From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C7EC43387 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2019 13:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E17A218CD for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2019 13:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729146AbfABNXp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2019 08:23:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54972 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726934AbfABNXp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2019 08:23:45 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B961076528; Wed, 2 Jan 2019 13:23:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gondolin (dhcp-192-187.str.redhat.com [10.33.192.187]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D7E1001947; Wed, 2 Jan 2019 13:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 14:23:38 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck To: Halil Pasic Cc: "Wang, Wei W" , Christian Borntraeger , "virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "mst@redhat.com" , "pbonzini@redhat.com" , "dgilbert@redhat.com" Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] RE: [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio: fix some vq allocation issues Message-ID: <20190102142338.15bfe876.cohuck@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20190102105314.0b4e2485.cohuck@redhat.com> References: <1545963986-11280-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DEEA8E9@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20181230070600.512bbb8b@oc2783563651> <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DEEC8DF@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20190101004019.7f20aafa@oc2783563651> <20190102105314.0b4e2485.cohuck@redhat.com> Organization: Red Hat GmbH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.26]); Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:23:44 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 10:53:14 +0100 Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:40:19 +0100 > Halil Pasic wrote: > > As I said, at the moment I don't have a preference regarding the fix, > > partly because I'm not sure if "reading config inside the handler" is OK > > or not. Maybe Connie or Michael can help us here. I'm however sure that > > commit 86a5597 "virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT" > > breaks virtio-balloon with the ccw transport (i.e. effectively breaks > > virtio-balloon on s390): it used to work before and does not work > > after. > > Yes, that's unfortunate. > > > > > AFAICT tweaking the balloon code may be simpler than tweaking the > > virtio-ccw (transport code). ccw_io_helper() relies on getting > > an interrupt when the issued IO is done. If virtio-ccw is buggy, it > > needs to be fixed, but I'm not sure it is. > > I would not call virtio-ccw buggy, but it has some constraints that > virtio-pci apparently doesn't have (and which did not show up so far; > e.g. virtio-blk schedules a work item on config change, so there's no > deadlock there.) > > One way to get out of that constraint (don't interact with the config > space directly in the config changed handler) would be to schedule a > work item in virtio-ccw that calls virtio_config_changed() for the > device. My understanding is that delaying the notification to a work > queue would be fine. Unfortunately, calling virtio_config_changed() from a work item is not enough: That function takes the config_lock, and the virtio-ccw code to get the config both needs to allocate some memory and call schedule :/ The best option really seems to be - have virtio-balloon move the handling of the config change onto a workqueue or something like that, and - document that you cannot read/write the virtio config space from an atomic context Unless someone has a better idea?