Re: [PATCH 01/10] vfio: ccw: Moving state change out of IRQ context

Pierre Morel
2018-04-24T13:07:30Z

On 24/04/2018 13:55, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:49:14 +0200
> Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24/04/2018 11:59, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:40:56 +0200
>>> Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 24/04/2018 08:54, Dong Jia Shi wrote:
>>>>> * Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2018-04-19 16:48:04 +0200]:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>> @@ -94,9 +83,15 @@ static void vfio_ccw_sch_io_todo(struct work_struct *work)
>>>>>> static void vfio_ccw_sch_irq(struct subchannel *sch)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> struct vfio_ccw_private *private = dev_get_drvdata(&sch->dev);
>>>>>> + struct irb *irb = this_cpu_ptr(&cio_irb);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> inc_irq_stat(IRQIO_CIO);
>>>>>> - vfio_ccw_fsm_event(private, VFIO_CCW_EVENT_INTERRUPT);
>>>>>> + memcpy(&private->irb, irb, sizeof(*irb));
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + WARN_ON(work_pending(&private->io_work));
>>>>> Hmm, why do we need this?
>>>> The current design insure that we have not two concurrent SSCH requests.
>>>> How ever I want here to track spurious interrupt.
>>>> If we implement cancel, halt or clear requests, we also may trigger (AFAIU)
>>>> a second interrupts depending on races between instructions, controller
>>>> and device.
>>> You won't get an interrupt for a successful cancel. If you do a
>>> halt/clear, you will make the subchannel halt/clear pending in addition
>>> to start pending and you'll only get one interrupt (if the I/O has
>>> progressed far enough, you won't be able to issue a hsch). The
>>> interesting case is:
>>> - guest does a ssch, we do a ssch on the device
>>> - the guest does a csch before it got the interrupt for the ssch
>>> - before we do the csch on the device, the subchannel is already status
>>> pending with completion of the ssch
>>> - after we issue the csch, we get a second interrupt (for the csch)
>> We agree.
>>
>>> I think we should present two interrupts to the guest in that case.
>>> Races between issuing ssch/hsch/csch and the subchannel becoming status
>>> pending happen on real hardware as well, we're just more likely to see
>>> them with the vfio layer in between.
>> Yes, agreed too.
>>
>>> (I'm currently trying to recall what we're doing with unsolicited
>>> interrupts. These are fun wrt deferred cc 1; I'm not sure if there are
>>> cases where we want to present a deferred cc to the guest.)
>> This patch does not change the current functionalities, only
>> consolidates the FSM.
>> The current way to handle unsolicited interrupts is to report them to
>> the guest
>> along with the deferred code AFAIU.
> My question was more along the line of "do we actually want to
> _generate_ a deferred cc1 or unsolicited interrupt, based upon what we
> do in our state machine". My guess is no, regardless of the changes you
> do in this series.
>
>>> Also, doing a second ssch before we got final state for the first one
>>> is perfectly valid. Linux just does not do it, so I'm not sure if we
>>> should invest too much time there.
>> I agree too, it would just make things unnecessary complicated.
> I'm a big fan of just throwing everything at the hardware and let it
> sort out any races etc. We just need to be sure we don't mix up
> interrupts :)
>
OK, I understand, I can do somthing in the interrupt handler to make
sure we do not loose interrupt IRQs.

I make a proposition in V2.

Thanks,

Pierre

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Pierre Morel
Linux/KVM/QEMU in Böblingen - Germany