On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 11:27:40AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:49:19 +0200,
Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen wrote:
This commit uses the ack() callback to determine when a buffer has been
updated, then exposes it to guest.
The current mechanism splits a dma buffer into descriptors that are
exposed to the device. This dma buffer is shared with the user
application. When the device consumes a buffer, the driver moves the
request from the used ring to available ring.
The driver exposes the buffer to the device without knowing if the
content has been updated from the user. The section 2.8.21.1 of the
virtio spec states that: "The device MAY access the descriptor chains
the driver created and the memory they refer to immediately". If the
device picks up buffers from the available ring just after it is
notified, it happens that the content may be old.
When the ack() callback is invoked, the driver exposes only the buffers
that have already been updated, i.e., enqueued in the available ring.
Thus, the device always picks up a buffer that is updated.
For capturing, the driver starts by exposing all the available buffers
to device. After device updates the content of a buffer, it enqueues it
in the used ring. It is only after the ack() for capturing is issued
that the driver re-enqueues the buffer in the available ring.
Co-developed-by: Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <mvaralar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied now to for-next branch.
Cool, thanks for that!
I just wonder if we should CC stable since we are fixing a virtio
specification violation.
@Michael what do you think?
Thanks,
Stefano
