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Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v4 0/6] vfio-ccw: support hsch/csch (kernel part


From: Eric Farman
Subject: Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v4 0/6] vfio-ccw: support hsch/csch (kernel part)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 16:28:14 -0500
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On 03/01/2019 04:38 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
[This is the Linux kernel part, git tree is available at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/vfio-ccw.git 
vfio-ccw-eagain-caps-v3

The companion QEMU patches are available at
https://github.com/cohuck/qemu vfio-ccw-caps]

Currently, vfio-ccw only relays START SUBCHANNEL requests to the real
device. This tends to work well for the most common 'good path' scenarios;
however, as we emulate {HALT,CLEAR} SUBCHANNEL in QEMU, things like
clearing pending requests at the device is currently not supported.
This may be a problem for e.g. error recovery.

This patch series introduces capabilities (similar to what vfio-pci uses)
and exposes a new async region for handling hsch/csch.

Lightly tested (I can interact with a dasd as before, and reserve/release
seems to work well.) Not sure if there is a better way to test this, ideas
welcome.

Hi Connie,

Thanks for the updated branches! I promise that I'll get back to reviewing them "soon," though I've been on some other tangents as of late.

In terms of testing, Farhan and I have been playing around with some exercisers/data pushers both with and without your new code, and things seem to be okay. Some of the problems we've reproduced without this code (and would fall into the area Pierre's FSM code would address), and some seem wholly unrelated. We're looking into them, but didn't want a whole week to go by without you hearing anything on this series.

If I have nothing meaningful tomorrow, enjoy your weekend!

 - Eric


Changes v3->v4:
- shrunk the capability offset, we don't need to accommodate as much as pci
- make checks in patch 1 more consistent and less buggy
- rebased on top of my current vfio-ccw branch

Changes v2->v3:
- Unb0rked patch 1, improved scope
- Split out the new mutex from patch 2 into new patch 3; added missing
   locking and hopefully improved description
- Patch 2 now reworks the state handling by splitting the BUSY state
   into CP_PROCESSING and CP_PENDING
- Patches 3 and 5 adapted on top of the reworked patches; hsch/csch
   are allowed in CP_PENDING, but not in CP_PROCESSING (did not add
   any R-b due to that)
- Added missing free in patch 5
- Probably some small changes I forgot to note down

Changes v1->v2:
- New patch 1: make it safe to use the cp accessors at any time; this
   should avoid problems with unsolicited interrupt handling
- New patch 2: handle concurrent accesses to the io region; the idea is
   to return -EAGAIN to userspace more often (so it can simply retry)
- also handle concurrent accesses to the async io region
- change VFIO_REGION_TYPE_CCW
- merge events for halt and clear to a single async event; this turned out
   to make the code quite a bit simpler
- probably some small changes I forgot to note down

Cornelia Huck (6):
   vfio-ccw: make it safe to access channel programs
   vfio-ccw: rework ssch state handling
   vfio-ccw: protect the I/O region
   vfio-ccw: add capabilities chain
   s390/cio: export hsch to modules
   vfio-ccw: add handling for async channel instructions

  drivers/s390/cio/Makefile           |   3 +-
  drivers/s390/cio/ioasm.c            |   1 +
  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_async.c   |  88 ++++++++++++
  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c      |  21 ++-
  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.h      |   2 +
  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c     |  57 ++++++--
  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_fsm.c     | 143 +++++++++++++++++-
  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c     | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_private.h |  48 ++++++-
  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h           |   4 +
  include/uapi/linux/vfio_ccw.h       |  12 ++
  11 files changed, 537 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_async.c





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