linux/drivers/vhost, branch v2.6.34

vhost: fix barrier pairing

2010-05-12T15:04:04Z

According to memory-barriers.txt, an smp memory barrier in guest should always be paired with an smp memory barrier in host, and I quote "a lack of appropriate pairing is almost certainly an error". In case of vhost, failure to flush out used index update before looking at the interrupt disable flag could result in missed interrupts, resulting in networking hang under stress. This might happen when flags read bypasses used index write. So we see interrupts disabled and do not interrupt, at the same time guest writes flags value to enable interrupt, reads an old used index value, thinks that used ring is empty and waits for interrupt. Note: the barrier we pair with here is in drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c, function vring_enable_cb. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Juan Quintela

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

2010-04-11T09:44:30Z

vhost-net: fix vq_memory_access_ok error checking

2010-04-07T14:04:45Z

vq_memory_access_ok needs to check whether mem == NULL Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

vhost: fix error handling in vring ioctls

2010-03-17T21:07:35Z

Stanse found a locking problem in vhost_set_vring: several returns from VHOST_SET_VRING_KICK, VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL, VHOST_SET_VRING_ERR with the vq->mutex held. Fix these up. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby Acked-by: Laurent Chavey Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

vhost: fix interrupt mitigation with raw sockets

2010-03-17T14:44:20Z

A thinko in code means we never trigger interrupt mitigation. Fix this. Reported-by: Juan Quintela Reported-by: Unai Uribarri Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

vhost: fix error path in vhost_net_set_backend

2010-03-07T11:28:53Z

An error could cause vhost_net_set_backend to exit without unlocking vq->mutex. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf full

2010-02-28T17:50:33Z

guest to remote communication with vhost net sometimes stops until guest driver is restarted. This happens when we get guest kick precisely when the backend send queue is full, as a result handle_tx() returns without polling backend. This patch fixes this by restarting tx poll on this condition. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Tested-by: Tom Lendacky

vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handling

2010-02-28T17:42:36Z

get_user_pages_fast returns number of pages on success, negative value on failure, but never 0. Fix vhost code to match this logic. Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

vhost: initialize log eventfd context pointer

2010-02-28T17:42:35Z

vq log eventfd context pointer needs to be initialized, otherwise operation may fail or oops if log is enabled but log eventfd not set by userspace. When log_ctx for device is created, it is copied to the vq. This reset was missing. Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin