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Message-ID: <b2dd8ef3-5fdb-5e29-4c75-12b9c3971950@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:13:55 -0400
From:   Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     jjherne@...ux.ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     freude@...ux.ibm.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com, cohuck@...hat.com,
        mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com, pasic@...ux.ibm.com,
        alex.williamson@...hat.com, kwankhede@...dia.com,
        fiuczy@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 12/18] s390/vfio-ap: reset queues after adapter/domain
 unassignment

snip ...

>
>>
>>
>>> + vfio_ap_unlink_mdev_fr_queue(q);
>>> +        hash_del(&q->mdev_qnode);
>>>       }
>>>   }
>> ...
>>> @@ -1273,9 +1320,9 @@ static void vfio_ap_mdev_unset_kvm(struct 
>>> ap_matrix_mdev *matrix_mdev,
>>>           mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
>>>           mutex_lock(&matrix_dev->mdevs_lock);
>>>   -        kvm_arch_crypto_clear_masks(kvm);
>>> -        vfio_ap_mdev_reset_queues(matrix_mdev);
>>> -        kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
>>> +        kvm_arch_crypto_clear_masks(matrix_mdev->kvm);
>>> + vfio_ap_mdev_reset_queues(&matrix_mdev->qtable);
>>> +        kvm_put_kvm(matrix_mdev->kvm);
>>>           matrix_mdev->kvm = NULL;
>>
>> I understand changing the call to vfio_ap_mdev_reset_queues, but why 
>> are we changing the
>> kvm pointer on the surrounding lines?
>
> In reality, both pointers are one in the same given the two callers pass
> matrix_mdev->kvm into the function. I'm not sure why that is the case,
> it is probably a remnant from the commits that fixed the lockdep splat;
> however, there is no reason other than I've gotten used to retrieving the
> KVM pointer from the ap_matrix_mdev structure. In reality, there is no
> reason to pass a 'struct kvm *kvm' into this function, so I'm going to
> look into that and adjust accordingly.

The 'struct kvm *kvm' parameter was added to the signature of the
vfio_ap_mdev_unset_kvm function with the following commit:

86956e70761b (s390/vfio-ap: replace open coded locks for 
VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM notification)

I also noticed the the kernel doc for the vfio_ap_mdev_set_kvm and
vfio_ap_mdev_unset_kvm functions still contained a comment that is no longer
valid by the following commit:

0cc00c8d4050 (s390/vfio-ap: fix circular lockdep when setting/clearing 
crypto masks)

I pushed a patch to our devel branch that removes the invalid comment
from the two functions and removes the 'struct kvm *kvm' parameter
from the vfio_ap_mdev_unset_kvm function. That patch will prereq this 
series.

>
>>
>>
>>> mutex_unlock(&matrix_dev->mdevs_lock);
>>> @@ -1328,14 +1375,17 @@ static int vfio_ap_mdev_reset_queue(struct 
>>> vfio_ap_queue *q, unsigned int retry)
>>>         if (!q)
>>>           return 0;
>>> +    q->reset_rc = 0;

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