Re: virtio_balloon regression in 5.19-rc3

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On Tue, 2022-06-21 at 17:34 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:24 PM David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On 20.06.22 20:49, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I've tested a 5.19-rc3 kernel on top of QEMU/KVM with machine type
> > > pc-q35-5.2.  It has a virtio balloon device defined in libvirt as:
> > > 
> > >     <memballoon model="virtio">
> > >       <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
> > >     </memballoon>
> > > 
> > > but the virtio_balloon driver fails to bind to it:
> > > 
> > >     virtio_balloon virtio4: init_vqs: add stat_vq failed
> > >     virtio_balloon: probe of virtio4 failed with error -5
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't see any recent changes to drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> > 
> > virtqueue_add_outbuf() fails with -EIO if I'm not wrong. That's the
> > first call of virtqueue_add_outbuf() when virtio_balloon initializes.
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe something in generic virtio code changed?
> 
> Yes, we introduced the IRQ hardening. That could be the root cause and
> we've received lots of reports so we decide to disable it by default.
> 
> Ben, could you please try this patch: (and make sure
> CONFIG_VIRTIO_HARDEN_NOTIFICATION is not set)
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220620024158.2505-1-jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx/T/

Yes, that patch fixes the regression for me.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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from a rigged demo.

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