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Date:   Tue, 2 Aug 2022 14:33:15 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Zhu, Lingshan" <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        "mst@...hat.com" <mst@...hat.com>, Eli Cohen <elic@...dia.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "xieyongji@...edance.com" <xieyongji@...edance.com>,
        "gautam.dawar@....com" <gautam.dawar@....com>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/6] vDPA: !FEATURES_OK should not block querying
 device config space

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 6:58 AM Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 8/1/2022 3:53 PM, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 7/31/2022 9:44 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>
> >> 在 2022/7/30 04:55, Si-Wei Liu 写道:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 7/28/2022 7:04 PM, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 7/29/2022 5:48 AM, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 7/27/2022 7:43 PM, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 7/28/2022 8:56 AM, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 7/27/2022 4:47 AM, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 7/27/2022 5:43 PM, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Sorry to chime in late in the game. For some reason I couldn't
> >>>>>>>>> get to most emails for this discussion (I only subscribed to
> >>>>>>>>> the virtualization list), while I was taking off amongst the
> >>>>>>>>> past few weeks.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> It looks to me this patch is incomplete. Noted down the way in
> >>>>>>>>> vdpa_dev_net_config_fill(), we have the following:
> >>>>>>>>>          features = vdev->config->get_driver_features(vdev);
> >>>>>>>>>          if (nla_put_u64_64bit(msg,
> >>>>>>>>> VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NEGOTIATED_FEATURES, features,
> >>>>>>>>>                                VDPA_ATTR_PAD))
> >>>>>>>>>                  return -EMSGSIZE;
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Making call to .get_driver_features() doesn't make sense when
> >>>>>>>>> feature negotiation isn't complete. Neither should present
> >>>>>>>>> negotiated_features to userspace before negotiation is done.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Similarly, max_vqp through vdpa_dev_net_mq_config_fill()
> >>>>>>>>> probably should not show before negotiation is done - it
> >>>>>>>>> depends on driver features negotiated.
> >>>>>>>> I have another patch in this series introduces device_features
> >>>>>>>> and will report device_features to the userspace even features
> >>>>>>>> negotiation not done. Because the spec says we should allow
> >>>>>>>> driver access the config space before FEATURES_OK.
> >>>>>>> The config space can be accessed by guest before features_ok
> >>>>>>> doesn't necessarily mean the value is valid. You may want to
> >>>>>>> double check with Michael for what he quoted earlier:
> >>>>>> that's why I proposed to fix these issues, e.g., if no _F_MAC,
> >>>>>> vDPA kernel should not return a mac to the userspace, there is
> >>>>>> not a default value for mac.
> >>>>> Then please show us the code, as I can only comment based on your
> >>>>> latest (v4) patch and it was not there.. To be honest, I don't
> >>>>> understand the motivation and the use cases you have, is it for
> >>>>> debugging/monitoring or there's really a use case for live
> >>>>> migration? For the former, you can do a direct dump on all config
> >>>>> space fields regardless of endianess and feature negotiation
> >>>>> without having to worry about validity (meaningful to present to
> >>>>> admin user). To me these are conflict asks that is impossible to
> >>>>> mix in exact one command.
> >>>> This bug just has been revealed two days, and you will see the
> >>>> patch soon.
> >>>>
> >>>> There are something to clarify:
> >>>> 1) we need to read the device features, or how can you pick a
> >>>> proper LM destination
> >>
> >>
> >> So it's probably not very efficient to use this, the manager layer
> >> should have the knowledge about the compatibility before doing
> >> migration other than try-and-fail.
> >>
> >> And it's the task of the management to gather the nodes whose devices
> >> could be live migrated to each other as something like "cluster"
> >> which we've already used in the case of cpuflags.
> >>
> >> 1) during node bootstrap, the capability of each node and devices was
> >> reported to management layer
> >> 2) management layer decide the cluster and make sure the migration
> >> can only done among the nodes insides the cluster
> >> 3) before migration, the vDPA needs to be provisioned on the destination
> >>
> >>
> >>>> 2) vdpa dev config show can show both device features and driver
> >>>> features, there just need a patch for iproute2
> >>>> 3) To process information like MQ, we don't just dump the config
> >>>> space, MST has explained before
> >>> So, it's for live migration... Then why not export those config
> >>> parameters specified for vdpa creation (as well as device feature
> >>> bits) to the output of "vdpa dev show" command? That's where device
> >>> side config lives and is static across vdpa's life cycle. "vdpa dev
> >>> config show" is mostly for dynamic driver side config, and the
> >>> validity is subject to feature negotiation. I suppose this should
> >>> suit your need of LM, e.g.
> >>
> >>
> >> I think so.
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> $ vdpa dev add name vdpa1 mgmtdev pci/0000:41:04.2 max_vqp 7 mtu 2000
> >>> $ vdpa dev show vdpa1
> >>> vdpa1: type network mgmtdev pci/0000:41:04.2 vendor_id 5555 max_vqs
> >>> 15 max_vq_size 256
> >>>   max_vqp 7 mtu 2000
> >>>   dev_features CSUM GUEST_CSUM MTU HOST_TSO4 HOST_TSO6 STATUS
> >>> CTRL_VQ MQ CTRL_MAC_ADDR VERSION_1 RING_PACKED
> >>
> >>
> >> Note that the mgmt should know this destination have those
> >> capability/features before the provisioning.
> > Yes, mgmt software should have to check the above from source.
>
> On destination mgmt software can run below to check vdpa mgmtdev's
> capability/features:
>
> $ vdpa mgmtdev show pci/0000:41:04.3
> pci/0000:41:04.3:
>    supported_classes net
>    max_supported_vqs 257
>    dev_features CSUM GUEST_CSUM MTU HOST_TSO4 HOST_TSO6 STATUS CTRL_VQ
> MQ CTRL_MAC_ADDR VERSION_1 RING_PACKED

Right and this is probably better to be done at node bootstrapping for
the management to know about the cluster.

Thanks

> >
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> For it to work, you'd want to pass "struct vdpa_dev_set_config" to
> >>> _vdpa_register_device() during registration, and get it saved there
> >>> in "struct vdpa_device". Then in vdpa_dev_fill() show each field
> >>> conditionally subject to "struct vdpa_dev_set_config.mask".
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> -Siwei
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Zhu Lingshan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Nope:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 2.5.1  Driver Requirements: Device Configuration Space
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> ...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> For optional configuration space fields, the driver MUST check
> >>>>>>>> that the corresponding feature is offered
> >>>>>>>> before accessing that part of the configuration space.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> and how many driver bugs taking wrong assumption of the validity
> >>>>>>> of config space field without features_ok. I am not sure what
> >>>>>>> use case you want to expose config resister values for before
> >>>>>>> features_ok, if it's mostly for live migration I guess it's
> >>>>>>> probably heading a wrong direction.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Last but not the least, this "vdpa dev config" command was not
> >>>>>>>>> designed to display the real config space register values in
> >>>>>>>>> the first place. Quoting the vdpa-dev(8) man page:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> vdpa dev config show - Show configuration of specific device
> >>>>>>>>>> or all devices.
> >>>>>>>>>> DEV - specifies the vdpa device to show its configuration. If
> >>>>>>>>>> this argument is omitted all devices configuration is listed.
> >>>>>>>>> It doesn't say anything about configuration space or register
> >>>>>>>>> values in config space. As long as it can convey the config
> >>>>>>>>> attribute when instantiating vDPA device instance, and more
> >>>>>>>>> importantly, the config can be easily imported from or
> >>>>>>>>> exported to userspace tools when trying to reconstruct vdpa
> >>>>>>>>> instance intact on destination host for live migration, IMHO
> >>>>>>>>> in my personal interpretation it doesn't matter what the
> >>>>>>>>> config space may present. It may be worth while adding a new
> >>>>>>>>> debug command to expose the real register value, but that's
> >>>>>>>>> another story.
> >>>>>>>> I am not sure getting your points. vDPA now reports device
> >>>>>>>> feature bits(device_features) and negotiated feature
> >>>>>>>> bits(driver_features), and yes, the drivers features can be a
> >>>>>>>> subset of the device features; and the vDPA device features can
> >>>>>>>> be a subset of the management device features.
> >>>>>>> What I said is after unblocking the conditional check, you'd
> >>>>>>> have to handle the case for each of the vdpa attribute when
> >>>>>>> feature negotiation is not yet done: basically the register
> >>>>>>> values you got from config space via the
> >>>>>>> vdpa_get_config_unlocked() call is not considered to be valid
> >>>>>>> before features_ok (per-spec). Although in some case you may get
> >>>>>>> sane value, such behavior is generally undefined. If you desire
> >>>>>>> to show just the device_features alone without any config space
> >>>>>>> field, which the device had advertised *before feature
> >>>>>>> negotiation is complete*, that'll be fine. But looks to me this
> >>>>>>> is not how patch has been implemented. Probably need some more
> >>>>>>> work?
> >>>>>> They are driver_features(negotiated) and the
> >>>>>> device_features(which comes with the device), and the config
> >>>>>> space fields that depend on them. In this series, we report both
> >>>>>> to the userspace.
> >>>>> I fail to understand what you want to present from your
> >>>>> description. May be worth showing some example outputs that at
> >>>>> least include the following cases: 1) when device offers features
> >>>>> but not yet acknowledge by guest 2) when guest acknowledged
> >>>>> features and device is yet to accept 3) after guest feature
> >>>>> negotiation is completed (agreed upon between guest and device).
> >>>> Only two feature sets: 1) what the device has. (2) what is negotiated
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> -Siwei
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>> -Siwei
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Having said, please consider to drop the Fixes tag, as appears
> >>>>>>>>> to me you're proposing a new feature rather than fixing a real
> >>>>>>>>> issue.
> >>>>>>>> it's a new feature to report the device feature bits than only
> >>>>>>>> negotiated features, however this patch is a must, or it will
> >>>>>>>> block the device feature bits reporting. but I agree, the fix
> >>>>>>>> tag is not a must.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>>> -Siwei
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 7/1/2022 3:12 PM, Parav Pandit via Virtualization wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> From: Zhu Lingshan<lingshan.zhu@...el.com>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 1, 2022 9:28 AM
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Users may want to query the config space of a vDPA device,
> >>>>>>>>>>> to choose a
> >>>>>>>>>>> appropriate one for a certain guest. This means the users
> >>>>>>>>>>> need to read the
> >>>>>>>>>>> config space before FEATURES_OK, and the existence of config
> >>>>>>>>>>> space
> >>>>>>>>>>> contents does not depend on FEATURES_OK.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> The spec says:
> >>>>>>>>>>> The device MUST allow reading of any device-specific
> >>>>>>>>>>> configuration field
> >>>>>>>>>>> before FEATURES_OK is set by the driver. This includes
> >>>>>>>>>>> fields which are
> >>>>>>>>>>> conditional on feature bits, as long as those feature bits
> >>>>>>>>>>> are offered by the
> >>>>>>>>>>> device.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Fixes: 30ef7a8ac8a07 (vdpa: Read device configuration only
> >>>>>>>>>>> if FEATURES_OK)
> >>>>>>>>>> Fix is fine, but fixes tag needs correction described below.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Above commit id is 13 letters should be 12.
> >>>>>>>>>> And
> >>>>>>>>>> It should be in format
> >>>>>>>>>> Fixes: 30ef7a8ac8a0 ("vdpa: Read device configuration only if
> >>>>>>>>>> FEATURES_OK")
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Please use checkpatch.pl script before posting the patches to
> >>>>>>>>>> catch these errors.
> >>>>>>>>>> There is a bot that looks at the fixes tag and identifies the
> >>>>>>>>>> right kernel version to apply this fix.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan<lingshan.zhu@...el.com>
> >>>>>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>>>>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 8 --------
> >>>>>>>>>>>   1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c index
> >>>>>>>>>>> 9b0e39b2f022..d76b22b2f7ae 100644
> >>>>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> >>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> >>>>>>>>>>> @@ -851,17 +851,9 @@ vdpa_dev_config_fill(struct vdpa_device
> >>>>>>>>>>> *vdev,
> >>>>>>>>>>> struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid,  {
> >>>>>>>>>>>       u32 device_id;
> >>>>>>>>>>>       void *hdr;
> >>>>>>>>>>> -    u8 status;
> >>>>>>>>>>>       int err;
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>       down_read(&vdev->cf_lock);
> >>>>>>>>>>> -    status = vdev->config->get_status(vdev);
> >>>>>>>>>>> -    if (!(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK)) {
> >>>>>>>>>>> -        NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Features negotiation not
> >>>>>>>>>>> completed");
> >>>>>>>>>>> -        err = -EAGAIN;
> >>>>>>>>>>> -        goto out;
> >>>>>>>>>>> -    }
> >>>>>>>>>>> -
> >>>>>>>>>>>       hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, portid, seq, &vdpa_nl_family,
> >>>>>>>>>>> flags,
> >>>>>>>>>>>                 VDPA_CMD_DEV_CONFIG_GET);
> >>>>>>>>>>>       if (!hdr) {
> >>>>>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>>>>> 2.31.1
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