[PATCH kernel] vfio/spapr_tce: Skip unsetting already unset table

Alex Williamson alex.williamson at redhat.com
Wed Feb 13 07:52:42 AEDT 2019


On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:49:17 +1100
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> wrote:

> VFIO TCE IOMMU v2 owns IOMMU tables so when detach a IOMMU group from
> a container, we need to unset those from a group so we call unset_window()
> so do we unconditionally. We also unset tables when removing a DMA window

Patch looks ok, but this first sentence trails off into a bit of a word
salad.  Care to refine a bit?  Thanks,

Alex

> via the VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_REMOVE ioctl.
> 
> The window removal checks if the table actually exists (hidden inside
> tce_iommu_find_table()) but the group detaching does not so the user
> may see duplicating messages:
> pci 0009:03     : [PE# fd] Removing DMA window #0
> pci 0009:03     : [PE# fd] Removing DMA window #1
> pci 0009:03     : [PE# fd] Removing DMA window #0
> pci 0009:03     : [PE# fd] Removing DMA window #1
> 
> At the moment this is not a problem as the second invocation
> of unset_window() writes zeroes to the HW registers again and exits early
> as there is no table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
> ---
> 
> When doing VFIO PCI hot unplug, first we remove the DMA window and
> set container->tables[num] - this is a first couple of messages.
> Then we detach the group and then we see another couple of the same
> messages which confused myself.
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> index c424913..8dbb270 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> @@ -1235,7 +1235,8 @@ static void tce_iommu_release_ownership_ddw(struct tce_container *container,
>  	}
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < IOMMU_TABLE_GROUP_MAX_TABLES; ++i)
> -		table_group->ops->unset_window(table_group, i);
> +		if (container->tables[i])
> +			table_group->ops->unset_window(table_group, i);
>  
>  	table_group->ops->release_ownership(table_group);
>  }



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