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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/virtio, branch v2.6.25.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>virtio: remove overzealous BUG_ON.</title>
<updated>2008-04-07T20:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
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<published>2008-04-07T04:30:28+00:00</published>
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The 'disable_cb' callback is designed as an optimization to tell the host
we don't need callbacks now.  As it is not reliable, the debug check is
overzealous: it can happen on two CPUs at the same time.  Document this.

Even if it were reliable, the virtio_net driver doesn't disable
callbacks on transmit so the START_USE/END_USE debugging reentrance
protection can be easily tripped even on UP.

Thanks to Balaji Rao for the bug report and testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
CC: Balaji Rao &lt;balajirrao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The 'disable_cb' callback is designed as an optimization to tell the host
we don't need callbacks now.  As it is not reliable, the debug check is
overzealous: it can happen on two CPUs at the same time.  Document this.

Even if it were reliable, the virtio_net driver doesn't disable
callbacks on transmit so the START_USE/END_USE debugging reentrance
protection can be easily tripped even on UP.

Thanks to Balaji Rao for the bug report and testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
CC: Balaji Rao &lt;balajirrao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio_pci iomem annotations</title>
<updated>2008-03-30T21:20:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2008-03-29T03:09:48+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>virtio_pci: unregister virtio device at device remove</title>
<updated>2008-03-28T00:05:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anthony Liguori</name>
<email>aliguori@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-20T01:35:04+00:00</published>
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Make sure to call unregister_virtio_device() when a virtio device is removed.
Otherwise, virtio_pci.ko cannot be rmmod'd.

This was spotted by Marcelo Tosatti.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Make sure to call unregister_virtio_device() when a virtio device is removed.
Otherwise, virtio_pci.ko cannot be rmmod'd.

This was spotted by Marcelo Tosatti.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: fix race in enable_cb</title>
<updated>2008-03-17T11:58:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2008-03-14T13:17:05+00:00</published>
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There is a race in virtio_net, dealing with disabling/enabling the callback.
I saw the following oops:

kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: sunrpc dm_mod
CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1zlive-host-10623-gd358142-dirty #99
Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 000000000f85a610, ksp: 000000000f873c60)
Krnl PSW : 0404300180000000 00000000002b81a6 (vring_disable_cb+0x16/0x20)
           R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:3 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000010005800 0000000000000001
           000000000f3a0900 000000000f85a610 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
           0000000000000000 000000000f870000 0000000000000000 0000000000001237
           000000000f3a0920 000000000010ff74 00000000002846f6 000000000fa0bcd8
Krnl Code: 00000000002b819a: a7110001           tmll    %r1,1
           00000000002b819e: a7840004           brc     8,2b81a6
           00000000002b81a2: a7f40001           brc     15,2b81a4
          &gt;00000000002b81a6: a51b0001           oill    %r1,1
           00000000002b81aa: 40102000           sth     %r1,0(%r2)
           00000000002b81ae: 07fe               bcr     15,%r14
           00000000002b81b0: eb7ff0380024       stmg    %r7,%r15,56(%r15)
           00000000002b81b6: a7f13e00           tmll    %r15,15872
Call Trace:
([&lt;000000000fa0bcd0&gt;] 0xfa0bcd0)
 [&lt;00000000002b8350&gt;] vring_interrupt+0x5c/0x6c
 [&lt;000000000010ab08&gt;] do_extint+0xb8/0xf0
 [&lt;0000000000110716&gt;] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a
 [&lt;0000000000107e72&gt;] cpu_idle+0x1c2/0x1e0

The problem can be triggered with a high amount of host-&gt;guest traffic.
I think its the following race:

poll says netif_rx_complete
poll calls enable_cb
enable_cb opens the interrupt mask
a new packet comes, an interrupt is triggered----\
enable_cb sees that there is more work           |
enable_cb disables the interrupt                 |
       .                                         V
       .                            interrupt is delivered
       .                            skb_recv_done does atomic napi test, ok
 some waiting                       disable_cb is called-&gt;check fails-&gt;bang!
       .
poll would do napi check
poll would do disable_cb

The fix is to let enable_cb not disable the interrupt again, but expect the
caller to do the cleanup if it returns false. In that case, the interrupt is
only disabled, if the napi test_set_bit was successful.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (cleaned up doco)
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There is a race in virtio_net, dealing with disabling/enabling the callback.
I saw the following oops:

kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: sunrpc dm_mod
CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1zlive-host-10623-gd358142-dirty #99
Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 000000000f85a610, ksp: 000000000f873c60)
Krnl PSW : 0404300180000000 00000000002b81a6 (vring_disable_cb+0x16/0x20)
           R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:3 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000010005800 0000000000000001
           000000000f3a0900 000000000f85a610 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
           0000000000000000 000000000f870000 0000000000000000 0000000000001237
           000000000f3a0920 000000000010ff74 00000000002846f6 000000000fa0bcd8
Krnl Code: 00000000002b819a: a7110001           tmll    %r1,1
           00000000002b819e: a7840004           brc     8,2b81a6
           00000000002b81a2: a7f40001           brc     15,2b81a4
          &gt;00000000002b81a6: a51b0001           oill    %r1,1
           00000000002b81aa: 40102000           sth     %r1,0(%r2)
           00000000002b81ae: 07fe               bcr     15,%r14
           00000000002b81b0: eb7ff0380024       stmg    %r7,%r15,56(%r15)
           00000000002b81b6: a7f13e00           tmll    %r15,15872
Call Trace:
([&lt;000000000fa0bcd0&gt;] 0xfa0bcd0)
 [&lt;00000000002b8350&gt;] vring_interrupt+0x5c/0x6c
 [&lt;000000000010ab08&gt;] do_extint+0xb8/0xf0
 [&lt;0000000000110716&gt;] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a
 [&lt;0000000000107e72&gt;] cpu_idle+0x1c2/0x1e0

The problem can be triggered with a high amount of host-&gt;guest traffic.
I think its the following race:

poll says netif_rx_complete
poll calls enable_cb
enable_cb opens the interrupt mask
a new packet comes, an interrupt is triggered----\
enable_cb sees that there is more work           |
enable_cb disables the interrupt                 |
       .                                         V
       .                            interrupt is delivered
       .                            skb_recv_done does atomic napi test, ok
 some waiting                       disable_cb is called-&gt;check fails-&gt;bang!
       .
poll would do napi check
poll would do disable_cb

The fix is to let enable_cb not disable the interrupt again, but expect the
caller to do the cleanup if it returns false. In that case, the interrupt is
only disabled, if the napi test_set_bit was successful.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (cleaned up doco)
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<title>virtio: handle &gt; 2 billion page balloon targets</title>
<updated>2008-03-17T11:58:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-18T03:58:15+00:00</published>
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If the host asks for a huge target towards_target() can overflow, and
we up oops as we try to release more pages than we have.  The simple
fix is to use a 64-bit value.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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If the host asks for a huge target towards_target() can overflow, and
we up oops as we try to release more pages than we have.  The simple
fix is to use a 64-bit value.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: Use spin_lock_irqsave/restore for virtio-pci</title>
<updated>2008-03-17T11:58:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anthony Liguori</name>
<email>aliguori@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-02T22:37:48+00:00</published>
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virtio-pci acquires its spin lock in an interrupt context so it's necessary
to use spin_lock_irqsave/restore variants.  This patch fixes guest SMP when
using virtio devices in KVM.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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virtio-pci acquires its spin lock in an interrupt context so it's necessary
to use spin_lock_irqsave/restore variants.  This patch fixes guest SMP when
using virtio devices in KVM.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: add missing #include &lt;linux/delay.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2008-02-06T18:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johann Felix Soden</name>
<email>johfel@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-06T09:40:22+00:00</published>
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Include linux/delay.h to fix compiler error:

drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c: In function 'fill_balloon':
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c:98: error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep'

Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden &lt;johfel@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Include linux/delay.h to fix compiler error:

drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c: In function 'fill_balloon':
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c:98: error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep'

Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden &lt;johfel@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>virtio: balloon driver</title>
<updated>2008-02-04T12:50:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T04:50:12+00:00</published>
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After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio
balloon can be made even simpler.  Here's my attempt.

The device configuration tells the driver how much memory it should
take from the guest (ie. balloon size).  The guest feeds the page
numbers it has taken via one virtqueue.

A second virtqueue feeds the page numbers the driver wants back: if
the device has the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST bit, then this
queue is compulsory, otherwise it's advisory (and the guest can simply
fault the pages back in).

This driver can be enhanced later to deflate the balloon via a
shrinker, oom callback or we could even go for a complete set of
in-guest regulators.

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After discussions with Anthony Liguori, it seems that the virtio
balloon can be made even simpler.  Here's my attempt.

The device configuration tells the driver how much memory it should
take from the guest (ie. balloon size).  The guest feeds the page
numbers it has taken via one virtqueue.

A second virtqueue feeds the page numbers the driver wants back: if
the device has the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST bit, then this
queue is compulsory, otherwise it's advisory (and the guest can simply
fault the pages back in).

This driver can be enhanced later to deflate the balloon via a
shrinker, oom callback or we could even go for a complete set of
in-guest regulators.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: Use PCI revision field to indicate virtio PCI ABI version</title>
<updated>2008-02-04T12:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anthony Liguori</name>
<email>aliguori@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-28T15:59:59+00:00</published>
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As Avi pointed out, as we continue to massage the virtio PCI ABI, we can make
things a little more friendly to users by utilizing the PCI revision field to
indicate which version of the ABI we're using.  This is a hard ABI version
and incrementing it will cause the guest driver to break.

This is the necessary changes to virtio_pci to support this.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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As Avi pointed out, as we continue to massage the virtio PCI ABI, we can make
things a little more friendly to users by utilizing the PCI revision field to
indicate which version of the ABI we're using.  This is a hard ABI version
and incrementing it will cause the guest driver to break.

This is the necessary changes to virtio_pci to support this.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: PCI device</title>
<updated>2008-02-04T12:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anthony Liguori</name>
<email>aliguori@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-13T03:30:26+00:00</published>
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This is a PCI device that implements a transport for virtio.  It allows virtio
devices to be used by QEMU based VMMs like KVM or Xen.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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This is a PCI device that implements a transport for virtio.  It allows virtio
devices to be used by QEMU based VMMs like KVM or Xen.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori &lt;aliguori@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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