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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] qemu-kvm: msix: Don't fire notifier spuriously on set/unset
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:34:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9D644F.2000705@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111018110607.GB28776@redhat.com>

On 2011-10-18 13:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:50:50AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> If MSI-X is disabled or the global mask is set, don't fire the notifier
>> during registration or removal, reporting a wrong state.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> 
> Hmm.  Could you please describe how does one trigger the incorrect behaviour?
> Looking at the upstream code, I notice that msix_notify_if_unmasked
> already calls msix_is_masked which checks the function mask.  And it
> also checks msix_entry_used which, ATM, is only set when msix is
> enabled.

Right, that's not yet an issue. Will be required when we get rid of used
vector tracking. Will adjust the commit log accordingly and move it back
into that context.

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-18 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-18  7:50 [PATCH 0/5] qemu-kvm: MSI-X fixes Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18  7:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] qemu-kvm: msix: Don't fire notifier spuriously on set/unset Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 11:06   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 11:34     ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-10-18  7:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] qemu-kvm: msix: Only invoke msix_handle_mask_update on changes Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 11:43   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 11:54     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 12:11       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 12:22         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 12:37           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 12:44             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 13:20               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 13:49                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 13:52                   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18  7:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] qemu-kvm: msix: Fire mask notifier on global mask changes Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18  7:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] msix: Don't process table changes while disabled Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 11:18   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 11:35     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 12:01       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18 11:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-18  7:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] msix: Prevent bogus mask updates on MMIO accesses Jan Kiszka

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