[PATCHv3 0/3] vfio/mdev: Improve vfio/mdev core module

Parav Pandit
2019-05-16T23:30:43Z

As we would like to use mdev subsystem for wider use case as
discussed in [1], [2] apart from an offline discussion.
This use case is also discussed with wider forum in [4] in track
'Lightweight NIC HW functions for container offload use cases'.

This series is prep-work and improves vfio/mdev module in following ways.

Patch-1 Improves the mdev create/remove sequence to match Linux
bus, device model
Patch-2 Avoid recreating remove file on stale device to eliminate
call trace
Patch-3 Fix race conditions of create/remove with parent removal.
This is improved version than using srcu as srcu can take seconds
to minutes.

This series is tested using
(a) mtty with VM using vfio_mdev driver for positive tests and device
removal while device in use by VM using vfio_mdev driver.

(b) mlx5 core driver using RFC patches [3] and internal patches.
Internal patches are large and cannot be combined with this prep-work
patches. It will posted once prep-work completes.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg556978.html
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/7/696
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/8/819
[4] https://netdevconf.org/0x13/session.html?workshop-hardware-offload

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Changelog:
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v2->v3:
- Addressed comment from Cornelia
- Corrected several errors in commit log, updated commit log
- Dropped already merged 7 patches
v1->v2:
- Addressed comments from Alex
- Rebased
- Inserted the device checking loop in Patch-6 as original code
- Added patch 7 to 10
- Added fixes for race condition in create/remove with parent removal
Patch-10 uses simplified refcount and completion, instead of srcu
which might take seconds to minutes on busy system.
- Added fix for device create/remove sequence to match
Linux device, bus model
v0->v1:
- Dropped device placement on bus sequence patch for this series
- Addressed below comments from Alex, Kirti, Maxim.
- Added Review-by tag for already reviewed patches.
- Dropped incorrect patch of put_device().
- Corrected Fixes commit tag for sysfs remove sequence fix
- Split last 8th patch to smaller refactor and fixes patch
- Following coding style commenting format
- Fixed accidental delete of mutex_lock in mdev_unregister_device
- Renamed remove helped to mdev_device_remove_common().
- Rebased for uuid/guid change

Parav Pandit (3):
vfio/mdev: Improve the create/remove sequence
vfio/mdev: Avoid creating sysfs remove file on stale device removal
vfio/mdev: Synchronize device create/remove with parent removal

drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 150 ++++++++++++++-----------------
drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h | 8 +-
drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c | 6 +-
3 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)

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