Re: [PATCH v2 03/17] Drivers: hv: vmbus: skip VMBus initialization if Linux is root

From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>,
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	Vineeth Pillai <viremana@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@microsoft.com>,
	Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@linux.microsoft.com>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/17] Drivers: hv: vmbus: skip VMBus initialization if Linux is root
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:51:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201113145106.k4ekiw5cu427e3wi@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imaay4w9.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:24:38PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> writes:
> 
> > There is no VMBus and the other infrastructures initialized in
> > hv_acpi_init when Linux is running as the root partition.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > index 4fad3e6745e5..37c4d3a28309 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > @@ -2612,6 +2612,9 @@ static int __init hv_acpi_init(void)
> >  	if (!hv_is_hyperv_initialized())
> >  		return -ENODEV;
> >  
> > +	if (hv_root_partition)
> > +		return -ENODEV;
> > +
> 
> Nit: any particular reason why we need to return an error from here? I'd
> suggest we 'return 0;' if it doesn't break anything (we're still running
> on Hyper-V, it's just a coincedence that there's nothing to do here,
> eventually we may get some devices/handlers I guess. Also, there's going
> to be server-side Vmbus eventually, we may as well initialize it here.

Returning 0 should be fine. It is not likely to make any practical
difference at this stage.

Not sure what you mean by server-side Vmbus. If you mean Vmbus on the
host, yes, there will be. The initialization is, again, a bit different
there.  You will see why when my colleague post /dev/mshv code. The long
term goal is to refactor the Vmbus initialization code to work in all
scenarios.  We are not there yet though.

Wei.

> 
> >  	init_completion(&probe_event);
> >  
> >  	/*
> 
> -- 
> Vitaly
> 