From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
bhelgaas@google.com, saeedm@nvidia.com,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, leonro@nvidia.com,
kwankhede@nvidia.com, mgurtovoy@nvidia.com, maorg@nvidia.com,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 12/14] vfio/mlx5: Implement vfio_pci driver for mlx5 devices
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:57:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnlwb9o3.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211028234750.GP2744544@nvidia.com>
On Thu, Oct 28 2021, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 09:30:35AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:23:45 -0300
>> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 01:05:20PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> >
>> > > > As far as the actual issue, if you hadn't just discovered it now
>> > > > nobody would have known we have this gap - much like how the very
>> > > > similar reset issue was present in VFIO for so many years until you
>> > > > plugged it.
>> > >
>> > > But the fact that we did discover it is hugely important. We've
>> > > identified that the potential use case is significantly limited and
>> > > that userspace doesn't have a good mechanism to determine when to
>> > > expose that limitation to the user.
>> >
>> > Huh?
>> >
>> > We've identified that, depending on device behavior, the kernel may
>> > need to revoke MMIO access to protect itself from hostile userspace
>> > triggering TLP Errors or something.
>> >
>> > Well behaved userspace must already stop touching the MMIO on the
>> > device when !RUNNING - I see no compelling argument against that
>> > position.
>>
>> Not touching MMIO is not specified in our uAPI protocol,
>
> To be frank, not much is specified in the uAPI comment, certainly not
> a detailed meaning of RUNNING.
Yes! And I think that means we need to improve that comment before the
first in-tree driver to use it is merged, just to make sure we all agree
on the protocol, and future drivers can rely on that understanding as
well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-29 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-19 10:58 [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 00/14] Add mlx5 live migration driver Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 01/14] PCI/IOV: Add pci_iov_vf_id() to get VF index Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 02/14] net/mlx5: Reuse exported virtfn index function call Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 03/14] net/mlx5: Disable SRIOV before PF removal Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 04/14] PCI/IOV: Add pci_iov_get_pf_drvdata() to allow VF reaching the drvdata of a PF Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 05/14] net/mlx5: Expose APIs to get/put the mlx5 core device Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 06/14] vdpa/mlx5: Use mlx5_vf_get_core_dev() to get PF device Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 11:16 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-10-20 8:58 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 07/14] vfio: Fix VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_SET_ERROR macro Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 08/14] vfio: Add a macro for VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_ERROR Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 15:48 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-19 15:50 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-20 7:35 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 09/14] vfio/pci_core: Make the region->release() function optional Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 10/14] net/mlx5: Introduce migration bits and structures Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 11/14] vfio/mlx5: Expose migration commands over mlx5 device Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 12/14] vfio/mlx5: Implement vfio_pci driver for mlx5 devices Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 18:43 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-19 19:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-19 20:58 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-19 23:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-20 8:28 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-20 16:52 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-20 18:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-20 21:07 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-21 9:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-10-21 21:47 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-25 12:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-25 14:28 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-25 14:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-26 14:42 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-26 15:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-26 19:50 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-26 23:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-27 19:05 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-27 19:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-28 15:08 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-10-29 0:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-29 7:35 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-28 15:30 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-28 23:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-29 6:57 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2021-10-29 7:48 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-29 10:32 ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-10-29 12:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-29 22:06 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-01 17:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-02 11:19 ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-11-02 14:56 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-02 15:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-02 16:22 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-02 16:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-02 20:15 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-03 12:09 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-03 15:44 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-03 16:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-03 18:04 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-04 11:19 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-11-05 16:53 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-11-16 16:59 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-11-05 13:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-05 15:31 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-15 23:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-16 17:57 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-16 19:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-16 21:10 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-17 1:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-18 18:15 ` Alex Williamson
2021-11-22 19:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-08 8:53 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-11-08 12:35 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-09 0:58 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-11-09 12:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-25 16:34 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-10-25 17:55 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-25 18:47 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-10-25 19:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-26 8:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-10-26 12:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-26 14:52 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-26 15:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-26 14:29 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-26 14:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-10-26 15:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-20 8:01 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-20 16:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-21 10:46 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 13/14] vfio/pci: Expose vfio_pci_aer_err_detected() Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 10:58 ` [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 14/14] vfio/mlx5: Use its own PCI reset_done error handler Yishai Hadas
2021-10-19 18:55 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-19 19:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-20 8:46 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-10-20 16:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-20 17:45 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-20 18:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-10-20 21:38 ` Alex Williamson
2021-10-21 10:39 ` Yishai Hadas
2021-11-17 16:42 ` vfio migration discussions (was: [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 00/14] Add mlx5 live migration driver) Cornelia Huck
2021-11-17 17:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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