhat.com, hdegoede@redhat.com, hulkci@huawei.com,
jasowang@redhat.com, jiaming@nfschina.com,
kangjie.xu@linux.alibaba.com, lingshan.zhu@intel.com,
liubo03@inspur.com, michael.christie@oracle.com, mst@redhat.com,
pankaj.gupta@amd.com, peng.fan@nxp.com, quic_mingxue@quicinc.com,
robin.murphy@arm.com, sgarzare@redhat.com,
suwan.kim027@gmail.com, syoshida@redhat.com,
xieyongji@bytedance.com, xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com,
xuqiang36@huawei.com
Subject: [GIT PULL] virtio: fatures, fixes
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:42:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220812114250-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
The following changes since commit 3d7cb6b04c3f3115719235cc6866b10326de34cd:
Linux 5.19 (2022-07-31 14:03:01 -0700)
are available in the Git repository at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git tags/for_linus
for you to fetch changes up to 93e530d2a1c4c0fcce45e01ae6c5c6287a08d3e3:
vdpa/mlx5: Fix possible uninitialized return value (2022-08-11 10:00:36 -0400)
----------------------------------------------------------------
virtio: fatures, fixes
A huge patchset supporting vq resize using the
new vq reset capability.
Features, fixes, cleanups all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
----------------------------------------------------------------
Alvaro Karsz (1):
net: virtio_net: notifications coalescing support
Bo Liu (3):
virtio: Check dev_set_name() return value
vhost-vdpa: Call ida_simple_remove() when failed
virtio_vdpa: support the arg sizes of find_vqs()
Colin Ian King (1):
vDPA/ifcvf: remove duplicated assignment to pointer cfg
David Hildenbrand (1):
drivers/virtio: Clarify CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM for unsupported architectures
Eli Cohen (3):
vdpa/mlx5: Implement susupend virtqueue callback
vdpa/mlx5: Support different address spaces for control and data
vdpa/mlx5: Fix possible uninitialized return value
Eugenio Pérez (4):
vdpa: Add suspend operation
vhost-vdpa: introduce SUSPEND backend feature bit
vhost-vdpa: uAPI to suspend the device
vdpa_sim: Implement suspend vdpa op
Jason Wang (2):
virtio_pmem: initialize provider_data through nd_region_desc
virtio_pmem: set device ready in probe()
Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
virtio: VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION is broken
Mike Christie (2):
vhost-scsi: Fix max number of virtqueues
vhost scsi: Allow user to control num virtqueues
Minghao Xue (2):
dt-bindings: virtio: mmio: add optional wakeup-source property
virtio_mmio: add support to set IRQ of a virtio device as wakeup source
Robin Murphy (1):
vdpa: Use device_iommu_capable()
Shigeru Yoshida (1):
virtio-blk: Avoid use-after-free on suspend/resume
Stefano Garzarella (11):
vringh: iterate on iotlb_translate to handle large translations
vdpa_sim_blk: use dev_dbg() to print errors
vdpa_sim_blk: limit the number of request handled per batch
vdpa_sim_blk: call vringh_complete_iotlb() also in the error path
vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups
vdpa_sim: use max_iotlb_entries as a limit in vhost_iotlb_init
tools/virtio: fix build
vdpa_sim_blk: check if sector is 0 for commands other than read or write
vdpa_sim_blk: make vdpasim_blk_check_range usable by other requests
vdpa_sim_blk: add support for VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH
vdpa_sim_blk: add support for discard and write-zeroes
Xie Yongji (5):
vduse: Remove unnecessary spin lock protection
vduse: Use memcpy_{to,from}_page() in do_bounce()
vduse: Support using userspace pages as bounce buffer
vduse: Support registering userspace memory for IOVA regions
vduse: Support querying information of IOVA regions
Xu Qiang (1):
vdpa/mlx5: Use eth_broadcast_addr() to assign broadcast address
Xuan Zhuo (44):
remoteproc: rename len of rpoc_vring to num
virtio_ring: remove the arg vq of vring_alloc_desc_extra()
virtio: record the maximum queue num supported by the device.
virtio: struct virtio_config_ops add callbacks for queue_reset
virtio_ring: update the document of the virtqueue_detach_unused_buf for queue reset
virtio_ring: extract the logic of freeing vring
virtio_ring: split vring_virtqueue
virtio_ring: introduce virtqueue_init()
virtio_ring: split: stop __vring_new_virtqueue as export symbol
virtio_ring: split: __vring_new_virtqueue() accept struct vring_virtqueue_split
virtio_ring: split: introduce vring_free_split()
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of alloc queue
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of alloc state and extra
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of vring init
virtio_ring: split: extract the logic of attach vring
virtio_ring: split: introduce virtqueue_reinit_split()
virtio_ring: split: reserve vring_align, may_reduce_num
virtio_ring: split: introduce virtqueue_resize_split()
virtio_ring: packed: introduce vring_free_packed
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of alloc queue
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of alloc state and extra
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of vring init
virtio_ring: packed: extract the logic of attach vring
virtio_ring: packed: introduce virtqueue_reinit_packed()
virtio_ring: packed: introduce virtqueue_resize_packed()
virtio_ring: introduce virtqueue_resize()
virtio_pci: struct virtio_pci_common_cfg add queue_notify_data
virtio: allow to unbreak/break virtqueue individually
virtio: queue_reset: add VIRTIO_F_RING_RESET
virtio_ring: struct virtqueue introduce reset
virtio_pci: struct virtio_pci_common_cfg add queue_reset
virtio_pci: introduce helper to get/set queue reset
virtio_pci: extract the logic of active vq for modern pci
virtio_pci: support VIRTIO_F_RING_RESET
virtio: find_vqs() add arg sizes
virtio_pci: support the arg sizes of find_vqs()
virtio_mmio: support the arg sizes of find_vqs()
virtio: add helper virtio_find_vqs_ctx_size()
virtio_net: set the default max ring size by find_vqs()
virtio_net: get ringparam by virtqueue_get_vring_max_size()
virtio_net: split free_unused_bufs()
virtio_net: support rx queue resize
virtio_net: support tx queue resize
virtio_net: support set_ringparam
Zhang Jiaming (1):
vdpa: ifcvf: Fix spelling mistake in comments
Zhu Lingshan (4):
vDPA/ifcvf: get_config_size should return a value no greater than dev implementation
vDPA/ifcvf: support userspace to query features and MQ of a management device
vDPA: !FEATURES_OK should not block querying device config space
vDPA: fix 'cast to restricted le16' warnings in vdpa.c
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/virtio/mmio.yaml | 4 +
arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c | 3 +-
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 24 +-
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 325 +++++++-
drivers/nvdimm/virtio_pmem.c | 9 +-
drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 3 +
drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 4 +-
drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c | 13 +-
drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 4 +
drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_base.c | 14 +-
drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_base.h | 2 +
drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c | 144 ++--
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h | 11 +
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 175 ++++-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 14 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 18 +-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h | 1 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c | 176 ++++-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.c | 3 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c | 102 ++-
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h | 8 +
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 180 +++++
drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 85 ++-
drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 38 +-
drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 78 +-
drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 11 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 4 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 14 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 32 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h | 3 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c | 8 +-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 153 +++-
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern_dev.c | 39 +
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 814 +++++++++++++++------
drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c | 18 +-
include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc_vdpa.h | 8 +
include/linux/remoteproc.h | 4 +-
include/linux/vdpa.h | 4 +
include/linux/virtio.h | 10 +
include/linux/virtio_config.h | 40 +-
include/linux/virtio_pci_modern.h | 9 +
include/linux/virtio_ring.h | 10 -
include/uapi/linux/vduse.h | 47 ++
include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 9 +
include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h | 2 +
include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h | 7 +-
include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 34 +-
include/uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h | 2 +
tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h | 2 +-
tools/virtio/linux/vringh.h | 1 +
tools/virtio/virtio_test.c | 4 +-
51 files changed, 2171 insertions(+), 556 deletions(-)
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2022-08-12 15:42 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2022-08-12 15:42 ` [GIT PULL] virtio: fatures, fixes Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-12 16:59 ` pr-tracker-bot
2022-08-12 16:59 ` pr-tracker-bot
2022-08-14 0:45 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-14 0:45 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-14 1:50 ` Xuan Zhuo
2022-08-14 1:50 ` Xuan Zhuo
2022-08-14 3:52 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-14 3:52 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-14 4:39 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-14 4:39 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-14 8:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-14 8:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-14 19:40 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-14 19:40 ` Andres Freund
2022-08-15 7:02 ` Andres Freund
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