Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] s390x/vfio-ccw: Channel Path Handling [KVM]

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On Tue,  5 May 2020 14:27:37 +0200
Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here is a new pass at the channel-path handling code for vfio-ccw.
> Changes from previous versions are recorded in git notes for each patch.
> Patches 5 through 7 got swizzled a little bit, in order to better
> compartmentalize the code they define. Basically, the IRQ definitions
> were moved from patch 7 to 5, and then patch 6 was placed ahead of
> patch 5.
> 
> I have put Conny's r-b's on patches 1, 3, 4, (new) 5, and 8, and believe
> I have addressed all comments from v3, with two exceptions:
> 
> > I'm wondering if we should make this [vfio_ccw_schib_region_{write,release}]
> > callback optional (not in this patch).  
> 
> I have that implemented on top of this series, and will send later as part
> of a larger cleanup series.
> 
> > One thing though that keeps coming up: do we need any kind of
> > serialization? Can there be any confusion from concurrent reads from
> > userspace, or are we sure that we always provide consistent data?  
> 
> I _think_ this is in good shape, though as suggested another set of
> eyeballs would be nice. There is still a problem on the main
> interrupt/FSM path, which I'm not attempting to address here.
> 
> With this code plus the corresponding QEMU series (posted momentarily)
> applied I am able to configure off/on a CHPID (for example, by issuing
> "chchp -c 0/1 xx" on the host), and the guest is able to see both the
> events and reflect the updated path masks in its structures.
> 
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20200417023001.65006-1-farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20200206213825.11444-1-farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20191115025620.19593-1-farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Eric Farman (3):
>   vfio-ccw: Refactor the unregister of the async regions
>   vfio-ccw: Refactor IRQ handlers
>   vfio-ccw: Add trace for CRW event
> 
> Farhan Ali (5):
>   vfio-ccw: Introduce new helper functions to free/destroy regions
>   vfio-ccw: Register a chp_event callback for vfio-ccw
>   vfio-ccw: Introduce a new schib region
>   vfio-ccw: Introduce a new CRW region
>   vfio-ccw: Wire up the CRW irq and CRW region
> 
>  Documentation/s390/vfio-ccw.rst     |  38 ++++++-
>  drivers/s390/cio/Makefile           |   2 +-
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_chp.c     | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c     | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c     |  65 ++++++++---
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_private.h |  16 +++
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_trace.c   |   1 +
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_trace.h   |  30 +++++
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h           |   3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio_ccw.h       |  18 +++
>  10 files changed, 458 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_chp.c
> 

Thanks, applied.

The documentation needed a bit of fiddling (please double-check), and I
think we want to document error codes for the schib/crw regions as
well. I can do that if I find time, but I'd also happily merge a patch.




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