Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] virtio: fix vq # for balloon

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 11:12:34AM -0700, Daniel Verkamp wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 4:43 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > virtio balloon communicates to the core that in some
> > configurations vq #s are non-contiguous by setting name
> > pointer to NULL.
> >
> > Unfortunately, core then turned around and just made them
> > contiguous again. Result is that driver is out of spec.
> 
> Thanks for fixing this - I think the overall approach of the patch looks good.
> 
> > Implement what the API was supposed to do
> > in the 1st place. Compatibility with buggy hypervisors
> > is handled inside virtio-balloon, which is the only driver
> > making use of this facility, so far.
> 
> In addition to virtio-balloon, I believe the same problem also affects
> the virtio-fs device, since queue 1 is only supposed to be present if
> VIRTIO_FS_F_NOTIFICATION is negotiated, and the request queues are
> meant to be queue indexes 2 and up. From a look at the Linux driver
> (virtio_fs.c), it appears like it never acks VIRTIO_FS_F_NOTIFICATION
> and assumes that request queues start at index 1 rather than 2, which
> looks out of spec to me, but the current device implementations (that
> I am aware of, anyway) are also broken in the same way, so it ends up
> working today. Queue numbering in a spec-compliant device and the
> current Linux driver would mismatch; what the driver considers to be
> the first request queue (index 1) would be ignored by the device since
> queue index 1 has no function if F_NOTIFICATION isn't negotiated.


Oh, thanks a lot for pointing this out!

I see so this patch is no good as is, we need to add a workaround for
virtio-fs first.

QEMU workaround is simple - just add an extra queue. But I did not
reasearch how this would interact with vhost-user.

From driver POV, I guess we could just ignore queue # 1 - would that be
ok or does it have performance implications?
Or do what I did for balloon here: try with spec compliant #s first,
if that fails then assume it's the spec issue and shift by 1.


> [...]
> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> > index 7d82facafd75..fa606e7321ad 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> > @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ static int vp_find_vqs_msix(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int nvqs,
> >         struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev = to_vp_device(vdev);
> >         struct virtqueue_info *vqi;
> >         u16 msix_vec;
> > -       int i, err, nvectors, allocated_vectors, queue_idx = 0;
> > +       int i, err, nvectors, allocated_vectors;
> >
> >         vp_dev->vqs = kcalloc(nvqs, sizeof(*vp_dev->vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
> >         if (!vp_dev->vqs)
> > @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int vp_find_vqs_msix(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int nvqs,
> >                         msix_vec = allocated_vectors++;
> >                 else
> >                         msix_vec = VP_MSIX_VQ_VECTOR;
> > -               vqs[i] = vp_setup_vq(vdev, queue_idx++, vqi->callback,
> > +               vqs[i] = vp_setup_vq(vdev, i, vqi->callback,
> >                                      vqi->name, vqi->ctx, msix_vec);
> >                 if (IS_ERR(vqs[i])) {
> >                         err = PTR_ERR(vqs[i]);
> > @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static int vp_find_vqs_intx(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int nvqs,
> >                             struct virtqueue_info vqs_info[])
> >  {
> >         struct virtio_pci_device *vp_dev = to_vp_device(vdev);
> > -       int i, err, queue_idx = 0;
> > +       int i, err;
> >
> >         vp_dev->vqs = kcalloc(nvqs, sizeof(*vp_dev->vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
> >         if (!vp_dev->vqs)
> > @@ -388,8 +388,13 @@ static int vp_find_vqs_intx(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int nvqs,
> >                         vqs[i] = NULL;
> >                         continue;
> >                 }
> > +<<<<<<< HEAD
> >                 vqs[i] = vp_setup_vq(vdev, queue_idx++, vqi->callback,
> >                                      vqi->name, vqi->ctx,
> > +=======
> > +               vqs[i] = vp_setup_vq(vdev, i, callbacks[i], names[i],
> > +                                    ctx ? ctx[i] : false,
> > +>>>>>>> f814759f80b7... virtio: fix vq # for balloon
> 
> This still has merge markers in it.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Daniel