On 10.07.2017 11:20, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
Minor minor nit:
The subject should state "creating or destroying a VM"
> This patch adds a few lines to the KVM common code to fire a
> KOBJ_CHANGE uevent whenever a KVM VM is created or destroyed. The event
> carries five environment variables:
>
> CREATED indicates how many times a new VM has been created. It is
> useful for example to trigger specific actions when the first
> VM is started
> COUNT indicates how many VMs are currently active. This can be used for
> logging or monitoring purposes
> PID has the pid of the KVM process that has been started or stopped.
> This can be used to perform process-specific tuning.
> STATS_PATH contains the path in debugfs to the directory with all the
> runtime statistics for this VM. This is useful for performance
> monitoring and profiling.
> EVENT described the type of event, its value can be either "create" or
> "destroy"
>
> Specific udev rules can be then set up in userspace to deal with the
> creation or destruction of VMs as needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index f0fe9d0..7c39783 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_rebooting);
>
> static bool largepages_enabled = true;
>
> +#define KVM_EVENT_CREATE_VM 0
> +#define KVM_EVENT_DESTROY_VM 1
> +static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(unsigned int type, struct kvm *kvm);
> +static unsigned long long kvm_createvm_count;
> +static unsigned long long kvm_active_vms;
> +
> bool kvm_is_reserved_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
> {
> if (pfn_valid(pfn))
> @@ -728,6 +734,7 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
> int i;
> struct mm_struct *mm = kvm->mm;
>
> + kvm_uevent_notify_change(KVM_EVENT_DESTROY_VM, kvm);
> kvm_destroy_vm_debugfs(kvm);
> kvm_arch_sync_events(kvm);
> spin_lock(&kvm_lock);
> @@ -3196,6 +3203,7 @@ static int kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm(unsigned long type)
> fput(file);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> + kvm_uevent_notify_change(KVM_EVENT_CREATE_VM, kvm);
>
> fd_install(r, file);
> return r;
> @@ -3848,6 +3856,57 @@ static const struct file_operations *stat_fops[] = {
> [KVM_STAT_VM] = &vm_stat_fops,
> };
>
> +static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(unsigned int type, struct kvm *kvm)
> +{
> + char cbuf[32], abuf[32], pidbuf[32], evbuf[16];
do we really need that much space for a pid?
> + const char pathvar[11] = "STATS_PATH=";
> + char *ptr[6] = {cbuf, abuf, pidbuf, NULL, NULL, NULL};
> + char *tmp, *pathbuf;
> + unsigned long long created, active;
> + int idx = 3;
> +
> + if (!kvm_dev.this_device || !kvm || !kvm->debugfs_dentry)
> + return;
> +
> + spin_lock(&kvm_lock);
> + if (type == KVM_EVENT_CREATE_VM) {
> + kvm_createvm_count++;
> + kvm_active_vms++;
> + } else if (type == KVM_EVENT_DESTROY_VM) {
> + kvm_active_vms--;
> + }
> + created = kvm_createvm_count;
> + active = kvm_active_vms;
> + spin_unlock(&kvm_lock);
> +
> + pathbuf = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (pathbuf) {
> + tmp = dentry_path_raw(kvm->debugfs_dentry,
> + pathbuf + sizeof(pathvar),
> + PATH_MAX - sizeof(pathvar));
> + if (!IS_ERR(tmp)) {
> + memcpy(tmp - sizeof(pathvar), pathvar, sizeof(pathvar));
> + ptr[idx++] = tmp - sizeof(pathvar);
> + }
> + }
> + snprintf(cbuf, sizeof(cbuf), "CREATED=%llu", created);
Did you think about using struct kobj_uevent_env / add_uevent_var()?
But most probably the problem here is special handling for
dentry_path_raw().
--
Thanks,
David
