Re: [PATCH 4/6] vhost: reset invalidate_count in vhost_set_vring_num_addr()

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On 2019/7/23 下午5:17, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 03:57:16AM -0400, Jason Wang wrote:
The vhost_set_vring_num_addr() could be called in the middle of
invalidate_range_start() and invalidate_range_end(). If we don't reset
invalidate_count after the un-registering of MMU notifier, the
invalidate_cont will run out of sync (e.g never reach zero). This will
in fact disable the fast accessor path. Fixing by reset the count to
zero.

Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7f466032dc9e ("vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 ++++
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 03666b702498..89c9f08b5146 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2074,6 +2074,10 @@ static long vhost_vring_set_num_addr(struct vhost_dev *d,
  		d->has_notifier = false;
  	}
+ /* reset invalidate_count in case we are in the middle of
+	 * invalidate_start() and invalidate_end().
+	 */
+	vq->invalidate_count = 0;
I think that the code is ok but the comments are not very clear:
- we are never in the middle since we just removed the notifier


If I read the code correctly, mmu_notifier_unregister() can only guarantee to wait for the pending method to complete. So we can have:

invalidate_start()

mmu_notifier_unregister()

invalidate_end()


- the result is not just disabling optimization:
   if notifier becomes negative, then later we
   can think it's ok to map when it isn't since
   notifier is active.


I don't get how it could be negative, the only possible thing is to have a positive value.

Thanks



  	vhost_uninit_vq_maps(vq);
  #endif
--
2.18.1
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