netdev - Re: [PATCH v10 10/17] virtio: Handle device reset failure in register_virtio

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Message-ID: <bd48ec76-0d5c-2efb-8406-894286b28f6b@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Aug 2021 16:54:02 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Yongji Xie <xieyongji@...edance.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 10/17] virtio: Handle device reset failure in
 register_virtio_device()


在 2021/8/4 下午4:50, Yongji Xie 写道:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:32 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> 在 2021/8/3 下午5:38, Yongji Xie 写道:
>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 4:09 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>> 在 2021/7/29 下午3:34, Xie Yongji 写道:
>>>>> The device reset may fail in virtio-vdpa case now, so add checks to
>>>>> its return value and fail the register_virtio_device().
>>>> So the reset() would be called by the driver during remove as well, or
>>>> is it sufficient to deal only with the reset during probe?
>>>>
>>> Actually there is no way to handle failure during removal. And it
>>> should be safe with the protection of software IOTLB even if the
>>> reset() fails.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yongji
>>
>> If this is true, does it mean we don't even need to care about reset
>> failure?
>>
> But we need to handle the failure in the vhost-vdpa case, isn't it?


Yes, but:

- This patch is for virtio not for vhost, if we don't care virtio, we 
can avoid the changes
- For vhost, there could be two ways probably:

1) let the set_status to report error
2) require userspace to re-read for status

It looks to me you want to go with 1) and I'm not sure whether or not 
it's too late to go with 2).

Thanks


>
> Thanks,
> Yongji
>