1. 12 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  2. 02 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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      virtio: explicit advertisement of driver features · c45a6816
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
      some flaws in the API: in particular, we assume that feature
      negotiation is complete once a driver's probe function returns.
      
      There is nothing in the API to require this, however, and even I
      didn't notice when it was violated.
      
      So instead, we require the driver to specify what features it supports
      in a table, we can then move the feature negotiation into the virtio
      core.  The intersection of device and driver features are presented in
      a new 'features' bitmap in the struct virtio_device.
      
      Note that this highlights the difference between Linux unsigned-long
      bitmaps where each unsigned long is in native endian, and a
      straight-forward little-endian array of bytes.
      
      Drivers can still remove feature bits in their probe routine if they
      really have to.
      
      API changes:
      - dev->config->feature() no longer gets and acks a feature.
      - drivers should advertise their features in the 'feature_table' field
      - use virtio_has_feature() for extra sanity when checking feature bits
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      c45a6816
  3. 08 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      virtio: remove overzealous BUG_ON. · 2557a933
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      The 'disable_cb' callback is designed as an optimization to tell the host
      we don't need callbacks now.  As it is not reliable, the debug check is
      overzealous: it can happen on two CPUs at the same time.  Document this.
      
      Even if it were reliable, the virtio_net driver doesn't disable
      callbacks on transmit so the START_USE/END_USE debugging reentrance
      protection can be easily tripped even on UP.
      
      Thanks to Balaji Rao for the bug report and testing.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      CC: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2557a933
  4. 17 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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      virtio: fix race in enable_cb · 4265f161
      Christian Borntraeger 提交于
      There is a race in virtio_net, dealing with disabling/enabling the callback.
      I saw the following oops:
      
      kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!
      illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
      Modules linked in: sunrpc dm_mod
      CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1zlive-host-10623-gd358142-dirty #99
      Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 000000000f85a610, ksp: 000000000f873c60)
      Krnl PSW : 0404300180000000 00000000002b81a6 (vring_disable_cb+0x16/0x20)
                 R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:3 PM:0 EA:3
      Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000010005800 0000000000000001
                 000000000f3a0900 000000000f85a610 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
                 0000000000000000 000000000f870000 0000000000000000 0000000000001237
                 000000000f3a0920 000000000010ff74 00000000002846f6 000000000fa0bcd8
      Krnl Code: 00000000002b819a: a7110001           tmll    %r1,1
                 00000000002b819e: a7840004           brc     8,2b81a6
                 00000000002b81a2: a7f40001           brc     15,2b81a4
                >00000000002b81a6: a51b0001           oill    %r1,1
                 00000000002b81aa: 40102000           sth     %r1,0(%r2)
                 00000000002b81ae: 07fe               bcr     15,%r14
                 00000000002b81b0: eb7ff0380024       stmg    %r7,%r15,56(%r15)
                 00000000002b81b6: a7f13e00           tmll    %r15,15872
      Call Trace:
      ([<000000000fa0bcd0>] 0xfa0bcd0)
       [<00000000002b8350>] vring_interrupt+0x5c/0x6c
       [<000000000010ab08>] do_extint+0xb8/0xf0
       [<0000000000110716>] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a
       [<0000000000107e72>] cpu_idle+0x1c2/0x1e0
      
      The problem can be triggered with a high amount of host->guest traffic.
      I think its the following race:
      
      poll says netif_rx_complete
      poll calls enable_cb
      enable_cb opens the interrupt mask
      a new packet comes, an interrupt is triggered----\
      enable_cb sees that there is more work           |
      enable_cb disables the interrupt                 |
             .                                         V
             .                            interrupt is delivered
             .                            skb_recv_done does atomic napi test, ok
       some waiting                       disable_cb is called->check fails->bang!
             .
      poll would do napi check
      poll would do disable_cb
      
      The fix is to let enable_cb not disable the interrupt again, but expect the
      caller to do the cleanup if it returns false. In that case, the interrupt is
      only disabled, if the napi test_set_bit was successful.
      Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned up doco)
      4265f161
  5. 04 2月, 2008 3 次提交
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      virtio: reset function · 6e5aa7ef
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      A reset function solves three problems:
      
      1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
         guest driver without rebooting the guest.
      
      2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
         we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and
      
      3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.
      
      So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
      feature bits is via reset.
      
      We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
      the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
      remove function.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      6e5aa7ef
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      virtio: configuration change callback · f957d1f0
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Various drivers want to know when their configuration information
      changes: the balloon driver is the immediate user, but the network
      driver may one day have a "carrier" status as well.
      
      This introduces that callback (lguest doesn't use it yet).
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      f957d1f0
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      virtio: explicit enable_cb/disable_cb rather than callback return. · 18445c4d
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      It seems that virtio_net wants to disable callbacks (interrupts) before
      calling netif_rx_schedule(), so we can't use the return value to do so.
      
      Rename "restart" to "cb_enable" and introduce "cb_disable" hook: callback
      now returns void, rather than a boolean.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      18445c4d
  6. 23 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Virtio interface · ec3d41c4
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow
      common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O
      mechanisms.  It will no-doubt need further enhancement.
      
      The virtio drivers add buffers to virtio queues; as the buffers are consumed
      the driver "interrupt" callbacks are invoked.
      
      There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can query
      to get setup information from the host.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      ec3d41c4