Re: [PATCH V6 0/6] Fast mmio eventfd fixes

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Nov 09 2015 - 15:19:26 EST


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 12:35:45PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
>
> On 11/09/2015 01:11 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:41:53PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> Hi:
> >>
> >> This series fixes two issues of fast mmio eventfd:
> >>
> >> 1) A single iodev instance were registerd on two buses: KVM_MMIO_BUS
> >> and KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS. This will cause double in
> >> ioeventfd_destructor()
> >> 2) A zero length iodev on KVM_MMIO_BUS will never be found but
> >> kvm_io_bus_cmp(). This will lead e.g the eventfd will be trapped by
> >> qemu instead of host.
> >>
> >> 1 is fixed by allocating two instances of iodev and introduce a new
> >> capability for userspace. 2 is fixed by ignore the actual length if
> >> the length of iodev is zero in kvm_io_bus_cmp().
> >>
> >> Please review.
> >> Changes from V5:
> >> - move patch of explicitly checking for KVM_MMIO_BUS to patch 1 and
> >> remove the unnecessary checks
> >> - even more grammar and typo fixes
> >> - rabase to kvm.git
> >> - document KVM_CAP_FAST_MMIO
> > What's up with userspace using this capability?
>
> It was renamed to KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD_ANY_LENGTH.
>
> > Did patches ever get posted?
>
> See https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/28/208

Talking about userspace here.
QEMU freeze is approaching, it really should
use this to avoid regressions.


> >
> >> Changes from V4:
> >> - move the location of kvm_assign_ioeventfd() in patch 1 which reduce
> >> the change set.
> >> - commit log typo fixes
> >> - switch to use kvm_deassign_ioeventfd_id) when fail to register to
> >> fast mmio bus
> >> - change kvm_io_bus_cmp() as Paolo's suggestions
> >> - introduce a new capability to avoid new userspace crash old kernel
> >> - add a new patch that only try to register mmio eventfd on fast mmio
> >> bus
> >>
> >> Changes from V3:
> >>
> >> - Don't do search on two buses when trying to do write on
> >> KVM_MMIO_BUS. This fixes a small regression found by vmexit.flat.
> >> - Since we don't do search on two buses, change kvm_io_bus_cmp() to
> >> let it can find zero length iodevs.
> >> - Fix the unnecessary lines in tracepoint patch.
> >>
> >> Changes from V2:
> >> - Tweak styles and comment suggested by Cornelia.
> >>
> >> Changes from v1:
> >> - change ioeventfd_bus_from_flags() to return KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS when
> >> needed to save lots of unnecessary changes.
> >>
> >> Jason Wang (6):
> >> kvm: don't try to register to KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS for non mmio eventfd
> >> kvm: factor out core eventfd assign/deassign logic
> >> kvm: fix double free for fast mmio eventfd
> >> kvm: fix zero length mmio searching
> >> kvm: add tracepoint for fast mmio
> >> kvm: add fast mmio capabilitiy
> >>
> >> Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 7 ++-
> >> arch/x86/kvm/trace.h | 18 ++++++
> >> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 1 +
> >> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 +
> >> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 +
> >> virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 20 +++++-
> >> 7 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.1.4
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