From: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
To: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>,
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, freude@de.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
kwankhede@nvidia.com, bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com, alifm@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
thuth@redhat.com, pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com, berrange@redhat.com,
fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, buendgen@de.ibm.com,
frankja@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 13/26] s390: vfio-ap: zeroize the AP queues
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:42:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f04d759-7bc8-cf96-30ba-81621572e7d3@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <113e07ba-370e-bdcf-4e85-412834947552@linux.ibm.com>
On 09/24/2018 09:22 AM, Harald Freudenberger wrote:
> On 24.09.2018 14:16, Halil Pasic wrote:
>>
>> On 09/24/2018 01:36 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
(...)
>>> ...and here, we return the last error of any of the resets. Two
>>> questions:
>>>
>>> - Does it make sense to continue if we get -EIO? IOW, does "really
>>> broken" only refer to a certain tuple and other tuples still can/need
>>> to be reset?
>> I think it does make sense to continue, because IMHO "things are really
>> broken" is an overstatement (I mean the APQN invalid case). One could
>> argue would skipping the current card (adapter) be justified or not.
>>
>> IMHO the current code is good enough for the first shot, and we can think
>> about fine-tuning it later.
> Absolutely. The -EIO case is reached for example when the APQN
> is 'deconfigured' which means the crypto adapter is logically unplugged.
> So the -EIO case should NOT lead to some fatal actions like panic()
> or cause a KVM guest to shut down or so.
>>> - Is the return code useful in any way, as we don't know which tuple it
>>> refers to?
>>>
>> Well, good question. It conveys that the operation can 'fail'. AFAIR -EBUSY
>> is mostly fine given what the architecture say if we are satisfied with just
>> reset. And the cases behind -EIO might actually be OK too in the same sense.
>> My guess is, that based on the return value client code can tell if we have
>> zeroize for all queues or basically just reset (like rapq). We could log that
>> to some debug facility or whatever -- I guess, but at the moment we don't care.
>>
>> In the end I think the code is good enough as is, and if we want we can
>> improve on it later.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Halil
>>
I'll note that in v7 a message was logged to indicate for which APQN the
error occurred, but I was asked to remove the printk log messsages. I
agree with Halil and Harald confirmed that the code is probably okay as
it stands. I can definitely see enhancing all of AP virtualization down
the road with some type of debug logging.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-24 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-12 19:42 [PATCH v10 00/26] guest dedicated crypto adapters Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 01/26] KVM: s390: vsie: simulate VCPU SIE entry/exit Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 10:32 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-09-24 16:53 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 02/26] KVM: s390: introduce and use KVM_REQ_VSIE_RESTART Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 10:49 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-09-24 16:48 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 03/26] KVM: s390: refactor crypto initialization Tony Krowiak
2018-09-21 23:18 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 8:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-24 10:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 04/26] s390: vfio-ap: base implementation of VFIO AP device driver Tony Krowiak
2018-09-20 15:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-20 15:53 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 05/26] s390: vfio-ap: register matrix device with VFIO mdev framework Tony Krowiak
2018-09-20 15:50 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-20 20:35 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 06/26] s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure adapters Tony Krowiak
2018-09-21 9:40 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-21 9:52 ` Harald Freudenberger
2018-09-21 14:07 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 07/26] s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure domains Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 10:45 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 08/26] s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure control domains Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 10:57 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-12 19:42 ` [PATCH v10 09/26] s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interface to view matrix mdev matrix Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 10:59 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 10/26] KVM: s390: interfaces to clear CRYCB masks Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 11:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-24 11:50 ` Halil Pasic
2018-09-24 12:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-24 15:33 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 14:49 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 11/26] s390: vfio-ap: implement mediated device open callback Tony Krowiak
2018-09-18 17:00 ` Halil Pasic
2018-09-18 21:57 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-21 23:28 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 8:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-24 16:07 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 18:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-24 18:43 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 19:46 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 19:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-25 19:54 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-25 19:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 12/26] s390: vfio-ap: implement VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO ioctl Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 11:43 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-24 16:29 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 13/26] s390: vfio-ap: zeroize the AP queues Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 11:36 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-24 12:16 ` Halil Pasic
2018-09-24 12:32 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-24 13:22 ` Harald Freudenberger
2018-09-24 16:42 ` Tony Krowiak [this message]
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 14/26] s390: vfio-ap: implement VFIO_DEVICE_RESET ioctl Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 11:43 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 15/26] KVM: s390: Clear Crypto Control Block when using vSIE Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 16/26] KVM: s390: vsie: Do the CRYCB validation first Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 17/26] KVM: s390: vsie: Make use of CRYCB FORMAT2 clear Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 18/26] KVM: s390: vsie: Allow CRYCB FORMAT-2 Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 19/26] KVM: s390: vsie: allow CRYCB FORMAT-1 Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 20/26] KVM: s390: vsie: allow CRYCB FORMAT-0 Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 21/26] KVM: s390: vsie: allow guest FORMAT-0 CRYCB on host FORMAT-1 Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 22/26] KVM: s390: vsie: allow guest FORMAT-1 CRYCB on host FORMAT-2 Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 23/26] KVM: s390: vsie: allow guest FORMAT-0 " Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 24/26] KVM: s390: device attrs to enable/disable AP interpretation Tony Krowiak
2018-09-17 8:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-21 23:40 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 11:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-24 16:25 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 18:42 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 18:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-25 13:24 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-25 7:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-25 13:26 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 18:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-25 13:31 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 25/26] KVM: s390: CPU model support for AP virtualization Tony Krowiak
2018-09-21 23:31 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 8:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v10 26/26] s390: doc: detailed specifications " Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 10:10 ` [PATCH v10 00/26] guest dedicated crypto adapters Christian Borntraeger
2018-09-24 11:53 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-24 16:46 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 16:50 ` Tony Krowiak
2018-09-24 11:49 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-09-24 16:45 ` Tony Krowiak
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