Re: [PATCH v11 01/14] s390/vfio-ap: No need to disable IRQ after queue reset

[Tony Krowiak]

On 10/30/20 1:27 PM, Halil Pasic wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:29:35 -0400
> Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 10/27/20 2:48 AM, Halil Pasic wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:11:56 -0400
> > > Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > The queues assigned to a matrix mediated device are currently reset when:
> > > >
> > > > * The VFIO_DEVICE_RESET ioctl is invoked
> > > > * The mdev fd is closed by userspace (QEMU)
> > > > * The mdev is removed from sysfs.
> > > What about the situation when vfio_ap_mdev_group_notifier() is called to
> > > tell us that our pointer to KVM is about to become invalid? Do we need to
> > > clean up the IRQ stuff there?
> > After reading this question, I decided to do some tracing using
> > printk's and learned that the vfio_ap_mdev_group_notifier()
> > function does not get called when the guest is shutdown. The reason
> > for this is because the vfio_ap_mdev_release() function, which is called
> > before the KVM pointer is invalidated, unregisters the group notifier.
> >
> > I took a look at some of the other drivers that register a group
> > notifier in the mdev_parent_ops.open callback and each unregistered
> > the notifier in the mdev_parent_ops.release callback.
> >
> > So, to answer your question, there is no need to cleanup the IRQ
> > stuff in the vfio_ap_mdev_group_notifier() function since it will
> > not get called when the KVM pointer is invalidated. The cleanup
> > should be done in the vfio_ap_mdev_release() function that gets
> > called when the mdev fd is closed.
> You say if vfio_ap_mdev_group_notifier() is called to tell us
> that KVM going away, then it is a bug?

If the notifier gets called after the notifier is unregistered then
yes, I would say that is a bug; however, my tracing showed that
the notifier does not get called precisely because it is unregistered
in the release callback.

> If that is the case, I would like that reflected in the code! By that I
> mean at logging an error at least (if not BUG_ON).

I do not know whether or not there are other circumstances under
which the notifier can get invoked before the release callback to
make notification that the KVM pointer has been invalidated, so
I don't think this would be appropriate. I think we should just
process the call by setting the matrix_mdev->kvm pointer to
NULL and decrement the reference count to kvm.

Maybe someone from the VFIO team can provide some better
insight.

> Regards,
> Halil