Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] virtio/s390: make airq summary indicators DMA

[Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 27 May 2019 14:00:18 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2019 18:22:09 +0200
> Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Hypervisor needs to interact with the summary indicators, so these
> > need to be DMA memory as well (at least for protected virtualization
> > guests).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> (...)
> 
> > @@ -1501,6 +1508,7 @@ static int __init virtio_ccw_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	/* parse no_auto string before we do anything further */
> >  	no_auto_parse();
> > +	summary_indicators = cio_dma_zalloc(MAX_AIRQ_AREAS);
> 
> What happens if this fails?

Bad things could happen!

How about adding

if (!summary_indicators)
	virtio_ccw_use_airq = 0; /* fall back to classic */

?

Since it ain't very likely to happen, we could also just fail
virtio_ccw_init() with -ENOMEM.

Regards,
Halil


> 
> >  	return ccw_driver_register(&virtio_ccw_driver);
> >  }
> >  device_initcall(virtio_ccw_init);
>