Re: [PATCH for 7.2-rc3 v1 0/2] virtio fixes

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 04:03:49PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> 
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 03:21:32PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> This hopefully fixes the problems with VirtIO migration caused by the
>> >> previous refactoring of virtio_device_started(). That introduced a
>> >> different order of checking which didn't give the VM state primacy but
>> >> wasn't noticed as we don't properly exercise VirtIO device migration
>> >> and caused issues when dev->started wasn't checked in the core code.
>> >> The introduction of virtio_device_should_start() split the overloaded
>> >> function up but the broken order still remained. The series finally
>> >> fixes that by restoring the original semantics but with the cleaned up
>> >> functions.
>> >> 
>> >> I've added more documentation to the various structures involved as
>> >> well as the functions. There is still some inconsistencies in the
>> >> VirtIO code between different devices but I think that can be looked
>> >> at over the 8.0 cycle.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot! Did you try this with gitlab CI? A patch similar to your
>> > 2/2 broke it previously ...
>> 
>> Looking into it now - so far hasn't broken locally but I guess there is
>> something different about the CI.
>
>
> yes - pls push to gitlab, create pipeline e.g. with QEMU_CI set to 2
>
> Or with QEMU_CI set to 1 and then run fedora container and then
> clang-system manually.

I'm having trouble re-creating the failures in CI locally on my boxen. I
have triggered a bug on s390 but that looks like a pre-existing problem
with VRING_SET_ENDIAN being triggered for the vhost-user-gpio tests. I
think that is a limitation of the test harness.

Will keep looking.

>
>> >
>> >> Alex Bennée (2):
>> >>   include/hw: attempt to document VirtIO feature variables
>> >>   include/hw: VM state takes precedence in virtio_device_should_start
>> >> 
>> >>  include/hw/virtio/vhost.h  | 25 +++++++++++++++++++---
>> >>  include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>> >>  2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>> >> 
>> >> -- 
>> >> 2.34.1
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alex Bennée


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Alex Bennée