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Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v2 1/2] vfio-ccw: add force unlimit


From: Halil Pasic
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v2 1/2] vfio-ccw: add force unlimited prefetch property
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 19:28:31 +0200
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On 05/23/2018 06:59 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 18:23:44 +0200
Halil Pasic <address@hidden> wrote:

On 05/23/2018 04:46 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
+    if (!(sch->orb.ctrl0 & ORB_CTRL0_MASK_PFCH)) {
+        if (!(vcdev->force_orb_pfch)) {
+            warn_report("vfio-ccw requires PFCH flag set");
+            sch_gen_unit_exception(sch);
+            css_inject_io_interrupt(sch);
+            return IOINST_CC_EXPECTED;
+        } else {
+            sch->orb.ctrl0 |= ORB_CTRL0_MASK_PFCH;
+            WARN_ONCE(vcdev->warned_force_orb_pfch, "PFCH flag forced");
This message should probably mention vfio-ccw as well as the subchannel
id?
I was thinking about this. I think all it would make sense to have a common
prefix for all reports coming form vfio-ccw (QEMU). But then I was like, that
is a separate patch.

Maybe something like:
vfio-ccw (xx.xx.xxxx): specific message

OTOH we don't seem to do that elsewhere (git grep -e 
'warn\|error_report\|error_setg' -- hw/s390x/).
AFAIR the error_setg captures context (like, src, line, func) but does not
necessarily report it. Another question is if this should be extended to
hw/s390x/s390-ccw.c

What do you think?
I'm not sure that makes sense, especially as not everything might
explicitly refer to a certain subchannel.

Let's just add the subchannel id here? In this case, this is really a
useful piece of information (which device is showing this behaviour?)

The same applies to  warn_report("vfio-ccw requires PFCH flag set") (that is,
on which device (that has no force-orb-pfch=on specified)  is the guest issuing
ORBs with the PFCH unset), or?
Should I go for
"vfio-ccw (xx.xx.xxxx): vfio-ccw requires PFCH flag set"
and
"vfio-ccw (xx.xx.xxxx): PFCH flag forced"
or just for the second one, or some third option?

Yes, it makes sense for both.

Related: Do we expect the guest driver to learn from its experience and
not try without pfch again? It is probably not very helpful if the logs
get filled with a lot of "vfio-ccw requires pfch" messages...


Don't really know. Dong Jia is probably more qualified to answer that question.
I don't expect the guest driver to do so. There are probably more intelligent
strategies to deal with this, but the question is what do we gain in the end
(linux guests are not affected). We should probably not overthink this.

Regards,
Halil




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