Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen, libxc: init msix addr/data with value from qemu via hypercall

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>]

>>> On 10.05.13 at 04:49, Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> wrote:

> On 2013-05-10 03:05, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> 05/09/13 5:02 AM >>>
>>> On 2013/5/8 20:03, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> But of course I still don't really understand why all of the sudden
>>>> this needs to be passed in rather than being under the full control
>>>> of the hypervisor at all times. Perhaps this is related to me not
>>>> understanding why the kernel would read these values at all:
>>>> There's no other place in the kernel where the message would
>>>> be read before first getting written (in fact, apart from the
>>>> use of __read_msi_msg() by the Xen code, there's only one
>>>> other user under arch/powerpc/, and there - according to the
>>>> accompanying comment - this is just to save away the data for
>>>> later use during resume).
>>> There is a bug if msi_ad is not passed in.
>>>
>>> when driver first load,
>>>
>>> kernel.__read_msi_msg()
>>> (got all zero)
>> But you don't even comment on the apparently bogus use of the function here.
> This pattern is used only when hvm_pirq is enabled. kernel need to check 
> XEN_PIRQ_MSI_DATA.
> It's not a issue if data is 0 at first driver load, kernel will call 
> __write_msi_msg with pirq and  XEN_PIRQ_MSI_DATA set.

But this doesn't make the use of __read_msi_msg() less bogus. It's
not clear on what basis this mechanism got invented in the first
place.

>>> kernel.__write_msi_msg(pirq)
>>> (ioreq passed to qemu as no msixtbl_entry established yet)
>>> qemu.pt_msi_update_one()
>>> xc_domain_update_msi_irq()
>>> (msixtbl_entry dynamicly allocated with msi_ad all zero)
>>>
>>> then driver unload,
>>> ...
>>> driver load again,
>>>
>>> kernel.__read_msi_msg()
>>> (got all zero from xen as accelerated entry just established with all zero)
>> If all zeroes get returned, why would the flow here be different then above?
> Because pirq and related mapping and binding are not freed between 
> driver load-unload-load. They are freed when device detach.
> We should try to use the last pirq.

But then you need to solve the problem generically, i.e. not just
for the driver reload case, but also for e.g. the kexec one (where
__read_msi_msg() returning other than all zeros wouldn't help you
as xen_irq_from_pirq() would then return -1, and you'd be back to
the same problem. IOW I think the prior IRQ needs to be freed
anyway rather than an attempt be made to reuse it.

Jan