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Message-ID: <fa91d7bc-f4e5-4a1b-b35a-8e0ccfe1af2b@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:06:15 +1000
From: Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keirf@...gle.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
jasowang@...hat.com, xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com, yihyu@...hat.com,
shan.gavin@...il.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, mochs@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_ring: Fix the stale index in available ring
On 3/21/24 03:15, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 03:24:16PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
>>
>> Before this patch was posted, I had debugging code to record last 16 transactions
>> to the available and used queue from guest and host side. It did reveal the wrong
>> head was fetched from the available queue.
>>
>> [ 11.785745] ================ virtqueue_get_buf_ctx_split ================
>> [ 11.786238] virtio_net virtio0: output.0:id 74 is not a head!
>> [ 11.786655] head to be released: 036 077
>> [ 11.786952]
>> [ 11.786952] avail_idx:
>> [ 11.787234] 000 63985 <--
>> [ 11.787237] 001 63986
>> [ 11.787444] 002 63987
>> [ 11.787632] 003 63988
>> [ 11.787821] 004 63989
>> [ 11.788006] 005 63990
>> [ 11.788194] 006 63991
>> [ 11.788381] 007 63992
>> [ 11.788567] 008 63993
>> [ 11.788772] 009 63994
>> [ 11.788957] 010 63995
>> [ 11.789141] 011 63996
>> [ 11.789327] 012 63997
>> [ 11.789515] 013 63998
>> [ 11.789701] 014 63999
>> [ 11.789886] 015 64000
>
> Does the error always occur at such a round idx value?
>
> Here, 64000 == 0xFA00. Maybe coincidence but it's improbable enough to be interesting.
>
> This debug code seems rather useful!
>
Keir, Nope, it's just coincidence. We don't have such kind of pattern.
Thanks,
Gavin
>
>
>> [ 11.790068]
>> [ 11.790068] avail_head:
>> [ 11.790529] 000 075 <--
>> [ 11.790718] 001 036
>> [ 11.790890] 002 077
>> [ 11.791061] 003 129
>> [ 11.791231] 004 072
>> [ 11.791400] 005 130
>> [ 11.791574] 006 015
>> [ 11.791748] 007 074
>> [ 11.791918] 008 130
>> [ 11.792094] 009 130
>> [ 11.792263] 010 074
>> [ 11.792437] 011 015
>> [ 11.792617] 012 072
>> [ 11.792788] 013 129
>> [ 11.792961] 014 077 // The last two heads from guest to host: 077, 036
>> [ 11.793134] 015 036
>>
>> [root@...dia-grace-hopper-05 qemu.main]# cat /proc/vhost
>>
>> avail_idx
>> 000 63998
>> 001 64000
>> 002 63954 <---
>> 003 63955
>> 004 63956
>> 005 63974
>> 006 63981
>> 007 63984
>> 008 63986
>> 009 63987
>> 010 63988
>> 011 63989
>> 012 63992
>> 013 63993
>> 014 63995
>> 015 63997
>>
>> avail_head
>> 000 074
>> 001 015
>> 002 072
>> 003 129
>> 004 074 // The last two heads seen by vhost is: 074, 036
>> 005 036
>> 006 075 <---
>> 007 036
>> 008 077
>> 009 129
>> 010 072
>> 011 130
>> 012 015
>> 013 074
>> 014 130
>> 015 130
>>
>> used_idx
>> 000 64000
>> 001 63882 <---
>> 002 63889
>> 003 63891
>> 004 63898
>> 005 63936
>> 006 63942
>> 007 63946
>> 008 63949
>> 009 63953
>> 010 63957
>> 011 63981
>> 012 63990
>> 013 63992
>> 014 63993
>> 015 63999
>>
>> used_head
>> 000 072
>> 001 129
>> 002 074 // The last two heads published to guest is: 074, 036
>> 003 036
>> 004 075 <---
>> 005 036
>> 006 077
>> 007 129
>> 008 072
>> 009 130
>> 010 015
>> 011 074
>> 012 130
>> 013 130
>> 014 074
>> 015 015
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gavin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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