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

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	gleb@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/6] Fast mmio eventfd fixes
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:08:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F83481.8090103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442299319-5253-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com>

On 15/09/2015 08:41, 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.

Applied to kvm/queue and will send patches 1-4 for 4.3-rc.  Thanks!

Paolo

> 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
> 
> 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(-)
> 