From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ew78j-0007gU-UH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:12:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ew78g-0005n8-OR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:12:25 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:42168 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ew78g-0005mm-IY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:12:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:12:08 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20180314160832-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <1520426065-40265-1-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <1520426065-40265-4-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com> <20180313183558-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <5AA88C35.90300@intel.com> <20180314045130-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <5AA8BB27.6030205@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5AA8BB27.6030205@intel.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wei Wang Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, quintela@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, quan.xu0@gmail.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:03:19PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > On 03/14/2018 10:53 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:43:01AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > > > On 03/14/2018 12:49 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 08:34:24PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Wei Wang > > > > > Signed-off-by: Liang Li > > > > > CC: Michael S. Tsirkin > > > > > CC: Dr. David Alan Gilbert > > > > > CC: Juan Quintela > > > > I find it suspicious that neither unrealize nor reset > > > > functions have been touched at all. > > > > Are you sure you have thought through scenarious like > > > > hot-unplug or disabling the device by guest? > > > OK. I think we can call balloon_free_page_stop in unrealize and reset. > > > > > > > > > > +static void *virtio_balloon_poll_free_page_hints(void *opaque) > > > > +{ > > > > + VirtQueueElement *elem; > > > > + VirtIOBalloon *dev = opaque; > > > > + VirtQueue *vq = dev->free_page_vq; > > > > + uint32_t id; > > > > + size_t size; > > > > What makes it safe to poke at this device from multiple threads? > > > > I think that it would be safer to do it from e.g. BH. > > > > > > > Actually the free_page_optimization thread is the only user of free_page_vq, > > > and there is only one optimization thread each time. Would this be safe > > > enough? > > > > > > Best, > > > Wei > > Aren't there other fields there? Also things like reset affect all VQs. > > > > Yes. But I think BHs are used to avoid re-entrancy, which isn't the issue > here. Since you are adding locks to address the issue - doesn't this imply reentrancy is exactly the issue? > The potential issue I could observe here is that > "dev->free_page_report_status" is read and written by the optimization > thread, and it is also modified by the migration thread and reset via > virtio_balloon_free_page_stop. > > How about adding a QEMU SpinLock, like this: > > virtio_balloon_poll_free_page_hints() > { > > while (1) { > qemu_spin_lock(); > /* If the status has been changed to STOP or EXIT, or the VM is > stopped, just exit */ > if (dev->free_page_report_status >= FREE_PAGE_REPORT_S_STOP || > !runstate_is_running()) { > qemu_spin_unlock(); > break; > } > .... > qemu_spin_unlock(); > } > } > > > Best, > Wei That will address the issue but it does look weird. -- MST