linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] s390/vfio-ap: fix circular lockdep when setting/clearing crypto masks

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Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 11:23:13 +0100
From:   Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        borntraeger@...ibm.com, cohuck@...hat.com, kwankhede@...dia.com,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, alex.williamson@...hat.com,
        pasic@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] s390/vfio-ap: fix circular lockdep when
 setting/clearing crypto masks

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 12:43:44 -0500
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:

> On the other hand, if we don't have ->kvm because something broke,
> then we may be out of luck anyway. There will certainly be no
> way to unregister the GISC; however, it may still be possible
> to unpin the pages if we still have q->saved_pfn.
> 
> The point is, if the queue is bound to vfio_ap, it can be reset. If we can't
> clean up the IRQ resources because something is broken, then there
> is nothing we can do about that.

Especially since the recently added WARN_ONCE macros calling reset_queues
unconditionally ain't that bad: we would at least see if there is a
problem with cleaning up the IRQ resources.

Let's make it unconditional again and observe. Can you send out a v4 with
this and the other issue fixed. 

Regards,
Halil