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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 09:25:47 -0800
From: Brett Creeley <bcreeley@....com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
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Cc: "shannon.nelson@....com" <shannon.nelson@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH vfio] vfio/pds: Rework and simplify reset flows
On 2/4/2024 10:58 PM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
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>> From: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@....com>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2024 2:32 AM
>>
>> The current logic for handling resets based on
>> whether they were initiated from the DSC or
>> host/VMM is slightly confusing and incorrect.
>> The incorrect behavior can cause the VF device
>> to be unusable on the destination on failed
>> migrations due to incompatible configurations.
>> Fix this by setting the state back to
>> VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_RUNNING when an FLR is
>> triggered, so the VF device is put back in
>> an "initial" pre-configured state after failures.
>
> any reason for putting short lines (<50 chars) in commit msg?
No, I will make the lines longer in the next commits.
>
>>
>> Also, while here clean-up the reset logic to
>> make the source of the reset more obvious.
>
> as a fix the a 'Fixed' tag is preferred and CC stable
>
> also separate the real fix from the cleanup so stable kernel doesn't need
> to backport unnecessary code.
Sure, I can split this into 2 changes as you suggested.
>
> btw the commit msg is not clear to me. It says fixing the problem
> by setting the state to _ERROR for the DSC path and to _RUNNING for
> the FLR path.
>
> But looks it's already such case with old code:
>
> pds_vfio_recovery()
> pds_vfio->deferred_reset = true;
> pds_vfio->deferred_reset_state = VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_ERROR;
>
> pds_vfio_reset()
> pds_vfio->deferred_reset = true;
> pds_vfio->deferred_reset_state = VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_RUNNING;
>
> pds_vfio_state_mutex_unlock()
> if (pds_vfio->deferred_reset) {
> ...
> pds_vfio->state = pds_vfio->deferred_reset_state;
> ...
> }
>
> it's same as what this patch does:
>
> pds_vfio_recovery()
> pds_vfio->deferred_reset_type = PDS_VFIO_DEVICE_RESET;
>
> pds_vfio_reset()
> pds_vfio->deferred_reset_state = PDS_VFIO_HOST_RESET;
>
> pds_vfio_state_mutex_unlock()
> if (pds_vfio->deferred_reset) {
> ...
> if (pds_vfio->deferred_reset_type == PDS_VFIO_HOST_RESET)
> pds_vfio->state = VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_RUNNING;
> else
> pds_vfio->state = VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_ERROR;
> ...
> }
>
> looks the actual functional difference is from below change:
>
>> @@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ void pds_vfio_state_mutex_unlock(struct
>> pds_vfio_pci_device *pds_vfio)
>> mutex_lock(&pds_vfio->reset_mutex);
>> if (pds_vfio->deferred_reset) {
>> pds_vfio->deferred_reset = false;
>> - if (pds_vfio->state == VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_ERROR) {
>> - pds_vfio_put_restore_file(pds_vfio);
>> - pds_vfio_put_save_file(pds_vfio);
>> + pds_vfio_put_restore_file(pds_vfio);
>> + pds_vfio_put_save_file(pds_vfio);
>
> above two are changed from conditional to always.
>
>> + if (pds_vfio->deferred_reset_type == PDS_VFIO_HOST_RESET)
>> {
>> + pds_vfio->state = VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_RUNNING;
>> + } else {
>> pds_vfio_dirty_disable(pds_vfio, false);
>
> and this is now only for the DSC path.
>
> need a better explanation here.
I will clean up this patch by separating it into 2 patches and improving
the commit descriptions before sending a v2.
Thanks for the review,
Brett
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