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From: "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	"virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org"
	<virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"cohuck@redhat.com" <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: "pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"dgilbert@redhat.com" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio: fix some vq allocation issues
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 02:45:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F73DEEA8E9@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6746307-fae5-7652-af8d-19f560fc31d9@de.ibm.com>

On Friday, December 28, 2018 3:57 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 28.12.2018 03:26, Wei Wang wrote:
> > Some vqs don't need to be allocated when the related feature bits are
> > disabled. Callers notice the vq allocation layer by setting the
> > related names[i] to be NULL.
> >
> > This patch series fixes the find_vqs implementations to handle this case.
> 
> So the random crashes during boot are gone.
> What still does not work is actually using the balloon.
> 
> So in the qemu monitor using lets say "balloon 1000"  will hang the guest.
> Seems to be a deadlock in the virtio-ccw code.  We seem to call the config
> code in the interrupt handler.

Yes. It reads a config register from the interrupt handler. Do you know why ccw doesn't support it and has some internal lock that caused the deadlock issue?
 
Best,
Wei

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-29  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-28  2:26 [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio: fix some vq allocation issues Wei Wang
2018-12-28  2:26 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] virtio_pci: use queue idx instead of array idx to set up the vq Wei Wang
2019-01-03  9:57   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-09 16:29   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-12-28  2:26 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] virtio: don't allocate vqs when names[i] = NULL Wei Wang
2019-01-03  9:59   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-09 16:30   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-12-28  7:57 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio: fix some vq allocation issues Christian Borntraeger
2018-12-29  2:45   ` Wang, Wei W [this message]
2018-12-30  6:06     ` Halil Pasic
2018-12-31  6:03       ` Wang, Wei W
2018-12-31 23:40         ` [virtio-dev] " Halil Pasic
2019-01-02  9:53           ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-02 13:23             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-02 15:59               ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-02 18:02                 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-02 19:13                   ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-02 13:56             ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-03  6:18   ` Wei Wang

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