linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] virtio-balloon: tweak config

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Message-ID: <5C343688.2060609@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:35:04 +0800
From:   Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        mst@...hat.com, cohuck@...hat.com
CC:     pbonzini@...hat.com, dgilbert@...hat.com, pasic@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] virtio-balloon: tweak config_changed implementation

On 01/07/2019 09:49 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
> On 07.01.2019 08:01, Wei Wang wrote:
>> virtio-ccw has deadlock issues with reading the config space inside the
>> interrupt context, so we tweak the virtballoon_changed implementation
>> by moving the config read operations into the related workqueue contexts.
>> The config_read_bitmap is used as a flag to the workqueue callbacks
>> about the related config fields that need to be read.
>>
>> The cmd_id_received is also renamed to cmd_id_received_cache, and
>> the value should be obtained via virtio_balloon_cmd_id_received.
>>
>> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>
> Together with
>    virtio_pci: use queue idx instead of array idx to set up the vq
>    virtio: don't allocate vqs when names[i] = NULL
>
> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

OK. I don't plan to send a new version of the above patches as no 
changes needed so far.

Michael, if the above two patches look good to you, please help add the 
related tested-by
and reviewed-by tags. Thanks.

Best,
Wei