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Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v3 0/6] vfio-ccw: support hsch/csch (kernel part
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Cornelia Huck |
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Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v3 0/6] vfio-ccw: support hsch/csch (kernel part) |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Feb 2019 15:00:16 +0100 |
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:22:06 +0100
Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:
> [This is the Linux kernel part, git tree is available at
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/vfio-ccw.git
> vfio-ccw-eagain-caps-v3
I've pushed out the changes I've made so far (patch 1) to
vfio-ccw-eagain-caps-v3.5. I'll wait a bit for more comments before
sending a new version.
>
> The companion QEMU patches are available at
> https://github.com/cohuck/qemu vfio-ccw-caps
> This is the previously posted v2 version, which should continue to work.]
I would not mind if somebody looked at those as well :)
>
> Currently, vfio-ccw only relays START SUBCHANNEL requests to the real
> device. This tends to work well for the most common 'good path' scenarios;
> however, as we emulate {HALT,CLEAR} SUBCHANNEL in QEMU, things like
> clearing pending requests at the device is currently not supported.
> This may be a problem for e.g. error recovery.
>
> This patch series introduces capabilities (similar to what vfio-pci uses)
> and exposes a new async region for handling hsch/csch.
>
> Lightly tested (I can interact with a dasd as before, and reserve/release
> seems to work well.) Not sure if there is a better way to test this, ideas
> welcome.
>
> Changes v2->v3:
> - Unb0rked patch 1, improved scope
> - Split out the new mutex from patch 2 into new patch 3; added missing
> locking and hopefully improved description
> - Patch 2 now reworks the state handling by splitting the BUSY state
> into CP_PROCESSING and CP_PENDING
> - Patches 3 and 5 adapted on top of the reworked patches; hsch/csch
> are allowed in CP_PENDING, but not in CP_PROCESSING (did not add
> any R-b due to that)
> - Added missing free in patch 5
> - Probably some small changes I forgot to note down
>
> Changes v1->v2:
> - New patch 1: make it safe to use the cp accessors at any time; this
> should avoid problems with unsolicited interrupt handling
> - New patch 2: handle concurrent accesses to the io region; the idea is
> to return -EAGAIN to userspace more often (so it can simply retry)
> - also handle concurrent accesses to the async io region
> - change VFIO_REGION_TYPE_CCW
> - merge events for halt and clear to a single async event; this turned out
> to make the code quite a bit simpler
> - probably some small changes I forgot to note down
>
> Cornelia Huck (6):
> vfio-ccw: make it safe to access channel programs
> vfio-ccw: rework ssch state handling
> vfio-ccw: protect the I/O region
> vfio-ccw: add capabilities chain
> s390/cio: export hsch to modules
> vfio-ccw: add handling for async channel instructions
>
> drivers/s390/cio/Makefile | 3 +-
> drivers/s390/cio/ioasm.c | 1 +
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_async.c | 88 ++++++++++++
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c | 20 ++-
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.h | 2 +
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c | 57 ++++++--
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_fsm.c | 143 ++++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_private.h | 48 ++++++-
> include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 4 +
> include/uapi/linux/vfio_ccw.h | 12 ++
> 11 files changed, 531 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_async.c
>
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