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From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"mgurtovoy@nvidia.com" <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>,
	liulongfang <liulongfang@huawei.com>,
	"Zengtao (B)" <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>,
	"Wangzhou (B)" <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Add support for VFIO live migration
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 21:30:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVINv17OEHplrpeS@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210927182224.GA1575668@nvidia.com>

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:22:24PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 09:17:19PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 
> > > The point is to all out a different locking regime that relies on the
> > > sriov enable/disable removing the VF struct devices
> > 
> > You can't avoid trylock, because this pci_get_sriov_pf_devdata() will be
> > called in VF where it already holds lock, so attempt to take PF lock
> > will cause to deadlock.
> 
> My whole point is we cannot use the device_lock *at all* and a
> pci_get_sriov_pf_devdata() would not have it.

Right

> 
> Instead it would have some test to confirm that the 'current' struct
> device is a VF of the 'target' struct device and thus the drvdata
> must be valid so long as the 'current' struct device hasn't completed
> remove.

I'm curious to see how can you implement it without holding VF lock.

> 
> It is a completely different locking scheme than device lock. It also
> relies on the PF driver placing the sriov enable/disable 'locks' in
> the correct place relative to their drvdata's.
> 
> Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-27 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15  9:50 [PATCH v3 0/6] vfio/hisilicon: add acc live migration driver Shameer Kolothum
2021-09-15  9:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] crypto: hisilicon/qm: Move the QM header to include/linux Shameer Kolothum
2021-09-15 12:49   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-15  9:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] crypto: hisilicon/qm: Move few definitions to common header Shameer Kolothum
2021-09-15  9:50 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] hisi_acc_qm: Move PCI device IDs " Shameer Kolothum
2021-09-22 15:11   ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-09-24  8:18     ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-09-15  9:50 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] hisi-acc-vfio-pci: add new vfio_pci driver for HiSilicon ACC devices Shameer Kolothum
2021-09-15 12:51   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-15 13:35     ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-09-15  9:50 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Restrict access to VF dev BAR2 migration region Shameer Kolothum
2021-09-15  9:50 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Add support for VFIO live migration Shameer Kolothum
2021-09-15 13:07   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-15 13:28     ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-09-16 13:58       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-27 13:46         ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-09-27 15:01           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-27 15:27             ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-09-27 16:00             ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-27 16:06               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-27 18:17                 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-27 18:22                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-27 18:30                     ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2021-09-27 18:32                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-09-29  3:57 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] vfio/hisilicon: add acc live migration driver Tian, Kevin
2021-09-29  8:34   ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-09-29  9:05     ` Tian, Kevin
2021-09-29  9:16       ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-09-30  0:42         ` Tian, Kevin
2021-09-30  6:34           ` Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-10-15  5:53             ` Tian, Kevin

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